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PERFECT! 😂

It might. Turnout differentials may also matter. Reform’s surprise win in Runcorn & Helsby driven in part by unusually high turnout on their strongest wards. Gorton & Denton a much heavier lift though. They need to turn their vote out in force, and need low anti-Reform turnout & a split vote

Phillips "This is not a country where people get thrown in jail for things they say"

@zackpolanski.bsky.social points out 2,700 people have been arrested for holding signs

And well done to Zack for challenging Phillips smear that 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' is antisemitic

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Whenever Farage says jump, [Labour] say how high. You will never appease the right by doing that. They will just get more and more extreme"

Spot on. This is what people mean when they say Labour is ushering in the far right.

Far-right thug Tommy Robinson flees UK after police warning over terror threat Far-right thug Tommy Robinson took to social media this evening to proclaim himself a 'priority target' for ISIS, adding he had fled the UK after receiving a call from Bedfordshire Police

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

Surely that is the point?

This can be the site for breaking news, if journalists choose to break news on it. It is as simple as that. And that is not utopian. It is precisely what has happened the last week or so. If you weren't on BlueSky, you were late to each development.

YouTube video by LBC Reform candidate calls for young girls to be given 'biological reality check' | LBC

Listen to every word.

Does this sound like protecting women to you?

Giving birth to a child should be a choice not a "shut up & do what you're told."

The whole nation needs to read up on Relorm UK before ot is too late.

#wales #scotland

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Johnson, Gove, Rees-Mogg, and possibly David Davis were plotting with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and white supremacist Steve Bannon to bring down a British Prime Minister. Why this treason isn’t front-page news is a disgrace for the journalistic profession in the UK.

#Ukraine President
Volodymyr #Zelenskyy awarded Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych the country's medal of freedom after he was disqualified from the #Olympic skeleton competition over his "helmet of remembrance," which depicted athletes killed since russia's invasion

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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services.

Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.

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I assume they know where Yaxley-Lennon has gone.

Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful but group remains proscribed for now It remains in place for now to allow further legal argument and the government to consider an appeal.

Forget the “but” in this headline.

🔥 PALESTINE ACTION BAN RULED UNLAWFUL

That means that this authoritarian government has arrested, hauled off the street and jailed thousands of peaceful protestors… unlawfully.

That’s seismic.

And yet they still do things like this :-(
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records.

Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'.

Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract.

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NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed Exclusive: in 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting, officials warned reputation of tech firm behind US ICE operations would hinder rollout of data system in UK Health officials fear Palantir’s reputation will hinder the delivery of a “vital” £330m NHS contract, according to briefings seen by the Guardian, sparking fresh calls for the deal to be scrapped. In 2023, ministers selected Palantir, a US surveillance technology company that also works for the Israeli military and Donald Trump’s ICE operation, to build an AI-enabled data platform to connect disparate health information across the NHS. Continue reading...

NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed

“The FUW [Farmers' Union of Wales] remains fundamentally opposed to rewilding, given the clear evidence of the ecological harm and economic risks it poses"

Same article: this image of the landscape they're describing, prior to its purchase for rewilding.

Think the FUW needs some new arguments.

Trump's U.S. must not host the World Cup

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Google gave ICE the sensitive personal data of a student journalist, including his bank account and credit card info, without even letting him know.

The company is also helping bankroll Trump’s vanity ballroom project.

Google is enabling fascism — all to protect its bottom line.

"This feeds into the far-right trope that migrants in the UK are imposing their culture and language on us," says @lewisgoodall.com.

Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick and now Manchester Utd co-owner Jim Ratcliffe – has extreme language about migrants become 'normalised' in the UK?

Appeal launched to keep Bronze Age treasure in Staffordshire The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery is fundraising to hold on to a nationally significant Bronze Age treasure trove

The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery is fundraising to hold on to a nationally significant Bronze Age treasure trove | Adam Colclough
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The IOC disqualified Vladyslav Heraskevych before his first Olympic run for wearing a helmet honoring fallen Ukrainian athletes.

Vladyslav’s father’s reaction says it all — the decision is unfair, ridiculous and an absolute disgrace.

#MemoryCannotBeBanned

But, is growth all we want?

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Robin Ince: Let the Quiet Ones Rise | Leicester Comedy Festival

Tickets for Leicester gig on Tuesday are here

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The genocidal Israeli president says Israel has prevented intl journalists from entering Gaza because they don't want them to get hurt.

Meanwhile they've targeted and murdered hundreds of Palestinian journalists, along with shooting kids in the head & starving people to death.

Radcliffe should remember we immigrants and children of immigrants are here because of British colonisation and make a huge contribution. He moved to Monaco to avoid £4bn tax. His club Man U owes everything to migrant players and migrant supporters. He’s an embarrassment to the club and game.

We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy!

Our over-reliance on foreign tech giants is a huge risk to our security and resilience when faced with Donald Trump’s ever increasing belligerence.

Companies like Palantir have no place in our critical digital infrastructure.

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

It's not helpful to pretend we haven't passed the point of no return (search Deep Adaptation). Ruling elites know this, hence the dash to fascist law-making, militarised policing, gathering the remnants of fossil fuels, colonial land grabs, mass migration etc.
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