Mike Sainsbury

The Maccabi game in Tel Aviv was cancelled last night because of rioting.

This, this, this. If journalists don’t scrutinize this and explain it properly now then they have failed on their duty and will bear a share of the blame if such policies are enacted (most of the public oppose them and don’t I think realise what is being proposed yet).

Best sign in Shallotte,NC today!

Yet another outstandingly insightful and educational pod series from the team and their esteemed guests. Absolutely vital context to the recent and current situation in Palestine.

This is, in fact, apropos of Reform and *Conservative* proposals to do exactly that for hundreds of thousands of legal migrants with permanent status.

The sooner this country ignores any interventions from Blair, the sooner it may be able to recover from the folly of having failed to do so for so long.

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic Devastating cuts for some of most vulnerable children in England is not what I expect from Labour

🚨This is not what I expect from a Labour government

THESE SHOCKING cuts are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child - the Adoption & Special Guardianship Support Fund is a lifeline for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England

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Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

“likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

This.

UK standards of living set to fall behind Max Kendix Political Correspondent Living standards in Britain will fall behind those of Lithuania in less than five years and Turkey's in less than 20 years, according to forecasts. The UK will fall from the 30th richest country this year to the 46th richest by 2050, according to research by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr). The Czech Republic will eclipse British GDP per capita in 2031, and Poland will do the same in 2034. The research was commissioned by the authors of a new book, Prosperity Through Growth, who interviewed former chancellors and former prime ministers to come up with policies to prevent the relative decline. Douglas McWilliams, the founder of Cebr, said: "With GDP per capita in the UK growing extremely sluggishly, we are likely to be overtaken by more dynamic economies unless we change policy." The book suggests merging national insurance and income taxes into one flat tax, cutting business regulation and refocusing public spending on infrastructure and defence.

BREXIT NUMBER CRUNCHING 0.08% Expected growth by 2038 from 'Brexit win' of Trans-Pacific CPTPP trade deal 0.08% Expected growth by 2035 from Australia trade deal 0.07% Expected growth by 2035 from CEPA trade deal with Japan 0.03% Expected growth by 2035 from New Zealand trade deal -4% Long-term loss of growth caused by the Brexit that enabled these 'wins'

Well this is a proper head scratcher.
But yeah, fiddling around with tax and getting rid of consumer protections should sort it.
Wonder what those ‘former chancellors and prime ministers’ had to say about this shitshow. Any mention of Brexit at all??

(Times and Private Eye)

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Time for a remake of the Peter Sellers' classic 'I'm alright Jack' with a new perspective obviously!

#letthemeatcake

It would certainly appear to be dead in the Labour Party. Members of CLPs knew that shortly after Starmer became leader.

Labour rules against dozens of motions about Palestine being debated at party conference Calls for sanctions on Israel and ban on trade that aids international law violations among snubbed motions

Is pluralism and honest debate dead in politics?

Case study no.94 ...
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Me, Toby Jones and a timely reminder of why we need a free press A new drama on the phone-hacking scandal shows us journalism at its worst, but also how reporting can make real change

Robert Redford, me, Toby Jones - and a reporter who found corruption in his own backyard. Thoughts on the coming ITV drama, The Hack www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.

Cost of housing homeless people in temporary accommodation soars to £2.8bn Councils in England are paying £2.8bn a year to house homelessness families in temporary accommodation as homelessness crisis deepens.

England local councils paid £2.8bn for temporary accommodation for homeless people.

131,140 households in temporary accommodation, including 169,050 homeless children.

Result of low income/benefits, profiteering, high housing costs.

What if £2.8bn was used to build social housing?

Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.

Listen and listen then reflect

Not a single one of the 110,000 knuckle dragging thugs in London today will vote Labour.
There is nothing to be lost but plenty to be gained by Starmer condemning them in very strong terms.

Deadly Memes: Tyler Robinson's Far-Right 'Groyper' Ties Despite initial reports and President' Trump's claim the suspect in the murder of Charlie Kirk was a 'leftist', two pieces of evidence point the other way

🚨BREAKING 🚨Deadly Memes: Tyler Robinson's Far-Right 'Groyper' Ties

Despite initial reports and President Trump’s claim that the suspect in the murder of Charlie Kirk was a ‘leftist’, two pieces of evidence point the other way

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Good to see the patriots doing what they do best…😖

Americans didn't ask for Trump's authoritarian takeover. Keep your jack-booted goons out of my city.

This obnoxious weirdo can absolutely do one with his poisonous little take on what the British people think.
He lost the right to appropriate our opinions when he foisted his prejudiced and dishonest Brexit shitshow on us and told us that’s what we wanted.
Reform is the grim hangover of that failure

Much of the media continue to allow Farage to elide the figures for all immigration with asylum seekers, and the reality for asylum seekers, who are prevented from working, with other immigrants. He is repeatedly enabled to blow immigration issues out of all proportion.

This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4

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Hey, Sky News! Hey, BBC! See how easy it is?