Rachel Hubbard

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Why is Labour’s Pie Theory a dangerous myth?

Why is Labour’s Pie Theory a dangerous myth? youtu.be/Z7mPuNINDmM?... Lisa Nandy says the UK needs a “bigger pie.” But the truth is, we already have enough pie. The problem is how it’s sliced—and Labour refuses to talk about that.

It's the same in the UK, just replace shooter with criminal and Hispanic, Arab, Black with immigrant.

Rushanara Ali: "The average monthly private rent in London increased by 9.7% in the last year and is over one and a half times higher than the average monthly rent in England"

At the time people probably assumed Ali meant this was a bad thing. It turns out she was boasting!

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

Idaho lost one in three obstetricians after its abortion ban New research confirms: Crackdowns on reproductive rights have harmful ripple effects across local health care.

Good luck being pregnant or having a vagina in Idaho.

Lost 1/3 of OB/GYNs since abortion ban www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It's getting to be
a heavy lift
for working people
throughout
the world
to keep rich people
in the living standards
to which they
have become
accustomed.

Gordon Brown is right on child poverty and gambling, and also so very wrong as well I note that the FT has reported: Ministers should raise taxes on the gambling industry in order to fund removing the two-child benefit cap and lift half a million children out of poverty, former prime...

Gordon Brown is right on child poverty and gambling, and also so very wrong as well www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08... Unless we properly understand how tax works, we can get so much wrong in our society, and Gordon Brown does not understand tax.

Are there 1.2 million ‘illegal immigrants’ in the UK? – Full Fact This widely-circulating figure appears to be based on a think tank estimate that is both out of date and based on flawed methodology. We don’t know with any degree of certainty how many unauthorised m...

Are there 1.2 million ‘illegal immigrants’ in the UK?

(Answer: This figure is both out of date and unreliable.)

The figure has been referenced by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage MP, Zia Yusuf and Greater Lincolnshire mayor Andrea Jenkyns.

fullfact.org/immigration/...

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK opens the floodgates to untraceable political money by accepting crypto donations - https://eutoday.net Main Image: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America - Nigel Farage via Wikipedia

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK opens the floodgates to untraceable political money by accepting crypto donations

eutoday.net/nigel-farage...

My concerns about Gary Stevenson’s economics of wealth In a recent video, Gary Stevenson said: “Governments are running out of money, just like a person running down their savings.” Gary Stevenson has become a significant critic of inequality in the UK t...

My concerns about Gary Stevenson’s economics of wealth www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08...
Gary Stevenson's latest video has made it very clear that his economics is deeply neoliberal in its framing. You cannot build social justice on the basis of inappropriate economic framing, so this matters.

Millionaire Tory Chris Philp says the solution to asylum seekers trying to work is to cancel their asylum application and to leave the ECHR.
As he goes home to privileged comfort, is he proud to have spent another day clamouring to deny the most vulnerable any dignity or control over their lives?

I ME US Film Screening gives insight into Trans, Non-Binary & Gender Non-Conforming People’s Lives who live in in Cumbria.
Happening TODAY, Thursday 7 August, 1pm to 3pm, Tullie Lecture Theatre, Carlisle, CA3 8TP.
For information, contact: pinc-cumbria@hotmail.co.uk 01228 267247.

UK warned it risks exodus of 'disillusioned' doctors Research from the General Medical Council into how doctors are feeling about their careers comes after resident doctors staged a five-day walkout.

UK warned it risks exodus of 'disillusioned' doctors

Nearly one in five doctors is considering quitting in the UK, new figures show, while one in eight is thinking about leaving the country to work abroad
news.sky.com/story/uk-war...

JD Vance's 'leaked' Spotify shows playlists full of boy bands and gay anthems A website claims to have leaked JD Vance’s Spotify data, and the vice president appears to have a playlist full of boy bands and gay icons.

Website claiming to leak JD Vance’s Spotify shows playlists full of boy bands and gay icons

Edited picture shows Afghan family in Canada, not UK – Full Fact The original image has been altered to include a different background.

Social media posts claiming to show a family of asylum seekers given a five-bedroom house in the UK actually show an edited photo of an Afghan family who moved to Canada.

Gordon Brown urges Rachel Reeves to hike gambling taxes at Budget The former Labour prime minister says hitting the

Former UK PM Gordon Brown urges Reeves to hike gambling taxes.

Quite right too.

Too many industries are free-riders, don't bear the cost of their pollution - gambling, processed food, tobacco, airlines, fossil fuels.

They expect public purse to bear the social cost, shareholders take profits.

"No one wants to see Palestinian civilians in Gaza go hungry and thirsty"

Israel does. Its deliberately starving them. And they can only do that because the US allows them too.

More than 60 Tube staff set to be deported after Government changed immigration rules EXCLUSIVE: Foreign workers who came to London to work for TfL could lose jobs and be forced to leave country, RMT union warns

"Every country needs a practical and fair immigration policy but this is neither of those and ends up treating vital transport workers disgracefully."
📰 More than 60 Tube staff set to be deported after Government changed immigration rules www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

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What would a Reform UK government mean for the UK economy? What happens if Reform UK takes power? The economy might implode before their manifesto reaches final draft

Reform UK isn’t just anti-immigration – it’s anti-functioning government: purge civil servants, ignore economic rules, crash the housing market...

This thought piece imagines what might happen to the economy if they were to win.

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.@mehdirhasan.bsky.social: "Its an actual full blown genocide at this point.."

Tom Swarbrick: "Obviously you used the word genocide there, that's an opinion rather than a fact of the court who have to rule on that for now"

"Its the opinion of most genocide scholars who have looked at this"

Why are UK News shows not pointing out Brexit has been a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings?

Brexit referendum’s 10th anniversary: time to think again? With 10 years of the Brexit referendum on the horizon, should a second referendum be in our sights?

Brexit referendum’s 10th anniversary: time to think again?

With 10 years of the Brexit referendum on the horizon, should a second referendum be in our sights?
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Israel just bombed the UNRWA clinic in Gaza City. They’re destroying what’s left of Gaza’s health system and there’s zero media coverage.🤬🤬🤬😪

At the UN security council last night the Algerian ambassador held up the photographs of Palestinian children who have been starved to death in Gaza by Israel

Paul Klee : Evening in Egypt, 1929