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UK awarded contract to firm overseen by sanctioned Israeli Exclusive: £10 million deal signed with company linked to Bezalel Smotrich who is sanctioned by Britain

Exclusive -- The UK government has awarded a £10m contract to a firm overseen by Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli finance minister who is sanctioned by Britain.

Smotrich said last week that Israel is “burying the idea of a Palestinian state".
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Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too

Well she seems to share Trumps analysis that decent people are ‘losers’

This is what Netanyahu's settler terrorists did this morning, carrying out their pogrom, killing 50 sheep in southern Hebron by brutally torching them to death

Lived as a migrant in the UK now moved to Portugal anywhere but Trumps America it seems

CAJ succeeds in changing PSNI approach to racist and sectarian displays: "This is about the PSNI role in targeting and removing the most harmful material from public space, in particular material which is put up as part of racist and sectarian intimidation from housing."

"Israel continues to tightly restrict aid & basic supplies into Gaza. Its refusing to allow more food, fuel, medicine or temp housing, despite agreeing to all those things in the ceasefire. On Sunday 158 trucks entered the strip, but only 12 were carrying humanitarian supplies"

Human rights group ‘helped develop’ new PSNI policy on paramilitary displays Police have faced criticism over approach to controversial displays in the past

The Alliance Party ran countless elections on 'shared space' in N. Ireland with the removal of flags and other sectarian and paramilitary displays. Alliance did nothing and now its shown that a human rights group, the CAJ, held policing to a higher standard than the Alliance Justice Minister. [1/n]

One year on, No Other Land co-director says Israeli attacks intensifying Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal says his family was attacked despite an Israeli court ruling in their favour.

Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal says his family was attacked despite an Israeli court ruling in their favour.

We wanted to understand how rugged English-Scots-Irish culture has shaped America. So we talked to three white South African billionaires at a sex party in the Bahamas.

Israel’s new separation wall will sever Jordan Valley from rest of West Bank The army is issuing evacuation orders and seizing land to prepare a massive barrier — part of a wider project to annex the Palestinian 'breadbasket.'

Israel’s new separation wall will sever Jordan Valley from rest of West Bank

The Israeli army is issuing evacuation orders and seizing land to prepare a massive barrier — part of a wider project to annex the Palestinian ‘breadbasket.’

@mekomit.bsky.social

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A photo of Robert and Luciana Duvall with a horse and dogs

STATEMENT FROM LUCIANA DUVALL Yesterday we said goodbye to my beloved husband, cherished friend, and one of the greatest actors of our time. Bob passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by love and comfort. To the world, he was an Academy Award-winning actor, a director, a storyteller. To me, he was simply everything. His passion for his craft was matched only by his deep love for characters, a great meal, and holding court. For each of his many roles, Bob gave everything to his characters and to the truth of the human spirit they represented. In doing so, he leaves something lasting and unforgettable to us all. Thank you for the years of support you showed Bob and for giving us this time and privacy to celebrate the memories he leaves behind.

Robert Duvall, the legendary actor whose career has spanned over six decades, has died at 95, his wife announced

Starmer ally Josh Simons faces fresh questions about digging dirt on journalists Tory and SNP chiefs call for Labour minister Simons to ‘come clean’ as we reveal new details of PR firm’s campaign to discredit journalists

🔴 Wife of Keir Starmer’s comms chief had direct knowledge of Labour Together’s investigation into journalists

Full story on Democracy for Sale:

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Linzi getting a bit of flack for this Main problem seems to be 1. She is a woman and 2. She thinks for herself

Revealed: Tony Blair’s Institute lobbied EU to work with Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza TBI pushed bloc on US plan for Palestine but internal disquiet on “taboo topic” Gaza grows

🔴 Tony Blair Institute privately pressed a top EU official working on rebuilding of Gaza to work with Donald Trump’s Board of Peace.

Fair to say Democracy for Sale isn’t sleeping at the moment!

New story up w/ Lighthouse Reports and Follow the Money

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Cabinet Office looking into Starmer-linked thinktank after it investigated journalists Liz Kendall says officials will be ‘establishing the facts’ about report that made false claims about journalists

Starmer finally answering questions re Labour Together spying on journalists

BUT:

How is Cabinet office right body to look into own minister, Josh Simons?

And: voluntary PR industry body is *not* a regulator, whatever Liz Kendall says

Need independent inquiry
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I’m not normally that person but….

It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago

Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!

I've often wondered how Steven Pinker's amazingly sloppy research and baseless claims* have for so long received a free pass. I wonder whether it could have something to do with a. his connections with the rich and powerful; b. his claims often aligning with what they want to hear.
*See next post.

No surprise that Dawkins was part of this white male cabal of wealth loving frauds

I’ve long called for a ban on Facebook for the over 50s its for their good and the good of society

If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

A line of Metropolitan Police officers at the front of a National March for Palestine held in London

Latest Home Office data shows that in 2024-25, there were 162 restrictions on processions and assemblies imposed across England & Wales. Rather than simply publish a full dataset, the department released information that's hard to navigate – so we have tried to untangle it netpol.org/2026/02/12/l...

Palestinians look to salvage Gaza's history from the ruins of Israel's military offensive The Great Omari Mosque in Gaza City was hit by an Israeli strike during the war with Hamas. It is one of dozens of heritage sites that were damaged or destroyed during the war.

A loss not just to Palestinians, but to the world and to humanity, as a whole. History will not be kind.

“They want to erase the Palestinian identity and Palestinian heritage and ... to remove any connection that keeps the Palestinian society clinging to this land,”

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Trans doctor in Sandie Peggie case quits NHS Dr Beth Upton left after NHS Fife spent £400k defending its stance on shared changing rooms

A trans doctor is hounded out of her job by transphobes and still the Telegraph manages to make it seem like she is the villain not the victim. This is exactly what the gender critical brigade want, for trans and non-binary individuals to be forced to "self exclude".

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Epstein files fallout takes down elite figures in Europe, while U.S. reckoning is muted Unlike in Europe, officials in the U.S. with ties to Epstein have largely held their positions of power.

Unlike in Europe, officials in the U.S. with ties to Epstein have largely held their positions of power.

UK overseas aid cuts to outstrip those of Trump administration Spending will drop 27% this year from 2024 levels to help fund higher defence budget

Cuts to overseas aid by the UK are set to go further and faster than those made by the Trump administration in the US, as Sir Keir Starmer’s government wrestles with funding pressures

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Lincoln 1851

"I am not a Know-Nothing. As a nation, we began by declaring "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics."

The French govt is calling for Francesca Albanese to be sacked for calling Israel the common enemy of humanity

The only problem?

She never said it

Its the latest in a series of lies & smears directed at Francesca because she continues calling out the role of the world in Israels genocide.

Proceedings due to get under way later in Natalie McNally murder trial Stephen McCullagh, 35, from Woodland Gardens, Lisburn, has denied murdering her.

Proceedings are due to get under way later in the trial of a man accused of the murder of Natalie McNally in Co Armagh four years ago.

The 32-year-old had been 15 weeks pregnant when she was killed at her home in Lurgan on 18 December 2022.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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