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Feargal Sharkey just nailed the £100bn water industry nationalisation lie Sharing a blistering letter in the Guardian, Feargal Sharkey went further - calling out successive governments over their lies

Feargal Sharkey just nailed the £100bn water industry nationalisation lie

Sharing a "blistering" letter in the Guardian, Feargal Sharkey went further - calling out successive governments over their lies
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Come on folks, there is work to be done and we have 4 years to do it

Palestinian who helped make Oscar-winning No Other Land killed in West Bank Israeli settler Yinon Levi, whom Trump removed from US sanctions list, arrested after death of Awdah Hathaleen

Why say 'killed' when he was murdered? Awdah Hathaleen was unarmed when shot and murdered by illegal settler Yinon Levi. The murderer will not be punished by Israeli courts. @theguardian.com #Palestine #Gaza #theGuardian #WestBank

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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The “appalling scenes in Gaza” have been enabled by the arms, surveillance & diplomatic cover Keir Starmer’s Labour government have provided to a genocidal apartheid state.

He still refuses to call it a genocide because he is complicit in it.

Keir Starmer belongs in The Hague.

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Ban on Palestine Action to take effect after legal challenge fails Being a member of, or showing support for, the direct action protest group will be a criminal offence after judge’s decision

Defend Our Juries tells Met Police it “may be committing offences under the Terrorism Act” in Parliament Square from 1pm on Saturday." Non-violent protesters would hold signs saying: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” @defendourjuries.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: 27 Arrested underneath Gandhi statue in Parliament Sq for alleged supporting of a proscribed organisation.

The group of 27 people, including a priest, an Emeritus Professor and a number of health professionals.

Full Press Release: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

CONTINUED:

After mass arrests at Parliament this morning, 27 individuals have been taken to multiple police stations.

“We commend the Counter Terrorism police for their decisive action in protecting the people of London from some cardboard signs opposing the genocide in Gaza.“

Palestine Action supporters arrested after defying terror ban with protest Police have made a number of arrests in central London.

The protestors have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000 and taken into custody.

metro.co.uk/2025/07/05/p...

Palestine Action: More than 20 arrested at protest, Metropolitan Police say It comes after supporting the group was banned under terrorism legislation.

More than 20 people have been arrested in London after police said they were responding to a protest in support of the banned group Palestine Action.
The Met Police said those arrested were being held on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

vm.tiktok.com/ZNdyc4f4V/ #kneecap Kneecap Live stream from Glastonbury
Stream on tiktok

Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.

Solutions Not Sides There are several nefarious tactics used to support extreme actions of governments and their armed forces including Absolute inculcation of belief in justification of the actions Blatant, repeated,…

"[SNS (Solutions Not Sides)...] is an absurd exercise in Orwellian Newspeak."

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Nigel Farage Everything about Nigel Farage is disgusting, both personally and politically. Farage the person. Farage has one objective in life: The Grift.  Maximising his income is the sole motivator for everyt…

"A grotesque sneering abomination. On his own he’d be nothing but he is backed financially by wealth hoarders and supported politically by almost all politicians and almost all media [...] We are in the unwiped-arse stage of capitalism."
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Bluesky can suspend Nigel Farage in less than 36 hours.

But the Police can't question him over the riots he incited, even after 5 months.

General elections are a travesty of democracy – let’s give the people a real voice | George Monbiot Our system is designed for the powerful to retain control. Participatory democracy and a lottery vote are just two ways to gain real representation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Other models are available. This article discusses some of them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We've just published our latest report: COLLATERAL DAMAGE, highlighting the widespread poisoning of birds of prey in England by the misuse & abuse of rodenticides.

Govt scheme to reduce exposure has failed.

Read the report: wildjustice.org.uk/general/coll...

United Utilities refuses to hand over data on sewage discharges into Windermere Water company claims information is not in the public interest despite widespread pollution of UK waters

Absolute fury at this: United Utilities refusing to disclose data about sewage it's releasing into Windermere, because it's "not in the public interest."

Ditto data on ammonia checks from a UU Cunsey Beck plant; site of a 2022 mass fish-kill from pollution.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

She's 100% correct too

Dystopian Britain III – Entanglement of liberals and fascists is a dance, a co-dependency and a consensus.  Fascists fortify their illusory ideology by presenting everything they say and do as a battle against lib…

"Entanglement of liberals and fascists is a dance, a co-dependency and a consensus."

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We're just 700 short of the magic 20,000 and at the rate we are growing on BlueSky that could be tomorrow.

Please spread the word about our unique brand of citizen journalism here on BlueSky.

I hear it is far nicer over here! Message received. Words of the day start tomorrow.

A long overdue and welcome decision.

This is the problem of having the politically illiterate running the country

Zero diplomacy - just inflammatory rhetoric like at home Whatever happened to looking for peace?

if only Greta Thunberg had swanned off with £29M rather than banging on about the planet burning up

Tamworth, this is your Tory candidate. Make sure you keep him OUT 👇👇

Tory by-election candidate posted chart telling parents who can’t feed kids to 'f*** off'

#Tamworth #TacticalVoting

I just love that nobody thought you were taking a swipe at depressed people. (Ok, I did, but just for a fraction of a second). It is actually very pleasant here

This is for real. I know the building. Boris Johnson’s work ethic and habit writ large. Quite a few others too I would imagine, not least Michael Gove. Ha!