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AI appears to be extremely good at technoplagiarism ...

Furthest I've been:

N: Ullapool, Scotland
E: Batangas, Philippines
S&W: Guarapuava, Brazil

Tories free zones policy bypassed primary legislation
❌ No public consultation
❌ No official impact assessment
❌ No parliamentary votes on individual zones
❌ No right of reply from affected communities.
Labour signed off on them, plans to merge 12 freeports, 74 SEZs, and AI Growth Zones (+200)

Picture of Angela Rayner superimposed over a green colour washed image of an allotment. With a small 'We Own It' logo in the bottom left corner. The main text reads: Angela Rayner hands off our allotments

Hey @angelarayner - hands off our allotments! No more sell-offs of these precious green spaces. Take 1 minute to sign our petition today. 👇#HandsOffOurAllotments

Lisa Nandy this morning: "Our message to the Palestinian people is very very clear, there is hope on the horizon"

The horizon.

#Fathersforinjustice

Sounds familiar

Palestinian journalist Alam al-din Sadeq documents himself opening 1 of the recently air-dropped aid packages.

Only to find it covered in mould

This is insane!

How is it even possible that when I withdraw $500,I only get $225?
A 55% commission?
That’s not a fee that’s outright theft, and people are staying quiet because they have no other option

How are you stealing from people who are already living under siege hunger and constant fear?

Revealed: How foreign billionaires pump millions into British politics The Elon Musk-shaped hole in Starmer’s Election Bill

Foreign billionaires circumvent laws and pump millions into British politics.

Unincorporated associations, shell companies, companies controlled from abroad used.

The aim: produce govts subservient to corporations and the rich.

End corruption. Give democracy a chance. Ban all political donations.

Private equity barons extracting millions from our dentists Sharks are cashing in on the crisis in NHS dentistry with debt-fuelled firms taking big bites out of the sector.

Private equity barons extracting millions from dentists.

Bridgepoint is the latest PE entrant. Advisors include former Labour Health Secretary Alan Milburn, now recently lead non-executive director at the Dept of Health and Social Care.

PE has devoured vets, care homes, GP surgeries, high street.

Only 29% would back Brexit now — poll suggests tables have turned We asked Britain about Europe, China and their least favourite world leaders, but one answer stands out Caroline Wheeler, Political Editor Saturday August 02 2025, 11.40pm, The Sunday Times

The tables have turned, according to the poll by the think tank More in Common, which found that this figure, 52 per cent, was now the percentage that would vote to remain. Bregret? Q) If the 2016 Brexit referendum were held today, how would you vote? Remain 52% Leave 29% Would not vote 11% Don't know 8% 22 July - 24 July 2025 2,113 GB adults (excludes Northern Ireland) Chart: The Times and The Sunday Times • Source: More in Common

I wonder what it could be about the cost, queues, red tape, loss of investment, loss of opportunity, isolation, dishonesty, failure and downright tedium of the Brexit moronathon that has led to people not rating it any more…

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas.

1 in 2 builders were born overseas.

1 in 6 nurses were born overseas.

1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas.

1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas.

1 in 5 university academics were born overseas.

The UK would be screwed without them.

New report shows 24 million people in the UK are below minimum socially acceptable living standards New research reveals a sharp rise in the number of individuals in the UK living in households with incomes below the Minimum Income Standard (MIS).

The state we are in.

24m Britons, 36% of the population, live below minimum socially acceptable living standard.

Wealth systematically transferred to the rich - 1% have more than 70% of the population combined.

Can't rebuild without improving spending power of the bottom 50% of population.

Great Britain National Insurance Fund Account for the year ended 31 March 2024

The National Insurance Fund Account has a surplus of £86.4bn.

Plenty of resources to increase pensions, benefits, compensate the 1950s women.

Govts raided it to fund NIC cuts for the rich, NIC holidays in freeports, and general tax cuts for the rich.

When I talked about this with friends who are smart and pretty well informed, they had never heard of special economic zones. How would they? Our politicians and media all kowtow to the mega corporations who regard us as drones, rather than citizens.
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The right gave us austerity, they broke social care, they fucked up our public services, they couldn’t deliver HS2, they created a prison and a justice crisis, scapegoated immigrants, dumped us in a brexity dead end and now whip up riots on our streets to dodge being held to account for any of it.

Completely consistent with all Palestinian accounts of Israeli atrocities at the GHF aid sites. Tank rounds fired into unarmed crowds, IDF gunning down starving people, war crimes upon war crimes.

I’m just going to leave this here…

Docs starting pay…£37K. PA after 5 yrs of study and some have up to £100K of debt

Wes Streeting - £160K and he takes donations from private health companies.

How to dismantle a democracy in just six months: part 1 The first of two articles looks at the rise of the populist NSDAP party and the end of German democracy; what are the lessons for today?

“At the start of 1933, Germany was a liberal democracy with a president, a parliament including an upper and lower house, an independent judiciary and all the inbuilt checks and balances of a functioning democracy.

By July of that year, it was a dictatorship”

Rights don't mean shit anymore sorry. If they can't stop genocides they don't mean anything. Unless there is power to enforce them they don't mean shit.

AI is an absolute culture-sucking scourge. Everyone I know across the creative board is suffering. And we're not talking a small decline in contracts; freelancers are losing 70% to 100% of their income.

Rachel Reeves’ Mansion House speech offered nothing for most people 'The state needs to be hands-on, and not leave it all to the pirates of City of London'

Just think about this.

World GDP is around $105trn.

Bets or derivatives on that $667trn, produce nothing, adds no value. It is one financial gambler against another. For every winner there is equivalent loser.

UK govt deregulating finance, wants to grow it, thinks this will rejuvenate economy.

YouTube video by Dave Goulson No More Beewashing! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees.

No more Beewashing please! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees. Pls RT if you agree.
youtu.be/fiBYBmlKSYU

#Evri
Your 'Proof of Delivery' photo for a parcel which wasn't actually delivered here yesterday. Pointless.

That's 4 of 4 recent Evri 'deliveries' which have been left elsewhere. Thank goodness for honest neighbours.

My house is easy enough to find.

Evri=Awful.

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