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The other day Manchester United’s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said the UK had been "colonised by immigrants"….today there’s this billboard outside of Old Trafford 🔥….way to go Manchester 💪!

The British Museum has removed the word Palestine from displays about the ancient Middle East following “concerns” by a UK-based Israeli advocacy group.

Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260215-bri...

A short note to Kristi Noem To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”.

Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.

Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.

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...

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The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪

Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.

The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...

First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.

Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.

Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...

Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...

🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨

50 leading academics, former senior public officials and politics, law and policy experts warn about the risks of First Past the Post.

Letter in @politicshome.bsky.social today 👇

So the Palestine Action ban has been ruled unlawful by the UK courts.

The government knew this would be the case at the time but they were willing to go against the law in an attempt to deny people their human rights.

All to support a genocidal regime who gives them money.

Our current voting system leads to:

🐎 narrative of two horse races
😨 fear tactics don’t vote for this or you’ll get that
🗳️ gaming the system with tactical advice

I’m elected to @londonassembly.bsky.social

We’ve had proportional voting for 25 AMs to represent Londoners for 25 years. It works.

An antidote to loneliness for the ‘un-homed’: Ece Temelkuran on her new book | CNN Turkish journalist and author Ece Temelkuran speaks to Christiane Amanpour about the rise of authoritarianism and her new book “Nation of Strangers”.

“An antitode to the loneliness of the unhomed” This is how @cnn.com @camanpour.bsky.social described Nation of Strangers. If you missed my conversation with Amanpour here’s the link. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/t...

Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?

Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

AU calls for end to ‘extermination’ of Palestinians, decries African wars

AU calls for end to ‘extermination’ of Palestinians, decries African wars https://aje.news/52drba

PETITION: Supermarkets must stop stocking Israeli produce

palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/supermarkets/

Please sign
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Don't support settlements
Boycott Israeli products or be complicit in war crimes. Yes, it's that simple
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ICU patients’ lives at risk in Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital amid Israel’s war

ICU patients’ lives at risk in Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital amid Israel’s war https://aje.news/iscbhp

Dear Home Secretary, We write as Parliamentarians who either originally opposed the proscription of Palestine Action or who have come to see it as wrong and unworkable. Today’s decision by the high court vindicates our position and we welcome the ruling. The Home Office’s position has put enormous pressure on the courts and the police. We understand that 2787 people have been arrested for terrorism offences for peacefully holding signs that express their support for Palestine Action, including more than 250 on 9thAugust of last year who are aged over 60 years old. And one outcome of the proscription of Palestine Action is that more people were arrested for terrorist offences in just one day than have ever previously been arrested under terror legislation in an entire year in the UK (REF). Proscribing Palestine Action has also had grave consequences for fundamental human rights and our international reputation. Mr Justice Chamberlain granted permission for a judicial review of proscription on the grounds that included it being contrary to the Human Rights Act 1998 and amounts to a disproportionate interference with Articles 10 and 11 on the rights to freedom of expression and the right to freedom of assembly). And you will know that Volker Turk, the United Nations' human rights chief, called the proscription “disproportionate and unnecessary”, warning that a broad definition of terrorism, that encompasses serious damage to property, places the UK outside international law. (REF). A cross-party submission to the High Court, which many of us signed, warned that “proscription risks becoming a blunt tool to silence dissent and criminalise legitimate protest and democratic debate—particularly where it relates to British complicity in atrocities committed by the Israeli government and the broader struggle for Palestinian human rights.” Today’s verdict is an opportunity to change course, and we hope you will now commit to ending the suppression of UK citize…

Ellie Chowns MP Carla Denyer MP Sian Berry MP Adrian Ramsay MP Shockat Adam MP Ayoub Khan MP Jeremy Corbyn MP Nadia Whittome MP Manuela Perteghella MP Adnan Hussain MP Liz Saville Roberts MP Ben Lake MP Ann Davies MP Llinos Medi MP Iqbal Mohamed MP Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb Lord Cashman Baroness Smith of Llanfaes Lord Freyberg Baroness Uddin The Right Honourable Lord Hain Lord Tope OBE

Together with cross-party Parliamentarians I have written to the Home Secretary calling on her to accept today's ruling on Palestine Action.

Instead of criminalising those protesting genocide, the govt must examine its own complicity and work to support justice for Palestinians.

‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters

So-called AI - not up in "the cloud", but very much down to earth and causing massive damage to #PublicHealth and environmental damage

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Huda Ammori celebrates 'victory for Palestine' as top court rules proscription as a 'terror' organisation was unlawful

Huda Ammori celebrates 'victory for Palestine' as top court rules proscription as a 'terror' organisation was unlawful https://aje.news/u2w8io

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Over 2,000 Britons served for Israel amid Gaza genocide Exclusive: Declassified obtained data on the number of UK nationals in the IDF. We are publishing it for the first time

❗️The revelation that over 2,000 Britons served in the IDF during genocide raises major legal questions for the UK.

The International Court of Justice has advised all states they are obligated to refrain from helping Israel maintain its occupation.

www.declassifieduk.org/over-2000-br...

The Indisputable Maths of Migration How Demography, Not Dinghies, Will Decide Britain’s Future

Jim Radcliffe pissed me off, so I wrote this about the inconvenient truth of migration.

tl:dr - no, just fucking read it. Some basic mathematics - you know, COUNTING THINGS - might make you reconsider, you stupid twats.

(I'm not trying to make friends)

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The same names. The same networks. The same Kremlin proximity.

@philbrickellmp.bsky.social lays it out in Monday’s debate 🫢

New West Bank annexation aims to erase the idea of a Palestinian state Israel's security cabinet has pushed through new measures to rapidly settle parts of the West Bank under Palestinian control.

Israel has unveiled new plans to “bury the idea of a Palestinian state” by annexing the West Bank. With new policies, Israel has usurped the power of Palestinian governorates and violently expanded its power to settle on Palestinian land. socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-20...

Video captures Palestinians making an emotional return to the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing. Many learned of the death of loved ones as they arrived into the besieged enclave.

Perhaps someone in the media could interview a few Monegasque who are concerned about the invasion of tax-avoiding foreigners?

#WeCantAffordTheRich

Revealed: Corporate donations to British politics have tripled Influential Labour committee chairs call on government to clean up politics as our new analysis finds record £42 million in company donations ahead of last election

🔴 Exclusive: Corporate donations British parties tripled over last three elections

But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies

It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms

New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...

I’m in London and today is the publication day, for Nation of Strangers. You can find the book ( in several languages) here www.canongate.co.uk/nationofstra...

Please do not scroll past. Even 5 dollars can help cover urgent medical care for my son. I am asking for your mercy and compassion in this painful time.

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More Palestinians return to Gaza via Rafah as Israeli attacks continue

More Palestinians return to Gaza via Rafah as Israeli attacks continue https://aje.news/lcey1u

Palantir, Peter Thiel and the Epstein files The files have pushed a powerful surveillance contractor back under the spotlight

The Epstein files shed light on a huge network of political, financial and corporate relationships, including - you guessed it - Peter Thiel 👇

The govt is refusing to commit to an inquiry into the MOD's contracts with US-based spy tech giant Palantir despite the web of shady connections between Mandelson, Epstein, and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel - this absolutely stinks.