Sean Fernyhough

🚨BREAKING -- The Ministry of Defence has announced that it has ceased surveillance flights over Gaza.

Over 600 spy flights were sent over Gaza between December 2023 and 10 October 2025.

"We thank our UK personnel for their dedication and professionalism", the MoD said.

I'm not "home grown" but I'm British, should I fuck off?

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Banks step up lobbying over threat of Reeves tax hikes The gap between the tax burden on British banks and their international rivals is widening, even before the imposition of any further levies in next month's budget, according to a report seen by Sky N...

UK banks oppose tax rise.

Falsely claim to be paying 46.4% tax rate.

The PwC generated number includes PAYE, employee national insurance which is paid by workers. VAT which is borne by customers.

it is extrapolated from a sample, can't be verified

Why do media reports not expose this sham claim?

Israeli forces arrest Palestinian official, demolish and raid homes across West Bank <article data-history-node-id="430257" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-palestinian-official-demolish-and-raid-homes" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-palestinian-official-demolish-and-raid-homes" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces arrest Palestinian official, demolish and raid homes across West Bank</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli forces on Thursday arrested Murad Shteiwi, director of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, after raiding his home in the town of Kafr Qaddum in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>The report also said that the Israeli forces stormed the village of Al-Mughayyir in the occupied West Bank, accompanied by a military bulldozer, and began demolishing one of the village's homes.</p> <p>Several homes were also raided in&nbsp;Issawiya, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, according to local media.</p> <p>Local media said that Israeli forces converted several homes into military barracks in the town of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, in the occupied West Bank. The report added that the&nbsp;town's entrances were closed and the forces carried out an arrest campaign.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israeli forces arrest Palestinian official, demolish and raid homes across West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-palestinian-official-demolish-and-raid-homes

The Guardian view on the IMF’s warning: Britain’s economy runs hot for profits, cold for pay | Editorial Editorial: Labour is misreading the economics – leaving it unable to deal with the G7’s worst inflation and flat living standard

"Joseph Rowntree Foundation projects by 2029 average disposable incomes will be £570 [down on] today - sharpest drop in living standards since records began"

"the economy, under Labour, is running hot only for those collecting profits"

Pure incompetence

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In the USA a bag of Saline costs $1.50, and takes 30 seconds to put in your arm.

The Hospitals will charge you up to $800 for this, AND most Health Insurance won't cover it.

Do you really want Private Healthcare?

On these figures, Reform would have a majority with 331 MPs, Labour would have 127, the LibDems 72, the Tories 44 and the Greens 10.

Proof positive, yet again, that our already shaky FPTP system collapses completely with many parties in contention.

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Jeremy Clarkson discovered that Private Healthcare is a con, and actually if he gets sick he still has to use the NHS.

‘Inhumane’: 154 freed Palestinian prisoners forced into exile by Israel Palestinian families awaiting return of imprisoned relatives are shocked to learn they will be deported.

Palestinian families awaiting return of imprisoned relatives are shocked to learn they will be deported.

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

We won't reduce temps to 1.2C as soon as possible, so this is the death knell for most of the world's stupendous reef communities

Other tipping points will follow - Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets next?

Or maybe AMOC?

All three eventually

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

BMW seeks meeting with Rachel Reeves over finance scandal bill The carmaker, which faces a potential hit of over £200m from the mis-selling controversy, wants to discuss the implications of an industrywide redress programme

Executives at BMW want to meet the chancellor about the car loans scandal.

Car companies resent paying compensation.

Auto companies lied about diesel emissions, resent paying victims.

Simple advice to capitalists - don't lie and cheat to boost profits, exec pay, dividends.
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the worst thing about protests is you're reminded of this guy's existence as he torturously tries to categorise a Big Bird costume as a dastardly antifa weapon

Chart from @theifs.bsky.social Green Budget showing the sharp rise in the Corporation Tax gap.

“HMRC random audits suggest that 53% of small businesses submitting a corporation tax return under-declared their tax liability in 2021–22 – up from just 15% in 2017–18.”

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Climate Change Puts A Generation’s Retirement On The Line Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.

As climate change increasingly becomes a threat not just to homes, but to the very foundations of retirement, even the most careful savers are finding personal effort can’t outpace the risks woven deeply into the financial system.

@adamlmahoney.bsky.social reports

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I think it's nailed on. The number of non-fatal incidents that have occurred recently it would be worthy of a question to a cabinet minister. The fire at the mosque seems to have only not caused at least injury only because of prompt actions. But this is BBC News - its biases are well known.

Perhaps I could. But I wouldn't. Both are newsworthy in context of the UK's practical support and involvement in Israel's operations in Gaza.

Let’s hope a person doesn’t have to get killed in the sort of attacks we have seen on mosques in recent weeks for the question is asked.

That’s right the BBC will only see it as newsworthy after a Muslim has been murdered.

When his daughter says “It’s not that hard dad”I’ve heard that exact inflection in her voice from my daughters. The recognition made me chuckle.

Save the Tories Starmer's backers in the press still want him to be the centrist dad of the nation.

New blogpost: Save the Tories - The Guardian has shown more concern for the enfeebled state of the Conservative Party than the Tory press, but this reflects their fears over Starmer's Labour Party rather than a desire for a balanced political centre.
fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2025/10/save...

Access to Work dossier of evidence shows ‘real harm’ and job losses caused by DWP cuts and failings The Access to Work scheme is failing Deaf and disabled people, and its “decline” in the last two years has caused them “real harm”, with some support packages cut by 80 per cent, according to a det…

The Access to Work scheme is failing disabled people, and its “decline” in the last two years has caused them “real harm”, with some support packages cut by 80 per cent, according to a detailed dossier of evidence prepared by a user-led organisation.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/access-to-wo...

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Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.

'Here's Savannah Hernandez on the West Plaza on Jan 6, cheering after the police were pushed back there. She walked in with her friends in the Proud Boys, later convicted of seditious conspiracy.'

anTEEfa eggspert Savannah Hernandez seems nice?

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

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Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho