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Batsh*t Robert Jenrick has completely lost the plot this time Roving investigative journalist... nah, we're joking - it's Robert Jenrick and he thinks he's uncovered some massive conspiracy when he hasn't

Batshit Robert Jenrick has completely lost the plot this time

Roving investigative journalist... nah, we're joking - it's Robert Jenrick and he thinks he's uncovered some massive conspiracy when he hasn't, writes @wordsbyhg.bsky.social
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A brilliant piece on what the UK's Climate Change Act does, why it's inspired action around the world, and how the Tories were key to creating it - despite their current leader now wanting to destroy it

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I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

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By integrating sharia law into our legal system? Not bothering with democracy?

Why autism may not be on a ‘spectrum’ after all The idea of a single autism spectrum, stretching from mild to severe, may be misleading

I tend to use the, slightly flippant, phrasing that rather than a "spectrum" autism is more like a pick and mix you don't get to pick.
Many autistic individuals may have differing traits, and, speaking personally, support needs can fluctuate day by day.

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Spot on on how politicians think about tax. Unfortunately I agree likely we shall have minor fiddling again. But better options exist - eg Resolution Foundation suggestion. Since even small tweaks upset someone, why not be bolder and go for principled reform? Politics, that’s why.

owen jones and zack polanski back stage

owen jones on podcast live stage

Great evening doing the first ever Bold Politics Live to a room of over 1200 people at the conference in Bournemouth. We'd love to do more!

Where should Zack take the podcast and who would be your dream guest?

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Are people in the UK 'over-taxed'?

@danneidle.bsky.social points out that the median worker is currently paying historically low levels of tax 👇

Rewatch the full discussion 👉 buff.ly/dQaGaNo

Say NO to Trump’s trade deal EU Commission President von der Leyen caved in to pressure from US President Trump. Tell Europe’s leaders to reject the trade deal and protect climate and citizens today.

EU Commission President von der Leyen caved in to pressure from US President Trump. Tell Europe’s leaders to reject the trade deal and protect climate and citizens today.

KPMG fined £710,937.50 for dud audit of N Brown Group.

Failed to perform proper accounting checks.

Fines are just another cost of doing Nelsonian audits, passed to other customers

Audits by big firms are worthless, but highly profitable. Partners collect millions, exploit state guaranteed market.

NEW: The militarization of American cities isn’t happening with a parade of tanks. It’s a slow drip of troop deployments that are probing courts’ willingness to give unlimited deference to the commander in chief — and testing workarounds when they don’t.

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On average, every 4 years, the ECHR stops the UK removing 1 foreign person.

They want you to demand we leave the ECHR because of this.

I've being saying "told you so" about Brexit for a decade. Don't let them do it to you again. Please listen this time.....

US and UK 'immensely let down' families of detained Gaza flotilla activists Israel still holding hundreds of activists in Ketziot prison, with British and American citizens receiving little help

My friend’s dad Malcolm Ducker, former RAF pilot, dad & grandad, is among those still being held in a maximum security Israeli prison for the crime of trying to bring food & medicine to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla. Read: www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-and-...

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Two years on, we remember the horrific events of 7 October.

We call today, and every day, for an end to the violence.

Robert Jenrick owns two £2m homes in London and a £1.1m manor house in Herefordshire. He's shocked by the poor housing conditions in Handsworth, apparently.

He would like half the population of Handsworth to be exchanged with half the population of Herefordshire to ensure his dream of Integration. It’s a wonderful idea!

BREAKING: At least eight Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/1r1a0d

Don't forget that 41 Tory MPs in the last government took Russian donations. That might account for media reticence to report on the Nathan Gill case.

‘I’m not sure it’s going to bring peace’: Israeli Knesset member on talks We spoke to Palestinian politician and activist Aida Touma Suleiman. She's one of Israel's two million Arab citizens and a member of the parliament, the Knesset, for the left wing Hadash coalition.

"Everybody is talking as if peace is already here."

Palestinian politician and activist Aida Touma Suleiman, who lives in Israel, tells @krishgm.bsky.social we musn't forget "genocide is still going on" in Gaza.

Read and watch:
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David Adler was taken by his Israeli abductors over the border to Jordan. He is now free and will be soon telling us about his illegal detention by the Israeli army. The struggle to end the Palestinian genocide continues...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

A crucial turning point.
Time to get on board, Keir
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po

Palestinian state is in Israel’s interest, says Israeli ex-PM We spoke to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and asked him if Benjamin Netanyahu could be trusted to stick to the plan for Gaza.

"Netanyahu will be withdrawn to the sidelines of history for his failures, for his arrogance, for his lack of human sensitivity."

Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert tells @krishgm.bsky.social his thoughts on what will be the current leader's legacy.

Read and watch:
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So fucking cool. Insane INSANE to me that the US govt isn’t tripping over itself to get in on this & be rich (and um, exist?) forever.

Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’ The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...

I spoke to British Future's Sunder Katwala, who was a refreshing antidote to all the far right rhetoric on immigration, flags, etc. Britain is not nearly as divided as extremists suggest, he says, and we're "a generation ahead" when it comes to multiculturalism.
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This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

It has been two long years since the horrific 7 October attacks, and still 48 Israeli hostages are not free.

I really want to see the hope from current peace negotiations bear fruit for these victims, and true peace found with real action to end the genocide.

"We want people to be living in mixed communities, don't we?"

Robert Jenrick's home is in Eye, Herefordshire, where 165 out of 166 residents were white at the time of the last census.

Ricky Hale (@councilestatemedia) This woman has more courage than every soldier in the IDF combined

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If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).