The state of the river however……that’s not so stunning

Great letter in today's Irish Times. We have watched politicians and media enable apartheid Israel's genocide of Palestinians for almost two years. #GazaGenocide

Man in Walthamstow reading a recipe on his phone: Grind the spices? I ain’t got a morsel and peccer mate.

A smooth landing… 🛬
🦢
#bluesky #swan

Rushanara Ali criticised after rent increase on London property - BBC News Rushanara Ali MP faces criticism for increasing the rent on a house she owns by hundreds of pounds.

Labour homelessness minister Rushanara Ali made four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent,

Tory lite?

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

In Denmark, farmers are required by law to grow field flowers for bees on 5 % of their land…. 💐🐝
I think that’s a fantastic solution to a big problem, they can do it here too ❤
catharinaweb
aliveonallchannels

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine contracts The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

Yesterday, Secretary Kennedy made the decision to cut funding from 22 projects, including those dedicated to developing vaccines using mRNA technology.

A researcher for a 1930s street directory knocked on the Hulme front door of Matt Busby, then a Man City player, and asked his occupation. It appeared in the directory, due to his Lanarkshire accent, as 'fruit broiler'. (h/t Andy Spinoza, 'Manchester Unspun').

Why are the wealthy so well off? The accumulation of wealth has been driving inequality for decades. In the first of two articles we explain the injustice of our wealth taxation

Earn money by working? You’ll pay national insurance.

Make money from investments? You won’t.

That’s just one of five ways the UK tax system favours wealth over work.

Here are more.

Yep, that tracks...😉🤣

Tell Congress: Fully investigate the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case Contact Congress today!

This must happen

Guess who the tax system is really supporting In this second article on wealth accumulation, we explain who our tax system really supports

In this second article on wealth accumulation, we explain who our tax system really supports

If you missed the first article published this morning, check out our feed.

So if it is all those things why do we need the AI?????

Dead right

VIP contract introduced by Tory peer left government owed £24m DHSC rejected as ‘unusable’ PPE supplied by company linked to Lord Chadlington, which later went bust

🚨 How a VIP contract introduced by Tory peer left government owed £24m

DHSC rejected as ‘unusable’ PPE supplied by company linked to Lord Chadlington, which later went bust

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In Sep ‘23 the tories housed 56,000 asylum seekers in hotels

In March ‘25 the number stood at about 32,345

These latest figures show a significant drop .

Better with Labour 👍

Time we stood up to these evil bastards…..trouble us it’s all about money

How Britain privatised itself into failure Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong

🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨

Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble.

In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.

Still waiting for an investigation into this theft.

Exclusive: Inside the Diss hotel – a refugee’s view of the anti-refugee crowd outside Families fleeing danger thought they'd found safety, until protesters gathered outside their hotel, chanting for their removal

Not criminals. Not threats.

Just people – including two pregnant women and children – trapped inside a hotel while protesters screamed.

Read what they saw.

That’s my girl ……and keep fighting the fuckers

Why renationalising the UK’s critical national infrastructure is vital Nothing good has come of privatising the Uk’s critical national infrastructure, so there is now a strong case for renationalising

Nothing good has come of privatising the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure, so there is now a strong case for renationalising.

A river is now in crisis One or two dry summers away from disaster, the River Cam is choking on sewage and neglect

Our rivers are drying up, overloaded with sewage, and starved of enforcement.

This is happening across the country.

Charles Ridler reports

Sure Start: Tackling inequality in the early years to transform lives The government’s ‘Best Start Family Hubs’ are reviving one of the most successful initiatives of New Labour. But will it work this time?

In 2010 over 1400 Sure Start centres closed. One of Labour's most successful policies on inequality. Services fragmented and inequality deepened. Now we get Family Hubs. One of the most important social reforms of this decade?

Stephen McNair reports

I went out to challenge the law used to ban Palestine Action. Would I be arrested too? | George Monbiot Around the country, peaceful protesters see their actions as the legitimate exercise of free speech. The police often disagree – and that’s a problem for our democracy, says Guardian columnist George ...

“When people who oppose all forms of violence, who are trying to stop war and terrorism, are arrested on terrorism charges, nothing makes sense any more”

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The politics of eternity: weaponising moments that never were Donald Trump is the global face of a growing political movement that deceives voters by distorting history

🔥 “Make America Great Again” is nostalgia weaponised.

It’s not a promise – it’s a myth. A vague fantasy used to manipulate pain and scapegoat the vulnerable.

Marc Ainge writes.

The USA is the only country on the Earth where you can pay huge amounts for Health Insurance and then your provider can say, "Nah we are not going to treat you."

This is the future of Private Healthcare everywhere.

UK Free Zones: The Most Under-Reported Scandal in Britain's History This post lays out one of the most under-reported but structurally dangerous trends in global governance: the proliferation of corporate-controlled arbitration mechanisms embedded in Freeports, Specia...

My article UK Free Zones: The Most Under-Reported Scandal in Britain's History, is free to read on my Substack.
Please share it.
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Because they have sold the country out to the US and
Israel.

The UK is STILL sending arms to Israel.

Do you want it to stop?

Should we stop it today?

I think so, do you?