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Zack Polanski: ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ | The Observer

"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not.

He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.

Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."

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Green party surging as Polanski’s social media strategy w... Green Party membership has more than doubled, driven in part by its platform messaging on apps like TikTok

"Polanski has blended anger with hope.

“Hope is much more difficult to sell than outrage, but he’s finding a way to do it that connects with people.”

Let's make hope normal again!

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Don’t laugh at this. Don’t dismiss it. They’re serious. Prepare for it. And get ready to fight against it.

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

There are emergency protests in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla called around the country tomorrow, keep an eye on social media. This is at the Dáil, 12.30pm. #LiftTheSiege #GazaGenocide

PPE Medpro must repay £122m for breach of contract | Good Law Project The company Michelle Mone landed on the Tories’ unlawful VIP Lane has 14 days to repay £122m for gowns supplied during the pandemic and never used.

💰 PPE Medpro must repay £122m for supplying defective PPE

⚖️ But it doesn’t stop with Baroness Mone. When will the ministers who referred their cronies onto the VIP Lane face consequences?
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The Prime Minister could not bring himself to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza during his one-hour conference speech.

We know why: if he did, he would be admitting his government's complicity in the greatest crime of our time.

End all military cooperation with Israel, now.

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right.

The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter.

Everyone must choose which side they’re on.

UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.

Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”

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There. Is. No. Such. Thing.
Cattle ranching is among the most destructive of all the world's industries.
"Regenerative" cattle ranching is simply greenwash.

Why is is so hard for people to say these words?:

Lough Neagh, the UK's biggest lake, is being killed by *livestock farms*.

Farming Lobby.

This government could have taken on the super-rich to tackle inequality.

They chose to fan the flames of racism and embolden the far-right instead.

Our country needs a change in direction, now.

It’s time for a real alternative that redistributes wealth, ownership and power.

A message for Nigel Farage and Reform: We will hold you to account.

They've taken at least £2.3m in oil and gas donations and their true agenda is serving the super rich.

It's time for us all to challenge power & wealth and that massively includes Farage.

This is how dictatorships behave

'We’re here to replace you,’ new Green leader Polanski tells Labour as he terms Starmer’s politics ‘despicable’ . Landslide winner of leadership election says migrants are backbone of UK and his party should not sell out patriotism to Farage

Telling it like it is, and cutting through.

United illegally brought munitions through Irish airspace They were among military cargo overwhelmingly funded by the US government.

A United Airlines flight illegally transported four ammunition handling systems – among military cargo overwhelmingly funded by the US government – to Israel through Irish territory this morning. www.ontheditch.com/united-airli...

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Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.

A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.

If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

Italy chemical plant execs jailed for pollution An Italian court on Thursday sentenced executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water used by hundreds of thousands of people with PFAS, or "forever chemicals".

Italy court sends 11 executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water, a total of more than 141 years.

Puts UK to shame.

UK buries corporate crimes - water, Post Office, Grenfell, infected blood, bank frauds.

Govts/Regulators serve corporations, not people.

Lower bills.

Reduce rents.

Fund our public services.

It's time to tax wealth. Not work.

We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction.

~ Carl Sagan

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Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
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Mature White Hawthorn in bloom on a warm sunny day in Ireland.

Beautiful Eoghan. 50+ mature White Hawthorn saved from the chop here in the north. A sight to behold when greening up and in bloom.

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.