Dave Toller

Israeli machine-gun fire reported in Syria's Quneitra province <article data-history-node-id="433101" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-machine-gun-fire-reported-syrias-quneitra-province" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-machine-gun-fire-reported-syrias-quneitra-province" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli machine-gun fire reported in Syria's Quneitra province</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli army on Friday opened machine-gun fire toward areas in Syria’s southern Quneitra countryside, official Syrian media reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>Israeli forces fired medium-caliber machine guns from the Western Tal Ahmar position toward the Eastern Tal Ahmar in the southern rural Quneitra province, state-run Al-Ikhbariya reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>Israeli forces have carried out regular incursions into Syria in recent weeks, attacking civilians, destroying forest areas and setting up checkpoints.&nbsp;</p> <p>Israel also continues to carry out near-daily strikes in Lebanon, despite a ceasefire that came into force in November last year.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

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91 people became billionaires this year through inheritance.

That's not 'hard work'. That's a RIGGED system.

Tax the super-rich.

A green Christmas would be more awful than you can imagine

Matthew Bowles works for the IEA.

Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.

Times up.

Merry Christmas!

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Keep out: what flags mean to community NHS workers Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes

Keep out: what flags mean to community NHS workers

Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes | Mark Cunliffe
@markcunliffe.bsky.social

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.

Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph

Because this does NOT add up!

No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…

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Norfolk villagers to lose their homes under mass CPO order.
South Norfolk, along with other parts of Norfolk and Suffolk, is part of a designated and deregulated investment zone, a type of SEZ under the UK government’s flagship program.
Thread
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Tech blitz threatens Labour’s net zero hopes Plans for a raft of high-emissions data centres leave Keir Starmer facing a tricky trade-off

One of the cleanest counties in the country is to receive more pollution than Birmingham thanks to Blackstone corporate intentions and AI!!

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

I remember when Labour's purpose was
"to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier ..."
not make them even weaker and more hungry!

Wes Streeting Country (Ilford) just had an election:

• Independent Left 43% [+43%]
• Labour 26% [-45%]

Independent gain from Labour.

#OtD 27 Mar 1942 France's Vichy govt issued a decree demanding barbers to collect cut hair and donate it to the war effort. The Zazous (rebellious anti-fascist youths) refused and grew their hair long. More info in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-edelwe...

What will Rachel Reeves do today? What will Rachel Reeves do today? I have been reading about, listening to, and then watching budgets since the 1970s, and for all practical purposes, today is yet another in the long history of fisca...

My prediction is that whatever Rachel Reeves does today, it will be bad news for her, and her days as Chancellor are numbered.

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...

It’s time that the left’s nitpickers got real I think it’s time to admit to something. I am finding quite a lot of things about blogging and posting videos quite hard at present. It so happens that both of my approaches to social media are attr...

It’s time that the left’s nitpickers got real www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02... Arguing over the intellectual purity of arguments is something the left can no longer afford. It’s time nitpickers noticed there is a coup going on, and that should be our concern.

It’s time to change UK energy pricing I originally wrote this post as a Twitter thread in 2022. It was then posted on this blog and was checked by energy expert Mike Parr, who is a regular commentator on this blog.  A few price details m...

UK energy is massively over-priced to guarantee that energy companies make profits and households remain impoverished. It's time the government changed the rules that are so heavily rigged against the interests of people in the UK. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...

#Starmer
OK, we have reached the realms of farce.
The world has gone to shit. Don't bother paying your taxes, the rich don't...

Most food banks now asking for food that doesn't need to be heated, as so many of their users don't have money for gas or electric

And the michelin ⭐ restaurants around the country are still full every night

It's grotesque inequality normalised by the right wing press

Kay Burley has just quit Sky News, she goes to GB News where losers go to be ignored.

Until they are inevitably fired from there as well, like the Nazi Priest and Almost Batman.

Don't Mention the Children, written and read by Michael Rosen.

Every week for the past 4 years we've been demonstrating against Council cuts to vital public services. Join us at 12 on Friday 7th February outside the former One Stop Shop on Picton Road, Liverpool to celebrate our 4th anniversary!

I'd rather they didn't. Would have to go through the whole blocking process again.

Great to have John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social
join our protest outside High Court today against Thames Water.

❌No bailout!
✅Special Administration!
✅Public Ownership!

Did you know?
the Good Law Project have revealed that Starmer's Labour are giving Privatised Thames Water £3 BILLION to bail them out!!!

Thames Water seeks court approval for emergency cash Thames Water is hoping to secure an emergency cash injection or face runing out of money in weeks.

High Court hearing today on Thames Water plan to borrow another £3bn.

Already has £17bn debt, mostly to fund dividends, wants 53% price hike.

Nearly a third of customer bill covers interest payments. More debt= higher bills.

Let it go bankrupt. Nationalise at nominal price.

Zack Polanski, "Austerity was always the problem, not the European Union"

"If we want to solve the problems in this country right now we need to tackle inequality"

Kay Burley, "How?"

Zack Polanski, "Wealth tax.. Inequality in the country.. People are unhappy and our services are broken"

#Starmer
Remember in the Other Place when those of us who saw Starmer for what he was very early on, were told he:

"Has some Super Secret Socialist plan up his sleeve that he would unleash upon the nation post a General Election victory"?

How we laughed....

Rachael Cummings from Save The Children on the trauma hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza will experience for years to come.

But this has been a war on Hamas, right?

The bastards are out to exploit again The bastards bosses who run the UK's businesses have not been slow to notice what Trump is all about. Nor have their friends in the press been either. As the Telegraph notes this morning: Financial ch...

British bosses are supposedly telling the Telegraph that they want to end protection for minority groups in the workplace. It hasn't taken them long to go full on Trump so that they can enrich themselves at cost to those who need protection and support.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...

Hedge funds bet billions on market crash in Trump’s America Goldman Sachs reports a surge in short bets against US stocks

Hedge funds bet billions on market crash in Trump’s America.

Manufactured by trade/military wars, shrinking purchasing power of low/middle income families.

Will be the biggest crash ever as private equity has its claws everywhere.

Ultra-rich will get a public bailout.
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Trump and Musk in an air traffic control tower. Post-it notes with ‘woke’ written on them are stuck on all the safety equipment and controls