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Politics latest: Growth forecast downgraded for 2026, chancellor says - with unemployment set to peak later this year Rachel Reeves delivered her spring forecast against a backdrop of conflict in Iran, spiralling energy prices and huge economic uncertainty. Follow the latest.

'The OBR's own documents have just been published, and we will bring you more details when we have them'
They're hiding bad shit

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Mum of missing vulnerable boy, 14, makes heartbreaking plea to find him Mum Esther says her only child Noah Amaariah is her "pride and joy."

Noah Amaariah was last seen in Barking, east London, on Sunday, March 1, had previously disappeared five days before on Tuesday, February 24. The teenager who has autism and ADHD

Palantir currently runs the tech that links our health data across the NHS

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To be fair, most people after meeting Steve Reed would take steps to never encounter him again.

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I know, would make a much better movie, she is a survivor for sure, but not a good person.

What they mean is to reward them for all the abuse and intimidation they do towards trans people, Palestinians, disabled people, and asylum seekers.

UK Gave £90k to Sexual Violence Report Central to Israel’s Genocide Propaganda Exclusive: The Foreign Office funded a sexual violence report subsequently used in a £33m Israeli campaign to whitewash its genocide in Gaza. Rivkah Brown reports.

Pure racism

Iran expressly tasking its missiles makers with creating a weapon with the range and precision payload to destroy the ballroom the instant it is finished. Trump stood with giant scissors and burnt vestiges of a ribbon over a huge crater with cartoon burnt face.

Voting Intention, sourced from LordAPolls between nineteen February and twenty-three February, displays a bar chart of five political parties and their respective support levels. Reform UK is in the lead at twenty-two percent, which is a decrease of three percentage points since nineteen February. The Conservative Party follows at twenty percent, showing a decrease of one percentage point. The Green Party stands at nineteen percent, representing an increase of one percentage point. The Labour Party is at seventeen percent, reflecting a decrease of one percentage point. Finally, the Liberal Democrats are at eleven percent with no change in their standing since the previous poll.

🚨 The Green Party are just THREE points behind Reform UK, approaching first place in the polls. 📈

They already did via the DWP, they are now expanding this tyranny wherever they can.

Melania Trump will preside over a UN Security Council meeting in a first for a first lady U.S. first lady Melania Trump will preside over a U.N. Security Council meeting in what the United Nations said Thursday would be a first.

The US takes over the rotating presidency of the 15-member council for the month of March, the wife of President Trump takes her seat in the president’s chair on Monday afternoon. The first time a first lady, or first gentleman for that matter, has ever presided over a Security Council meeting.

Fare dodgers targeted as train ticket refund rules are tightened In a bid to clamp down on ticket fraud that costs the railways millions each year, the government has quietly changed the rules on claiming refunds for unused train tickets.

If you wanted to discourage people from using trains, you could not do a better job than Lord Peter Hendy is doing
'From 1st April 2026, passengers will only be able to claim a refund up to 23:59 on the day before the ticket becomes valid.'

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Just FYI as it might be affecting your listener figures this comes up for me in UK, probably a setting on iheart.com rather than your podcast (I have VPN and can listen but others may not).

That’s soooo Iraq

Home Secretary's statement on asylum changes now published ⬇️

No details on the work/study route yet - these will be expected in future Immigration Rule changes

The country doing genocide, and the country doing immigration concentration camps are bringing democracy. Such intellectual giants we have!

What The Actual Fuck?
Electric car drivers ‘spied on by government’ through phones
Two-year mass surveillance project commissioned by Department for Transport under Tories
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As Democracy Volunteers are the source of the claim of "Family Voting" in the Gorton & Denton by election, I got curious about their claims and thanks to @joenoonan.bsky.social I came across this claim about "Family Voting" during the 2020 Irish General Election.

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Trita Parsi on X: "Some observations and comments on Trump and Israel's war on Iran: 1. Tehran is not looking for a ceasefire and has rejected outreach from Trump. The reason is that they believe they committed a mistake by agreeing to the ceasefire in June - it only enabled the US and Israel to" / X Some observations and comments on Trump and Israel's war on Iran: 1. Tehran is not looking for a ceasefire and has rejected outreach from Trump. The reason is that they believe they committed a mistake by agreeing to the ceasefire in June - it only enabled the US and Israel to

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Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

Brave Sir Robin ran away.
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin!

There are Iranians who what a return of the Pahlavis in much the same way there are Britons who want the return of Margaret Thatcher. In both cases they are best ignored.

Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund · 1h EXCL w/ @ShipleyWrites Ann Limb, one of Starmer's new peers, will not take her seat in the Lords for now after a Sunday Times investigation. We recently revealed she lied about having PhD - and today report she sold charity assets leading two staff to bank secret £1m+ bonuses.

Poor hapless Keith, he just has the most poor luck in choosing his allies doesn't he? The poor dear. So unfortunate.

YouTube video by Rick B Dr Katz- Tom Kenny 'Good Day Sir!'

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Happy Days

the UK provided military assets and intel and is part of defence of attacking assets, that is being part of an op. Thus US, Israel and UK committed crime of aggression.

The criminal Labour Together faction investigated itself and found nothing wrong, as reported by one of their members.