Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

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How did Liz Truss become prime minister? Truss has launched a bizarre YouTube show steeped in conspiracy theories. Thank goodness her time in Number 10 lasted just 49 days

Dan Wootton is Liz Truss’s muse. He’d like to lock up @bethrigby.bsky.social and Robert Peston for their services to the Deep State. It’s all happening on her Liz’s new show. And, boy, is it odd www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/con...

That looks interesting, I shall have to get a copy.

A balding man in a blood-spattered shirt is helped by others

Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, has been identified as the heroic civilian who disarmed one of the Sydney terrorists. He was shot twice by the second gunman firing from a bridge and is now undergoing surgery for his injuries.

I mean, what kind of legal action would this be exactly? Defamation? I would truly love to see it. 'They made it look like I instigated a coup during my very well recorded coup attempt.'

Halloween. Trawled our archives for the scariest thing we could find, settled on Oldham Athletic's mascot from the early 90's. Apparently it's an owl.

I have written to Lisa Nandy, following her grossly misleading comments over the Maccabi Tel Aviv ban.

This is about a group of fans with a history of racism and violence. It is not about banning Jewish people - and any attempt to conflate the two is shameful.

ALL SYSTEMS GO ELBIT Systems, which as Israel's largest arms firm is a key cog in the Israeli war machine, is close to winning a £2bn contract that would make it a "strategic partner" of the Ministry of Defence, working on the training of 60,000 British soldiers every year. Elbit Systems UK, its British arm, is bidding for the Army Collective Training Service contract. The chosen bidder will work with the MoD to transform military training "through digitalisation, simulation, a different relationship with industry, and by changing how and where the military trains" Many defence giants put in bids, but in February the MoD reduced the bidders to two: Elbit and Raytheon. The MoD paid the companies €2m each to develop their bids. The development period was supposed to run until mid-August, meaning the final decision is imminent. Elbit has certainly done its best to get the inside track with the ministry, appointing two top former MoD figures to its UK board of directors: Sir Simon Bollom (who made the move in June - see Eye 1651) and Sir Mark Poffley. The firm already has similar contracts with the MoD. Since 2023 it has run Project Vulcan, a €57m, ten-year contract of simulation-based training for tank crews. But the new deal would be a significant step up, both in value and in its relationship with the MoD. The Eye asked the MoD if it would be appropriate to give a company so involved in the Gaza war such a major contract, but it did not respond. • Meanwhile, the anger across Europe over Israel's attacks on Gaza didn't prevent Serbia from agreeing a $1.64bn deal, announced last week, for Elbit to supply "a range of defence solutions" including artillery-rocket systems and attack drones.

Starmer’s Labour government says there’s no money to scrap the two-child benefit cap and lift 500,000 children out of poverty — but there is £2,000,000,000 for Elbit, Israel’s partner in genocide.

This obscene deal must be stopped.

They have Palestinian blood on their hands.

Lisa Nandy, the UK culture secretary, claims that #PalestineAction "wishes harm on the British people."
That is simply false. It is yet another retrospective justification by this government for its unjustifiable ban on the group.

Is there anything more nauseating than seeing Starmer toadying around Trump?

Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs.
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I don't think that this is as helpful as Trump thinks it will be.
A recommendation from a man indicted for war crimes is hardly likely to impress the Nobel committee.

27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws.

Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.

This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.

Trump's nonsense does nothing to alter this fact: attack on Iran was a disaster As the smoke clears, the certainty drifts away with it

It's like we're watching Iraq happen again, but this time sped-up, dumbed-down and even more reprehensible share.google/b3BTBIcx8JGY...

The fact we are making ourselves more dependant on US military assistance, not less, is fundamentally insane. We cannot rely on the US as a security partner, how obvious can that possibly be before the UK security establishment takes it in?

In 2003, anti-war activists broke into RAF Fairford to stop US bombers heading to Iraq.

Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes.

Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same.

The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.

Today, more starving Palestinians were lured into “aid distribution sites”.

They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour.

They were gunned down and murdered instead.

What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

This is inspiring stuff

The EHRC paper on the post-Supreme Court code of practice is not a real consultation exercise at all. It is a charade.

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What Gaza Needs Now My family is starving. My neighbors are dying. I’m compelled to share these injustices because they need to stop.

What Gaza Needs Now
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The UK has finally sanctioned Smotrich & Ben-Gvir.

Good. Now sanction the entire Israeli government & military officials.

Genocide, war crimes, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, mass displacement & land theft aren’t just the agenda of two extremists — they’re official state policy.

When will Starmer learn that no matter how good his Nigel Farage impression gets, it won't save him from wipeout at the hands of Reform? Here's another idea - how about doing the work that's needed to actually make people's lives better? 🧵

Shut down the youth clubs.
Sell off the playing fields.
Put up "no ball games" signs.
Make public places hostile to teenagers.
Then:
"Young people, eh? Always indoors looking at their phones."

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This is the first Labour government in history to increase child poverty. There’s an alternative: properly taxing multinational corporations & those with assets over £10 million. Reverse privatisation of energy, water, rail and healthcare.
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Starmer is warned against ‘appeasing’ Trump with tax cut for US tech firms Labour MP and Lib Dem leader express concern social media companies could be let off hook just as benefits are cut

“This is an abject surrender, even before the government chooses tax cuts for big US tech and austerity for the most vulnerable. Frankly, it’s unacceptable.

Rather than move closer to Europe & stand together we’re allowing ourselves to be ripped off.”

Trump playing golf with Netanyahu on his new Gaza course (the grass is cut away to reveal paintings of the bodies of Palestinian babies). Musk watches on with his son strapped to his chest, as a makeshift bulletproof vest. Vance and Hegseth emerge from the bunker.

Starmer and Reeves stand over ‘a young woman on her deathbed’ (painted by an unknown Flemish master) who has a ‘fit for work’ tag around her neck. On the other side of the squalid room are feasting billionaires (Duke of Westminster, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Chris O’Shea, Viscount Rothermere, James Dyson, Gopi Hinduja) King Charles looks on and Michelle Mone is scurrying away with hold-all full of PPE money