🚨| BREAKING: A proposal to ban state-controlled clubs from English football has been included in the Football Governance Bill.

If passed, Manchester City and Newcastle would need to change ownership to obtain a licence from the new independent regulator. [ #TimesSport]

I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history.
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
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Cutting home insulation funding will imperil UK’s climate goals, Reeves told Energy firms and charities urge chancellor to avoid short-term fix that could also harm low-income households

Cutting the insulation schemes that are one of the best ways to permanently reduce energy bills for low income families would be an eyewateringly daft & counterproductive way of seeking to reduce energy bills, as well as driving up emissions & leading to mass job cuts in the insulation sector 🙄

Harry Truman: If it benefits all the people, they call it socialism.

Palantir CEO Karp twice slams short sellers as stock suffers worst week since April Palantir CEO Alex Karp twice confronted short sellers this week as the company's shares suffered a double-digit drop.

Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.

Brand Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on X: "Did you know that in Scotland, every new-born receives a 'baby box? Packed with clothes, bedding and many other useful things to help give each baby the best possible start in life.❤️ Here Zia shows us what she got in her box for her latest arrival. 👶 📷 IG/curlyzia.xo https://t.co/IC5T6xIrLy" / X Did you know that in Scotland, every new-born receives a 'baby box? Packed with clothes, bedding and many other useful things to help give each baby the best possible start in life.❤️ Here Zia shows us what she got in her box for her latest arrival. 👶 📷 IG/curlyzia.xo https://t.co/IC5T6xIrLy

New York’s new Mayor Zohran Mamdani praises Scotland’s Baby Box scheme - introduced by the SNP Scottish Government, & says he wasnts to do the same in New York City.

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The Scottish government provides every family with a newborn with a ‘baby box’ of essentials to help them get started.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is bringing the boxes to NY.

Why can’t we have obviously good & nice things like this under a Labour government UK wide?

For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.

It's grotesque

Dominic Cummings was always an absolute arsehole.

The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.

Mamdani attended a rally earlier this year in support of healthcare for trans youth.

Streeting would have ejected him from the party the same day.

If Zohran Mamdani was a Labour candidate, he'd have been purged and smeared long ago.

The SNP has renewed its call for disgraced Baroness Michelle Mone to be stripped of her peerage after it emerged that a company linked to her and her husband owes £39 million in tax

Zack Polanski celebrates Zohran Mamdani's election win in New York, calling it a 'delightful moment where hope has triumphed'

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New York Post losing its shit 🤣

In this age of darkness - of insecurity, hatred, and despair:

New York has lit the torch of hope.

Thank you @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social - and to the movement that secured this historic triumph.

I’m Jewish. I lived in New York for a decade. I am very, very concerned about antisemitism.

I have no doubt that Zohran Mamdani would fight to protect my life and my rights. I have no doubt the ADL has entirely failed to protect me and my family from fascists.

I know where my allegiance lies.

All the pearl-clutching about Zohran Mamdani--by right-wingers who elected a half-senile old TV star president--is very amusing. For once the shoe is on the other foot.

The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up.

I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.

Jimmy Carr praises Father Ted creator Graham Linehan for posts urging violence against trans women Jimmy Carr controversially praised Graham Linehan during a stand-up show in Minnesota, in light of his arrest last month.

“I f****** love Graham” – Jimmy Carr controversially praising Graham Linehan for his trans-critical comments
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Donald Trump has threatened New York City if it elects Zohran Mamdani.

Imagine a leader did somewhere in Asia, Africa or Latin America.

Would we regard that country as a democracy?

Grainger criteria To qualify as a 'philosophical belief' under the Equality Act, the belief must satisfy the five criteria set out at para 24 in Grainger plc v Nicholson [2010] and mirrored in the Equality and Human Rights Commission Code of Practice 2011. These are that: The belief must be genuinely held The belief must not simply be an opinion or viewpoint based on the present state of information available The belief must concern a weighty and substantial aspect of human life and behaviour The belief must attain a certain level of cogency, seriousness, cohesion and importance The belief must be worthy of respect in a democratic society, not be incompatible with human dignity and not be in conflict with the fundamental rights of others.

A District Judge has cleared Tommy Robinson on a terror charge because he found Robinson had a protected belief. How does that pass the 5th limb of the Grainger test?
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"So are the decepticons, the demon headmaster and the aliens from Mars attacks"

It's going to be a difficult few days for racists across the country. No sooner do we discover the attacker was a British man called Anthony Williams, than we discover the rail worker hero who almost gave his life to save passengers on his train is called Samir Zitouni.
Should he be deported?

The European Parliament, in their foolishness, have voted for increased maternity pay. I'm off for a drink. #UKIP 12:57 PM - 20 Oct 2010 4,458 Retweets 1,233 Likes

Nigel Farage says Reform UK could cut minimum wage for young people - and defends U-turn on tax pledges Mr Farage gave a wide-ranging news conference setting out Reform UK's economic plans, and defending claims of U-turning on 2024 election manifesto pledges.

Farage has been consistent for 15+ years.

Opposing decent pay and conditions for ordinary hard-working young people and expectant parents.

Meanwhile, he makes a mint hawking bullion, presenting tv shows and flying to the USA to big up his interests - instead of serving his constituents.

It’s not entirely speculation though is it? ‘Sources have told the Guardian’ is well recognised political kite flying. Probably by McSweeney etc in the Labour Party. If the ‘sources’ were not them then the article would have contained a Labour Party denial. So CL pointing out the flaws is useful.

Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’

Can’t quite believe the Chancellor is seriously considering slashing support for home energy efficiency as a way to cut fuel bills 👀. Locking people into cold & leaky homes which will cost them more to heat & decimating the insulation industry at same time. Total madness 👇

In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape.

“In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian”

According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile sexual assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape, writes Minnah Arshad for Zeteo:

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia.

This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give.

How are Reform getting away with this?

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