“The failings are systemic.” Police officers and health professionals, she believes, failed to understand the extent of the impact that domestic abuse and coercive control can have on a woman’s life, health and presentation.

Amazon abuses both traders and customers to claw back all the value for themselves – and become a giant pile of shit #enshittification

Delicious and affordable #Aldi

BREAKING: A High Court judgment has found that faith-based admissions in state schools can result in ‘indirect race discrimination.’ The UK Government accepted it ‘would not be surprising’. It certainly should not come as a surprise, we've been warning about this for years.

NHS integrated care boards halt job cuts in row over £1bn cost Integrated care boards in England cannot afford severance payments, leaving restructuring plan in chaos, union says Labour’s radical reorganisation of the NHS has descended into chaos, a union has said, as a huge programme of job cuts has been halted amid a row over who will foot the £1bn bill. The NHS’s 42 integrated care boards (ICBs) in England were due to make up to 12,500 of their 25,000 staff redundant by the end of the year as a result of health service cost-cutting. Continue reading...

NHS integrated care boards halt job cuts in row over £1bn cost

These guys still don't get it. Israel was founded through elimination and displacement of people like we are seeing now. It didn't magically appear out of nowhere.

The idea that it's suddenly fallen from grace is rewriting history. This is literally what the project has always been.

Dutch late night TV has its take

X reveals a weakness in left-wing rhetoric Good principles mean nothing when you materially support a fascist propaganda machine.

No matter what #Musk says or does, many on the left continue to post on and pay for X, a clear example of how progressive movements are beholden to the narrative that we don't have to change anything at all about our lives to achieve our political goals.

I wrote about why that's bad in July ⬇️

Believing that a small group of billionaires are suddenly working tirelessly for the benefit of the working class really does require a spectacular level of stupidity........ @ COc09591 PETER THIEL COMPANIES: ELON MUSK COMPANIES: BRIAN ARMSTRONG COMPANIES: MARC ANDRESSEN COMPANIES: BEN HOROWITZ COMPANIES: DAVID SACKS COMPANIES: Founders Fund Palantir Clarium Capital Valar Ventures NET WORTH: $7-11 Billion Space X Tesla, Inc X (Twitter) Neuralink NET WORTH: $263 Billion CoinBase ResearchHub NewLimit NET WORTH: $8 Billion Mosaic Netscape OpsWare a16z NET WORTH: $1.8 Billion OpsWare a16z NET WORTH: $3.5 Billion Yammer Zenefits Craft Ventures NET WORTH:

*This is from February & still makes the point.

US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f... Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...

How US cash and being unbanned by Musk transformed racist thug Tommy Robinson into a poster boy of the far right.

Most transformative was cash from ultra Zionist US tech tycoon Robert Shillman, who has also backed far-right “influencers” Katie Hopkins, Laura Loomer, Charlie Kirk and Geert Wilders.

BBC Four - Storyville, Blue Box Brave account of how the Jewish National Fund acquired land in Palestine.

For UK based folks, the ethnic cleansing documentary is still available on BBC iPlayer.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Why you should leave X A rallying cry to progressives everywhere...

🔴 NEW - Why you should leave X

Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch.

📝 latest Substack 👇🏻

The vile story of Joseph Weitz is still available on the BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

We all need to be having these conversations.

Sadiq Khan calling out Zack's use of "social media" instead of calling out the genocide in Mayor's Question Time really is the perfect analogy for why Labour are quite so astoundingly unpopular.

Richard Tice, eco-warrior While railing against net zero in public, Reform's deputy leader has been investing in solar panels

Richard Tice publicly sticks to Reform’s police that renewable power is a “massive con” and supports its plan to tax solar farms.

But behind the scenes, he just can’t stop installing solar panels in his businesses… www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

'Assisted dying is not compulsory, and if your religious convictions require that you do not take advantage of this Bill, then please have compassion, and enable us who do not have your convictions to have the right to choose.' Baroness Featherstone.

Yes, Peter Mandelson did write in the Epstein book, a multi-page letter with photos. Screenshots in thread.

page 1

Man masked in English flag running down the road with a red paint roller.

Nicked from Facebook #flagshagger

column this week is about flegs

‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain The organic veg pioneer talks to the Guardian about being unemployable, his unconventional father and his recent autism diagnosis

‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain

Was it ever about protecting women

Or was it about policing women and womanhood, using the fearful (many of whom have very valid reasons to fear men), the ignorant, the bigoted?

The problem is not women, or trans women, but those men who would control and hurt women and girls

#SmashThePatriarchy

‘I worked in the NHS for decades – here’s how to fix it’ Britain’s demoralised doctors and nurses must be rallied with better job satisfaction and fair pay

Henry Marsh lays out what he thinks are the paths for the NHS to survive, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social:
A) A dedicated health tax
B) A hybrid insurance system
C) Making wealthier people pay to use the NHS
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

“Lucy recalls that at one stage her husband asked a doctor “for something to just make him go to sleep so he didn’t wake up again. The doctor’s response was, ‘Not unless you grow another two legs and a tail’ – a really blunt statement that I think sums the situation up,” says Lucy.” #AssistedDying

The high abortion rate is not due to carelessness. Quite ... The latest stats reveal that women, having agency to make informed decisions, take the prospect of motherhood very seriously

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Jupiter deal means £100m payday for Church of England charities Ethical asset manager CCLA is selling out to the FTSE 250 fund manager

The Church is poised for a £100m payout from the sale of its investment fund - so why does it continue to lobby for publicly-funded subsidisation of its building maintenance?
www.thetimes.com/article/df90...

‘Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel over Gaza war is not all down to antisemitism The “humanitarian city” Israel’s defence minister has proposed building on the ruins of Rafah would be a concentration camp, and forcing Palestinians inside would be ethnic cleansing, Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert has told the Guardian. Israel was already committing war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, Olmert said, and construction of the camp would mark an escalation. Continue reading...

‘Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM