Philip Murray

Truly. The distinction between the treatment of elderly Gaza demonstrators and far-right protestors suggests a complete breakdown in our moral compass.

British newspapers are exempt from VAT because they're said to serve the public interest.

But the Little Black Book of Press Barons shows that – then and now – they often serve the political agendas of a powerful few.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyAlex · Jul 21 These people need a mental health intervention, not a ministerial brief. Quote Best for Britain @BestForBritain · Jul 21 Meet the Reform UK councillor, just appointed to their top law and order team, who thinks trains are full of people in balaclavas, knives are hidden in every bush, and New York and Chicago are safer than London. ~AA Asmara @AmrIbnHisham They are in London. They even shit on the stairs of the trains station. Google it. 9:44 PM · Jul 22, 2025 · 299 Views

A brilliant summary of 2025. Someone who doesn't live in London telling someone who does live in London to google London, for proof that it is, in fact, a dystopian hellscape. Something I can disprove by walking to the local bakery, or taking the tube every day, or just... looking out the window. 🤌🏽

More than 100 people die of hunger in Gaza, including 80 children, say Palestinian officials Israel controls all supplies entering Gaza and has denied it is responsible for food shortages.

More than 100 people die of hunger in Gaza, including 80 children, say Palestinian officials

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The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here.

These are the ones published since Labour won the election.

"We are happy to correct the record."

Fond memories of when Pearson threatened to sue me for saying she'd gone from being merely wrong to actively dangerous.

Mass starvation in Gaza and over 1,000 Palestinians killed while seeking aid since May. The government says the situation is intolerable yet they continue to tolerate it.

The UK needs to stop all arms exports to the Israeli Government - today.

Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal?

PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!

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The UK must immediately recognise Palestinian statehood.

There can be no two state solution if there is no viable state left to call Palestine.

It's staggering that almost a fifth are STILL in favour.

Netanyahu keeps citing the terror attack as justification for his barbarism.

But when 9/11 happened, the US and allies didn't start deliberately starving Afghanistan's civilians. There is NO justification for his govt's evil acts.

UK opinion on Gaza war (YouGov, July 2025)

18% support Israel’s actions in Gaza, 55% oppose
81% of those who oppose say it’s a genocide

Large margins in favour of:
- trade embargoes (48% to 20%)
- financial sanctions on individuals (52% to 19%)
- suspending arms exports to Israel (57% to 18%)

She's either a moron, or she's counting on morons out there believing in obvious BS. Folk like her should be ashamed.

The idea London is more dangerous than Chicago is beyond laughable. Chicago's murder rate is TWENTY times bigger. It's exponentially worse.

Fucking hell the standard of the debate on that asylum hotel protest is appalling. Broadcasters and politicians bending over backwards to defend and justify the actions of the protestors. Not even a hint of the bravery required to stand up or challenge far-right ideas.

Guidance and methodology: Benefit expenditure and caseload tables

UK welfare spending is 10.6% of GDP.

Right wing press never mentions that it is well below the OECD average.

UK has some of the least generous welfare across OECD.

No questions asked about billions given away in corporate welfare, uncosted tax reliefs to corporations/rich.

Racist demonstrations, reportedly organised by Neo-Nazi groups, have been held outside asylum hostels around London. They have turned ugly & violent at times.

First question on #r4today to a local MP: “do you have sympathy with protesters?”

I switched off. Enough.

Good grief, what next! If this were ANY other nation it'd be called what it is - a rogue state.

Israel Expands Attacks in Central Gaza City and Raids W.H.O. Offices Strikes in the central part of the territory targeted a city, Deir al-Balah, that had largely been spared and that had become an informal refuge for Palestinians fleeing other areas.

Breaking News: The Israeli military ​raided a UN aid facility, part of an expanded offensive in an area of central Gaza that had remained relatively unscathed during the war with Hamas.

The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

Only 3 years left – new study warns the world is running out of time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change Planet Earth is living on borrowed time, a new global report reveals. The world must stop burning fossil fuels now and take urgent steps to reduce global warming.

"Only 3 years left – new study warns the world is running out of time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change."

"If we treated climate data as we do financial reports, panic would ensue after each dire update."

The time to act is now. 🌎

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It is very hard to see how the UK government can sign this statement, which makes it absolutely clear that it recognises that Israel is committing - as a matter of state policy - deliberate and systematic war crimes, without at a minimum cutting all military cooperation with Israel.

Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social,

Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism.
Looking forward to following you wherever you land,

Your fan, Mar🐫

It surely seems that way. CBS, what gives?

Trump Says ‘I Absolutely Love’ That Stephen Colbert Got ‘Fired’ and ‘I Hear Jimmy Kimmel Is Next’ Trump weighed in on CBS's announced cancelation of Stephen Colbert's late-night talk show and is seemingly hopeful Jimmy Kimmel will be next to get axed.

again, no mention at all that the incoming new owners of CBS are the Ellison family, billionaire friends of Trump, who are already shaping the trajectory of the new CBS via Skydance execs before the deal ink is dry

that's apparently just not relevant enough to mention

The media propensity to run "police probe [cultural figure x]" stories is corrosive to our polity.

Few if any of these probes get anywhere, but the No Further Actions never get similar prominence.

And what lingers are the police interventions, as if such activity is normal and to be expected.

A crime wave in small boats: why worry about facts? Conservatives claim that small boat arrivals are 24 times more likely to be in prison than the average British citizen. Are they?

There is no reliable data linking small boat arrivals to higher crime rates. But there is plenty of evidence that fear sells. Stephen McNair crunches the numbers.

And especially those 16 and 17-year-olds studying for their GCSE, A-level and Higher exams in... checks notes... politics.

I suspect the Shadow Minister hasn't engaged those little grey cells before sounding off.

Populism's Achilles' heel: When you actually dig into Reform's policies, the public don't want what they have to sell iandunt.substack.com/p/populisms-...

Note that this is the Sun, who until a few years ago were happy to put topless 16 year old girls on Page 3.

Populism thrives on simplicity and empty promises. So it’s important to keep holding Reform and other reactionary parties to account.

As exampled in this tread, Reform are a threat to economic growth, jobs, and sustainability!