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Exit polls show socialist Antonio Jose Seguro has crushed the Far Right candidate Andre Ventura in Portugal’s presidential runoff.

I don't know for sure, but I'd bet that Mandelson was a key figure lobbying for Labour NOT to hold a proper inquiry into Russian interference in our elections. His closeness to Deripaska and others would have come out

I’d say that The Times have truly debased themselves but this is just further evidence of how power, money and corruption works… and how the British press willingly facilitates it.

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Welcome to Gorton-Denton Green Party - Gorton & Denton Green Party Hannah Spencer for Gorton & Denton | Green Party Skip to main content Real Hope. Real Change. Only a Vote for Hannah Spencer Can Stop Reform In Gorton & Abbey Hey, Denton, Levenshulme, Longsight and B...

If you can get to Manchester, great!

If you can't, you can still help to make sure Hannah Spencer beats the Reform candidate and becomes the next wonderful MP for Gorton & Denton

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Grodon Brown is being widely portrayed as a saintly patriarch betrayed by his greedy servant. But he was utterly complicit in the erosion of democracy to favour corporate interests, that became a hallmark of the New Labour years. He appointed Mandelson for this very purpose.

Decent homes standard for UK private renters delayed by government until 2035 Campaigners pushing for 2030 deadline said deferral was ‘denying renters the most basic standards in our homes’

WHY is this government content to leave private renters stuck in homes not fit for habitation for another DECADE?

The state of private rented homes is appalling. Renters deserve better than this disappointment from Labour.

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Suella Braverman’s parents emigrated (those horrible economic migrants not from a war zone she hates).

She went to Cambridge for free and didn’t collect £27k debt like everyone else. Scrounger.

She used the Erasmus scheme to study in France. Which she has blocked.

Horrible.

Genuinely think this coverage is worthy of formal complaint – and if the BBC doesn’t take it seriously, it should be escalated to Ofcom.

The appearance of caving to the Trump White House, when the BBC is being sued, could be disastrous for public trust.

Nigel Farage, has proposed a mass deportation plan called "Operation Restoring Justice," which includes creating a "UK Deportation Command" modelled on the U.S. ICE.

Don't vote Reform unless you want innocent blood on UK streets like we see in the USA.

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Farage is entirely responsible here but has thrown his ‘team’ under the bus for 'admin' errors

Real problem is he's showing profound disrespect for his position as an MP - a role well-paid from the public purse & which the majority of us dedicate ourselves to as a more-than-full-time job

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The UK Govt has quietly published - without announcement - the Joint Intelligence Committee/DEFRA report it suppressed last October. They tried to sneak it out in the midst of crisis. Read and share:

“Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse & National Security.”
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#Brexiteers got it very wrong, and they still do.

Week by week - Laura Kuenssberg is interviewing the party leaders.

When I agreed to come on the show, I was told Nigel Farage was also doing it.

He's now pulled out - and they've sent the deputy instead.

The same Nigel Farage who's refusing to debate me.

A pattern emerging...

Carole Cadwalladr, "But trying to suck up to Trump.. Totally disastrous deals with Silicon Valley companies in which we're bringing their software into the critical functions of how the UK state operates"

"We have put ourselves in a vassal of complete surrender"

Saturday escapism: wasting my life away playing online chess. Oops.

block immediately everyone

What a beauty ! Thank you to @allthingsorca.bsky.social for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay , top work !

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

Who funds the Free Speech Union? Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Excellent episode!

People are trying to make this complicated, kicking dust into the air. But it's really simple:
*The government has created the impossible conditions in which these prisoners - who have not been convicted of any crime - languish. By refusing to intervene, it is killing them.*

What the fuck have you done, America?

The Palestine hunger strikers have been on hunger strike for over 60 days and are close to death.

They have not even been convicted of a crime - they are being held on remand (pre-trial) for more than twice the max time allowed, and counting…🧵

As if public figures and institutions needed any more reasons to quit X - this is horrifying.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Revealed: oil industry lobbyist working inside UK’s climate department Polanski slams arrangement; experts warn of 'corporate infiltration antithetical to democracy'

Outrageous.

Ministers should be listening to scientists, frontline communities and those working towards a green transition – not hosting the interests of oil giants in their own offices.

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The bombing of Venezuela is an act of aggression: unprovoked, unjustified and unjustifiable.