"The govt is delaying the next stage of the Hillsborough Law until next week because of a backlash among Labour MPs over attempts to water down a duty of candour for the security services"

"What about university tuition fees then? Will you remain committed to scrapping them?"

Starmer "They're all pledges Andrew, so the answer to these questions is yes."

"So university tuition fees being scrapped will be in a Starmer manifesto?"

"Yes. That's why it's a pledge."

Displaced people in Gaza are dying from hypothermia & the collapse of damaged buildings they are forced to shelter in.

Israel doesn't just kill Palestinians with bullets and bombs

Cooper refused to say if the UK would uphold an ICC arrest warrant, the UK refuses to meet its genocide convention obligations & stop arming Israel, & it refuses to take any actions as Israel continues killing Palestinians

She means a western consensus to keep backing genocide

Palestine Action hunger strikers are still the state’s responsibility | Letters Letters: The power is in the hands of the DPP or the attorney general, writes Stephen Sedley. Plus Roshi Fernando on Keir Starmer’s unforgivable conduct

A number of people on this platform have been claiming that it's not up to government to shorten people's time on remand, however far beyond the statutory limit that time extends.
Well, take it from a very eminent retired judge. It is.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The latest Nick MacKinnon guest blog on failures of competence in plans for massive windfarm on Walshaw Moor markavery.info/2025/10/15/g...

Scoping Report, rightly, gets rough ride from Planning Inspectorate.

Would you invest in this lack of competence?

Thames Water wants to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO. Thames Water wants to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

📣URGENT more than 14,000 people have signed our petition calling on Ofwat to REJECT Thames Water's latest ridiculous proposal.

🤑Their creditors want to pollute our rivers & seas illegally for the next 15 years.

✍️Ofwat makes its decision next week. Add your name, 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 & 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 today!

ADAM @AdameMedia • 12h TRUMP: Iraq has so much oil they don't know what to do with it. What a pig.

Trump and Bibi want Iran’s oil next. So does Starmer.

x.com/adamemedia/s...

The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇

🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com

“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

If you live rurally, this is well worth doing! Covers questions on housing, healthcare, transport, digital connectivity, planning & net zero, all areas that affect everyday rural life! Really quick, too ... @rsnonline.bsky.social

"I don't hear her talking about women's rights, I just hear her talking about trans people." absolutely spot on about Rowling.

Thank you to @scotnational.bsky.social for picking this up and putting it on their front page

Exclusive: Zack Polanski backs Scottish and Welsh independence The eco-populist Green leader has called for sweeping change to Britain's political system, and spoken about potentially leading an explicitly ‘English’ party for the first time.

Exclusive: @zackpolanski.bsky.social backs Scottish and Welsh independence in new interview with me: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate

More evidence that the #climate emergency affects *everything* - it should be front & centre of ALL government decisions. As well as serious adaptation (petition here petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7300…) Govt must urgently stop making things worse eg greenlighting high carbon airport expansion

LBC Presenter Jokes About Trapped Fox ‘Left to Waste Away’ in His Car Park “just let it waste away down there.”

Ian Payne asked his audience whether he should “just let it waste away down there."

protectthewild.substack.com/p/lbc-presen...

A new impact assessment has just been published on the day of Report for the Wellbeing Bill. NEW PAGE here edyourself.org/impact-asses...

Cumbrian rift over plan to ban trail hunting As the government prepares to ban trail hunting some people in rural Cumbria are taking sides.

"I think the countryside in general feels very targeted by this government."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Supertrawlers spent 7,380 hours fishing in UK Marine Protected Areas each year since Brexit - Greenpeace UK An investigation by Greenpeace UK reveals today that giant supertrawlers relentlessly continue to catch fish in the UK’s Marine Protected Areas, damaging precious marine habitats and fish populations,...

🐟Supertrawlers are destroying fish populations in UK Marine Protected Areas.

😔Labour have the power to stop this, but they are not!

❓️What happened to the Brexit promise to take back control of UK waters?

www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/supertr...

Long Covid Awareness Day sees two campaigns take action across the UK - and beyond Long Covid Advocacy and Not Recovered UK have both got actions you can get involved with for Long Covid Awareness Day this year

Long Covid Awareness Day sees two campaigns take action across the UK - and beyond

Long Covid Advocacy and Not Recovered UK have both got actions you can get involved with for Long Covid Awareness Day this year
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Thank you Zack for speaking up and not backing down

Air polluting is getting worse in north London where were surrounded by tge A406 and M25

London can't breathe

B-52 Flies with Israeli Fighters over Mediterranean Sea A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber flew with the Israeli Air Force and Royal Air Force over the eastern Mediterranean on March 4.

According to reports, the RAF flew with Israeli warplanes in sorties with the US over the eastern Mediterranean Sea on 4 March.

The UK authorities have not publicised this.

www.airandspaceforces.com/b-52-israel-...

Toxic town impact as most high-risk contaminated sites unchecked BBC investigation finds nine out of ten high-risk contaminated areas have not been tested.

I'm repeatedly meeting people - almost always in social housing, almost always from global majorities - who are breathing in toxic air & chemicals from nearby sites.

The Government determined to avoid proper regulation to favour developers and "growth."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh

Thinking of the people of #Dunblane today - especially the children, parents, and teachers.

March 13th 1996. Never forgotten. 💔

“The majority of people who are forced to come to our food banks are disabled.. there is an incredible level of hardship out there & we are appalled the government looks at that situation & appears to be deciding to make huge cuts to the support people get"

Helen Barnard @trusselluk.bsky.social

Labour held secret meeting with top Israeli arms firm Exclusive: Home Office met with Elbit Systems amid crackdown on Palestine Action, documents reveal.

Keir Starmer’s government held a private meeting with Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms firm, Declassified has found.

The meeting occurred in December 2024 and was attended by 3 representatives from Elbit and 3 officials from the Home Office.

www.declassifieduk.org/labour-held-...

@zarahsultana.bsky.social

Should your bills rise to clean up the mess of water privatisation? NO!

We're fighting for public ownership hub v QA to stop pollution for profit.

✍️ Sign the petition here: weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...

@philipproudfoot.bsky.social

DWP told to stop taking cash from benefit claimants to pay for its own mistakes A total of 686,756 people were accused of universal credit overpayment debts due to DWP mistakes in 2023/2024.

A coalition of more than 30 organisations has written to minister Liz Kendall demanding the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) stops forcibly recovering debts from hundreds of thousands of benefit claimants caused by its own mistakes

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