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Huge number of shares in recent days for the claim that "75% of England's mayors are Muslim" - but little to back it up.

@fullfact.org could only find evidence that three of the country’s 27 current directly elected mayors are Muslim.

Our fact check: fullfact.org/culture-and-...

This one hits hard.

Why Britain Should Back Arab Diplomacy on Gaza Dr Brian Brivati, Executive Director, Britain Palestine Project

Why Britain Should Back Arab Diplomacy on Gaza
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Whoa! Didn’t expect to wake up to this news.

“A year into Trump’s term, voters say Biden was better.”

Trump’s net approval on the economy is now -18. That’s 26 points worse than this point in his first term and a brutal 53 points lower among independents.
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

I've just signed "Back the National Commission Amendment" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/nc... @OpenBritainHQ

NHS workers to get 3.3% pay rise from April Wes Streeting says rise is above inflation forecast and will be in pay packets earlier but union criticises figure

BREAKING. The Government has announced NHS workers will get 3.3% pay rise from April

Health unions have criticised the amount “as another below-inflation pay award.”

Inflation rose to 3.4%in December, the latest figure
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Israeli artillery shelled the eastern areas of Gaza City throughout the night.

AOC on Cuba: This is what we've seen with Gaza—a new era of depravity. There used to be stated protections for innocent civilians, and now it's almost acceptable for the Western world to look the other way as people are starved or deprived—simply because political actors or regimes in that country are found objectionable. What we're seeing is the possible precipice of hospitals running out of fuel. Innocent children and women could be put in harm's way. It's incumbent upon all of us to defend human rights no matter where...

Interesting rhetoric from AOC here

Israeli occupation forces abducted Palestinian Aata Anbatawi during the night after storming his home in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.

The Government must reveal all details of Peter Mandelson’s links to Palantir - Foxglove Sign the petition for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm?

I just signed a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

Fungi mining and giant waste piles: How to get rare earths without mining rock As nations posture over access to rare earth deposits, scientists say these coveted materials are hiding in plain sight – and can be harvested without any conventional mining at all.

NEW: Rare earths are often in the news, with nations vying over access to rare earth mines.

But many countries, including the US, have many or all of the rare earths they need at home. In waste.

I wrote about how to harvest rare earths without traditional mining...

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"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."

In 1 week Farage's company:
broke electoral law;
had Reform UK mentioned in the Epstein files;
had people exposed as fronts for foreign donors money laundering;
misled about £40m council savings they didn’t make -
Vote Reform and get American paedos and foreign oligarchs crashing your life.

It took 10 years for the local community these flowers and £10,000, but because the cops decided to do a racism the park was turned into that ugly shit

We now get most of our liquid gas from the USA, the one threatening to invade Europe (aka Greenland).

Frying pan, fire anyone..?

Labour continue to stampede down the Reform path, burning votes as they go.

This type of extreme cruelty is not what their voter base signed up for.

The London Economic: The economic cost of Brexit has just been laid bare - and it's devastating. 8 February.

By 2025, Brexit has been estimated to have reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, UK business investment is 18% lower than that of comparable countries, and UK employment and labour productivity are on average, 4% lower than other similar countries. Repairing our relationship with Europe must be a priority.

Lords urgent question on the sentencing of Jimmy Lai

The Lord Speaker has accepted an urgent question from Baroness Hayter following the 20-year prison sentence given to British citizen Jimmy Lai in China.

Watch live from around 3.20pm https://orlo.uk/Roz0m

In Defense of Boycotting Israeli Universities Not only do Israel’s universities help to develop weapons used against Palestinians, they also legitimize the actions of a nation that has become an international pariah. They deserve to be boycotted.

In Defense of Boycotting Israeli Universities: jacobin.com/2024/05/isra...

If only Andy Burnham were in Parliament. (Sorry, Manchester.)

With an announcement due on beefing up ethics at 4pm ish (if political events don’t overtake it) here’s our take on where the government has gone wrong on restoring public trust so far and what needs to happen now @appgonacrt.bsky.social @joepowell.bsky.social @philbrickellmp.bsky.social

Whatever people want to say about Gordon Brown, we owe him a lot.

''People across Britain want a Prime Minister focused on the cost of living, the NHS and social care, not on his own survival while the country pays the price.''

@libdemdaisy.bsky.social

Britons' right to protest is under threat like never before. If you value it, speak up now | Imran Khan Civil rights, women’s rights: little could have been achieved under the system now being considered by UK ministers. A bad situation could get worse, says Imran Khan KC

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Recent @copernicusland.bsky.social Sentinel-2 imagery in False Colour now showing the degraged agricultural land in #Syria near Quneitra where Israel has been spraying herbicide. Images via @obretix.bsky.social

Starmer’s been a puppet on strings throughout his PMship, so how’s he going to suddenly develop true strong leadership? What are *his* strategies and policies? Who’s he going to bring in next to lead the country to prop him up?

Electoral Reform

Gordon Brown yesterday said: "Total clean-up needed"
McSweeney this afternoon: GONE

1 down. Now finish it:
• Cap donations £10k
• Ban lobbying
• Anti-corruption commissioner

Labour 3rd (18.5%)
Reform 1st (27.3%)
12 weeks to May

The momentum is REAL.

#CleanUpPolitics #McSweeney

Bannon said to ‘flood the zone with ‘Farage’’. Maybe Starmer should ‘flood the zone’ with progressive measures to the extent that the Daily Mail won’t know which one to be outraged about most.