Farage: epic grifter

Fewest homicides in London since monthly records began. The number of homicides in London between January to September 2025 is the lowest in the first 9 months of any year since monthly records began in 2003.

Some politicians and commentators continue to talk our great city down.

The facts show a very different picture.

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society A retired British couple who are members of a grassroots pro-Palestine organisation which had its bank account frozen have had their joint personal account closed without explanation. John Nicholson, 70, and Norma Turner, 76, who, as treasurer and chair respectively, were signatories to the Greater Manchester Friends of Palestine (GMFP) account with Virgin Money, said their account with Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) was intended as a nest egg. Continue reading...

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

Fact check Reform UK's immigration policies (abridged due to word count allowance) Plans by Reform UK to deal with what it has termed the "state of emergency" of asylum seekers entering Britain have previously been ruled out by the Home Office, or dropped due to spending concerns. A 'logistical nightmare' One of the most notable policies is the idea that asylum seekers could be sent for processing on British Overseas Territories, away from mainland Britain - for example Ascension Island A similar plan was previously touted by former Tory home secretary Dame Priti Patel before being ruled out by Foreign Office officials. In 2020, a member of the Ascension Island Council described the plans as a "logistical nightmare". Mass detention centres The Reform leader has pledged to build detention centres capable of holding 24,000 people to combat small boat crossings. Operating detention centres costs the Government between £100m and £150m a year. If capacity increased to the levels Reform is suggesting, the yearly running costs would be likely to enter the billions. Five deportation flights a day Reform pledges to launch five deportation flights every day under new emergency legislation. But past efforts suggest such a programme would face substantial challenges. The Rwanda deportation scheme, championed by Patel and later by Rishi Sunak, promised regular flights "indefinitely" to remove asylum seekers. Yet despite ministers spending more than £50m on preparations, not a single aircraft left before Labour scrapped the scheme last year. Scrapping the Human Rights Act Farage (inset) has pledged to repeal the Human Rights Act and withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights. However, similar plans have consistently stalled.

This is so reminiscent of Brexit…
Farage loudly whipping up fear and hatred, in front of a huge ‘Breaking point’ poster with tiny little fact checks whispered far behind the bullshit headlines.
His immigration ‘plan’ would be a cruel and incompetent shitshow. We’ve done this all before.

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Rising number of doctors among hundreds of medical staff detained in Gaza, say rights groups Detention of Dr Marwan al-Hams by Israeli undercover unit on Monday takes number of doctors being held to 28, says Healthcare Workers Watch

Rising number of doctors among hundreds of medical staff detained in Gaza, say rights groups

Trump administration to destroy nearly $10m of contraceptives for women overseas As part of president’s shuttering of USAID, destruction of the contraceptives will cost US taxpayers $167,000

The Trump regime has decided to destroy $9.7m worth of contraceptives rather than send them abroad — it will cost US taxpayers $167,000. The contraceptives are primarily long-acting, such as IUDs and birth control implants, and were intended for women in Africa, www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Met raids Quaker meeting house and arrests six women at Youth Demand talk At least 20 officers forced their way into property and police said some present were planning direct action in London Police have raided a Quaker meeting house and arrested six women attending a gathering of the protest group Youth Demand. More than 20 uniformed police, some equipped with Tasers, forced their way into the Westminster meeting house at 7.15pm, according to a statement by the Quakers. Continue reading...

Met raids Quaker meeting house and arrests six women at Youth Demand talk

1/ The Trump Administration is seeking to force foreign companies worldwide to ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes within their firms if they want to do business with the US government. It's an aggressive expansion of its anti-DEI crusade. ⬇️

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

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it's the helplessness thst's most notable. Young men feel hopeless about the future.

Glow Up! New discovery of fluorescing lesser horseshoe bats… Glow Up! New discovery of fluorescing lesser horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus hipposideros) An exciting discovery has been published, showing that two European…

“An exciting discovery has been published, showing that two European horseshoe bats — the lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros) and the Blausis bat (Rhinolophus blasii) — can glow under UV light.”

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Ben & Jerry’s claims Unilever ousted its CEO for his progressive stance Ice-cream brand’s board says David Stever was ‘removed’ for refusing to ‘oversee the dismantling’ of its values * Business live – latest updates Ben & Jerry’s has accused its parent group Unilever of sacking the ice-cream brand’s chief executive for…

Ben & Jerry’s claims Unilever ousted its CEO for his progressive stance

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Ahead of International Women’s Day tomorrow, here’s a quick and easy guide as to how to avoid sexual assault:

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I love all the little details. Just beautiful!