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Labour MP Ian Byrne: "The lines from the PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing.

"It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong."

‘Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees Exclusive: Labour peer, who came to UK as a refugee, says some ministers try to show they won’t ‘just do things because of their background’

Children need their families. Refugee children are no different.
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The new campaign for social housing is something to Shout about The message of the new Shout campaign is loud and clear: put social housing back on the agenda in 2014, says John Healey

I wasn’t the only teenager there. @lucyferman.bsky.social was there with her mum and went on to a stellar #ukhousing career. We didn’t meet until 2014/15 where are shared roots came up as we campaigned for #SocialHousing at #SocialRent with #SHOUT www.theguardian.com/housing-netw...

We are saddened to learn of the passing of Neil McIntosh CBE, former Chair of the Board of Trustees at The Access Project.

We are incredibly grateful to Neil for his thoughtful guidance of The Access Project. We extend our sympathies to Neil’s friends, family, and colleagues during this time.

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Israel launches deadly strikes in Gaza in new ceasefire violations The Israeli military continues to demolish structures in northern Gaza while also blocking the entry of aid.

The Israeli military continues to demolish structures in northern Gaza while also blocking the entry of aid.

BREAKING: Ed Davey’s response to Keir Starmer’s statement

Can anyone tell me the difference between America wanting to control/annex countries on its borders and Russia wanting to do the same? Aren’t both equally bad?

My profile on Bluesky, having hit 50k followers

With apologies for the self-promo, but I've just hit 50k followers here - over double the following I had on X

I stopped posting on X earlier this year & have zero regrets.

The move over here was never really about reach, so it's just a bonus on top of Bluesky not being owned by a far-right troll.

Chart showing proportion of families impacted by the two child limit

The Chancellor has scrapped the two-child limit, benefitting more than half a million families.

More than half of the affected families have at least one member in work, and 88% had 3 or 4 children.

I really do object to the term ‘welfare’ which has become a pejorative word and is not ‘out of control’. I’ve paid for my pension through nearly 50 years of work and everyone pays in through taxes.
Where’s the chart showing corporate welfare, tax breaks and tax avoidance?

The Tories doing their best to divide crudely between people who work who pay taxes and people on benefits. We all pay tax and we all receive public services, that’s how the system works. Calling everything ‘welfare’ is just ignorance.

Was trying to work out in which way Shabana Mahmood, an otherwise pretty unremarkable politician, could possibly be described as a "luminous golden star" who "dazzles like a blue-white supernova" and then I realised, its simply a willingness to be a bit more cruel to immigrants

Sudan’s RSF committing war crimes in Darfur, says Amnesty The latest report came hours after the RSF agreed to a three-month humanitarian truce.

The latest report came hours after the RSF agreed to a three-month humanitarian truce.

Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"

Almost every BBC current affairs programme highlights the newspapers, most of which are right wing. Free advertising every day for appalling products, importing bias into every programme. BBC should end this practice immediately.

Goodall shows clearly that the issue is not whether the BBC is right wing or not - it is - but that it is still not right wing enough for the zealots.

BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.

Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security.

The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government.

You won't win him over with another conference on AI

Philp’s complete inability to distinguish between the issue of immigration (new arrivals from other countries) and the issue of racism (mainly against British people) shows he is as ignorant as Pochin.

Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

It isn’t real convergence, and it isn’t fairness, unless ‘Affordable Rents’ are included as well as Social Rents. Converging all rents - some up, some down- would bring back coherence to rent setting and enable the eventual repeal of the AR tenancy.

Much of this borrowing funded capital assets and kept businesses going during the pandemic - which now pay tax. Where do the benefits of borrowing appear in the national accounts and why do @theIFS never focus on the upside?

This story is missing the crucial information about what rents will be charged to the eventual tenant. Is it genuinely affordable?

It’s an example of how much our views are manipulated that almost no one will believe that welfare payments are stable and not out of control.

Over 500,000 marched in London on Oct 11. The 32nd national demonstration for Palestine. The BBC: ‘local London news’ Over 500,000 march in London on 32nd national demonstration for Palestine. BBC ‘local news’ Over 500,000 people marched in central London on 11th October on what was the 32nd national demonstration…

More than 500,000 marched for Palestine in London on 11th October. The reaction of a Labour Government- Bridget Philipson speaking to Trevor Phillips (12th Oct). 'We're bringing in restrictions to curtail the marches'. A Labour Government??
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Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax?

The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.

Despite many excellent correspondents, BBC News and current affairs is now a complete joke. And it seems from Chris Mason’s comments that it has a very thin skin. Ed Davey is quite right.

Nice bunch of people. Definitely on the right lines.

“The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to some form of right-wing extremism. That is also true for 2024: for the third year in a row, all the murders identified were tied to right-wing extremism.”

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