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The UK is quickly recovering a prime position in the EU’s £80bn science research programme 18 months after becoming a participating member following the resolution of Brexit problems, data shows.
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In 2016 the whole Brexit campaign was based on fishermen and British fish and now we can see the truth surely the BBC should now report on it..
12.08.2025 13:05 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Great long piece on BBC news about the massive increase in the cost of cod and the impact on fish and chip shops.
No mention at all of Brexit which has significantly affected £££
For the millionth time: We import ten times as much cod as this country catches.
What did they think would happen?
Trump said he was putting Washington's police department under federal control and ordering the National Guard to deploy to the nation's capital to combat what he said was a wave of lawlessness, despite statistics showing that violent crime hit a 30-year low in 2024. Live coverage: reut.rs/4fuQH6J
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Live updates: Trump says he's placing DC police under federal control and deploying National Guard Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | Aug. 11, 2025
Ahead of a news conference, Trump said Monday on social media that the nation's capital would be “LIBERATED today!" He said he would end the "days of ruthlessly killing, or hurting, innocent people."
Deploying the military, again, as a domestic police force and shouting about "liberating" your own capital city doesn't sound like the actions of a deranged dictator at all*
*Yes they do.
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Last month, I warned that proscribing Palestine Action would result in the mass criminalisation of people who are not even members of the group.
Now more than 500 people have been arrested.
I voted against the proscription. We shouldn't be conflating protest with terrorism.
If an individual offering consensual nudes of themself on OnlyFans is considered “illicit” but a program generating nudes of women without their consent is fine, the powers that be have made their priorities clear. And they’re the same as they ever were.
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David Dinsmore, the Murdoch exec who ran an aggressively hostile campaign against "Red Ed" Miliband's Labour party and denigrated Keir Starmer following the phone-hacking scandal, is now in charge of the Labour government’s comms, leaving both No. 10 and News UK baffled.
11.08.2025 11:39 — 👍 247 🔁 98 💬 22 📌 19
Israel claimed responsibility for killing five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif, in a strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the total journalists killed to 237 since the war began.
🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/1490et
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces.
🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime
How did the Labour Party end up on the wrong side of history?
10.08.2025 14:42 — 👍 33 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 2In what way does Trump and Putin deciding how to divide up Ukraine differ from Stalin and Hitler deciding how to divide up Poland? (Before Hitler’s betrayal of the pact, of course)
10.08.2025 08:44 — 👍 42 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
Mail on Sunday letters page headline: "Tice is so right about this Net Zero insanity"
Meanwhile the same newspaper - whose parent company makes huge amounts of cash from servicing the fossil fuel industry - has a headline attacking climate action as "insanity"...
10.08.2025 19:39 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0I think much of the English right built their identity on Brexit, which they never believed in their wildest dreams would happen, but when they got it they realised it solved absolutely nothing, left them bereft of ideas and office, and now they’re thinking, “ah, f—k it, let’s try revolution.”
10.08.2025 19:56 — 👍 638 🔁 125 💬 34 📌 5
FFS.
He didn't "kick off".
It's not a "jibe".
He said, with dignity and restraint, what we were all thinking - that Al-Obeid didn't just "die" - he, like tens of thousand of other innocent civilians, was killed by Israel as part of its ongoing programme of ethnic cleansing.
It is quite something to see much of what was once the mainstream right predicting, hoping for, braying for “revolt/revolution”.
10.08.2025 20:02 — 👍 927 🔁 136 💬 82 📌 20
Screenshot of Daily Telegraph page, with a headline reading "The wind turbines destroying the fishing trade". Below the article is an advertisement for Baillie Gifford's "Monks Investment Trust"
Today's attack on clean energy by the Telegraph - whose owner has huge investments in oil and gas - comes with an advert just below it from Baillie Gifford, who reportedly also have hundreds of millions of pounds invested in fossil fuels... fossilfreefunds.org/families?q=B...
10.08.2025 20:14 — 👍 52 🔁 27 💬 6 📌 1
Experts say you've been misled about the true cost of public ownership of water.
1/4
We HAVE to. It is not too late.
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“We wouldn’t let big tobacco teach children about smoking. So why are we allowing the alcohol, gambling and junk food industries into classrooms?”
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#OnThisDay in London's radical history: 4 day silkweavers' riot against machine looms erupts, 1675.
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Another humanitarian group – this time, Doctors without Borders – concludes Israel is deliberately killing the very people it has been starving by shooting them as they queue for aid.
Its report is titled: "This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing." www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...
Screenshot of Telegraph page with a headline reading "Solar farm will blight ancient pilgrim path" - above a UK Government advertisement reading "Our modern Industrial Strategy is making it quicker and easier to do business in the UK"
UK government advertising doesn't just help to fund the Telegraph's toxic commentary, it also helps the newspaper - which is becoming notorious for its misleading coverage across a range of issues - to retain a veneer of legitimacy.
02.08.2025 14:00 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0Might I encourage you to listen to Parts I & II of Aesop, before the final part is out next week? And maybe to recommend it to someone who you think might enjoy it?
He is the most political topic I have tackled, and the most accessible, so a perfect introduction to this podcast.
🔴 Starmer & The Sun: An Appointment that Shows Everything that Is Wrong with Power & the Press in Britain
The PM has signalled the direction of his Government by hiring a former Sun Editor – who has a criminal conviction under the Sexual Offences Act – as a communications advisor, writes Emma Jones
Trump administration attempting to unmake virtually all climate US regulations.
Triumph for fossil fuels industry as millions facing sea level rise, extreme heat, floods, fires, crop failures, health problems, ecological disasters.
Will others follow? Planet/People sacrificed to profits.
1912 postcard of two three-house terrace blocks and communal gardens
1/ Bedfordshire's first council housing: 1-6 Station Road, Sharnbrook, built by Bedford Rural District Council in 1912. All the new tenants were presented with this postcard. 'The gardens were communal and included chickens and a shared pig.' (sic)
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THree house terrace, Manchester Grove, Isle of Dogs
Pendower Estate, Newcastle
Semi-detached housing Scotforth Estate, Lancaster
Semi-detached housing, Stanmore Estate, Winchester
The 1919 Housing Act - the Addison Act - received the royal assent on this day 106 years ago. 176,000 council homes were built under its terms and its standard of high quality housing set a benchmark for decades to come (Examples from Poplar, Newcastle, Lancaster and Winchester)
31.07.2025 07:50 — 👍 89 🔁 28 💬 3 📌 8An inconvenient truth for Labour:
NHS privatisation is entirely un-evidence based and the public has never agreed to it.
All evidence is that privatisation is:
1) more expensive for taxpayers, and
2) has worse outcomes for patients
