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"no longer the party it once was"?You're quite right, it is no longer a small marginal party, easy to ignore, it now has 190,000 members and continues to grow. Zack Polanski is asking the questions about wealth and inequality that Starmer's Labour has no answers to. If that is "hard left" so be it!

Graphic showing Peter Thiel - chair of Palantir Technologies - and some of the powerful figures in his network including Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Peter Mandelson, Steve Bannon

What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here

Peter Thiel's data company is powering ICE operations in the US. In part 2 of the Nerve’s Palantir series, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social argues that the UK will be next - and we map Thiel’s network🧵
www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...

'People Are Struggling, My Priority Is Cutting The Cost Of Living,' Says Green Party By-Election Candidate Writing for HuffPost UK, Hannah Spencer says she will give voters in Gorton and Denton "something completely different" if she becomes their MP.

"People Are Struggling, My Priority Is Cutting The Cost Of Living," Says Green Party By-Election Candidate

Writing for HuffPost UK, Hannah Spencer says she will give voters in Gorton and Denton "something completely different" if she becomes their MP.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/people...

In light of this, I’m calling on Keir Starmer to ban social media for the over-60s, the only sensible response.

The Green candidate in Gorton and Denton is running on local issues, transport, infrastructure and the cost of living. Matt Goodwin ignores such trivia and is campaigning on an ideology of division, of bigotry, of the reversal of progress. This isn't a referendum on Starmer,

A photo of me in the conference hall with stalls in the background. I'm sat on a chair wearing a red jacket and blue trousers. My hair is done in curls and I look very glam! I'm being interviewed for a live interview with the BBC. There is a big light and a camera person in front of me

A very contrasting photo! Of me wearing a yellow t shirt worn my hair scraped back, I look a bit grubby and I'm lying on the ground underneath the floor of a house where I'm fitting central heating. There's copper pipe next to me. I don't look like the other photo but I've got a big smile on my face!

And just like that, in less than 24 hours I went from photo 1, to photo 2. From holding my own live on the BBC to getting straight back under the floor fitting central heating 🙌🏻

Elect people who live in the real world not those who set out wanting a career in politics just to stroke their ego!

INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer Green Party candidate for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Say hello to Hannah Spencer—councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and your Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton 💚

Why is Trump still not yet in a secure hospital?

I get really angry when Labour politicians complain that they lost a particular by-election because some people voted Green.
Labour lost because they didn't convince enough people to vote Labour.
And if you don't like an election system that makes things difficult for you - change it!

The astronomical debt from student loans puts kids from lower income group families off going to university and discourages others from studying courses that won't offer "a return."

That was obvious from the start and it's also turned some university courses into little more than finishing schools

This is the way.

If you can get over to Gorton and Denton in the next few weeks like this bunch of terrific people, we can make change happen. So much to do between now and Thursday 26th February, but this is within reach. Let's do this! 🚀💚

It just feels like there are people in government who are happier listening to big tech than to independent experts, which is worrying

Interesting that the digital inclusion committee groups, which don't include any AI industry representatives (I followed the link in the OP) weren't consulted. Or, to be more precise, very worrying.
- no user consultation
- no shared priorities
- suspicion of industry influence
- no joined up gov't

The collection of the Felix Nussbaum Haus in resides in Osnabrück, Germany. The Felix Nussbaum Haus is a museum specifically built to house the artist's collection, which includes around 400 of his known 456 paintings.

Felix Nussbaum (German, 1904–44) :
Self-Portrait with Jewish Passport, 1943

Oil on Canvas | 62 × 50.5 cm

He painted this, one of his last works, during the Nazi occupation of Belgium, while hiding in Brussels. In 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered a short time later.

More 👇

To say aloud that the vice president is friends with Nazis and to point out that his Holocaust tweet is crafted so as not to offend them is to sound crazy to everyone who doesn’t know both are stone cold facts. Frustrating thing.

Arguably it could breach spending rules, but the EC has limited practical powers at the best of times

I'd love to see music and dance in the HoL!

Monetisation

The advert said
MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS
so he thought
he would respond

by painting them
in the changing light,
like waterlilies
in a pond.

My life in one picture. Good morning Wülferhampton!

“Reform offers the politics of hate & division…People deserve better than the worst….People deserve good - people deserve excellent representation - that’s how we make hope normal again”
Yes @zackpolanski.bsky.social! 🔥🔥🔥

Le Monde's cartoon of the day, by Marco De Angelis.

A contemporary engraving depicting the execution of Cromwell, Bradshaw and Ireton – b/w image shows gallows in foreground, a bonfire, a crowd of people and horses, and at the back a building with three outlines of heads on spikes

Well, as it’s 28 January, it must be time to mark the 365th anniversary of that most rational example of that most sensible of judicial measures, capital punishment. Yes, this was the day Oliver Cromwell’s corpse was exhumed so he could be hanged and beheaded for regicide 🧵

This is the biggest targeted training programme since Harold Wilson started the Open University (note).

Open to all UK adults online, taking as little as under 20 minutes, the courses will give

founding partners - Accenture, Amazon, Barclays, BT, Google, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, Sage, SAS and Salesforce to take the Al Skills Boost programme to the next level and upskill 10 million workers with Al skills by 2030.

The government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.

Kurt Grelling - Wikipedia

I remember today my great great uncle Kurt Grelling. He died in Auschwitz in 1942. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Gr...

Being blocked seems to me optimal for Burnham. He gets to "would have easily won" without actually having to contest the seat, establishes himself as the contender Starmer fears most and, if Labour lose, gets "Keir would rather hurt the party by losing a seat, than have a rival win it" as a bonus.

Time for Government to stop tinkering around the edges and scrap leasehold altogether.

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On Holocaust Memorial Day we remember those murdered during the Holocaust and all genocides.

#HMD2026 #HolocaustMemorialDay

A person packages items in a foodbank facing away from the camera. The back of their T-shirt reads 'POVERTY IS A POLITICAL CHOICE, Tax the super-rich' The Green Party's tagline- Real Hope. Real Change. and digital imprint appears at the bottom of the graphic.

A report from @jrf-uk.bsky.social shows UK poverty is 'deeper and more damaging than any point in last 30 years' - citing the government's lack of urgency and direction.
Poverty is a political choice - Labour have chosen austerity over addressing inequality by taxing extreme wealth fairly.

If you are unlawfully killed by the authorities, you posthumously become a terrorist.