Jaci Quennell

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes.

Many components were beyond their design life.

Successive govts used the national security argument to cover up the leaks.

Homelessness minister threw out her tenants - then increased rent by £700 a month Rushanara Ali, who has spoken out against 'unreasonable rent increases', relisted her four-bedroom townhouse in east London for £4,000 a month

UK Homelessness minister threw out her tenants - then increased rent by £700 a month.

Rent increased from £3,300 to £4,000 a month, 21% increase.

As Mahatma Gandhi said: "Be the change that you wish to see in the world".
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Horizon victim Lee Castleton sues Post Office and Fujitsu for £4m This is the first time full details of a complex claim for compensation have been made public.

Horizon victim sues Post Office & Fujitsu for £4m.

Good on him.

Unimaginable pain from a scandal that has gone on for 30 yrs.

Govt pressuring victims to accept lower compensation.

Fujitsu central to false prosecutions; hasn't contributed anything.

No perpetrator of injustice charged.

£22bn of water bill hikes will go to private investors - not cleaning up rivers Investors will see their returns from water bills double over the next five years

Imagine borrowing someone’s credit card, spending it on yourself.. then charging them for the privilege.

That’s the scam of privatised water.

Households foot the bill for upgrades, but £22bn will go to investors and creditors.

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Israel is starving kids to death.

Evangelical Christian Festival Condemned as Exhibitors 'Brand Palestinians Savage’ and Back Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Plan Creation Fest, a registered charity, has said it will not invite the group back, but questions remain

Protests took place at an evangelical Christian Creation Fest in Cornwall over the weekend, after campaigners discovered a stall which appeared to call for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, with leaflets describing Palestinian people as “savage”

My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social:

Hundreds of British Jews condemn ban on Palestine Action as 'unethical' Prominent Jewish figures including Michael Rosen, Gillian Slovo, Alexei Sayle and Andrew Feinstein have signed a letter addressed to the prime minister and home secretary

HUNDREDS of British Jews condemn ban on Palestine Action as 'unethical'

Prominent Jewish figures including Michael Rosen, Gillian Slovo, Alexei Sayle and Andrew Feinstein have signed a letter addressed to the prime minister and home secretary

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Last week Awdah Hathleen, a Palestinian who was part of the crew on the Oscar winning film No Other Land, was murdered in the occupied West Bank by an Israeli settler. The murderer has been set free but Israel are refusing to release Awdahs body.

Nida' Ibrahim reports.

How far the Tories have moved. Impossible to imagine Badenoch or Jenrick saying that.

5 more Palestinians have starved to death in the past 24 hours & Israel shot & killed at least 27 people yesterday who were seeking aid.

Death by bullets or starvation. That's the choice Israel is giving Palestinians.

"It's kids, it's children"

The voice of a UN worker inside the vehicle as the shots ring out.

Israel is starving these children to death.

Brian Eno: "The early part of this century has seen people realize that neoliberal economics have failed. It has been a machine for concentrating wealth, just as the internet has become a machine for concentrating prejudice..." #interview www.flaunt.com/blog/people-...

“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”

#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

New report shows 24 million people in the UK are below minimum socially acceptable living standards New research reveals a sharp rise in the number of individuals in the UK living in households with incomes below the Minimum Income Standard (MIS).

The state we are in.

24m Britons, 36% of the population, live below minimum socially acceptable living standard.

Wealth systematically transferred to the rich - 1% have more than 70% of the population combined.

Can't rebuild without improving spending power of the bottom 50% of population.

Tuition fees in England and Wales rise to £9,535 Maintenance loans have also gone up, meaning students can borrow more to help with living costs.

University tuition fees in England and Wales rise to £9,535.

Student debt £267bn.

Most European nations don't charge uni tuition fees, England does.

People penalised for education, upskilling; can't start family, business; buy home.

Must abolish uni fees.

Offshore wind farms are forced to pay £879,000,000 a year in rent payments for tiny areas of the sea.

This all goes to the Crown Estate and YOU pay for it through increased electricity bills.

This con provides most of King Charles' 'income'.

The High Court has granted a full legal review of the govts proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. The groups co-founder Huda Ammori will now be able to bring a full legal review in the Royal Courts of Justice.

I'll just add that in the Dauphin experiment, eliminating poverty with basic income reduced emergency hospitalizations by 8.5%. As one doctor described the finding, if this were something we could put in the water, we would.

Also, the richest 10% of the US live 11 years longer than the poorest 10%.

What the government has achieved above all is to bring people onto the streets in disgust at its disgraceful facilitation of genocide in Gaza. Its authoritarian policy has backfired spectacularly. Try as it might, it cannot stop people caring.

It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

New research from Pesticide Action Network reveals the extent of pesticide use by UK councils. These are poisons being sprayed in your street, your local park. Pls share.

For links to the full report & to find out what you can do, follow the link below
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The reason why the death rate for Black women in childbirth is twice that of white women is they can’t help it affecting their professional conduct Sonia. Excusing racism that causes death really low even from her.

So much this. You have to presume that Brunel & co pissed a lot of their contemporaries off with their bridges etc…

EXCLUSIVE: NHS Fife nurse Sandie Peggie mocked victims of Pakistan floods in series of racist posts The offensive messages, detailed below, emerged in an evidence bundle seen by The Courier at the tribunal in Dundee.

The Courier reports on Sandie Peggie's racist posts, where she used the term "p*kis" and said that, following devistating floods, Pakistan looked like a "giant bowl of coco pops".

Sandie Peggie is supported in her case by Sex Matters.

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Nick Maynard: "This girl I spent all night operating on her.. to repair her esophagus.. she was totally reliant upon nutritional support because she couldn't eat or drink.. she needed intravenous feeding & we had [none] to giver her. Tragically she died yesterday morning"

Public ownership is the only way to save the water industry Public ownership is the only viable alternative but is opposed by the government

Are you ready to hand more than £1,000bn to England's privatised water companies by 2050?

Shareholders don't invest. Money will be extracted from customers, shareholders will own the resulting assets and income streams and collect dividends.

Public ownership is the only sane way.

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Nick Maynard: "There were several doctors I know who took in formula feed in their luggage, and every single carton of it was confiscated, was taken away by the Israeli border guards, very specifically the formula feed. So none of it was allowed in"

Rachel Reeves considers overruling supreme court in £44bn car finance scandal Exclusive: Chancellor could step in if justices uphold entirety of ruling over commission paid to brokers

Rachel Reeves considers overruling supreme court in £44bn car finance scandal.

Ultimate Deregulation: Law may be bent to prevent compensation to millions, protect banks from their follies. A licence to misbehave.

Any chance of laws to cap bankers' bonuses, higher taxes?

NO. It is one-way traffic