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Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

🌊 Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It seems that when the chips are rally down politically the response is not what one expects. The political terrain on the left may be highly fragmented and there seems to be an element of disbelief that all is really happening. Some communities seem passive. Then again …

Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%

The number of people providing full-time unpaid care has increased massively, as the social care system approaches breaking point.

Zack on Bold Politics podium

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

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YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski How Labour Sold Their Souls To Billionaires | Gary Stevenson | Zack Polanski

In case you missed it - here's this weeks episode of @boldpolitics.bsky.social with Gary Stevenson.

100k views and growing!

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What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

Actor & campaigner Hugh Grant tells ITV News why he feels Labour has ‘betrayed’ hacking victims.

He says seeing Keir Starmer forge close relationships with major newspaper barons is hard to stomach for the families who were promised things would change.

Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews Exclusive: One option could be to leave treaty that allows legal claims against projects such as Heathrow expansion

BREAKING: Keir Starmer has tasked a Conservative peer with writing a new planning bill to remove the ability for environmental groups to delay projects such as Heathrow’s third runway with judicial reviews

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.

They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.

Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Let me get this right. Gaza is to be a new Las Vegas and the Palestinian West Bank is to continue being fragmented into micro portions. In this dreadful context and late stage the heroic British ‘Empire’ recognises the Palestinian state. Well you have to keep up traditions in empires, heaven forbid

Kudos, indeed, to Spain and PM Sanchez for breaking the taboo in Europe.
At the same time it is worth noting that, from a global perspective, Europe/OECD lags well behind world opinion on Palestine.

(Source: @theguardian.com )

Ministers tell Environment Agency to wave planning applications through Exclusive: Officials say they have been told to do as little as legally possible to prevent approvals for housebuilding

Britain needs affordable housing in the right places not a free hand for developers to build what they like, where they like, regardless of environmental consequences. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good question. A morbid fascination? Or a sense of excitement after watching cop films in your teens? The lights and sound making it sound exotic like ‘America’? The ‘is it someone is unwell’ versus ‘is there a chase on’ question? Or it punctuates our bored mundane experience lives? I like the last.

The result of #ChurchillsSpaniards is both a military and human history: one that illuminates the personal sacrifices of men who fought for a country not their own, in pursuit of a cause larger than national boundaries. Paperback 👇🏽
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The sight of opposition politicians being arrested has become quite common in the US.

This is becoming one of the most deregulationist governments you will find. They are pushing an agenda of removing rights and regulations they have no mandate to do. It’s as if the sphere of the economy is separate from labour and employment policy which btw is being minimally reregulated , perhaps

No LGB Without the T: solidarity in the face of attacks The FBU’s LGBT+ section stands in full solidarity with our trans and non-binary siblings, writes interim LGBT+ national sectional secretary Maria Buck

UK: No LGB Without the T: solidarity in the face of attacks  www.fbu.org.uk/magazine/aug...

Good grief...

Yet more compelling evidence to support @greenparty.org.uk policy that public services should be in public hands 👇

Shouldn't need saying - but sadly it does

There has always been ambivalence with the English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 flag. Its status is not clear or important as England is invisible in the British state. There are moments (football events) where it plays some ‘unifying role’ but its use by the far right ironically undermines it & debates on English politics.

It’s due to the belief that technical competence is all you need. Blair was ‘new managerialist’ and partly neoliberal obsessed but in Starmer that is left to Reeves but he is very much about one dimensional administration and management without any moral or visionary vision. It’s bizarrely nothing.

Kennedy represents the politics of cannibalism. The self destructive stage of capitalism where the little it has established of worth in terms of expert knowledge is devoured from within. It’s an example probably unprecedented in parliamentary democratic history.

What you outside the bureaucratic confines of parties is as important as what you do in you in them. A political party can only be one part of progressive politics. He’s right.

Time to be proper and have an elected upper chamber and electoral reform for both chambers.

Kevin Maguire: "If you're put up in a hotel & you get meals you get £10/wk.. all these terrible myths.. free iPads.. myths & lies have gone mainstream & we've got to challenge them.. we've gone back to the worst aspects of the 1970s where racism is becoming mainstream"

Well said

Whether it's Brexit red lines, immigration, or EDI (this isn’t the US ffs) Blue Labour really are on a mission to alienate most of their electorate, and to thrash the UK economy in the process.

Why is Starmer listening to these fools?

The contribution of overseas students to the economy as students & when allowed to work has been substantial.
The manner in which they are shortchanged by the UK that has benefitted from migrant labour & labour in its former colonies is unreal. Labour especially really should be ashamed of itself.

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