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A question to the few remaining Labour supporters: is this refugee-bashing what you voted for? | Owen Jones The government’s callousness has won it respect – from Tommy Robinson and the hard right, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

A question to Labour's few remaining supporters.

Is kicking pensioners, disabled people and now asylum seekers what you voted for?

Really?

New column 👇

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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!

That's exactly what I'm trying to prevent. We need these things contained, and fast.

It is the best dolphin ever.

Still pestering @darkestkale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy to help me make the scenario publishable!

As an MP and government minister, Streeting pulls in £160k a year - plus hefty expenses and donations

You’d hope that would buy the NHS a leader genuinely equipped for the job

Instead we get a Wes, someone more focused on bullying doctors than showing he understands the org he’s meant to lead

Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.

To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.

Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.

On a side note, it feels telling that the concept of "duty" is so readily linked to "killing other people (most of whom I have no personal quarrel with)".

They should expand the series.
COD: Journalistic Integrity
COD: Blow the Whistle
COD: Academia (you have 48 hours to fairly mark 100 papers)

One for the Brits.

Epstein wrote a list of names for Steve Bannon. The first one on it is Mandelson

Like, not joking.

The SNP's wrecking amendment to this motion has sadly passed, confirming that the Scottish Government no longer opposes the Rosebank oil field application. A huge step backwards and a sad day for Scotland's reputation on climate action.

Trans+ victims of crime are already far less likely to seek help from the police than cisgender people

Now, Police Scotland are taking steps that will silence even more victims - and let more abusers escape accountability

This cannot be allowed to happen

@pitchblackmanor.bsky.social I seem to recall Chad saying one of the new tracks is based on the "Revelations in Black" bit he improvved on SSOSS - is that right? Which one?

This won't make but a ripple here, but I'm not sure how you can read this except that the preponderance of the evidence is that Trump knew about Epstein's crimes and participated in them.

The president is a notorious sex criminal. Seems impeachable to me - when will the moral majority get on that?

The entire section on “Biological sex and gender” is anecdote, hearsay and ideology.

Prescott claims three unnamed BBC staff told him that the LGBTQ desk is “captured by Stonewall.” No names, no dates, no emails, no data, no proof. Just gossip presented as evidence.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher

Not only does the UK government waste vast sums of money on demonising those seeking asylum, now it appears that they are complicit in quite a number needing it in the first place. Choosing to save money over a genocide, again. #r4today

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Great, waiting expectantly for the first 500000% tax so people stop having second homes

the minutes of the October meeting between WellBN and SussexICB are chilling. Andrew Dodson from the Sussex side just openly saying patients will be “deprescribed,” that they’ll have no choice and won’t be allowed to talk to the team taking their healthcare away

NHS threatens GP practice over trans care With NHS reply – a GP practice in Brighton and Hove is under investigation for legally providing gender affirming care to trans teens

"They know this is likely to cause suicides. They don’t care! We jumped through every hoop for years and we followed what the government asked of us. I’m in Surrey, her doctor is in Brighton, you can imagine what this is doing to us."

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I assume it's tied to the notion that "manager" is a totally neutral independent profession that requires absolutely no grounding in the thing managed. Once you convince yourself of that, why not assume it applies to everything?

Almost all children in 73 areas of England live in low-income households New official measures show levelling up attempts have failed to shift high levels of deprivation

I missed this last week. The new English index of income deprivation includes UC working households who are on low-incomes AFTER HOUSING COSTS.

This is a big deal technically & means we now have a hyper local measure of LIVING STANDARDS not just incomes.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

In 1993, my union rep refused to help me get equal pay with the other 'guys' in the meat room, because I "didn't have a family to look after." I still ran the same risks of cutting my fingers off. Or, as happened, getting beaned in the head by a box of frozen chickens falling from a stack 6 ft high.

UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities

'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3

The news story that reveals Wes Streeting’s puberty-blocker ban to be nothing to do with “protecting children” and everything to do with Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer being deeply transphobic bigots…

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I'm pretty sure this engineering department has somebody who could sever the power and water.

They probably also have significant supplies of inert gases, though maybe not inside this building.