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What's behind Rachel Reeves's hokey cokey on income tax rises? The bond markets selling UK debt, which the chancellor had spent months courting, reacted badly to her change of heart on income tax rises

What's behind Rachel Reeves's hokey cokey on income tax rises?

Zack attack: the charismatic eco-populist rallying the radical left With Labour purged of Corbynites and Corbyn’s party in chaos, Green leader Zack Polanski has become an icon for dispossessed youth but is he just a showman?

Interesting to read in the Times of Labour Ministers admitting that the Green Party are very much ready to take them (and Reform) on.

"Polanski plans to redistribute power with a smile."

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What the closure of Teen Vogue means for journalism. Condé Nast folded a beloved magazine that treated youth and feminism as political topics, not trends.

Teen Vogue did some terrific work. Great story here on Teen Vogue and how the Vogue/Conde Nast bosses seem like the "liberal" types who have been eager to use Trump's rise as a pretext to silence progressives/leftists they disagree with. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...

Why the UK should look beyond growth to a ‘new economics’ that works for all Traditional economics can’t respond to global crises like inequality and climate change.

“New economic principles are not a luxury that we can ignore at times of fiscal constraint. They are a necessity because orthodox economic thinking has been a key reason for the polycrisis.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth

Why the UK should look beyond growth
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Is Corbyn actually capable of coming out and making definitive statements about his own position himself or is it just going to be this weak shit from now until eternity.

If you don't already agree that there's a moral panic over transgender care, just read the New York Times' articles on hormone therapy for cis people and compare them to their hit pieces on the hormone therapy for trans people.

Independent MP Adnan Hussain Resigns from Your Party Steering Committee Over Infighting

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A landlord on the Today programme just described landlords as “a race of people who are being targeted”. Parasites playing as victims.

It's very hard to engage with landlords in good faith because they don't see the fundamental problems with rent-seeking in an unregulated market, and their passive income and/or pension plan depends on not understanding.

The nuclear codes were 1234.
The Louvre security password was Louvre.
Elite sex-conspirators list their names and crimes in emails and birthday cards to one another.

At least Dan Brown had the church disguise its dark secrets by jumbling the letters up and doing mirror writing and lemon juice.

🧵 For two years, photographer Rayna Carruthers has been documenting pro-Palestine protests in Scotland for The Ferret.

Over 20 people now face potential terrorism charges—for holding signs, wearing T-shirts, attending peaceful demos.

Young people are alienated by neoliberalism As the FT notes today, in another excellent article by John Burns-Murdoch: In the UK [the number of] ... young people who are increasingly disengaged from not only the economy but the rest of society ...

The alienation of young people can be blamed on Covid, phones and much else. But those are exacerbations. The real cause is rent exploitation in all its forms. It is neoliberalism that is destroying the lives of young people. And that is why it has to go. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

Put Britain's safety before migrants' rights, Mahmood to tell judges Home Secretary to increase deportations and restrict asylum seekers' use of ECHR in plans modelled on Denmark 36 Gift this article free Plans for more deportations come as migrants continue to arrive by small boat Credit: PA Charles Hymas Home Affairs Editor 13 November 2025 6:30pm GMT Shabana Mahmood will force judges to prioritise public safety over the rights of illegal migrants in a crackdown on asylum claims.

The Home Secretary will on Monday pledge to "scale up" deportations as she announces new restrictions on the way judges apply the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) when foreigners appeal against being removed from the UK. Ms Mahmood will propose new statutory rules that require judges to prioritise public interest and safety over migrants' claims that deportation would breach their family rights or put them at risk of “inhuman" treatment if they were returned to their home country.

Sickening rhetoric by Home Secretary. Denying access to human rights isn't "protecting the public". This is Labour further demonising those seeking asylum in language very reminiscent of the far right. Yes, some break the law, so should be prosecuted within the law. Removing rights is not the answer

UN condemnation: Experts slam Palestine Action ban UN condemnation warns Starmer’s protest crackdown is unlawful, disproportionate, and a threat to free speech and civil rights in the UK

UN condemnation: Experts slam Palestine Action ban www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

So let me get this straight… Number 10 briefed that the people briefing against Streeting must have been “imposters”, only then to admit that McSweeney did authorise briefings but only about some sort of Platonic ideal of leadership contest, not one involving actual names?

Rachel Reeves scraps budget plan to increase income tax Chancellor was considering breaking Labour’s manifesto pledge but has backed down over fears it would anger mutinous MPs and voters

Today’s Budget speculation is that yesterday’s Budget speculation was wrong bit.ly/3XfQmfX and will be replaced by other speculation, probably- or maybe not

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

As pointed out at the other place: it’s a wonder that with his busy schedule of deliberately wrecking his own party to media outlets choking to repeat every word at this point, Mandelson managed to find the time to meet Jeffrey Epstein again. But he seems to have managed it.

The fact that even a rich, famous actor can’t afford cancer treatment in the US is unimaginably fucked up.

We HAVE to save our NHS.

It’s funny (derogatory) how Bluesky specifically says in their TOS that they don’t mark art for adult content and then a breast exists and it’s automatically marked adult content.

Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart

In Britain, this disaster opened with three months of the most intensely focused all-channels propaganda I’ve ever seen - and that’s saying something. The immediate aim was to ensure that anyone who spoke up against it understood that the consequences would be harsh and immediate.

Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart

I spoke to two dozen BBC journalists, from frontline reporters to senior staff, about how the BBC came to symbolise the West's failure to prevent genocide in Gaza - and how the row over its coverage fed directly into its current meltdown.
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Cuban authorities battle wave of mosquito-borne illnesses Cuba's top epidemiologist warned nearly a third of the population has been impacted and swaths of workforce sickened.

Cuba's top epidemiologist warned nearly a third of the population has been impacted and swaths of workforce sickened.

Looks like we’re going to war with Venezuela to distract from the Epstein files.

Biscuits – Black and White and Read All Over

If you, like me, are having a rough day with the whole "everything is run by unrepentant pedophiles and everywhere you look today is drenched in details of heinous abusive activity and justifications of it," I've added more pictures of Biscuits to her page. Please breathe and enjoy as needed.

Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

Discovering fossils on a guided hike to the Walcott Quarry. Photo: Mary Caperton Morton

Let's talk about the Burgess Shale, and the crazy animals it tells us about.

It's a formation in Yoho Natl. Park (and others) in the Canadian Rockies near the town of Field, BC.

It's made of mudstone (type of shale), deposited 508 MYA, in the middle Cambrian.

Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.