This is just stupid.

Black Arrow - Wikipedia

Important to remember that even in the Heath days we now nostalgise post-Thatcher the Tories have always been wicked vandals en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_A...

I note here that the police raided Nicola Sturgeon’s house live on national television because they thought her husband had spent party donations on a camper van

Gabriel Pogrund & @Gabriel_Pogrund X.com Back in 2023 @HarryYorke1 and I published a lengthy investigation on Labour Together's failure to declare £700K before Starmer's election as leader Even though it was awkward and not the right time in the political cycle the Sunday Times had the conviction to put it on the front page Few cared - but the Qs that remain unanswered were first posed here, among them: why did LT claim it was all a big admin error when senior figures, including Shabana Mahmood, had asked for assurances re declarations and received them?

Finding it hard not to conclude your man there means “We were in the Build ‘Em Up phase, not the Knock ‘Em Down one”. Which would be… unusually candid, put it that way.

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

He’s always been a wrongun.

Tweet from the Home Office: Failed asylum seekers and foreign national offenders will not be allowed to freely roam our streets Video still saying: Over 35,000 people returned

Two tweets from Keir Starmer: First: Illegal migration is a business run by organised criminal gangs with no regard for human life. My number one priority is to put an end to this vile trade. Under our nationwide crackdown, raids and arrests are already up 50%. I won’t stop until we secure our borders Second: If you come to this country illegally, you will face detention and return. Pics are of people, mainly Black men, apparently in immigration detention or being fingerprinted

Tweet from the Labour Party: Whilst Nigel Farage moans from the sidelines, Labour is getting on with the job of delivering for Britain. Pic of Farage captioned Shouting from the sidelines Pic of starmer captioned Removed over 35,000 people from the UK with no right to be here

On the day a far right demagogue announced his plans to trample all over our most important & treasured rights - risking the lives of 1000s, threatening massive social upheaval & spreading fear & misery before he’s even started - here’s what the Prime Minister and his government are tweeting about

Loved ones shocked, worried after beloved Utah violinist detained by ICE Friends and family are reacting after Utah violinist John Shin was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday.

"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney"

-- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...

Remember when migration went plummeting down the list of public concerns because the papers weren’t using it to make trouble for Boris Johnson, even though we now know the figures were going up? And now they’re going down, and

"It doesn't work reliably, so just don't use it for anything, like, super important" is a wild thing to say about your own product

Headline from the BBC news website reading 'Hundreds attend protest over asylum seeker housing'.

Let's be clear. This is nothing. Demonstrations with thousands or even tens of thousands are frequently entirely ignored. That the BBC chooses to put this on the front page of their news website is a political decision as to what positions to push.

"The IPC.. confirms that more than half a million Palestinians are facing starvation, destitution and death. That's a quarter of Gazas population"

Genocide.

"How on earth can this continue to be allowed to happen?"

Michael Fakhri, UN Rapporteur on the Right to Food: "I've been asking that question for the last 2 years. Israel announced its starvation campaign on Oct 9th 2023, but this was after 25 years of a blockade..."

Reminder that the kindly, beloved Queen Elizabeth II's last act before she died was spending a million pounds on lawyers to get this piece of shit off the hook for being a sexually predatory piece of shit.

There really is no justification for aristocracy. None at all.

Torsten Bell "Israels well over any acceptable red line"

So why is the UK still arming Israel? Still training IDF soldiers? Still flying surveillance flights? Still hosting senior IDF officers? Still trading with Israel?

Why? Because the UK govt backs Israels genocide #GMB

It would of course be trivially easy for the press and his political opponents to make this sort of action unthinkable for a mainstream politician, by the simple act of noticing all the violent Neo-Nazis attending these rallies and making Jenrick accountable for that. Alas...

Last place! Last place! Last place!

Global Britain smashes it out of the park, and into our own windscreen, yet again!

Learnt from the TF podcast that the UK government didn't apply the Online Safety Act rules to online gambling, and I think that tells you everything you need to know about how the country is run.

Lord Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm Police officer was concerned ex-army chief, a Teledyne adviser, sought to have ‘input’ into factory attack investigation

Another deeply concerning allegation, the latest in a long line of apparent commercial and political lobbying against protest movements, some of which has led to the extremely repressive legislation we now face.
Powerful lobbyists are the bane of democracy.
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Interesting phrasing. I wonder if there's a more succinct way of saying "backlash against antiracism"

When construction of Hinkley Point C began way back in 2017, it was expected to cost £27B in today's prices.

The last update EDF gave upped that £45B, with six years of build still to go.

So if Sizewell C is supposed to be £38B before construction begins, goodness only knows what it will cost

This quote about water privatisation doing the rounds (including in a well-read post by @peterstefanovic.bsky.social) does not appear *anywhere* in the Independent Water Commission report. It's unclear where Robert Peston got it from. Could it be an AI summary gone wrong?

Images of victims of the terrorist attack in Norway.

14 years ago today a far-right Nazi terrorist killed 77 people, most of them teenagers, on the island of Utøya in Norway.

Yet we still tolerate fascism as “legitimate” politics because it is supported by oligarch money and mainstream media.