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If Gordon Brown really played a role in securing justice against Andrew, he really will go down as the best PM we had in the last few decades.

His post PM reputation rescued akin to Jimmy Carter's

Lets put GDP in the bin and focus on improving the quality of people's lives: Let's give everyone a life worth living and a world worth living in.

Tech firms will have 48 hours to remove abusive images under new law The government is proposing that intimate image abuse should be treated more severely.

Tech firms will have 48 hours to remove abusive images under new UK law.

Errr ... May happen after consultation. Not unusual for govts to cave in to corporate lobbying/threats

Who will monitor compliance? All UK regulators required to promote growth of their sectors.

Why is England always the poor relation when it comes to elections across the UK?

It's time to scrap FPTP once and for all. Labour have an opportunity to cement their place in history by doing something GOOD.

Ghana: Reject The Anti-Lgbt+ Bill! The anti-LGBT+ bill is back in Ghana, and this time, it has stronger political backing. We stopped it before, and together we can stop it again. Sign now to protect LGBT+ rights.

The dangerous anti-LGBT+ bill is back in Ghana, with stronger political support. We stopped it once. Let’s stop it again. Sign to defend equality and human rights. a.allout.org/s/P3wrb/

Growing evidence that microplastics impact freshwater wildlife A new study led by the University of Glasgow documents the presence of microplastics in the droppings of freshwater birds nesting in different sites in Europe.

A new study led by the University of Glasgow,measured microplastic concentrations in the faeces of birds nesting across Scotland and in the Basque Country,Spain,after analysis they found that microplastics,mostly fibres,were detected in 62.5% of nesting broods. news.stv.tv/west-central...

US funding for global internet freedom ‘effectively gutted’ Programme that funds groups building tech to evade oppressive government controls under serious threat

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Independent special schools are also considered a particularly expensive part of the Send system as councils cover the full cost of tuition and support, which can run into hundreds of thousands of pounds a year per pupil. About 30,000 children with EHCPs are in independent special schools, more than double the number ten years ago. Phillipson will announce a cap, understood to be £60,000, on how much an independent school can claim from the council for each pupil. Insiders fear the resulting drop in income could lead to the collapse of some independent schools, putting more pressure or state-funded special schools.

Final bit I thought was worth highlighting. Not "just" neurodivergent kids being betrayed here, but those with complex needs who go to independent schools where they can be better served.

What an absolute betrayal from Labour. The next part of their war on disabled people.

More of Reform "wagging the dog" by targeting kids that wear headphones in school the other month.

Why does Labour have to follow what they say so closely? It's just legitimising hate and picking on another minoritised and victimised group.

There's no justification for this other than absolutely hating children,the disabled and neurodivergent specifically.

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Coming to Leeds - a new @millmediauk newsletter.

Journalism is an essential part of #democracy - and this group already doing great work in many northern cities

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Nonviolent Climate Activist Group Says It's Been Targeted by FBI 'Terrorism' Task Force | Common Dreams ​"This is an escalation against the climate movement as a whole, and the next phase of this administration's crackdown on dissent," said Extinction Rebellion.

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shining type writer scene - woman looking at what's been typed i just don't wanna go far for stuff.i just don't wanna go far for stuff.i just don't wanna go far for stuff.i just don't wanna go far for stuff.i just don't wanna go far for stuff.i just don't wanna go far for stuff.i just don't wanna go far for stuff.i just don't wanna go far for stuff.i just don't wanna go far for stuff.i just don't wanna go far for stuff.

my entire position on cities.

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

The Green Party's Caroline Lucas humiliates Reform UK's Zia Yusuf on #Newsnight

"Your position is utterly incoherent"

"You have provided no evidence that it's the Equalities Act that discriminates against white working class boys"

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

It should be 100%

This government is staggering in it's needlessly destructive incompetence.

Hard agree!

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.

We'll let their words speak for themselves.

Now THIS is worth watching.

Great job by the Economist.

#epstein #epsteinfiles

This is such a good fucking point. The undervalued, sometimes mocked SKILLS moms have to develop and hold are proving to be the crucial skill set needed to keep a community as intact as possible while under siege. The world is marveling in large part at Mom Skills.

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The rich get rich off the backs of their employees

“15 pieces is the minimum. It’s up to you if you want to be safe”

Ukrainian Athlete Disqualified From Olympics Over Helmet “This is the price of our dignity,” Heraskevych said, in response to the International Olympic Committee's decision.

Ukrainian Athlete Disqualified From Olympics Over Helmet Depicting War Dead: ‘The Price of Our Dignity’
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Palantir represents the gravest threat to UK security. Why would we allow this?

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

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