Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.

Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik He is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loop, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Every word of this.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

YouTube video by Zack Polanski Vote for Bold Leadership for the Green Party on August 1st.

Here's the politician who speaks the truth, and who represents the opinion of the majority of us.

Those who ingest DM + BBC daily are woefully mistaken and the whole country is poorer for it.

So sad.

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Great article by @yorkshirebylines.co.uk showing how people protesting outside hotels housing immigrants are being used by the right wing ultra rich to keep the focus off them siphoning money from our services and onto people escaping poverty & awful situations. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition? | Simon Tisdall The puerile standoff between the US and Russia ought to alert a slumbering public to a risk that is in many ways greater than during the cold war, says Simon Tisdall, a Guardian foreign affairs commen...

Simon Tisdall highlights the dangers posed by the proliferation of lower-yield, tactical warheads which supposedly allows “limited” nuclear war. Crossing that red line could lead to an unstoppable chain reaction, with horrific consequences. The campaign against nuclear weapons must get much louder👇

Wrapped in a flag, outside a hotel Imagine if anti-asylum hotel protesters admitted the truth: they’re being played for mugs by the powerful they think they defend

✍️ Wrapped in a flag, outside a hotel

Imagine if anti-asylum hotel protesters admitted the truth: they’re being played for mugs by the powerful they think they defend

By Steve Pottinger

@bigstevepoet.bsky.social

#ReformUncovered – Byline Times Shop #ReformUncovered Help Byline Times raise £15k to commission a seasoned team of journalists to investigate Reform UK in power – because the other papers can’t (or won’t). #ReformUncovered Reform UK is ...

Reform UK is rapidly gaining power. No one is asking what they’re doing with it

We’re on the case. Help us

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Told you so.

#VirusFreeAirNow

The weird physics trick that makes cats land on their feet and helped NASA From sofas to spacecraft: how a cat’s twisty fall baffled scientists and inspired real space research

Cats landing on their feet isn’t magic – it’s physics. And NASA used this knowledge to train astronauts.

Read more on International Cat Day! 🐱🌌

Britain's ever filthier post-Brexit water is one reason why we @europeanmovement.co.uk are campaigning for closer co-operation with the EU to protect our common environment. www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...

Rupert Lowe, absurdly mistaking charity rowers for "illegal immigrants"

I am the very model of a modern coast guard general
I've information migratory, nautical yet mythical
I know the fash in England and I invent facts hysterical
From migrant boats to climate too, in manner unforgivable

Read these words and sign up, when Zack wins the leadership. x

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Good point

ROW4MND Charity Row for MND Join us in an epic rowing challenge inspired by Rob Burrow and Doddie Weir, raising funds and awareness for Motor Neurone Disease.

The charity rowers are here if you feel like dropping them a few quid for MND
www.row4mnd.com

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Why Reform UK’s conspiracism should worry you Reform UK appear to embrace conspiracism as an ideology to gain power but it brings an underlying threat to UK democracy

Why Reform UK’s conspiracism should worry you

Reform UK appear to embrace conspiracism as an ideology to gain power but it brings an underlying threat to UK democracy | Dean Conway

@centralbylines.co.uk

Statement from Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust about measles - Alder Hey Children's Hospital Trust Statement from Alder Hey about media interest in cases of measles

A child at Alder Hey hospital has died of measles. The tragic death came less than a week after medical officials at the children’s hospital warned that cases of the virus were on the rise, severely endangering the health of some of those affected.
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Green Party MP Shares List Of All Her Meetings And Urges Colleagues To Do The Same Exclusive: Green MP and former party leader Siân Berry has shared a list of all her official meetings with lobbyists and has urged all other MPs to...

EXC: Green Party MP @sianberry.bsky.social calls on all MPs to share their meetings with lobbyists, as she shares a full log of her own with @politicshome.bsky.social

“The public has a right to know who their MPs are meeting and who might be influencing our work.”

Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches - Updated August 2025

Sewage Watch: protect our rivers and beaches- August update

westenglandbylines.co.uk/features/bro...

Not stupidity.

Deliberate eugenics.

So, where is the 'saved' $500 million then 🤔

How one crazy idea became an epic town-wide book festival A wild idea in a pandemic sparked a nomadic fringe book festival – this time in a town without a bookshop

No rules. No big sponsors.
Just a wild idea, a lot of grit, and a love of books.

This is how a festival was born – and it starts Saturday...

Jackie Carreira has the story

Cumberland Council will divest finances from companies that deal with Israel Cumberland Council has set the wheels in motion for divestment from companies that either supply arms to Israel or support settlements in the Palestinian Territories

Cumberland Council has set the wheels in motion for divestment from companies that either supply arms to Israel or support settlements in the Palestinian Territories | LDRS Press release
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/world/c...

Channel crossings: life in ‘microcamps’ on the French border, and how they are changing crossing attempts The UK government recently announced a returns agreement to discourage people from making the crossing

The UK government recently announced a returns agreement to discourage people from making the channel crossing and economic sanctions against people smugglers.

The blank piece of paper that cost taxpayers £32,000 Government ‘obsession with secrecy’ descends into farce

The Cabinet Office spent £32,000 on lawyers to avoid releasing a blank sheet of paper on ministerial interests, @petergeoghegan.bsky.social reveals

(Also shameful that the BBC ripped this story without crediting Democracy for Sale)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-did-ta...

Sustainability – is AI really devastating our planet? Some people oppose AI because of the demands it makes on our water and electricity supplies. Are they right to be worried?

It’s claimed a single ChatGPT query can use half a litre of clean water.

AI is powerful but is it sustainable?

What are the real environmental costs of artificial intelligence?

Stephen McNair reports

Our @independentsage.bsky.social report from March this year:

Preventable Diseases, Preventable Tragedies: Why Vaccines are Essential.

Some of us are doctors who are old enough to remember watching children die (in the UK) of diseases that are now preventable.

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Green party must tap into ‘people’s anger’, says leadership frontrunner Zack Polanski says movement needs to widen appeal beyond urban middle classes

It's time for a basic income for farmers.

20% of the wealthiest landowners recieve 80% of the subsidies.

Meanwhile the farmers who protect our food security are often just trying to survive.

I spoke to the Financial Times 👇🏼

www.ft.com/content/b0d8...

Prison bosses make room for possible influx before planned protests across England Exclusive: Possible arrests at protests against Palestine Action ban and asylum hotels likely to stretch prisons

Let's empty the jails so we can fill them with octogenarians who care about genocide.
Because that's the real threat to society.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...