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Newspaper gives misleading impression of the percentage of sexual crime committed by foreign nationals

Crime and the perception of crime: @jburnmurdoch.ft.com via @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9623...

Revealed: How foreign billionaires pump millions into British politics The Elon Musk-shaped hole in Starmer’s Election Bill

🔴 NEW: Foreign billionaires are using UK companies to pour millions into British politics — legally.

We found £6m+ in political donations from UK firms owned by foreign nationals — people who can’t vote in Britain.

New on Democracy for Sale (🧵)

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When the left riots* the question is "what's wrong with the left?"

When the right riots* the question is "what's wrong with the country?"

*What constitutes a "riot" can also be wildly different. We're moral panicking over sings at left wing protests as right wing thugs fight cops.

Our conversation over the last couple of days suggests a complete moral breakdown, at a national scale. Instead of sympathising with far-right protests, politicians should be fucking challenging them.

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It's a wonder we don't find these people covered in lamb's blood and speaking in tongues when they legislate, they're absolutely off their tits.

New research reveals the best attack lines to use against Reform How to stop Farage...

🔴 New research reveals the best attack lines to use against Reform

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Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, hospital says Eight children were among 15 people reportedly killed when a queue for nutritional supplements was hit in Deir al-Balah.

Massacre after massacre, day after day - the deliberate annihilation of an entire civilian population.

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Israeli forces fire on people waiting for aid in Gaza, killing 25, witnesses and hospitals say Palestinian witnesses say Israeli forces and drones opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza.

BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.

🔹 You would be hard pressed to find a problem in modern day Britain that the Conservatives did not make worse.

14 years of inaction.

14 years of broken promises.

14 years of rising inequality.

14 years of division.

14 years of incompetence.

‪@songicartoons.bsky.social‬ ‬ 🎯

Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA.

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The astounding hypocrisy of the UK’s DOGE-obsessed politicians When we exposed obscene levels of fraud and waste, Farage, Badenoch and co. were nowhere to be seen...

The astounding hypocrisy of the UK’s DOGE-obsessed politicians

UK risks becoming an ‘incubator economy’ if we don’t take action to support our tech companies to scale up - Committees - UK Parliament The Communications and Digital Committee publishes its report 'AI and creative technology scaleups: less talk, more action'.

Supporting UK AI and creative tech startups on the agenda at 10am as members debate the Lords Communications and Digital Committee's report. Detailed scrutiny of two private members' bills follows.

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What just happened to Oxford Ionics was very dispiriting.

Ros Atkins on... The White House claims on BBC Gaza coverage On Tuesday White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt launched an attack on the BBC's coverage of reports that Israeli forces had killed Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in Gaza. She cla...

On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

US anti‑abortion cash floods UK free speech frontlines Democracy for Sale investigation finds US anti‑abortion lawyer funding Toby Young’s Free Speech Union, while Alliance Defending Freedom’s UK spending soars.

UK right-wingers showing an increasing interest in anti-abortion rhetoric as US money starts to flood in - very interesting report from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social

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Hope anyone in need or homeless sees this

Going to keep saying it - the Farage effect is largely an illusion. Many, many more people loathe him than like him.

This is staggering.

Real wages have grown more in the first 10 months of this Labour government than during the first ten years of Tory governments since 2010.

And not one apology from Conservative MPs for the mess they left us in today - shameful.

With Labour there are thousands more water company inspections & a record number of criminal investigations over sewage dumping.

Tories caused record levels of illegal sewage to be dumped into our rivers, lakes & seas.

Labour is cleaning up their mess & a record number of criminal investigations have been launched against water companies.

#Labour #KeirStarmer

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An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.

Inside Taganrog: beatings, electrocution and starvation at prison where Ukrainians were tortured Russia is holding an estimated 16,000 civilians in arbitrary detention at 180 separate facilities. Taganrog was the most notorious.

My investigation into the Russian Guantanamo: Taganrog, and Russia's network of 29 torture sites for 16,000 Ukrainian detainees with 695 types of torture. Prison reconstruction using 6 detainee testimonies and open source analysis.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Polls are open for millions of people in England today.

If you have a vote, what you do really matters - for working people, for local services, and for our NHS.

Vote Labour 🌹

'He's Said The Quiet Part Out Loud': Farage Slammed Over NHS Funding Comments The Reform UK leader said he does not want it to be paid for from general taxation.

Genuinely surprised that Nigel Farage has handed Labour an open goal like this on the day of the local elections.

Health secretary Wes Streeting: "Nigel Farage has said the quiet part out loud: he doesn’t want a publicly funded NHS."

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/hes-sa...

If you read German, this is an important and harrowing report about a Ukrainian Journalist who was tortured and killed in Russian captivity.
Your periodic reminder what occupation means.

Just incredible