Carmen Williams

British banks to land £45bn profit bonanza Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest will report results for the third quarter over the next few days, with HSBC releasing figures the following week.

UK big four banks on course to pocket annual profits of more than £45bn.

Bank branches vanishing. Profits from high charges, low interest rates on savings, scandals, speculation.

Govt must levy windfall taxes on banks.

One-third of UK children grow up in poverty with higher risk of dying young Children in the most deprived areas of the UK face higher death rates as childhood poverty continues to rise, according to research.

One-third of UK children grow up in poverty, higher risk of dying young.

In some areas 62% of children live in poverty.

Children’s education, health, future employment prospects destroyed.

Caused by govts - austerity, low wages, spending cuts, fiscal rules.

Poverty is a political choice.

How to prove Israel is not a settler colony even as it pursues 'Greater Israel' Israel's advocates wage a propaganda war, framing Palestinians as the 'colonisers' while erasing Zionism's colonial roots and cloaking conquest in myths of return and indigeneity

How to prove Israel is not a settler colony even as it pursues 'Greater Israel' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-prove-israel-isnt-settler-colony-even-it-pursues-greater-israel

Campaign Against Arms Trade Campaign Against Arms Trade

Israel’s three largest arms corporations, which all supply the Israeli military, have been allowed by the UK government to exhibit at the DSEI London arms fair in September:

🇮🇱 Elbit Systems
🇮🇱 Israel Aerospace Industries
🇮🇱 Rafael

caat.org.uk/data/arms-fa...

“These activists are putting their bodies on the line to defend British democracy.”

@graceblakeley.substack.com on the civil disobedience campaign in London that led to hundreds of arrests of senior citizens:

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The many issues with the current Labour government laid out clearly by @graceblakeley.substack.com

Landmark complaint issued against UK Lawyers for Israel Exclusive: UK Lawyers for Israel has waged a campaign against solidarity with Palestine. The group is now being referred to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

👉NEW -- Landmark complaint issued against UK Lawyers for Israel

by John McEvoy

Exclusive: UK Lawyers for Israel has waged a campaign against solidarity with Palestine. The group is now being referred to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
www.declassifieduk.org/landmark-com...

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Neoliberal economics is a con and total rubbish – so we're going to tear it apart

For over 45 years, neoliberal and neoclassical economics have dominated UK policy — and failed us. In a new series, I explain why they fail, and show how you can argue back with reason and evidence. Economics should serve people, not markets. Let’s take it back.

youtu.be/uvLZCnhJFaY?...

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Why running a country isn’t like running a household

Why running a country isn’t like running a household youtu.be/sAKr55O7qaU?... Politicians love to say the government must “live within its means” – just like a household. But this analogy is completely wrong. In this video, I explain why.

Anyone who wants to take on the Tories, Reform and this failing Labour government is a friend of mine.

Looking forward to seeing what this looks like in practice.

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.

Join us. The time is now.

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Signed and shared. Unjustifiable laws need to be challenged.

Operation Midnight Hammer: The $6 Billion Empty Hole As Trump’s cartoonish Iran strike unravels, America stumbles from world leader to Netanyahu’s punch-drunk bouncer, while Xi Jinping waits for his next desperate phone call.

Trump’s “brilliant” #Iran strike is already falling apart. $6 billion in bombs dropped, stockpiles quietly moved, and now Trump is begging Xi to keep the oil flowing. The U.S. isn’t leading, it’s doing #Netanyahu’s muscle work. New piece up. #kakistocracy
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"This mission of getting food has become a killing point for Palestinians.. when we [ask] people why are you risking your lives they say we are starving, our kids are starving, we have no other option"

Rushdi Abualouf on people continuing to be killed when they try to collect food

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#BBCbias works against democracy and, ultimately, humanity. Its shameful “reporting” of the Gaza genocide is fully exposed in this comprehensive study by @cfmnuk
cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-is…

Last week: "deliver peace through strength."

This week: "time for diplomacy."

Starmer can't cosplay the Army General one week.

And then pretend to be the global Diplomat the next.

Total lack of moral legitimacy.

The Prime Ministers approach is both foolish & dangerous

Rachel Reeves finally gets the message. But when will she discover that every penny of public expenditure is newly created by @bankofengland.bsky.social and thus requires neither taxation nor borrowing?

BritCard - brought to you by Palantir.

All part of a repression ready, gift-wrapped surveillance state for Farage to pick up and run with.

Remember kids - authoritarianism is OK when it has a friendly font 👌🏾

My call for an independent inquiry into the UK's role in Gaza has passed its 1st reading in Parliament.

We will establish the truth over the UK’s complicity in genocide - and we will bring about justice for the Palestinian people.

This week, I am presenting my Gaza Inquiry Bill to uncover the truth about this country’s complicity in genocide.

#BoycottCarrefour
#DontBuyApartheid

📣 Hoy acaba la Semana de Acción Global contra Carrefour📣

‼️NO dejemos de exigir a Carrefour que ponga fin a su complicidad con el genocidio y apartheid del pueblo palestino ‼️

#BoicotCarrefour
#BoicotIsrael

As Israel destroys Gaza, Israelis and Palestinians gathered in Beit Jala not only to mark the catastrophe of 1948, but to elevate living Palestinian testimonies.

Read more, by Dikla Taylor-Sheinman

www.972mag.com/joint-nakba-...

Thank you Gary Lineker for using the platform you earned with your talent and charm to stand up for some of the most victimised people in the world. You're a shining example to us all.

I’ve joined 41 MPs demanding that David Lammy comes clean over damning allegations that UK arms exports to Israel continued despite a supposed suspension.

If true, it would be a grave breach of the Ministerial Code — & raises urgent questions about whether Parliament was misled.

Weaponizing starvation, Israel seeks full control over Gaza aid The acute hunger crisis in the Strip is part of a deliberate Israeli strategy to cripple Hamas’ governance capabilities and banish humanitarian groups.

The impact of this intensified blockade is even more devastating than the one Israel imposed at the beginning of the war, after Gallant’s “no electricity, no food, no fuel” order; Gaza’s stockpiles were much higher back then than they are now.

www.972mag.com/starvation-g...

BREAKING 🇵🇸 The UK has sent more than 160,000 munitions to Israel since October 2023.

Today, a groundbreaking new report from the PI, the Palestinian Youth Movement and Workers For A Free Palestine reveals the extraordinary scale of UK arms exports to Israel since the start of the Gaza genocide.

Time and time again, the government refuses to answer our questions over the UK’s military cooperation with Israel.

That’s why we are demanding a full, independent, public inquiry. We want the truth — and we want justice.