Amanda

Hard to Disagree with Mr. De Niro !

Sod it.

Ellie Chowns MP, Foreign Affairs Spokesperson for the Parliamentary Green Party, has called for Parliament to be recalled immediately to debate urgent action in response to the Israeli security cabinet’s decision to prepare to take control of Gaza City

OMFG the BLEATING of the "victims" of VAT on private schools is one of the most insufferable lobbies in the entire social media sphere.

You're paying VAT for your little darlings. Get over it and get a life. If you can't afford it, join us, The Plebs, in the state system. 1/3

Most things are taxed, essential or not. We pay VAT on most food, energy, water, transport, most private healthcare, clothes, funerals - you name it. The question is why should a system designed to entrech and enhance inherited, unearned privilege, with each generation, be the exception. 2/3

If you include council tax and VAT, the poorest 10% pay on average 48% of their income in tax. The richest 10% just 39%.

I swear, if most of them picked fruit on minimum wage for 1/20th of the time they spend WHINING about this online, they would cover the VAT and make a bit extra on top. 3/3

The killings of Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa by the IDF is a war crime. They are civilians. The IDF must provide evidence of the terrorist claims, and explain why an entire tent was targeted when they would know other civilians would be present.

Goodness gracious me!
Is Vance so toxic that the police have had to create an exclusion zone round him?
Who is going to pay for the decontamination?

I'm over 70. I have regular eye checks to make sure I can drive safely.
They are free.
I do it for my own safety as well as other road users'.
Why is there such a furore about it?
Surely if you have uncorrected defective sight you should not be allowed to drive.

The White House renovation is complete.

#DonaldTrump

Couldn't the Alaskan authorities impound Putin's plane and arrest him using the international arrest warrant?

Another huge Ukrainian drone attack on Russia now underway.

#explodey

Mourners gather amid outrage over Israeli troops’ killing of journalists in Gaza – live updates UN condemns killing of Anas al-Sharif and colleagues, calling it a ‘grave breach of international humanitarian law’ Anas al-Sharif among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike Reporters Without Borders has condemned the “acknowledged murder by the Israeli army” of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif in Gaza, who the armed forces admitted they had targeted, along with several of his colleagues. The press freedom campaign group told news agency AFP it “strongly and angrily condemns the acknowledged murder by the Israeli army” of al-Sharif and other journalists. Continue reading...

Mourners gather amid outrage over Israeli troops’ killing of journalists in Gaza – live updates

It’s like West Virginia was starved for representation. For someone to just come. Bernie did and my fellow West Virginians are in love.

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The government have been doing a tremendous job keeping the Palestine question in the forefront of the news!
Proscribing Palestine Action was an inspired move, ensuring heightened awareness of the Palestinian cause without any fear of Netanyahu condemning them for being anti-Semitic.
Machiavellian!

We’ve all heard how wealthy tariffs are making us, billions of dollars flowing into government coffers, how rich our country will be…

Tariffs are taxes being imposed on all American consumers.

Imagine how rich our country would be if the wealthy/corporations paid their fair share of income taxes!

Interesting and informative, but depressing:

I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. My gas mask paid for itself within the first minute the ice agents came out of the building. They escalated to this immediately, like it was a war zone- flash bombs, various gasses…

#fightfascism #fuckice

US multinationals like McDonald's, Coca Cola, Amazon, and Apple are facing boycotts in India as business leaders and PM Narendra Modi's supporters fuel anti-American sentiment over US tariffs, Reuters reports.

Puzzling as to how the US Veep can feel safe bringing his family to a riot torn hellhole country without any freedom of speech.

Obviously he has security, but could it be just possibly that those claims are on closer inspection almost complete nonsense.

I'm getting predictably wound up by stupid attacks on the UK as failing. People who can't remember endless strikes, over 3 million unemployed, rampant football hooliganism, crime rates a multiple of current levels, desolate inner cities, pensioner poverty, actual race riots need some perspective 1/

The failures of 40 years ago were arguably far more inexcusable given the tailwind of an oil price windfall and better demographics.

But the most absurd aspect is how it's being weaponized into an anti government narrative when the state of the UK overwhelmingly reflects previous govt decisions 2/

First term Blair was still Major's Britain. The Coalition mostly what Brown and Blair left behind. There's inertia.

Anyway, as I've said before, Britain has a serious fiscal problem but it's a 5p on VAT level problem, not Greece 2011-15. It's a place that immigrants throng to 3/

Given the blow of COVID and the financial crisis and the stupid face plant of Brexit, and energy shocks, the country has coped well. Seen objectively it should be more envied than pitied or mocked. And the corporates joining in a Faragist narrative of disorderly decline are badly wrong 4/4

"A major environmental clean-up operation is now underway on the River Thames near Hammersmith Bridge, where a mass of congealed wet wipes - dubbed 'Wet Wipe Island' - has formed." 180 tons. It's altered the river flow.

Shameful what we've done to our rivers & seas in the UK. Via www.fulhamsw6.com

You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.