Peter Beal

If ever there was low hanging fruit, this is it

"Putin has now moved to strip away ECHR-guaranteed rights such as access to letters and visits from a lawyer, which will take effect at the start of next year."

Politicians who want to withdraw their country from the ECHR are NOT YOUR FRIEND NO MATTER YOUR PARTY.

Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.

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BANNON defrauded his followers over the build the wall thing.

BANNON worked with FARAGE to expand populist groups in Europe.

This sort of people have been conning their followers for years.

Explore the wide wide world of bile linked to Project 2025.

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Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10 | George Monbiot Who is running the government’s ‘growth school’ for civil servants? The answer surpassed my worst fears, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Britain’s biggest housebuilder urges government to support first-time buyers Taylor Wimpey chief Jennie Daly calls for revival of help-to-buy equity loan scheme to revive property market

Britain’s biggest housebuilder urges government to support first-time buyers.

Not a word about cutting profit margins, ever rising profits, gobbling previous stamp duty support, building substandard homes, builders secretly exchanging data to hike prices.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Why money isn’t our limit — but political courage is

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YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Noam Chomsky: The five filters of the mass media machine | The Listening Post

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About 1m Ford diesel cars sold in UK with defective emissions controls, court told Ford denies having created ‘defeat devices’ in legal action on behalf of 1.6 million owners against five carmakers

About 1m Ford diesel cars sold in UK with defective emissions controls. Company knew. Many were never formally recalled or fixed.

Companies chase profits by lying, cheating. Yet neoliberals push for deregulation, less consumer rights.

Hold execs personally liable.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren Private Equity Guts Everything from Red Lobster to Hospitals: Let's Talk About the Economy Episode 5

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YouTube video by Middle East Eye Jewish activists risk arrest as UK cracks down on pro-Palestine protests

Such a terrible emotional experience for these ppl

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Explains why Farage is so popular in the UK too

'Your Party' Is a waste of time, vote Green instead - The Mancunion As Your Party implodes, the Greens under Polanski are fast becoming the Left's most credible force

I had high hopes for 'Your Party' as I personally like Corbyn. However, my enthusiasm has evaporated as has my trust.

Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour Exclusive: Charlie Maynard accuses the utility of ‘retaliation’ over his push for government to gain control of company

Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour, he asked the Court to put TW into special administration.

Blatant attempt to silence MPs.

TW paying £200m a year to advisers, charges customers for its failures.

Abuses will continue until execs held personally liable.

Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few

The Rule of Law in England.

Legal-aid is scarce.

Backlog of 78,329 Crown Court and 361,027 Magistrates’ courts cases. No speedy hearing.

The Post Office scandal shows that corporations can hound innocent people. No one charged for false prosecutions and ruining lives.

I like to think of myself as someone that is reasonably driven by logic and data ... However occasionally as is the case with Streeting I have visceral nails down a black board reaction to someone.

🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?

Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.

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The Telegraph This is how Trump can sue the BBC and make them pay The US president has shown he knows how to take on media organisations and win

THE DAILY TRUMPOGRAPH Trump Praises Trumpograph For Praising Trump LAST night President Trump trumpeted the Trumpograph for its fearless praising of Donald Trump. "Unlike the corrupt and failing BBC, the Trumpograph is not afraid to be completely unbiased in its total adoration of Donald Trump," said Trump. In response the Daily Trumpograph said, "It is vital we objectively report on how great Trump is for praising us." ******* * * * * ON OTHER PAGES • Why Donald Trump should ask Elon Musk to buy the Telegraph and save us all, writes Sir Charles Moore-Trump-Please.

The Telegraph sides with Trump against the BBC and, so, the country.

Private Eye sums up its feeble-minded, fawning betrayal beautifully.

Water company enjoys 131% rise in profits after bills go up £112 United Utilities, whose executives are barred from receiving bonuses because of pollution record, will pay out most of the increase in dividends

Water company United Utilities enjoys 131% rise in profits after bills go up £112.

UU has 205+ criminal convictions.

Loses over 175bn litres of water to leaks. In 2024 dumped sewage 450,778 hours in rivers//akes. No exec prosecuted/fined

Rewarded with higher price and profit.
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A strange move for people obsessed with what the bond market will do.

Starmer was never meant to be Labour’s prime minister – his leadership was doomed from the start | Neal Lawson His alliance with the party’s anti-Corbyn faction was a shotgun marriage that totally lacked vision. Now Labour is paying the price, says Neal Lawson of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass

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Wow.

Wow indeed

YouTube video by GreenAllianceUK Rebuilding the environmental consensus: Keynote speech from Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party

Excellent speech. He really is a very good communicator.
The beginning of the speech echoed things that I've discussed with family. That most politicians govern by focus group, not with passion or a vision that they want to achieve.

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Should there be a maximum amount of wealth that a person can have?

I’d be really interested in what you all think about this and if you think that there should be a limit then how would you quantify the maximum and what would it be.

For example perhaps a given multiple of the median of those within the society in which they live or of the whole world?

Where I live it will either be Tories or Reform 😢
I will probably campaign for the Greens. Probably wasted effort but as they said it’s always impossible until it happens

Yes, I think both of them could get a lot of seats

I feel no pleasure in the fact that I predicted this lot about 6 months before the election.
I hope for a coalition gov next but I’m not sure that lab will be part of that.

It was inevitable that this party would go to someone like Streeting after Starmer. But it’s also inevitable that it won’t fix their problems. The dying days of this government aren’t going to be pretty. So many MPs know that they will be unemployed shortly

Yes it amazes me how fast the centre has moved rightward.
Pro EU, climate change concerned Thatcher seems positively leftwing these days.

Just when we thought that the Tory farce had ended, along comes the sequel, 'Reform: The Bastard Child of the Tories', the musical chairs have been put away and in their place characters from novels, with spivs, Bond villains & egocentric loons, what a carry on.