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The Times once again forwarding the reasonable argument that we should all stop relying on the state and learn to live within our means - unless we send our kids to private schools, in which case the state should subsidise us via a tax break. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

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I'd like to tweet a clip of BBC London reporting on 500,000 people marching through the city in support of Palestine, but they didn't cover it. They did, however, have time to tell us that Camden council have approved new cycle lanes on Shaftsbury Avenue.

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via Gareth Williams

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350 richest people and families in the UK have wealth of £772.8bn. Free to pollute, create bubbles in housing/security markets; buy political parties, legislators, shape laws; power to control our lives. 16m live in poverty. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty. archive.ph/xNvPk

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Finland the happiest country on the planet, bans for profit schools, taxes billionaires, houses the homeless. Take note.

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it's absolutely barmy that would-be work visa holders may end up paying 10 grand in health surcharge fees over 10 years to be eligible to settle. bringing a spouse? it's now 20 grand. a kid? 27 grand. oh and you'd have to pay some, most, or all of that upfront before you get here

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*truth

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Tax dodging by rich could be ‘much greater than thought’, says UK audit office. Offshoring wealth, tax dodge schemes. Number of wealthy (income >£200,000; assets >£2m) increased. £5.2bn collected through enforcement despite reduction in the number of penalty notices. Tax the rich. Make them pay.

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Her expressionless face.. The tapping of her ear How lost she looks Her little feet on the rubble Is she, as Netanyahu puts it: “A murderous Islamist terrorist organization”? Can we be real about this FFS?

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The UK has "slipped behind European food standards". I am so effing fed up with Brexit & all its consequences! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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You have to get a very long way through this Sun story labelling the Foreign Secretary "LAMMY DODGER" and a "THUG" before they report his fare was actually paid in full, and the taxi driver concerned admitted trying to scam him out of an extra £600 before being arrested and charged with theft

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Peter Sullivan spent 38 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit: the murder of Diane Sindall. If we'd had the death penalty, an innocent man would have been murdered by the State.

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I wish more journalists, and politicians for that matter, would call this out as clearly as @maitlis.bsky.social does here. When you make grooming gangs and abuse about race and immigration you deflect from the majority of abusers. All of it should be called out, irrelevant of race.

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You cannot make this stuff up.

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The government is legitimising Reform with anti-migrant rhetoric while alienating long-time Labour voters by shifting to the right. This won't defeat the far right, nor will it improve lives ruined by austerity - it's clearly a lose-lose strategy.

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Keir Starmer is my MP. This is the letter I wrote to him today. Subject: Island of Strangers? Mr Starmer, Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.

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You might ask how the Lügenpresse manipulates people. Rigby tweeted unemployment rose by 10%. BBC’s Faisal Islam says it’s actually gone down.

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MP to launch bill to target superyachts, private jets and fossil fuel producers Bill would force major polluters to pay into fund for flood defences and home insulation. Wealthy elites are the biggest polluters and must pay, but Govt/Tories won't support the Bill.

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That is in fact what this administration has done.

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Please don't fine us, we've got bonuses to pay.

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CBP has seized a legal permanent resident musician from an OUTBOUND international flight and detained him, his bandmates report. A person just about to voluntarily leave the country. www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/...

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Deportation for honking his horn at an undercover ICE officer

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BREAKING: The politicians who take thousands of pounds in expenses and stuff their faces at a tax-payer subsidised canteen and get drunk at a tax-payer subsidised bar and enjoy a tax-payer subsidised second home want you to know it's wrong to take handouts from the state x

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"Press freedom is at its lowest point ever in history" Tim Davie mentions a BBC reporter being expelled from Turkey. He doesn't mention Israel preventing intl journalists from entering Gaza or them murdering 215 Palestinian journalists over 18 months. Funny, that.

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Our members featured in I News and highlight the human costs of the family migration rules, the ways in which it makes people feel unwanted. The continuous changes and announcements compound a very stressful situation. Couples and family deserve better. Read more: inews.co.uk/news/11k-vis...

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It's no secret I love the famous British IP Warhammer 40k. Sadly, my 2 years old son don't seem to be very fond of it. But now that I think on it, he loves another British IP, maybe I can do something to lure him in... (thanks to Zagerik on IG who did the drawing for me)

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Thames Water boss tells regulator to be lenient over fines/penalties. TW has abused customers since 1989. Despite 187 criminal convictions, it dumps sewage , borrows money to pay dividends, neglects investment. Directors must be fined and prosecuted. Nationalise water.

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People have genuine, serious, concerns which need to be recognised and addressed. The problem is they keep being told that these concerns are caused by immigration, and when you are struggling you will take what you can as a reason. This isn't to say people are stupid or racist, just struggling. 1/

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Heartbreaking, infuriating and utterly true thread.

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Left: Yvette Cooper, "No one should be making dangerous crossings on small boats" Right: That time Yvette Cooper explains how Labour would have safe and legal routes

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Those who are uncomfortable with this Labour immigration announcement, but think it's necessary to satisfy Reform voters, this is for you. You will not satisfy. You will never satisfy.

submitted 6 days ago • 73 comments