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RAF squadron targeted for a repaint by Palestine Action does not belong to the RAF. ultimately owned by Polygon Global Partners LLP, a Hedge Fund. How much of the RAF is owned by hedge funds, private equity? Finance sector benefiting from wars? A nation's defence outsourced without any debate.

This is appalling. All UK News shows need to be aware of this

He came from a fake boardroom, ran a fake charity, a fake university, faked his net worth, faked Time magazine covers, lied about crowd sizes, and ran on a fake law and order stance. Now we’re stuck in the rerun of a rigged reality show.

TRIBUNE: Keir Starmer's dystopian vision: The NHS may be more at risk from corporate vultures than migrant workers. Is a new era of privatisation on the horizon for Britain's cherished health service? - by Ammad Butt

Sacre Bleu! According to the BBC absolutely nothing happened in Westminster hall today, hundreds of Trans people definitely did not undertake a mass lobby and MPs certainly didn't hear from their constituents about why the EHRC is a liability. Meanwhile in France... www.france24.com/en/live-news...

A one-post definition of social democracy: the insight that individuals can flourish only in communities and in conditions that require collective action (so not liberals) including tackling inequalities and undemocratic power structures to which conservatives are attached (so not conservatives).

According to the Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, Israel currently stands at 112th place out of 180 countries for freedom of the press – below Haiti, Guinea Bissau, South Sudan and Chad. What does that tell us?

Mounted police attacking a female bystander during the miners’ strike, Orgreave, June 1984 by John Harris. The police had just beaten a miner terribly and she had taken a photo so they attacked her. They later claimed this photo was doctored and that it didn’t happen.

I have Israeli, German, Swedish, British and Iranian friends. We don't judge each other by the worst of each political establishment. One tragedy is that the political establishments are locked into behaviors that take little account of their own people's views & of those that suffer consequences.

!!! "Northumbria police disposed of papers less than a month before Rishi Sunak called last summer’s election, which brought the Labour party into government with a longstanding manifesto pledge to hold an inquiry into the scenes of violent policing at Orgreave" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

One can take issue with the music and other aspects of this short film -- but Wim Wenders's finding a key location and his basic message are moving: www.youtube.com/watch?v=slcN...

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lol what happened here

(from) Masters of War By Bob Dylan #War #resistance

Great thread

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

@browneyegirlhi.bsky.social I know I'm dating myself, but it's not like we haven't been here. youtu.be/ft0vkKCadgk?...

In grim "there's always a tweet" news.

In case you were wondering about the headline in a few national papers where wine will run out allow me put some clarity on the issue. The shortage will affect UK bottle wine. So what does that mean exactly? www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/06/uk-s...

A Potemkin road in Russia 🇷🇺 Watch until the end Russia: "The work was completed on time, the asphalt has been laid, the roadway is open to traffic. This is a good example of the implementation of a national project."

Land grabs. 258 million acres of public land in the US are to be sold off for a pittance. In the UK over 5000 protected sites of natural beauty are to be built over by Labour. In both instances local communities are completely left out of the decision-making process. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Farage wants this for you, me - and all of us.

Rule 34: Sunglasses will not make you look cool if you are fundamentally a wanker. #Bezos #Zuckerberg #TrumpJr #Musk #Sunglasses

Today is Refugee Day. So we thought it was time to dispel the myths which surround asylum seekers and refugees. Could you live on £49 a week?

The UK's 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports were embedded with secondary legislation and arbitration mechanisms that allow corporations to sue the UK Govt for billions of pounds should a corporation believe its rights have been infringed upon. Please subscribe to my Substack open.substack.com/pub/european...

R.I.P. Alfred Brendel (1931-2025). #smlpdf #sheetmusic #Noten #partituras #spartiti sheetmusiclibrary.website