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More than 370 Palestinians have been killed by Israel this week, as the UN continues to warn of imminent mass starvation

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I agree with Gary. Silence is complicity. 18k children have been killed in Palestine by the Israel army since Oct 7th - 50k civilian killed, 100k wounded.Now Israel uses Famine as a weapon of war - imposing a total blockade of food and medicine into this occupied territory. buff.ly/sfELiCp

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"We were sleeping and the houses were full of children, women and displaced people... at 1.30 am & without prior warning they bombed a house. Many children and women were killed & their bodies scattered in the street" Palestinians in Gaza on Israels overnight attacks.

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I thought yesterday’s Mail had covered this story as dishonestly as was humanly possible. Silly me.

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We despise immigrants for not putting down roots, even as we make sure that it is impossible for them to do so. We do this because we have no idea what we want. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

submitted 12 hours ago • 84 comments

...but let's jump on some poor soul who's earned 92p a week more than was allowed to claim carer's allowance! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Why the wall of silence on the Gaza genocide is finally starting to crack open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

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I was absolutely trembling when I spoke with Nick Ferrari this morning on @lbc… About Gary Lineker and Gaza One day, I promise you, we’ll all look back with regret That this was the debate, while a genocide was ongoing.

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This report, by leading human rights lawyers, make clear the reality: apartheid in Israel is not an allegation, it’s a legal fact. This reinforces the case for sanctions against this brutal lawless regime. buff.ly/1RwZHXH

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Life on the edge. Some 10% of Britons have no cash saved at all. Another 21% had less than £1,000 tucked away. Personal debt surging. Years of austerity, real wage cuts, corporate profiteering, frozen tax allowance take toll. Later life shocks await. Must redistribute.

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"The most difficult thing is not having any way to relieve peoples pain, especially children" An NHS nurse working in Gaza describes what its like #GMB

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More than 100 Palestinians have been killed or missing as a result of overnight air strikes in Gaza

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Top Tory Chris Philp has admitted Brexit made it harder to return asylum seekers Will this admission finally open the door to an honest and frank discussion about the harm Brexit has caused?

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Gaza Health Ministry says Israeli attacks put European Hospital in Khan Younis out of service, putting patients at risk.

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The dam is breaking.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

Gary Lineker’s real crime? Giving a damn about kids being blown to pieces in Gaza.18k dead and counting. 10 every day losing one or both legs, being operated on without anaesthetic, due to the siege of Israel. buff.ly/TQm9kGx

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"Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches - Updated May 2025"

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The Court of Appeal ruled on 2 May anti-protest laws which completely ignored the will of Parliament are UNLAWFUL The Government has still not confirmed if it will accept the judgement & scrap these unlawful regulations which they opposed in opposition Why the delay?

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Has it ever been more obvious that the Nakba never ended? A statement from the Independent Alliance on Nakba Day.

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British voters ready to back a more ambitious EU reset www.bestforbritain.org/british_vote...

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US surgeon Dr Feroze Sidhwa: "If destroying Hamas requires dropping 12 bombs on one small hospital.. and then releasing a video that doesn't even show the building that your purporting to bomb, I think that shows clearly you're just bombing the hospital to bomb the hospital"

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The real Living Wage is a win-win for workers and businesses – here's why More than 16,000 employers are now paying the real Living Wage, which has put £3.85bn back into the pockets of low-paid workers since 2011 www.bigissue.com/opinion/real...

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This latest admission should open the door to an honest & frank discussion about the harm caused by Brexit - and the Labour government must now hold the Tories accountable for it

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Israeli air strikes kill 40 in Gaza, say hospitals, while aid blockade continues. #FreePalestine www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

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Day 9 of Lois asking Steve Reed to join her at the football. ⚽ Something stinks about Thames Water's sewage plant upgrade costs. How can it be 15x more expensive than building a new one in other countries? Perhaps Environment Secretary Steve Reed can tell her? #LoisvSteve

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23,000 DOCTORS AND NURSES LEFT BRITAIN BECAUSE OF BRRXIT - NOW THIS… Almost half of foreign nurses plan to quit Starmer's Britain because of its “hostile” immigration policy. More than 55,000 international NHS nurses want to move away. STARMER IS BRAIN DEAD! #Labour #NHS

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Save this picture onto your phone. Keep similar pictures in a folder/album. And just put them out there "on the socials" once in a while...

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Stand up. Speak up. Netanyahu and his monstrous government must be held to account for their genocidal crimes against the children of Gaza. We will never condone the murderous brutality of Hamas but the ongoing slaughter of countless innocents is equally beyond any and all words.

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A legal challenge will be heard at the Royal Courts of Justice later on Wednesday about the role of physician associates (PA) in the NHS www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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A famine in Gaza is unfolding before our eyes while world leaders, including the Prime Minister of the UK, continue to support those behind this appalling crime against humanity. They shame us all and the history books of the future will surely hold them to account.

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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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Accusing Elon Musk of killing the world's poor, Bill Gates has announced he'll be giving away nearly his entire fortune by 2045.

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A really good explanation of why social care is so important to all of us.

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What we see in the UK today, and around the world, is a truth many people are reluctant to recognise: Centralised, hierarchical political systems are innately undemocratic, regardless of who is in charge. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Tackling child poverty could be Labour’s best chance to stop Reform UK’s rise, Starmer's first act was to continue the two child benefit cap. Disability benefit cuts will push another 50,000 children into poverty. Lives blighted to appease the rich. Can't build economy on pain and exclusion.

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Poverty is the root cause of so many issues that haunt children throughout life, from obesity to undiagnosed neuro-diversity, all destroying opportunity, choice & participation others take for granted. So, it’s time to root out poverty for all, because until then our economy will continue to wither!

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Can someone please explain to me how we are going to avoid a terrible winter crisis in the NHS, when last winter was very bad and the government is now pushing billions in cuts on NHS trusts? 🚨🚨🚨 It looks like both patient services and doctor and nurse jobs will be cut…

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Can we please ask why the media, even those considered left-wing outlets, pushed Starmer to power? It was obvious what he was doing. He dropped his pledge to remove NHS private outsourcing in July 2022. July 2022!I wrote about it in my book, published in June 2023. A whole year before the election🚨

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Mum-of-two shares experience of 'dehumanising' DWP benefits system: 'It could kill somebody'

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BREAKING: GMB Union says “Scrapping care visas will be potentially catastrophic. Care is utterly reliant on migrant workers and there's still over 130,000 vacancies. We are working with the Government to deliver the pay rise care workers deserve. But this won't arrive soon enough to fill the void”

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The Covid-19 Inquiry started its hearings today on Test and Trace. Counsel for Covid Bereaved Families cited the witness statements from Prof Deenan Pillay, Prof Anthony Costello and me in his opening statement. All of us highlighted various failures as lost opportunities for pandemic control.

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The Employment Rights Bill is due to be discussed in parliament this week & we call on the UK government to. ⬇️ 🛑 Ensure there's an OUTRIGHT ban on #FireAndRehire & #ZeroHours contracts. @unitetheunion.bsky.social will continue to make the workers' voice heard as this Bill goes through parliament.

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Labour axing care worker visa will put services at risk, say unions and care leaders. Labour pandering to Reform policies. Debate needs honesty. Without migrant labour UK economy will have lower economic growth/GDP, collapsing services. Real problem is govt failure to invest in infrastructure.

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

Jeez this is a painful watch. An EU youth mobility scheme is not a return to free movement. Why can’t the government just say that? Why is it so hard?

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Labour will close Care Worker visas to reduce migration. There are approximately 120,000+ vacancies in that profession. I’m not great at maths but even I see the problem.

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UK food shops report ‘massive’ rise in pensioner shoplifting. Poverty forces people to do desperate acts Full state pension less than 50% of min wage, loss of winter fuel payment, unchecked profiteering. Govts perpetuate poverty with low wages, benefit cuts. Align state pension with living wage

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In 2015 David Cameron privatised the National Fostering Agency, it's now being paid £160m a year straight to a New Jersey tax haven to manage the fostering of just 2,616 children A tax free profit of £61,000 per child, and they don't even provide any care, that's the fosters job

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England’s water is appalling — and so is the politics keeping it privatised. Labour can’t win back trust and beat Reform whilst cosying up to the same profiteers who’ve bled our rivers dry. My latest in @gonuj.org: time to clean house. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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NHS could be hit by another wave of strikes as health unions react with fury over “unprecedented” job cuts at hospitals across England Trust leaders have cut thousands of doctors, nurses & other clinical staff in bid to meet NHS England’s demands to fill a £6.6bn deficit inews.co.uk/news/health/...

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Fancy the taking down of Ukraine flags being your first claim to fame as a Councillor/Council.

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