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Labour is giving £360m to the fishing ind yet Gov figures show that fishing costs more than it makes: It estimates the proposed ban on trawling will cost the UK £7.8m, while delivering “benefits from enhanced environmental protection” of approximately £3.1bn. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Netanyahu has wanted war with Iran for a long time & now sees perpetual war as his means of political survival. Starmer's track record & desire to ingratiate himself with Trump gives little confidence that the UK will stay out of it. news.sky.com/story/israel...

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Immigrant families are being forced to put up signs saying 'I work in a care home' to escape the racist violence that's been unleashed in Northern Ireland I come from this part of the world and I cannot tell you the sense of profound shame and horror this fills me with. It disgraces us

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All pensioners to get Winter Fuel Payment. Tax codes to be adjusted to clawback WFP from pensioners with income above £35K. How many more tax returns to be filed? Some incomes don't appear on tax returns e.g. ISA interest. So, those with incomes above £35k will get WFP. Watch Minister's reply.

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Totally utterly completely indefensible

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you will have read that Labour is doubling investment in social housing in the long term this is true if 1) you compare it to the Tories and 2) if Labour win the next general election but new allocations for next 3 years are lower than this year www.ft.com/content/92a1...

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For every 1°C rise in global temperature, the water vapour held in the atmosphere increases by 7 per cent. So a warmer world will face both droughts and floods, writes @timsmedley.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

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❗️BREAKING — The UK Ministry of Defence admits it is “currently training” Israeli military personnel in Britain. The Labour government has until now refused to answer questions about this, which we covered last year. 👉 www.declassifieduk.org/amid-lebanon...

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It's official: The UK is training modern day Nazis who are trying to wipe out the Palestinians.

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You can't call immigrants lazy moochers looking for government handouts and then round them up at Home Depots where you know they are looking for work. You can't say immigrants don't follow the rules and then round them up in courthouses where they are following the rules. Get your lies straight.

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🚨Shocking scandal exposed in this excellent article👇 UK stumbling towards wasting a staggering amount of money on a 'climate solution' that isn't just fake, it'll actually worsen global heating—paid for by the state, and by consumers on energy bills. Webinar tonight—more info in reply.

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🚨A new UN report has found Israel guilty of the "crime against humanity of extermination" in Gaza. The report has been largely ignored by the British press. 👉https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1164191

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🔴The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was “non existent” @josiah.writes.news reports bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

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Water Follies In the 35 years before privatisation, 100 reservoirs built; no major English reservoir built since. Asset-stripping: Thames Water sold-off 25 reservoirs. Southern Water to decommission 43 of 93 by 2030. Companies paid £85bn in dividends, borrowed £70bn. People fleeced and abused.

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Three-quarters of pensioners to get winter fuel payment. Welcome U-turn after losses at recent elections. What will means-testing cost? Must abandon two-child benefit cap, disability benefit cuts, cuts to public services. Must redistribute, improve spending power of the bottom 50% of population.

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An important but under-funded way to boost the amount of social housing is for councils to buy existing homes into their stock. It pays off in rents, less benefit £ and huge wider gains, and it helped the Mayor of London achieve his housing targets. I call it Buy the Supply. 🧵

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MPs ask minister if he will claw back Thames Water exec bonuses. £18.5m bonus, 50% of base pay, already paid to 21 execs to circumvent ban, out of £3bn loan. TW plan to pay bonus of 200% of base pay next year. Rewards for fleecing people, dumping sewage.

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Thames Water is teetering on the edge of collapse, surviving by borrowing, dumping sewage in rivers & exploiting customers. When will the Govt recognise that privatisation has failed and public ownership is the only effective way forward? Watch the Minister's reply. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXmD...

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Deserts are spreading across Britain, yet scarcely anyone in public life even seems to have noticed. This week's column seeks to open our eyes to something that has been too big to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Disability cut impact could be even worse than expected warns food bank charity Research commissioned @trusselluk.bsky.social found that 340,000 people in disabled households will be pushed into severe hardship by benefit changes being brought in by the Government www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Israeli forces have boarded Madleen - the volunteer-crewed ship trying to break siege to deliver aid to starving people in Gaza - and abducted the crew. If you are a citizen of any country whose citizens are on board (France/Germany/Brazil/Sweden), please watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjMd...

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Very interesting - especially in relation to issues on Dartmoor www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Since the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine, nearly 5 million acres of forest have burned due to rockets, shelling, and other explosions, with huge carbon emissions. Experts say it’s an opportunity to rethink how Ukraine manages its forests in the future, with climate change in mind.

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The dangerous decline of child vaccination in England. Such a worrying trend at several levels.

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Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it: "These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Conservationists call for Lake District to lose Unesco world heritage status

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EXCLUSIVE: Neil Kinnock accuses Labour of showing “paralytic caution” and calls out Treasury orthodoxy, timid taxation and poor messaging on immigration. His verdict? Labour has an “audacity deficit.” www.prospectmagazine...

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