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Pretty sure that had Reform won Hamilton - or even come second - the story would be leading every single news hour this morning. This is what comes from pollsters emphasising (and maybe massaging) possible margins of error only ever towards the sensational and never towards the conventional.

submitted 9 hours ago • 35 comments

🔴‘Keir Starmer’s Timid Refusal to Nationalise Failing Water Companies is a Symptom of a Government Cast Adrift’ Starmer’s administration is proving itself to be “devoid of moral compass or political courage”, argues Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/06/06/t...

submitted 10 hours ago • 50 comments

We are ploughing through the 100's of amendments to the Employment Rights Bill, trying to improve it. The Govt refuses to accept any of them.

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

Olivia Blake MP is right, next week’s UN Ocean Conference is the PERFECT time for the UK to announce a #BottomTrawling ban in protected areas. 🌊🔥 But we can’t leave it to chance. We MUST keep the pressure on. 📣 Send a message to UK Govt & demand a ban NOW. 👇 act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

It's going to take more than a couple of new reservoirs to prevent the UK's coming water crisis, writes hydrologist @hancloke.bsky.social - we need to rethink how we build homes & communities to avoid a future of alternating flood & drought: theconversation.com/englands-wat...

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

🔥 Well said these MPs. This government now appears to be deliberately misleading the house on their position on Israel & Gaza. Everyone write to your MPs and ask where their voice is.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

This is welcome and long overdue. MPs are now calling on the UK government to ban trawling and dredging in "Marine Protected Areas". It's outrageous that this wholescale destruction is permitted anywhere, let alone in these "reserves". It has to stop. committees.parliament.uk/publications...

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS! 🚨 More than 5️⃣0️⃣ environmental groups demand that the government increase it's funding to DEFRA. ✉️ A letter sent to the prime minister and Rachel Reeves, warns that Labour’s credibility on environmental protection is on the line! 🔗 riveractionuk.com/news/defra-c...

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Is UK sacrificing its creative industry to get a US trade deal? VP JD Vance: "Trump Administration is troubled by reports that some foreign governments are considering tightening the screws on U.S. tech companies with international footprints. Now, America cannot and will not accept that". 👎👎👎

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‘Is it the fact that the victims are Muslim? What’s the difference?’ ‘The PM is willing to talk about one, but not the other.’ @alimilani.bsky.social‬ and @lewisgoodall.com question why Keir Starmer called out Russia’s ‘war crimes’ in Ukraine, but won’t say the same of Israel in Gaza.

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Reeves given £27,000 donation from lobbying firm linked to Thames Water bidder KKR. Companies don't donate, they buy access to policymakers to advance their interests. No matter what politicians say, people see this as corruption. Must ban all political donations. archive.ph/BMaQ9

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This seems to have now disappeared from the Express website but can still be read in the archive. archive.ph/mQIec

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Failed COVID PPE contracts during the pandemic cost UK public purse £1.4bn. £762m lost - PPE over ordered and defective, delays in checking quality. Govt trying to recover £468m. But some got richer. Would govt snoop on their bank accounts, like it will on benefit claimants?

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

The Department of Homeland Security is NOT making our country safer. They're ignoring immigration laws. They're handcuffing moms, zip tying children and disappearing them without hearings or due process. They're weaponizing DHS to purge people from the population. They're hiding their faces.⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 371 comments

Privatised water is failing, but the Government’s ‘once-in-a-generation’ review is just more false solutions dressed up as reform. That's why we’re backing @labourlewis.bsky.social’s call. Public ownership works. Let’s put it back on the table. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

What did we do to deserve this government? It promised change, and many people voted on that basis, in good faith. But the change is from bad to worse. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

Share and Enjoy!

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

“Trump’s tariffs caused worldwide financial turmoil" The forecasts are in. Trump's chaotic tariff are slowing down the whole world economy, including the UK's. We need a common sense trade deal with the EU now more than ever - to gain 2.2% GDP growth.

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“The owner of the Drax wood-burning power station should be forced to disclose full details of its tree consumption, campaigners have argued.”

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

There are many sources of chemical pollution in our rivers, but tertiary treatment for sewage could clean up the meds that pass straight through us & down the loo, household cleaning products, chemicals from skin care, hair care, washing clothes & food. 1/ www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Enough of this racist fiction. Enough. Not a single non-white person in England is in a job in the NHS because they are non-white. Not a single one. And as for the idea that England's criminal justice system goes easy on non-white people because they are non-white. Well. Just think about that.

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

Starmer's Labour Party expels leftwingers for the tiniest perceived infractions. Yet it welcomes people who are basically Trumpists into the very heart of its operations. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 160 comments

Anyone saying ‘DEI’ here in the UK is telling you very directly where their hate is imported from.

submitted 4 days ago • 70 comments

This video has had a lot of views on TikTok. Thought you’d like to see it too…

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Hi All, Quite a day yesterday. I released my weekend update (free) and then Ukraine pulled off arguably the most audacious and successful operation of the war--so I updated it in detail. Lots to read.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

“Jenrick is not a vigilante. He’s not an action man. His defining quality is flaccidity. His reputation is that of a petty, mean, small man, who paints over kids’ murals. So, the stunt might have worked for someone else, but for Jenrick it simply cements that reputation as a petty, mean, small man.”

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Our letter condemning the genocide in #Gaza and calling for an immediate ceasefire. A great crime is being committed, and we cannot stand by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

Our politics has become deeply unserious. Flags and gimmicks and stupid video clips and social media clickbait and lies. With very little serious challenge to counter the nonsense and the dishonesty. The consequences for our country and our democracy are dire. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/robert-jen...

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

Two faced tories again

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James Martin, SJ writes on X: “It's important to call these actions what they are: evil. One estimate says Elon Musk's cuts to USAID "have already resulted in 300,000 deaths." The world's richest man has made the poor suffer even more.”

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🚨NEW: "Don’t be polite. These people are trash. They deserve our contempt." At a packed-out event on Saturday, Benjamin Moser, Pankaj Mishra and William Dalrymple eviscerated Western support of the Israeli state, calling it "the moral litmus test of our time."

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🇭🇺“This whole process has been going on behind this smoke screen of hate propaganda, with different targets,” said Kádár, pointing to Orbán’s targeting of Brussels and the EU as well as migrants. Sound familiar? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Craig Oliver says Reform doesn't really have a record to defend, except for Brexit - That's a pretty big flop 👀

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Cutting down Canadian forest for wood pellets to burn in a UK power station is not nor ever will be green, yet the UK government pays £££billions in environmental subsidies - more than they subsidise wind or solar - for a process that actually raises our energy bills. www.nrdc.org/bio/matt-wil...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.” MPs are watching. We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

🧵1/ Farage: The Russia Links. With a pint in one hand and Putin’s dick in the other, Farage has built a legacy on Russian propaganda and a trail of bullshit faker than his tan. He might be popular, but Ted Bundy was a hit with the ladies and look at how that ended. Strap in 👇🏼

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Good 🧵 . Thinking we can “make Brexit work” is same muddled thinking that we can work with “the good parts” of this US admin. Brexit will never “work”, and there are no “good parts” to this admin. If we don’t face these truths squarely we will just get drawn more into the abyss in both cases.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

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"I fear for Greta. For all on the flotilla but esp for her because most Western regimes hate her so much. Strength and solidarity to this brave young woman" @profsunnysingh.bsky.social me too #AllEyesOnDeck #BreakTheSiege

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Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

submitted 6 days ago • 1126 comments

@alanrmacleod.bsky.social "That feeling when an ice cream company shows more moral leadership than virtually every Western government"

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