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Remember when he fired military chiefs, and people wondered aloud if he was clearing out those who wouldn’t send troops against US citizens …? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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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...

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If you’d thought what’s happening Gaza couldn’t get any worse. Israel using food and starvation as a tool of oppression, and militarising their performative humanitarian aid, killing people in the process. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

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Leaving France behind.

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Nice few days in France.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Free speech ‘as long as it agrees with us’ ain’t free speech. It’s pretty fash, actually.

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Oh FFS, dealing with child poverty should not be a political calculation, just the right thing to do. And what we expect of a Labour government. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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WHAT. TOOK. YOU. SO. LONG? I mean, 70% of the 50,000 killed in Gaza so far are women and children. Indiscriminate bombs ok, starvation not? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Allowing minimum levels of food into Gaza to prevent a ‘starvation situation’, having blockaded all food and supplies for ten weeks, says everything about Israel’s disdain for Palestinian life. Withholding food from a civilian population is a war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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A ‘freedom zone’? What, like recognising the State of Palestine? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Good morning from Hanoi. Vietnam flying the flags to mark 50 years of liberation of the south, and national unification. Work trip, jammy, eh?

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Seized the day. Frittata and cider mid-stream in a perfect quiet spot. Saw a kingfisher, heard a nightingale.

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Whereas the more heroin you get, you know, the less actual science you need … 🙄

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No effing way, Vlad’s been playing you? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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We live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and yet 1 in 7 people in the UK are facing hunger. This isn't right. Repost if you agree

submitted 60 days ago • 9 comments

What, a former Fox News host with allegations of sexual and alcohol abuse behind him, who can’t keep top secret information off his social media, isn’t the sort of guy you want running Defence?

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Having waited so long for a govt strategy for child poverty, please don’t rush it out with half-funded policy ideas as a political tactic to enable wider social welfare cuts Our children deserve better than this www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Who’d have thought a peace deal would be harder than Day One? Who’d have thought Putin would string his puppet along? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Fascinating, the key scientific advancements since I was at school. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Who wants to hear a nightingale? Of course you do. Sound on.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Is your MP’s email in your contacts? Because it’s so easy to write when something’s on your mind. I wrote to mine (Lab) about the disability benefit cuts. She forwarded it on and I got a reply from the DWP Minister. Generic empty words, obvs, but at least they hear what you think. #CantDoNothing

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Learn from my experience. Today is definitely the day to stick your head in the sand about the state of your pension.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

“We have been the dumb and helpless ‘whipping post’, but not any longer.” Who knew the US has been the skinny weakling having sand kicked in its eyes and has just invested in a Charles Atlas chest expander.

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Alternatively, “Video footage appears to prove IDF lied about their soldiers executing Palestinian medics.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

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I guess it’s would be wishful thinking to get a lettuce out. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Good to see my MP, having taken a principled stand to resign over aid cuts, also talking sense about fiscal rules and tax.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

For all the schadenfreude about the collapse in Tesla’s share price, it’s disappointingly only back to where it was before November’s US election six months ago. It’s a fickle world.

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Forget ‘cavalier, negligent and indiscriminate’. Their hands were tied and they were shot in the head. Fifteen aid workers murdered by the IDF in cold blood. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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OH: “you’ve caught the sun. When are you going to learn about sunscreen. You’re 61.” #NoRegrets ☀️

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This is indeed outrageous. Eight Red Crescent medics killed. Just the latest example of IDF’s cavalier, negligent and indiscriminate action. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Le Pen guilty of embezzlement and banned from public office. Authoritarians play fast and loose with the law. France doing what the US should have done after January 6th. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Remarkable. Canada has had enough of the bully next door and left him to sulk on his own while they look to play with nicer friends.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 NEWS: The government’s own survey shows 4.7m people in disabled households are facing hunger, including 1.6m children. Yet just yesterday, the UK government chose to slash disability payments. This is appalling.

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You truly could not make it up. You could not.

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Another day, more news about poverty. The latest official poverty data is out (for 2023/24). Stand by for some speedy analysis coming through from the brilliant @jrf-uk.bsky.social team, but a few quick headlines: Child poverty UP Children in food insecure families UP Food bank use UP

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Already, three requests from charities to email my MP in response to the Chancellor’s Statement, on aid cuts, disability payment cuts and social housing investment. Let’s hope charities stick together and don’t get played against each other.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Woah, Senator Duckworth isn’t holding back. More of this please, the world needs it.

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There’s nothing quite like a magnolia to say spring is here.

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