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Just landed in Iceland. 🙌 Off to give a talk to European Movement Iceland this evening 🇮🇸 🇪🇺 All about working together to get us all joining the EU. 🇬🇧🇮🇸🇪🇺

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Liberty Steel has not produced anything at two key plants since July 2024. Steel industry is in constant crisis due to high energy/water costs. Jingye, Tata, Liberty want subsidies. Govts don't own anything in return. Nationalisation of strategic industries is the way forward.

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Thank you Gary Lineker for using the platform you earned with your talent and charm to stand up for some of the most victimised people in the world. You're a shining example to us all.

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I'm grateful for your responses. I know they are heartfelt. And it's not my desire to make anyone feel uncomfortable. But also, I have a question - is what matters here that the challenge was to a cis woman? Because our humanity should be universal.

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“The whole world left us alone to die” – one family clings to life in Gaza As Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel will ‘take control’ of all Gaza, we look at what his military campaign has done to ordinary people...

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Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy. This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.

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Another victory for the anti trans activists

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22 May 1937 | An Italian Jewish girl, Giuditta Pavoncello was born in Rome. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Rome. On 23 October 1943 he was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

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Netanyahu is determined. He won’t stop unless he is actively stopped. It’s not about selling a few less weapons, pleading, expressing outrage & maybe ending a trade negotiation we never should’ve been in. It’s about aggressive sanctions now, expelling the ambassador & our military delivering aid.

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Corporations Rule, not ok. UK Tory govt dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food (UPF) firms. Labour obeying. UPF causes health problems, premature death. Increases pressure on the NHS, welfare budget. Polluter must pay. Make firms pay, tax of 1% of turnover.

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Are you on Universal Credit, Pension Credit, Employment Support Allowance? UK govt will compel banks to hand information to it about your money. You can't prevent it even if you never committed fraud. Same won't apply to PPE, tax, subsidy fraudsters, corporate crooks, disqualified directors.

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Relief! 😮‍💨 C’mon Europe!

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

How sad it is that so many with news media , entertainment and political platforms have cruelly or cynically chosen the route of the transphobe - I keep hearing of a rise in mental health crises in the trans community - know there are many that support you

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NEW: The Cass Review into UK trans healthcare is 'deeply flawed', containing biased research, outdated data, and manipulated evidence, an international team of experts has said Read more on this story: www.thenational.scot/news/2516682...

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No one who cares about wildlife and ecosystems is now likely to vote Labour in 2029. Or about Gaza. Or poverty. Or inequality. Or international aid. Or corporate power. Or democratic reform. Or racism. Or trans rights. So that's goodbye to just about its entire vote. What are they playing at?

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15 May 1930 | A Polish Jew, Berek Ringer, was born in Oświęcim. In 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz from Będzin Ghetto. He was murdered in a gas chamber.

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Thames Water’s CEO defends £195,000 bonus just three months into the job. Shameless. The cult of bonuses is nothing to do with performance. It is for boosting profits by fleecing customers. Nothing will change until water is nationalised and customers vote on exec pay.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

Please join our friends and welcome EU leaders to the summit on Monday. Let them and Keir Starmer see the support for rejoining the EU in our country.

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“I woke up with a sense of dread…” — from an EU citizen in the UK on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging. Powerful open letter. 👇

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“I woke up with a sense of dread…” A moving, deeply personal account from an EU citizen in Cambridge on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging. Don’t miss this powerful open letter. 👇

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Unprecedented step to outright ban or suspend political party participation in 2025 Pride events - Including Pride In London. Pause for thought for we politicians and political parties to stand more firmly and visibly in defence of the long standing legal rights of trans and gender diverse people.

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“If you take money away from people who haven’t got very much, you’ll get more homelessness,” warn campaigners bylinetimes.com/2025/05/01/k...

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A hateful thing to say. People whose approach to life is not faith-based have done enormous good, majority non-religious societies have been some of the strongest proponents of human dignity and solidarity. Why is the BBC just printed this unchallenged? If it's "news", it should be balanced.

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It’s not hyperbolic to say that the proposed disability benefits cuts will cost lives. This week, I met with young disabled people who are terrified that they will be driven to homelessness and even suicide. Our government must do the right thing and reverse this policy.

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More than 40 MPs have signed a letter urging Foreign Secretary David Lammy to address allegations that the UK has continued exporting military equipment to Israel despite the suspension of key arms export licences - raising concerns that Parliament may have been misled. www.itv.com/news/2025-05...

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A man without a clue… and the clueless are buying it. How do you even start to counter this conundrum? 🤷‍♂️

submitted 14 days ago • 61 comments

Someone called Alan who feels dreadfully uneasy in their own skin, changes his name to Alana, and most of the world wants to attack them for it. Someone called Robert, who enjoys wearing long frocks, decides to change his name to Leo… and the whole world doesn’t bat an eye. 🤷‍♂️

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England faces drought as reservoir water levels dwindle. Rationing beckons. Population increased but no new reservoirs for 35 yrs; no desalination plants. Companies fleeced customers, borrowed to pay high dividends, low investment. People pay for privatisation follies. End the scam. Nationalise.

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🔴The Two Faces of the Daily Mail’s Media Misogyny The Daily Mail’s attack on actress Aimee Lou Wood shows how it holds women’s bodies to impossible and conflicting standards, writes Hacked Off Director Emma Jones bylinetimes.com/2025/04/23/t...

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🚘 FREE DRIVING LESSONS FOR REFUGEES?! If you've seen those headlines and felt a twinge of outrage, you're not alone. But let's take a closer look at who's actually getting these lessons and why. 🧵 1/16

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This insanity needs to be stopped. Israel is barbaric and no friend of any nation. Israel must be stopped & Palestine must be defended.

submitted 18 days ago • 68 comments

(... which is more than Reform, by the way)

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Keir Starmer under fire from Labour MPs after byelection loss to Reform UK. Starmer was the only party leader not to visit Runcorn. Toxic? Busy purging the left, alienating traditional supporters. Must ditch Tory policies. Redistribute, end tax perks of the rich. Abandon disability benefit cuts

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Copying Reform on immigration while cutting money from OAPs and the disabled has been a disaster Surely, now, Labour must change course www.theneweuropean.co.uk/james-ball-n...

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4 May 1935 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Evike Goldenberg, was born. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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Yup, that’s right. Chase Reform. Legitimise them. Punch down. Brag about cruelty. Abandon values. Lose elections to Reform. Rinse. Repeat. 🙄

submitted 20 days ago • 90 comments

🎉 Green WIN! 🎉 🌹 to 💚 💚 Congratulations to Paul Valentine of @lambethgreenparty.bsky.social on being elected in Herne Hill & Loughborough Junction!

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1 May 1932 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Agnes Neuman, was born in Szombathely. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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1 May 1932 | German Jewish girl, Ruth Bogen, was born in Cologne. She emigrated to the Netherlands. Deported from #Westerbork to Theresienstadt ghetto in September 1944 from where she was deported to #Auschwitz on 4 October. She was murdered in a gas chamber upon arrival.

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Brexit has crippled the UK pork industry by stripping away essential EU labour, inflating production costs, erecting punitive border checks that have halved our exports, and ultimately forcing British consumers to rely ever more on imported meat.

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→ 📢 To rejoin the #EU, public pressure must be massive. 𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗬 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗗𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡 Brexit failed. Millions know it. Now we must act together. 📄 Read and share: FB: tinyurl.com/mwxu9yyz LI: tinyurl.com/3kbv7twt YT: tinyurl.com/y45tt623 #BrexitReality #RejoinEU #MobiliseForChange

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I have somehow ended up with interviews for BBC local radio this evening, across 12 different local stations, about Labour's plan to publish offender nationality statistics. Not sure how many different ways I can say "incitement to violence against communities", but we will see.

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29 April 1942 | A French Jewish boy, Lucien Benayoun, was born in Lyon. He was deported to #Auschwitz on 11 August 1944 and murdered in a gas chamber.

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29 April 1934 | Dutch Jewish girl, Lea Davids, was born in Groningen. She was transferred from Westerbork to Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1944. She was deported to #Auschwitz from there on 4 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

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Can't cook, dress, eat, or toilet unaided? Soon, that won’t qualify you for help. 1.3 million disabled people face losing support. Read that again. #PIP 👇😞

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“Starmer’s dealings with Trump over tariffs amount to… betrayal. Come to tea with the King, be nice to us and cut us a special deal. You want Britain to go easy on those tech giants who are trying to control our thoughts? We can discuss it.”

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