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For the record:

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A simple email request: If you can, please ask your MP to take action on pavement parking which is a daily hazard for people with sight loss. act.guidedogs.org.uk/page/172699/... t

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🔴 New report from #Sudan 🔴 "Voices from South Darfur” reveals the devastating impact of violence, hunger and insecurity on people. Pushed at their limits, patients share their stories and the challenges they face. #TalkAboutSudan: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/sudan-msf-re...

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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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Every week in the UK, around 125 people die by suicide. Behind every number is a name, a story, and people left carrying heartbreak. We need braver, kinder conversations, because silence helps no one 💔 #DaddyBlackbird #SuicideAwareness #MentalHealth #EndTheStigma

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What’s the link between Shabana Mahmood MP and United Health…?🚨 EveryDoctor has been researching the financial links between our politicians and the private healthcare sector, because we are worried about the way that money is moving through Westminster, and we don’t think that any...

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Always follow the money. "Labour Friends of Israel does not disclose its funders" No, I bet it doesn't.

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That this slaughter hungry bloke is former Director of Labour Friends of Israel says it all really

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Representatives from Labour Friends of Israel are there this week, shaking hands and doing photo ops with the president

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🚨Five Labour MPs visited Israel on a trip sponsored by Labour Friends of Israel last week. They met with Israeli president Isaac Herzog who said the "entire nation" of Gaza was collectively responsible for 7 October.

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He should have just stayed quiet. Instead, he has confirmed his guilt.

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Former Biden official Matthew Miller says he believes Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza

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Matthew Miller was an active part of the genocide in Gaza. This is not an exaggeration. He stood there day in and day out telling journalists citing journalists and human rights reports about Israeli war crimes and he denied them time after time after time. news.sky.com/story/former...

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High resolution download (for posters, T-shirts etc). £2. Whole amount will go to Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders working in Gaza. 👇👇👇 we.tl/p-ce65zBLoiw

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”They wrote a letter saying she was fit to work - and she was in the undertakers.” A grieving mother tells @channel4news.bsky.social she fears benefit cuts will lead to more deaths like her daughter's. Read more here:

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UK moving to ‘war-fighting readiness’, Starmer says. What happened to the war on poverty, poor housing, polluted rivers; lack of healthcare, GPs, dentists, social care? What services will be cut? Planners will find that large sections of the UK population are unfit.

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DWP is facing an online 'rebellion' over its cuts to PIP and Universal Credit If you're house-or bed-bound and can't attend the People's Assembly Saturday 7 June protest in London, then campaign group Disability Rebellion has the answer. www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

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The British government's plan to significantly increase defence spending off the back of cuts to vital welfare for some of the most vulnerable people in our society is disgraceful, immoral and irresponsible.

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I predicted he’d try to be a ‘wartime PM’. 12 subs at a billion+ £ each, all to try & win the next election. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to ban the far right? Gift Article: Keir Starmer cited “growing Russian aggression” as he outlined ambitious rearmament plans, including building up to 12 subs.

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Going to also to try to bring up Maralinga, and the continuing concerns there among the indigenous communities about nuclear test residues, as I was in the #HouseofLords in 2022 www.nataliebennett.org/latest/nucle...

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Govt confirms criminals control England water industry. "Since the privatisation of water and sewerage companies in 1989, all ten Water and Sewerage companies which discharge into English waters have been convicted of criminal offences". Still allowed to fleece people, no end to criminality.

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A merciless world. Dr Hamdi al Najjar, husband of Dr Alaa al Najjar, succumbed to his critical wounds sustained from Israeli bombing of his house where they lost nine of his children

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BREAKING: At least 28 Palestinians have been killed so far in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn, medical sources in Gaza hospitals have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/q33nx2

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Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

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They'll go from "Oh if you like Palestinians so much, why don't you go to Gaza" to "Oh you're going to Gaza? Hope you'll get murdered" without skipping a beat

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£1.5 billion for weapons?

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"Well, we are all going to die." --Senator Joni Ernst That has to be the glibbest way any politician has ever told a constituent that they didn’t give a shit about them.

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Millionaires shouldn't get winter fuel allowance, minister says. Populist spin to deflect from a bad policy Universal WFA means no pensioner left out, no forms, no costly cliff edge means testing. Can always be clawed back from the rich through code adjustment, higher tax on the rich.

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NEW: We now know that a nine-year-old child was the youngest person to be injured in Monday's horrific scenes in Liverpool Latest update from police here www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

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They are purging all the transcripts.

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@tonyjw.bsky.social Thought you might like to see a shed built on allotment by mine. It’s made out of an old trampoline and pallets. I think it looks great.

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This could have been such a good news/ PR story if they’d done this in the first place. It wasn’t rocket science. Very illustrative of the govt’s wrong priorities. See also winter fuel. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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