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The great stitch-up begins in Riyadh today, as the US government seeks to hand eastern Ukraine, bound and gagged, to Putin. This, as Trump knows and wants, will encourage Putin to threaten and destabilise the rest of Europe. Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.

submitted 6 days ago • 67 comments

No one has done more to sell out Britain than “patriot” Nigel Farage. No one has done more to sell out farmers and fishermen than farmers-and-fishermens’ champion Nigel Farage. No one has treated the voters of Clacton with more contempt than Clacton MP Nigel Farage.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Weird article. Basically says there was a small anomaly for a month that won't continue, that if you squint could look like wages are rising higher than inflation. In actuality wages remain way behind and don't look set to get better. Does the BBC have an agenda? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Thames Water rescuers demand temporary renationalisation to cut debts, oust bosses.. After that they want reprivatisation, return to profiteering, dividends, exploitation. Nothing will change until profit motive is eliminated. Need public ownership. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 30 days ago • 42 comments

This is the HQ of Avis Capital. It claims to be one of the largest companies in the UK, with £58bn in assets and 31% returns promised to investors. Except it's all a lie. Here's how regulatory failures are letting international fraudsters create massive fake UK companies.

submitted 30 days ago • 39 comments

A violent criminal? A threat to society? A danger to democracy? No, no and no. This is someone being punished again and again for giving a damn about humanity and the living world. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 30 days ago • 221 comments

'Realistically, we should now be imposing the same boycotts on Musk’s hideous fascist US that we once did on apartheid South Africa' Love this from Stewart Lee who suggests we need to go 'Lindisfarne' & wait out the information dark age' like a medieval monk www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

submitted 36 days ago • 63 comments

Up since 3am and out since 7am to restock the 'colourful, not brown' signs in the village. Some, of course, disagree. And are incapable of just walking / scrolling on. Never mind, I have extras. 😉

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

England's children's homes run by private equity rake in millions. Private firms own 83% of homes. Average charge for a child in care is £281,000 a year. Some charge £63,000 a week per child. For-profit homes provide the worse care. End privatisation scam. www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...

submitted 36 days ago • 64 comments

The world’s billionaires are now the greatest single threat to all of us.

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

The other day, during a rare visit to my local grocery store, I saw this: a toy mobile (with ringtone!). If reminded me of the chocolate cigarettes you could buy when I was a child, and you do have to wonder why we insist on passing on our most questionable habits to our children...

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

It’s like watching speed dating

submitted 50 days ago • 270 comments

“Brexit-optimist economist Julian Jessop, a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, admitted that Brexit has made it harder or “impossible” for small businesses to adjust.” Finally.

submitted 50 days ago • 93 comments

US Nursing Home Fines Skyrocket After Private Equity Buyouts. Profiteering, cuts in staffing, wages, investment, endanger patient lives. More patients hospitalized for preventable conditions, higher mortality rates. Yet UK govt handing GP surgeries, care homes, NHS to PE nurse.org/news/nursing...

submitted 50 days ago • 17 comments

Former Business Secretary Badenoch’s dept wrote to Treasury after Dyson lobbying over tax breaks. The rich demand tax cuts and changes in law, Ministers jump. Poor get real wage/benefit cuts, NHS queues, crumbling schools ... Minister heap misery. Who governs? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 51 days ago • 39 comments

The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity

submitted 64 days ago • 756 comments

Campbell’s witty response to this homophobe makes me want to enjoy some of their delicious chicken noodle soup right now! 🍜 🏳️‍🌈

submitted 71 days ago • 1666 comments

The more you think about what Labour should be doing with that massive majority, the more disappointing it truly is.

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Susanna Reid, "Successive governments have failed to tell a positive story on immigration" "We rely on immigration to run our public services, to grow our economy"

submitted 71 days ago • 45 comments

Reminder Tesla has the highest death rate per mile of any make of car, more than double the average. I wonder who recommended this change?

submitted 72 days ago • 23 comments

Cartoon: Nick Newman

submitted 73 days ago • 6 comments

The richest 10 Americans are gaining wealth at the rate of $100,000,000 each every day. And it is not enough, they always want more. Their infinite glass must be smashed to pieces.

submitted 72 days ago • 26 comments

Strike day 4: A big day, in which a lot happened, but this was the absolute highlight. If there is a conscience of the Guardian, it may be Gary Younge. He made this speech, off the bat & nailed it. We are the true spirit of the Guardian & Obs. And we are here fighting to save our news org. 1/

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Wow. This is important. Now on BlueSky House of Commons bsky.app/profile/hous... House of Lords bsky.app/profile/hous... It’s happening👏

submitted 75 days ago • 84 comments

Thou shalt not kill' also means 'thou shalt not let profit margins decide who lives and who dies.'

submitted 75 days ago • 535 comments

‘As the Observer’s editor, I was not consulted on its sale to Tortoise Media.’ Damning takedown letter to Guardian from recently ex-Observer editor Paul Webster www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

submitted 76 days ago • 8 comments

Bluesky is brilliant for the Bylines Network. 🦋 So much better than X or Facebook. It doesn’t kill news links, the news mix is healthier here, and it’s an ideal environment for community-building. Our citizen journalism is thriving here. Keep it up @bsky.app!

submitted 77 days ago • 57 comments

😂

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I’m

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Get a grip @theguardian.com. So absolutely not interested in Americans shooting each other. One American CEO gets a live update notification. Israel invading Syria nothing. Going off this paper. Sell the Observer and I’ll spend my money on proper news coverage.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Over 140,000 children live in sub-standard accommodation… …enduring mould, bug infestations, and inadequate washing and cooking facilities.

submitted 77 days ago • 9 comments

Starmer will be spitting feathers over this. The ravages of Brexit disease upon UK infrastructure will continue. No amount of glossy brochures about growth, innovation, and prosperity will solve things unless the UK ditches its 86 deregulated free zones and rejoins the EU

submitted 78 days ago • 12 comments

Good morning! It’s Sunday which means time for another #EduSky #Edujobs bulletin. An hour of jobs in education but not in the classroom 🙌🏼 Wave if you’re watching 👀 Shout if you get one 🗣️ Share if I miss one ☝🏼

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History remembers that it is always incredibly rich and powerful people who already have far too much who always cause the most trouble to get even more money and power they don't need. But even after 2000+ years of evidence, we still allow such people to exist.

submitted 78 days ago • 16 comments

A Syrian friend: “Today was the first happy morning of my life. For the first time I woke up with no dictator Assad. I don’t have to be afraid.” The joy in his voice gave me goosebumps.

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Meanwhile…

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The Brexit Curse: UK tap water safety at risk as testing labs shut down, water companies are unable to use products to clean it. EU countries will share laboratories, UK products cannot be tested abroad; must be tested in in certified UK labs, there are none. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 79 days ago • 24 comments

Honored to see "On Freedom" on a list of best nonfiction books of 2024 www.amazon.com/gp/browse.ht...

submitted 79 days ago • 116 comments

Word of the morning is ‘williwaw’ (19th century): a sudden violent squall or a toppling gust of wind. Goes well with ‘thunderplump’: a sudden downpour that soaks you to the skin in seconds.

submitted 79 days ago • 169 comments

Two years ago today we were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for protecting The US Capitol on January 6th 2021. Almost 4 years later the efforts to downplay, whitewash and minimize what happened appear to be succeeding. I won't ever stop standing up to them.

submitted 79 days ago • 1717 comments

First, calm down. Next, stay that way for the rest of your life. Ron Padgett, Big Cabin

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Tulsi Gabbard is not just completely unqualified to be Director of National Intelligence – she is anti-qualified. snyder.substack.com/p/tulsi-gabb...

submitted 79 days ago • 294 comments

España necesita un nuevo sistema político para este nuevo tiempo, una República Plurinacional, con una Constitución feminista y ecologista que deje atrás la protección de las élites económicas, a la monarquía y a una justicia franquista. Rompamos ese candado del 78.

submitted 80 days ago • 68 comments

What Banksy says…

submitted 81 days ago • 241 comments

@declassifieduk.org is a truly exceptional and necessary alternative to the MSM. Declassified’s journalism has single-handedly exposed the truth about Starmer’s complicity with Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza. Please donate to Declassified and help keep the truth alive. paypal.com/donate/?camp...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments