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Peter Mandelson, "You have a leader in this country, President Trump, who in my view is going to be a very consequential President indeed"

submitted 11 hours ago • 28 comments

Worth saying that while his sentence has been suspended, it is still a custodial sentence - so he is still subject to a recall petition which is likely to trigger a by-election in Runcorn and Helsby www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Rather like issuing shares for the air we breathe… OMG that will be next won’t it??

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

The fury is from people seeking to maintain the status quo. The status quo is genocide. And the 'fury' is the last cling to maintaining that. We stand with Gary - and everyone calling to hold those responsible for war crimes to account.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

The EU’s Kaja Kallas flew in to DC for talks with Marco Rubio and he decided to cancel the meeting the moment her flight touched down. The biggest assholes in the world are now in one government.

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.

submitted 12 hours ago • 561 comments

The government has announced it will pay for more weapons and bombs by cutting support for the world's poorest people. A deplorable decision that will only create a more unstable and unequal world. What is the government doing to bring about peace?

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

[Silence.]

submitted 2 days ago • 316 comments

Reform with 5 MP's gets more TV and Newspaper coverage than the Greens, SNP, Independents and Lib Dems combined. This is because Reform is owned by the billionaires who own the Media.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

The settlement here will not be for a trivial amount

submitted 3 days ago • 880 comments

Today a group of Very Serious senators will go on TV and pretend that this is a normal & healthy appointment. "Dan Bongino, a former...police officer & Secret Service agent turned right-wing pundit & podcaster, will be the next deputy director of the FBI" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

I'm old enough to remember when Keir Starmer promised to clear up corruption and sleaze in British politics ... meme via Durah Ashton

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Zanny Minton Beddos, "We're not in a world of traditional diplomacy, we're in a world of mobster, mafia gangsterism" "This is not the West Wing, it's the God-father" "The President of the Unites States is best thought of in monster terms, in terms of how to deal with him"

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He nails it.

submitted 5 days ago • 1556 comments

Hamas handed over a second body and the Bibas’ family said Israeli forensic authorities have confirmed the remains are those of Shiri Bibas. You’ll find that update quietly tucked away within this one article… So, why isn’t it front page news in the west?? www.msn.com/en-us/war-an...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

#Liebour #ToryScum and #ReformUKFascistParasites THEY ARE ALL THE SAME, CORRUPT, SELF-SERVING FRAUDSTERS AND CROOKS! TIME TO BIN WESTMINSTER AND ALL IT'S TUMOUROUS PARASITES

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

submitted 5 days ago • 417 comments

WTF! I'm so disgusted that @marksandspencer advertises on @GBNEWS !! I also have spent a fortune in Marksys over the years - but they won't get a penny more while they are paying £ to this hideous channel!!

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

submitted 7 days ago • 1065 comments

Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

submitted 7 days ago • 668 comments

"Trump Administration Bans The Following Twenty-Seven Words. Worried Yet?" dorseteye.com/trump-admini... via @Dorset_eye

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Magic Money Tree. UK govt to hand £130bn to Bank of England to pay stealth subsidy to banks. Govts gave £895bn QE to speculators, banks profited. Govt reversing QE, selling bonds at loss, covering BoE losses from rising interest rates and the unwinding of QE, banks make billions.

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

In Liverpool, a major UK city. We are somehow still waiting for tap and go contactless technology on our rail network, leading to daily scenes like this.

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

Israeli authorities are withholding at least 665 Palestinian bodies, some buried or stored in refrigerators since the 1960s, with others killed as recently as last week, per the National Campaign for Retrieval. 🔴 LIVE updates:

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. -Victor Hugo

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that. Naomi Klein

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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear. -Naomi Klein

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

We can no longer let people in power decide what hope is. Hope is not passive. Hope is not ‘blah blah blah.’ Hope is telling the truth. Hope is taking action. And hope always comes from the people. -Greta Thunberg

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History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it. Howard Zinn

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. Howard Zinn

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

10% of NASA’s workforce has been laid off—guess that’ll be a boost for SpaceX.

submitted 9 days ago • 635 comments

Dr Hussam Abu Safia, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, appeared with both hands and feet shackled for the first time since his arrest by Israeli forces. 🔴 LIVE updates:

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I assume at some point we are going to get to see actual hard proof submitted in a sworn affidavit, grand jury indictment, congressional testimony, etc that millions of people are defrauding trillions from Social Security? Or is it just going to be social media posts & TV hits?

submitted 8 days ago • 487 comments

Ed Miliband, the secretary of state, has written a strongly worded letter to the regulator asking them for help. You are the secretary of state. You are the government. Why not just nationalise the greedy parasites? www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

This is complete bollocks… a scam that’s reported on almost daily, without any basis in fact!! Polls are used as a way to “influence” the public NOT “reflect” real views!! So, just ask yourself WHO might be behind such a scam?? news.sky.com/story/reform...

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

They're using fear to bully you into compliance. Fear of losing your job, your savings, your Medicare/medicaid, your rights, your freedom. They're using fear to bully our allies, to break our alliances and promises. What do they have to fear? Nothing so far. That needs to change.

submitted 10 days ago • 580 comments

Court approves Thames Water £3bn loan at 9.75%, adds to £19bn debt. Temporary reprieve. Thames Water banking on new equity investment (unlikely) and higher customer bills. Over one-third of customer bills cover interest payments. Sewage dumping, dividends will continue.

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

submitted 10 days ago • 2333 comments

🔴Keir Starmer's Reform-Lite Strategy Reaches Breaking Point The Government's attempt to mimic the anti-migrant, anti-refugee politics of Nigel Farage is a recipe for moral degradation and defeat www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/keir-starm...

submitted 15 days ago • 50 comments

Exactly why we must protect #OurNHS from ReformUK, Tory and Labour self-serving parasites who are or will threaten to privatise it by the back door and take away our amazing health service and all it's resources, achievements and it's wonderful staff keeping us safe daily! Underfunded by Westminster

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Labour's disgusting deportation stunt this week wasn't just morally bankrupt, it was politically stupid. Politicians need to find the backbone to be honest about the real source of our problems: the wealthy elite draining money from our communities metro.co.uk/2025/02/11/l...

submitted 16 days ago • 45 comments

Granting people refugee status but not allowing them citizenship. Come on Labour, make that make sense. Imagine doing this - harming people’s lives - to impress the bigot vote. But failing anyway. What a shameful abdication of responsibility and decency. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 15 days ago • 75 comments

This is not only morally reprehensible, but a breach of the UN Refugee Convention. No refugee should be discriminated against on the basis of how they entered the country www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 15 days ago • 94 comments