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Labour MPs speak up against the govt for treating vulnerable people as criminals. Govt to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of all benefit claimants. Take money without court order, no right of appeal. The same won't apply to tax dodgers, money launderers, scammers, other recipients of public money.

submitted 3 hours ago • 19 comments

UK political funding laws are not just a disgrace. They're actively anti-democratic. They openly encourage foreign wealth, which is not answerable to the laws of this country, to buy influence over people who should be responsible only to our own democracy. Labour's failure to act is indefensible.

submitted 48 minutes ago • 3 comments

Steve Reed, "No return to Freedom of Movement, EU Single Market, or a Customs Union" Labour are the blockers to economic growth What an absolute disgraceful let down Labour have turned out to be

submitted 13 hours ago • 71 comments

Nigel Farage has said Reform UK will have a Minister for Deportations. He added that they would also have a Minister for Dog Whistling, a Secretary of State For Shit Stirring and a Department of Complete Bollocks.

submitted 1 day ago • 100 comments

Important work by Democracy for Sale. 👏 👏 Definitely worth reading and subscribing to the newsletter too. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/support-us...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Podcaster Tim Pool is now part of the official White House press pool In next week's episode 'journalist' Tommy Robinson...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Fox News, "Beijing could try to strike trade deals with European countries that are too good to refuse, at the expense of the United States" Latest plot twist in Trump's 'we have all the cards' Looks like China's got a few as well

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Columbia University Professor of Economics Jeffrey Sachs mocks President Trump's failure to understand trade deficits

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

No deal is better than a bad deal. Rings a bell

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

What leadership sounds like.

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

This is appalling. 1.3 million people with cancer, arthritis and more could lose PIP under Labour's benefit cuts www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

submitted 8 days ago • 55 comments

Iceland Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir on Iceland joining the European Union "I don't want drive our EU accession talks based on fear" "I think it's more important to look at EU membership as a broad spectrum of culture, economy, finances" "Where do we belong? Do most of our trade?"

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

Rolling Stone calling it like it is. The NYT and WaPo should be taking notes.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

An idea the UK should consider ?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

A very strange UK politics where it seems the two traditional parties are targeting the same ~20% of the population and nobody very much cares about the remaining 80%.

submitted 12 days ago • 96 comments

Another Post Office boss linked to the Horizon scandal given a job handling compensation claims. Insensitive. Ministers repeatedly been asked to prevent this potential conflict of interests, and pain to the victims. Post Office must have no link with any compensation decision. archive.ph/qFzSg

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work. The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

"Almost every platoon keeps a 'shawish,' and no infantry force enters a house before a 'shawish' clears it... this means there are four 'shawishes' in a company, twelve in a battalion, and at least 36 in a brigade. We operate a sub-army of slaves." www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Well... There's always a quote.. VIDEO. When Marine Le Pen called for "lifelong ineligibility" for elected officials convicted of "misappropriation of public funds" www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/p...

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

Simon Tisdall's final column for the Observer has a powerful message for Britain. Well worth taking a moment out of your Sunday to read: 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

Effective payroll taxes for all but the highest paid have gone down in the UK in last 30 years unless you’re earning treble or more the average income. Yet for many it feels like that take-home pay doesn’t stretch as far. It really is a mystery why that is… can’t think why at all. No idea.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Worth sharing with alt text. Brian Eno's response to the Quaker arrests.

submitted 27 days ago • 36 comments

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 201 comments

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

It's a bit absurd to describe Farage as "a key Trump ally", as if Trump gives 2Fs for him, and his very muted criticism (hardly an "accusation") was a transparent attempt to finesse the gulf between his own admiration for Putin & lack of support for Ukraine and the views of most of his supporters.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool has made it to the White House pool — someone from his “Timcast” channel will be part of today’s pool duty covering the president. Last year, DOJ revealed Pool was receiving millions of dollars from the Russian gov. Pool says he didn’t know where it was coming from.

submitted 28 days ago • 825 comments

Terrific reporting by @nytimes.com. Shame the British media can’t expose this for themselves. Will only fuel suspicion that Farage and his Brexit gang are - and have always been - a Putinist front

submitted 28 days ago • 47 comments