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Exploited migrant farm workers in UK paid for picks, not hours. Workers not paid for in-work travel, time spent moving between workstations, team meetings, receiving instructions on equipment use. Employers violating employment rights. Need effective enforcement, not deregulation.

submitted 6 hours ago • 27 comments

Neoliberal plundering increased poverty and reversed 'development' in huge areas of the global south

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

The PM and his ministers are supporting illiberal laws that hard-right authoritarians could apply with zeal

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The Left is to blame for the rise of the far-right because they refuse to work with their political rivals, unlike us, the moderates in the centre, who are successfully holding back the far-right by capitulating to their anti-immigrant rhetoric and adopting it as our own

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

The prime minister has failed to produce any evidence to back up “baseless” and “poisonous” claims in a newspaper article that large numbers of young disabled people are pretending they are not fit enough to work.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Shall we have some more fun laughing at the Centrist idiots trying to pretend Starmer isn’t a Tory? www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Course of events: Hamas release the hostages' bodies IDF can't deny responsibility for their deaths IDF decide to claim failure to recover all bodies is a violation of agreement from Hamas Hamas claim IDF bombing was so brutal that they couldn't determine whose remains were who's IDF vow 'revenge'

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The BBC reported on a bunch of buses being blown up last night. As soon as it became clear that the perpetrators were not Palestinians but Israelis, they dropped the story.

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Child Poverty % Denmark 2.4% Finland 3.2% Norway 3.6% Sweden 3.6% The UK 32.1%

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

#Energy And they still put the prices up. Labour no-where to be seen. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ener...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

1933 - Adolf Hitler signs a document saying only he can make the law. 2025 - Trump signs an executive order saying only he and his Attorney General know what the law is.

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

Blaming the left for the rise of the far right instead of the centrists that have absorbed their policies and rhetoric and shifted everything rightward how very Guardian

submitted 4 days ago • 108 comments

The Tories were literally trying to kill us off - as new life expectancy figures show Poor, chronically ill, disabled, and racially minoritised communities bore the brunt of 14 years of Tory class war - and life expectancy has plummeted accordingly. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

The limits our current system imposes on people in the world of work are a shame.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Despite endless stories that suggest the opposite, unemployment has stayed steady - & historically low at 4.4% The panic about too many people & too many of them being on benefits is misplaced. The problem is the wealth we all create goes only to the rich #r4today

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

This is distracting tittle-tattle. I'm more interested in why she is prioritising 'growth' over the welfare of the very poorest in our society and why her government is adopting a system of refugee apartheid. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

All you self-righteous people justifying Labour means testing WFA and going after benefit fraud, please tell us, Who are the scroungers?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Thames Water is effectively saying that unless they get a 35% price hike, they'll keep dumping shit in rivers. In plain English, that's blackmail.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Thames Water is appealing against limits on how much more it raise its bills and to rip-off customers to make profits for greedy shareholders. Water privatisation has been a disaster and must be brought to an end. Public ownership now.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

What to save money? Have you considered malnutrition? The WSJ gives The Best financial advice

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

So the US is now kidnapping whole families and trafficking them to random countries that the US has coerced into imprisoning them for some unspecified period of time

submitted 7 days ago • 164 comments

The scandal of claiming benefits designed to support people with genuine illness or disability,” Keir Starmer? What scandal? Why talk that into a thing—with huge, potentially deadly effects—just because you lack a vision. This from @thetimes.com today. Reminder: the PIP Fraud rate is 0.2%.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Four in ten who took their lives in prison were denied adequate healthcare www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The RAF has operated surveillance flights near Gaza on all five days of the ceasefire that Hamas released hostages, Declassified has found. No spy planes were sent towards Gaza on the other days of the ceasefire. 👉 Is the UK spying on Hamas for Israel? www.declassifieduk.org/is-the-uk-sp...

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Allegory alert!

submitted 8 days ago • 224 comments

Rachel Reeves has been caught lying about her past work experience again!

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submitted 10 days ago • 375 comments

Is the government concerned about forced labour in supply chains? About the proposed listing of Shein on the London Stock Exchange? Judge for yourself from Lord Livermore's response #HumanRights #RFastFashion @carolinerussell.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: Lord Walney SACKED from job at Home Office after political prisoners scandal Toxic John Woodcock's departure raises questions about the mass jailing of political opponents of the oil and arms industries he represents www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

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submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

It is good they have exempted children, but it is just a sop to try avoid absolutely justified condemnation this policy in general should get. Denying the ability to ever gain citizenship for those recognised as refugees is fundamentally abhorrent, and arguably illegal. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

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Tone of this debate on denying citizenship to people who have been recognised as refugees and granted asylum based on their manner of entry has more than a whiff of "violating international law in a specific and limited way" about it from this government. 1/10 hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-0...

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Danny Dyer gets it

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Climate catastrophe has been continually underestimated. At the time of the Paris Agreement signing in 2015, global warming was projected to reach 1.5°C around mid-century. We got there in 2024. But it'll be ok, right? I don't live in Bangladesh, or Los Angeles... edition.cnn.com/2025/02/10/c...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

submitted 13 days ago • 356 comments

Which is unsustainable ...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

"There's no money!" "Oh it's for us?" "Oh in that case we can afford it" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

I remember when this was front page news in The Guardian. Wait a minute... no I don't... thecradle.co/articles/wes...

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Not only does this sound like yet another "migrants taking our jobs" rant, not only does it show a complete lack of engagement with the reality of the situation, it also shows that Streeting has no idea what "remittances" are. The anti-immigration "brain drain" myth has been debunked for years.

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

We all know who is taking the piss. [Spoiler alert]: it's not people on benefits.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

In the 1980's Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher allowed the richest to buy all our Public Resources, then the billionaires used all the money stolen from you to buy the Government. That is how we got to the hell we have now.

submitted 14 days ago • 23 comments

is it woke to want to end cancer?

submitted 15 days ago • 791 comments