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“… the Trump administration has purged federal law enforcement agencies of prosecutors and investigators who’d been pursuing homegrown far-right groups that the FBI lists as among the most dangerous threats to national security.”

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

If we keep banging on about this eventually Starmer / Reeves have to change tack

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

Keir Starmer's Cabinet members seem quite happy to sacrifice their previous (logical) objections to airport expansion at the altar of 'economic growth'. Has anyone asked who this economic growth is going to benefit while our climate commitments are trashed? 🤔

submitted 28 days ago • 14 comments

"We need closer ties with the EU and now they are letting us know the door is ajar. All we have to do is push it open. And yet we cannot even find the strength to do it” www.theneweuropean.co.uk/why-are-we-s...

submitted 31 days ago • 124 comments

Kudos to the photographer who captured this shot.

submitted 29 days ago • 25 comments

This is so inspirational. Saying the words to his actual face

submitted 33 days ago • 71 comments

📣 Is the BBC now the official mouthpiece for Reform? A study of the BBC’s Question Time has raised concerns about representation and political impartiality By Tony Burke

submitted 33 days ago • 127 comments

Joe Biden leaves several legacies, good and bad. But the most tangible and lasting is this. It's the result of his disgraceful, enduring support for #genocide: the literal wiping of a people and their built environment off the map. Whatever else he did, this will forever be attached to his name.

submitted 34 days ago • 47 comments

Statement from the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention on last night’s events in Washington. lemkininstitute.com/so/2ePI6uVmv...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Petition: Review media regulation, including social media, to consider the introduction of stricter regulations to ensure truthful reporting, accountability and integrity across all platforms, including newspapers, TV and online. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Boris Johnson here, reporting on the moment Donald Trump didn’t touch a Bible.

submitted 34 days ago • 249 comments

Definitely not a Nazi salute though.....

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

Trump plans to withdraw US from Paris climate agreement for second time - The fossil fuel industry donated $75m to Trump’s campaign #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

In fairness the resulting fire and explosion might have set off the sprinklers.

submitted 34 days ago • 1302 comments

NEW: Tomorrow the tech gods will ascend to the presidential dais. The image of the bros + Trump is going to be seared into our brains. It's up to us now. My eve-of-inauguration post open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

submitted 35 days ago • 102 comments

Labour's rivers policy is unbelievable. 1. Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, has decided our rivers are insufficiently polluted with chicken shit, so he’s loosening the rules. Never mind that it's the primary cause of rivercide in the Welsh border region. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵

submitted 40 days ago • 51 comments

21 years ago, British journalist Tom Hurndall died after spending 9 months in a coma. Tom was carrying a Palestinian child out of range of Israeli army gunfire when he was shot in the head. We will never forget him, nor his vision of a free and independent Palestine.

submitted 41 days ago • 15 comments

Musk has made clear what many people have already known that the UK is now just another battlefield in the kleptofascist war against democracy, led by Putin, Musk, and Trump and supported by eager little tools like Farage, Yaxley-Lennon and Badenoch.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

This is important. A British Muslim was fired by his workplace after calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. If we do nothing while people are fired, we will all end up silenced. Please support and share this crowdfunder 👇

submitted 45 days ago • 16 comments

This is what the UK government must do to stop Musk undermining our democracy. An excellent piece & list of actions by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-musk-e...

submitted 46 days ago • 8 comments

He’s still at it. Utterly disrespectful of sovereignty. Europe need to be ready for more of this - in more aggressive form.

submitted 47 days ago • 72 comments

“Just three companies, News Corp (Murdoch family), Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT, Viscount Rothermere) and Reach plc, control over 80% of daily newspaper circulation… The hyper-rich continue to invest huge sums in acquiring control of media” We need a free press - ie free from the billionaires.

submitted 54 days ago • 19 comments

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Residents’ opposition ignored as hundreds of trees are destroyed in Worcestershire road widening scheme | Michelle Cook

submitted 70 days ago • 5 comments

Another of my Xmas songs soundcloud.com/malcolm-pinc...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Xmas song what I wrote soundcloud.com/malcolm-pinc...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

This letter in today’s Guardian, signed by some of the UK’s finest journalists, warns that The Observer, bought by Tortoise Media, could be stripped of much of its excellent foreign reporting. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

submitted 75 days ago • 14 comments

Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to [email protected] JOIN US - there's cake!

submitted 82 days ago • 79 comments

“71 years ago, MI6 and the CIA overthrew Iran's democracy. British officials wanted "a non communist coup d'état" in Iran to install a "dictator" who would promote UK oil interests, declassified files show.” By @declassifieduk.org - follow them.

submitted 84 days ago • 57 comments