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1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Just read it. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is right. What more can I add? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I’ve asked my local MP to ask these questions to the government on my behalf. Feel free to copy and paste if useful.

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this is the most important news of the year x www.normalisland.co.uk/p/supreme-co...

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

You cannot make this shit up

submitted 18 days ago • 38 comments

Peter Osborne, Reform UK local election candidate for Hythe West. We’ve got a mixture of racism and misogyny from this one. Seriously, where is your vetting Reform Uk?

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It's really not that hard. We understand that Labour had a difficult inheritance. It's more that, since taking office, Labour has (it sometimes feels deliberately) stuck its middle finger up at almost everything Labour voters care about. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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EXC: Scottish Government minister Maree Todd has criticised Wes Streeting for suggesting there is an overdiagnosis of mental health problems 🗣️ 'The diagnosis of mental health conditions is rightly for qualified healthcare professionals, not government ministers, to take'

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

Epic idea

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I note with interest right-wing media's total absence of any concerns about prominent BBC presenter Armstrong expressing his highly political opinions. As was always perfectly clear to many of us, the problem was not that Lineker had views, but the fact they didn't approve of his views.

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Congratulations to the senior Tories who, having been told this for a mere 60 years, and staunchly denied it throughout, have finally twigged that it might not be a brilliant idea to have a nuclear deterrent which can be switched off by another state. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 49 days ago • 223 comments

There is an alternative to Government welfare cuts - a 2% tax on wealth. There is no shortage of money here, we just need a fairer approach to tax - take more from the few not the many.

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In 2024, the UK’s billionaires increased their collective wealth by £35 million every day. Corporate profits are soaring. Instead of trying to balance the books on the backs of the poorest both in the UK and abroad by cutting welfare and aid, it's time this government started taxing wealth fairly.

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❗❗❗ former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 61 days ago • 169 comments

US stocks post worst slide in two months on gloomy economic data https://www.ft.com/content/2dfe3eb9-4805-454a-90db-be01c3c23672

submitted 63 days ago • 29 comments

Leaseholders in my constituency were promised that, under a Labour government, things would change. They are still waiting. I have written to Angela Rayner to ask when my constituents will be free from this outdated and exploitative system once and for all.

submitted 64 days ago • 12 comments

Remind me why we’re shovelling hundreds of millions of NHS cash at Vance buddy Peter Thiel to manage our health data?!

submitted 66 days ago • 7 comments

Putin says Trump must go further before he’ll even agree to meet. Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.

submitted 65 days ago • 110 comments

A Trump shill on Newsnight claims there are more people in prison in UK jails for freedom of speech violations than in Putin’s Russia. These people are radicalised, insane, plain stupid or some combination of all three.

submitted 66 days ago • 193 comments

Don't let the pro-Israel far right define what antisemitism is. A brilliant tour de force from @rachelshabi.bsky.social, who is - as ever - full of insight, humanity and moral clarity. New interview! 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5e_...

submitted 66 days ago • 18 comments

Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn. It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.

submitted 65 days ago • 157 comments

Trump calls Ukraine's Zelenskyy a 'dictator', 'modestly successful comedian', who should ‘move fast’ or lose country. Part of the strategy to force Ukraine to hand territory to Russia, mineral wealth to US. What next? Can't trust Trump as an ally. UK must rejoin EU. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/z...

submitted 65 days ago • 46 comments

They tried to cancel John Crace from covering the right-wing jamboree at ExCel but no one can stop him filing copy this good www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 66 days ago • 34 comments

Donald Trump calls Zelensky a "dictator" and suggests Ukraine may cease to exist soon. Any European leader still believing his administration is anything but fundamentally hostile to our interests is kidding themselves

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Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/eco...

submitted 66 days ago • 95 comments

How about an election in Russia?

submitted 66 days ago • 256 comments

Successful second homes crackdown means homes are £30k cheaper for Cymry, who actually need them.

submitted 66 days ago • 64 comments

It should now be illegal for there to be bonuses or dividends for Thames Water - this should always be the way - shares are about risk , not certain payouts - this is the criminal world brought to us by Thatcher and all of those that grew out of her compost www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 67 days ago • 13 comments

The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

submitted 67 days ago • 275 comments

www.972mag.com/gaza-human-s...

submitted 68 days ago • 6 comments

If we introduce tax breaks for millionaires like Nigel Farage and Richard Tice, we will not have the money to restore our NHS.

submitted 69 days ago • 9 comments

Victoria Derbyshire replaced Laura Kuenssberg on her own show and she was 1000x... infinitely better. RT if it is time to replace the Laura Kuenssberg show with the Victoria Derbyshire show.

submitted 69 days ago • 44 comments

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

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Neoliberals say Rachel Reeves has three options to dodge an economic crisis. They ignore other choices. Help the less well-off - Abolish VAT on domestic fuel, cut std rate of VAT, increase personal allowance by £1,000, Tax the rich. QE for infrastructure.

submitted 69 days ago • 27 comments

On Thursday night, Greens in Warwick beat one of those Reform UK Nigels in a by-election. Join @greenparty.org.uk to be part of more Thursdays like that as its all hands on deck now across the land.

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“Here was a Vice President whose administration has spent these last weeks lauding or at least cordially embracing a Russian regime where freedom of speech does not exist, whilst chastising and insulting democratic allies where it most certainly does.” Bingo

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments

A critical point.

submitted 69 days ago • 594 comments

It's been a long time since Private Eye's satire has made me audibly wince, but this is so to the point if it were a knife people would demand it be banned.

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As the world burns and oligarchs defecate all over western democracy, grifters seek to persuade you that people like me represent the biggest threat to society. Don’t fall for it - open.substack.com/pub/tashthin...

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We’re done here. Right?

submitted 73 days ago • 3453 comments

As Trump doubles down on his plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza and the ceasefire hangs by a thread, I’m reminded of this exchange on Question Time from a couple weeks ago. So many are so blinded by hatred that they’ve forgotten their own humanity… This is genocide, plain and simple…

submitted 74 days ago • 10 comments

A really fascinating article - for anyone interested in how misinformation and politics are related. Spoiler alert! “Misinformation and radical-right populism must hence be understood as inextricable and synergistic—two expressions of the same political moment.”

submitted 74 days ago • 19 comments

A former UK diplomat has exposed conduct that “crossed the threshold into complicity with war crimes.” From Yemen to Gaza to Sudan, UK arms sales have enabled atrocities. We need an independent investigation & those responsible must be held accountable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

Low paid care workers looked after my mother for 8 years as she slipped away to Alzheimers. hey contributed more to the lives of those elderly people and indeed their families than you, or for that matter I ever have.

submitted 75 days ago • 41 comments

Racist, sexist, and ageist. news.sky.com/story/health...

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In 1968 Finland banned for profit education, the few private schools that exist in Finland have to reinvest any profit they make or pay it back to parents. It has been in the Top 3 in education for the last 20 years. There should be no profit in education or healthcare.

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Lieu: Trump then ordered the Army Corps of Engineers release over 2 billion gallons of water that almost flooded farmland.. this water was saved for the farmers for summer when they need it. So Trump wasted all this water that isn’t even reaching Southern California for a PR stunt

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