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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.

submitted 12 hours ago • 49 comments

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 1 day ago • 231 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.

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

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.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

❗❗❗ 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 13 days ago • 173 comments

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

submitted 16 days ago • 31 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 I have written to Angela Rayner to ask when my constituents will be free from this outdated and exploitative system once and for all.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 16 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 18 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 18 days ago • 114 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 19 days ago • 195 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 18 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 18 days ago • 160 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 18 days ago • 47 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 19 days ago • 35 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

submitted 18 days ago • 56 comments

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 18 days ago • 95 comments

How about an election in Russia?

submitted 19 days ago • 262 comments

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

submitted 19 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 19 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 19 days ago • 278 comments

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

submitted 20 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 21 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 21 days ago • 45 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.

submitted 22 days ago • 2044 comments

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 21 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.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

“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 22 days ago • 3 comments

A critical point.

submitted 21 days ago • 601 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.

submitted 22 days ago • 16 comments

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...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

We’re done here. Right?

submitted 26 days ago • 3506 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 26 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 26 days ago • 20 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 27 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 28 days ago • 41 comments

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

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 31 days ago • 35 comments

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

submitted 31 days ago • 266 comments

I've just found out from this article that my whip still hasn't been restored. Turns out speaking up for Palestine is still a punishable offence. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 32 days ago • 153 comments

When will Govt learn you can’t out-Reform Reform - you end up simply legitimising their toxic narrative. To see off populists, Labour needs to invest in public services & local communities, making a real difference to people’s lives - levy a wealth tax & use it to improve people’s lives now

submitted 32 days ago • 163 comments

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

submitted 32 days ago • 1099 comments

Here you go, I fixed it. Headline: ‘Trump’s comments appear to back ethnic cleansing of Gaza’ #BBC #Israel #Gaza

submitted 32 days ago • 28 comments

When students and the left protested bigotry and genocide the criticism they attracted was never really about protecting free speech. It was about protecting bigotry and genocide. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Just a little poll in The Express. You know what to do —> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...

submitted 33 days ago • 243 comments

It's alarming to see how easily this article about Liz Truss's fanatical and destructive obsession with GDP growth could be repurposed to describe the position now taken by Reeves and Starmer. What IS going on with this government? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 40 days ago • 48 comments

When a government tells us, within the course of one week, that we can't have new hospitals but must have new runways, you know that it is not working on our behalf, but on behalf of economic power.

submitted 45 days ago • 65 comments

The chutzpah of the Tories and Labour to dare try saying @greenparty.org.uk ideas for a more equal society are "unworkable." My response:

submitted 45 days ago • 11 comments

Rachel Reeves to soften changes to non-dom tax regime after hearing ‘concerns’. Another election pledge diluted. Any chance of softening on the two-child benefit cap, winter fuel payment cut, freeze on personal allowance? Thought not ... the rich rule. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 45 days ago • 87 comments