The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.

This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services. Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you. Please do keep sharing! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

‘Drax . . in North Yorkshire emitted more than 14 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2024, making it the largest single source of CO2 in the U.K. . . .’more than four times the level of the U.K.’s last coal plant’’ veritenews.org/2026/02/06/d...

Cartoon by Steve Sack | cagle.com/sack

Cost of living crisis . . . continues

Wes Streeting has admitted that Israel is committing war crimes. In doing so, he has admitted that his government has broken the law. The government is legally obliged not to sell combat aircraft components to states committing war crimes.

How in the addicted to streaming movies did I miss this film when it was first released? What a painfully funny look at where we are in this very moment. (Netflix)

"We’ve seen a year long strike with the Birmingham Bin workers with a labour led council. That’s not acceptable." - Steve Wright, @fbunational.bsky.social on today's @bbclaurak.bsky.social Keir Starmer, it is time to intervene and end the #BirminghamBinStrike #StrikeMap #BrumBinStrike

This is what politics should feel like: thoughtful, honest and shaking things up. Hannah Spencer is going to be a brilliant MP for Gorton & Denton. It's time to stop Reform in their tracks: Watch online this Wednesday.

First Past the Post leaves most of us without voice in parliament electoral-reform.org.uk/first-past-t...

Its tedious now, we all know that this is not a public service but just a kind of money laundering. Our money to grifters via complicit governments.

#SEND Take action to stop new school cuts. Tell your MP to write to the Chancellor and insist that all SEND reforms must be fully funded. actionnetwork.org/letters/send...

Feargal Sharkey exposes dire state of water companies AGAIN www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

#Homes #QualityOfLife Decent housing standards for private renters need to be in place now.

"Big Issue founder warns ‘poverty is destroying us’"# morningstaronline.co.uk/article/big-...

Picket lines #BirminghamBinworkers #Strike #Support #Sokidarity youtube.com/watch?v=Z6Ur...

‘Greenwich Council has conceded, under legal pressure, that a clause in its employee pension fund investment strategy was unlawful in claiming that it: cannot exclude investments in order to pursue boycotts, divestment and sanctions.’ www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

‘Guardiola spoke about images of Palestinian children who have lost their parents. . . He said: When I see a child over the last two years begging for his mother, buried under the rubble, I feel that we have left them alone, abandoned, neglected’ www.thecanary.co/global/world...

‘She added that #FIFA lacks credibility if it continues to ignore daily violations against Palestinian players’ : www.thecanary.co/global/2026/...

"A militia that kills": uproar in Italy over ICE security role at Winter Olympics Milan mayor says agents "not welcome" in co-host city and Italy can take care of security itself www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM Watch or (Rewatch) "The Mortal Storm" (1940) - Dir. Frank Borzage, about the rise of Nazism (starring Jimmy Stewart & Margaret Sullavan). It so infuriated Joseph Goebbels that he banned it in Germany & also all MGM films. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p12s...

This is what an entire party stepping up looks like. Together, we stop Reform. Together, we win Gorton & Denton. Join.greenparty.org.uk

ESA/Hubble photo of a distant stellar birthplace, region of the N159 star-forming complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud, approximately 160 000 light-years away. Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Indebetouw Link for more information: esahubble.org/images/potw2...

Cartoon by Pat Bagley.

During the supposed 'ceasefire ... "'Israeli' report says West Bank is facing its largest wave of forced displacement and settlement expansion in modern history." en.royanews.tv/news/67109

Water firms want Ofwat gone fast. Less oversight, weaker fines, higher bills — and a window to do whatever they want until it's replaced www.thecanary.co/uk/2026/01/2...

Neil Young. Still showing us the way all these years later.. If you haven't heard, he gifted his entire catalog to Greenland for free. He says he hopes it will "ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,”

It's time for Your Party supporters to admit they're just not ready to stop Reform, and rally around the Green Party candidate as a start to forming nationwide electoral pacts "Make History in Greater Manchester: Rally with Zack Polanski, Salma Yaqoob and Guests" actionnetwork.org/events/make-...

The UK government didn’t want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I’m not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For "doomsayers" like us, it is the ultimate vindication www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A Green victory would change politics forever Gorton and Denton is a genuinely historic by-election www.owenjones.news/p/a-green-vi...

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Poverty in UK

“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.” Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

Post Office scandal: 1 Fujitsu promised pay-out = £zero 2 Lying lawyers still unpunished 3 PO boss keeps £2.95m bonuses So PO victims join Bloody Sunday, Orgreave, contaminated blood, Windrush, WASPi women, tortured Iraqis, Hillsborough, Covid, Grenfell etc etc waiting for justice #SocialistSunday

Marjory Stephenson was born #OTD in 1885 + Helped establish modern microbial biochemistry + Wrote foundational textbook 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 (1930), shaping the discipline for decades + Co-founded, Society for General Microbiology + 1 of the first 2 women Fellows, Royal Society, 1945 #WomenInSTEM

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

Loved sitting down with @NME to talk arts, culture and making hope normal again. www.nme.com/news/zack-po...

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Zack Polanski talks keeping music alive, Kneecap and tackling “darkness, fear, and anger” in 2026 The Green leader talks to NME about proving the party as "the real alternative" in UK politics, fighting for young people and culture, and if the numbers really add up www.nme.com/news/zack-po...

All to please a wannabe king who is demented and thrives on violence.