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This will be a very long thread of articles about how shit The Guardian is. How the UK Security Services neutralised the country’s leading liberal newspaper MATT KENNARD and MARK CURTIS 10 September 2019
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How the UK Security Services neutralised the country's leading liberal newspaper
The Guardian, Britain’s leading liberal newspaper with a global reputation for independent and critical journalism, has been successfully targeted by security agencies.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/
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Ricky Hale Keir Starmer: The PM who hated you (and couldn’t even do it competently)
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Keir Starmer: The PM who hated you (and couldn’t even do it competently)
If historians need an image to sum up Keir Starmer’s premiership, they aren’t gonna find one of him signing anything historic.
https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/keir-starmer-the-pm-who-hated-you
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[Podcast – Culture, Power, Politics] Universities in Crisis (part 2)
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[Podcast – Culture, Power, Politics] Universities in Crisis (part 1)
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Universities That Targeted Pro-Gaza Students Deepen Links to Arms Trade Including Oxford, KCL, UCL, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, Exeter and Warwick. by Joe Sandler Clarke 16 July 2026
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Universities That Targeted Pro-Gaza Students Deepen Links to Arms Trade
UK universities that aggressively targeted students and staff for showing support for Palestine have signed up to a new alliance with the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/16/universities-that-targeted-pro-gaza-students-deepen-links-to-arms-trade/
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Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
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Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c935yx2z9d4o
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No Mere Spectator: Coverage of Islam and Muslim Communities (2018–2025)
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No Mere Spectator: Coverage of Islam and Muslim Communities (2018–2025) | Centre For Media Monitoring
The Centre for Media Monitoring's latest report, No Mere Spectator, presents the most comprehensive analysis to date of how The Spectator has reported on Islam and Muslim communities. Examining 3,733 ...
https://cfmm.org.uk/resource/4677/
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Ignore the Pageantry – Keir Starmer is Leaving Power in Disgrace And the left secured his humiliation. by Paul Holden
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Britain's Big Brother state is already here - we just don't realise it yet
While immigrants, Muslims and the left are conveniently scapegoated for the state's failures, our rights are being eroded under the guise of protection from these bogeymen
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/an-unpalatable-truth-big-brother-state-already-here-we-just-do-not-realise-it-yet
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The Ankara summit exposes ugly truths about Nato
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Britain's Big Brother state is already here - we just don't realise it yet
While immigrants, Muslims and the left are conveniently scapegoated for the state's failures, our rights are being eroded under the guise of protection from these bogeymen
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/an-unpalatable-truth-big-brother-state-already-here-we-just-do-not-realise-it-yet
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Starmer was a fabricator and a fraud. Good riddance Peter Oborne
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Britain's Big Brother state is already here - we just don't realise it yet
While immigrants, Muslims and the left are conveniently scapegoated for the state's failures, our rights are being eroded under the guise of protection from these bogeymen
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/an-unpalatable-truth-big-brother-state-already-here-we-just-do-not-realise-it-yet
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Phil Burton-Cartledge The Political Uses of Ann Widdecombe
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Britain's Big Brother state is already here - we just don't realise it yet
While immigrants, Muslims and the left are conveniently scapegoated for the state's failures, our rights are being eroded under the guise of protection from these bogeymen
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/an-unpalatable-truth-big-brother-state-already-here-we-just-do-not-realise-it-yet
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The toxic legacy of Starmerite philosemitism Goodbye to our biggest fan and worst enemy
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The toxic legacy of Starmerite philosemitism
Goodbye to our biggest fan and worst enemy.
https://www.vashtimedia.com/toxic-legacy-starmerite-philosemitism/
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Britain's Big Brother state is already here - we just don't realise it yet Jonathan Cook
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Britain's Big Brother state is already here - we just don't realise it yet
While immigrants, Muslims and the left are conveniently scapegoated for the state's failures, our rights are being eroded under the guise of protection from these bogeymen
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/an-unpalatable-truth-big-brother-state-already-here-we-just-do-not-realise-it-yet
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[Palestine Deep Dive] The BBC’s Gaza crisis | Owen Jones and Karishma Patel
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Culture, Power, Politics The Battle for Britain with John Clarke (part 4) A recording of an online seminar, discussing the fourth and final section of The Battle For Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture with author John Clarke. With Jo Littler
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https://podcastaddict.com/culture-power-politics-podcast/episode/228263836
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[Citations Needed] News Brief: Why US Media Has Evoked Israel's "Right to Exist" 1,001 Times vs Only 6 For Palestine
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https://podcastaddict.com/citations-needed/episode/228312145
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Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity Abdaljawad Omar Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
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Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
https://www.equator.org/articles/moral-stupidity-gaza-palestine-abdaljawad-omar
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Starmer’s parting gift of billions for the military is a chain around Burnham's neck Tom Blackburn
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Starmer’s parting gift of billions for the military is a chain around Burnham's neck
After a sustained media campaign by military hawks, this proposed increase in defence expenditure is being shielded from effective scrutiny
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-starmer-parting-gift-billions-military-chain-burnham-neck
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Worlds apart Britain's political divides are often framed as culture wars, but class remains the key to understanding them, argues Jeremy Gilbert
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Worlds apart | Fabian Society
Fabian Society
https://fabians.org.uk/worlds-apart/
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‘This looks absolutely rubbish’ Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin on Palantir and the NHS
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n13/peter-geoghegan-and-lucas-amin/this-looks-absolutely-rubbish
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Media Lens 25 Years Of Media Lens – The BBC’s Paul Adams On Iran
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25 Years Of Media Lens – The BBC’s Paul Adams On Iran
This month marks the 25th anniversary of Media Lens. Still in short trousers, we sent our first media alert to a handful of readers on 9 July 2001. For a long time, our alerts focused on challengin...
https://www.medialens.org/2026/25-years-of-media-lens-the-bbcs-paul-adams-on-iran/
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How Europe's Economic Collapse Is Fueling the War in Ukraine A Marxist economist argues that the war in Ukraine cannot be understood without confronting the collapse of European capitalism and the loss of empire. Richard D. Wolff and Glenn Diesen
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How Europe's Economic Collapse Is Fueling the War in Ukraine
A Marxist economist argues that the war in Ukraine cannot be understood without confronting the collapse of European capitalism and the loss of empire.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/europe-economic-collapse-ukraine-war
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Glenn Diesen podcast Richard Sakwa is professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent & is widely recognised as the leading Russia scholar in Europe. Sakwa discusses the history of Russophobia & how it continues to undermine European security.
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Glenn Diesen - Greater Eurasia Podcast - Richard Sakwa: Russophobia Is Leading Us Toward War
Listen to Glenn Diesen - Greater Eurasia Podcast - Richard Sakwa: Russophobia Is Leading Us Toward War by Glenn Diesen on Podcast Addict. Richard Sakwa is a professor of Russian and European Politics ...
https://podcastaddict.com/glenn-diesen-greater-eurasia-podcast/episode/228188454
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Feeling political? Turbulent emotions in the age of Starmer and Reform UK Sarah Bufkin, John Clarke, Jo Littler
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https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-2025-issue-90/article-10181/
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Carl Rowlands (2025) The UK government and artificial intelligence: embracing the vampire.
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https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-2025-issue-90/article-10184/
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A stray dog with a toddler’s arm’: How Israeli atrocities fuelled Palestine Action Women tell Old Bailey jury why they helped raid Israeli-owned Elbit arms factory near Bristol DANIA AKKAD and PHIL MILLER 10 July 2026
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‘A stray dog with a toddler’s arm’: How Israeli atrocities fuelled Palestine Action
Women tell Old Bailey jury why they helped raid Israeli-owned Elbit arms factory near Bristol
https://www.declassifieduk.org/a-stray-dog-with-a-toddlers-arm-how-israeli-atrocities-fueled-palestine-action/
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Teaching the British Empire: Experts Versus The Spectator Professor Alan Lester
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Teaching the British Empire: Experts Versus The Spectator
Alan Lester The Spectator’s owner Paul Marshall and its editor Michael Gove are afraid of William Dalrymple. His sequence of books on colonial India that have sold millions, his Empire podcast with…
https://alanlester.co.uk/blog/teaching-the-british-empire-experts-versus-the-spectator/
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Germany moves to criminalise denial of Israel’s existence while refusing to recognise Palestine The proposed law could jail people for five years despite warnings that it violates freedom of expression
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Germany moves to criminalise denial of Israel’s existence while refusing to recognise Palestine
The proposed law could jail people for five years despite warnings that it violates freedom of expression
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/germany-moves-criminalise-denial-israels-existence-while-refusing-recognise-palestine
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The Israeli Spy Behind PragerU’s Plan to Rewrite American Education To Indoctrinate Children July 8th, 2026 By Alan Macleod
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The Israeli Spy Behind PragerU’s Plan to Rewrite American Education To Indoctrinate Children
PragerU is now an official education partner in at least ten states, pushing right-wing American exceptionalism and pro-Israel political content into American classrooms. Led by former Israeli intelli...
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-israeli-spy-behind-pragerus-plan-to-rewrite-american-education-to-indoctrinate-children/291039/
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‘Abandoned and left to die’: Family of Hussam Abu Safiya says he has been betrayed by rights groups Abu Safiya has been held by Israel since December 2024, his son told MEE he may die unless he is released
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The liberal media’s great disappearing tricks
THE liberal media puts Harry Houdini in the shade when it comes to making things disappear.But while the magician’s famous 1918 trick making an elephant vanish was ultimately harmless entertainment, t...
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/liberal-medias-great-disappearing-tricks
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Israeli arms firm returns after Westminster scandal RUK Advanced Systems Ltd helped fund a group of British MPs as part of a ‘PR and marketing campaign’ Martin Williams 7 July 2026
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The liberal media’s great disappearing tricks
THE liberal media puts Harry Houdini in the shade when it comes to making things disappear.But while the magician’s famous 1918 trick making an elephant vanish was ultimately harmless entertainment, t...
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/liberal-medias-great-disappearing-tricks
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The liberal media’s great disappearing tricks IAN SINCLAIR examines the curious memory lapses across liberal media when it comes to British government crimes
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The liberal media’s great disappearing tricks
THE liberal media puts Harry Houdini in the shade when it comes to making things disappear.But while the magician’s famous 1918 trick making an elephant vanish was ultimately harmless entertainment, t...
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/liberal-medias-great-disappearing-tricks
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Burnham Allies Roll Back on Claim He Might Axe Palantir’s NHS Contract Unlike Zack Polanski, he hasn’t publicly opposed the deal. by Joshua Carroll
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Burnham Allies Roll Back on Claim He Might Axe Palantir’s NHS Contract
Unnamed allies of Andy Burnham have briefed journalists that he is thinking of cancelling spytech firm Palantir’s £330m contract with the NHS – only for other anonymous sources to roll back on the cla...
https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/03/burnham-allies-roll-back-on-claim-he-might-axe-palantirs-nhs-contract/
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Read it yourself: The UN report on Israel targeting Palestinian children stands up to scrutiny Peter Oborne and Irfan Chowdhury
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Read it yourself: The UN report on Israel targeting Palestinian children stands up to scrutiny
The 94-page document offers a clear accounting of horrific war crimes, even as a wave of pro-Israel commentators attempt to discredit its findings
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/read-it-yourself-un-report-israel-targeting-palestinian-children-stands-scrutiny
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The Architecture of Control Co-authored by @NYPlaid... The iOF outposts, aid distribution, and private contracting linked in the "Gaza Takeover" plan Shameen Suleman
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The Architecture of Control
Co-authored by @NYPlaid... The iOF outposts, aid distribution, and private contracting linked in the "Gaza Takeover" plan
https://menauncensored.com/en/article/the-architecture-of-control
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Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid Aditya Chakrabortty This shadowy treaty on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest
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Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty
The deal on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/02/keir-starmer-britain-pharma-deal-covid?CMP=bsky_gu#Echobox=1782980571
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US Big Pharma always hated the NHS's ability to hold drug prices down (due to its huge purchasing power) Streeting, Starmer & Mandelson caved in to Trump's pressure & signed a deal to make the NHS pay way more New analysis suggests it could lead to 229k deaths.
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Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty
The deal on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/02/keir-starmer-britain-pharma-deal-covid?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1782980571
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Steve Howell Beware the lobbyists beating the drums of war If legacy news outlets want to be trusted, they could start by warning us when ‘experts’ they invite to advocate spending tens of billions more on arms have a vested interest in it.
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Beware the lobbyists beating the drums of war
If legacy news outlets want to be trusted, they could start by warning us when ‘experts’ they invite to advocate spending tens of billions more on arms have a vested interest in it.
https://therestisbullshit.substack.com/p/beware-the-lobbyists-beating-the
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Anton Jäger Hyperpolitics in Command?
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Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics in Command?, NLR 159, May–June 2026
A diagnosis of the scrambled political culture of today’s Atlantic elites, with Trump read as symptom as much as cause. Can the concept of hyperpolitics help to decipher the strategic incoherence and ...
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii159/articles/anton-jager-hyperpolitics-in-command
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Inside Labour Together’s secret battle against Jeremy Corbyn Documents disclosed to Corbyn expose covert efforts by Starmer’s former chief of staff to combat the British left Paul Holden, Jessica Murray and John McEvoy 24 June 2026
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Inside Labour Together’s secret battle against Jeremy Corbyn
Documents disclosed to Corbyn expose covert efforts by Starmer’s former chief of staff to combat the British left
https://www.declassifieduk.org/inside-labour-togethers-secret-battle-against-jeremy-corbyn/
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[In Solidarity - by openDemocracy] How the UK Establishment Normalised Reform with Daniel Trilling
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Burnham aide’s lobby firm met government 38 times – but who did it work for? UK’s weak lobbying laws leave public in the dark about Flint Global’s vast access to government under James Purnell By Ethan Shone
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Burnham aide’s lobby firm met government 38 times – but who did it work for?
UK’s weak lobbying laws leave public in the dark about Flint Global’s vast access to government under James Purnell
https://www.opendemocracy.net/burnham-aides-lobby-firm-met-government-38-times-but-who-did-it-work-for/
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Fourteen Years in Prison for Quoting Hamas? New Law Could Criminalise Journalists Starmer is rushing legislation through parliament that experts say threatens free speech, public interest journalism and international humanitarian aid. Paul Holden
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Fourteen Years in Prison for Quoting Hamas? New Law Could Criminalise Journalists
Starmer is rushing legislation through parliament that experts say threatens free speech, public interest journalism and international humanitarian aid.
https://zeteo.uk/p/fourteen-years-in-prison-for-quoting
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[Jacobin Radio] Long Reads: Trillion Dollar Baby w/ Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff (Part 1)
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Fun in the Sun: Deaths Don’t Dampen Media’s “Go-To” Heat Wave Imagery
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Fun in the Sun: Deaths Don’t Dampen Media’s “Go-To” Heat Wave Imagery
Climate Change: It’s a Beach and then you die. BBC: Europe’s unprecedented early summer heatwave may be responsible for hundreds of excess deaths, according to the head of the World Hea…
https://thinc.blog/2026/06/30/fun-in-the-sun-deaths-dont-dampen-medias-go-to-heat-wave-imagery/
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The National Security Bill is an Insidious Attack on Journalism Tom Blackburn Rushed through Parliament at a moment’s notice, new legislation aims to stem the free flow of information from places like the Middle East.
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The National Security Bill is an Insidious Attack on Journalism
Rushed through Parliament at a moment’s notice, new legislation aims to stem the free flow of information from places like the Middle East.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2026/07/the-national-security-bill-is-an-insidious-attack-on-journalism
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UK: Backlash as Lloyds 'debanks' independent media outlet The Canary 'with no explanation' Social media users have criticised the ‘troubling’ move, warning of dangerous implications for free speech
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Backlash as Lloyds 'debanks' independent media outlet The Canary 'with no explanation'
Social media users have criticised the ‘troubling’ move, warning of dangerous implications for free speech
https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/lloyds-debanks-independent-media-outlet-canary-sparking-intense-backlash
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[Culture, Power, Politics » Podcast] The Battle for Britain with John Clarke (part 3) Introduced by Jeremy Gilbert John Clarke and Anamik Saha discuss the politics of Brexit, racism and authoritarianism UK 2020-22
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21 days ago
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Jonathan Cook Burnham must break with Starmer's dishonest politics, or fail just like him Even if likely successor Andy Burnham wants change, he'll face formidable external controls from the financial markets & internal constraints from the Labour machine
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Burnham must break with Starmer's dishonest politics, or fail just like him
Even if likely successor Andy Burnham wants change, he'll face formidable external controls from the financial markets and internal constraints from the Labour machine
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/burnham-must-break-with-starmers
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Exclusive:Social sciences to see biggest drop in overseas students as Glasgow University announces cuts
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Glasgow University cuts: Social sciences to see biggest drop in overseas students
Voluntary redundancy scheme to open in August
https://www.scotsman.com/education/social-sciences-to-see-biggest-drop-in-overseas-students-as-glasgow-university-announces-cuts-8762226
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