Our politicians and civil servants are naive fools. “Never give a sucker an even break” is the first rule of American business. Britain falls for it every time.

Where is the outrage from those that think it’s the Welfare bill that’s the problem or those who want to spend more on war and think we have to cut something else to pay for it? Note: Palantir is just one of many corporations doing this

For too long, Labour’s housing model has served private developers, not people, and failed to deliver genuinely affordable housing. Today, Geraldine Coggins will announce the first step in her plans to change that as Green Mayor

We all need a Green Mayor.

No school should be on X or oblige parents to get updates from it. A site that actively promotes porn, bullying, hate and fascism is not an appropriate place to post pictures of sports days.

Researchers at UCLA and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health projected that the continuing absence of USAID funding will cause 4.5 million child deaths under the age of five by the year 2030 Via The Lancet

The largest bomb dropped since WWII just hit an inhabited village in Lebanon. And the media? Barely a word. Right now, it's independent journalists doing the reporting. Give us follow, if not following!

There must be justice. The world cannot ignore the Israeli genocide in Gaza and people who committed it must be held to account. Essential accountability and solidarity work from the Australian Centre for International Justice. @rawanarraf.bsky.social

Today is the one thousandth day of the genocide in Occupied Palestine.

About time official investigations began into all the Zionist war criminals hiding in plain sight in Australia.

Will never happen — MPs will fear it might catch on. When do they ever vote against their own interests?

It will be quite a plot twist if Farage is found to have breached parliamentary rules and has to stand down.

During a photo session with a young fan, Egyptian staff are assaulted by cops in Dallas. Egypt is Australia's opponent tomorrow morning. Aus squad include six players of African heritage plus another from Sri Lanka. This could easily have been us ... #Profiling #WorldCup #AustraliaEgypt #Socceroos

He should but he won’t.

"Why should dark money interests be allowed to control British media? Apart from publications based in the UK, like the Morning Star, Big Issue, Daily Mirror and the Guardian, how many are owned by non-domiciles?" via Lorenzo Obi Abadinas

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If a foreign national lives in social housing, Reform says its polcy is to evict, and to deport, regardless of circumstance (eg would cover Commonwealth migrants here 10-25-50 years!). Housing Today ask why this has been little noticed or scrutinised www.housingtoday.co.uk/in-focus/cou...

Israeli Mossad are frantically using AI to scan all the plays & poems, to prove that William Shakespeare was a founder member of Hamas ... meme via Peter Cartwright

At what cost to the national purse? Can we send Reform Ltd the bill?

... and Farage wants his "carefully vetted" Reform UK Councillors to become MPs! "Over 120 Reform UK LTD, so called Councillors have gone, since May, either because they chose to, or got suspended for serious reasons, that included Prison...." thedailybritain.co.uk/reform-counc...

"David Graeber opposed Keir Starmer back in 2020, warning he'll lead to the rise of the Far-Right and the rise of hate/racism. And look where we are now. Labour having abandoned its principles to become just another Neo-liberal party has been a total disaster. " via David Graeber Institute

It seems Farage thought becoming an MP meant making speeches, not answering question about his utter lack of integrity "Nigel Farage has come under pressure to clarify his housing arrangement after it emerged he only declared 2 of his 5 properties to Parliament" www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Burnham has Blairite engraved on his heart. He will preside over the same corruption and lack of accountability that Starmer and most if not all PMs in my life time and will always work in corporate interests not that of the people. His Directorships await …

A wealth tax isn't an income tax at all, but an asset tax. So he's free to introduce one? Secondly, I don't understand why he's voluntarily constraining himself by manifesto commitments. There's no obligation. It was Starmer's, not his. Also it was mistaken. Finally, 'needs must'.

Another day, another Farage crypto scandal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Well, your village may be underwater, but at least you didn't have to reskill." Fkn near sighted arseholes.

Since the hard-won, fragile, and crucial consensus on climate change was unpicked by the right wing, some on the left are happy to join this regressive attack. What does Graham tell her members about failing crops, coastal erosion, and global instability? Tough tits? It is so disheartening to see.

cc @paulbernal.bsky.social Don't know if you've seen this from Private Eye.

Yet again: a political party after a popular policy should advocate statutorily requiring major companies to provide adequate customer service with binding SLAs.

Post WW2, British envoys went all over the Commonwealth, begging people to migrate to the UK, to keep Mother Country Britain's hospital & social care, manufacturing & farming, cleaning & transport systems going ... "Lest we forgot: To be a welcoming and hospitable nation" via The UK Against Hate

"So Farage plays the role of you average bloke, your mate down the pub! Only I don’t know many average blokes who get £22,500 an hour, for just 12 hours work, that’s £270,000! That is 1770% of the minimum wage! And he wants to scrap the minimum wage too!" via David Birmingham

And what splendid luck that we had 14 years of the Blair government to embed it further into the economy.

Aren’t we lucky Thatcher introduced rampant Americanisation of our country.

Private finance is strangling British education, profiteering from public purse. Private equity controls schools, academies, supply teacher entities. It has penetrated universities, student accommodation, apprenticeships and more. Everything financialised. All in state of crisis.

Anyone remember Dave Hartnett? HMRC waived millions, billions in the case of Vodafone, of pounds worth of unpaid interest payments on tax for both companies. HMRC only interested in squeezing the low-handing fruit, i.e me and thee.

"According to HMRC’s own figures ... there is a total corporation tax gap of around £21 billion, and it raises serious questions about whether Britain is choosing not to collect money that is already legally due in tax." youtu.be/cNej_KOdbQU?... #TaxTheRich

When an MP can pocket more in a couple of hours of “work” than a nurse earns in an entire year - as Nigel Farage has done - something is deeply broken in our politics. This has to stop. It’s time to ban ALL MPs’ second jobs. From my speech in Parliament today.

Most importantly it has penetrated politics or maybe a better way of putting it “f*cked politics”. It is a scourge.

What sort of government allows this?

And the remedy/compensation is to be?

… and the consequences are…. Well it’s the UK so the answer is none.

Defra breached law, with Tory govt was in office, when it let farmers use bee-killing pesticide, watchdog says. This is one outcome of capture of the state by corporations, and secrecy. Govts pursue economic growth, not resilience, at almost any cost.

This is the guy Wes Streeting wants to give all our NHS data and systems to.

Defence Plans in brief 1 Oil arms company/MOD revolving door 2 Funnel taxpayer £billions into arms company accounts 3 Start war to test school & hospitals obliteration weapons "Has Starmer sabotaged Burnham with defence funding plan that plunders other services?" open.substack.com/pub/thewhipl...

These people are rascist scum - they have not “been lied to” or “left behind” they deserve to be shamed in any decent society. They need less understanding and more condemnation.

Restore Britain proudly showing their 'huge numbers' of backers in Bolton (or possibly Southampton, or ...)

Not more of the same - worse - and he hasn’t even started. Vote Green every opportunity you get.

He can fuck off! 🖕

... meanwhile tech billionaires want to create MORE drought worldwide via data centres "For the third consecutive year, a combination of record-low winter snowpacks, warming spring temperatures, and persistent drought has left the Rio Grande completely dry through Albuquerque." meme via Mike Hall

"R*cists are just the biggest hypocrites ever..." via Expose Racism