So the world’s only trillionaire, who hates taxes, opposes wealth redistribution, wants to cut public spending, and barely gives to charity, wants you to think he will lead the world to abundance for all if you buy his robots? How has that worked so far?

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The Labour Party machine thinks we don’t know what they are doing the issue isn’t Starmer or whoever the issue is right of the party is calling all the shots and that’s why Burnham won’t be any better

@reuters.com: UK PM Starmer expected to resign on Monday and set out orderly exit, Observer newspaper reports

Please give Geraldine Coggins a follow. Geraldine's right - we do still need to be linking Heatwaves to Climate Change and in particular the mitigations, the adaptations and our rights! She's also the Mayoral Candidate for the Green Party.

Sir Keir Starmer's legacy...

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Former Manchester United and Wales striker Mark Hughes has said he and his family are ‘heartbroken’ following the sudden death of his son Alex

We await the condemnation from Farage, Lowe etc. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"“CEOs receive lavish sums of money even when they fail while our retirement funds and employment are married to the companies they run.”" www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

It's unclear if Keir Starmer will stay or go, but if he tries to fight Andy Burnham off, we know how he'll do so

and Burnham isn't going to undo a single thing Starmer's done. it's going to be the ultimate test of the "bad comms" theory. it's been a terrible long span of years since any senior politician brought a *nice* surprise into office.

He has been involved in multiple scandals, and yes, sorry appointing Mandelson alone should absolutely have been a resigning matter, and those defending him for it know they would have crucified Johnson et al if they had done the same, and did in certain cases, rightly so.

In his time in office Starmer has overseen the largest rollback of migrants, trans and disabled rights in arguably a generation. He has gone further than the previous Conservative government on hostile policies and the demonisation and discrimination of marginalised groups.

Okay, Starmer isn't the "Worst PM", but that's a seriously low bar. It is ironic he's the worst on human rights for decades considering his former job though . He is a terrible PM though and, no, it isn't a smear when he himself did the scandals. Honestly can't see any defence for him remaining.

This #WorldRefugeeDay we’re calling for a ban on the use of AI in the UK asylum system. The hostile environment is being automated with little transparency and limited rights of appeal. People seeking safety shouldn’t be reduced to a case number, a data point in opaque systems. Find out more ⬇️

National Rejoin March 🙌

but, as i've said many times, one of the defining features of reactionary centerism is a refusal to learn from their mistakes so we have this bizarre discourse where the main things the gov did are not even *considered* as causes of its collapse www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

consider these two facts: ▪️ starmer radically transformed the country to appease the new right ▪️ starmer's premiership was a historic failure if you hold them in your head together, a conclusion emerges but that is basically unthinkable for our press, so they're treated as entirely separate

if all the stuff in the pipeline goes through (which it's looking like it will), this will have been a radically transformative period, we are a much more regressive country now but the press agrees with all that, or convinced itself it was politically necessary, so it's just forgotten

i'm getting a bit annoyed with this "starmer didn't do anything" narrative ❌️ sweeping changes to the immigration system ❌️ biggest asylum reforms in 70 years functionally ending refugee status ❌️ moved from a reasonably tolerant regime to the most trans-hostile developed democracy

That’s a scam to install malware www.malwarebytes.com/cybersecurit...

"Having one of the cage fighters on the White House lawn, to a live television audience declaring that Michelle Obama is a man is grotesque." "That went out across America to mark its 250th birthday" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...

The architect of Labour’s cruel plans on settled status and persecution of free speech and protest stays in place. More of the same. Only the Greens can take on failing Labour in Greater Manchester. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Greater Manchester Mayor is a straight up battle between the Green Party Vs Reform. It's Hope Vs Hate. We've been getting ready for this one. See you tomorrow Manchester!

Plaid Cymru is actioning our plans to raise education standards, grow the economy, and roll-out the most generous childcare offer in the UK. Despite Labour’s financial mismanagement, Plaid Cymru is putting plans into action.

"Internationalist, not isolationist" 🔥 While Reform and the Tories want to close Wales off to the world - Plaid Cymru is proudly showcasing our talent, skills, and culture to bring more investment to our communities. When Wales works internationally, Welsh people benefit. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

No matter what happens in Westminster, Plaid Cymru will never stop standing up for Wales and fighting for the fair deal our nation deserves ✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

A New York Times investigation found that Pete Hegseth has repeatedly overridden the military's normal promotion process, vetoing senior officers whose public records included support for diversity initiatives, mentoring women or minorities, or other policies associ... TAT: [Weakening civil rights]

His anti-trans policies are shown to harm young people. He has been warned by numerous experts that his social media ban risks isolating young people from particularly marginalised groups, especially disabled and trans. To say he has been good for children and families is highly selective. 2/2

Starmer's anti-immigration policies will push about 100,000 more migrant children into poverty and rip families apart. His anti-asylum policies allow for the deportation of British born children of refugees, and for asylum seeking children to be treated as adults. 1/2

"Two websites restrict reviews of JD Vance’s book after savage critiques" www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Uhhhh. Pretty sure that the actual POPE is the most powerful American catholic.

Citizens can't have privacy for safety reasons...meanwhile Thiel has his secret society, Epstein file abusers walk around with impunity, a convicted WH felon openly cooks shady deals, trillionaire Musk kills scores of children, war crimes, genocide for all to see...but you must be surveilled.

Governments are chasing AI investment, even as their publics turn against the technology and the data centers that power it. Canada’s Mark Carney has chosen a shameless approach: to cast the opposition as a lack of “literacy” as he sets out to (re)educate Canadians about the benefits of AI.

"Stripping knowledge of its historical or cultural situatedness...[knowledge] gets sucked up by the engine and transformed into a vast network of numbers....remixed and regurgitated as a statistical output where any specificity is erased, encouraging a fascist aesthetic." youtu.be/hPV-Ql_KGzM?...

Who could have guessed that deskilling machines would harm learning? Governments & universities shilling for the AI industry should be ashamed.

The country that knows how to resist the allure of AI is the country equipped for the AI world.

UK Cabinet Office hiring AI and innovation 'influencer' to build 'AI-first culture' in civil service - www.theregister.com/public-secto... I predict this will be an embarrassing fiasco...

This would be why Blue Labour parachuted candidates (now MPs) into safe seats such as those in Cardiff and Swansea against local party wishes.

Darren Who?

Here are Italian PM Meloni's remarks about Trump, translated to English: "Donald Trump's statements are completely made up. I am frankly stunned. I don't know why the president of the United States behaves this way with his own allies..."

It's amazing what you can do when you remember that schools have a primary responsibility to the children they teach and nurture -- not to the ed-tech industry or gen AI profit margins.

I realize this is hard to believe, but Meloni says Trump completely made this up.

Imagine you’re a grassroots Labour member who joined for the best of reasons. In a world where you’ve had to learn to look the other way while your party trashes all you’ve ever believed in, telling yourself comforting fictions about being decent at heart is really all you have left.

Ooph

"We've already got leaflets out for the Greater Manchester campaign, we've got a candidate selected, and I'm really looking forward to getting my teeth stuck into this one." Co-Deputy Leader Mothin Ali on the upcoming Greater Manchester Mayoral election.

These declarations are made out in the open, now with automatic translation. Western politicians and commentators who pretend not to notice these grotesque declarations by *the national security minister of a state which their countries arm and fund* are complicit in them.

Oh boy. A Wigan resident emailed their Reform councillor about the Reform campaigner's Jimmy Savile poster that cllrs posed with (& which I wrote about yday) They weren't expecting a reply, but got one. I'm not sure it does them much good. Comparing increases in school funding to the poster. Hmm.

The Green Party may not have won this by-election, but this by-election has created another one! As it is unlikely that a Plaid Cymru candidate will stand for the Manchester mayoral by-election, I wont be braking party loyalty by giving a couple of bob to the Green campaign for mayor.