FINALLY the BBC starts covering what we’ve all already seen. “A 55-year-old Palestinian woman has been taken to hospital after being clubbed over the head by a masked Jewish settler as she was picking olives.”

theconversation.com/wild-honeybe... This is dreadful news.

“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?” Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT

WE are being forced to pay more for the privilege of being ripped off by water companies. They've not invested. Instead they've taken out £80 billion in dividends and loaded up those companies with £70 billion in debt. Now they are being allowed to hike our water bills.

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies? By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract. The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

Since Starmer came to power, NHS privatisation is up by up to 71% www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Private companies incentivised to put asylum seekers in hotels rather than bedsits as they could earn EIGHT TIMES as much profit, says @paulkohlersw19.bsky.social Hotel owners and private companies benefiting despite allegations of terrible conditions www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be. Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

Second released flotilla activist confirms Israel beat Greta Thunberg The rogue Zionist state's violence and humiliation of an activist like Greta Thunberg, known worldwide, can only backfire on it - surely? www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x

About time consequences were faced for the PPE scandal… But why only Michelle Mone? £15b worth of contracts were flagged with a corruption risk So where’s the rest of them? And what about the Tory ministers who greenlit that institutionally corrupt VIP lane?

Thames Water's bidders ask to be excused from fully complying with rules on pollution until 2035-40. Rule of law? Anything given to TW can't be denied to others. Sewage will be dumped. Customers will be fleeced. Returns will be extracted. One law for corporations, another for lesser mortals.

Thames Water lenders submit rescue plan to stave off collapse- may write off a third of the £20bn debt. It can't solve the crisis: It is a monopoly No competition No substitute service Owners want profit Customers will be fleeced Public ownership is the only viable option.

Three Irish citizens among activists detained as Israeli forces seize flotilla ships, organisers say. Thinking of Sarah Clancy - all eyes on the flotilla #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6832196

Value of UK arms imported by Israel reached record high in June Despite the Labour government's partial suspension of UK arms licences to Israel, they've still sold a whopping amount to aid its genocide www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

BREAKING: Israel directly targets the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza An Israeli naval vessel is now tailing the flotilla, jamming its communications, while drones hover above in the sky www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Israel intercepts a Gaza-bound aid flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg and Members of the European Parliament.

At least six ships have been boarded by the Israeli navy so far and more interceptions are expected to take place.

50 doctor who had visited Gaza were asked about children shot in the head. Most (35/50) had seen it themselves… …and some reported a single bullet to the head as being the only injury on the child.

EMERGENCY: ISRAEL ATTACKS GSF Israel has attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters. People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and the Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon. 1 of 2

Tesco's corporate control has help raise average food prices by 37% Over the past five years, food prices have leapt by 37%, Tesco's operating profit has gone up by 72% - and Farage has no answers to this www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Israeli forces are minutes away from illegally intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla. One of the ships - the Ohwayla - sails under a UK flag. Onboard are humanitarians with vital aid, demanding a humanitarian corridor. The Labour government must act NOW to protect UK citizens.

Isn't it crazy that you can be found to have ripped off the government to the tune of £122m and still retain your position as a legislator for life.

Michelle Mone’s PPE MEDPRO was a company that was less than 3 weeks old, with zero employee’s, no contracts, no premises, no previous transactions of any kind and with £100 in the bank. Then the Government gave it £203,000,000. Jail, jail, jail.

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

Deloitte UK’s chief executive receives £700,000 pay rise to £4.9m. Firm has a history of delivering dud audits. Rewards for failure. In common with other LLPs, the firm avoids paying employer national insurance on partners' profit share. Govt silence on fat-cattery. archive.ph/Z1h6H

Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield quits over Unilever gagging its activism After Unilever repeatedly silenced the Ben & Jerry's brand over issues like Palestine. it's co-founder has said enough is enough www.thecanary.co/global/world...

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26 Police Officers were injured at today's riots but only 9 people were arrested. Compare that with the peaceful Palestine Action protest where 0 Police Officers were injured but nearly 900 people were arrested. The Government has got Law Enforcement ridiculously wrong.

Four times as many people have been charged in the UK under Section 13 counterterrorism powers since Palestine Action was proscribed in July than during the entire "war on terror" since 2001. More here: www.middleeasteye.net/news/reveale...

Shameful

Epstein & Maxwell explicitly threatened their victims with death if they spoke out.

Israeli airstrikes swept across Gaza City and its surrounding neighborhoods, ahead of Netanyahu government's plan to fully occupy it. 'Even quadcopters are firing at people in the streets, like they are being hunted down. No one knows where to go,' one resident said www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

Israel murders four more journalists this morning in a strike on Gaza's Nasser hospital. Presumably Israel will tell us that Maryam Abu Daqqa was a Hamas commander too.

Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”

Israel's leaders consistently voice genocidal intent. The IPC food security agency now declares Israel has engineered a famine in Gaza. Famine is a highly effective way to exterminate a population. Yet still the West stands with Israel – and denies it's a genocide.

The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists

Farage has now said very clearly he will remove judges he does not approve of and abolish UK citizens' human rights. No-one at the BBC, Sky or ITV - or inside the government - seems to think it is worth highlighting. This is exactly what sleepwalking towards autocracy looks like.

Meanwhile as their media mates swarm around us and their police publicly open a meaningless investigation after Glastonbury on us (only to drop it silently)... They are complicit in war crimes.

Tesco makes nearly £4bn profit. Nearly 50% of its workforce are on Universal Credit, receiving about £600m a year. Why isn't Tesco paying?

Ministers line up administrators for Thames Water Since 1989 £10.4bn paid in dividends, £13.68bn in interest payments. No new reservoirs. Dumps sewage in rivers. Hardly any new shareholder money. Shares worthless, Lenders ready to take a haircut. Need permanent nationalisation, not temporary.

Left: Jacqui Smith, "I've never wanted to go to the House of Lords" Right: Baroness Smith of Malvern

Tory MP raking in millions from tax havens is helping the Cumbria coal mine company sue the government Geoffrey Cox is helping an investor behind the abandoned Cumbria coal mine project to sue the UK government in an overseas corporate court www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

An Israeli missile attack on a press tent near al Shifa hospital has killed a whole team of journalists: Al Sharif Mohammed Qreiqeh Ibrahim Zaher Mohammed Noufal Moamen Aliwa This has to stop.The international community HAS to step in. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

FFS. He didn't "kick off". It's not a "jibe". He said, with dignity and restraint, what we were all thinking - that Al-Obeid didn't just "die" - he, like tens of thousand of other innocent civilians, was killed by Israel as part of its ongoing programme of ethnic cleansing.