The new Health Secretary took more than £165,000 from donors linked with the private healthcare sector, it has emerged

Robert Peston, "Would you work with Andy Burnham, can he build consensus with the Greens for example?" Zack Polanski, "My problem is, some of these appointments today suggest a continuity Keir Starmer"

Reminiscent of 'No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish' signs in 1950-60's & job ads saying 'RC need not apply'. With an ageing population we should be welcoming immigrants & refugees. Andy needs to bite that bullet & impose a Wealth Tax to help the public sector & economy recover from 16 yrs Austerity.

Appalling betrayal of democracy by Burnham. Scotland voted for a Parliament in Holyrood that would deliver an independence referendum. The people of Scotland are sovereign. We must be heard.

Wealth tax on UK’s super-rich could raise £10bn a year, Andy Burnham told. A 2% minimum tax on households with more than £100m wealth would affect fewer than 1,000 UK households. Richest 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." -- Ernest Hemingway, born #OTD 1899

Burnham keeping Mahmoud as Home Secretary shows he’s fine with the way Palestine Action are proscribed, so that’s a good indication foreign policy is gonna stay the same. nothing to really disprove the idea that he’s Continuity Keir.

…… and people still believe the US and the west, to be a force for good.

Left- Palestinian teen football player has died after being shot in the head by Israeli forces during a "settler" attack on his village in Ramallah. Right- HOLOCAUST survivors protest against the GENOCIDE in Gaza.

Left: Keir Starmer, "I go proud of everything we have achieved" Right: Under Keir Starmer the face of terrorism in the UK is now elderly retired people who hold up signs, over 2,700 of them arrested, including this retired priest

Why I picked Spain? Spain formally recognizes the State of Palestine, having officially granted statehood on May 28, 2024, alongside Ireland and Norway. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez stated his support for a viable two-state solution. Spain is taking in refugees. The flotilla!!! I also love Yamal.

Here I am in 2017 pretending I hardly knew George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who calls me "Daddy" and was my right hand man and a key fundraiser during the Brexit campaign.

South Korea built solar panels over highway medians and turned the space underneath into protected bike lanes. Clean energy + safe cycling, using infrastructure that already exists.

Yoga with John Swinney? 🧘 Digital editor Laura Pollock couldn't escape politics while on holiday in Tiree 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLD...

"As a Labour supporter all my life, it's for the working class and [Starmer] was never for the working class. In fact, he was more like a Tory than a Tory." Also, if you like glorious English cussing, there's some of that, too.

One final bit of disingenuous myth-making from Rachel Reeves. "I said when I was appointed Chancellor that I would judge my time in office if the lives ordinary working class people have been improved" No, she didn't. Like Starmer, she always talked about 'working people'. There's a difference.

#OtD 20 Jul 1925 Frantz Fanon, revolutionary psychiatrist and pioneering anti-colonial theorist was born in Martinique. He served in the Free French Army, experiencing racism and joined the Algerian independence movement. Learn more in this biography: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

"A Reform UK MSP has been accused of living in London while representing constituents hundreds of miles away in the north of Scotland." 'Mark Simpson, who represents North East Scotland, filmed a video outside a Woolwich supermarket that he described as his local store' via Graham McInnes

I've long wondered how much of the 'out of control welfare bill' is taken up by administration costs, including outsourcing to for-profit companies. Can't find anything. Do any experts here know? @richardjmurphy.bsky.social @johnpring.bsky.social #DWP #PIP www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...

"Why not take this golden opportunity to remove what is so often described as a subsidy, and use those ‘new found’ resources to eradicate child and pensioner poverty in England?" #LetMyPeopleGo #FreeScotland #Cexit

Nigel Farage idolised Margaret Thatcher and Reform UK policies like - no zero hour contract security - fewer worker rights - housing for the rich - dismantle the NHS - school teaching censorship - superrich tax cuts are a tribute to her

This isn't the moment for cautious politics or half measures. Britain needs bold action to tackle the crises we face.

It's no accident that Musk has chosen to fund Restore Britain, the most bigoted, racist, far-right UK party still able to maintain a facade of respectability "A non exhaustive list of reasons Elon Musk makes people ashamed to be human" via The UK Against Hate

I deleted a post that was wrong 🙏 3 applications reached the ballot stage for Jersey & only one permitted to fish in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿& NI 🌊 This is the successful COMMERCIAL FISHING list that the WESTMINSTER GOVERNMENT has allowed 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 & NI Fishermen & women ARE BANNED from fishing for BFT in their own 🌊 Gtf 🙄

His mother, María Arthuer, crossed the Sahara Desert barefoot in 1994. She climbed over Melilla’s border fence penniless and pregnant with Iñaki. Today, her son is a world champion. #respect

Nigel, if you’re telling lies about why you got £5m, you need to remember the lies you told last time you got caught out. Social influencer, my arse

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

With 57% of its electricity now coming from renewables, including 22% from solar & 21% from wind, Spain built one of Europe's most impressive electricity systems. Solar is now the country's fastest-growing source of power & has helped drive some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe.

The Genocide is ongoing in Gaza, despite the 'Ceasefire' Israel is killing 3-4 people every day, starving the rest and forcing them to live in some of the worst conditions on the planet. Yet everyone pretends it is over.

This would be a deeply irresponsible and destructive act at any time. To do it whilst we're having a third heatwave of the year and thousands of people have just died from extreme temperatures - makes it also politically incoherent. We urgently need to replace Labour.

Viva España

Katie Hobbs wasn't a lawyer or CEO before becoming governor—she was a social worker helping families through homelessness and domestic violence. That background shows up in everything she does now, from eliminating medical debt to cutting child care costs. Arizona has a governor who actually gets it

Polanski interviews the amazing award winning journalist Carole Cadwalladr about Farage/ Reform donations and sponsors. It goes so much further Brexit, Trumps 2016 election, Putin, Trumps Maga, the Tech Bros, and the implications for Europe and the world in general. youtu.be/43m0LKNDz6M?...

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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To those who might not agree with me on the Scottish Independence thingy, I want to ask you a question: If this union is indeed ruling by consent; then how does one country leave?

why not go after the missing covid billions? Politics Westminster committee member tells John Swinney: ‘Act over Murrell scandal or we will’ www.sundaypost.com/fp/swinney-p...

Sharon Graham ' told the Sunday Times that Miliband’s fierce commitment to net zero would be a “noose around the neck” of job creation.' Lets tell Sharon that climate change is a 'noose around all our necks' #StopRosebank #StopSharon www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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George Cottrell, the convicted criminal who secretly funded Nigel Farage, opened an account with an obscure overseas payments company days before it was used to channel a £500,000 'unexplained' donation to Reform UK

Labour really are worried, aren't they?

Scotland's best message back to Trump is still the one Janey Godley gave a decade ago. She spoke for millions.

Out today on the Bayswaters doing our community litter pick with the team from Leeds Green Party and the Kurdish community group DAKOK!

"The convicted criminal who funded Nigel Farage opened an account with an obscure overseas payments company days before it was used to channel an 'unexplained' £500,000 donation to Reform UK. Farage denies breaking any rules." via The Times

Have you noticed how Israel seems to show up everywhere the US is meddling? The Zionist mafia is trying to setup a parallel organised crime empire because right now the US government is occupied by a transnational criminal enterprise.

If you’re wondering why UK press has suddenly woken up to Farage, please read this. It’s because: Brexit. The r/w press refused to scrutinise the money behind Farage & the lawsuit against me scared off the rest. But this isn’t a new scandal. It’s the same one I’ve been reporting on for a decade

The Spectator should really be embarrassed over this, especially the Deputy Political Editor that championed it.