BREAKING: government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action under terrorism law ruled UNLAWFUL This matters for everyone. For years, the right to protest has been under sustained and deliberate attack. Thousands of people have been arrested for something that should have never been a crime.

Hooray for Scottish Government. They didn't cave in to pressure to use Palantir in our NHS. This company provides tech to Israel's genocide in Gaza and ICE operations in the USA. 🔻🔻

Francesca Albanese a modern day hero.🕊

The Scottish Parliament passed our Scottish Budget at Stage 1. It includes the best cost of living support package in the UK, while ensuring 55% of Scottish taxpayers pay less income tax than south of the border. The SNP government is on your side.

NHS deal with Palantir,owned by white supremist Peter Thiel, called into question. 🔻

If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff

“Poverty has been demonized, priorities are for profits, not for people or our planet, humans dehumanised to those who can be exploited for further wealth contribution or discarded for their uselessness.”

Brilliant report from @ipprscotland.bsky.social. A must read for all policy makers!🔻

Ratcliffe is presumably better at counting his money than this. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

For someone who wants to end working from home, Cameo Nigel can be strangely productive if there’s an easy payday in it for him 😬

The child maintenance system is being abused, and some of the stories I’ve heard are truly shocking. I’m pleased the Minster has agreed to meet with me and my constituents to discuss this further. We urgently need reform to ensure the system protects children.

Andy Burnham speaks for the contribution of migration to Manchester - saying this is in contrast to rich owners who siphon wealth out of Manchester United FC.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, net worth £29 billion, lives in Monaco saving £5 billion in tax in UK.( could be used for NHS ! )Thinks UK has too many immigrants.🔻🔻

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Rarely mentioned but about much of Ratcliffe’s business ‘success’ is based on draining public money (very common among these ‘self made tycoons’) Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...

In a week of grim revelations, perhaps the darkest of all was that the attitudes the dead millionaire represented – misogyny, control, abuse of girls – are embedded in power structures throughout our culture, writes @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cad...

This week's cultural hotlist 🔥▶️ From a luminous show of Lucian Freud’s drawings to Lisa McGee’s hilarious follow-up to Derry Girls

For months, we have been digging into a big myth — that strong social protection holds back economic growth.🔍 Spoiler: it doesn’t.💪 We launch our findings tomorrow in our report 'More than a Safety Net'. Stay tuned.🚀 For now, hear it from @stephenboydippr.bsky.social ⤵️

At least four Palestinians were killed and several others injured after an Israeli attack on a residential apartment in Gaza City's al-Nasr neighbourhood. Israel has violated the ceasefire at least 1,500 times since it came into effect, according to Gaza’s Gov't Media Office.

Our latest story starkly shows how big money has captured UK politics Just yesterday @transparencyuk.bsky.social cited dominance of big money in British politics as part of the reason Britain has fallen to lowest ever ranking on global corruption index democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...

Martin Wolf absolutely on the money here. Declining fertility rates are about structural changes in society- more equal opportunities. Reform and voices on the right want to turn back the clock on women's opportunity. Progressives should give it short shrift. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Working isn't working. Our analysis confirms that work is not a guaranteed route out of poverty. In the latest data, the majority (55 per cent) of non-pensioner families in poverty had someone in work. This is up from fewer than two-in-five families in the mid-1990s.

The same people who tell us “oh, dear boy, you don’t understand” when reassuring us about Palantir embedding itself in the British state were almost exactly the same people who told us Russian interference, Cambridge Analytica and phone hacking were just ‘conspiracy theories’

Really excellent exposition of the context to the Peter Mandelson affair. 🔻🔻

A Labour minister has refused to divulge details of a secretive meeting between Keir Starmer and a controversial US tech giant linked to Peter Mandelson which was later awarded a major military contract

Lutnick is busted. popular.info/p/trump-cabi...

MPs are about to debate Russian interference in Britain’s democracy. We’ll be live on this thread with what matters 🧵

Palantir, and its owner the white supremist Peter Thiel, tentacles spreading across our most important institutions.🔽

BREAKING: France Just Raided Elon Musk’s X Offices In Paris — And It’s Bad. Really, Really, Bad. This is about power. Influence. And what happens when one billionaire decides the rules don’t apply to him anymore. DEAN BLUNDELL FEB 04, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

Someone asked me to describe Peter Thiel of Palantir. A deluded neo Nazi oligarch trying to enact extremely disturbing libertarian fantasies by shoehorning money into 'exit projects'.

Elon’s emails to Epstein. Location: Starbase, Texas

This powerful PSA by Epstein survivors will be aired on the Super Bowl tonight.

Our news. Member news. Events. Research. It's all in the Scottish Anti-Poverty Newsletter. Please share with your networks. www.povertyalliance.org/scottish-ant...

⁉️ Why are many of the richest Brits missing from the list of the highest taxpayers? Funny how that works.

Boycott Amazon! Owner Bezos is the worst of the worst. 🔽🔽

Reform telling 'blatant lies' as usual. Shouldn't be anywhere near power. 🔻🔻

We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Really excellent description of the Epstein "sordid men's club".🔻

New on FT website: Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract. www.ft.com/content/5bba...

Michelle Obama, exactly as she is. Beautiful, graceful, intelligent, and strong woman. Joy is resistance. Grace is power. #SheShed

This is how you do a news conference ! 👬👫

Hey @thetimes.com what is ’racism’ - surely depicting the Obamas as monkeys is just old fashioned racism?

Picture 1: Two plain clothes police officers during a search of Peter Mandelson's home Picture 2: Police search Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell's home

Human rights but not for murdered people & their children in Gaza. Because the leaders of this morally bankrupt Labour cartel are rotting with slush funds from rich secretive backers. x.com/elliechowns/...

Politicians tell us they can fix poverty with economic growth, or labour market reforms, or easy money. But all of these fixes just obscure the fact that the poverty of those at the bottom is a direct consequence of the wealth of those at the top. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-uk-is-...

Trump is a vile racist bully We should all condemn this without hesitation. But something tells me Farage will find a way to make excuses for his best mate Trump. I hope I’m wrong.

US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe - www.ft.com/content/f869... via @FT

Nigel Farage tells GB News that Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador shows his judgement is "seriously wrong" and he should stand down as Prime Minister. Here's what Farage said when Mandelson was appointed

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Disgusting. Morally depraved.🔻🔻