I'd challenge anyone to read this outstanding book and come away telling me that the Royal Family are a force for good. An in depth and shocking expose not just of the grubby money grabbing dim witted Yorks but the whole Firm and it's acts of self preservation.

Constantly raising the pension age across the board with no provision for other factors is little more than just another attack on the working class.

'We need cold-headed analysis and targeted measures to reduce inequality and deliver economic justice, and a wealth tax is a very poor way to achieve that outcome.' Richard Murphy, via The National archive.is/jiMVc

This is what's called upping the ante. I'd get your fuel tanks filled up folks. And maybe your food cupboards too. And you can thank the orange toddler in the White House for this needless disruption.

By the time Sizewell C is built, peer reviewed published research reports the nuclear station will almost be entirely cut off by climate driven sea level rise storm surge at least once per year. 'Rock shipped from Norway to protect Sizewell B during Sizewell C build' www.eadt.co.uk/news/2627134...

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Identity on trial: ❝ The backlash over Arab-Israeli soccer player Anan Khalaili's brief link to Inter Milan exposed a familiar reality: Palestinian citizens of Israel are expected by both Israelis and the Arab world to prove loyalties they can never fully satisfy ❞ — Hanin Majadli

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Brendan has been doing phenomenal work uncovering the French Nazis that visited Belfast and hung out with paramilitaries and local far-right. The Home Secretary proscribes the IRGC - but doesn’t even call a COBRA meeting for what’s been happening in N. Ireland over the last 5 weeks. So more ..[1/2]

“These record-breaking heatwaves show once again that the climate crisis isn’t a future threat. The impacts are here with us today with extreme heat having an impact on our nation’s health, economy and public services.”

Ha ha @goodmorningbritain.bsky.social Scotland doesn't want a bank holiday if you jokers win the World Cup, just send us six million pairs of ear defenders and a 10-year rebate on the tv license so we don't have to listen to yous being even more unbearable than usual. 😉

Can @johnswinney.bsky.social outlaw the phrase 'it's coming home' please? At the very least make it a breach of the peace, on the grounds that it's a) highly irritating; b) not even true. (As we all know, Scotland's the true home of the modern passing game). 😉

In Israel’s prisons, torture and death have become a norm that it barely tries to hide | Nesrine Malik

The wealth of the world’s 12 richest people is equal to that of the poorest 50% of humanity.

Russia is inflaming the debate on immigration in Britain as part of “increasing ambitions to disrupt our way of life”, counter-terror police and experts say It has directly and indirectly paid right-wing influencers to spread messages that align with its political goals inews.co.uk/news/putin-i...

“We were told our whole lives that Palestinians are the ones who hate Israelis... it felt like reality was flipped.” @abbymartin.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the zionist extremism she saw while conducting “man on the street” interviews with Israelis: zeteo.com/p/death-and-...

Not to make this all about America, but things like this, the Tartan Army, the Cape Verde story, Bosnia-Herzegovina and others are good illustrations of how you can be proud to be where you're from and confident in your identity while being kind and gracious and without being a complete dingleberry

There has been a 'ceasefire' in Gaza for 274 days. In that time 1,098 Palestinians have been murdered and 3,500 injured. While 0 Israelis have been killed. There is no ceasefire, just a Genocide.

Note the headline... This, and the previous post, are responses to a government study which is so dire that they refuse to release it. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I think the pandemic proved who the essential workers are.

Here's what the landlord lobby don't want you to know: If rents went down by 20%, renters would save £2400 a year. The government would save £2 billion a year. And landlords would still make 4.5 times as much profit as the average business.

Burnham only made his statement yesterday on Gaza because of pressure, and meaningful action by a govt led by him will only happen because of pressure. Daniel Levy back in 2024: "Don't give up"

The most Wimbledon thing ever just happened. The umpire had to ask the spectators not to pop their champagne corks onto the court during points. 🤣🎾

Seyed Mohammad Marandi: "Just an hour or so ago 2 Lebanese citizens were murdered by the Israeli regime.. in Gaza its every day. 3 children were among the people slaughtered today in the ongoing holocaust.. the scum are those western leaders who do not sanction the Israeli regime.."

Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel

Tommy Lawrence - Liverpool 😎😎

Farage quitting wouldn't be a surprise - he's already used his position to make millions. Lazy grifters don't want to do the work required of being in office. His whole political career, Farage has found that sniping from the sidelines is a nice little earner - all of the money; none of the work.

Is there any point in Celtic having an Academy when its' best players constantly get cherry-picked?

UEFA talking about integrity when they refuse to sanction Israel can go and fuck themselves.

Ben Shepard on ITV' This Morning totally mystified why IRISH chef Clodagh McKenna didn't know or care that the English football team won a game of football. They just can't shake off the colonial mindset, can they.

It's started. Both main news channels fucking unwatchable this morning.

Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing, scientists say

First Cristiano Ronaldo, now Folarin Balogun. When a Somali referee can't get in the country it's "unfortunate" but we should "chill and relax". No qualms with the Iranian team being ferried across the border as soon as possible. Brazen and shameful

Israel's conditioning of its withdrawal from southern Lebanon on the disarmament of Hezbollah mirrors its strategy in Gaza: insist on terms that are impossible to implement to justify its constant state of war. mondoweiss.net/2026/07/as-i...

4 years ago the headline to this interview with me in The Observer noted the world would soon be unrecognisable We have now reached that point www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Fourteen Years in Prison for Quoting Hamas? New Law Could Criminalise Journalists" Starmer is rushing legislation through parliament that experts say threatens free speech, reports Paul Holden for Zeteo UK. Read/share/subscribe:

“They make up imaginary ghouls and goblins lurking around every corner because they don’t want us looking up and seeing the real bastards who are poisoning our world.” “They make up fake monsters to protect us from, because they themselves are the real monsters” open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj...

I wish our political class were as obsessed over fixing this countries many problems as they are in awarding each other silly wee medals.

Portes "Theres a lot of nonsense talked, including on Sky, about the spiralling welfare bill.. as a proportion of our national income.. its lower than it was 15yrs ago & its pretty much back to what it was under Thatcher.. this idea its out of control is just wrong" Spot on!

Here's a few modern terms and what they really mean. 'Data Centers' - Surveillance Network 'Palantir' - CIA Spy Agency 'Cloud Computing' - Stealing your work 'AI' - Stealing your work, profiting from it, and giving you nothing 'Protecting childen' - Spying on everyone

PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher has now confirmed to the Policing Board the accuracy of the Belfast Telegraph's reporting. At the time, the PSNI said it had no evidence that loyalist paramilitaries were orchestrating last month's race riots. We said they were. 1/2

Is everyone following this? UK gov is going to subsidise energy for Data Centres at times of peak usage, meanwhile the rest of us get a 13% price cap hike. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Scotland is facing a wave of hyper-scale AI data centre planning applications. If all the data centres are built, they will consume more than 1.5 times Scotland’s total peak energy use. ✍️Write to the First Minister and demand a pause of mega data centre applications greens.scot/datacentres

I remember in the 1974 World Cup, Scotland got eliminated largely because they didn't score enough goals against Zaire. Seems England could be going the same way.

“Humanity is frying itself alive but refuses to turn the stove off, because the fumes smell quite tasty. This is how I would summarize our collective cognitive blackout. Stupidity has won” My new article

The publicly funded clean-up of the former Redcar steelworks has turned into a private windfall. Teesworks Ltd, 90% owned by two local businessmen, holds an option to buy the remediated land at £1 an acre. It’s now agreed in principle to sell 222 acres to AI firm Anthropic for £222m.

"If you want to know what the future looks like, what Peter Thiel is planning, and what we should be paying attention to, it’s Argentina, Thiel’s latest plaything, host organism and testing laboratory."

Why aren't Britain's colonial history and the Balfour Declaration taught in schools? William Dalrymple joins Zack Polanski to explain thedailybritain.co.uk/polanski-dal...