BREAKING: The Muslim prayer room of Cafe Raha in Blackburn was fire bombed today, but thankfully, there was no synagogue nearby, so we're not bothering with a Cobra meeting x

Till the day I die, I will never understand how anyone can look at these grasping, crypto funded, hate filled, facist, flag shaggers and think “I’m sure they have my best interests at heart.”

Sainsbury’s boss urges UK govt to help ease rising energy costs for food producers. Numerous companies demand subsidies. Will they cut profit margins, exec pay, dividends, share buybacks? Govt can help all by ending profiteering by energy companies, £125.7bn profit since 2020. Nationalise energy.

Criminal syndicates England's water companies have 1,200+ criminal convictions. Execs rewarded for dumping sewage. Occasionally fines on companies are announced but then waived or deferred. No corporate licence to operate revoked. No exec fined/prosecuted. One law for us, another for them

Royal Mail privatisation scandal Today price of 1st class mail rises to £1.80 - an increase of 10p; 2nd class, by 4p to 91p. When privatized in 2013 by Tory/LibDem Govt: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. Royal Mail hasn't met letter delivery targets, but price still rises. Regulators do what?

BREAKING: Pete Hegseth vows revenge against Iranian air defence operators who launched a completely unprovoked attack against the F-15 that was trying to blow up their schools and hospitals 👀

Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy

"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?" Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

Everyone in America protesting and standing up to this tyranny are heroes and I’m in awe of you. I am in the UK. I’ve seen the footage. It was murder.

#blueskyart Joining in...

I played with my paints for the first time since last summer. It felt heavy but also healing. It's hard to create art knowing I won't be able to share it with my mom. Acrylic on paper monoprint. #printmaking #art #healing

Fifteen Jewish people getting killed on Bondi Beach doesn’t magically make genocide and apartheid okay, and it doesn’t magically make it okay to support those things. Supporting Israel was evil the day before the shooting, and it remained evil the day after. None of that changed.

Point 1: Obviously it is evil to massacre civilians for being Jewish. Point 2: Obviously Israel's genocidal atrocities must continue to be opposed, and will continue to be opposed. Today the worst people in the world are trying to pretend Point 1 and Point 2 are contradictory.

Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people. Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot? What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?

Labour’s economic plan will take years to deliver, Starmer says. Made difficult by poor policies. Could have Aligned taxation of dividends and capital gains with wages, lift personal allowance. Nationalised energy/water, end profiteering, cut inflation, reduce business and household costs.

Minister defends 'pragmatic' U-turn on workers' rights. It was a manifesto pledge Why no 'pragmatic' U-turn' on nationalising water, energy, rail rolling stock companies and freight; ending privatisation of the NHS and social care; taxing the super rich?

Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news. Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters Down by 140k isn't thought to be. Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.

MAGA math.

Peter Thiel is in the Epstein emails, enjoying himself. Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi. Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data. Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation. You can't make it up.

Found issue where we did a Bananaman multiverse. Wayne put in versions of me and him, as well as BanAlanMoore

The onus for stopping a genocide is on the party committing the genocide. The onus is not on the victims of the genocide to end it by meeting certain conditions. This should not even need to be said. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-onus-i...

Post Office Horizon IT scandal victims to get new appeals process & funded advice, says govt. Good. Now do the same for infected blood, mortgage prisoners, Orgreave, Hillsborough, nuclear tests, Grenfell, 1950s women, bank frauds, other victims of injustice up against corporations and govt depts.

Water company United Utilities promised to spend £129m to connect private septic tanks to the mains network and reduce sewage pollution. Spent £76.7m over the last 25 years. UU paid nearly £13bn in dividends since privatisation Can't trust water companies www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Corporations holding Govts to ransom. CEO of Eli Lilly, $114m pay packet last year, says the UK is “probably the worst country in Europe” for drug prices. Big Pharma cartel wants the NHS to pay more for drugs, make bigger profits. Govt must manufacture generic drugs, end profiteering.

Indictment of England's children in residential care, mostly corporate controlled. Annual spend £3.1bn, paid by local councils, spend per child £318,400, 22% profit, leaves less for frontline service. Poor value for money. Children not properly cared. But govts insist on privatisation.

Dictator-esque Nigel Farage plans backing torture, jailing kids and paying jihadis. Scrap UK human rights protections, lock up women and children, jeopardise peace in Northern Ireland, risk going to war with the church. Opposes worker rights, supports fracking. This after supporting Brexit.

Fuck Israel. I support Plasticine Action.

Crime is roughly half what it was in the 90s. Britain is still one of the safest countries in the developed world. So why does Reform want you to think London’s a hellscape? The Bear provides the answer ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

"We must also praise the courage of ordinary Russians taking to the streets of Moscow, in St. Petersburg and beyond, under the threat of repression, to show their opposition to this despot" - David Lammy addressing Parliament. Right, British citizens being arrested for taking to the streets.

There's absolutely fuck all evidence that Palestine Action are sponsored by Iran or Hamas. There is overwhelming evidence that the Labour Party front bench and more, are sponsored by the terrorist state of Israel.

Interesting to speak to former Conservative Deputy PM Lord Heseltine for this latest edition... "Oswald Mosley marched against the Jews in the 1930s. Enoch Powell made the 'rivers of blood' speech in the 1960s. And Nigel Farage represents a new incarnation of that degree of prejudice & bitterness"

England water bills will rise by a third to fund crisis of privatisation. People already paid. Companies didn't invest, paid £85bn in dividends. Customers to pay again for service they don't get. Companies raise capital from customers, shareholders take profits. Why are they not investing?

The poorest households in Slovenia and Malta are better off than the poorest in the UK. UK has some of the least generous welfare across the OECD Yet govts still push failed trickle-down policies, real cuts to wages and benefits, unchecked profiteering, oppose higher taxes on the rich.

Water Commission Report Illusions of change - To make privatisation work. Bills to rise Compulsory meters. Regulators urged to refrain from fines for sewage dumping, leaks Dividends OK Voluntary code for corporate governance, won't empower people/workers, can't be enforced in any court of law.

Andrew Foley: John Cooper Clarke in the Style of LS Lowry 🙏

Best and most effective explanation ever written.

I'll never get used to the way I'm watching my own government and its allies support the most nightmarish shit I've ever seen in my life every single day in the middle east and yet people keep trying to convince me to be really fearful and hateful toward Muslims.

Jess Phillips effectively calling 4 Labour MPs knobheads for standing against poverty... ... Isn't just disappointing... It's hypocritical AS FUCK!

This week in the Beano, Bananaman visits his old friends in Dandytown.

From criminal to victim: prostitute’s cautions must go now Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is being urged by campaigners to abolish 'prostitute's cautions', which leave sex workers criminalised for life | Trevor Russel @centralbylines.co.uk

RMT demands public control of Merseyrail after £212m in private profits RMT has written to Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram calling for Merseyrail to be taken into public ownership, citing excessive profiteering by private operators. rmtunion.org/44X3EBr

Thames Water hosepipe ban for 1.1m people across Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire. No new reservoirs built since 1989. TW loses 592m litres of water a day to leaks Neglected investment, paid dividends Dumps sewage. Bonuses for execs, misery for people.

Reeves to say cuts to City red tape will bring trickle-down benefits to households. Don't do it. Most post-2008 regs repealed. Regulators now requiredd to promote growth of City. Capital requirements diluted. Will end in tears. Boost manufacturing. Redistribute wealth to rebuild economy.

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

It remains, along with the welfare cap, the undisputed worst policy of my lifetime. Piling on future costs and present misery for zero benefit beyond a few Sun and Mail page leads.