Genocide in Gaza 73,041 Palestinians killed 595 aid workers killed 260 journalists killed 81% of structures destroyed/damaged 58,000 children have lost one or both parents 87% of cropland damaged 850,000 in need of emergency shelter items www.ochaopt.org/content/repo...

Palantir came to Parliament today… A clear sign that our voices are being heard and the lobbyists are worried. Keep Palantir out of our public services 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

“Judge says lawyer misled jury in Palestine Action trial” This is a witch-hunt. Jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience, irrespective of the directions of a judge. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Britons owe £7bn to water, broadband, energy companies, Real wage cuts, inflation-busting price hikes force millions into hardship. Some lower tariffs for targeted people but the cost is loaded onto other customers, profit margins not cut. Govts moan about national debt, silence on household debt

Investment in our security must reflect the world we live in. Starmer's plan won't be worth the paper it's written on if it doesn't address long term threats we face: not just aggressive foreign powers but cyber attacks, food & water insecurity, pandemics and climate breakdown.

The famous "Wedges" paper was used repeatedly to shut us up when we argued against the continued use of fossil fuels, and, esp, against carbon capture and storage and the mass use of bioenergy. "But these eminent scientists say ..." Now we learn BP co-authored it. www.propublica.org/article/wedg...

How many years lost, how many 00s of billions squandered through the blatant scientific corruption here, in the writing of a paper that became the backbone of government policies around the world? It still informs UK govt policy, as @thecccuk.bsky.social leans heavily on its unproven CCS claims.

🚨🚨Perhaps a bit too pessmistic and depressing but a very strong and compelling piece by @rolandmcs.bsky.social feeding a lot of needed realism into the UK #rejoin debate. rolandmcs.substack.com/p/on-rejoin

“The Burnham wave is effectively an act of collective projection, where various groups are putting their – often competing – hopes on to the former Greater Manchester mayor, on the possibility he might just deliver them.” My col. in today’s paper: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

After the storm A rainbow appeared Over the town hall And they tried To tear it down

The Universe May Contain Minds Stranger Than We Can Imagine ‘…a fundamental concept in philosophy called “substrate flexibility,” which describes how the same materials can have multiple different properties […] Schwitzgebel and Pober argue consciousness could also be “substrate flexible”…’

Burnham is facing huge challenges and for many there are no obvious solution. But on Gaza and Israel it would be relatively easy to communicate a break with Starmer. For example, by banning trade with Israeli settlements. If Burnham wavers on this, he would likely waver on harder issues. 2/2

For the incoming UK PM Burnham, changing policy on Palestine/Israel is a low hanging fruit that could serve as an indication of his political courage. To be sure, foreign policy is not his comfort zone. At the same time, he's aware of the damage Starmer's approach has done. 1/

"Under Donald Trump, the US is throwing parties for the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. But these are not, as you might think, official, Congress-approved parties, but organised by a private company called Freedom 250." /4

🚨🚨Breaking: The #US ambassador in #Brussels had Belgian police stop reporting by @eurcorrespond.bsky.social on the Freedom 250” celebration – paid by private companies, organised by the three US embassies in Brussels, marking the 250th anniversary of the US. europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/the-us-...

Tech billionaires are getting richer while we pay the price for the real-world harm their platforms cause. The "neutral host" loophole lets them off the hook for pushing dangerous content. MPs are demanding emergency laws to make them pay. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

This is Keir Starmer's legacy.

Blimey!

An uncomfortable truth. When rejoin is made conditional upon introducing the euro support falls sharply. Polling suggests therefore that support for rejoining the EU is soft. Rather, Brits are primarily annoyed by loss of FoM and not really up for making a substantial commitment to the EU project

It's horrible, watching this unfold, and witnessing the lack of awareness and concern. It feels like standing on the wrong side of the plate glass, frantically banging and shouting warnings, while no one inside can hear you. Can't you see what's coming? Have we learnt nothing from the past?

Don't imagine for one moment that the UK is immune to such forces. That was the fantasy of every former "democracy" that succumbed to illiberal forces. Surely our own lords and masters would never do such a thing? They're all good chaps, play a straight bat, respect checks and balances ... aargh!

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

The 'Hamas run health ministry' Adam Johnson (who's written a book titled 'How to Sell a Genocide) on how & why western media adopted the term.

Sanchia Alasia from Endometriosis UK and Sophie Wilkinson discuss the idea of menstrual leave.

Financial pandemic: £1 in every £11 spent on UK public contractors goes to private equity £24.4bn of public spending on contractors went to PE PE profiteering destroyed town centres; devoured water, vets, energy, dentistry, social care, rewarded by govt PE exec income taxed at capital gains rates

30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel. Now no one dares.

Meanwhile Trump is gloating about the oil money he stole from these poor people

“it is not being treated as terrorism.” “A Somalia-born British man was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and attempted murder” Weird. Imagine them saying: “An Irish-born British man, An Australian-born British man, A Swiss-born British man etc.“ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Blair shames our country — as well as himself, still more — by being a part of this genocide-enabling outfit.

The myth of the UK as a meritocracy. Andy Burnham becoming UK PM will see the first PM educated at Cambridge University since Stanley Baldwin in 1937. 18 UK PMs post-1945 so far: 14 out of 18 (78%) Oxford Univ; 4 others: 1 Edinburgh; 3 didn't attend univ: Churchill, Callaghan & Major.

Heatwave news should be saying - this shows climate change is here not coming - so water/food shortages & massive climate migration are much nearer than you think But no, just loads of 'its very hot, we're going to need Aircon' Dumbing down of journalists & presenters was incredibly well done

Is this why I am seeing fewer bees? www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

"I was completely cut off, and I felt really abandoned" Gaie was recalled to jail just because the prison service couldn't find an electronic tag that fit her. She was discriminated against because of her age and gender, so we're helping her sue the Ministry of Justice⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/9np5

On parle beaucoup des souffrances humaines pendant cette canicule et elles sont terribles. Mais les souffrances animales font partie des grandes oubliées. Qu’ils vivent en liberté, dans des élevages ou à nos côtés, ils subissent un véritable calvaire depuis 10 jours. (1/11)

We uncover truth and hold the powerful to account. Take action, donate and join the Amnesty movement to protect human rights. www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved... This is time sensitive! Please do this asap 🙏🏼 It takes 20 seconds

If these findings are accurate, they expose the staggering extent to which Palantir is taking from our country while giving back as little as possible www.opendemocracy.net/exclusive-ho...

Top Andy Burnham pick advised Thames Water creditors. Advised the likes of Glencore, Google and Amazon. Big business will be pleased with political lobbyists parachuted as gatekeepers. Cognitive capture. Any chance of a trade union leader being parachuted into the inner spaces? archive.ph/b8F4J

Justice minister Jake Richards on the media round this morning (still) defending & justifying the govts plans to remove our right to trial by jury in some cases. Tell us again how Andy Burnham should be restricted to only doing things that were in the manifesto.

"... after Trump captured the Venezuelan president" If soldiers from another country (not at war with us) raided London in the middle of the night, stormed Downing Street, murdered several people & kidnapped the PM, would we describe him as being captured? Of course we wouldnt

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... What goes around, comes around. Any country sending people back to this regime will never be forgiven. History remembers and it doesn’t forgive.

The country needs leadership that matches the scale of the climate crisis.

Politics should work for everyone, not just those who can buy influence. But amazingly there is no limit on how much money can be spent on politicians. Add your name to demand that our political system should never be put up for sale #PoliticsNotForSale action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/192730/...

Guardian: "Hospitals in England declare critical incidents as machines and IT fail in heat" This is a must-read quote from Dr Hilary Williams, clinical vice-president of the Royal College of Physicians... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

FIFA already has rules against discrimination. Now enforce them. End the ban on gay World Cup players by 11 participating countries! #EndTheGayBan

Seattle protest demands FIFA enforce its own rules. Time for a wealth tax on the mega rich. Fox News rages against 'gay' fudge. The latest #PTFweekly is out. READ & SUBSCRIBE for FREE: https://mailchi.mp/petertatchellfoundation/ptfweekly405