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The Government have u-turned on ID Cards. Good. Authoritarian plans to scrap jury trials need to go next.

ICE are detaining Native Americans. The irony of this is so painful and yet another humiliation in the long line of humiliations to the native peoples of the Americas.

“We will call time on our union’s inexcusable habit of propping up politicians who act against our interests, undermine our fundamental values and make our lives worse…. it is simply unacceptable for a Labour politician to describe striking workers as ‘morally reprehensible’”. Andrea Egan✊

Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence

BBC News - Resident doctors in Scotland to go on strike for first time www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A doctor has been arrested outside HMP Bronzefield at a protest calling for an ambulance to be allowed in to treat hunger strikers 👇

Opinion | "Any Health Secretary should be making allies of the workforce, not enemies," writes Andrew Fisher trib.al/PxH4Akx

Not only is Andy Bell in @piccadillyrecs.bsky.social’s Albums Of The Year list, his version of ‘i’m in love...’ – featuring @dotallison.bsky.social and @michaelrother.bsky.social – is on their ‘Compilation 2025’ as well...

Just seen this, love it, and from where else but Bromley, the spiritual home of English Punk! Well played people, well played.

🚨I am delighted to have been elected as UNISON's next General Secretary. This is a win for ordinary UNISON members. Read my statement below:

Lovely stat!

Wes Streeting is smearing and blaming Doctors for the current NHS crisis, yet he blasted the Tories from opposition for doing the same thing. Some defend Streeting saying he has negotiated with Doctors and sorted out their pay dispute. Here’s what Doctors think about Streeting and his solutions…

Britain’s Equalities Commission continues on its crusade to persecute trans ppl. It is quoted as saying ‘Nobody is expecting there to be a toilet police.’ In fact members of the so-called gender critical have asked for armed men to police the loos! The journo writes of ‘controversy and anger …

Harry Cole of Sun interviews Connor Tomlinson - who advocates banning ethnic minority MPs from parliament Tomlinson regrets sacrificing Suella Braverman but feels sure (on no evidence) she would sacrifice herself to remove the risk of Kemi Badenoch, Rishi Sunak, Priti Patel & Shabana Mahmood!

Just heard Wes Streeting on @lbc.co.uk saying the BMA were out there like "Moaning Minnies". Classy.

We cannot tolerate this from Wes Streeting!🚨 Here’s the link: jujuliagrace.substack.com

Our government tried to let racist, genocidal Israeli football hooligans rampage on Birmingham's streets. They smeared those opposed to this as being driven by hatred of Jewish people. Now listen to what the West Midlands Chief Constable told MPs. What a scandal.

Calls for Norman Bettison to be stripped of knighthood after new Hillsborough report

“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says. Misleading and nasty in equal measure.

🚨This is a scandal! The government lost thousands of public responses to their railway consultation. That means that if you want to end the private rolling stock ripoff, or cut fares, or end competition law in the railway, your voice was silenced. Take action here: weownit.org.uk/act-now/rail...

Our comment on the Budget, in the Guardian.

Great response from my union about the appalling, racist targeting of primary schools. Fascists hate trade unions because they unite people and give us collective power. The hate teacher unions because they also defend our pupils ✊

Minnesotans are standing up for their neighbors and fighting back. ❤️💪🇺🇸

Victoria Canning, who has spent more than 10 years researching refugee rights in Denmark, writes about the lessons that can be learned.

When Adil Ray challenges Liz Kendall over Labour echoing Reforms policies, Kendall says that because people in her constituency are being targeted by racists the govt has to go after refugees and asylum seekers #GMB

I see right-wing journalists are attacking me again over a wealth tax. Here's a simple fact they never mention: British billionaire wealth has more than DOUBLED since 2010 ▪️2010: £250 Billion ▪️2025: £620 Billion Yet workers' wages have been flat. Tax extreme wealth, not workers!

Fly well, Mani😥

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “A few tech-oligarchs are clearly influencing electoral processes. We’ve seen it in the UK, Germany, France, Hungary…and I’m sure we will see it in Spain.” (El Pais)

New research from Z2K shows that a punitive benefits system pushes people away from work and harms the economy in the process.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

"FCK NZS" 📍Vasco da Gama, Brasil

Missile defence is back in the headlines from President Trump’s renewed push to the film #HouseofDynamite, where defence fails dramatically. Can missile defence really protect us? We've got answers ➡️🔗https://www.icanw.org/can_missile_defence_against_nuclear_attack_work

#OtD 28 Oct 1932 hunger marchers were attacked by police in Hyde Park, London. 3000 unemployed had set off from across the UK in Sep. Met in London by over 100k supporters, they tried to give politicians a petition of over 1 million signatures when attacked

It seems a good day to repost this rousing Michael Sheen speech for the Welsh football team ahead of the World Cup in 2022 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Reform council tax, Cosla urges ahead of Scottish Parliament election. Councils tackling a combined funding gap of £647m, with the workforce down 11% since 2013, Meanwhile, costs and demand for services such as housing and social care continue to rise. www.holyrood.com/news/view,re...

Living Rent's campaign is working.

MPs will not be given time in the House of Commons to discuss Prince Andrew's conduct because the royal family wants Parliament to focus on "important issues", Downing Street said www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Taking the seasonal flu vaccine is the best way to protect yourself and the person you care for from flu As a carer you are entitled to free flu jabs, book yours today: https://www.carersuk.org/help-and-advice/your-health-and-wellbeing/flu-jabs

The silence of the Westminster lobby as one of their own backs calls for me — an elected Member of Parliament — to be deported is telling. No condemnation, just bootlicking of their proprietors and jostling for Zone 2 dinner party invites. Our media class is rotten to the core.

Our Autumn Conference has voted overwhelmingly to oppose the anti-democratic proscription of Palestine Action and the criminalisation of peaceful protest. “The people of Gaza, of the West Bank, of every refugee camp and occupied village, deserve solidarity, not censorship."

The National's front page today highlights how genocide was allowed to happen in Gaza, accompanied by a four-page special report 👇

A ‘Golden Age’ of #nuclear? I co-authored with a set of key academic experts. www.newcivilengineer.com/opinion/a-go...

🧵 Sinister stuff. Jenrick, a Tory leadership candidate, says he didn’t see a White face in an area, & that it looked like a slum. This is a v old racist dog-whistle. Then when challenged on it, he accuses journos of fomenting terrorism. He’s clearly in fascist double-speak mode [1]

HMG Home Office reaction to multicultural peaceful anti-genocide vigils in London www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

During the UK's Starmerian period, vandalising an aeroplane with spray-paint is terrorism while attempting to burn down a mosque with people inside is a hate crime. History will not be kind. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I believe that the measure of a civilised country is how well it cares for its most vulnerable members. The difference between politicians and me is that I look the palliative care patients they are failing in the eye. So I will put it to you directly, @wesstreeting.bsky.social:

This is Trevor Fisher, speaking to @channel4news.bsky.social from Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridgeshire this week. As a palliative care specialist, Trevor’s interview has devastated me. His hospice has just been told Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is withdrawing £800k of funding. 🧵