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The Guardian
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‘Basics’ of life in Britain have been sold for profit, says Polanski
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‘Basics’ of life in Britain have been sold for profit, says Polanski
Exclusive: England and Wales Greens leader outlines economic policy including help to meet rising energy costs and water re-nationalisation Successive governments have turned the UK from a manufacturing economy to one where the basics of life have been privatised and are rented back to people at a crushing cost, Zack Polanski will say. In a speech billed as the Green leader’s biggest policy intervention since he took over as leader six months ago, Polanski will argue that decades of gradual economic rebalancing in favour of a minority who own assets has left much of the country vulnerable to economic shocks such as the current rise in fuel prices. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/18/basics-of-life-in-britain-have-been-sold-for-profit-says-polanski?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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GeClef
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Inspiring speech
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Jonathan Portes
4 days ago
"Another example was Mahmood’s claim that if her “earned settlement” proposals are not implemented 'we will see a £10bn drain on our public finances and further strain on public services..this is a mix of the deliberately misleading and the completely wrong."
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British politics is hooked on flashy fake numbers – and the AI investment debacle proves it | Jonathan Portes
A claim that the UK is attracting billions of pounds in AI investment has been debunked. That’s no surprise when our establishment runs on dubious ‘good news’, says Jonathan Portes, a professor at Kin...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/13/britain-fake-numbers-ai-investment-politics
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Ian Dunt
5 days ago
We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.
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Space Yak 🇻🇪🇨🇺🇵🇸
6 days ago
The "Why can't the Green party stay as a narrow niche party we can safety ignore?" Is becoming quite a popular genre of article.
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paulusthewoodgnome
7 days ago
This imported Trumpian tactic of politicians point blank denying blatant reality is a further degradation of our political discourse. In adopting this strategy, Badenoch isn't just damaging the Tories, she's damaging our democracy.
#pmqs
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Shane Phillips 🏳️⚧️
7 days ago
If you want to know why Starmer's government are really so desperate to get rid of jury trials...
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Peter Stefanovic
7 days ago
🚨JURY TRIALS UPDATE
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Marina Purkiss
7 days ago
FACTS: Net Zero barely nudges your bill. Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof. So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.
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U Boy 1
7 days ago
JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran says it now considers US company infrastructure legitimate targets, including belonging to: • Microsoft • Palantir • Google • Oracle • Nvidia • IBM
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Peter Kay
7 days ago
“Nobody can claim to want the end of the Islamic republic more than we do. But attacking the country in this way will have the opposite effect. It will entrench the authoritarians and give life to the fiction that has sustained them internally for decades:.. “
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Iranians living in UK tell Starmer that war will only strengthen Tehran regime
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe among more than 100 signatories to letter urging PM not to get drawn further into the conflict
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/10/iranians-living-in-uk-warn-starmer-war-nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-letter?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Murshed Zaheed
7 days ago
“Comically unqualified, intensely partisan, and unflaggingly devoted to whatever ridiculous thing bubbled out of Donald Trump’s mouth five minutes ago” -
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unpacks the general traits of a prototype member of Trump cabinet - the worst in U.S. history. Via
@atrupar.com
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The worst cabinet in American history
And it's not even close.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cabinet-worst-ever
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Peter Stefanovic
8 days ago
More than 3,200 lawyers including 300 top barristers and retired judges have called on the government to drop a plan to abolish some jury trials
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Thousands of lawyers oppose jury restriction plan
Lawyers including top barristers and retired judges urge the government to drop a plan to abolish some jury trials.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2x01yne13o
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Marc Elias
7 days ago
Here is what the Democracy Docket team is tracking today: Active Voting Rights Cases: 167 Active Redistricting Cases: 50 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 92 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 72 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 32 Support their work by subscribing today.
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Marina Purkiss
8 days ago
Lets' brace ourselves... Our cost of living is about to rise. Again. Food. Petrol. Mortgages. Why? Because Trump needed a distraction from the Epstein files and another opportunity to make himself and his billionaire mates even richer And the result?
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Ghislaine Hull
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Peter Stefanovic
8 days ago
This is shocking. Labour lawyers ‘blocked’ from briefing MPs on jury trials overhaul before vote. The Prime Minister is completely out of control on this. MPs must come together and stop him from undermining & restricting a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...
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Labour lawyers ‘blocked’ from briefing MPs on jury trials overhaul before vote
Leader of rebel group says there is deep concern within Society of Labour Lawyers about courts and tribunals bill
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar/09/labour-lawyers-blocked-briefing-mps-jury-trials-overhaul
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Brian Tyler Cohen
9 days ago
“I didn’t vote for THIS,” say the manosphere podcasters who simply had no way of knowing that Trump would lie about being a populist to get into office and then govern like a autocratic lunatic once in power, other than the fact that he did it for 4 entire years before that.
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Left Of Center Orange Hater
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Robert Saunders
9 days ago
I thought this was a joke, but "Ms Badenoch has ranked MPs based on how well they are performing on X" is an actual quote from this article.
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Warren Mosler
9 days ago
Looks to me that with the functional closing of the straits the US has lost, and retreat is the only remaining option?
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Marina Purkiss
9 days ago
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD… Can we STOP with this ‘special relationship’ BS And also…can we wake up to the treachery of our right wing press?!
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Peter Stefanovic
10 days ago
David Lammy faces defeat in the Commons over his plans to curb jury trials unless he reverses his position, rebel Labour MPs have warned
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/07/rebel-mps-force-lammy-jury-trials-climbdown/
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The Guardian
10 days ago
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink: ‘Mourinho has black players at Benfica. How the hell must they feel?’
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Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink: ‘Mourinho has black players at Benfica. How the hell must they feel?’
The former striker recounts experiences of racism at Atlético Madrid but tells Sam Cunningham he ‘didn’t have it as bad’ as Vinícius Júnior
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/08/jimmy-floyd-hasselbaink-mourinho-has-black-players-at-benfica-how-the-hell-must-they-feel?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1772962615
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Peter Stefanovic
11 days ago
🚨Independent analysis shows these changes would make NO meaningful difference to the court backlog and there is no credible evidence it will make justice swifter - WHAT IT WILL DO HOWEVER IS PLACE US ON A PATH TOWARDS AUTHORITARIAN JUSTICE Is that what we want?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
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patthepublican2
11 days ago
Not only does the latest polling put the Greens ahead of Labour for the first time in history, it also shows that of those who voted Labour in 2024, only 37% intend to do so now: an astonishing collapse. To appease the billionaire press, Starmer’s government has burnt its house down.
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Dan Snow
11 days ago
Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.
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I've not seen this reported a where else. I'd be interested in confirmation from additional sources.
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Peter Geoghegan
11 days ago
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The Guardian
11 days ago
Malorie Blackman on Noughts & Crosses at 25: ‘It’s even more relevant today’
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Malorie Blackman on Noughts & Crosses at 25: ‘It’s even more relevant today’
Her YA classic was inspired by racism in 1990s Britain. A quarter of a century later, she talks about success, death threats and getting shoutouts from Tinie Tempah and Stormzy
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/07/malorie-blackman-on-noughts-crosses-at-25-its-even-more-relevant-today?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1772875211
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Anthony Painter
13 days ago
Much to my surprise, I have also become a tech sovereigntist. Tech fundamental to public and security systems should be under our control (sometimes in cooperation with similar countries- not US). The current sovereign AI strategy is shockingly weak.
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...
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Sovereignty for sale
Tech monopolies and the future of the nation state
https://open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/sovereignty-for-sale?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1qo0cv
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Athena Kugblenu
11 days ago
If you don't have red lines you're not a leader. You're a custodian of a world order built by bloodthirsty racists and you stand for nothing but the continuation of their ideals
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paulusthewoodgnome
11 days ago
"Keir Starmer is right to stand up to Donald Trump over Iran." Just posted on X.
@london.gov.uk
Simultaneously, backing Keir Starmer and holding his feet to the fire over any possible back-sliding.
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Grodaeu
12 days ago
Sánchez “It is absolutely unacceptable that leaders use the smoke of war to hide their failures and, in the process, line the pockets of a few — the only ones who win when the world stops building hospitals to start making missiles.”
www.ft.com/content/987b...
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How Pedro Sánchez became Donald Trump’s nemesis in Europe
Spain’s premier tells US president what no other European leader dares to say but some say he has miscalculated
https://www.ft.com/content/987bb3a4-76b2-41f0-9a9a-6c13159b4ba9
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God
12 days ago
When Charlie Kirk died,Trump lowered flags nationwide for him. 6 US soldiers die and not only will he not lower the flags nationwide for them, he just says “some people will die.”
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Dave Jones
12 days ago
Whaty what what?!!!?? China wow... 20,000 x 1.5MW charging stations to be built by the end of the year. The electricity is buffered in batteries to minimise grid impact.
carnewschina.com/2026/03/05/b...
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BYD unveils Blade Battery 2.0: 10-70% in 5 mins, 10-97% in 9 mins, and 20,000 flash charging stations in 2026
BYD's Blade Battery 2.0 charges 10-90% in 9 mins, pioneers smart, swift flash charging network.
https://carnewschina.com/2026/03/05/byd-unveils-blade-battery-2-0-10-70-in-5-mins-10-97-in-9-mins-and-20000-flash-charging-stations-in-2026/
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Chalkwitch Tiff
12 days ago
Oh bringing the receipts
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
and rightly so.
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so Rory. Carney comes round to your view, TODAY. Completely opposite to his position on Saturday. Starmer being moderate at that time was the right thing.
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James O’Brien
14 days ago
If I was
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have Rory read this please.
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Sathnam Sanghera
14 days ago
Spot on
www.ft.com/content/eaee...
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Be glad of Starmer’s caution over Iran
Bellicose critics of the UK prime minister have learnt nothing from the recent past
https://www.ft.com/content/eaeea2e4-7ddf-487d-9dc5-b17747ed6262
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Farrukh
18 days ago
Zack Polanski, "Keir Starmer is never going to appease the right by slowly moving to the right" "They just get worse and they drag the government with them" "I wouldn't be bothered except they're the government of this country and they're dragging us all down with them"
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
18 days ago
Instead of a government of humble and public-spirited officials, we see a leadership marked by arrogance and narcissism. Instead of a culture of truth-seeking, we live in a civic milieu dominated by a cynical, credulous, cultish political movement fueled by lies.
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DavidxRose
18 days ago
Every member of the Green Party needs to take this on board, we won't be able to transform our communities, our nation, our aspirational policies without MMT. It's in ever Green members interest to bone up on it, so we can all answer the difficult questions on the economy with clarity & authority!
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Athena Kugblenu
18 days ago
Perhaps the most threatening thing about Trump is that he's such a stupid, egotistical idiot, the worst humans in the world are able to operate without fear of American judgement. They laugh at him. Netanyahu, Putin, the tech billionaires, they operate with no restraint now
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Labour Left Podcast
18 days ago
This weekend every Labour Member and affiliated Trade Unionist should be angry beyond belief at what Peter Mandelson, Morgan McSweeney and Keir Starmer have done to our Labour party.
#GortonAndDenton
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Anonymous
18 days ago
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