Rachel Millward calls for the re-nationalisation of water without compensation as water companies are insolvent and we ought to own our crucial water infrastructure.

1. Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist.

Lots of talk about 'the lanyard class'. Not enough discussion of the Rolex class.

Diesel in the UK reached record levels this week. Now, It begs the question, how much would Scotland’s last refinery be making just now? Note- Price is from March 2024 following an increase in the price of fuels in 2023. And yet Westminster continuously denies us the right make our own choices!!!

This was the real Labour Tradition that McSweeny came from and look what happened when it got exposed to the glare of national politics: full bore cash for access, giving Mandelson a sweet bribes-gathering job for services rendered, winning by default then exploding immediately.

We're not just talking about how the national party was run by a faction of spivs and wankers centred around Mandelson, with people like Maurice Glasman being brought in for unclear reasons. This stuff is fractal down to the local level.

If you've spent any time working with the Labour party, you'll be well aware that its institutional structure is biased towards corruption, little local fiefdoms, bungs for access, and horrible shits running roughshod over members. None of this is a liability, apparently.

Capitalism has now reached the stage at which companies openly admit that their products represent 'an existential risk to humanity'. And then invite investors to pump money into them anyway.

Yo @labouruk.bsky.social

Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.

Zack Polanski's call for Palestine Action to be de-proscribed sparked huge applause and had Green members on their feet during his speech at the party's autumn conference

Since 2019, 286 people have been sentenced to prison for supporting Palestine or opposing Climate Change. Release all of them that are still in prison.

Rhun ap Iorwerth at the Plaid party conference: "We stand with the people of Gaza against the Israeli governments heinous genocide"

Chinese Govt owned Syngenta to cease operations at Grangemouth, 400 jobs at risk. Previously oil refinery closed. England-based British Steel rescued. What would govt do now? UK govts oppose state ownership but let foreign govts own infrastructure. Why? Any industrial strategy?

Chemical firm to cease operations at Grangemouth site putting nearly 400 jobs at risk

The move comes just over a year after Syngenta, owned by state Chinese firm Sinochem, was given more than £2 million in Scottish Enterprise funding to expand its Scottish site

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The NHS is trying to silence us for criticising Palantir, but we’re not bowing down to the pressure https://goodlawproject.org/is-this-the-first-ever-slapp-by-our-own-government/

Is this the first ever SLAPP by our own Government? | Good Law Project

The Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t

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According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼

Great to be condescended to by dickheads for saying that the cuts would come immediately and the gains would be booted into the far flung maybes, only for the PM to say that's exactly what was going to happen mere days later.

Which one is Hiroshima and which one is Gaza?

Labour voters = Tories who read the Guardian.

🗣 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "Through our sustained pressure – and our historic wins – we have held the worst instincts of the Labour government in check. And we have started to move them in the right direction. But we can't wait for them to get there on their own." 👏

“Now consider that Netanyahu predicted a major event would happen the day before, and he politicised the attack immediately after. Trump is now saying that if it was Iran, we will hit them hard. This is working out awfully well for Netanyahu, isn’t it?” open.substack.com/pub/councile...

Here is why we now know the Flydubai story must be false

Here is why we now know the Flydubai story must be false.

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"We're facing extreme housing costs, rents have just spiralling out of control for a long time now" @rachelmillward.bsky.social explains why the Greens are proposing rent controls.

#BBCBreakfast: "Earlier this year RAF Fairford was used by US bombers as part of military action against Iran" But remember folks, we're not involved in the war.

As the Green Party conference begins, @zackpolanski.bsky.social is calling for rent controls. Meanwhile over in Labour Angela Rayner, the secretary of state for housing (who back in June took £20,000 from an anti-rent control lobby group) has ruled them out.

It’s just football… it’s just a game… www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Rui Pinto: Hacker who released Man City documents fears for life as he prepares to lose witness protection

Portuguese computer hacker who released documents which led to the Premier League investigation into Manchester City set to lose his witness protection despite fears for his life.

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Andy Burnham on Sunday. Beths tweet yesterday.

See this waronwant.org/news-analysi...