This has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform council chief threatens to report café boss who fed kids for free to cops

EXCLUSIVE: Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook café in Hastings, and Labour MP Helena Dollimore have been told by East Sussex County Council chief Andy Woolley that he plans to contact police after...

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I don’t actually blame her. But media companies need to be responsible and check whether such stories stand up. Poverty is a real problem in the Uk. Let’s not falsify it.

We're thrilled to announce our Brontës Season, six seminars over six months beginning this September. Discuss the lives and work of three of the greatest English writers of the early nineteenth century: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/brontes-season

If anyone would like to see a short video of a baby Armadillo having a drink of milk, this is your lucky day.

There's not enough water to water the fucking hydrangeas for goodness sake www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says

Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’

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#OtD 21 Jul 1936 this iconic photo of 17-year-old socialist Marina Ginestà was taken by Hans Gutmann after the start of the Spanish civil war. She was a journalist and translator who was given the rifle to pose with. She survived the war. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e39-...

Gaza mourns as families are buried after Israeli attacks leave dozens dead, including children and displaced families.

Palestine weekly: Ahead of elections, Israel doubles down on attacks

Gaza mourns as families are buried after Israeli attacks leave dozens dead, including children and displaced families.

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In June 2026 median gross pay of a payrolled employee was £31,584. £26,260 after income tax and NIC. A single person needs to earn £30,500 a year to reach a minimum standard of living. A couple with 2 children needs £74,000. 25.3m Britons, including,7.7m children live below minimum standard.

Thames Water, the poster child of predatory capitalism announces hosepipe ban. TW loses 200bn litres annually to leaks. Dumps tons of sewage in rivers. Paid dividends, neglected investment. No new reservoirs since 1989. Massive hikes in customer bills. Numerous criminal convictions.

Thames Water announces hosepipe ban for 10.1m customers

The water company said the three heatwaves contributed to the ban.

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Lucy Telles (1870-1956) with grandchild, basket weaver of Yosemite Miwok and Mono Lake Paiute descent #WomensArt

Holding Govts to Ransom JP Morgan boss warns of ‘consequences’ if Burnham taxes banks. Warns of capital flight, lower investment. Can't recall bankers objecting to bailouts, quantitative easing, subsidies. They want obedient govts. Who governs? People v Corporations.

JP Morgan boss warns of ‘consequences’ if Burnham taxes banks

Higher taxes on sector could threaten plan for £3bn headquarters in London, says Jamie Dimon

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I couldn’t do that ‘greatest one line in a song’ thing because I couldn’t narrow it down, but I can tell you what the most *blues* blues lyric is: “If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all”

Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Albert King

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Capital Welfare Rolls-Royce wants £3bn UK govt subsidy. Spending £9bn in share buyback. It could raise money from shareholders, lenders. It wants free non-returnable cash. No Govt equity stake. Threat to move manufacture if govt does not capitulate. archive.ph/gLgnn

Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save Britain's Juries

Juries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries.

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Priority number one should be to improve journalist teaching 🙄🙄🙄

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Great to see the Guardian champion the SHAPE (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) subjects, but this piece gives impression that they are expensive, whereas many are 'cheap to teach' subjects subsidising more expensive subjects, mainly in STEM and medicine. The crisis demands better understanding.

You really should read this. I'm not usually a huge fan of stories about stories, but this is more than that - a story of a real conspiracy, of those whose stated mission is to hold power to account silenced or cowed by that power until it's too big to ignore. Epic @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 3w ago

NEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇

57 years ago today, humans first landed on the Moon. The source code that helped get them there? It’s on GitHub. Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team responsible for Apollo’s onboard flight software. (Image credit: Draper Laboratory; restoration by Adam Cuerden, via Wikimedia Commons.)

Was hoping for someone more pro women's rights ☹️

FiLiA@filiacharity.bsky.social · 2w ago

💜 We're pleased to see @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social reappointed as Minister for Women and Equalities. ⚖️ There must be no rollback of women’s, girls’ and lesbians’ rights as the Equality Act 2010, as clarified by the Supreme Court, is implemented. www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...

Ffs 👇👇👇

Sam Puzzo@sampuzzo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Once again the women get no credit.

Burnham: “I’d like you to remain as Culture Secretary.” Nandy: “I’m Culture Secretary?”

Not content with poisoning the world with their president...

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 2w ago

Have you noticed an opaqueness to the blue sky this morning? Wildfire smoke from North America is drifting south across the UK, meaning the clear skies may not be as blue as you might expect 🌤️

Football in exile In 1946 Spain had two national teams. After the civil war, a Spanish Republican team was formed from exiled players. They included Emilio Aldecoa, who became the first Spanish footballer to play in the English league when he joined Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1943.

Spot on

UK writers, no matter which sector you work in, the Writers' Guild of Great Britain has your backs.

Writers' Guild of Great Britain@writersguildgb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today we launch a new free guide for videogames writers on how to navigate your contracts to understand your employment status and to ensure fair and equitable terms Find out more + download the new guidelines 🔽 writersguild.org.uk/games-contra...

German broadcast. Nailed it

Bright poppies at Burghead, with a view over the Moray Firth, northern Scotland, photo by Elena Reid (via BBC).

#OtD 16 Jul 1862 feminist, writer, and anti-racist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells was born. Wells' investigative journalism documented lynchings in the American south, and she was one of the founders of the @NAACP stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8788...

The state of some of the responses to this. They REALLY hate the fact that women are not going to accept being libelled. “Nazi” “Bigot” they squawk. Never mind fucking facts. Never mind that this organisation lied, got rumbled for it, and is being duly dealt with.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

Amnesty UK self-reports to watchdog after calling JK Rowling women’s centre ‘anti-rights’

Traders at Brixton market fight back against private equity takeover of the site, want community ownership. PE will kill the market, currently owned by a Texas billionaire. Once it is gone, it's gone forever. Solidarity for resistance to big business, PE and financialisation of everything.

‘It’s like home’: Brixton market traders fight to stop site being sold to big business

Campaign hopes to buy site for community, fearing it could go same route of corporate gentrification as Camden and Old Spitalfields

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Call me a radical leftist, but the courts determining the President of the United States is a rapist should be grounds for immediate removal. Post anything here: interactink.vercel.app