I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:
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🌹Labour's NEC: after 25 years I’m standing down, and supporting loyal, energetic candidates who go beyond the old factions: Cat Arnold, current member & vice-chair for women; Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, Clacton candidate in 2024; and Kerry Postlewhite, campaigner and internationalist. Please vote for them🌹
If you find yourself struggling in the water, or if you fall in unexpectedly, Float to Live. Relax and try to breathe normally. Tilt your head back and submerge your ears. Use your hands to help you stay afloat. Once your breathing is under control, call for help or swim to safety.
NEW: The attorney general, Richard Hermer, has told his office to no longer post on X, making it the first UK government department to stop using the Elon Musk-owned platform amid increasing worries about its use to incite violence and racism. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
UK attorney general tells staff to stop using X amid disinformation concerns
Exclusive: Richard Hermer’s department understood to be first in government to restrict use after recent riots
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A generous review of my book, Off-White. Especially appreciate its recognition that my background as an Arab-Jew informs my approach and perspective: quakersocialists.org.uk
Quaker Socialist Society
Uniting the Quaker values of equality and peace with the Socialist values of equality and peace
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Trump promised his ballroom wouldn’t cost you a penny. Now, Senate Republicans are asking taxpayers to foot a $1 BILLION bill for it.
Island kids in Fiji can’t get to school because boat fuel prices have skyrocketed. They have a message for world leaders.
"Small boat crossings are still increasing" reports the BBC's flagship Radio 4 Today programme. Editors could check BBC Verify, which reports they are down 35% year on year. The trend began Sept 2025, though crossings rose before that, but falling for over 6 months now if compared like with like.
Scottish artist Elizabeth Keith’s woodblock print of a famous teahouse in Shanghai ~ a “two-story pavilion with sweeping eaves and red lattice windows built over the water on timber piles”, created in 1924 in Japanese shin-hanga style www.villageantiques.ch/tea-house-sh...
Thread: 1/4 The usual siren voices are giving us Maginot Line thinking for a blitzkrieg world Hybrid warfare - the kind we actually face - works by exploiting inequality, division and social breakdown. Disinformation finds purchase in communities that feel abandoned.
Ministers are exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. I've signed the open letter to Wes Streeting calling on him to get Palantir out of the NHS. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/we...
Wes Streeting: Trigger the break clause and get Palantir out of the NHS - Foxglove
Wes Streeting: trigger the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS. ADD YOUR NAME NOW!
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Nearly 1 in 6 UK species are threatened with extinction. We've lost 97% of our wildflower meadows since the 1930s. We have 73 million fewer birds than in the 1970s - a decline of almost a third. And yet some politicians still just see wildlife as a blocker to progress.
How do we rebuild Labour’s electoral coalition? 🗳️🌹 The 2024 election saw Labour win a landslide, built on targeting key voters in marginal seats. In this pamphlet, @jamespren.bsky.social examines why Labour has struggled to hold its coalition and how a progressive one could be built.
My analysis of Labour's problems has been published by the @thefabians.bsky.social . Lost support has mostly gone to left-liberal parties. To regain support, I argue Labour needs to go in a more progressive direction & create a progressive coalition to beat Reform. fabians.org.uk/publication/...
Uneven ground | Fabian Society
Fabian Society
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Thank you #royalmail for a delivery of post this afternoon in #StLeonardsOnSea. It's been at least a couple of weeks of nothing. This is today's pile of 18 items, including financial documents from March 21st, an Easter card, and a document I paid for to be dispatched on March 20th.
My Article on how NHS waiting times are improving within Hastings & St Leonards was published in the Hastings Independent. It can be viewed in the following link: www.capturepolitics.co.uk/post/east-su...
East Sussex sees strong NHS Improvements
This article outlines the major improvements within the Sussex NHS trust 2025. It uses data from the trust to outline the improvements.
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EXCLUSIVE: Ministry of Defence lawyers knew of a whistleblowing report that said British troops were exposed to radiation, but failed to tell judges. A minister wept as she made the admission to Parliament. Here's What They Don't Want You To Know: open.substack.com/pub/whatthey...
Minister admits government lawyers knew about radiation cover-up
The Veterans Minister wept as she made the admission and MPs demanded a one-year public inquiry
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This one went up like a rocket yesterday. I suspect in part because people are exhausted by a story of the country - both Reform/Tory and trad/Blue Labour flavours - that bears little resemblance to reality. And it matters for trust, economy and society. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyp...
The workers politics forgot
Modern politics has a picture of work that is half a century out of date. And it contributes to lack of political trust and a weaker economy and society.
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'Renaming the organisation would not have killed it, while the choice it has made could well do.' 'Gen Z are famously inclusive, more likely than any other generation to identify as LGBT+.' An own goal, and nasty with it.
Girlguiding didn’t have to do this to its trans members. There was another way | Zoe Williams
Girlguiding’s response to last year’s supreme court ruling is not the humane option – and changes the organisation’s identity, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘They singled out non-white, foreign-born workers’: the restaurants raided by Britain’s version of ICE
They’re not armed and they keep a relatively low profile. But the Home Office’s immigration compliance and enforcement officers have searched thousands of business in pursuit of illegal workers. Are t...
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Despite laws 60,000 UK workers didn't get the minimum wage. Culprits include Browns Manufacturing, BUPA, Busy Bees Nurseries, Costa, Hays Travel, Hovis, ISS, KPMG, Norwich City Football Club. None forgot to the pay the bosses. Corporate fines passed to customers. No exec fined
Hundreds of employers handed penalties for illegally underpaying workers
389 employers from across the UK named for failing to pay workers the minimum wage to tens of thousands of workers.
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It's all kicking off outside. The Great British Beak Off. #hastings
Why only fossil fools would blame renewable energy for a fossil fuel crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot
The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Student loans: how fair is our repayment system? Today our Treasury Committee is launching an inquiry into this very topic - and we’d like to hear from young people in particular. Anyone over the age of 16 in the UK can feed in to our inquiry here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Microsoft Forms
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Yes, but we wait until 2028 to come up with (another) plan...
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5mo agoLouise Casey: England’s social care system faces ‘moment of reckoning’
📜 The House of Commons just debated the Representation of the People Bill 💥 Great to see more Labour MPs joining the call for a National Commission on Electoral Reform 📺 @patrickhurley.bsky.social @catsmithmp.bsky.social @chriscurtis94.bsky.social & @jamesnaish.bsky.social 🌹 #Labour4PR