Derek

@derekl.bsky.social

Retired software engineer, indie rock and roll for me.

“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.” Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.

It makes me wonder whether Prescott actually consulted the original source himself & doctored it or simply took dictation from someone else. A person, for example, who had helped insert a right-wing lobbyist who hadn’t done journalism for over 20 years into such a potentially important position…

James O’Brien@mrjamesob.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

As the US edges closer to bombing Iran, Israel killed over 51 starving Palestinians at a so-called aid site today. And the UK government says nothing. Still arming Israel. Still enabling genocide. End all arms sales. Sanction Israeli war criminals. Stop being America’s poodle.

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🔴The Sheer Scale of the Conservative Local Government Auditing Scandal Is Only Now Becoming Clear Billions of pounds in spending remains unaccounted for, with the National Audit Office unable to sign off the nation’s accounts bylinetimes.com/2024/11/27/t...

The Sheer Scale of the Conservative Local Government Auditing Scandal Is Only Now Becoming Clear

Billions of pounds in spending remains unaccounted for, with the National Audit Office unable to sign off the nation's accounts

bylinetimes.com

Looking at the response from SeeTickets Glastonbury - my progress went from 0.03 to 0.04 (on a scale of 0 to 100) and it has been on 2 bars the whole time.