James
@djimsta.bsky.social
Londoner who's spent his life building timber framed homes in the countryside, so best of both worlds. On the flip side. Absolutely horrified that my government are participating in a genocide and the only reason is profit, can't wait for the reckoning 🇵🇸
"Bread is often the only thing standing between a family and hunger - an empty stomach, for the day.For just $2,we can place a bundle of bread into the hands of a family.Yet even this is becoming harder to sustain.We are asked by them:Why would you cut back when bread is all that's keeping us alive?
Zack Polanski delivers ‘reality check’ to Burnham over ‘biggest crisis since WWII’ after summer of extreme heat
Three lions held at the Tokyo Zoo have died from heat stroke. Four lions remain so ill that they're unable to stand. The average heat index in Tokyo in July was 110°. And we are in just 1.4C of global heating. We are on track for 3C in my kid's lifetime. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/w...
Professor David Miller has secured an extremely important judgement that holding anti Zionist views is now a legally binding protected characteristic under Equality legislation. This will particularly help Doctors and others who have been targeted by UK Lawyers for Israel. youtu.be/YzQ_KFOyRt0?...
Anti-Zionism protected by UK law
YouTube video by David Miller
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"Former International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan said he and his family have faced threats and sanctions linked to the court's investigations, including its case concerning Palestine"(QNN) #US #ICC #Israel #Palestine
So the firms that produce products that are CAUSING our heatwaves, droughts and floods are set to profit even more from Trump & Netanyahu’s war on Iran.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d agoBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A £240m contract with the Ministry of Defence, a £330m deal with the NHS, but only £2m of tax in the UK 🤔 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/palantir-corporation-tax-uk-2024-accounting-practices
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss
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👉NEW -- UK charities face inquiry over Israeli settlement funding by Martin Williams Charity Commission announcement follows Declassified’s investigation into donations to illegal settlers www.declassifieduk.org/uk-charities...
UK charities face inquiry over Israeli settlement funding
Charity Commission announcement follows Declassified’s investigation into donations to illegal settlers
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Animal dewormer and a drug used to treat scabies are being sold and promoted as unproven cancer treatments. Amazon withdrew drugs after being exposed. Others still selling. Profiteering from vulnerable people. Yet neoliberals oppose regulation.
Undercover reporter offered fenbendazole and ivermectin as cancer treatment
A terminally ill man was offered the drugs by a stair lift salesman claiming they could shrink tumours.
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A civilian medical plane went down after an experimental US military GPS jamming test reportedly disrupted its radar. Every person aboard lost their life. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
As Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millions
Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause
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How. Is. That. Possible? Now convicted of repeatedly defrauding the NHS & sentenced to 4yrs prison. Hussain's extraordinary campaign of fraud dates back to July 2014, when he was a Labour candidate, ramping up after his election defeat, continuing until September 2022. apple.news/A1RZqyEAaS0-...
Ex-Labour candidate used fake Oxford degree to land NHS jobs - then swindled £170k on sick leave — Daily Mail UK
Amran Hussain has been jailed after his trail of deception finally came to an end when he was arrested at a cottage he was renting from his aristocratic landlords.
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Nooo wtf !
Fionna O’Leary@fascinatorfun.bsky.social · yesterdayHow. Is. That. Possible? Now convicted of repeatedly defrauding the NHS & sentenced to 4yrs prison. Hussain's extraordinary campaign of fraud dates back to July 2014, when he was a Labour candidate, ramping up after his election defeat, continuing until September 2022. apple.news/A1RZqyEAaS0-...
Have to say… when Jenrick thought he needed to be a one-nation Tory to make it in Cameron’s govt, he went for it. Then a firm remainer. Then a Brexit evangelist to catch Johnson’s eye. And now full fash to creep up to his new far right gang. The needy little twat really wants to belong, doesn’t he…
“The US military is using Newport docks and other Welsh infrastructure. This has nothing to do with defending Britain and everything to do with servicing America’s wars". Welsh media covers our exposé on a US ammo ship quietly docking in Newport, Wales👇 nation.cymru/news/bomb-sh...
Bomb ship mystery: US military vessel docks in Newport as questions grow over Wales' role in Iran conflict
Nation Cymru staff Anti-war campaigners have raised concerns over reports that a US military ammunition supply ship, the MV Sagamore, docked in Newport, south Wales, on Friday 24 July 2026. According ...
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One picture is what Israel did to Gaza, the other of what Nazis did to Warsaw.
ICC CHIEF PROSECUTOR: “Oppose Israel and we will go after your family — You have been warned. Rubio, McConnell sent me a letter… what’s liberating is accepting mortality.”
NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
Liddle to be celebrated
An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.
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Listen to this back of bollocks by Rachel Johnson. @lbc.co.uk a reminder that Martin Forde KC concluded in his report, commissioned by Keir Starmer and ignored by the media, THAT THERE IS A HIERARCHY OF RACISM. Jewish lives are prioritised in this country 1/2 youtube.com/watch?v=Zbmv...
LBC silences Femi for criticising Israel - Rachel Johnson
YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!
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One piece of good news: Scottish seabird hunt cancelled for first time in 400 years NatureScot refuses licence for hunt on Hebridean island of Sula Sgeir in which up to 2,000 gannet chicks are killed
Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy. Datacentre prioritised over building affordable homes. Little attention to environmental issues. Govt overturning local council refusal is not devolution or democracy. Big business always wins.
Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy
Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes
theguardian.com
‘The market’ didn’t decide that AI would be our future. Capital did. And when the devastating consequences of their decisions become clear, capital must be made to pay. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/data-centr...
Data Centres and Democracy
The AI boom was planned by capital. When it collapses, capital must be made to pay.
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Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
The idea that a politician must wait until genocide is determined by any judge or Int'l body, is an absolute nonsense, a fiction. The Genocide Convention established two obligations on third states - punish and *prevent* - precisely to avoid undue delays to action. Rohan Talbot MAP
This entire incident was a perfect example of policing directed by landowners and their priorities, not policing in the public interest or justice. They can stage full-scale operations for this, but ask them about illegal hunting, and it’s a different story.
Our Encounter with Northamptonshire Police - the private security for landowners and local hunts
How far will the police go to protect hunters and landowners?
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Cuba’s ageing power grid collapsed on Sunday after a weekend of outages and amid US-imposed fuel shortages.
Grid failure plunges Cuba into nationwide blackout
Cuba's ageing power grid collapsed on Sunday after a weekend of outages and amid US-imposed fuel shortages.
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