"The politicians basically serve the rich, the wealthy, and their self-interest." Listen to this man in Nigel Farage's constituency.
@frenchbill.bsky.social
Crops are dying from the drought & these water guzzling monstrosities are allowed to go ahead ! Data more important than food !
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
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This should be the biggest news of the week. www.npr.org/2026/08/02/g...
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns
The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...
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It's been an absolute honour to visit Clacton fewer times than I've visited America, hold zero surgeries and do fuck all for the town.
French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. You’re only diminishing yourself with comments like this.
Kemi Badenoch certainly seems to be advancing with her agenda to turn the Conservatives into Reform.
Badenoch Slammed After Former Neo-Nazi Activist Chosen As Tory Election Candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine is the creator of the Crewkerne Gazette.
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11:15am yesterday, our village. Are these the first migrants from Ceuta to reach Dorset? A number of young lads in Cub Scout uniforms leapt out of a minibus & invaded Jill’s shop. They had no idea what Apple Cobbler was and taunted Simple Sally with their woggles. Deport. Now.
#Thatcher destroyed social housing in the UK under the guise of right-to-buy. She used the poor as a vehicle to launder social housing into the hands of her private landlord friends. "Increasing home ownership" was just a crude marketing ploy to make privatisation of social housing palatable. Evil!
Thought For The Day largely seems to be "news has happened, here's a cackhanded simile about Gethulia from the Book of Maps and her throwing a stone at a cat and it turning into a holy crumpet". I prefer the ones where they just talk about a debate within their religion. At least it feels honest.
Humanists UK@humanists.uk · 2d agoRather than allowing humanists to contribute to Radio 4's Thought for the Day, the BBC's current format requires all speakers to frame political and current affairs commentary through a religious or scriptural lens. Yet half of the UK is non-religious so why not let us speak?
Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed for antisemitic offences and harassing a Jewish MP. He says Conservative officials knew everything before approving him.
The pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC has spent a jaw-dropping $30M+ in tomorrow's Democratic primaries in Michigan and Missouri. But if you saw their attack ads, you'd never know it was them. Watch.
Meet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026
Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou
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Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election. Convictions for assaulting police officer, burglary of a police station, malicious communications, anti-semitism, racially aggravated harassment, harrasing MPs. Tories chasing Reform vote.
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
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Yes! The French are just sighing and looking disdainfully across the channel at these populist brexity twats. They feel sorry for us. Forced into not-so-splendid isolation by a bunch of flag-waving losers.
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Very obliging of #r4today to lead with Reform’s ‘plan’ to stop the boats using the Royal Navy, pretending it’ll be some great WWII-style escapade, rather than a hateful, costly, diplomatically incontinent mess. A total waste of everyone’s time as they’ll never be in power and it’s unworkable anyway.
Doctor here-Story time: I received a call today from a sick friend in another state, & I recognized it as a neurological emergency sent him to ER. Likely diagnosis: Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis, which can cause blindness. 1 of the authors of original 1990 diagnostic criteria: Anthony Fauci MD🙌🏻🫡
We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.
Nicolas Chinardet@zefrog.eu · 3d agoAnd why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?
Anti-ICE advocates rallied outside the DHS office near Cincinnati after Haitians losing TPS were summoned for mandatory check-ins. Protesters report officials are fitting people with ankle monitors and issuing new court dates. Community members stand united against these aggressive tactics!
Study Shows Microplastics Contaminate HALF Of All Freshwater Insects #SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #insects #PlasticPollution #Freshwater #ecology grrlscientist.medium.com/study-shows-...
Study Shows Microplastics Contaminate HALF Of All Freshwater Insects
Plastic pollution is not limited to the world’s oceans: it is present in freshwater ecosystems too, where it is far more pervasive than…
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““baffling” company with such substantial debts should be making such a large donation…“This adds to the litany of recent examples where a lack of transparency has left the true sources behind political donations open to question.”” Yet more suspect RefUK finances. observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform given six-figure donation by firm that received £6...
Nigel Farage’s party is facing questions about the lack of transparency over £100,000 in funds donated by a management consultancy
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It just keeps on coming… Farage struck deal to return as leader long before Sunak called surprise 2024 vote, so his claim that he wasn’t involved in politics when he got his £5million “gift” is, of course, another grubby lie. The man is garbage. Grifting, lying, cheating garbage. (Sunday Times)
Farage would be nothing and nowhere without his crypto, fossil fuel climate denial, pro Russia billionaire backers & bankers ... meme via Stephen Fisher
Turn failing water firms into not-for-profit cooperatives, MPs and mayors tell PM. Issues: Corporate debt would be transferred to co-ops. Co-ops would borrow for investment at commercial rates, not govt rates. High debt and debt servicing cost, higher bills. Need public ownership.
Turn failing water firms into not-for-profit cooperatives, MPs and mayors tell PM
Labour politicians say mutualised model puts public in control without adding debt to government’s balance sheet
theguardian.com
Please everyone- watch this! Thank you again Sal @badassmutha.bsky.social for sticking up for those on benefits and for those on pensions (the lowest in Europe). We worked all our f***ing lives -40+ years for me in a challenging job) so it’s NOT A BENEFIT! As for the Triple lock! More on this 🤬
Badassmutha@badassmutha.bsky.social · 3d agoA little update from @noholdspod.bsky.social with @donmcgowan.bsky.social on the much mooted benefits bills, including ALL the facts. Not just the selective talking points MSM stick to😤 youtu.be/dL_dqC5iuAQ?...
"Led By Donkeys has received compensation after a giant banner reading "Yes It's A Genocide" was seized by Greater London Authority officials and destroyed. The banner, displayed in Parliament Square in Dec 2024, was taken by GLA reps and later destroyed by waste firm Veolia." via Truth Against Hate
CEO of Anglian Water, England's worst-polluting water company, handed extra £1.3m despite govt ban on bonuses for failing firms. Companies circumvent rules to reward execs for dumping sewage, fleecing customers, neglecting investment. Govt/Ofwat do nothing.
England's most prolific polluters hand water boss extra £1.3m - despite ban on bonuses | LBC
Last year, the government delivered new legislation to prevent underperforming water companies from offering bonus payments to their executives.
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