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Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor. www.ft.com/content/38a5...
Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor
British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor
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⚡️ Russian drones strike cargo ship in Black Sea, kill captain, Zelensky says. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that a civilian ship was attacked by two Russian drones, adding that it was a Turkish-owned ship transporting corn.
Russian drones strike cargo ship in Black Sea, kill captain, Zelensky says
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky confirmed that a civilian ship was attacked by two Russian drones, adding that it was a Turkish-owned ship transporting corn.
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The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Also worth noting planning is just one part of what the Environment Agency and Natural England do. This would be an enormous change and even if you don’t care about the environmental impact of development there’d be huge disruption to work on flood resilience, waste crime, nature recovery, etc.
Carlson is such a vocal champion of Russia that its regime must value his persistent allyship & advocacy. Given he talks so much about Russia, & visits Russia, this scale of ignorance must be embarassing (The UK has twice the gross GDP with half the population) bsky.app/profile/unit...
UNITED24 Media@united24media.com · 3d agoWatch Tucker Carlson get a quick economics lesson after claiming Russia’s economy is bigger than Britain’s.
💰 #LFC have missed out on numerous players to #MCFC over the years. But after inflating their revenue by more than £900m, it sheds new light on their superior spending power. Here are 10 players City beat Liverpool to sign while breaking financial rules. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/footba...
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‘They showed no mercy’: mapping the Rohingya villages being erased by rebel forces
Nearly a decade after the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya people by Myanmar forces, satellite images show the insurgent Arakan Army is now emulating the killings and land grabs
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NEW: The story of why Barcelona owe their famous colours to Liverpool #lfc
The story of why Barcelona owe their famous colours to Liverpool
This Is Anfield
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The thing that gets me about these lurid anti-Zionist statements, like the one the Greens just passed, is that it is *so fucking easy* to criticise the Israeli government without engaging in that type of language.
They looted US to make billions for themselves. Ill-gotten gains must be forfeited. The money belongs to US.
My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion
We’ve seen that American capitalism is one of the harshest forms of capitalism on the planet. How did it get so bad?
While Farage slurps oysters and sips champagne with billionaires, the people elected to represent Britain’s communities are walking out the door. Read here: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-reform-uk-councillors-37730240
At Cable Street, 90 years ago, the people of London’s East End fought Mosely’s fascists and were successful. Unfortunately, the fascists are back. And, as Tony Benn reminded us, the same battles have to be fought over and over again.
What about going after tax avoiders? Every year, HMRC, by its own estimates, fails to collect 46.8 billion of tax. See webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/202606... How about hiring more people to retrieve this avoided tax before suggesting cutting welfare to the poorest and most vulnerable?
Kemi Badenoch on the BBC saying that there are ‘loads’ of people cheating the benefit system without having any data to hand to back that up - ‘I’ll get my team to send you our figures” - reminds me of the unsubstantiated BS that Trump comes out with. We deserve better than this.
"We ask women why they don't come forward when sexually assaulted. It's because we live in a world where an abuser can become president.
"Donald Trump’s second run at the White House promised a mass deportation scheme that would rid the United States of its undocumented migrants. In office, it is a policy that is being implemented to brutal effect – and one that Palantir is at the centre of."
Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3d ago🔎 From the archive: Was Peter Thiel’s controversial data firm – which holds contracts with the UK’s NHS and Ministry of Defence – targeting democratic dissent as well as illegal immigration? WIRED confirms ICE stored information about protestors in a Palantir-built database #PalantirSpyTech
Am on LBC with Matthew Wright talking about Nigel Farage saying he thinks people were 'quite impressed' by the £72m political donations to Reform UK….
Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:
📚 CULTURE & IDEAS (Edition 90) Global capital is threatening a takeover of the essence of football – but it’s that essence that makes the sport such a commodity, writes @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social Read the full piece below.
Global capital is threatening a takeover of the essence of football – but it’s that essence that makes the sport such a commodity, writes James Bloodworth
Global capital is threatening a takeover of the essence of football – but it’s that essence that makes the sport such a commodity, writes James Bloodworth
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The Conservative Party is “authoritarian” and attacking the “free press” by banning journalists from its conference when Kemi Badenoch called Reform precisely that for doing the same. bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Successive governments have been asleep at the wheel in preparing us for the impacts of the climate crisis. It appears that DEFRA couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to wildfire risks until jolted into doing so by Britain burning this summer.
Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires I discovered via an FOI request that DEFRA’s commitment in the National Adaptation Programme to run a “wildfire risk programme” since 2023 “was not brought into effect”. #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires
FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear
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Own a mobile phone? Then you’re paying the ‘app tax’. It’s a racket and it’s time the UK faced Apple and Google down | Chi Onwurah
A deep-seated duopoly allows the tech giants to exploit the public and developers. But the regulator has powers to stop this abuse – it should use them, says Labour MP Chi Onwurah
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Suella Braverman’s parents emigrated (they were horrible economic migrants not from a war zone she hates). She went to Cambridge for free and didn’t collect £27k debt like everyone else. Scrounger. She used the Erasmus scheme to study in France. Which she has blocked. Horrible
