Lockdowns showed that states can pour massive resources into making the politically impossible happen quickly, the public will accept huge changes if they understand why they're needed, and that we should listen to scientists. Something to remember when it comes to action on climate change.
One day you or I may need to cross a border in desperation like this and, if and when we do, every one of us would hope to be treated, and indeed discussed, with more dignity and respect than these people, rather than dehumanised and hated for our misfortune.
This has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform council chief threatens to report café boss who fed kids for free to cops
EXCLUSIVE: Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook café in Hastings, and Labour MP Helena Dollimore have been told by East Sussex County Council chief Andy Woolley that he plans to contact police after...
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Just sitting on the pavement and clapping is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement & clapping. Andy Burnham can stop this. But he isn't. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com
The result in the UK is a country that now keeps hundreds of political prisoners, a country in which you can get six months in jail for marching slowly down the street. Protest here is acceptable as long as it’s useless. Let the people have their say, but only if we can’t hear them.
At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Nigel Farage: the controversies A chronology of claims, contradictions and crookedness.
Trump is: -Starting wars/committing war crimes -Unleashing ICE & National Guard on US cities -Insider trading with friends & family -Alienating allies -In the Epstein files -Selling pardons & trying to pay J6ers -Destroying US institutions, their people & trust in them The GOP: LET’S GET FAUCI!!!
Anthropic shredding millions of rare books should be a crime. It’s also a perfect encapsulation of what utter shit generative AI is and how it fundamentally makes the world worse.
Finding this quite hard to stomach from a country that is bombing the shit out of other countries…
Well that was a very concise argument for America's cultural irrelevance.
Lots of people commenting on how unsporting Argentina’s players are, but let’s be fair and remember that they are also very racist.
French federation files complaint over ‘racist’ song by Argentina players
The French soccer federation pledged to file a complaint with Fifa over ‘racist and discriminatory remarks’ by Argentina players after their Copa América final win
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Inequality is at the root of most of our social ills. It could be fixed with a wealth tax. And Gabriel Zucman has a cunning plan | Stephen McNair
Fixing inequality: just tax the extremely rich
Inequality is at the root of most of our social ills. It could be fixed with a wealth tax. And Gabriel Zucman has a cunning plan
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As a charity, our volunteers at Llanymynech Canal Wharf visitor centre work hard to inform visitors about the Montgomery Canal. Due to the lack of water in the canal they can't run boat trips, so your visit would really help support them. Diolch yn fawr iawn. #UKCanals
First they polluted our democracy and sense of connection, now our water.
Dr. Jack Brown@drjackbrown.bsky.social · 4w agoMeta is contaminating public water supplies with deadly bacteria. Cupriavidus gilardii is resistant to multiple antibiotic agents (even Carbapenems) and can cause fatal human infections.
Over at my newsletter, I wrote about the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to fix (read: insert) "bias" in AI chatbots. And did I mention people are now consulting the bots when trying to figure out how to vote? www.readtpa.com/p/trusting-c...
Trusting Chatbots with Our Ballots (At the Worst Possible Moment)
Voters are letting chatbots help fill out their ballots. The Trump administration has spent a year making sure it controls what the chatbots say.
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Worth a read. BBC News - Met investigate donation to Jenrick's Tory leadership campaign www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Robert Jenrick: Met investigate donation to Tory leadership campaign
The former Conservative, now Reform UK, MP says the allegations are "entirely false".
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Palestinians brace as Israeli settler figures in coalition seek to cement West Bank gains before election
Palestinians brace as Israeli settler figures in coalition seek to cement West Bank gains before election
Growing number of farm outposts using violence to seize territory, a process seemingly enabled by radical elements in Netanyahu’s government
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Breaking News: President Trump called the head of FIFA days before the suspension of Folarin Balogun, the U.S.’s top goal scorer in the World Cup, was reversed. trib.al/x9mGfAs
How are things in Belfast? Are the people with Legitimate Concerns about paedophilia attacking unionist politicians’ homes in response to the Donaldson verdict? They aren’t? How strange. Their Concerns seemed so Legitimate when they were burning foreigners out of their homes a few weeks back.
Reminder that at one point when Zuckerberg was trying to break into China he asked Xi to name his child and Xi was “for the love of God, have some self-respect you weirdo”
Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2mo agoZuckerberg is such disgusting toadie for Trump that he had his CHILD write a suck up letter www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
The Court of Appeal judgement on Palestine Action is frankly bonkers. It says PA is not "a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open." Right: the arson, bombings, slashings etc were all planned in open meetings in Parliament Square 🙄🧵
Brexit: "the economy is significantly smaller than it would otherwise have been, trade has suffered, business investment and productivity growth have stalled, and families are on average thousands of pounds a year worse" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts
Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU
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14.06.2017 💚 72 of my neighbours died OTD 9 years ago. No one has been prosecuted. No one's in prison. And the remains of the building are quietly being demolished to hide their embarrassment. Tragic & shameful.
In Samuel L Jackson's voice "Lets tax these motherfucking trillionaires."
