Most of the UK is farmland – and bumblebees are struggling to find enough food on it 🐝🍽️ New research from 20 English farms shows that pollen and nectar levels are far too low for bumblebees to thrive. Leo Fordham and Prof Elli Leadbeater tell us more in our guest blog: https://ow.ly/2coK50Zu6xA

And now, a little Vivaldi. Michel Tirabosco, a renowned pan flute player, collaborating with Raphaël Froissart. He is a professor at the Geneva Conservatory. Born with physical differences, he began playing the pan flute at 7 and has achieved international recognition for his skill. #streetmusic

One picture is what Israel did to Gaza, the other of what Nazis did to Warsaw.

And if the xenophobic rotters don't stop putting their divisive flags up, well, the decent majority who don't need a flag in every lamppost to tell them where they live (or who belongs here) will keep taking them down 🤷🫡✊ This is a simple deflag guide to removing unwanted flags from our lampposts.

👉NEW VIDEO -- Locals are SHOCKED that Israel owns historic factory We travelled to Newcastle to uncover the story of the Armstrong Works, now owned by Israeli state-owned arms company Rafael. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQke...

Israeli security minister joins Jewish extremists as they storm al-Aqsa mosque compound

Israeli security minister joins Jewish extremists as they storm al-Aqsa mosque compound

Far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was among thousands who gathered at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site Israel’s far-right minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, joined thousands of Jewish extremists who stormed Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site on Thursday. Escorted by armed police, they prayed, waved the Israeli flag and sang the national anthem in a provocative display of political power. Continue reading...

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German broadcast. Nailed it

Thread (1/2) Last month we warned about the UK media ecosystem trying to ensure only a far-right party can be elected at the next election ... 99-percent.org/how-the-far-...

How the Far-Right Could React to Andy Burnham - 99%

How the far-right will seek to undermine a Burnham government, and how he should tackle the threat From the perspective of the far-right, any progressive government is a disaster: even […]

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I was asked yesterday what neoliberalism is. This is the answer:

Lots of grandstanding from BASC on this ruling, which is odd, because the ruling isn't really that significant. No licence required to keep gamebirds "imprisoned" in pens prior to release on protected sites, BUT A LICENCE IS STILL REQUIRED TO ACTUALLY RELEASE THEM ON PROTECTED SITES!

Raptor Persecution UK@raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 3w ago

High Court ruling on BASC's legal challenge against gamebird licensing on protected sites - some important clarifications ⚖️ Read the full judgement, and some commentary by me, on the blog ⬇️ raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/07/18/h...

Posting again. Because people said nice things about this and I enjoyed writing it. On blockades, supposedly vital commodities & economic resilience. engelsbergideas.com/essays/abrah...

Abraham Lincoln's war on King Cotton

Secessionists in America's South were convinced that Britain's mills could not survive without their cotton. They had not reckoned with how adaptable an economy under strain can be.

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Keir Starmer authorised hundreds of spy flights for Israeli intelligence during its genocide. That is his legacy. Watch our film revealing those spy flights that the national media refused to cover, and helped Starmer get away with it. 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fk3...

Britain's Gaza Spy Flights Scandal - A Declassified documentary

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Save the Children clashes with Labour after accusing Starmer of ‘complicity’ in Gaza deaths

Save the Children clashes with Labour after accusing Starmer of ‘complicity’ in Gaza deaths

Government – which provides significant portion of charity’s funding – is understood to have demanded an explanation The charity Save the Children has angered the government with a social media post marking Keir Starmer’s impending exit from Downing Street. The organisation suggested on X that the outgoing prime minister was complicit in the deaths of thousands of civilians in the Israel-Gaza war. Continue reading...

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In the unlikely event you hadn’t guessed…he was elected as a Tory MP @bbcnews.bsky.social, but having had the whip withdrawn, is STILL an MP - an independent - drawing his £98,599 pa. Plus expenses.

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3w ago

Am I alone in finding it super weird that there is literally not a single sentence about which party he was elected with only two years ago? In this or in the two previous articles on this? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all” @petergeoghegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan

Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS – and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale

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“In 2018, just 299 people arrived in the UK by small boat…By 2022, that number had skyrocketed to 46,000. Why is this the case? Because leaving the EU also meant leaving the Dublin III Regulation…let people be transferred between states accordingly.” #RejoinEU www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...

Kate Nicholl: Small boats are a by-product of Brexit

Writing for Belfast Live, the Alliance Party MLA Kate Nicholl argues that the number of unlawful small boat crossings which are now happening on a scale that simply hadn’t been seen before Brexit.

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If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️

Christ! Imagine that headline about 🇬🇧 Universities. We’d think they’d completely lost their minds. 🇺🇸!!!! GET A GRIP.

Watchdog Progressive@watchdogprg.bsky.social · 4w ago

What have we become? 👇 ‘We will never use them’: the California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine guns. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Ugh, I hadn’t thought about Fox since leaving the Nazi site, so I’m displeased that he’s going to be in the news because of this. Who will roll up next, I wonder? As long as it isn’t Hopkins it’ll be fine. Imagine if Count Binface won this? He won’t, but it’s fun to think about. 😁

The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4w ago

It is day three of the Faragian Farce in Clacton, and the clown car is filling up. Laurence Fox has now joined the race, which is bad news for Count Binface as it appears he has lost his position as the comedy candidate to a man with no bin and fewer jokes. 🐻

The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot

The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot

There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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The Select Committee report on student loans does not pull its punches & says loans were effectively missold by not saying T&Cs could be changed retrospectively. A core recommendation is that the cost of university should be split 50:50 between student/govt committees.parliament.uk/committee/15...

Government has ‘moral obligation’ to reverse freezing of student loans repayment threshold - Committees - UK Parliament

The government has a moral obligation to reverse the decision to freeze the threshold at which student loans are repaid, a new report published by the Treasury Committee says.

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My nine-year-old son Mohammad, killed by Israeli soldiers, is not just another number | Alia Abdel Majid Al-Hallaq

My nine-year-old son Mohammad, killed by Israeli soldiers, is not just another number | Alia Abdel Majid Al-Hallaq

Mohammad was shot after going to play football – and we joined the 54 families in the occupied West Bank whose children were killed by Israel in 2025 alone, says Palestinian mother Aliyah Abdel Majid al-Halaq

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🧵I’d rather spend my weekends doing something else than post about Nigel Farage’s murky finances, but his behaviour poses such a threat to our democratic norms that I wanted to flag a number of points in the public interest.

Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal

The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals

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Liz Truss set up CPAC Great Britain with a lawyer who used to work with sanctioned pro-Russian oligarch Firtash Many of guests at Truss’s gathering have also parroted Kremlin talking points New by me on Democracy for Sale open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Revealed: the Russian ties of Liz Truss's radical right conference

CPAC UK was set up by a lawyer who worked with sanctioned 'notorious kleptocrat' - and speakers include politicians linked to pro-Kremlin networks and Moscow talking points

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The £17 billion of tax HMRC is choosing not to collect youtu.be/cNej_KOdbQU?... That's enough to pay for 50,000 council houses a year, and HMRC don't seem to care that it's being lost.

The £17 billion of tax HMRC is choosing not to collect

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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“Immigration officers have told the BBC that since the UK left the European Union, it has become more difficult to check criminal records from some other countries.” Brexit made it much harder to control our borders. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

People smuggler convicted in France found by BBC living in UK and seeking asylum

Once described as "the godfather" of French migrant camps, he has been working in a Leicestershire village.

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My mother has died and I can mourn her. That makes me one of the fortunate | Shada Islam

My mother has died and I can mourn her. That makes me one of the fortunate | Shada Islam

For those dying in wars from Gaza to Sudan, there is no shroud, no grave, no funeral, says Shada Islam, a Brussels-based commentator on EU affairs

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After years of silence from the UK govt in the face of genocide and war crimes in Gaza, the Home Office is now moving the goalposts for Gazans trying to escape to safety. With the genocide ongoing and hundreds killed since the ceasefire, the UK must do all it can to support refugees from Gaza.

Asylum seekers no longer able to rely on war in Gaza alone to support claims

ASYLUM seekers will no longer be able to rely on the war in Gaza alone to support their claims after new Home Office guidance. Officials have rewritten the advice used by caseworkers after concludi…

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🚨🚨Breaking: The #US ambassador in #Brussels had Belgian police stop reporting by @eurcorrespond.bsky.social on the Freedom 250” celebration – paid by private companies, organised by the three US embassies in Brussels, marking the 250th anniversary of the US. europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/the-us-...

The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting

Yesterday evening, the United States held its ”Freedom 250” celebration – paid by private companies, organised by the three American embassies in Brus

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Report shows Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza. UN independent international commission of inquiry examined violations against Palestinian children since the start of the war in Gaza. 30% of those killed by Israeli forces have been children

Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds

Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist

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