🔴 Reform Council Leader’s Firm Advised £95 Million Project Which His Own Council Is a Partner In Exclusive: Cllr Paul Mackings’ consultancy has advised on the South Tyneside College relocation since 2021 and his firm gave £111,000 to Reform UK weeks before he stood as a candidate

Reform Council Leader’s Firm Advised £95 Million Project Which His Own Council Is a Partner In

Cllr Paul Mackings' consultancy has advised on the South Tyneside College relocation since 2021 and his firm gave £111,000 to Reform UK weeks before he stood as a candidate

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Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

In eigener Sache: Peter Thiel erhält den Axel Springer Award 2026 - WELT

Unternehmer und Investor Peter Thiel ist der diesjährige Preisträger des Axel Springer Awards. Die Auszeichnung soll auch ein Zeichen für Meinungsfreiheit und offene Debatten sein.

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

Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket. Never before has a politician gloried in having enriched themselves by breaking the rules, and then demanded a mandate to continue doing so indefinitely

Nigel Farage’s 'Pro-Sleaze' By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness

The Reform leader's desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam Bienkov

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Love this.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · last mo.

Campaigning in Greater Manchester today and just running through some life lessons...

Labour. What is the point if they are just going to ape Reform? #VoteGreen join.greenparty.org.uk This planet is dying and only the Green Party will do anything about it

Mike Galsworthy@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · last mo.

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

Sorry about the cliche, but this really is "First they came for ...". You might be comfortable with a loss of rights for people with whom you disagree. But you might not have grasped that this is everyone's loss. Which group will next be classed as terrorist, because it opposes government policy?

Some of us in the media, especially in The Guardian and alternative outlets, have been frantically trying to draw attention to this vast shift, but it's not enough. It's all too easy for people to miss it, or dismiss it as "it's just Palestine Action, or Extinction Rebellion, nothing to do with me".

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

What the Palestine Action appeal decision tells us about terrorism law

An already broad law is now matched with broad ministerial powers

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Huge gangs roaming around the centre of London with rifles and swords, many on horseback #LondonHasFallenEtc

It's time for Elon Musk to pipe down.

It's pretty disgraceful that there has been absolutely no mention of this from the Prime Minister. It's increasingly clear that some attacks, correctly, warrant disgust, emergency measures and days of media coverage. Others seem to be met with silence.

Manchester Evening News @manchestereveningnews.co.uk · 2mo ago

Bolton imam Hassan Patel, 42, lives at the property with his wife, four young children and his nephew

How did we get to a position in the UK where you can be jailed for wearing a t shirt that says you don’t support genocide, but you can openly post and verbalise support for mindless riots and no action will be taken against you?

The UK Government is spending £369m refurbishing Buckingham Palace for King Charles, who has £22bn and gets £500m more a year. He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country. Oh and of course we're skint

It is overwhelmingly clear that non-white Brits are much more likely to be stopped, detained, disbelieved and mistreated by the police than whites, yet the BBC has spent the entire week giving oxygen to the far-right fantasy that the complete opposite is the case. Here’s what I think is going on

The BBC’s ‘Two Tier’ Journalism Boosting Reform and the Far-Right

Why is our national broadcaster giving so much oxygen to the racist fantasies of the far-right?

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The working class Welsh mining ancestors of my children loved knowledge, wisdom, manners, compassion, education When did working class begin to mean sexist, boorish, racist, rude That’s an upper middle class Farageist construction

Neoliberalism has landed the UK with a housing crisis. Real wage cuts, reduction in workers share of gross value added, profiteering and forced sale of social housing has left millions struggling for a home. Can't deal with social problems without abandoning neoliberalism.

The housing crisis is manufactured. We can end it.

Wage cuts and the right to buy are to blame

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If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

Immigration make Britain brilliant

Samsung family in South Korea pays off record $8bn inheritance tax bill. IHT rate is 50%. The family said that "paying taxes is a natural duty of citizens". It establishes a benchmark for others. Can you imagine the super-rich doing the same in the UK?

Samsung family pays off record $8bn inheritance tax bill

The bill is tied to the estate left by the firm's late chairman Lee Kun-hee, who died in October 2020.

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Starmer and Labour going after Palestinian protesters, and anyone that criticises Israel.. Meanwhile, all the right-wing newspapers caricature Polanski in the worst possible way. Who exactly are the Anti-Semites here?

Ben Phillips@benphillips76.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

How many times do we have to say it? AI is a disaster. It needs stopping. It needs stopping now.

Robin Tudge@robinoi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... bloody hell

Just 56 people hold more than the combined wealth of 27m Britons. They can buy politicians/govts. The poorest half holds just 4.6% of the wealth Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. Can't build good society without equitable distribution of wealth.

Waging war on poverty and exploitation is the only way to build a resilient society

The problems caused by neoliberalism cannot be addressed by bigger doses of neoliberal policies which prioritise profits and corporate interests over people’s welfare

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For years, Israel has exposed UK government hypocrisy and lawbreaking by openly using British weapons to commit war crimes and genocide. So the government has come up with an elegant solution: simply shutter the unit dedicated to monitoring such war crimes. 🙈🙉🙊

It's always good to have a target market

🔴Kemi Badenoch Campaigns For North Sea Drilling at Company Owned by Oil and Gas Executive Who Donated £250,000 to the Conservatives bylinetimes.com/2026/03/30/k...

Kemi Badenoch Campaigns For North Sea Drilling at Company Owned by Oil and Gas Executive Who Donated £250,000 to the Conservatives

The Conservative party, which calls the Government's plans for replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy "crazy" has also taken millions of pounds from funders and directors of anti-Net Zero lobby ...

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NEW: It’s a journocide. Israel admits to targeting & killing three more journalists & making up false evidence. Journalists in the west have a moral responsibility to speak up. The blowback from this impunity is coming next for us all. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Journocide

Targeting journalists and killing them with impunity isn't just a war crime, it's a warning of what comes next

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Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services!

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

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Most of the media reflects neither reality nor public opinion. It reflects the views and demands of those who own it: the Oligarch Class. They employ editors and journalists to channel their demands and sell their fictions. Hence the endless attacks on net zero. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rightwing narrative fuelling false belief UK public oppose net zero, study finds

Reform, Tory and some media rhetoric runs contrary to poll showing far more voters for net zero than against it

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Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.