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Posts by jackdaw
Feargal Sharkey just nailed the £100bn water industry nationalisation lie
Sharing a "blistering" letter in the Guardian, Feargal Sharkey went further - calling out successive governments over their lies
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Come on folks, there is work to be done and we have 4 years to do it
Why say 'killed' when he was murdered? Awdah Hathaleen was unarmed when shot and murdered by illegal settler Yinon Levi. The murderer will not be punished by Israeli courts. @theguardian.com #Palestine #Gaza #theGuardian #WestBank
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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The “appalling scenes in Gaza” have been enabled by the arms, surveillance & diplomatic cover Keir Starmer’s Labour government have provided to a genocidal apartheid state.
He still refuses to call it a genocide because he is complicit in it.
Keir Starmer belongs in The Hague.
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Defend Our Juries tells Met Police it “may be committing offences under the Terrorism Act” in Parliament Square from 1pm on Saturday." Non-violent protesters would hold signs saying: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” @defendourjuries.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
BREAKING: 27 Arrested underneath Gandhi statue in Parliament Sq for alleged supporting of a proscribed organisation.
The group of 27 people, including a priest, an Emeritus Professor and a number of health professionals.
Full Press Release: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
CONTINUED:
After mass arrests at Parliament this morning, 27 individuals have been taken to multiple police stations.
“We commend the Counter Terrorism police for their decisive action in protecting the people of London from some cardboard signs opposing the genocide in Gaza.“
The protestors have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000 and taken into custody.
metro.co.uk/2025/07/05/p...
More than 20 people have been arrested in London after police said they were responding to a protest in support of the banned group Palestine Action.
The Met Police said those arrested were being held on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
vm.tiktok.com/ZNdyc4f4V/ #kneecap Kneecap Live stream from Glastonbury
Stream on tiktok
Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.
"A grotesque sneering abomination. On his own he’d be nothing but he is backed financially by wealth hoarders and supported politically by almost all politicians and almost all media [...] We are in the unwiped-arse stage of capitalism."
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Bluesky can suspend Nigel Farage in less than 36 hours.
But the Police can't question him over the riots he incited, even after 5 months.
Other models are available. This article discusses some of them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We've just published our latest report: COLLATERAL DAMAGE, highlighting the widespread poisoning of birds of prey in England by the misuse & abuse of rodenticides.
Govt scheme to reduce exposure has failed.
Read the report: wildjustice.org.uk/general/coll...
Absolute fury at this: United Utilities refusing to disclose data about sewage it's releasing into Windermere, because it's "not in the public interest."
Ditto data on ammonia checks from a UU Cunsey Beck plant; site of a 2022 mass fish-kill from pollution.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
She's 100% correct too
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I hear it is far nicer over here! Message received. Words of the day start tomorrow.
A long overdue and welcome decision.
This is the problem of having the politically illiterate running the country
Zero diplomacy - just inflammatory rhetoric like at home Whatever happened to looking for peace?
if only Greta Thunberg had swanned off with £29M rather than banging on about the planet burning up
Tamworth, this is your Tory candidate. Make sure you keep him OUT 👇👇
Tory by-election candidate posted chart telling parents who can’t feed kids to 'f*** off'
#Tamworth #TacticalVoting
I just love that nobody thought you were taking a swipe at depressed people. (Ok, I did, but just for a fraction of a second). It is actually very pleasant here
This is for real. I know the building. Boris Johnson’s work ethic and habit writ large. Quite a few others too I would imagine, not least Michael Gove. Ha!