I just signed @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social petition calling on govt to power the UK with homegrown renewables. Every conflict abroad sends our energy bills soaring at home. The only way out is cheaper, safer renewable energy.
Join me in demanding an end to the fossil fuel cost chaos act.gp/4sv5VOP
Stranded sailors fear for their lives in the Strait of Hormuz
The ceasefire raised hopes of escape but thousands of seamen, some hungry and unpaid, remain stuck in floating ‘prisons’. Ruth Michaelson reports
https://bit.ly/4vK9VwW
BREAKING: Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says Turkiye remains “optimistic” that the two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United States, set to expire on Wednesday, will be extended.
NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.
First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.
The Israeli 'Yellow Line' in Lebanon raises fears that a temporary military zone could become a longer-term occupation
The Israeli 'Yellow Line' in Lebanon raises fears that a temporary military zone could become a longer-term occupation https://aje.news/d2aqmr
I could have stopped Brexit!
📅 April 2016: I posted my FIRST Brexit video, disproving Farage's immigration lies.
📅 June 2016: Referendum
📅 June 2017: Nigel admitted to them.
If UK media had said what I was saying, we wouldn't be here.
#DecadeOfBrexit
Reform’s local elections campaign in Bradford is off to a terrible start ❌
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/04/16/r...
Number crunching: Iran war
From the new Private Eye, out now.
What we know about the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire
What we know about the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire https://aje.news/01bhei
The BDS movement renews its call to escalate pressure on all governments to: end all complicity with Israel by imposing immediate and comprehensive lawful sanctions, including military, energy and trade embargos.
#FreeThemAll
For over two years, the Israeli military has carried out field executions, extrajudicial killings during arrests, and beatings that have led to deaths of Palestinian prisoners and detainees. Over 100 Palestinian prisoners have now been murdered inside Israeli jails since October 2023.
Since the start of its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza in October 2023, Israeli authorities have drastically escalated their policy of torture, abuse, & extreme deprivation of food & medical care against Palestinian prisoners in a desperate attempt to break their will.
#FreeThemAll
Sharon Osborne was
▶️an immigrant into the USA in the late 1970s
▶️an immigrant into Ireland in the mid 1990s
▶️an immigrant into the USA again from 2002 to 2005
▶️and then again from 2010 to 2020
She has been an immigrant for approx 48 of her 73 years
www.nme.com/news/tv/shar...
As Gaza violence continues, activist says Israeli settlers torch vehicles, attack homes in occupied West Bank.
Mass detention of kids,
Torture, rape & violence
And Impunity across the board.
This is Israel's prisons.
FFS Israel can't you show the world
Humanity just for 1 day?
Watch Francescsa Albanese on crimes against humanity normalized in Israel jails
Join @bdsmovement.bsky.social
#PalestinePrisoners
Big Oil companies, including shell and BP, making mega profits from Iran war but abusing tax system by using UK's network of secretive offshore tax havens.
HMRC does special deals but does not disclose
Staff from oil companies, tax dodge industry seconded to HMRC.
Govts squeeze normal people.
Even the Meloni government in Italy is to suspend its military agreement with Israel....
... while Britain's remains in place.
And when will UK national media even report the UK has a secret military agreement with Israel?
👉 www.declassifieduk.org/secret-uk-is...
#C4News last night reported on the wholesale targeting of ambulances & paramedics in Lebanon by Israel, including the recent 'triple hit', when Israel attacked an ambulance, then attacked paramedics who went to help, and then attacked further paramedics also trying to help.
Today, on Palestinian Prisoners' Day the BDS movement calls for intensifying BDS pressure against companies involved in genocidal Israel’s prison complex and its crimes against Palestinian prisoners, particularly Microsoft, HP, and Cisco.
#FreeThemAll
bdsmovement.net/news/Palesti...
The BBC leads with a story suggesting widespread asylum seeker fraud
At the same time Reform UK is using the issue as a campaign wedge in the May elections
And that combination shapes how the story lands
Why are anti-war protests in the West muted on Iran?
Why are anti-war protests in the West muted on Iran? https://aje.news/a8fs20
Next CEO pay rose from £4.9m to £7.4m, could hit £9.27m this year.
Company changed CEO pay formula because it didn't give directors enough.
Non-exec directors to get higher pay.
Most shop workers toil on/around minimum wage.
Govts preach pay restraint to workers but no curbs on fat-cattery.
Foreign minister Hamish Falconer visited Lebanon yesterday and announced an increase in UK aid, but said nothing about his government's secret military agreement with the country bombarding it.
The UK "condemns" attacks on UN peacekeepers while maintaining military collaboration with an Israeli state attacking UN peacekeepers.
Does the Foreign Office think no-one is noticing their rank, daily hypocrisy?
So it turns out Nigel Farage's widely-reported claims that 'Boriswave' migrants will cost every household £20,000 are based on dodgy figures and inflated assumptions.
Reform have simply invented their own numbers…” say experts.
bylinetimes.com/2026/04/16/e...
Just 2% of the UK’s asylum claims come from LGBTQIA+ people. But when the media reports on a small group of fraudulent claims, suspicion towards all LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers increases.
People seeking asylum are not the enemy Our current system is built on division, but we don’t have to let it divide us.
The UK government are investigating the BBC’s report that people are pretending to be LGBTQIA+ in order to seek asylum in the UK. Don’t let stories like this divide us.
Share to amplify the message: LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers are not the enemy.
