BBC’s executive committee met nine times with Jewish community groups and only once with a pro-Palestinian organisation during the first year of the Gaza genocide, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.
www.declassifieduk.org/strong-pro-i...
Adam Smith famously said that people have a "disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful". He omitted to add this this is true even when the rich and powerful have absolutely zero moral or intellectual worth.
Multinational asset manager BlackRock wants to work with the Greater Manchester Pension Fund to buy up NHS GP surgeries.
Our NHS is not for sale - Cllr Eleanor Wills, leader of @tamesidecouncil.bsky.social (which runs GMPF) must drop this deal NOW.
Sign the petition 👇
This won't be popular, but IMHO the UK government is right to resist calls to slash fuel duty (at least for motorists)... ⛽️
1⃣ higher prices are the least bad way to manage demand in the face of a supply shock
2⃣ petrol prices are still not particularly high in real terms 👇
this is an explicitly genocidal statement
It’s just so stupid on so many levels.
The *fundamental* problem is that the world has less oil. We need to use less to account for that. Making petrol a fraction cheaper doesn’t help with the real issue, costs the government money and does very little for households.
Greater Manchester Police: We’ve concluded our investigation into alleged ‘family voting’ at last month’s Gorton and Denton by-election, finding no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting.
Were it not for the contributions of immigrants, public debt would stand at 200% of US GDP today, notes @jefffrankel.bsky.social – almost twice the current level.
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Paolo Zampolli, a longtime friend of Donald and Melania Trump, asked a top ICE official to have the mother of his son detained, The New York Times found. Zampolli told the official that it would help him in a custody battle. The ICE official agreed to help. nyti.ms/4bzFOPk
“Reza Pahlavi's Movement Is Dangerous. I've Seen It Up Close”
Pahlavi attempts to portray himself as a democrat who could be a 'transitional' leader but the movement he 'leads' has exhibited alarming behavior, writes Alireza Nader for Zeteo:
A Quaker meeting house has been raided by the Metropolitan Police while the group held a non-violence training session—up to no good, clearly.
@skwawkbox.org has more.
There is no question about it - Reform are a party run by foreign donations, from powerful elites who don't pay tax in the UK
I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.
I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.
Meanwhile the 2024 Labour govt was first govt of either party in history whose electorate was majority pro-immigration in broad terms. Reforms like this just don't make political sense. Obviously policy doesn't have to be popular, but Mahmood claims there is an electoral case for this. There isn't!
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on the Iran War.
"Spain's position at this juncture is clear and forceful. It is the same position we have maintained in Ukraine and also in Gaza.
No to the breaking of international law that protects us all, especially the most defenceless - the civilian population."
And puts far right vote at under 40 per cent.
🗳️ BREAKING | Greens surge to 2nd (YouGov)
➡️ Ref: 23% (-1)
🟢 Grn: 21% (+4)
🔵 Con: 16% (-2)
🔴 Lab: 16% (-2)
🟠 Lib: 14% (=)
Poll: @YouGov, 1-2 Mar (+/- vs 23 Feb)
Nothing on their web site, and nothing further on their report of last Thursday.
1970s ad: GUESS WHO'S BUILDING NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. The Shah of Iran is sitting on top of one of the largest reservoirs of oil in the world. Yet he's building two nuclear plants and planning two more to provide electricity for his country. He knows the oil is running out - and time with it. But he wouldn't build the plants now if he doubted their safety. He'd wait. As many Americans want to do. The Shah knows that nuclear energy is not only economical, it has enjoyed a remarkable 30-year safety record. A record that was good enough for the citizens of Plymouth, Massachusetts, too. They've approved their second nuclear plant by a vote of almost 4 to 1. Which shows you don't have to go as far as Iran for an endorsement of nuclear power. NUCLEAR ENERGY. TODAY'S ANSWER.
Fun ad from the 70s
A weak Prime Minister, dragging us all into an illegal war.
This needs to stop.
A funny thing about McSweeney's Labour is it's basically what's being pushed by US leftists around Jacobin, the Center for Working Class Politics, etc. Hostile to "identity politics" and professional workers, focused on narrow nostalgic idea of the working class. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.
🚨NEW: Peter Mandelson's lobbying company worked for Water UK, the body representing the private water industry.
At the same time, Labour's review of the water industry refused to even consider public ownership as an option.
In our open letter to Steve Reed MP, we ask: 1/2
Well, this does raise *a lot* more questions about both the Cabinet Office's 'inquiry' into Labour Together and now Starmer's ethic advisor's investigation into Josh Simons
Omg. Genocide stablecoin, issued by Trump's World Liberty Financial.
Without post-1997 immigration, fewer Christians + higher no religion share + fewer Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs.
2001-2021: overall down 11 million
2001-11: + 1.2 million foreign-born Christians as UK-born Christians down 5 million
2011-21: + 1.9 million foreign-born Christians, as UK-born fell
Totally normal 🤦🏽♂️
Bizarre since this deportation program *is* extreme right ethno-nationalism.
