Ex-minister adds to UK calls for ban on political donations in cryptocurrency Exclusive: Labour’s Rushanara Ali plans to intervene in elections bill amid warnings of foreign interference

Sounds good, how about banning political donations from abroad too?

Dear Lucy On the eve of the by-election, your Labour party spokesperson has admitted to the Huffington Post that a Labour party leaflet has been delivered through doors with your imprint recommending a vote for Labour by a tactical voting organisation which does not exist. This is deeply troubling, it is actually lying to voters. Did you approve this? Do you feel the Labour Party in government should be held to different standards in terms of honesty to the British public? In your last letter to me you mentioned your ‘very extensive data’ and ‘having spoken to over a third of eligible voters’ which led you to an understanding that the by election ‘was a contest between labour and Reform’. Clearly this latest development only tells voters one thing - you will employ any type of political deception (or in Urdu “Dhoka” ) to win. You will be very aware that all three real tactical voting organisations are recommending a vote for the Greens as the best way to stop Reform. Lying to the voters, as you have been caught doing, raises the real prospect that Reform will be the beneficiaries, something you have said that you don’t want. As this is such an important issue, for the sake of your own reputation, I would strongly urge you to apologise to the voters of Denton and Gorton before the polls open in the morning.” Kind regards, Zack Polanski Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social,

Why did you invent a fake tactical voting company to stop the Green Party beating Reform?

I'm starting to think your letters haven't always been in good faith...

German MPs cut contracts for kamikaze drones backed by Peter Thiel and Daniel Ek Members of parliament cut overall spending by more than half and imposed €1bn cap per producer

German MPs cut contracts for kamikaze drones backed by Peter Thiel and Daniel Ek

ICE == GESTAPO

What a traitorous, slimy little grifter

Has anyone else noticed that the EPSTEIN FILES are still being held back. Less than 1% have been released. Another blatant refusal to accept oversight from our pitifully weak congress. 🗽

A WAKE UP CALL!
Ukraine’s sacrifice for us, for our future security and prosperity has been huge.

Europe needs to step up and drive Putin out of Ukraine with more support and more weapons - and to hell with the moron Trump. We need to ignore him and get the job done.

This is Genocide.

This is Ethnic Cleansing.

Jacob Rees-Mogg like Rishi Sunak has registered all his assets in tax havens, because they don't 'belong' to him in the UK they aren't taxed here.

So his tax bill is negligible, he doesn't need to leave to dodge tax.

This con needs to be stopped.

He needs to be counter sued for every piece of garbage, lies, incitement to racial hatred and deformation that comes of his excuse of a mouth

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."

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Photograph by Léonard Misonne. Pictorialist picture of a figure walking on a path. Trees on one side of the path. It seems to be storming.

According to some Flemish folktales, ghosts live in trees. In one story, nobody dared to go near a pile of rotten tree trunks because it was said to bite and chew. In another, you could only pass a particular tree if you made the sign of the cross first.

#PhantomsFriday

Artwork of trees and branches. Dark. Black and light yellowish colour.

'But sorrow and silence,
Are the wood's threnody,
The silence for you
and the sorrow for me.'
-Francis Ledwidge

🎨Léon Spilliaert
#BookWormSat

Painting titled "Gukjeong chumyo" (Korean: 국정추묘), which translates to "Autumn cat in a garden with chrysanthemum". A crouching cat with a mottled coat of black, brown, and white fur. The cat is positioned on a light-colored background, with its eyes looking to the left. To the right of the cat, there are wild chrysanthemum plants with pink flowers and green leaves.

Autumn cat in a garden with chrysanthemum, Byeon Sangbyeok-Gukjeong chumyo, C18th. #Caturday

A piece of sheet music for a violin, where the musical notes have been replaced by numerous silhouettes of cats. The cats are depicted in various poses, climbing, tumbling, and napping along the musical staff lines.

The Symphony of the Cat, Moritz von Schwind, 1868. #Caturday

An illustration of a witch flying on a broomstick. The witch is depicted with a pointed hat and a flowing robe. She is accompanied by a black cat and an owl, who are also perched on the broomstick. A skull is attached to the end of the broomstick, and a bat is shown flying above her.

George Cruikshank, 1909.

Painting of a black cat. Green background. Full moon.

'A black cat, without a single white hair, is a witch of the sort that brings luck to the house.'
-Samuel Adams Drake

🎨Denise Warren

A painting of an autumn forest scene; features tall, slender trees, including a prominent white-barked birch tree in the foreground. The trees are covered in yellow and golden leaves. Sunlight filters through the canopy, illuminating the scene. A small red fox is shown walking through a clearing on the forest floor, which is covered in what appears to be white flowers and fallen leaves.

🖼️ Autumn Afternoon, Thomas Little.

Starmer’s govt and Reform are a duet.

This debt crisis is manufactured and Labour are playing along.

Starmer/Reeves echo the same panic lines as Reform UK, paving the way for austerity 2.0 selling it as fiscal realism.

It’s not two parties fighting 👉it’s one system managing our decline.

Majority of people not proud of post-Brexit Britain, new survey reveals Attitudes poll also suggests people increasingly believe UK is divided, that ‘culture wars’ exist and life was better in past

Life was better with EU

Attitudes poll also suggests people increasingly believe UK is divided, that ‘culture wars’ exist and life was better in past

Disappointed in Labour (again) but very relieved to see this scandal gathering pace when it felt like hardly anyone had noticed it on Monday. Fair play to @sundersays.bsky.social for highlighting it tirelessly.

Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times Founder Arron Banks was offered lucrative deals in talks with the ambassador

Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times around Brexit

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'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

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A fox dancing on hind legs with a leaf on its head.

'Harvest Fox Spirit' (messenger of Inari, kami of the crops) - Shoson Ohara, ca. 1910.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

Illustration of woodland animals in Halloween costumes on a full moon night. Two witchy squirrels are making a potion. There is a tree in the background, with an owl in a top hat.

Witchy squirrels on a vintage Halloween card

EU refuses to bow to Trump demands to tear up business rules Brussels has signaled it won’t yield to U.S. pressure to ignite a bonfire of green regulations as part of their trade deal, a top official tells diplomats.

The EU shows Trump the finger!
🇪🇺 "The EU has signalled it won’t yield to US pressure to ignite a bonfire of green regulations in their trade deal. EU leaders are instead set to discuss the need to double down on their policies in order to reassert Europe’s interests, values and regulatory autonomy.”

BREAKING: Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

👏 Simon Jenkins gives first major mainstream call for parliamentary leadership to reverse Brexit, not just reset it.

🇪🇺Steel collapse immediate trigger: 80% 🇬🇧 steel 👉EU, now face 50% tariffs - terminal.

🇬🇧 The cause: thank you Brexit

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