"Far from protecting Europeans during wartime, these nuclear weapons would contribute to turning Europe into a radioactive wasteland."
Great work from Nukewatch UK on tracking the delivery of US nukes to RAF Lakenheath. Starmer must come clean on this!
www.declassifieduk.org/the-inside-s...
Labour are worse than the Tories. Absolutely malevolent. Tax the rich you fucking demons and leave the poor and the old in peace
Alan Ferrier
@alanferrier
Via the @FT
"Scotland — which has its own state-owned water company — massively outperformed its neighbours, with water standards similar to much of Scandinavia."
ft.com/content/5c1a33
"The truly unnerving thing about the fall of Rome (yes, I’m going there again, sorry) was that most Romans probably didn’t notice it had happened."
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NEW: Labour have repeatedly refused to say how much public cash they've spent to keep an English oil refinery open – just months after letting Grangemouth shut down.
And they wonder why Scotland should never trust them!!!
www.thenational.scot/news/2531651...
When Rachel Reeves backs trickledown economics and deregulation of financial sector she is all of the below:
Using discredited ideology.
Ignoring economic evidence.
Scared of the City.
Desperate.
A Tory.
Reeves should know well that all evidence says trickle down is a myth. Deregulating capitalism makes the rich even richer. Nonsense from a so-called called Labour Chancellor.
WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
REVEALED: David Lammy placed the former UK president of the world’s biggest fossil fuel advertiser on the board of the foreign office after she gave him a £5000 donation: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/lammy-appo...
Strange to read Palantir argue that we should ignore its dangerous politics, and the implications for our privacy, and focus on its competence in a world in which, as @petergeoghegan.bsky.social has exposed, its product is also rubbish. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
NEW: Labour have "ditched" plans to explore zonal pricing - which would have meant cheaper bills for energy-rich Scotland.
Octopus have pushed for the policy - and their CEO is not happy.
"Soaring costs, locked in for years to come, more on the way"
www.thenational.scot/news/2530043...
“Huge swathes” of severely disabled people will be hit by Universal Credit cuts, contrary to government claims they will be protected.
My exclusive in today’s Guardian ahead of the vote: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Labour’s Freeport fakery: how Starmer’s plan doubles down on neoliberalism’s corporate carve-up
David Powell's final article in his series on Freeports for the Canary shows what we can all do to oppose these corporate power grabs
www.thecanary.co/explainer/20...
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A letter on United Nations Human Rights letterhead, dated July 7, 2025. The UN Committee requests information from the UK government about the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill and the Pathways to Work Green Paper. It asks for details on impact assessments, effects on disabled people, tightening eligibility for benefits, the risk of poverty, consultation with disabled people, limited scrutiny of the Bill, and public statements portraying disabled people as frauds or burdens. The deadline for the UK to respond is August 11, 2025
Continuation of the UN letter. It recalls previous reports and recommendations, including the 2017 Concluding Observations and the 2016 Inquiry, which found grave and systematic violations of disabled people’s rights. The Committee reminds the UK to carry out cumulative impact assessments, consult disabled people, and ensure reforms uphold human rights. It highlights that little progress has been made to improve the situation
The final page of the UN letter. It states that credible information suggests the proposed Bill will deepen regression of disabled people’s rights. The UN Committee requests a response by August 11, 2025, ahead of the Committee’s 33rd session in Geneva. Contact information for the Secretary of the Committee is provided
🇺🇳 BREAKING: The UN is demanding answers from the UK over welfare reforms.
The Universal Credit Bill risks breaching disabled people’s rights—again.
No impact assessment. Cuts called “regression.” Demonising disabled claimants.
Deadline for U.K to respond: 11 Aug
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From Taking The PIP
We need everyone to write to their MP ahead of the 3rd reading of the Universal Credit bill
There is a link here for you to use to generate a letter to your MP
takingthepip.co.uk/write-to-you...
The top 5 happiest countries in the world are all relatively small, independent, northern European states.
The UK is 23rd.
data.worldhappiness.report/table?_gl=1*....
Again, this isn’t under some bloodcurdling media onslaught. This is just them, being themselves. Doing the best they can.
The entire UK political/media narrative on welfare is that it is "burgeoning", "a burden" & "unsustainable". But how high is it compared to others? UK welfare at 10.8% of GDP in 2023 (including pensions). Finland spends 25.7% of GDP; France 23.8%: both double the UK.
Core to McSweeneyism is the belief that ‘The Voter is never wrong’. Yet for a man so intent on listening to the public, McSweeney in fact seems to have selective hearing.
Angus Satow on Morgan McSweeney's manicured rise to power and his current fall from grace as Labour wunderkind.
The divergence in child versus pensioner income trends over both halves of the 2020s is also not new. In 2002-03 pensioners and children had very similar typical equivalised household incomes, but between then and 2023-24 the median pensioner income grew by 32 per cent and the child figure by 7 per cent (with the typical working-age income growing by 8 per cent). In cash terms, the equivalised household income gap between pensioners and children has grown from roughly zero in the early 2000s to over £5,000 by 2023-24 and potentially over £7,000 by 2029-30. As we explore below, this is also reflected in poverty figures.
The typical pensioner and typical child’s household income were once very similar, but have diverged.
In cash terms, the equivalised household income gap between pensioners and children has grown from roughly zero in the early 2000s to over £5,000 by 2023-24 and potentially over £7,000 by 2029-30.
ALT
The UK's new trade strategy says it will continue inserting controversial corporate courts into its trade deals.
Sign the petition: Call time on corporate courts.
act.globaljustice.org.uk/petition-cal...
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