Laws on his membership of Restore
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Neo-fascist leaders back Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain and not Reform Simon Birkett and Steve Laws urge followers to support the MP in move that could harm Nigel Farage’s prospects of an overall majority

Times reports on far right support of Restore Britain. Report did not mention that Steve Laws - vocal racist advocate of 'total remigration' of all minorities from UK - is a party member, not just urging support. Party refuses to set any racism boundary for members
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Leading anti-abortion figure standing for Reform UK in May elections

A warning that reproductive rights 'are not safe' with Reform UK has been issued after it emerged a leading anti-abortion figure is standing for the party in England's local elections

Research – NHS spending on private sector in Scotland only half that proportionally, in England In the Guardian today: Private firms providing services to the NHS including healthcare and consultancy have made £1.6bn in profits over the last two years, research reveals. The findings – on the …

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Violence remains at record levels across the occupied #WestBank.

As recently highlighted by the OHCHR, settler violence, often in the presence of Israeli forces, has escalated, driving repeated attacks, intimidation, property damage and forcible displacement of Palestinians.

This must stop.

This is perfect. Honest Bob too stupid to sustain his own insincerity

Do we expect an apology from Sarwar and Baillie and wall to wall coverage from BBC Scotland?
This is all Scottish ? Labour had and it been blown out of the water.
Let’s ensure we vote them out in May .
#bothvotessnp #snp #yeswecan #nhs

BBC Scotland’s Sad Mould Alert! – Construction/renovation accounts for 50% of mould outbreaks, easily cleared up, zero deaths in UK Gleefully headlined today by BBC Scotland, another hospital mould story. The last time they had such fun was with hospital pigeon poo: Wall panels and insulation at two new Aberdeen hospital facili…

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It is strongly in the interests of the Chancellor + Health Secretary and Prime Minister to ensure there are some realistic numbers about possible fiscal costs of status quo vs this reform *and* possible fiscal losses of this reform, to feed into the debate about the impacts, ethics and politics

Should be more challenge from media about the £10bn dodgy dossier + the real fiscal estimates

What - if any - saving does the government calculate (net) from its policy of delaying settlement by 10 years for care workers?

Can't move forward without supplying the numbers

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Good to hear @tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social say on BBC Radio 4 Today (7.15pm) programme that "Home Office's whole premisef for these reforms is unfounded: "this £10 billiion does not add up"

Govt have (v quietly) said they don't claim they'd save this!
But must now provide their actual fiscal numbers!

Forgive me if I find the idea of the Home Office coming up with its own unique economic stats rather uncompelling.

Trump’s DOGE Cuts Slashed Staff That Handled Middle Eastern Oil and Gas Crises Six months before going to war in Iran, the U.S. government cut staff that would have been central to the current situation.

NEWS: Six months before the Trump admin began bombing Iran, the Department of State fired its oil and gas experts.

State’s energy division got completely DOGE’d. And with it went the people who knew how to plan for a global energy crisis.

French President Emmanuel Macron says France would never take part in operations to unblock the Strait of Hormuz: "We are not party to the conflict and therefore France will never take part in operations to open or liberate the Strait of Hormuz in the current context”

Newly unearthed Nigel Farage videos reveal support for rioter, neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans Exclusive: Analysis of more than 4,000 of Reform UK leader’s paid-for Cameo videos also shows they contain misogynistic remarks and antisemitic conspiracies

Farage has sold videos of himself endorsing a neo-Nazi event, repeating extremist slogans supporting a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot etc

But don't worry Nige will be along in a moment to blame it all on the BBC, or Coutts, or refugees...

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Reform is right to take on the civil service blob Last week Reform UK scandalised Whitehall. If they take power, they said, they would take a hard look at the top civil servants they inherited, and if necessary swap them out for their own external…

The Spectator here advocating for removing civil servants and replacing them with Reform UK appointed heads. It’s a step towards authoritarianism.

They’ve lost it.

open book on wooden table, with vivid full-page illustration showing a woman wearing a brown and purple robe, standing between looming black trees, wielding a long wooden wand. Long green tendrils of magic are flowing from the tip of the wand towards and around three children and one swan in dark water at the woman’s feet. The children are transforming into swans. A girl with long hair has one wing sprouting from her left shoulder, and the fingers on her right hand are becoming long white feathers. Two small boys in the water both have a pair of wings. The fourth figure is already a swan, but with gold jewellery round its neck, suggesting it was a child moments before. The children’s faces look surprised and distressed.

Shiny book on wooden table, a black horse leaping across top of cover,a seal wearing golden crown at bottom, a wave of seawater curving between them. Title in green foil, centred between the horse and the seal: Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales, Magical Stories from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany. Two names in yellow at the bottom of the cover: Lari Don and Elise Carmichael

Happy St Patrick’s Day! Here’s some Irish mythological magic for you: the Children of Lir being transformed into swans, one of @elisecillustration.com’s striking illustrations in our Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales.
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Trump has just handed an enormous advantage to Putin’s fascist war machine by ‘temporarily’ lifting sanctions on Russian oil, and Britain’s right wing politicians and cheerleaders in the press are either silent or filming the themselves ranting about animals on bank notes…🤡

Two women plant trees in front of a residential area. There is lots of brash on the ground and a few mature trees in the background.

A sunny Saturday planting at #Formonthills last week🌱

Trees were planted with a new deer deterrent spray - no plastic tubes in sight! We look forward to monitoring the results 👍

Read more about our plastic-free planting pledge 👉 buff.ly/uZpRzUL

This is reprehensible.

Turkish-owned ship allowed to pass through Strait of Hormuz, minister says A Turkish-owned ship that had been waiting near ​Iran was allowed to pass ‌through the Strait of Hormuz after authorities received permission from Tehran, ​Turkish Transport Minister Abdulkadir ​Uraloglu was reported as saying by ⁠local media.

Turkish-owned ship allowed to pass through Strait of Hormuz, minister says reut.rs/3P8drQH

A depressing but interesting conversation with @gregsargent.bsky.social @newrepublic.com on the miscalculation (noncalculcation?) the Trump administration made over the Strait of Hormuz. There’s gonna be a Trump premium on oil for a while.

Meanwhile, in England.

(A reminder to Scots: NHS spending in England impacts on Scotland; this is the kind of chaos Streeting et al would extend to NHS Scotland if Labour got its mitts on Holyrood.)

Major fire guts historic Glasgow building Businesses have been destroyed, but people saved, as a landmark of Glasgow's built heritage, 175 years old, is reduced to ash and rubble

"It’s people like Lamin that make Glasgow, no matter the colour of your skin, or religion, or how you identify."

#Glasgow

Only last year Musk was appearing on a big screen in central London addressing a far-right rally and calling for civil war and the overthrow of the UK government...

Cancel the King's visit to the Whitehouse I say.

nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”