Good. That is exactly the right position to take, in contrast to France and Germany. The ICC's arrest warrants must be respected. Also, who wants to be contaminated by a Netanyahu visitation?

Are insider traders making millions from the Iran war? The BBC has found significant spikes in market activity shortly before the US president made some announcements.

Are insider traders making millions from the Iran war?

The Palentir statement on its desired “Technological Republic” is one of the scariest things I have seen in a while. It is a call for a world dominated by an authoritarian U.S., generated by AI (both the statement and the world), run by tech-surveillance companies. Technofascism pure!

Why don’t we hand all our data and decision making over to Palantir! What’s the worst that could happen?

‘Technofascism’ you say?

Successive governments have failed to learn lessons of Grenfell Tragedy The conditions that facilitated the tragedy remain unchecked

Corporate capture of the state.

The Post Office with help from Fujitsu, accountants, lawyers illegally convicted postmasters for fraud.

£1.5bn+ compensation paid from public purse. Perpetrators paid ZERO.

No one charged/prosecuted for lying in courts. Fujitsu gets govt contracts.

Who governs?

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Saying I think other political parties are rubbish so I’m going to vote Reform is like saying I don’t like this burger so I’m going to eat this toxic waste tip instead.

Nuts.

The difference between Richard Tice and Angela Rayner is that Tice knew exactly what he was doing. Rayner was in completely uncharted waters relying on the wisdom of others.

Photo shows a heap of older style phones with the text “Planned obsolescence is now outlawed in France. It is a crime to intentionally reduce the lifespan of a product to force customers to replace it.”

Love France 🇫🇷 They understand the importance of the battery life of a Nokia 3310

Her office said the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, had received reports of speakers and lecturers being harassed and blocked for holding gender-critical or religious views, of foreign interference suppressing academic freedoms, and of ideological belief requirements featuring in job advertisements.

The OfS will be able to use the new complaints scheme from September. From April, it will be able to fine universities the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which would amount to millions of pounds for large institutions, for breaches under the Freedom of Speech Act. Ultimately, universities could be deregistered for egregious cases.

Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.

📢 We've reached *3000* documented authoritarian-like actions of Trump's second term since Jan 2025...

the two most recent are classic suppression of the press & using the justice system to attack political enemies

www.trumpactiontracker.info

“I was brainwashed by Nigel Farage.”

We asked people in East Wiltshire, the constituency of Danny Kruger, if Brexit was a mistake. Here's what they said. ⬇️

Write to your local paper to show it is time to talk about EU membership: www.bestforbritain.org/write_to_paper_eu_member...

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026 * Middle East crisis – live updates * Business live – latest updates The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran, according to exclusive analysis for the Guardian. Saudi Aramco, Gazprom and ExxonMobil are among the biggest beneficiaries of the bonanza, meaning key opponents of climate action continue to prosper. The conflict pushed the price of oil to an average of $100 (£74) a barrel in March, leading to estimated windfall war profits for the month of $23bn for the companies. Oil and gas supplies will take months to return to pre-war levels and the companies will make $234bn by the end of the year if the oil price continues to average $100. The analysis uses data from leading intelligence provider Rystad Energy, analysed by Global Witness. Continue reading...

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds

Artemis 2 and Tiangong space station astronauts set record for farthest distance between humans The new mark is a very international one.

Other records set by Artemis II include:

• furthest humans from a giant panda
• furthest humans from Skegness
• furthest distance between jars of Nutella
• furthest distance any human has been away from 𝘺𝘰𝘶 (yes, YOU!)

www.space.com/space-explor...

Tories commenting on whether Keir Starmer lied about being told of Mandelson's failed vetting need to recall all those Covid parties they said never happened.

mentally ill autistic gf If you tell women to change their behaviour to avoid being raped, what you're really saying is, "Make sure he rapes the other girl instead." There will always be a woman who is more vulnerable - less sober, less confident, with fewer friends around her, or walking alone in a darker part of town. She deserves to be safe just as much as I do. Safety shouldn't depend on which woman was easier to target that night. The problem isn't women's behaviour. The problem is men who choose to commit rape as an act of violence.

Photo of Victoria Welsh who is standing as Green Party candidate for Mendip Hills Division of Somerset Council.

The Mendip Hills Division of Somerset Council has a by-election in full swing (vote?)

@victoriawelsh.bsky.social is our @greenparty.org.uk candidate and pouring time and care into her campaign.

Cliftonville taught us that
Greens can win anywhere now.

So we try. Now.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social

Glass swing doors with a sign saying "Early voting here"

Most people don’t miss voting out of apathy
They miss it because life gets in the way on voting day
Early voting trials this year are testing what happens when the system bends instead

eastangliabylines.co.uk/democracy/co...

Statu of a girl in a lush green May garden

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine [..] why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

#ShakespeareSunday

#TaxDodgeTice

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

It's starting to feel like politicians just want to sit in the jobs for a while so they can walk away with a kick-arse pension rather than wanting to actually do something for the people who voted for them and who pay for these golden pensions

Every poll shows a majority wanting to return to the EU. YouGov, over 60%, YouGov 18-25 y/o over 80%. Poll of Polls (below) 59% even the Daily Mail, 86%.
Yet Labour would rather keep its red lines and face an election wipeout than do what is right for the country and what people want.

The DOJ is now 5 month in breach of releasing the Epstein files.

Holding these criminals accountable should be the Nuremberg of our time.

The headline makes reform sound like a victim rather than a limited liability company trying to take control of a country

Reform dragged into tax row by Richard Tice’s unpaid £100,000 The party’s deputy leader says he will ‘pay what is owed if numbers need rechecking’ after more revelations from The Sunday Times

Reform dragged into tax row by Richard Tice’s unpaid £100,000