Just bizarre that some people think "we can never raise taxes on ordinary people/middle income earners" is a *left-wing* position.

Basically just reheated Thatcherism/starve-the-beat Republicanism.

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

This is great!
Yes let's nick good ideas from Germany. Let's nick good ideas from everyone who has them.

Miliband was right that Mandelson is bad, best avoided. You said it yourself - Miliband has more experience with Mandelson than Starmer did. Ergo Starmer should have listened to Miliband on this.

No leader knows everything. That's ok. So leaders need to choose wisely who they take advice from.

Perhaps Starmer should have listened to Miliband about Mandelson then?

Miliband famously shoved Mandelson away from power in the Labour Party in 2010-2015. And it's not like Starmer doesn't have Miliband on call for advice if he wants to. Miliband got him into politics! They're personal friends!

Loooool. "People make mistakes but this is a howler of a mistake, and, y'know, I wouldn't. Just saying."

We can’t trust Palantir with our NHS data Is this really the company we should be entrusting with our health service’s digital architecture?

"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere."

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Northampton couple who met on bus ride double decker to wedding The pair are now married after meeting during their commute last summer.

Everything is terrible. So here is a NICE THING.

Labour’s great green energy plan could be a legacy as vital as the NHS | Polly Toynbee Ed Miliband has a rare chance to do for the climate what Nye Bevan did for health: create something future generations will be proud of, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

"Labour’s great green energy plan could be a legacy as vital as the NHS".

I agree. More power to Ed Miliband's elbow. Sod the haters in the rightwing press. They hate him because he's winning.

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What a guy 👍 Britain should do the same.

- Your reminder that the Americans are murdering boats full of innocent random fishermen every week, under Trump's ludicrous claims that they're all drug dealers.

It's silly and wrong to act like Trump was gonna be committed to pacifist foreign policy before the Israelis blackmailed him. And, yes, it is in fact anti-Semitic. For one thing, there's evidently a section of the American military establishment who have been gagging for war with Iran for decades.

We all know Reform are far right. But guess what? Now under Badenoch, the Tories are too.

You couldn't fit a cigarette paper between them.

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An all-time classic entry in the hall of fame 'does the person saying this realise how damning it is?' quotes:

Spat at, threatened and kidnapped: British Jews tell of rising antisemitism British Jews have described to BBC Panorama how they are experiencing a rise in antisemitism.

Yes. Netanyahu is bad, but nothing justifies this

He deserved it then.
Is the Guardian intending to become the Daily Mail?

Police treating arson attack as antisemitic hate crime It comes as a man attempts to ignite a plastic bag containing containing fluid in north-west London.

And another one.

It would be nice — albeit a triumph of hope over experience — to think we had vocal allies right about now.

No Conservative should be allowed to speak on this matter without being reminded that Boris Johnson failed his security vetting, yet the Tories appointed him to be Foreign Minister and then Prime Minister.

Meet James Bembridge, the Reform candidate for Westminster in next month’s local elections.

As well as this tweet, Temu Lex Luthor here, has also been quoted as saying "Most NHS nurses look like they're eating food banks out of business."

Don’t let him get his deposit back.

Captive? Pawn? Ridiculous. Israel is a pawn of the USA. It is America's client state, not the other way round.

Stop indulging in antisemitic BS. Israel isn't forcing the USA to do ANYTHING.

The American government (Trump et al) are doing all this violent evil shit because they are CHOOSING to.

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

I think Starmer very probably lied about not knowing what's going on. Who really believes that it's all a civil servant's fault and Starmer had no idea? Which just means he's lying politician #13480924.

Meanwhile, Reform are literally being funded by the proceeds of lawbreaking.

Reform are leading the polls. They are likely to be running the country soon.

No-one is saying Labour scandals shouldn't be covered. But 7 out of 12 top articles on 1 Labour scandal while completely ignoring a massive Reform scandal is not balanced scrutiny, it's propaganda.

Yep. Anyone who thinks that, before we start building massive-scale renewable energy infrastructure, we need to defeat global capitalism doesn't understand the urgency of the climate crisis.

Want world peace and socialism? Sure. Good. But we don't have time to wait for that. We need to do this NOW.

On the BBC News Politics website, this huge scandalous story is... nowhere.

Meanwhile, 7 out of the 12 top articles are on Starmer/Mandelson.

Why do we allow our national broadcaster to be a nakedly partisan, Reform-loving, hard-right propaganda outlet?

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.

First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

The Press knew. They laughed.

The Tories knew. They didn’t care.

All I see now is hypocrisy.

If you say you want renewables to be our main energy source but think that can be done by solar panels on houses & no one makes any money off it at any level at best you’re being thick

Dear God, can't we just have ONE decent party which backs large-scale renewable energy infrastructure and doesn't hate immigrants? Please? Is that so much to ask?