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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1h

Phillipson says Hamas committed appalling atrocities, inflicted significant suffering, killed countless civilians & took hostages, and for those reasons it can have no role in govt.

The Israeli regime has done all that & more. Why aren't you dictating who can govern Israel?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 58m

BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 15h

“Despite the UK government claiming to have suspended arms licenses to Israel and thousands of people demonstrating in the streets, weapons continue to flow from Bristol”, an activist was quoted in a press statement.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/11/b...

Bristol activists blockade Elbit - Freedom News

Filton facility’s involvement in the ongoing genocide in Gaza has prompted a range of groups to take action there ~ Scott Harris ~ Around 40 …

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 20h

Labour want to beat them to that goal, having started by criminalising peaceful protest against genocide in Gaza

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 20h

Reform UK intends to withdraw our human rights

They want us to join Russia and Belarus as the only European states not signed up to the ECHR

@janiceheppenstall.bsky.social @sussexbylines.co.uk

Reform UK intends to withdraw our human rights

They want us to join Russia and Belarus as the only European states not signed up to the ECHR

sussexbylines.co.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22h

Farage/Reform and the Trump playbook.

Mass sackings of unsympathetic civil servants
Promise to reduce workers's rights
Inflict spending cuts - hit the poor, old, sick, disabled

Now claims teachers are “poisoning our kids” - just as Nazis did to control education.

Power grab by dividing society.

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

This is a real video of a journalist in Chicago being arrested.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 1d

🚨SHOCKING: police in Russia just arrested a man for HOLDING UP A MAGAZINE COVER.

Wait, did we say Russia? We meant THE UK.

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 1d

Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths.

www.declassifieduk.org/ruthless-ter...

‘Ruthless terror’ – When Labour aided genocide in Indonesia

Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths.

www.declassifieduk.org

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ChildRapeSurvivor @childrapesurvivor.bsky.social · 2d

What was done in Palestine will now be exported around the world. Everyone knows the template now. "The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World" by Antony Loewenstein. youtu.be/1GvkFwpzDhI?...

How Israel tests military tech on Palestinians | The Palestine Laboratory E1 | Featured Documentary

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

Tony Blair met with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in London during his time as prime minister, it has emerged

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister

www.thenational.scot

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

Thatcher said "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

The trouble with capitalism is that if you run out of other people's money, you can do it again with a new limited company

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about it in 2018, but it's an issue so fiercely defended by social silence that I found it impossible to get any traction. It's one of those occasions on which everyone thinks you've gone mad, as the alternative is to recognise that the system is mad.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Enough of Carillion culture. Make bosses pay for the carnage they cause | George Monbiot

Here’s how to tame corporate power, and prevent ruthless executives from enriching themselves by harming us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

If insurers believe the liability arises through malfeasance or deception by their clients, they would then either seek to recover the money or return the liability to the client. It would not be the get-out-of-jail free card it is today.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

www.theguardian.com

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

And this

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labours-atta...

Labour’s attacks on rights ‘have led to massive resurgence’ in disability movement, protest hears

The Labour government’s attack on disabled people’s support has led to a “massive resurgence” in the disabled people’s movement in the last year, a protest outside the party’s annual conference has…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

There you go
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Transport of London staff face deportation under new visa rules

More than 60 employees who came to the UK on skilled worker visas may have to leave the transport body.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

He's shooting the USA in both feet

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Nearly a third of Gaza is experiencing famine, according to projections from a global hunger monitor. While the ceasefire deal pledges more aid, the timeline for delivery is still unclear. See our Chart of the Week reut.rs/4737uK4

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

"Thousands are still buried beneath the rubble. We don’t even know all their names. These aren’t just numbers. These are entire families erased, students who will never return to school, newborns who never made it past their first cry." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

We Are Genocide Survivors. But Our War Is Far From Over.

We in Gaza will remember the martyrs—those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again.

www.thenation.com

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

LBC has long been a cesspit for the deranged

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 1d

LBC caller: “Brexit gave me freedom because I can choose my own government.”

Also LBC caller: “The EU is to blame for immigration and ID cards.”

You couldn’t make it up.
#Brexit #SaveBritishFarming

Caller, “Brexit Let Me Choose My Own Govt”… Then Blames EU for Everything!
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Caller, “Brexit Let Me Choose My Own Govt”… Then Blames EU for Everything!

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

Until it's restarted

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

Age of the bin bag ends in Dublin’s south inner city as waste compactors finally installed

Refuse-sack ban applies to 90 streets covered by the four-metre long machines

www.irishtimes.com

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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and Starmer, the new Brezhnev and Honecker

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