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Dean Burnett @deanburnett.bsky.social · 1h

There are many questions our government and indeed our press do not want to answer. Like why call innocent Palestinians kidnapped, prisoners not hostages, what the difference is between Hamas, and the French resistance, why killing thousands of Palestinians is ok….etc

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, very lucrative side line, or hustle!!

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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 1h

Or current cabinet members appear as guest speaker at lobbying events 🤔
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rachel Reeves due to appear at gambling lobbyist’s event amid tax review

Chancellor’s invitation criticised as ‘strange timing’ with Treasury looking at whether to raise duties on £12bn sector

www.theguardian.com

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 3h

Britain is still living the consequences of the ideas Margaret Thatcher injected into British political discourse and policymaking.

Margaret Thatcher's legacy continues to cast its long shadow

www.bigissue.com

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 2h

More than 100 women are believed to have been arrested on suspicion of abortion over the last five years in England and Wales.

Abortion is close to decriminalisation. But how quickly can rights be rolled back?

www.bigissue.com

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 1h

🙄 Some people should really keep their mouths shut and their brains switched on!!

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3h

Kevin Maguire telling us Israel is a very vibrant democracy

Israel has been engaged in a brutal occupation & apartheid for decades & it denies millions of people under its control their basic civil rights. Would Kevin have told us apartheid South Africa was a democracy too?

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Rob's Raisins To Be Cheerful @the-age-of-raisin.bsky.social · 2h

Tear down the flags
Sooner the better

John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 2h

I stand with Salman Mirza.

Birmingham man takes down flags because he says 'people feel unwelcome'

Salman Mirza says he wants to

www.bbc.co.uk

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 2h

According to British state media, only the 20 Israeli captives exist. The 2000 Palestinian captives they are being swapped for don't appear anywhere in the livestream documenting the 'hostage releases'. Palestinians are not seen as human.
Release all 10,000 Palestinian hostages now!

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 1h

Or, is it because of what they’ve done to him?

They don’t want the depravity of what they’ve done, what they’re capable of, exposed in such a public way to the world!?

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2h

Israel has committed atrocity after atrocity, war crime after war crime & they've slaughtered 70,000 people (the real death toll is far higher). The highest global court says what Israel has done is plausible genocide & the UN says it is genocide

The UK govt: Hamas must disarm

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3h

Israel has banned Palestinians from celebrating the release of Palestinian prisoners [hostages] & banned their families from giving interviews

Contrast that with the celebrations around the release of Israeli hostages & the many interviews being broadcast around the world.

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 1h

No because they know how bad it looks when Palestinian hostages are released looking like zombies of the apocalypse, starved, tortured, sick!!

They don’t want the world to see the reaction of their families, the joy, the pain, the shock and grief and understand Palestinians are human beings too!!

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3h

Israel has banned Palestinians from celebrating the release of Palestinian prisoners [hostages] & banned their families from giving interviews

Contrast that with the celebrations around the release of Israeli hostages & the many interviews being broadcast around the world.

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 1h

Strange isn’t it, to western media anything Palestinians say is questionable, yet it’s the Israelis who lie and they lie and they lie and they lie and…

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2h

Adam Parsons tells us Palestinians "feel" that Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are hostages too

Feel?

People are seized from their homes & locked up indefinitely without trial or charge, with no evidence against them & not even told why they've been locked up!

"Feel".

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 3h

People are marching against Trump’s authoritarianism in the USA, Macron’s failures in France, and the cruelty of Gaza policy in the UK.

Everywhere, governments are asking 'how to stop protest?' when they should be asking 'why people feel the need to protest?'

youtu.be/CE4vwdSfdcY?...

Is protest democracy in motion, and not a crime?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

youtu.be

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2h

How austerity hit young people.

In the decade after 2010 councils’ funding for youth services in England and Wales suffered a real-terms cut of 70%.

By 2023, 1,200 publicly run youth centres closed.

Young people abandoned to fund tax cuts for corporations the rich.

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 2h

😍 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2h

Executives at BMW want to meet the chancellor about the car loans scandal.

Car companies resent paying compensation.

Auto companies lied about diesel emissions, resent paying victims.

Simple advice to capitalists - don't lie and cheat to boost profits, exec pay, dividends.
archive.ph/bZj5o

BMW seeks meeting with Rachel Reeves over finance scandal bill

The carmaker, which faces a potential hit of over £200m from the mis-selling controversy, wants to discuss the implications of an industrywide redress programme

www.thetimes.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2h

Gambling industry holding UK govt to ransom.

William Hill joins Ladbrokes and Coral to warn Chancellor - increase tax and we will shut shops.

Happy to dodge taxes; not bear cost of harms inflicted on gambling addicts and their families.

Who governs - govts or corporations?

William Hill owner says it could shut shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes

Evoke considering the plans before expected tax increases in budget, with up to 1,500 jobs potentially affected

www.theguardian.com

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 1h

The gambling industry, isn’t that where old, has been, failed Labour politicians go to die… or earn another crooked living??

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2h

Gambling industry holding UK govt to ransom.

William Hill joins Ladbrokes and Coral to warn Chancellor - increase tax and we will shut shops.

Happy to dodge taxes; not bear cost of harms inflicted on gambling addicts and their families.

Who governs - govts or corporations?

William Hill owner says it could shut shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes

Evoke considering the plans before expected tax increases in budget, with up to 1,500 jobs potentially affected

www.theguardian.com

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 2h

You really need to ask why?

What barbaric inhumane thing has this Genocidal and deviant state, done to them?

That they should be afraid of their crime becoming exposed and made public?

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 2d

CNN reports that Israel has refused to release two abducted Palestinian doctors, renowned pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and Dr. Marwan Al Hams, deliberately excluding them from the ceasefire and prisoner swap agreement.

A digital poster features two Palestinian doctors, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and Dr. Marwan Al-Hams, against a blurred background of destruction and smoke. Text at the top reads in bold yellow letters: “They are not coming home.” Below, in white and yellow text, it says: “Israel denies release of abducted Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and Dr. Marwan Al-Hams in deal.” Both men appear serious—Dr. Abu Safiya in a white medical coat, and Dr. Al-Hams in dark clothing with a stethoscope around his neck.

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sezworldjustice.bsky.social @sezworldjustice.bsky.social · 1d

Is this because something very serious has happened to them thus using this as cover. Are they still alive & well??? The depravity of these fascist zionists, murderous abomination of a government thus state backed by complicitous US & allies!

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 2d

CNN reports that Israel has refused to release two abducted Palestinian doctors, renowned pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and Dr. Marwan Al Hams, deliberately excluding them from the ceasefire and prisoner swap agreement.

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 2h

Fair play to The National.
BBC 'coverage' is disgusting

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 13h

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened

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