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A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...
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Welcome to the common people: Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. Next:
a) Andrew needs to face a police investigation;
b) We need to know when the Palace knew abt Andrew & Epstein;
c) The Palace have to apologise to Epstein's victims;
d) There has to be full transparency re: royal monies.
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Too many people including senior politicians are using the grooming gangs scandal to make cheap political points & not caring abt victims of horrendous abuse. Step forward Nigel Farage who has been asked by female survivors of grooming gangs to apologise. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage
Exclusive: Five women said Reform leader’s comments that they were victims of other types of sexual abuse were ‘degrading’
www.theguardian.com
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Castro's Cuba began as an inspirational challenge to US imperialism in Central & South America. In the 1970s & 1980s Cuba contributed to anti-imperialist struggles & the fight against apartheid South Africa. Today it is sadly a recruiting agent for Russian imperialism & military aggression.
⚡️Ukraine closes embassy in Cuba over Russian military recruitment.

Ukraine is "downgrading" diplomatic ties with Havana due to "the inaction of Cuba's authorities in response to massive recruitment of Cuban citizens to the Russian occupation army," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.
Ukraine closes embassy in Cuba over Russian military recruitment
Ukraine is "downgrading" diplomatic ties with Havana due to "the inaction of Cuba's authorities in response to massive recruitment of Cuban citizens to the Russian occupation army," Foreign Minister A...
kyivindependent.com
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👀 Exclusive: How councils lost £15m of taxpayers' money – by buying back homes they sold

Big Issue reporter @gregbarradale.bsky.social here. I've been digging into Yo-yo Homes. They're costing taxpayers millions

Today we're publishing the full list of 120+ Yo-yo Homes we've discovered. Here's a 🧵
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#Newsnight have only Labour & Tory bigwigs on their panel. The two parties were humiliated in Caerphilly winning 13% & on 17% each with YouGov today. They carry on as if they still were the powerful parties of yesteryear. And where is Plaid Cymru: last week's winner on any of these progs?
open.substack.com/pub/annpetti... The outcome of such regulation - the Bretton Woods system - led to the period between 1945-71 known by economists of all persuasions as ‘the golden age of economics’ or capitalism.
'Abundance', De-regulation, and the Demolition of Democracy
Centrists laid the groundwork in the US and Europe.
open.substack.com
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one of the most quietly damning things I've read in ages, this
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Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.
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“.. It’s also the fastest accumulation of a trillion dollars in debt outside of the COVID-19 pandemic ..”

@pbsnews.org
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Privatisation has and always will be a scam akin to a ponzi scheme. 👇🏻
PR Hype.

Water firms in England could face harsher sewage fines.

Firms still pay dividends, mega exec pay

Fines have been virtually abolished. Amounts handed back to firms for environmental improvements. They displace investment, improve balance sheet.

Must remove the profit motive. Nationalise.
Water firms in England could face harsher sewage fines under new Environment Agency powers
Government consults on allowing regulator to use lower civil standard of proof and introducing automatic penalties
www.theguardian.com