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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 8h

I've spent *weeks* working on this special report for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on GB News co-owner Paul Marshall – and the astonishing, unprecedented influence network he's built on the UK's right. There's never been anything like it before. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

Paul Marshall, the man who owns the right

The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s mo...

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1h

"Synthesis" is over-generous. It's just a grab bag of Bernie talking points without any real connective tissue, never mind a substratum.

David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 4h

Something I find striking about Zach Polanski is how - unlike the vast majority of those who played a key role in Corbynism - his politics are so clearly not rooted in any kind of deeper analysis or intellectual tradition. It's all just a surface-level synthesis of 2010s left-wing slogans and memes.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Trump’s everlasting peace in the Middle East held for 24 hours, so now he has to defend Hamas killing people to keep his Nobel Prize hopes alive.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 8h

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 8h

I guess so... I always think of these people as middle aged white men in half-zip jumpers for some reason

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 9h

A rib! FFS

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 9h

You're not going to be putting many of us in the ground if that thing goes off & breaks a tin, boyo

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 9h

Posing with his finger on the trigger & the butt not braced, like an absolute cosplaying twat of the first order, too

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 9h

Unbeatable Times picture/caption combo on Oxford PPE student who led chants of " put the Zios in the ground” at London rally.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 9h

That's some bloody cheek from someone who was a cabinet minister in the government that cemented Britain's economic gerontocracy in place

Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 19h

It looks likely that the Chancellor will need to raise taxes in the autumn Budget.

This is an opportunity to make the tax system fairer while also raising revenue.

Lord David Willetts makes the case for equalising the tax treatment between pensioners and working-age people ⤵️

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

Fine, but we could have lost one thing less.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

Or just softened it so that we didn't crash out of the customs union.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

It was more than symbolic. It boxed in the government to a hard Brexit by demonstrating that there will be no cooperation from Labour in fighting for a slower, more collaborative approach. Everything that followed us downstream of this interview. I blame him, squarely.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

(For the record so do I)

Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

I think they won't recover all of them, & I think Bibi will use it as a pretext to resume a ground invasion, unless the international reconstruction effort gets its bloody boots on & gets going very, very soon.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not saying they do! I'm saying that the people I believe are actually holding the bodies, who are Hamas's rivals for control of the strip, do.

Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand what you're basing this on. The bodies of the Bibas family were returned even though Hamas claimed they were killed in a strike, & even after Hamas fucked up & sent the body of some other poor woman instead of Shiri, they had the wherewithal to find the right body a day later.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

Why not? There were tunnels under all the hospitals. And dozens of dead bodies *were* returned in prior deals. They'd have had to have been somewhere, no?

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

The destruction of Gaza is terrible & possibly amounts to a war crime, but it's not like an earthquake or a tsunami - it didn't happen all at once & overwhelm any ability to get out of is way. IDF let Hamas know exactly where they were targeting each time.

Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

They wouldn't - & in fact didn't - leave hostages anywhere where strikes were being conducted. We know that most of the hostages were kept underground, in the tunnels, & moved around a lot. We also know that any time a strike did come close to hostages, Hamas used that in propaganda.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

No. Regular Gazans may be buried under huge piles of rubble. Hamas operatives along with their most important assets, the hostages being one, were deep in protective tunnels. That's why they're all so pale - look at them.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

My read on it is that Hamas is struggling to negotiate internally, with whatever freelancers took those people/bodies on 7/10, what concessions or bribes they want to hand them back. While also fighting a civil war & running around shooting rivals in the back of the head.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

They should have no problem finding the bodies. Either they were abducted when they were already dead, with a view to ransoming them back, in which case it would have made good sense to track their whereabouts, or they were killed by their guards, or they were killed *while surrounded* by guards.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1d

Putin must be in line for some kind of environmental prize for his achievements in rapidly decarbonising Russia.

WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 1d

The oil depot in Feodosia is still burning.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously Cory Doctorow is the expert on the fact that the Internet is broken, but I feel we're not paying enough attention to the fact that it's also a shit business. It doesn't make any money.

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1d

As I was saying.

Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 4d

- the only thing making Deliveroo affordable is that Big Tech keeps prices artificially low
- Big Tech is a loss-making business model propped up by venture capital that could & should be circulating in the productive economy

David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 4d

Reading @londoncentric.media and reflecting on how everything wrong with Britain can be seen through Deliveroo:
- much of the economy is fraudulent
- people don’t go outside
- workers are underpaid and insecure
- the immigration system is broken
- society is being eroded by Big Tech

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