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Chris Kirk

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December 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM

Chris Kirk

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Keep boycotting any enterprise that trades with/in #Israel. #BDS works. #FreePalestine

December 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM

Chris Kirk

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Longstanding Israel lobbyist will co-lead foreign interference group in parliament www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Longstanding Israel lobbyist will co-lead foreign interference group in parliament

Longtime Israel lobby figures being put in charge of scrutinising foreign interference in UK politics. You really couldn’t make this up

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December 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM

Chris Kirk

@chriskirk51.bsky.social

Why are the British so opposed to cheaper electricity and climate stability?
www.surinenglish.com/spain/wind-p...

Wind power slashed 4.6 billion euros off electricity bills in Spain last year claim | Sur in English

The sector has called for the unblocking of projects and the promotion of measures to comply with the national energy and climate plan

www.surinenglish.com

December 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM

Chris Kirk

@chriskirk51.bsky.social

Steve Howell on Trump, Venezuela and a century of US Imperialism in S America. Well worth a read.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/the-...

The Donroe Doctrine Spells Disaster

As President Trump hails more than two centuries of US hegemony in the Western hemisphere, he is using Puerto Rico — one of its victims — as a staging post for his military build-up against Venezuela.

tribunemag.co.uk

December 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM

Chris Kirk

@chriskirk51.bsky.social

The assertion by Ecotricity boss, Dale Vince, that antisemitic attacks outside Israel & the #GazaGenocide are related, has provoked lively (and sometimes vituperative) argument here & elsewhere. This article makes the case for not ignoring the connection.
africasacountry.com/list/campaig...

Africa Is a Country, Dec 15: Antisemitism and the age of civilizational panic

africasacountry.com

December 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM

Chris Kirk

@chriskirk51.bsky.social

Never a truer word. Amandla ✊
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

EXCLUSIVE: Feinstein tells Starmer, Lammy their 'hero' Mandela would be outraged by them

Mandela must be turning in his grave for his name even to be in the mouth of Starmer or Lammy - as Feinstein alluded to

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December 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM

Chris Kirk

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Corruption 👇
www.declassifieduk.org/westminster-...

Westminster group was funded by Israeli government, inquiry confirms

Official probe was sparked by Declassified investigation into weapons firm

www.declassifieduk.org

December 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM

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Prof Bill McGuire

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The huge polar amplification of heating continues

Tipping of the Greenland Ice Sheet all but certain now, locking-in an eventual ~7m rise

Say goodbye to much of Florida, and coastal towns and cities across the planet

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’

Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say

www.theguardian.com

December 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM

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CarolineJMolloy

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I wonder how much lower flu would be right now if we’d fixed sick pay properly during COVID so that your colleague didn’t come to work sick, give you flu, which you passed on to your granny before you realised

CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 4d

As i wrote at the time, bosses were allowed to demand we carried on commuting to their factories & call centres, no new protections were put in place (unlike EU countries) & sick pay remained lowest, whereas we could have reformed, stopping ppl having to go to work sick & infectious *with anything*

December 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM

Chris Kirk

@chriskirk51.bsky.social

Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers ‘may die without Lammy’s intervention’ | UK news | The Guardian share.google/T75W2lJtauVX...

Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers ‘may die without Lammy’s intervention’

Justice secretary criticised for refusing to meet lawyers who say health of their jailed clients is ‘rapidly deteriorating’

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December 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM

Chris Kirk

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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers ‘may die without Lammy’s intervention’

Justice secretary criticised for refusing to meet lawyers who say health of their jailed clients is ‘rapidly deteriorating’

www.theguardian.com

December 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM

Chris Kirk

@chriskirk51.bsky.social

Prison refuses access to MP and 2 Drs to see dying hunger striker.
LIVE UPDATES: Zarah Sultana rushes to HMP Bronzefield for dying hunger striker www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

LIVE UPDATES: Zarah Sultana rushes to HMP Bronzefield for dying hunger striker

At 2am on Wednesday 17 December, Zarah Sultana went to HMP Bronzefield after it refused to call 999 for a dying hunger strike prisoner

www.thecanary.co

December 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM

Chris Kirk

@chriskirk51.bsky.social

Please buy it here lnk.to/T4PLullabyIn... Give it to your friends and family. Let's do this small thing for #gaza
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Getting this Palestinian song to No 1 would REALLY piss off Tommy Robinson

Tommy Robinson is trying to get some bollocks to the Christmas number 1 - enter Brian Eno with a Palestinian folk song

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December 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM

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sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social

@sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social

Has the soo called "chief rabbi" registered as a FOREIGN AGENT yet under the UK Governments "Foreign Influence Registration Scheme" considering he spends all his time defending a foreign country?

December 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM

Chris Kirk

@chriskirk51.bsky.social

The "Case" was always intimidation on behalf of Starmer's genocidal friends in Israel.
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

CPS drops 'terror' case against journalist Richard Medhurst

Richard Medhurst speaks out - "they have the nerve to call me a terrorist because I'm sitting in a room by myself talking to a camera"

www.thecanary.co

December 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM

Chris Kirk

@chriskirk51.bsky.social

👏👏Excellent I hope many more pursue financial claims.
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Police forced to pay damages after false imprisonment of anti-genocide protester

Someone hand the met a guidebook! The Metropolitan Police have paid damages after falsely arresting a woman for protesting Israeli genocide

www.thecanary.co

December 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM

Chris Kirk

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Admission from the very top that #Israel killed its own people then blamed Hamas.
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Hannibal directive: Israel admits killing the Bibas family

For years Israel blamed Hamas. Admissions from the top now confirm the Bibas family were killed by Israeli bombs under the Hannibal directive

www.thecanary.co

December 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM

Chris Kirk

@chriskirk51.bsky.social

Said to be Cameron.....
UK threatened to defund ICC over Netanyahu genocide case www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

UK threatened to defund ICC over Netanyahu genocide case

The UK tows the US line and threatens to cut funding to the ICC—nothing says 'justice' like strong arming an international tribunal

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December 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM

Chris Kirk

@chriskirk51.bsky.social

Fascist pals Modi and Netanyahu reaffirm India-Israel Strategic Partnership www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Fascist pals Modi and Netanyahu reaffirm India-Israel Strategic Partnership

The ethno-nationalist weirdo gang is back as Modi teams up with Netanyahu yet again — a hard-right India–Israel axis powered by islamophobia

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December 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM

Chris Kirk

@chriskirk51.bsky.social

Why would I vote for someone with no consistency or principles?
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Shabana Mahmood caught deleting pro-immigrant content from her website

Shabana Mahmood spent years defending refugees - yet suddenly, a huge cache of this content has vanished. A happy coincidence?

www.thecanary.co

December 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM

Chris Kirk

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Israel used Palantir technology in 2024 Lebanon pager attacks, book claims www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Israel used Palantir technology in 2024 Lebanon pager attacks, book claims

An explosive new book accuses Palantir, of having a hand in Israel's pager attacks - the UN called those attacks "war crimes"

www.thecanary.co

December 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM

Chris Kirk

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And Starmer is inviting Palantir into our NHS.
Israel used Palantir technology in 2024 Lebanon pager attacks, book claims www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Israel used Palantir technology in 2024 Lebanon pager attacks, book claims

An explosive new book accuses Palantir, of having a hand in Israel's pager attacks - the UN called those attacks "war crimes"

www.thecanary.co

December 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM