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February 13, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
February 13, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
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You are not disposable – and any politics that treats you as if you are is dangerous youtu.be/g8VOypobBr8?...
You are not disposable – and any politics that treats you as if you are is dangerous
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
February 13, 2026 at 7:12 AM
You are not disposable – and any politics that treats you as if you are is dangerous youtu.be/g8VOypobBr8?...
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#SophiefromRomania woke us at 5am but saw no reason why she shouldn’t just go back to sleep
February 13, 2026 at 9:55 AM
#SophiefromRomania woke us at 5am but saw no reason why she shouldn’t just go back to sleep
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UK Dept of Work and Pensions deducted £32.4m from Universal Credit to pay poor people's water bills.
People in the North hit the hardest.
Water companies pay dividends, exorbitant exec pay, fleece customers, don't pay fines.
Now allowed to rob the poor, with full complicity of the state.
People in the North hit the hardest.
Water companies pay dividends, exorbitant exec pay, fleece customers, don't pay fines.
Now allowed to rob the poor, with full complicity of the state.
Northern communities are bearing the brunt of DWP and water company deductions
The DWP is allowing water companies to go after benefit claimants living in the most deprived areas to collect debt for water bills
www.thecanary.co
February 13, 2026 at 8:01 AM
UK Dept of Work and Pensions deducted £32.4m from Universal Credit to pay poor people's water bills.
People in the North hit the hardest.
Water companies pay dividends, exorbitant exec pay, fleece customers, don't pay fines.
Now allowed to rob the poor, with full complicity of the state.
People in the North hit the hardest.
Water companies pay dividends, exorbitant exec pay, fleece customers, don't pay fines.
Now allowed to rob the poor, with full complicity of the state.
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With Parkinson’s Awareness Month coming up this April, we’re inviting hospitality venues to partner with us to help raise awareness and support Parkinson’s research.
Think your venue might be interested? Stay tuned to find out more, or contact our corporate team to learn more: buff.ly/ICoa74r
Think your venue might be interested? Stay tuned to find out more, or contact our corporate team to learn more: buff.ly/ICoa74r
February 12, 2026 at 12:01 PM
With Parkinson’s Awareness Month coming up this April, we’re inviting hospitality venues to partner with us to help raise awareness and support Parkinson’s research.
Think your venue might be interested? Stay tuned to find out more, or contact our corporate team to learn more: buff.ly/ICoa74r
Think your venue might be interested? Stay tuned to find out more, or contact our corporate team to learn more: buff.ly/ICoa74r
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AstraZeneca CEO hails NHS drug price deal but keeps pause on £200m UK investment.
Last year govt appeased Trump, agreed to pay 25% more for US drugs, up to £6bn a year.
The carrot was more investment in the UK.
Would UK govt now cancel the deal?
Better to work towards self-reliance.
Last year govt appeased Trump, agreed to pay 25% more for US drugs, up to £6bn a year.
The carrot was more investment in the UK.
Would UK govt now cancel the deal?
Better to work towards self-reliance.
AstraZeneca CEO hails NHS drug price deal but keeps pause on £200m UK investment
Pascal Soriot suggests UK-US agreement will not be enough to revive plan to expand Cambridge site
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:28 AM
AstraZeneca CEO hails NHS drug price deal but keeps pause on £200m UK investment.
Last year govt appeased Trump, agreed to pay 25% more for US drugs, up to £6bn a year.
The carrot was more investment in the UK.
Would UK govt now cancel the deal?
Better to work towards self-reliance.
Last year govt appeased Trump, agreed to pay 25% more for US drugs, up to £6bn a year.
The carrot was more investment in the UK.
Would UK govt now cancel the deal?
Better to work towards self-reliance.
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Peter Mandelson's official role in Gordon Brown's government was actually not that far away from his unauthorised dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. This week's column digs up some inconvenient truths and suggests the problem is much deeper than we're told.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There is a lot of convenient amnesia about Peter Mandelson’s New Labour days. Let’s jog some memories | George Monbiot
Yes, he betrayed the national interest in his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein – but also in his sanctioned role as enabler of corporate power, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Peter Mandelson's official role in Gordon Brown's government was actually not that far away from his unauthorised dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. This week's column digs up some inconvenient truths and suggests the problem is much deeper than we're told.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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4. Its repeated assaults on benefits - first resisting, beyond all reason, its backbenchers’ demands to end the Tories' vicious two-child benefit cap, before finally relenting, then seeking to throw people with disabilities into the ditch - has been grim beyond belief.
February 10, 2026 at 7:33 AM
4. Its repeated assaults on benefits - first resisting, beyond all reason, its backbenchers’ demands to end the Tories' vicious two-child benefit cap, before finally relenting, then seeking to throw people with disabilities into the ditch - has been grim beyond belief.
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3. Then there’s the government’s parroting of Reform UK lines on immigration and small boats, despite all the evidence showing that when centrists ape the extreme right they simply empower it. It even went so far as to mimic Reform’s branding: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour launches ads in Reform-style branding to boast about deportations
Exclusive: Some MPs and activists upset at tone of party’s Facebook campaign aimed at countering Farage
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:32 AM
3. Then there’s the government’s parroting of Reform UK lines on immigration and small boats, despite all the evidence showing that when centrists ape the extreme right they simply empower it. It even went so far as to mimic Reform’s branding: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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2. Linked to its alignment with the Netanyahu government is the Labour government’s assaults on the right to protest at home. Assaults that would have stopped the Labour movement in its tracks:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:31 AM
2. Linked to its alignment with the Netanyahu government is the Labour government’s assaults on the right to protest at home. Assaults that would have stopped the Labour movement in its tracks:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
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Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
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Is our Government Complicit in Genocide?
The Genocide Convention imposes obligations on states and individuals not just to punish the crime of genocide but to actively prevent it. Two years into the war in Gaza and over 20 months since th…
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February 10, 2026 at 7:31 AM
1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
rethinkingsecurityorguk.wpcomstaging.com/2025/10/07/i...
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Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
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How pleasing to step out with #sophiefromromania at 7:30 and find it’s neither raining nor dark
February 9, 2026 at 8:41 AM
How pleasing to step out with #sophiefromromania at 7:30 and find it’s neither raining nor dark
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The daft thing is that with Proportional Representation there'd be no need for this self-destructive war within Labour. It could split into its component parts - left and right - and people could vote for what they wanted. It's only First-Past-the-Post that forces these irreconcilables together.
February 9, 2026 at 8:51 AM
The daft thing is that with Proportional Representation there'd be no need for this self-destructive war within Labour. It could split into its component parts - left and right - and people could vote for what they wanted. It's only First-Past-the-Post that forces these irreconcilables together.
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A Labour MP remarks: "Starmer will go down as the worst PM in Labour history ... He’s a coward who refuses to take responsibility for his own actions. He is a moral gravity-well from which neither decency, honesty or integrity can escape. A genuine disaster for this country and the Labour movement.”
February 8, 2026 at 10:13 PM
A Labour MP remarks: "Starmer will go down as the worst PM in Labour history ... He’s a coward who refuses to take responsibility for his own actions. He is a moral gravity-well from which neither decency, honesty or integrity can escape. A genuine disaster for this country and the Labour movement.”
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England water companies have 1200 criminal convictions, leaders in predatory practices.
OFWAT/Govt lets them negotiate fines. Some won't be paid until 2030, others never.
Why does the govt indulge them? Watch the Minister's reply.
For supporting evidence see leftfootforward.org/2026/01/publ...
OFWAT/Govt lets them negotiate fines. Some won't be paid until 2030, others never.
Why does the govt indulge them? Watch the Minister's reply.
For supporting evidence see leftfootforward.org/2026/01/publ...
House of Lords Water 29Jan2026
YouTube video by Prem Sikka
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:20 PM
England water companies have 1200 criminal convictions, leaders in predatory practices.
OFWAT/Govt lets them negotiate fines. Some won't be paid until 2030, others never.
Why does the govt indulge them? Watch the Minister's reply.
For supporting evidence see leftfootforward.org/2026/01/publ...
OFWAT/Govt lets them negotiate fines. Some won't be paid until 2030, others never.
Why does the govt indulge them? Watch the Minister's reply.
For supporting evidence see leftfootforward.org/2026/01/publ...
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Pls read whole piece. Neither Mandelson or Mosley were asked about Mandelson’s role in fixing Starmer’s visit to Palantir & subsequent £240m deal. It finally made headlines on Weds when a q was asked in Parliament.
But honestly, BBC also has qs to answer
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
But honestly, BBC also has qs to answer
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Peter Thiel's New Model Army
The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster
open.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Pls read whole piece. Neither Mandelson or Mosley were asked about Mandelson’s role in fixing Starmer’s visit to Palantir & subsequent £240m deal. It finally made headlines on Weds when a q was asked in Parliament.
But honestly, BBC also has qs to answer
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
But honestly, BBC also has qs to answer
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit
Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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February 8, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit
Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Terrifying that such powerful people have mad and dangerous religious extremist views.
Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example
fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...
*Not satire.
fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...
*Not satire.
Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example | Fortune
The Gen Z Swedish climate activist is a legionnaire of the Antichrist, Thiel claims, a “Luddite” who wants to halt technological progress in its tracks.
fortune.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Terrifying that such powerful people have mad and dangerous religious extremist views.
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We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world
The most disturbing revelation so far
open.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:26 AM
We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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Tulips from Lincolnshire on sale in a cafe/deli around the corner from my office in London for... yes, **£50** a bunch 🌷🌷😬😲
February 5, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Tulips from Lincolnshire on sale in a cafe/deli around the corner from my office in London for... yes, **£50** a bunch 🌷🌷😬😲
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50 quid a bunch. Parallel universe
Tulips from Lincolnshire on sale in a cafe/deli around the corner from my office in London for... yes, **£50** a bunch 🌷🌷😬😲
February 6, 2026 at 7:59 AM
50 quid a bunch. Parallel universe
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Barclays cuts ties with Mandelson lobbying firm. Vodafone may too.
This is public posturing, isn't it.
For years they used Mandelson to gain political advantage despite his history - forced to resign as minister, ambassador, his links with Epstein were known.
Now trying to reinvent themselves.
This is public posturing, isn't it.
For years they used Mandelson to gain political advantage despite his history - forced to resign as minister, ambassador, his links with Epstein were known.
Now trying to reinvent themselves.
Barclays reportedly cuts ties with lobbying firm co-founded by Peter Mandelson
Vodafone also reviewing its contract with Global Counsel after revelations of former minister’s links to Jeffrey Epstein
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Barclays cuts ties with Mandelson lobbying firm. Vodafone may too.
This is public posturing, isn't it.
For years they used Mandelson to gain political advantage despite his history - forced to resign as minister, ambassador, his links with Epstein were known.
Now trying to reinvent themselves.
This is public posturing, isn't it.
For years they used Mandelson to gain political advantage despite his history - forced to resign as minister, ambassador, his links with Epstein were known.
Now trying to reinvent themselves.
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Zack Polanski, "When Keir Starmer was director of public prosecutions, it was all about his judgment, his forensic ability to ask the right questions"
"And here we see the most catastrophic lack in judgment you can imagine"
"I think the Prime Minister should do the right thing and step down"
"And here we see the most catastrophic lack in judgment you can imagine"
"I think the Prime Minister should do the right thing and step down"
February 4, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Zack Polanski, "When Keir Starmer was director of public prosecutions, it was all about his judgment, his forensic ability to ask the right questions"
"And here we see the most catastrophic lack in judgment you can imagine"
"I think the Prime Minister should do the right thing and step down"
"And here we see the most catastrophic lack in judgment you can imagine"
"I think the Prime Minister should do the right thing and step down"
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If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
'Peter Mandelson's Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions'
Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report
bylinetimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:41 PM
If Mandelson is being investigated for his Epstein connections, he must also be investigated for his Thiel connections, because they ran a joint fund when Mandelson fixed Starmer's visit to Palantir
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...