Lucas S Diamond
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Football, UK politics & International news, funny people, and junk food. Music, living, and drinking. Oh, and fish finger sandwiches. All in no particular order
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70,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza by Israel.
This is Israel's military accepting Netanyahu's government lied...and on this the Hamas health authority told the truth.
The genocide charge is strengthened.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
This is Israel's military accepting Netanyahu's government lied...and on this the Hamas health authority told the truth.
The genocide charge is strengthened.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Israel accepts health authorities’ Gaza death toll is broadly accurate, saying 70,000 have died
Israeli military’s U-turn in accepting official figures comes after years of attacking data as ‘Hamas propaganda’
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:13 AM
70,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza by Israel.
This is Israel's military accepting Netanyahu's government lied...and on this the Hamas health authority told the truth.
The genocide charge is strengthened.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
This is Israel's military accepting Netanyahu's government lied...and on this the Hamas health authority told the truth.
The genocide charge is strengthened.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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Keir Starmer has accused the Reform UK candidate in Gorton & Denton byelection of “toxic division” after he refused to disown claim that UK-born people from minority backgrounds aren’t necessarily British.
January 28, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Keir Starmer has accused the Reform UK candidate in Gorton & Denton byelection of “toxic division” after he refused to disown claim that UK-born people from minority backgrounds aren’t necessarily British.
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Only Labour can defeat Reform in Gorton and Denton. A vote for the Greens or any other party risks them getting in.
We are a tolerant, proud, progressive city and we don’t want their divisive brand of politics here.
We are a tolerant, proud, progressive city and we don’t want their divisive brand of politics here.
January 28, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Only Labour can defeat Reform in Gorton and Denton. A vote for the Greens or any other party risks them getting in.
We are a tolerant, proud, progressive city and we don’t want their divisive brand of politics here.
We are a tolerant, proud, progressive city and we don’t want their divisive brand of politics here.
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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"The Shoes on the Danube Promenade" is a memorial of 60 cast-iron shoes along the river’s bank in Budapest. It honours the thousands of Jewish people who, in the winter of 1944-1945, were shot on the banks of the Danube by members of the Arrow Cross Party – who collaborated with the Nazis.
January 27, 2026 at 10:36 AM
"The Shoes on the Danube Promenade" is a memorial of 60 cast-iron shoes along the river’s bank in Budapest. It honours the thousands of Jewish people who, in the winter of 1944-1945, were shot on the banks of the Danube by members of the Arrow Cross Party – who collaborated with the Nazis.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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Music venues and studios must not be overlooked from any review on business rates.
For British artists to thrive, we must protect where music is made.
Which is why I’ve signed my colleagues letter urging the Chancellor to act before rises force closures.
For British artists to thrive, we must protect where music is made.
Which is why I’ve signed my colleagues letter urging the Chancellor to act before rises force closures.
January 27, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Music venues and studios must not be overlooked from any review on business rates.
For British artists to thrive, we must protect where music is made.
Which is why I’ve signed my colleagues letter urging the Chancellor to act before rises force closures.
For British artists to thrive, we must protect where music is made.
Which is why I’ve signed my colleagues letter urging the Chancellor to act before rises force closures.
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We must never forget.
It was an honour to sign the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment. With survivors becoming fewer and frailer, the responsibility is on us and the next generation to remember the Holocaust and ensure its lessons are never lost.
It was an honour to sign the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment. With survivors becoming fewer and frailer, the responsibility is on us and the next generation to remember the Holocaust and ensure its lessons are never lost.
January 27, 2026 at 7:31 AM
We must never forget.
It was an honour to sign the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment. With survivors becoming fewer and frailer, the responsibility is on us and the next generation to remember the Holocaust and ensure its lessons are never lost.
It was an honour to sign the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment. With survivors becoming fewer and frailer, the responsibility is on us and the next generation to remember the Holocaust and ensure its lessons are never lost.
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Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Reform MPs aren't even in the chamber for the Armed Forces Bill.
Because of course they're not. They've probably got a Cameo to film.
Because of course they're not. They've probably got a Cameo to film.
January 26, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Reform MPs aren't even in the chamber for the Armed Forces Bill.
Because of course they're not. They've probably got a Cameo to film.
Because of course they're not. They've probably got a Cameo to film.
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Lib Dems react:
“Farage has recruited yet another Conservative minister with selective amnesia - one who complains about broken Britain while conveniently forgetting they helped break it.
"Suella Braverman was so bad she was forced to resign from Liz Truss’ cabinet and got sacked by Rishi Sunak.”
“Farage has recruited yet another Conservative minister with selective amnesia - one who complains about broken Britain while conveniently forgetting they helped break it.
"Suella Braverman was so bad she was forced to resign from Liz Truss’ cabinet and got sacked by Rishi Sunak.”
January 26, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Lib Dems react:
“Farage has recruited yet another Conservative minister with selective amnesia - one who complains about broken Britain while conveniently forgetting they helped break it.
"Suella Braverman was so bad she was forced to resign from Liz Truss’ cabinet and got sacked by Rishi Sunak.”
“Farage has recruited yet another Conservative minister with selective amnesia - one who complains about broken Britain while conveniently forgetting they helped break it.
"Suella Braverman was so bad she was forced to resign from Liz Truss’ cabinet and got sacked by Rishi Sunak.”
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"I think that everybody in the Labour Party, everybody who's a Labour MP, wants to be in that fight, wants to fight alongside all their colleagues in a fight that matters hugely to the future of our country."
January 26, 2026 at 10:36 AM
"I think that everybody in the Labour Party, everybody who's a Labour MP, wants to be in that fight, wants to fight alongside all their colleagues in a fight that matters hugely to the future of our country."
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Kemi Badenoch on ITV about Robert Jenrick: "Everyone watching your show will have a work colleague like this, a drama queen. It's always somebody else who's done something. They were not there at the scene of the problems. But when there's something to take credit for, they rush to the front."
January 26, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Kemi Badenoch on ITV about Robert Jenrick: "Everyone watching your show will have a work colleague like this, a drama queen. It's always somebody else who's done something. They were not there at the scene of the problems. But when there's something to take credit for, they rush to the front."
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Labour source explains that the party tried to contact Burnham shortly after the NEC meeting via telephone, then emailed.
Party insists it did not brief media before Burnham and full NEC had been told.
Party insists it did not brief media before Burnham and full NEC had been told.
January 25, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Labour source explains that the party tried to contact Burnham shortly after the NEC meeting via telephone, then emailed.
Party insists it did not brief media before Burnham and full NEC had been told.
Party insists it did not brief media before Burnham and full NEC had been told.
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Do not allow Badenock to hide these policies behind a more slick, honed PR operation.
Ask her at every opportunity what plans she has for this style of paramilitary crackdown on citizens.
She might be convincing some that she's standing up to the nutters, but Katie Lam remains.
Ask her at every opportunity what plans she has for this style of paramilitary crackdown on citizens.
She might be convincing some that she's standing up to the nutters, but Katie Lam remains.
January 25, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Do not allow Badenock to hide these policies behind a more slick, honed PR operation.
Ask her at every opportunity what plans she has for this style of paramilitary crackdown on citizens.
She might be convincing some that she's standing up to the nutters, but Katie Lam remains.
Ask her at every opportunity what plans she has for this style of paramilitary crackdown on citizens.
She might be convincing some that she's standing up to the nutters, but Katie Lam remains.
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Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*
January 24, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*
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Initial report is that two observers got into a shoving match with eight agents, one observer was wrestled to the ground, and then an ICE agent pulled out a sidearm and shot the man on the ground five times.
January 24, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Initial report is that two observers got into a shoving match with eight agents, one observer was wrestled to the ground, and then an ICE agent pulled out a sidearm and shot the man on the ground five times.
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Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
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In 2011, BBC published this documentation of UK troops killed in Afghanistan. Insulting & false to claim they weren’t frontline of an US-led war news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7616...
BBC NEWS | UK | British military fatalities in Afghanistan
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January 23, 2026 at 10:26 AM
In 2011, BBC published this documentation of UK troops killed in Afghanistan. Insulting & false to claim they weren’t frontline of an US-led war news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7616...
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White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration
The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by attorney general Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found.
The woman, Nekima Levy Armstrong, also appears to have darker skin in the altered image. Armstrong was one of three people arrested on Thursday in connection to a demonstration that disrupted church services in St Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday. Demonstrators alleged that one of the pastors, David Easterwood, was the acting field director of the St Paul ICE office. Bondi announced the arrests on social media Thursday morning. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:17 PM
White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
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Well, I certainly didn't have 'sharing clip of the Tory Shadow Leader of the House' on my to-do-list today.
But here he is absolutely going for Farage!
And managing to use the word 'bullshiterati' while doing it.
It had to be shared!
But here he is absolutely going for Farage!
And managing to use the word 'bullshiterati' while doing it.
It had to be shared!
January 22, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Well, I certainly didn't have 'sharing clip of the Tory Shadow Leader of the House' on my to-do-list today.
But here he is absolutely going for Farage!
And managing to use the word 'bullshiterati' while doing it.
It had to be shared!
But here he is absolutely going for Farage!
And managing to use the word 'bullshiterati' while doing it.
It had to be shared!
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For the Lords to force this to fail would be an outrage. It's clear that, for some, no version of the bill would be acceptable. That and the manner of amendments and delay shows that it is not merely extra scrutiny, it is deliberately undermining the Commons decision.
EXC - MPs and peers who backed the assisted dying bill now believe it is “near impossible” for it to pass the House of Lords in time because of procedural obstacles used by opponents.
“It is our system at its absolute most dysfunctional,” one MP said.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
“It is our system at its absolute most dysfunctional,” one MP said.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Assisted dying bill backers say it is ‘near impossible’ it will pass House of Lords
Exclusive: Legislation thought unlikely even to be put to vote before timing out after delay tactics by opponents
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:53 PM
For the Lords to force this to fail would be an outrage. It's clear that, for some, no version of the bill would be acceptable. That and the manner of amendments and delay shows that it is not merely extra scrutiny, it is deliberately undermining the Commons decision.
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Farage's tactics show his fears. He needs to bury the Conservatives this year or all his calculations are undone.
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Farage’s tactical mastery and strategic gaps
[FREE TO READ] Though riding high, he still faces a dilemma over what kind of party Reform intends to be
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January 22, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Farage's tactics show his fears. He needs to bury the Conservatives this year or all his calculations are undone.
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