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Saul Staniforth
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The land it is the landlord's, the trader's is the sea, the ore the usurer's coffer fills, but what remains for me?
Arms lobbyist Lord Walney wants to introduce another level of proscription so groups can be banned without having to label them as terrorists

Porritt: "Lord Walney has a long record of seeking to introduce ever more repessive legislation.. curtailing peoples right to protest" 🎯
October 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Jonathan Porritt explains why he became involved in the the
@defendourjuries.bsky.social campaign to lift the ban on Palestine Action.
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Arms company lobbyist Lord Walney on Palestine Action being banned

Well done to Sky for introducing him as a former chair of Labour Friends of Israel, & Porritt was spot on - PA was banned because it was so effective in its campaign against the UKs complicity in Israels genocide
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Luke Pollard: the Ministry of Defence owns 1% of the UK
October 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
"This demonstrates the underhand tactic by which manufacturers make profit by shrinking the size of the products you buy"

#GMB reporting on shrinkflation. Clip edited to remove statements from each of the manufacturers trying to justify their profiteering.
October 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Hani Mahmoud reports that despite the ceasefire Israeli drones continue to fly over the Gaza strip 24 hours a day.
October 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
"Morning everybody, it's Tuesday the 28th of October and we start the day with news that hundreds of asylum seekers..."

Of course you do.
October 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Why won't anybody think of the rich!
October 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
"[King Charles] is now facing so many questions about what he knew and when about Prince Andrews relationship with Jeffrey Epstein"

King Charles was heckled during a visit to the East Midlands #GMB
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
The US investigation into the shooting of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by an IDF soldier found it was not intentional.

But a retired US colonel who was part of the team that reviewed the scene shortly after the shooting says the evidence showed a soldier deliberately shot her.
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 AM
"People in Gaza have been burying the bodies of dozens of Palestinians released by Israel.. many.. show signs of torture & mutilation"

If these were Israeli bodies the story would have dominated the headlines for days & Starmer would have condemned Hamas's murderous brutality
October 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Palestinians in Gaza gathering to watch the film 'The Voice of Hind Rajab'
October 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Steve Reed admits that yes, the govt is lowering the requirement on developers around how many of the home they build in London are affordable from 35% to 20% (and of course, 'affordable home' is a misnomer anyway)
October 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Steve Reed is asked, in relations to Awaabs law, what about the 4.6m households renting in the private sector

"We want this to apply everywhere"

So they'll do it straight away? No. They'll "publish guidance which shows how & when it'll start to apply to the private sector too"
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Asked about problems in the Home Office, Steve Reed says "Shabana [Mahmood] is working at pace to fix the problems we inherited"

From Yvette Cooper?
October 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
"you have to take it through a process in parliament, you have to allocate funding in the budget, we have to get the economy growing"

Steve Reeds reply when he's asked about Awaabs law being applied to the private rented sector more quickly
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Last year Labour set up a Child Poverty Taskforce that they said would report in autumn 2025.

Its now almost November 2025 and the govt still won't say when it'll be released. Steve Reed this morning: "You're going to get it very very soon"
October 27, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Hind Khoudary reports a few minute ago that despite the terms of the ceasefire the amount of aid entering Gaza is still very limited.
October 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Israel continues to murder people in Lebanon.
October 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Nour Odeh reports on the continued search for the bodies of Israeli hostages in Gaza, including the involvement of teams from Egypt & the International Committee of the Red Cross.
October 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
#GMB reports on how NHS nurses are being subjected to increasing racist abuse.
October 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Ibrahim al Khalili reports on unexploded ordnance in Gaza
October 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Politics East Midlands out and about in Leicester South (the seat held by @shockatadam.bsky.social)
October 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Plaid Cymru won the Caerphilly by election, beating Reform into second place. So does #trevorphillips interview someone from the winning party? Of course he doesn't!

Instead he interviews Zia Yusuf from Reform.
October 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
#BBCLaurak "Trump has made progress.. that Biden & you, I know you worked hard on this, failed to make"

Biden could have stopped the genocide at any point but instead supplied Israel with the means to continue, & asked if she'd have done anything different to him Harris said no
October 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM