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Peter Hain says anti-apartheid campaigners would have been treated as terrorists under logic used to ban Palestine Action www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Anti-apartheid activists would have been called terrorists under logic banning Palestine Action, Peter Hain says – as it happened
Labour peer says he is ‘deeply ashamed’ his party is backing moves to ban group
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Peter Hain says anti-apartheid campaigners would have been treated as terrorists under logic used to ban Palestine Action www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Britain *is* broken.
Brexit broke Britain.
And Nigel Farage is benefitting from the wreckage.
This was always my greatest fear with Brexit - that it would bring about stagnant conditions that favour extreme populism.
Much like drug addiction causes crashes that make the drug more seductive.
Brexit broke Britain.
And Nigel Farage is benefitting from the wreckage.
This was always my greatest fear with Brexit - that it would bring about stagnant conditions that favour extreme populism.
Much like drug addiction causes crashes that make the drug more seductive.
2016: Nigel Farage, "The worst case scenario, economically, is better than where we are today"
2025: Nigel Farage, "This is broken Britain, nothing works"
2025: Nigel Farage, "This is broken Britain, nothing works"
July 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Britain *is* broken.
Brexit broke Britain.
And Nigel Farage is benefitting from the wreckage.
This was always my greatest fear with Brexit - that it would bring about stagnant conditions that favour extreme populism.
Much like drug addiction causes crashes that make the drug more seductive.
Brexit broke Britain.
And Nigel Farage is benefitting from the wreckage.
This was always my greatest fear with Brexit - that it would bring about stagnant conditions that favour extreme populism.
Much like drug addiction causes crashes that make the drug more seductive.
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Apart from just being fond of having rights it is worth remembering that the proposed Tory replacement to this under Raab stripped away key parts of our rights on the sly placing them at the whim of the government - precisely what universal rights are supposed to avoid.
The ECHR is vital - and we're campaigning to save it.
Please do sign this petition to get on board with our activities (at European Movement UK).
👉 www.europeanmovement.co.uk/echr-petition
Please do sign this petition to get on board with our activities (at European Movement UK).
👉 www.europeanmovement.co.uk/echr-petition
Act now to protect the UK's place in the ECHR
Sign the European Movement UK's petition now if you agree: Britain must remain in the ECHR
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
July 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Apart from just being fond of having rights it is worth remembering that the proposed Tory replacement to this under Raab stripped away key parts of our rights on the sly placing them at the whim of the government - precisely what universal rights are supposed to avoid.
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UN experts urge United Kingdom not to misuse terrorism laws against protest group Palestine Action | OHCHR share.google/DpEcDtfTxVW7...
UN experts urge United Kingdom not to misuse terrorism laws against protest group Palestine Action
GENEVA – UN experts* today urged the United Kingdom not to ban the “direct action” group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.“We are concerned at the unjustified ...
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July 4, 2025 at 4:25 AM
UN experts urge United Kingdom not to misuse terrorism laws against protest group Palestine Action | OHCHR share.google/DpEcDtfTxVW7...
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Nothing to do with Brexit or the UK government's policy on immigration of course.
Lancaster University looks to cut jobs and save £30mn amid rising costs and fewer international students, which means less income. Robbie MacDonald
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/educati...
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/educati...
Rising costs and fewer international students means job cuts at university
Lancaster University looks to cut jobs and save £30mn amid rising costs and fewer international students, which means less income
northwestbylines.co.uk
July 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Nothing to do with Brexit or the UK government's policy on immigration of course.
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NOW 347 DAYS since our nuclear test veterans - national heroes now in their eighties - requested a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss how he will honour the commitment Labour made to them in opposition.
How much longer must they wait?
How much longer must they wait?
If you are not yet familiar with the Nuked Blood Scandal watch this jaw dropping update.
Our Nuclear Test Veterans, national heroes now in their 80s, deserve better than this
youtu.be/hSQNLn2Ocr8?...
Our Nuclear Test Veterans, national heroes now in their 80s, deserve better than this
youtu.be/hSQNLn2Ocr8?...
Video emerges of Deputy PM,Defence Secretary & other Ministers BACKING compensation for Nuclear Vets
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
July 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
NOW 347 DAYS since our nuclear test veterans - national heroes now in their eighties - requested a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss how he will honour the commitment Labour made to them in opposition.
How much longer must they wait?
How much longer must they wait?
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'Boston Consulting Group modelled the costs of “relocating” Palestinians from Gaza and entered into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch an aid scheme for the shattered enclave, a Financial Times investigation has found'
www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza
Consulting firm had multimillion-dollar role in contentious new aid scheme for shattered enclave
www.ft.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
'Boston Consulting Group modelled the costs of “relocating” Palestinians from Gaza and entered into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch an aid scheme for the shattered enclave, a Financial Times investigation has found'
www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
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Day 636 of genocide
We’re still living in our small tent, scorching heat by day, fear by night.😓
I’m doing everything I can to protect my children, to hold them through the fear and hunger…
But I can’t do it alone.🥹
Your repost could reach the heart that helps us finally leave this tent behind.🔁💚
We’re still living in our small tent, scorching heat by day, fear by night.😓
I’m doing everything I can to protect my children, to hold them through the fear and hunger…
But I can’t do it alone.🥹
Your repost could reach the heart that helps us finally leave this tent behind.🔁💚
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July 4, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Day 636 of genocide
We’re still living in our small tent, scorching heat by day, fear by night.😓
I’m doing everything I can to protect my children, to hold them through the fear and hunger…
But I can’t do it alone.🥹
Your repost could reach the heart that helps us finally leave this tent behind.🔁💚
We’re still living in our small tent, scorching heat by day, fear by night.😓
I’m doing everything I can to protect my children, to hold them through the fear and hunger…
But I can’t do it alone.🥹
Your repost could reach the heart that helps us finally leave this tent behind.🔁💚
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It will probably come as no surprise to anyone that Brexit has been slammed as a 'complete disaster' that 'ruined most of the country' in a poll marking nine years since the UK voted to leave the EU
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Brexit a 'disaster' that 'ruined the country' - referendum 'should be repeated'
On the ninth anniversary of the day the UK voted to leave the EU, we asked readers to have their say on whether Brexit has been a success - and Mirror readers had a lot to say on the matter.
www.mirror.co.uk
July 4, 2025 at 6:02 AM
It will probably come as no surprise to anyone that Brexit has been slammed as a 'complete disaster' that 'ruined most of the country' in a poll marking nine years since the UK voted to leave the EU
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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For all those who can't forgive the Conservative Party for the chaos they left behind, who are disappointed by this Labour Government, who reject the divisive politics of Nigel Farage and Reform - there is an alternative.
Join the Liberal Democrats today: libdems.org.uk/join
Join the Liberal Democrats today: libdems.org.uk/join
Join us
Become a Liberal Democrat member today.
libdems.org.uk
July 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
For all those who can't forgive the Conservative Party for the chaos they left behind, who are disappointed by this Labour Government, who reject the divisive politics of Nigel Farage and Reform - there is an alternative.
Join the Liberal Democrats today: libdems.org.uk/join
Join the Liberal Democrats today: libdems.org.uk/join
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Three of his children were killed by the occupation as they were waiting in line at a falafel sandwich cart near Al-Awdah Hospital in Deir al-Balah. Can you imagine the heartbreak.
July 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Three of his children were killed by the occupation as they were waiting in line at a falafel sandwich cart near Al-Awdah Hospital in Deir al-Balah. Can you imagine the heartbreak.
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The only other huge issue will be tackling the mess of corrupt Freeports where big corps are being given huge tax breaks and land is being privatised. Apparently, Sunak saddled us with contracts of 25 years. Private companies are running Freeports with tax payers money. That's your Brexit mess.
July 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
The only other huge issue will be tackling the mess of corrupt Freeports where big corps are being given huge tax breaks and land is being privatised. Apparently, Sunak saddled us with contracts of 25 years. Private companies are running Freeports with tax payers money. That's your Brexit mess.
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"By 2035, the NHS dental system will be transformed."
That's the promise in the NHS 10 Year Plan.
Ministers have pledged to begin work this year fixing a failed contract.
They've made the right diagnosis.
But we can’t wait a decade for them to write the prescription.
That's the promise in the NHS 10 Year Plan.
Ministers have pledged to begin work this year fixing a failed contract.
They've made the right diagnosis.
But we can’t wait a decade for them to write the prescription.
July 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"By 2035, the NHS dental system will be transformed."
That's the promise in the NHS 10 Year Plan.
Ministers have pledged to begin work this year fixing a failed contract.
They've made the right diagnosis.
But we can’t wait a decade for them to write the prescription.
That's the promise in the NHS 10 Year Plan.
Ministers have pledged to begin work this year fixing a failed contract.
They've made the right diagnosis.
But we can’t wait a decade for them to write the prescription.
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Half of workers on zero-hours contracts don’t have any say over their hours
An important goal of the Employment Rights Bill is to tackle hours insecurity, issues which are most acute for those on zero-hours contracts.
Read more about worker insecurity in Low Pay Britain 2025 👉 buff.ly/0OSArrI
An important goal of the Employment Rights Bill is to tackle hours insecurity, issues which are most acute for those on zero-hours contracts.
Read more about worker insecurity in Low Pay Britain 2025 👉 buff.ly/0OSArrI
July 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Half of workers on zero-hours contracts don’t have any say over their hours
An important goal of the Employment Rights Bill is to tackle hours insecurity, issues which are most acute for those on zero-hours contracts.
Read more about worker insecurity in Low Pay Britain 2025 👉 buff.ly/0OSArrI
An important goal of the Employment Rights Bill is to tackle hours insecurity, issues which are most acute for those on zero-hours contracts.
Read more about worker insecurity in Low Pay Britain 2025 👉 buff.ly/0OSArrI
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Reform UK's Darren Grimes tells constituents he can't hold surgeries with them because he's been advised by the police not to do so for "security reasons".
The only problem? Police spokesperson says this is entirely untrue and they gave no such advice
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/03/r...
The only problem? Police spokesperson says this is entirely untrue and they gave no such advice
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/03/r...
Reform's Darren Grimes Accused of Lying After Police Deny Telling Him Not to Hold Council Surgeries for 'Security' Reasons
EXCLUSIVE: Local police have rejected the Reform UK deputy council leader's claim that they advised him not to meet his constituents
bylinetimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Reform UK's Darren Grimes tells constituents he can't hold surgeries with them because he's been advised by the police not to do so for "security reasons".
The only problem? Police spokesperson says this is entirely untrue and they gave no such advice
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/03/r...
The only problem? Police spokesperson says this is entirely untrue and they gave no such advice
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/03/r...
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All parties involved in armed conflicts, whether it is a non-state armed group or a state, must protect civilians and civilian objects without excuses.
Civilians shouldn't bear the cost of the hostilities.
Civilians shouldn't bear the cost of the hostilities.
June 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
All parties involved in armed conflicts, whether it is a non-state armed group or a state, must protect civilians and civilian objects without excuses.
Civilians shouldn't bear the cost of the hostilities.
Civilians shouldn't bear the cost of the hostilities.
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📢 A REMINDER: If they choose not to introduce a #WealthTax on the richest people, they will - consciously and actively - be choosing to tax those on middle and lower incomes instead. #WealthTaxNow #TaxTheRich www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Welfare bill climbdown will have ‘a cost’ at budget, says senior minister
Pat McFadden says U-turn will change calculations, as IFS says tax rises in autumn look increasingly likely
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
📢 A REMINDER: If they choose not to introduce a #WealthTax on the richest people, they will - consciously and actively - be choosing to tax those on middle and lower incomes instead. #WealthTaxNow #TaxTheRich www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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My immediate thoughts on the most monstrous, immoral piece of legislation I’ve ever voted on in the Senate.
But I’m not done fighting. I know you aren’t either.
But I’m not done fighting. I know you aren’t either.
July 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
My immediate thoughts on the most monstrous, immoral piece of legislation I’ve ever voted on in the Senate.
But I’m not done fighting. I know you aren’t either.
But I’m not done fighting. I know you aren’t either.
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Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
July 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
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Yes, the #ClimateEmergency will cost us billions. People won’t be able to work, crops will die from drought, fish, crops & insects from heat.
Pity Big Oil doesn’t care.
Oh & before any deniers mention how they survived the 1967 heatwave… a little message from Tony.
Pity Big Oil doesn’t care.
Oh & before any deniers mention how they survived the 1967 heatwave… a little message from Tony.
July 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Yes, the #ClimateEmergency will cost us billions. People won’t be able to work, crops will die from drought, fish, crops & insects from heat.
Pity Big Oil doesn’t care.
Oh & before any deniers mention how they survived the 1967 heatwave… a little message from Tony.
Pity Big Oil doesn’t care.
Oh & before any deniers mention how they survived the 1967 heatwave… a little message from Tony.
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"In two separate letters to Yvette Cooper, the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) lawyers’ group and the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers said that proscribing the group would set a dangerous precedent." Time for another U-turn, after today's on benefits. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Pressure grows on Yvette Cooper to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action
UN experts and hundreds of lawyers warn that proscribing group would conflate protest and terrorism
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"In two separate letters to Yvette Cooper, the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) lawyers’ group and the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers said that proscribing the group would set a dangerous precedent." Time for another U-turn, after today's on benefits. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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"More than 170 non-governmental organisations called on Tuesday for a U.S.- and Israeli-backed food aid distribution scheme in Gaza to be dismantled...
More than 500 people have been killed in mass shootings near aid distribution centres... by Israeli forces..."
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
More than 500 people have been killed in mass shootings near aid distribution centres... by Israeli forces..."
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Over 170 charities call for end to deadly new Gaza aid distribution system
More than 170 non-governmental organisations called on Tuesday for a U.S.- and Israeli-backed food aid distribution scheme in Gaza to be dismantled over concerns it is putting civilians at risk of death and injury.
www.reuters.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"More than 170 non-governmental organisations called on Tuesday for a U.S.- and Israeli-backed food aid distribution scheme in Gaza to be dismantled...
More than 500 people have been killed in mass shootings near aid distribution centres... by Israeli forces..."
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
More than 500 people have been killed in mass shootings near aid distribution centres... by Israeli forces..."
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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You don’t always need bombs to murder children.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
At least 66 children dead of malnutrition in Gaza amid Israel’s war
UNICEF says the number of malnourished children in the Gaza Strip is rising at an ‘alarming rate’.
www.aljazeera.com
June 29, 2025 at 6:27 AM
You don’t always need bombs to murder children.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...