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Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.”
MPs are watching.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
MPs are watching.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
Decriminalise abortion and make it a protected human right.
Women’s rights are under threat from the far right.
Nigel Farage just called our current abortion provisions “utterly ludicrous” – and others in power are paying attention.
A vote in Parliament could ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
June 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.”
MPs are watching.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
MPs are watching.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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🚨🚨🚨Tesla has opened a pop-up store on Oxford Street today and it's only open for a week. So our #London #TeslaTakedown protest tomorrow is moving.
📅 5 April
⏰11am
📍Future Stores, 95 Oxford Street, W1D 2AD
PLEASE RETWEET
We'll have people in Park Royal to redirect, but please, please share.
📅 5 April
⏰11am
📍Future Stores, 95 Oxford Street, W1D 2AD
PLEASE RETWEET
We'll have people in Park Royal to redirect, but please, please share.
April 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🚨🚨🚨Tesla has opened a pop-up store on Oxford Street today and it's only open for a week. So our #London #TeslaTakedown protest tomorrow is moving.
📅 5 April
⏰11am
📍Future Stores, 95 Oxford Street, W1D 2AD
PLEASE RETWEET
We'll have people in Park Royal to redirect, but please, please share.
📅 5 April
⏰11am
📍Future Stores, 95 Oxford Street, W1D 2AD
PLEASE RETWEET
We'll have people in Park Royal to redirect, but please, please share.
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1: Join a protest. We have two at 11am tomorrow.
#London
Tesla Park Royal, 152 Duke's Road
actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...
#Manchester
Tesla Manchester South, 396 Wellington Road N.
actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...
#TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla
#London
Tesla Park Royal, 152 Duke's Road
actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...
#Manchester
Tesla Manchester South, 396 Wellington Road N.
actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...
#TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla
Tesla Takedown London part III
We are taking action at Tesla. ⚡ Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines. ⚡ Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk. ⚡ Stopping Musk will help save lives and our democracy. The stakes could...
actionnetwork.org
March 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
1: Join a protest. We have two at 11am tomorrow.
#London
Tesla Park Royal, 152 Duke's Road
actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...
#Manchester
Tesla Manchester South, 396 Wellington Road N.
actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...
#TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla
#London
Tesla Park Royal, 152 Duke's Road
actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...
#Manchester
Tesla Manchester South, 396 Wellington Road N.
actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...
#TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla
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As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”.
The man is a fraud.
The man is a fraud.
March 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”.
The man is a fraud.
The man is a fraud.
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Trump on NATO: "If the United States was in trouble and we called them. We said, 'We got a problem, France.' Do you think they're gonna come and protect us? Hmm. They're supposed to. I'm not so sure." (Literally the only time NATO Article 5 was invoked was after 9/11 on behalf of the US.)
March 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Trump on NATO: "If the United States was in trouble and we called them. We said, 'We got a problem, France.' Do you think they're gonna come and protect us? Hmm. They're supposed to. I'm not so sure." (Literally the only time NATO Article 5 was invoked was after 9/11 on behalf of the US.)
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Class. Well played, Starmer.
March 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Class. Well played, Starmer.
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Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.
Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
February 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.
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STORY
New law protects care leavers from homelessness - how the big change will work
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
New law protects care leavers from homelessness - how the big change will work
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
New law protects care leavers from homelessness - how the big change will work
Care leavers - who often lack the support networks other young people have - are left vulnerable to housing instability, leading them to getting into debt or losing their tenancies
www.mirror.co.uk
January 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
STORY
New law protects care leavers from homelessness - how the big change will work
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
New law protects care leavers from homelessness - how the big change will work
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Call me old-fashioned, but I think when someone dies and a coroner says something must be done to prevent further deaths, the least the government can do is respond to the report.
Shocking failings here
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/pris...
Shocking failings here
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/pris...
Coroner warnings over prison deaths went unanswered
Reports into prison deaths which warned of future dangers went unanswered in 2024
www.standard.co.uk
January 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Call me old-fashioned, but I think when someone dies and a coroner says something must be done to prevent further deaths, the least the government can do is respond to the report.
Shocking failings here
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/pris...
Shocking failings here
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/pris...
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one of the most thorough skewerings I’ve ever seen during PMQs
Keir Starmer says Kemi Badenoch in eight years as an MP never mentioned grooming gangs in the House of Commons - not once - even when she was children’s minister
Badenoch insists she has raised the issue “in speeches” but is unable to deny the charge #pmqs
Badenoch insists she has raised the issue “in speeches” but is unable to deny the charge #pmqs
January 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
one of the most thorough skewerings I’ve ever seen during PMQs
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True to its long history of exploitation and obfuscation, Meta makes it as hard as possible to delete your Facebook account. It keeps changing the procedure. In some cases it directs you to the wrong tabs. But this video by Gauging Gadgets provides a simple guide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZIJ...
How to Delete Facebook Account Permanently on Desktop, Laptop, Mac, or Chromebook
YouTube video by Gauging Gadgets
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
True to its long history of exploitation and obfuscation, Meta makes it as hard as possible to delete your Facebook account. It keeps changing the procedure. In some cases it directs you to the wrong tabs. But this video by Gauging Gadgets provides a simple guide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZIJ...
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Absolute garbage of a headline - what just happened is that a bill to protect vulnerable young people was voted through www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tory bid to force national grooming gangs inquiry voted down by MPs
MPs rejected a Tory amendment calling for a grooming gang's inquiry by 253 votes.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Absolute garbage of a headline - what just happened is that a bill to protect vulnerable young people was voted through www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Just like much of the furore this week, here is an example of a law passed 4 years ago and the Tories did nothing with it. Within months of us being in power we delivered the scheme because we are about actual actions and real outcomes. They talked we walked. www.burytimes.co.uk/news/2484314...
Man sentenced as GMP secures biggest penalty in Bury domestic violence pilot scheme
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has secured the biggest penalty so far for the breach of a domestic abuse protection order (DAPO) as part of a pilot…
www.burytimes.co.uk
January 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Just like much of the furore this week, here is an example of a law passed 4 years ago and the Tories did nothing with it. Within months of us being in power we delivered the scheme because we are about actual actions and real outcomes. They talked we walked. www.burytimes.co.uk/news/2484314...
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STORY
Kemi Badenoch hasn't actually met any grooming gang survivors - and doesn't think she needs to
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Kemi Badenoch hasn't actually met any grooming gang survivors - and doesn't think she needs to
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Kemi Badenoch has never actually met any grooming gang survivors
The Tory leader's spokesman said she didn't need to meet with victims, because she's read all about it in the media - and had no current plans to meet with anyone - but denied she was jumping on an El...
www.mirror.co.uk
January 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
STORY
Kemi Badenoch hasn't actually met any grooming gang survivors - and doesn't think she needs to
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Kemi Badenoch hasn't actually met any grooming gang survivors - and doesn't think she needs to
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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“It was Starmer who changed the rules to make more prosecutions possible. That happened and there was a huge increase in convictions.”
He also told @TheNewsAgents: "These girls are being exploited all over again. Politicians jumping on the bandwagon after years of silence is shameful".
He also told @TheNewsAgents: "These girls are being exploited all over again. Politicians jumping on the bandwagon after years of silence is shameful".
January 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
“It was Starmer who changed the rules to make more prosecutions possible. That happened and there was a huge increase in convictions.”
He also told @TheNewsAgents: "These girls are being exploited all over again. Politicians jumping on the bandwagon after years of silence is shameful".
He also told @TheNewsAgents: "These girls are being exploited all over again. Politicians jumping on the bandwagon after years of silence is shameful".
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Andrew Norfolk, the retired reporter who uncovered the grooming scandal in Rotherham, has spoken to @thetimes to “put the record straight” about Elon Musk’s wild claims about the PM's time as director of public prosecutions.
January 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Andrew Norfolk, the retired reporter who uncovered the grooming scandal in Rotherham, has spoken to @thetimes to “put the record straight” about Elon Musk’s wild claims about the PM's time as director of public prosecutions.
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Keir Starmer, "Not once in 8 years did Kemi Badenoch stand here and say what she said.. They didn't act on any of the 20 recommendations from the Jay Inquiry report"
"The Conservatives can't break the bill this afternoon and protect children"
"The Conservatives can't break the bill this afternoon and protect children"
January 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Keir Starmer, "Not once in 8 years did Kemi Badenoch stand here and say what she said.. They didn't act on any of the 20 recommendations from the Jay Inquiry report"
"The Conservatives can't break the bill this afternoon and protect children"
"The Conservatives can't break the bill this afternoon and protect children"
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Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.
January 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.
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There are votes to be won by appealing to the populists but eventually you have to draw a line or you will be taken to a very dark place. My @newstatesman.com piece on why Elon Musk provides a cautionary tale for parties of the right. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
Elon Musk shows the perils of populism
Politicians must set clear boundaries or they will be taken to a very dark place.
www.newstatesman.com
January 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
There are votes to be won by appealing to the populists but eventually you have to draw a line or you will be taken to a very dark place. My @newstatesman.com piece on why Elon Musk provides a cautionary tale for parties of the right. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
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Fact-checking is not censorship.
Requesting evidence is not censorship.
Refuting falsehoods is not censorship.
Stopping a lie from travelling halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on is not censorship.
But Zuckerberg's grovelling to Trump will sure as hell lead to censorship.
Requesting evidence is not censorship.
Refuting falsehoods is not censorship.
Stopping a lie from travelling halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on is not censorship.
But Zuckerberg's grovelling to Trump will sure as hell lead to censorship.
January 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Fact-checking is not censorship.
Requesting evidence is not censorship.
Refuting falsehoods is not censorship.
Stopping a lie from travelling halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on is not censorship.
But Zuckerberg's grovelling to Trump will sure as hell lead to censorship.
Requesting evidence is not censorship.
Refuting falsehoods is not censorship.
Stopping a lie from travelling halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on is not censorship.
But Zuckerberg's grovelling to Trump will sure as hell lead to censorship.