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Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.
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Shabana Mahmood is wrong
Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government
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November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.
Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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They are quite literally cheering Shabana Mahmood and anyone who tells you different is lying to you
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
They are quite literally cheering Shabana Mahmood and anyone who tells you different is lying to you
Robert Jenrick's campaign against working class migrants is funded by rich migrants- Migrant-owned & run finance firm Attestor funds Jenrick morningstaronline.co.uk/article/migr...
The migrants Jenrick does like
ROBERT JENRICK’S anti-migrant worker campaign is being funded by migrant investors.You might get the impression that Jenrick doesn’t like migrants. But he relies on some big donations from an investme...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Robert Jenrick's campaign against working class migrants is funded by rich migrants- Migrant-owned & run finance firm Attestor funds Jenrick morningstaronline.co.uk/article/migr...
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Labour Together faces revived accusations that it used unreported donor cash to help make Keir Starmer leader, and its busy Liverpool conference schedule shows how reliant the centrist group now is on sponsorship from banks, corporations and lobbyists.
Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
October 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Labour Together faces revived accusations that it used unreported donor cash to help make Keir Starmer leader, and its busy Liverpool conference schedule shows how reliant the centrist group now is on sponsorship from banks, corporations and lobbyists.
Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
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Cabinet reshuffle latest
September 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Cabinet reshuffle latest
Peter Mandelson still holds millions of pounds worth of shares in Global Counsel - the lobbying company he founded which represents firms including Palantir - months after Mandelson became UK Ambassador to Washington inews.co.uk/news/politic...
July 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Peter Mandelson still holds millions of pounds worth of shares in Global Counsel - the lobbying company he founded which represents firms including Palantir - months after Mandelson became UK Ambassador to Washington inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Boston Consulting Group are backing away from their role creating the militarised, privatised "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" (GHF) . But the CIA agent running the mercenary firm created to guard GHF was ...a Boston Consulting adviser www.middleeasteye.net/news/ex-cia-...
Ex-CIA officer running Gaza aid security advised Boston Consulting Group
Phil Reilly, who leads a private security company guarding food distribution sites in Gaza, was a senior advisor for US consultancy that has withdrawn from controversial aid project
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June 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Boston Consulting Group are backing away from their role creating the militarised, privatised "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" (GHF) . But the CIA agent running the mercenary firm created to guard GHF was ...a Boston Consulting adviser www.middleeasteye.net/news/ex-cia-...
Keir Starmer has a new fave Defence & Tech firm, with Team Starmer showing lots of love to Anduril : Like Palantir, Anduril are named after a Lord of The Rings object, and their chief attraction to Starmer seems to be their boss is close to Trump. In current @PrivateEyeNews
June 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Keir Starmer has a new fave Defence & Tech firm, with Team Starmer showing lots of love to Anduril : Like Palantir, Anduril are named after a Lord of The Rings object, and their chief attraction to Starmer seems to be their boss is close to Trump. In current @PrivateEyeNews
The Government Watchdog supposed to guard against anti-Terrorism laws being too repressive announced he wants to "save democracy from itself" with Cold War style "anti subversion " laws, at a right wing Think Tank funded by arms firms , in current @PrivateEyeNews
June 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The Government Watchdog supposed to guard against anti-Terrorism laws being too repressive announced he wants to "save democracy from itself" with Cold War style "anti subversion " laws, at a right wing Think Tank funded by arms firms , in current @PrivateEyeNews
The Police should only allow Kneecap to perform in public if the band agree to have their vocals dubbed by Stephen Rea www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
‘Counterproductive and silly’: 30 years since the end of the bizarre Irish political voice ban
A new film looks at the restriction of broadcasting on named political groups in Northern Ireland – and the actors and comedians who benefited
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May 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The Police should only allow Kneecap to perform in public if the band agree to have their vocals dubbed by Stephen Rea www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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🔴 Big exclusive leading Hyphen this morning – data from 119 councils shows half didn't greenlight a SINGLE social rent home in Labour's first six months.
Some of these councils have waiting lists for social housing well over 10k.
Full story here 👇
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Some of these councils have waiting lists for social housing well over 10k.
Full story here 👇
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Just 6% of homes approved in Labour’s first six months were for social rent
Data from 119 English councils shows that council houses made up just 6% of planning approvals in Labour’s first half-year in office
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May 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🔴 Big exclusive leading Hyphen this morning – data from 119 councils shows half didn't greenlight a SINGLE social rent home in Labour's first six months.
Some of these councils have waiting lists for social housing well over 10k.
Full story here 👇
hyphenonline.com/2025/05/19/h...
Some of these councils have waiting lists for social housing well over 10k.
Full story here 👇
hyphenonline.com/2025/05/19/h...
From the Guardian: Reform Voters like nationalisation, interventionist left economics, taxing corporations- so why don't Labour try win Reform voters with this stuff, that Labour members, voters also like ? Instead of trying to copy Reform ? It's a headscratcher
May 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
From the Guardian: Reform Voters like nationalisation, interventionist left economics, taxing corporations- so why don't Labour try win Reform voters with this stuff, that Labour members, voters also like ? Instead of trying to copy Reform ? It's a headscratcher
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I know hacks lose their minds 15 seconds into every a focus group & decide it’s revealing Real People’s True Thoughts, but LOL mate you’re literally quoting a man demanding a coup to “make everyone conform” here
April 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I know hacks lose their minds 15 seconds into every a focus group & decide it’s revealing Real People’s True Thoughts, but LOL mate you’re literally quoting a man demanding a coup to “make everyone conform” here
Defence Secretary John Healey said he was boosting British firms with his extra Defence spending- while announcing a £30m drone contract with a US firm , named after a Lord of The Rings sword, run by a Trump supporting Tech Bro - in current @privateeyenews.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Defence Secretary John Healey said he was boosting British firms with his extra Defence spending- while announcing a £30m drone contract with a US firm , named after a Lord of The Rings sword, run by a Trump supporting Tech Bro - in current @privateeyenews.bsky.social
(1) Saw Torsten Bell on TV claiming Labour's PIP "Reforms" are in Labour's Manifesto. They are not, there is no mention of cutting PIP, or any mention of PIP at all in the manifesto . Instead, there is this sentence. Were disabled people's "views and voices" consulted by Reeves ?
March 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
(1) Saw Torsten Bell on TV claiming Labour's PIP "Reforms" are in Labour's Manifesto. They are not, there is no mention of cutting PIP, or any mention of PIP at all in the manifesto . Instead, there is this sentence. Were disabled people's "views and voices" consulted by Reeves ?
Priti Patel put secret "suggestions " to Anti-Terrorism officials after she met Israeli arms firm Elbit to discuss protests against the firm. Now Anti -Terrorism laws are being used against the protestors (even after Patel has gone) novaramedia.com/2025/03/19/r...
March 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Priti Patel put secret "suggestions " to Anti-Terrorism officials after she met Israeli arms firm Elbit to discuss protests against the firm. Now Anti -Terrorism laws are being used against the protestors (even after Patel has gone) novaramedia.com/2025/03/19/r...
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This week's column is on how clinging on and hoping for a Labour surge either in terms of popularity or well formulated policy is now for the birds www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Many said the Starmer era would be just Tory-lite – now it’s worse than that. Time to stop the pretence
He’ll be radical, the PM’s allies claimed. Well, look now, as the poor are targeted and ministers boast of wearing Tory clothes better than the Tories, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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March 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
This week's column is on how clinging on and hoping for a Labour surge either in terms of popularity or well formulated policy is now for the birds www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain's new , powerful anti-abortion campaign group has an all-male board, most of whom live abroad, and depends overwhelmingly on US funding - no wonder US Vice President JD Vance boosted their activities morningstaronline.co.uk/article/who-...
March 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Britain's new , powerful anti-abortion campaign group has an all-male board, most of whom live abroad, and depends overwhelmingly on US funding - no wonder US Vice President JD Vance boosted their activities morningstaronline.co.uk/article/who-...
Starmer is about to announce cuts in disability benefits nobody in Labour, outside a small core of right wingers, want. Well, how did we get here ? Here is one answer, from Patrick Maguire's book "Get In" - Starmerism and Labour Together are just a "Lie" to catch the gullible
March 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Starmer is about to announce cuts in disability benefits nobody in Labour, outside a small core of right wingers, want. Well, how did we get here ? Here is one answer, from Patrick Maguire's book "Get In" - Starmerism and Labour Together are just a "Lie" to catch the gullible
(1)Peter Mandelson's whole career has been sucking up to US Presidents, no matter how rotten, and Russian Oligarchs, so his demand Zelensky give "unequivocal backing" to Trump and "ceasefire" is no surprise morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mand...
March 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
(1)Peter Mandelson's whole career has been sucking up to US Presidents, no matter how rotten, and Russian Oligarchs, so his demand Zelensky give "unequivocal backing" to Trump and "ceasefire" is no surprise morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mand...
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood pushing Benefit Cuts today by saying "This is the Labour Party, the Clue is in the name" - she is using a Rachel Reeves line from 2014 -In 2021 Reeves got upset when many reminded her. She said it was careless and wrong messaging , but here were are full circle
March 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood pushing Benefit Cuts today by saying "This is the Labour Party, the Clue is in the name" - she is using a Rachel Reeves line from 2014 -In 2021 Reeves got upset when many reminded her. She said it was careless and wrong messaging , but here were are full circle
(1)BBC News said Dodds implies Starmer was "dishonest" on aid cuts-well dishonesty is written into the Starmer project: In 2017, as Corbyn adsressed Glastonbury Crowds, Morgan McSweeney planned new group "Labour Together" with MPs Steve Reed, Lisa Nandy and funder Trevor Chinn..
February 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
(1)BBC News said Dodds implies Starmer was "dishonest" on aid cuts-well dishonesty is written into the Starmer project: In 2017, as Corbyn adsressed Glastonbury Crowds, Morgan McSweeney planned new group "Labour Together" with MPs Steve Reed, Lisa Nandy and funder Trevor Chinn..
This Guardian piece on possible strikes over wages claims pay strikes "crippled the economy " under the Conservatives. It's a weird and totally untrue claim - it reads like somebody has been briefing the Guardian with mad anti-strike propaganda and they just wrote it down
February 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This Guardian piece on possible strikes over wages claims pay strikes "crippled the economy " under the Conservatives. It's a weird and totally untrue claim - it reads like somebody has been briefing the Guardian with mad anti-strike propaganda and they just wrote it down
(1) Good work from The Observer here : US Vice President JD Vance attempts to push anti-abortion activism in the UK is backed up by US anti abortion group the "Alliance for Defending Freedom" , who are increasing activity in the UK www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
February 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
(1) Good work from The Observer here : US Vice President JD Vance attempts to push anti-abortion activism in the UK is backed up by US anti abortion group the "Alliance for Defending Freedom" , who are increasing activity in the UK www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Keir Starmer says he wants to be a "Bridge between Trump and the EU" : a bridge , something you walk over , is Starmer asking Trump to walk all over him ?
February 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Keir Starmer says he wants to be a "Bridge between Trump and the EU" : a bridge , something you walk over , is Starmer asking Trump to walk all over him ?