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You might have seen my post on this yesterday. While I got lots of nice messages, I also got a load of hateful bile, so I've written this article to set the record straight. The dehumanisation of disabled people has to stop www.normalisland.co.uk/p/disabled-p...

normalisland.co.ukDisabled people are not riding around in free cars. That’s not how it works.Sorry folks, but I’m breaking character today because Nigel Farage has pissed me off and I need to set the record straight.

The latest betting odds show the Israeli election is now a foregone conclusion. Bookmakers say there's a 100% that a supporter of genocide will be the next Israeli PM. You heard it here first.

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More neo-liberal bollocks from the Red Tories

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Chancellor to pitch budget at wealth creators – UK politics live

theguardian.comChancellor to pitch budget at wealth creators – UK politics liveJohn Healey is expected to cut red tape requirements, particularly for smaller businesses Good morning. A week today John Healey, the chancellor, will be doing a media round defending the budget he is presenting on Wednesday next week. Ahead of that, he has given an interview to Patrick Maguire from the Times. As you would expect, there is no real detail in it about the measures he will be presenting to MPs. But the big picture message is very clear – and quite surprising, coming from a chancellor serving a PM who in some respects is steering left compared to his predecessor. Healey says that he wants to be on the side of bloody-minded entrepreneurs who make a profit, he acknowledges that government has made their life harder over the past two years, and he suggests that cutting the ‘cost of living’ for business is just as important as cutting the real cost of living for families. In the quote that gives the Times its splash headline, Healey says: I want to be a chancellor who backs business in Britain making a profit, and those entrepreneurs who, in the end, are the ones who challenge the status quo, come up with innovative ideas and are trying, some of them through sheer bloody-mindedness, to keep going through these sorts of pressures … If you’re not making a profit, you’ve got nothing to put back into the business. And for the people who start up these businesses, the ones who really thrive and grow, they have to make a profit — and they will be much more inclined to put it back into their own business. But we want it to grow here and stay here. If you talk to any of the businesses that have come in and have either had one-to-ones or round tables with me, I have recognised that in recent times there’s been a lot of pressure: employment law, regulation, tax, input costs, supply chains. And so when I talk about the cost of business, and recognising that in the same way as we’re recognising the cost of living pressures, I’m conscious of that as I go into the budget for both businesses and households. [Healey] is expected to use the budget to make significant cuts to regulation on businesses that one senior Treasury source described as “the sludge choking firms”. Reporting requirements are likely to be abolished for many smaller enterprises, The Times understands. Continue reading...

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Only 5,000 kids were surveyed, only 92 were Jewish, only 70 of 92 responded, and 29 said they had faced antisemitism at school. Only 2% said antisemitism was a big problem at their school and we're reclassifying it as a more serious form of racism based on that? Is this a joke?

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We need much stricter measures to prevent antisemitism because it’s not more prevalent than other forms of racism. Apparently, 95% of black kids have experienced racism at school, but they’re not top of the hierarchy so who cares? www.normalisland.co.uk/p/british-te...

normalisland.co.ukBritish teachers to kiss wall in Israel to tackle antisemitism in schoolsDue to a worrying outbreak of empathy for Palestinians, the British government is taking a string of measures to tackle antisemitism in schools.

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@daliagebrial.bsky.social : "Sally Rooney.. was also making a point about the proscription of Palestine Action as an unprecedented overreach of govt power, an abuse of govt power.. [that] the actions of PA do not fit any conventional respected intl definition of terror.." 🎯

We need much stricter measures to prevent antisemitism because it’s not more prevalent than other forms of racism. Apparently, 95% of black kids have experienced racism at school, but they’re not top of the hierarchy so who cares? www.normalisland.co.uk/p/british-te...

normalisland.co.ukBritish teachers to kiss wall in Israel to tackle antisemitism in schoolsDue to a worrying outbreak of empathy for Palestinians, the British government is taking a string of measures to tackle antisemitism in schools.

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If Jewish pupils are feeling upset when they see a Palestinian badge, the correct response is not to erase Palestine from schools--it's to educate those kids that a genocide is taking place and the correct moral position is to oppose it. Anything less is a dereliction of duty.

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For three years, Britain's political class made clear that genocide was not a red line. Now they're making clear that opposition to genocide is a red line.

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The Canary will be closed for the foreseeable future. As of today (Monday 19 October), the Canary will be closed indefinitely. After multiple attacks this year, from Lloyds debanking us to former employees spreading malicious lies on social media, the situation has become unsustainable, both finan

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The Energy Secretary says North Sea drilling “won’t take a penny off energy bills.” The Health Secretary says summer heatwaves put pressure on the NHS. So where’s the Government’s impact assessment? If they don’t have one, they should delay the decision on drilling for oil & gas until they do.

Sure America doesn't have universal healthcare or high speed rail yet, but did you know it's the only country in the world that has built flying cars that can't actually fly properly?

The British armed forces currently only have around 180,000 personnel, and there are over 430,000 people aged 16–24 claiming PIP in England and Wales alone. Hazarika and Cooper reached the same alarming conclusion: this proves Russia is about to invade the UK. www.normalisland.co.uk/p/disability...

normalisland.co.ukDisability claimants aged 18-24 to be forced to join militaryLabour Baroness Ayesha Hazarika conducted a perfectly neutral interview with Labour Minister Yvette Cooper on Sky News this morning and pulled out two shocking, but completely unrelated stats.

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Heavy rain and extreme weather could put millions of homes at risk of surface water flooding this winter, with El Niño increasing the likelihood of wetter conditions. Today I asked the Mayor about plans to alert people and how we ensure people get the support they need.

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Put a trillion dollars into the hands of a stupid teenage boy and this is exactly the sort of crap he'd spend it on

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"Flying cars are real!" 🚀 Elon Musk and Tesla showcase the new Roadster.

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BREAKING: Andy Burnham has clarified that Labour could never form a coalition with the Greens, due to their opposition to genocide and reluctance to quietly send arms to Israel while pretending to stand up to them

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Jon Craig: "Bridget Phillipson said this isn't an issue of party politics, noooo..." The host & guests grin & laugh When politicians & journalists laugh along at people in power weaponising antisemitism, rather than calling it out.

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It upsets me that a man who stands accused of saying ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas em all’ to Jewish students at his college, who refuses to acknowledge or apologise for this, and more recently has made disparaging comments about ‘globalists’ & George Soros is the Jewish Chronicle’s latest columnist.

BREAKING: Andy Burnham has clarified that Labour could never form a coalition with the Greens, due to their opposition to genocide and reluctance to quietly send arms to Israel while pretending to stand up to them

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Free Speech news. The proscription of Palestine Action was one of the worst political decisions of recent years. And there have been some stinkers.

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Andy Burnham needs to ask himself a serious question: 30 years from now, who will history judge harshly: Sally Rooney or the politicians who sent arms to Israel? It's not a hard one to answer, is it?

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BREAKING: Andy Burnham says he has uncovered worrying evidence that North Korea influenced the outcome of the last two Eurovision Song Contests 👀