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The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

"The percentage of child dead in the Ukrainian conflict is 0.3% The percentage of child dead in the Gaza conflict is 37.7% In a single statistic, there you have the difference between a war and a genocide." Craig Murray

★★★★ "UPROOTED is yet more proof that theatre can be more than entertainment, it can serve as a powerful work of protest" Thanks for coming @theatreweekly.com! Full review here: theatreweekly.com/review-uproo... Tickets: newdiorama.com/whats-on/upr...

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

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Nick Maynard: "There were several doctors I know who took in formula feed in their luggage, and every single carton of it was confiscated, was taken away by the Israeli border guards, very specifically the formula feed. So none of it was allowed in"

Question: What made humanity the dominant lifeform on earth? Answer: We are a socially cooperative species - socialists for roughly 300,000 years. Question: Why are we doomed? Answer: Individualism - capitalism for a few hundred years is all it will take for us to go extinct...

Along with dictators around the world, we're "celebrating" the end of journalism. #AmnestyMediaAwards

If only government ministers had a tiny little bit of empathy ... meme via Ed Chiburis

My book, 'Anywhere But Here', is finished! It will take you inside the Home Office and behind the scenes of the small boats crisis for the first time. You can pre-order from Waterstones: bit.ly/4gBxHTV Foyles: tinyurl.com/3n7p3w3h Amazon: amzn.to/3XuF7Q8

My suggestions to the UK govt for rejuvenating economy. Must boost purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population, cut taxes for the poor, eliminate tax perks of the rich. The Minister did not respond. Will the Chancellor change policy? Pls watch the video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcgU...

The UK benefits system is broken. One third of benefits are not paid and by far the biggest recipients of state aid are the wealthiest people in the country www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...

While the world awaits the Russian-Ukrainian ceasefire, Israel violates its signature on the Gaza ceasefire, committing the same war crime of starving the Palestinian population and refusing to enter the 2nd phase it agreed to. And the West? Nothing! www.npr.org/2025/03/02/n... x.com/yanisvaroufa...

#LongCovidAwarenessDay @greenparty.org.uk @carladenyer.bsky.social

Labour's economic dilemma criticalmassmag.org/news-210225-...

Conspicuous consumption www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03... If we are to live in a sustainable world, we cannot afford conspicuous consumption, but that's just fine, because nor do we need it.

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Mainstream media is careful to tell a very different story. Believe your eyes, not your ears.

Just sending a massive FUCK YOU to all the pieces of shit who scapegoat immigrants

Kevin Bridges gets it

Sorry, but I find this the most incredible gaslighting. I now have to ASSUME that a Times headline is so totally unrepresentative of the content and views therein and I cannot criticise that framing, chosen deliberately by her employer, unless I PAY them to read the full article? Fuck. Right. Off.

Hilarious, absolutely HILARIOUS how we are told we can’t tax the richest in the UK as they’ll all leave… And we also block UN efforts to clamp down on tax avoidance by the rich internationally 😅😅😂😂😭😭😭 We are SUCH suckers bylinetimes.com/2025/02/04/k...

The death toll in Gaza has already been updated to 61,709. The true scale of Israel's atrocities is only just emerging - and officials must face justice for every single life lost. So should those who continued to send weapons, knowing full well they were enabling genocide.

It used to be: The US innovates, China imitates and Europe regulates Today: China originates, the US emulates and Europe stagnates

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A violent criminal? A threat to society? A danger to democracy? No, no and no. This is someone being punished again and again for giving a damn about humanity and the living world. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Is it just me, but doesn’t all this from Reeves sound very Trumpian? There will come a point very soon when not giving a damn about the environment isn’t going to look terribly clever. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Trump lived down to expectations www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01... Trump's opening salvos of his Presidency were as bad, if not worse than I expected. The fact that they were anticipated does not remove the shock, though. We really are facing very difficult times.