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2026-07-28 12:33:04 UTC

"What if the home secretary explicitly said she believed in a “panopticon state” – that is, a state that could watch you at all times (as Shabana Mahmood already has) – and what if she still had a job when the lamp-post eyes got their updates? Or what if the next home secretary was even keener on hyper-surveillance (hard to imagine), and the street apparatus was already in place? What about all the data this would harvest – who would own it?"
#UKPol #Surveillance #CCTV
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/28/spies-in-sky-worried-ai-enabled-smart-lamp-posts-surveillance

2026-07-26 18:31:41 UTC

"Most people arrested during violent protests after the sentencing of Henry Nowak’s murderer had previously been reported to the police for domestic abuse."
#UKPol
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/24/most-people-arrested-during-henry-nowak-protests-had-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse

2026-07-24 09:09:30 UTC

"He's confusing the map with the territory; he's got his job description wrong."
#UKPol #Labour #Chancellor
https://youtu.be/cAfh3cKxf2E

2026-07-19 08:45:07 UTC

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I just saw a microfic toot about a spreading vampire infection, and then I saw this one straight afterwards, and my brain said "Well, yeah, but ... Blair is still out there."

2026-07-16 20:52:32 UTC

"The long-planned conference has prompted warnings from some former officials and observers, who suggest the administration may be redirecting vital resources towards groups responsible for a comparatively small number of attacks, potentially at the expense of combating Islamic militants and right-wing extremists."
#USPol #Antifa #DomesticExtremists
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marco-rubio-far-left-terrorism-summit-antifa-trump-b3016265.html

2026-07-16 09:01:11 UTC

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"A month later, Sadiq Khan blocked the #MetPolice’s proposed £50 million deal with #Palantir to automate intelligence analysis in criminal investigations, on the grounds that the contract breached procurement rules and did not ‘adequately demonstrate value for money’. Palantir is suing the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime."
#UKPol #London

2026-07-16 08:36:53 UTC

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"Between April 2020 and March 2022 the Ministry of Defence awarded #Palantir three data integration contracts worth £17.6 million. That November, Palantir hired Polly Scully, a former strategy director at the MoD, as its UK defence lead. The following month it was given a three-year contract worth £75.2 million to work on British military operations and intelligence."
#UKPol

2026-07-16 08:31:48 UTC

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"A second attempt to centralise and share patient records electronically, known as care.data, collapsed in 2014 after it was revealed that the Department of Health and Social Care had sold the records of 47 million patients to an insurer."
#UKPol #NHS

2026-07-16 08:26:48 UTC

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"UK politicians are a lot more easily impressed than American politicians. It costs a lot less to influence them."
#UKPol #Palantir

2026-07-15 20:34:43 UTC

"When pay is opaque, salary decisions can be influenced by stereotypes – such as stereotypes of women, ethnic minorities, or disabled people."
#UKPol #Employment #WorkersRights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg7gg2zdexo

2026-07-11 10:34:01 UTC

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"We know, empirically, that when people have democratic control over production — economic democracy — they are inclined to organise production more around meeting human needs, they manage resources more sustainably, and they distribute yields more fairly."

2026-07-11 10:31:03 UTC

"In the United States, the richest country in the world, nearly half the population cannot afford healthcare; in the United Kingdom, 4.3 million children live in poverty; and in the European Union, 95 million people cannot afford decent housing and nutritious food. These are totally artificial scarcities."
#Politics #Economics
https://jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-capitalism-is-fundamentally-undemocratic

2026-07-11 10:19:31 UTC

"Count #Binface has committed to donate 50% of his proceeds from the sale of this merchandise to the homeless charity Shelter."
#UKPol
https://www.binfaceshop.co.uk/

2026-07-11 00:16:15 UTC

"In 2024-25, the net addition to London’s #AffordableHousing stock was just 8,184, compared to estimations from the Greater London Authority (#GLA) that #London needs a net 45,500 affordable homes each year between 2026 and 2036 to meet #housing need."
#UKPol #Labour
https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2026/07/10/sadiq-khan-misses-affordable-homes-target-after-cut/

2026-07-07 22:17:35 UTC

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My opinion of the good people of Essex would be greatly enhanced by this going wrong for him 😄 Sadly I consider it very unlikely, but we can dream.

2026-07-07 08:38:31 UTC

" #ReformUK’s opinion poll lead has collapsed as questions mount over Nigel #Farage’s personal finances. Research by pollsters Ipsos UK showed the party has a lead of just two points over Labour, down five points on a month before."
#UKPol
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform-poll-collapse-nigel-farage-collapse_uk_6a4b8865e4b05c9d0338ce8e

2026-07-06 07:34:08 UTC

"The old adage of “follow the money” can apply in so many ways to the embattled – and, recently, increasingly invisible – Nigel Farage."
#UKPol #ReformUK
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-reform-leader-quit-resign-cottrell-b3009219.html

2026-07-04 15:56:14 UTC

"Deputy #Labour leader says No 10 needs to become more meritocratic, and has asked #Burnham to commit to 50/50 gender split for ministers and staff."
"Powell said she would not tell Burnham who should be in his cabinet, but said “better decisions” were made when there was more diversity at the top table."
#UKPol
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/04/burnham-will-change-no-10-boys-club-briefing-culture-says-lucy-powell

2026-07-02 21:14:19 UTC

"The UK’s culture and media department will stop using X because the site “now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”."
"The culture secretary’s department is the UK’s second to quit the Elon Musk-owned platform over increasing concerns about the way it highlights and prioritises often inaccurate far-right and racist content and is used to incite violence and division."
#UKPol #DCMS #Xitter
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/02/lisa-nandy-culture-social-media-x-abuse-misinformation

2026-06-30 17:38:21 UTC

“There is strong minority opposition to any increase in #defence spending, but polls show this opposition surges to big majorities across Europe when it is presented as a question of choices between wages and weapons, between #welfare and warfare.”
#UKPol
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmer-chooses-warfare-over-welfare-his-outgoing-legacy

2026-06-29 17:57:06 UTC

"I think we should be taxing the super rich, we should be taxing corporations, we should be taxing people that are taking money… offshore, but we’re not."
Weirdly reasonable statement from the pro landlady who is the #ReformUK candidate for #Manchester mayor. Slightly at odds with the rest of the party's positions though. And her main source of income.
#UKPol
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/06/29/reform-manchester/

2026-06-29 14:43:34 UTC

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“By unilaterally declaring the power to seize Palestinian land, property and buildings for their own use without consent, compensation or redress, the Board of Peace is taking a page out of Israel’s repressive playbook.”

2026-06-29 14:24:32 UTC

"What #Burnham was describing here felt more significant than the relocation of staff. This No 10 North would have specific responsibility for the "biggest council housebuilding programme since the postwar period", he said, raising some questions about the role of the Ministry of Housing and perhaps suggesting that a wider shakeup of the machinery of government is in the offing."
#UKPol #Labour #Manchesterism
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpq3yy48zglo

2026-06-24 17:50:53 UTC

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"Since the mid-1990s, privatised transport, energy, and water companies have extracted close to £200 billion in dividends while delivering lower investment than their public predecessors."
#UKPol #Privatisation

2026-06-24 00:13:05 UTC

"High and volatile #energy prices squeeze households while generating windfall profits at the top of the supply chain. #Water companies extract while services deteriorate. #Housing supply is managed for margin as a generation is locked out."
"It is the supply-side equivalent of the pre-2008 financial regime: a framework that monitors symptoms while the architecture that produces them goes unchallenged."
#UKPol #Manchesterism
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2026/05/the-case-for-manchesterism

2026-06-23 15:52:57 UTC

"Starmer was a frontman for a Labour-right operation whose purpose was clear: persuade a leftwing membership to hand the party back to those who despised everything it had just stood for. At the centre of that plot was Morgan McSweeney, career fixer for the Labour right, and his Labour Together thinktank."
#UKPol #Labour
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/23/keir-starmer-uk-prime-minister-peter-mandelson-gaza

2026-06-20 16:26:41 UTC

"A #ReformUK spokesman said: “This move is a blatant and cynical attempt by this #Labour government to gerrymander the political process."
"A political expert predicted that supplementary voting could make it harder for Reform to win in any potential by-election for the mayor’s job in Greater Manchester."
#UKPol #Democracy #Voting #Elections
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newsmanchester/labour-accused-of-cynical-attempt-to-influence-mayoral-elections-by-changing-voting-system/ar-AA25Ohtd

2026-06-19 20:17:15 UTC

"Two factors should overshadow all others: the West’s recent failed wars, and the greatest single challenge facing everyone, accelerating climate breakdown. Confronting both is essential if the UK is to have a rational approach to international security, but neither is remotely given the space it deserves."
#UKPol #Defence #ClimateChange
https://www.opendemocracy.net/if-he-becomes-pm-andy-burnham-must-be-honest-about-uk-defence-budget/

2026-06-14 18:50:20 UTC

"In a letter to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch has urged Keir Starmer to enter into a pact with her Conservative Party. Her plan is to inflict more austerity on the British public for the sake of giving handouts to greedy defence contractors. And as she notes, Tony Blair is urging Starmer to do the same thing,"
#UKPol #Tories #Labour
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/06/14/badenoch-blair-urge/

2026-05-26 15:49:14 UTC

"Rejoining the EU could take place much more quickly for the UK than it typically would for other candidate countries, as a result of pre-existing alignment with the bloc."
"The European Union could fast-track Britain’s return to the bloc if it decided to rejoin, dispelling suggestions the UK would be pushed to the back of the queue if it tried to reverse Brexit."
#UKPol #EUPol #Rejoin
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-rejoin-referendum-wes-streeting-b2981880.html

2026-05-25 18:56:52 UTC

"The truth is that the City, and its banks, have not lent to small businesses because they have been too lazy to do so. Lending to small businesses is hard work. It requires understanding. It requires relationships. It requires monitoring. It requires partnership. But, more than all of that, it requires a belief that creating value is more important than extracting value."
#UKPol #Economy
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05/25/the-city-does-not-believe-in-funding-small-business-the-government-should/

2026-05-17 10:55:48 UTC

"An obvious but underdiscussed consequence of changing prime minister is that a huge proportion of other ministers will automatically change too. And at the helm of the resulting team of novices will be an inexperienced leader – counselled by a new kitchen cabinet of advisers, mostly new to the workings of the centre of British power."
#UKPol
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/17/the-ungovernable-country-why-britain-keeps-losing-prime-ministers

2026-05-16 15:29:50 UTC

"When this march took place last year it featured a violence-inciting video message from Elon Musk and saw 26 police officers injured. Backed by convicted criminal Tommy Robinson, it’s taking place again this weekend. But the charity Choose Love have come up with an clever way to combat the toxicity and, against all the odds, get some positivity out of it."
#UKPol #SaveTheKingdom #Refugees
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/tommy-robinson-far-right-march-refugee-fundraiser-choose-love-406245/

2026-05-13 20:46:34 UTC

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Yeah, people who put their name up for council seats never expecting to win. Or in at least one case, explicitly forbidden to run by their employer.

2026-05-13 16:02:59 UTC

Incredible list of #ReformUK candidates and councillors who have been suspended, disqualified, kicked out, or resigned... in the last year or so:
https://x.com/reformexposed/status/2054432824137072988

2026-05-13 15:20:39 UTC

"Ministers have switched to promoting #DigitalID, which will be held in a wallet on smartphones, as a way to make life easier for people using public services."
"Despite a distinctly lukewarm reception from the public so far, support from the top for digital ID has never fallen off the agenda. Let's not forget it started life in the form of a national #IDCards under former prime minister Tony Blair in the early 2000s."
#UKPol #Labour
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62d1ql5w0vo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1j2nr8kgk3o

2026-05-12 12:14:25 UTC

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Apparently not - see other comments.

2026-05-12 08:54:26 UTC

#UKPol #ReformUK
https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/116/560/747/615/004/132/original/488e71fa34d0a63d.png

2026-05-11 20:12:33 UTC

"The #GreenParty took 42 of the 57 seats on #Hackney Council, up from four., whilst #Labour fell from 43 seats to nine. The Conservatives held on to six. The #Greens also took the directly-elected mayoralty for the first time. The 57-seat Hackney Council is now made up of 42 Green party councillors, nine Labour and six Conservatives. This gives the Greens the highest proportion of seats the party has ever won in a principal local authority."
#UKPol
https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2026/05/11/greens-plan-hackney-labour-vows-hold-administration-account/

2026-05-09 09:28:54 UTC

"The deputy leader of #PlaidCymru says the party is "absolutely not" considering a coalition with #ReformUK in the Welsh government.
"Plaid Cymru made big gains in Thursday's election and is now the biggest party in the Senedd with 43 seats, but it has fallen short of the 49 needed for a majority
"The party stands ready to form the next Welsh government and would consider co-operating with other "progressive parties" where there is common ground."
#UKPol #WelshPol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1428pev1n0t?post=asset%3A1df7cea5-a257-43b2-824c-296f9752f096#post

2026-05-09 09:07:39 UTC

"#Labour MPs are furious. As a result, many of them have begun to question Keir Starmer’s position."
#UKPol
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2026/05/tracked-the-labour-mps-calling-for-keir-starmer-to-go

2026-05-08 10:55:32 UTC

"Zoë Garbett, from the #GreenParty, beats Labour's Caroline Woodley to be named #Hackney mayor."
#UKPol #London #Greens
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c62rmlprxlpt?post=asset%3Ac0034ebd-6653-4576-bcfb-6b15c49030a6#post

2026-05-05 17:35:40 UTC

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Wasn't this the case where they were going to tack the terrorism sentencing on afterwards, if they were found guilty of the more serious offences?

2026-05-02 17:17:27 UTC

"They are going to seek to strip away Polanski’s Jewish identity and relentlessly smear him - and the #GreenParty - over antisemitism. Above all, that’s because he is a) pro-Palestinian and b) left-wing."
#UKPol
https://www.owenjones.news/p/greens-take-on-antisemitic-times

2026-05-01 17:05:02 UTC

"The British billionaire behind a record donation to #ReformUK has insisted Sir Keir Starmer's planned crackdown on political finance will not stop him from giving money to the party."
#UKPol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5pe068dyyo

2026-04-21 08:55:53 UTC

"Jonathan Portes, an economics professor, and the Refugee Council have dismissed #Reform's financial projections as 'not remotely credible' and 'not a serious or workable plan'. The Refugee Council warned that reassessing asylum decisions would overwhelm the system, tie up courts, and cost taxpayers tens of billions."
#UKPol #ReformUK
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/reform-farage-immigration-refugee-council-b2961334.html

2026-04-15 12:18:03 UTC

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(I can never decide how to tag Green Party stuff. #GreenParty seems clearest but only has 52 recent uses. And feels a bit internally-redundant when no other party's tag needs 'party' in it. #Green has 109 uses lately according to my server, but they might all not be about politics. #Greens is nice and short, but only has 16 recent uses. Anybody got thoughts?) 🙂

2026-04-15 12:08:03 UTC

"#Labour have lost half of their voters since the 2024 general election, and the #Tories and #LibDems have lost over a third each."
"Starmer clearly bears responsibility for this, because he’s the man at the top. At the same time, Starmer didn’t introduce dishwater #neoliberalism to the Labour Party; he simply ran with it."
"We now have five parties within 10 percentage points of one another:"
#UKPol #GreenParty #ReformUK
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/04/15/starmer-breaks/

2026-04-15 10:52:45 UTC

"GB News has repeatedly platformed Conservative and Reform candidates, councillors, and activists under the guise of being members of the public – often without informing viewers of their political affiliations."
#UKPol
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/gb-news-hosts-reform-uk-and-conservative-politicians-and-activists-posing-as-ordinary-voters/

2026-04-13 12:45:38 UTC

"We're in a world where there's massive conflict, great uncertainty, and I strongly believe the UK's best interests are in a stronger, closer relationship with Europe."
#UKPol #EUPol #Labour
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rxj4yygdwo

2026-04-10 14:13:07 UTC

"In the past 12 months, anti-Trump sentiment in both #Canada and #Australia has been credited with preventing right-wing conservatives from winning general elections. And, according to the latest polls coming out of #Hungary, Team #MAGA might just go and make it a hat-trick."
#Politics
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/when-is-hungary-election-2026-orban-magyar-trump-vance-404956/

2026-04-10 10:33:16 UTC

"Between March 2024 and March 2026, online activity describing the capital as a dangerous city in decline increased by between 150% and 200%, while migration-related narratives referencing #London surged by more than 350%, the report said. These trends emerged despite the mayor's assertion that London's per capita homicide rate has fallen to its lowest level on record."
#UKPol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3l4kwer5ko

2026-04-07 19:45:44 UTC

"We call on the Government to hold a parliamentary vote on the decision to grant the United States permission to use British military bases for strikes on Iranian missile sites."
#UKPol #USPol #Iran
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762994

2026-04-04 20:09:12 UTC

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Everything in that post is inside quotes... none of it is my theory.

2026-04-04 19:53:37 UTC

"The surge in support for the #GreenParty is preventing #Labour from benefiting through holding on to seats in which #ReformUK is the chief challenger. The Green Party is currently predicted to win 74 seats; 68 of its gains would come from Labour. In addition, the Greens have reduced Labour's vote in hundreds of constituencies in which Reform is the governing party's chief challenger. Thus, 222 of the 266 seats that Reform expects to capture come from Labour."
#UKPol
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/blogs/ec_rrose_20260403.html

2026-04-03 13:54:30 UTC

"#Trump’s attack on American law firms bears similarities to events in Nazi Germany, EU bar associations have warned."
#USPol #Fascism
https://euobserver.com/209601/european-lawyers-warn-us-trumps-attack-on-attorneys-is-road-to-fascism/

2026-04-03 09:03:07 UTC

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The sad thing is that the other 'grown-up' parties are letting them set the tone and even the direction of the debate, in multiple policy areas.
We have managers in charge when we need leaders (or both, ideally). I thought boring was going to be an improvement over evil, but it's just left an open goal instead.

2026-04-02 21:48:25 UTC

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I'm kind of surprised by how badly they're doing, they seemed quite savvy until recently. I guess it's the transition from yelling on the sidelines to playing in the game... suddenly there are a lot of minor details that turn out to be not so minor any more.

2026-04-02 17:48:29 UTC

"It has taken a second Trump term and a world descending further into war for more people in #Labour to talk openly of the value of the European project."
#UKPol #EUPol #Brexit
https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/an-important-update-about-best-for

2026-04-02 12:55:28 UTC

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Different paper, almost the same headline, only now in the past tense 👏🏼
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/02/reform-housing-spokesperson-sacked-after-grenfell-everyone-dies-remarks

2026-04-02 11:22:41 UTC

"#ReformUK is facing calls to sack its #housing spokesman after he said the #Grenfell Tower fire was a “tragedy” but that “everyone dies in the end”."
#UKPol
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/reform-uk-grenfell-tower-reform-london-steve-reed-b2950450.html

2026-04-01 19:53:25 UTC

"When #Trump first announced that he was destroying the East Wing to build a ballroom, the White House received over 9,000 pages of public comments — and “there were barely any supportive missives.” The comments included observations like “complete DISASTER,” “NO GAUDY FAKE GOLD STUFF ALL OVER THE PLACE,” “no one wants to be in an adjunct building in a large crowd with lengthened security protocols,” an “eyesore,” an “abomination” and “appalling”."
#USPol
https://thedailysight.com/2026/03/30/nobody-saw-this-coming-trumps-prized-white-house-ballroom-is-turning-into-an-unprecedented-disaster-insiders-reveal-the-devastating-truth-behind-closed-doors/

2026-04-01 19:20:04 UTC

"Tech giant #Palantir has pushed back against concerns that military use of its AI platforms could lead to unforeseen risks, insisting that the way the technology is used is the responsibility of its military customers."
But...
"This prioritisation of speed and scale and the use of force then leaves very little time for meaningful verification of targets to make sure that they don't include civilian targets accidentally."
#Politics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrm52g4pl2o

2026-04-01 11:55:53 UTC

"A growing body of evidence, drawn from leaked planning documents, academic research, and the testimony of intelligence professionals, suggests that the most consequential military operation of the twenty-first century may have been shaped less by strategic necessity than by a phenomenon researchers now call AI sycophancy — the tendency of large language models to tell their users exactly what they want to hear."
#USPol #Iran #GenAI #LLM
https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf/

2026-04-01 11:49:56 UTC

"Jeremy Corbyn has warned of a “disgraceful assault on the right to protest” in the UK after two pro-Palestine campaigners were found guilty of breaching #protest conditions."
#UKPol
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25987595.dark-day-uk-palestine-activists-convicted-bbc-protest/

2026-03-31 20:56:42 UTC

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Embrace the power of AND.

2026-03-31 18:02:18 UTC

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Not without it being very thoroughly jetwashed, inside and out.

2026-03-31 18:00:07 UTC

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I'll be lucky if I outlive my parents currently, I need current affairs to have a 'skip to the end' button! 😆

2026-03-31 17:55:51 UTC

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I wonder if we'll get to see all the details of this declassified and published before I die. I really want him to have been an active knowing participant in his treason, because the more likely explanation, that he's totally oblivious, is going to be too embarrassing for words. For literally the entire western world, that we let the US drag us into this shitpit to roll around with them.

2026-03-31 17:11:24 UTC

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I don't think he's actually smart enough to be an asset. He's just easily manipulated and/or blackmailed by them.

2026-03-31 06:19:47 UTC

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Also, we did steal a bunch of their stuff to fill the museums in the first place 😄

2026-03-30 22:36:00 UTC

“‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.'”
"We are all paying a very high price for the theocratic fascism of Donald Trump's regime in the USA."
#USPol
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/30/we-should-not-deal-with-fascists/

2026-03-30 20:47:27 UTC

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They make me feel slightly better about my atrocious posture.

2026-03-30 20:44:23 UTC

A brief timeline of the last time #Labour were in power and they tried to impose #IDCards on the British public - from 2002-2010:
#UKPol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10164331

2026-03-30 20:38:40 UTC

"Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Pentagon leadership for pursuing increased violence without strategic direction in the #Iran war, now in its 30th day."
#USPol
https://www.rawstory.com/lust-for-violence-nobel-winner-horrified/

2026-03-30 20:30:29 UTC

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I thought it was a bit odd they weren't on the list.

2026-03-30 20:29:32 UTC

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide
https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/116/320/002/785/371/997/original/eb0176315ef222a2.png

2026-03-30 20:11:28 UTC

"Most nations, including almost all developed countries, have abolished capital punishment either in law or in practice; notable exceptions are the United States, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, China, India, and most Islamic states."
#CapitalPunishment #DeathPenalty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment

2026-03-30 19:51:24 UTC

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"Israel’s leading rights groups decried the law as “an act of institutionalised discrimination and racist violence against Palestinians”. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel said it filed an appeal against the law with Israel’s supreme court."

2026-03-30 19:48:09 UTC

"The measure will allow courts to impose the death penalty without a request from prosecutors and without requiring unanimity, instead permitting a simple majority decision. Military courts in the occupied West Bank will also be empowered to hand down death sentences. For Palestinians under occupation, the bill closes off avenues for appeal or clemency, while prisoners tried inside Israel could see their sentences commuted to life imprisonment."
#Israel #Palestine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/30/israel-passes-law-death-penalty-palestinian-convicted-terrorists

2026-03-30 19:43:17 UTC

"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state."
~ Bruce Schneier

2026-03-30 16:54:05 UTC

"Sarah Owen MP, who represents #Luton North, says she is suspending face-to-face meetings with constituents following three security incidents in the last three weeks. Owen said two men had been arrested, and the third incident caused a surgery to be halted."
#UKPol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gj9k0w1ndo

2026-03-30 13:57:42 UTC

"When the state openly admits it wants its eyes on you at all times, how do citizens fight back? In this episode of 'In Solidarity', Matthew Linares sits down with @npub1xqu…6z6j, Executive Director of the @npub1p2p…hjzg. We cut through the Silicon Valley PR to expose the terrifying reality of the modern surveillance state."
#UKPol #BigTech #Surveillance #Panopticon #Enshittification
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/podcasts/in-solidarity-podcast/ai-panopticon-surveillance-jim-killock-open-rights/

2026-03-30 12:59:17 UTC

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https://tenor.com/en-GB/view/the-road-to-el-dorado-both-both-is-good-gif-8304204

2026-03-30 11:40:57 UTC

"Spain has closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in attacks on Iran, a step beyond its ‌previous denial of use of jointly-operated military bases. This decision is part of the decision already made by the Spanish government not to participate in or contribute ‌to ⁠a war which was initiated unilaterally and against international law."
#EUPol #USPol
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spain-closes-airspace-us-planes-involved-iran-war-el-pais-says-2026-03-30/

2026-03-30 11:10:56 UTC

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Labour have been very keen on enabling private companies to siphon money out of the NHS too. Notably with the PFI debacle in their last term, which they seem to be revisiting now with their plans for how to finance the new neighbourhood health centres 😟

2026-03-30 09:46:59 UTC

"An Israeli AI company that tested its dystopian technology in the Gaza genocide is bringing its #surveillance tools to the UK."
#UKPol
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XSE0ulzRScU

2026-03-30 07:14:24 UTC

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I just got my disability benefits back (and refunded) for the last 9 months. I had to get an expert in to help me with the appeal in the end, fortunately I'm related to one. It really is (as I know you already know) a nasty system, focused entirely on saving money rather than improving lives or outcomes.

2026-03-29 08:25:38 UTC

"Since winning in the May elections, they have lost well in excess of 70 elected officials for all manner of reasons ranging from financial impropriety, racism, misogyny, domestic abuse, infighting, you name it this motley crew has done it."
#UKPol #ReformUK
https://dorseteye.com/its-all-starting-to-unravel-for-reform-uk-ltd/

2026-03-28 21:11:22 UTC

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"Even in the past decade or so, far-right extremist parties with roughly 10–30 per cent of the vote have repeatedly become pivotal in coalition formation in several democracies—serving as kingmakers or coalition partners in governments in Italy, Israel, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, as well as in the Netherlands itself."

2026-03-28 21:08:03 UTC

"While PR’s propensity to produce fragmented parliaments is well documented, its role in incentivising political extremism is less well understood. Under PR, the most effective way for a political entrepreneur to stand out in a crowded field is often to adopt sharper, more polarising positions than existing parties. A vote share of 10 to 20 per cent can, in a fragmented parliament, be sufficient to make such a party pivotal in coalition formation."
#Politics #Democracy
https://www.socialeurope.eu/proportional-representation-is-breaking-dutch-democracy

2026-03-28 17:15:51 UTC

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"A separate march organised by the Palestine Coalition was due to join the route before both groups converged at Whitehall, where a video message from London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan and speeches, including by Green Party leader Zack Polanski, were expected to be heard. Several other politicians were also in attendance, including Your Party MP Jeremy Corbyn and Labour's Diane Abbott."

2026-03-28 17:15:11 UTC

"Organisers of today's march claimed as many as 500,000 people had attended, although the Metropolitan Police estimated the figure to be closer to 50,000, adding precise figures were hard to determine due to the spread of the crowds."
#UKPol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2rn03ryz8o

2026-03-27 22:07:04 UTC

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That's how Finland does it.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/finnish-businessman-hit-with-121000-speeding-fine

2026-03-27 17:41:54 UTC

"Nigel Farage’s claims of family voting in Gorton and Denton have been shot down by the police, who found there was no evidence of “any intent to influence or refrain any person” from casting a ballot in the by-election."
#UKPol #ReformUK #Manchester
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-reform-gorton-denton-byelection-family-voting-b2947229.html

2026-03-26 20:38:54 UTC

"A man who was filmed as part of a mob intimidating Al Jazeera journalists reporting on an arson attack in #London has been identified as a serving #MetPolice officer."
#UKPol
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25971239.man-filmed-calling-al-jazeera-journalist-a-dog-met-police-officer/

2026-03-26 11:47:04 UTC

"One week before the King’s Speech, the next round of local elections are taking place – and Labour are forecast to take a serious beating at the ballot box. Should Sir Keir find himself in jeopardy, however, it seems there is a party-wide appetite for closer alignment with the EU, almost a decade on from the infamous referendum. Both Rachel Reeves and Wes Streeting have gone public with their declarations to move closer to the trading bloc."
#UKPol #EUPol #Brexit #Food
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/will-uk-rejoin-eu-brexit-new-laws-reintroduced-2026-404352/

2026-03-25 16:38:44 UTC

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Nothing to be ashamed of, just do it in private and wash your hands afterwards 😄

2026-03-25 16:33:45 UTC

"Campaigners have welcomed Sir Philip Rycroft’s review of foreign financial interference but stressed there is "significantly more to do" on understanding and responding to democratic challenges."
#UKPol #Donations #Funding
https://www.bestforbritain.org/highlighting_democratic_challenges_welcome_but_much_more_to_do

2026-03-25 16:27:59 UTC

"The government said it would introduce the strict cap of £100,000/year on political donations, as well as a temporary ban on donations in cryptocurrency, in its new representation of the people bill."
"The decision will be a big blow to #ReformUK, which has received about £12m in the past year from Harborne in Thailand, and other funding from a number of donors based in Monaco."
#UKPol #Donations #Funding #Crypto
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/25/political-donations-cryptocurrency-blocked-reform-uk