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Keith Hodgson

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Former union organiser. Interested in life long learning and community education. From NE England

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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BBC Editors are colluding in genocide jonathancook.substack.com/p/why-bbc-ed...
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Why BBC editors must one day stand trial for colluding in Israel's genocide
In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel's destruction of Gaza
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyone who believes this bunch of con artists represents their interests is either a billionaire or seriously misinformed. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/outr...
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Outrage as Reform-run council votes to shut 10 nurseries
Members of the public shouted “you should be ashamed” as Reform councillors approved the plans
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Tony Cross @lokster71.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This US far-right infiltration of Britain should be of more concern to us all, but particularly the British government than it is. It is an obvious reason why we shouldn't be using Palantir for anything at all. They're as much a threat to our National Security as China or Russia.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
UK’s biggest private hospital firm Spire in £1.03bn takeover by hedge fund Toscafund known as “the Rottweiler” Value driven by NHS contracts. Spire has 45% gross profit margin New owner will be aggressive. Privatisation bleeds the NHS, money buys less. Must increase NHS capacity.
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UK’s biggest private hospital firm Spire agrees £1bn takeover by hedge fund
Toscafund, founded by City figure known as ‘the Rottweiler’, signs deal amid fears over creeping privatisation of NHS
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If "legitimate concerns" were considered to excuse illegitimate methods, then nobody from Just Stop Oil or Palestine Action would have been arrested. So we know it doesn't. In fact that phrase is only ever used in one context. Only in that context is uniformed mob intimidation "peaceful protest"
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
More public control is the way to grow UK economy, Burnham to tell MPs Control is not the same thing as public ownership. Toothless Ofwat, Ofgem, Ofcom, CMA have not protected people. Need public ownership of water, energy, essentials. Need worker/consumer elected directors, vote on exec pay.
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More public control is the way to grow UK economy, Burnham to tell MPs
Exclusive: Prime minister wants to ‘bring back hope’ by tackling cost of living as MPs call for electoral reform
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Say NO to mutualisation of water in England. Under this, shareholders & creditors would become interest-bearing bondholders. New entity would be hobbled by interest payments. Its cost of borrowing be higher than that for the govt. Welsh Water was mutualised, uses 41% of revenue to service debt.
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The case for nationalisation of water companies
England’s privatised water companies are leaders of predatory practices. In 1989, the industry was privatised for £7.6bn and had no debts. It joined Chile and a few US states&...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
England water industry was privatized for £7.6bn in 1989. Since then They have extracted £88.4bn in dividends Dumped tons of sewage in rivers Lost 1 trillion litres of water a year to leaks Built no new reservoirs They are teetering on the edge of bankruptcy but claim to be worth £144bn. Rogues.
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The case for nationalisation of water companies
England’s privatised water companies are leaders of predatory practices. In 1989, the industry was privatised for £7.6bn and had no debts. It joined Chile and a few US states&...
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#gaza #genocide #freepalestine
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
BBC BIAS : Robbie Gibb - BBC non-execitive Director on the Board of Editorial Guidelines & Standards Committee- Former editorial advisor for the set up of GB News John McAndrew - Current Director of BBC Live & Daily News - Founding Director of News & Editorial Director of GB News 1/2
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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
*The escalated abuse against Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya following a legal challenge to his detention has sent a chilling message to the families of detained medical workers in Gaza* Ismail Nofal Aug 08, 2026 www.dropsitenews.com/p/doctor-hus...
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Israel's Brutal Retaliation Against Imprisoned Palestinian Doctors Seeking Legal Appeals
The escalated abuse against Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya following a legal challenge to his detention has sent a chilling message to the families of detained medical workers in Gaza.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The Jason Arday story is by no means the biggest scandal at Cambridge University. I'm sure the media is going to pick this up and run with it in just the same way ... Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this?
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Gaza hosts the largest group of child amputees in modern history. 56,000+ children in Gaza have lost one or both parents. 74,000 children in Gaza will suffer acute malnutrition in the year to April 2027. #gaza #genocide x.com/Partisan_12/...
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The Resonance (@Partisan_12) on X
Gaza hosts the largest group of child amputees in modern history! 56,000+ children in Gaza have lost one or both parents. 74,000 children under 5 in Gaza will suffer acute malnutrition in the year...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Private equity firms made up 50% of the largest US corporate bankruptcies with $1bn+ in liabilities Jobs, communities destroyed for short term profit PE has devoured UK high street; controls vets, supermarkets, care homes, pubs, housing, restaurants. Shadow banking wreaks havoc, govts do nothing.
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Private equity continues disproportionate role in 2026 bankruptcies
Since 2024, PESP has tracked and analyzed corporate bankruptcies, identifying the disproportionate role that private equity-owned firms have played in bankruptcy filings. This trend continued in the…
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Just sitting on the pavement and clapping is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement & clapping. Andy Burnham can stop this. But he isn't. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Alarm at NHS England as patient records put under control of US private equity firm TPG via a takeover. Business model is profiteering, not care for patients. Regulatory/Govt silence on expansion of private equity. Public money fuelling PE growth.
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Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm
Doctors and MPs urge more scrutiny of £300m deal for company behind system used by most GPs in England
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
For decades Cuban doctors have responded to every humanitarian disaster ... "Cuba's medical missions are the clearest proof of what a small socialist country can offer humanity. That's why Trump is working to destroy them says Carlos Martinez" alboradamedia.substack.com/p/cuba-docto...
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To Wage War On Cuba’s Doctors Is To Admit You Have Nothing To Offer The World
Cuba's medical missions are the clearest proof of what a small socialist country can offer humanity. That's why Trump is working to destroy them says Carlos Martinez.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
🟡 MAGAZINE: Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned University Revealed By @nafeez.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by…
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Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned University Revealed – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and hard-right and foreign influence at Cambridge University. Why?
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
... and not in the hands of a company like Palantir founded by a Mossad trained bff of a sex-trafficking paedophile, which thinks supplying software used to obliterate schools & hospitals - with teachers and children, doctors, nurses & patients inside - is worthy of celebration
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🔴 NEW: The Far-Right Billionaire Who Is Buying Up French Culture By Olly Haynes Vincent Bollore is helping push France to the right as he gathers a growing empire of publishing houses, newspapers, and film studios across the country Read the full story below.
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The Far-Right Billionaire Who Is Buying Up French Culture
Vincent Bollore is helping push France to the right as he gathers a growing empire of publishing houses, newspapers, and film studios across the country
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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation has uncovered a sprawling right wing network linking Peter Thiel, Cambridge Uni students and Reform Head of Policy James Orr... @nafeez.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social 🎧 pod.fo/e/446f58 📺 youtube.com/watch?v=Zbsk...
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BYLINE TIMES PODCAST: James Orr: Reform's Cambridge Kingmaker
Adrian Goldberg highlights a brilliant Byline Times investigation by Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes which exposes the links between Cambridge University, Reform UK and the Trump-supporting US tech bi...
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Writer of “Rape Apologists Must Die!” @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"We are deploying responsibly
developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance."
SAM ALTMAN

"You ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not liberating human creativity - you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft training data."
NAOMI KLEIN
@think_and_exist
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Peter Thiel’s Dialog, a secretive group including prominent Republicans and defence officials, were meant to have their conference in August at the Powerscourt House Hotel in Wicklow, until the hotel cancelled this week.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Israel's horrific crimes against the children of Gaza youtu.be/-tONvJ7-pMw?...
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UN detail Israel's crimes against children in CHILLING report
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Govts handing NHS to private equity (PE). Eyecare contracts handed to PE backed firms, profit margins of 32% to 43% from NHS work. Profiteering means less available for NHS services. NHS capacity not expanded, creating permanent dependence on private providers.
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The finance curse is devouring the UK
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Th...
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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
“It is a tragedy of today’s politics that, for too many, working-class defiance finds its outlet in racist organisations and reactionary parties, and that the left’s neglect of class politics… has left it with little moral standing to challenge that”: observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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An abandoned working class has found its voice. Tragicall...
After decades of economic exploitation, political disdain and social abandonment, people turn to anyone who will listen
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Waiting for the system justifiers on this platform to claim that Geoffrey Robertson KC "doesn't understand the law". That's what all of us who've made these points have been told. Maybe not understanding how this could possibly be right is a sign of our humanity. www.theguardian.com/global/comme...
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You may not sympathise with the Elbit four’s methods. But you should be outraged by their treatment under the law | Geoffrey Robertson
The jurors who found the pro-Palestine activists guilty of criminal damage had no idea their verdict would be treated as a verdict on terrorism, says Geoffrey Robertson KC
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Devoured by private equity. Bernard Matthews Body Shop Byron Burger Casual Dining Cath Kidson Claire’s Comet Debenhams Flybe Four Seasons Health Care Homebase Maplin Thousands of jobs lost, supply chains destroyed, creditors not paid, pension rights lost, taxes dodged. Yet govts venerate PE.
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The finance curse is devouring the UK
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Th...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The Court of Appeal judgement on Palestine Action is frankly bonkers. It says PA is not "a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open." Right: the arson, bombings, slashings etc were all planned in open meetings in Parliament Square 🙄🧵
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Thames Water moves closer to nationalisation after govt objects to rescue deal. Govt concerned about public backlash to a deal that injects £3.35bn equity, more debt, exemption from fines and bigger customer bills. Let TW collapse, buy at knockdown price. Must end profit motive. Nationalise water
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Thames Water moves step closer to nationalisation after government objects to rescue deal
A government spokesman tells the BBC that the current offer "does not do enough to protect consumers or the environment".
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Feargal Sharkey brands '£100billion' cost of nationalising water 'nonsense'. Spot on. They inflate investment by capitalising part of interest, repair/maintenance cost. Govt says Thames Water is worth £21bn. KKR wouldn't pay £4bn. Govt must enforce environmental laws, bankrupt them. Nationalise.
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Feargal Sharkey rubbishes key argument for not nationalising water industry
Campaigners have stepped-up pressure on the government to bring the crisis hit water industry back into public ownership
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I mean, look at this pathetic shit. Jesus Christ, have some self-respect.
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Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Here's some of Leeds Other Paper's coverage from the time. #LeedsHistory #Chapeltown
LOP 26 (March 1976): Community on trialLOP 23 (December 1975): Fireworks in ChapeltownLOP 35 (24 July 1976): Chapeltown trial report.
Plus photo of protest on Town Hall steps, placards include: 'Blame the system not the youth'
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
#Lebanon #genocide #warcrimes
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🔎 From the archive: 'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics — Nafeez Ahmed and Peter Jukes 🔁 Relevant again: Now Mandelson's Thiel/Farage/McSweeney connections have been revealed... more Thiel/Farage/McSweeney
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'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics
The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?
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Ben Sellers @mrbensellers.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🧵 The reason why Tommy Ten Names legged it down to Southampton wasn’t simply to cause a riot, it was part of a targeted political campaign on so-called ‘two tier policing’: the ludicrous idea that ethnic minorities are treated better by the police than white people. (1/5)
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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Important mo when the Commons all-party Science Committee declares Palantir shouldn’t play such a significant role in the UK public sector. The heat is intensifying on Trump tech bro Peter Thiel's Gaza-targeting company. committees.parliament.uk/committee/13...
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MPs warn that Palantir’s increasing presence in the UK public sector is an “unacceptable point of weakness” - Committees - UK Parliament
Palantir shouldn’t play such a significant role in the UK public sector, a new report by the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee warns, stressing that it’s not the only company ca...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"For a party that talks endlessly about competence, efficiency and accountability, it’s not exactly the strongest first impression" 'At their 1st full council meeting as the new administration, 7 Reform councillors didn’t turn up ...' www.facebook.com/permalink.ph... via Reform are not your Friends
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
UK Tells Regulator to Probe Private Equity Role in £9.5bn State-Funded Childcare PE boosts profits with "hidden childcare fees", non-refundable deposits, extra charges. £1 profit for every £5 spent PE devours everything. Must be regulated. Abolish tax relief on interest payments. archive.ph/tSeZM
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UK Tells Regulator to Probe Private Equity Role in Childcare
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson urged the UK’s competition regulator to probe the role played by private equity firms in the £9.5 billion ($12.8 billion) government-funded childcare market, as ...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Restore is on 7% in that Makerfield constituency poll. I wrote this week why they're a threat that needs to be taken seriously. And why splitting the Reform vote isn't worth the normalisation of what is, in effect, a neo-Nazi party. samf.substack.com/p/is-andy-bu...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Curse of Private Equity Morrisons to close 100 stores. Blames govt, silent on PE looting. PE loaded company with £6.6bn debt, cut staff, sold-off petrol stations, indulged in sale and leaseback of assets, extracted returns, devoured. To tackle PE - End tax tax relief on interest payments.
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Morrisons planning to close 100 stores in next few months
It said difficulties had been exacerbated by "significant cost increases resulting from government policy choices".
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Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
“The independence of juries and their liberty to pass a verdict according to their conscience, whatever the law or the authorities may demand… is important not only for justice but for democracy, too.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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Juries must be allowed to follow their conscience
In 1670 a group of jurors who defied a judge helped establish the independence of the jury – but the Palestine Action trials suggest that is now under threat
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
What kind of justice is this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Palestine Action activists in Elbit protest could be sentenced as terrorists
Judge’s ruling was not disclosed to jurors in two trials and can only now be revealed after reporting restrictions lifted
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Palantir has been granted “unlimited access” to NHS patient data. This is the same company that is involved in mass surveillance and genocide. We did not consent to this. Get Palantir out of our NHS, now.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
She was 12 years old. Yesterday, an Israeli drone targeted her and her father in south Lebanon. The first strike killed her father. She survived. Terrified, wounded, she ran for her life. Then another drone followed her. And killed her too. Damn the whole complicit world (Dayab Abou Jahjah on x)
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The documentary that the BBC refused to air - Gaza: Doctors Under Attack - won a Bafta. It shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza by Israeli authorities. The decimation of Gaza’s healthcare system is central to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. #Bafta #Baftas
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Ben Sellers @mrbensellers.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We have to reverse the inevitable, dreary trajectory leading to Reform.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The world is in denial about what is coming our way www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05...
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The world is in denial about what is coming our way
Being a Cassandra is never popular. I was talking to two young people of my acquaintance yesterday, and forecast that their holiday plans for a trip to Ibiza this summer might well be disrupted by a f...
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A clique including Morgan McSweeney & Labour Together wanted Mandelson promoted, to strengthen their factional grip & to oppose real Labour values. They politically assassinated Jeremy Corbyn, aided by Margaret Hodge (her daughter's head of BBC News), & threw Socialists out of the party #bluelabour
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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Great how your phone gives you memories. It's two years to the day since Rachel Reeves told me if Labour won the general election they would send the National Audit Office in to investigate the Teesworks saga. The authority responsible hasn't published audited accounts since then, yet nothing.
Rachel Reeves, Chris Mcdonald, Ed Miliband, Keir Starmer. All wearing fluorescent jackets.
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