Shocking that we wouldn't let her come... and claim asylum too. The very smallest gesture against the oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan.
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Shocking that we wouldn't let her come... and claim asylum too. The very smallest gesture against the oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan.
‘As a couple, Andrew and Sarah Ferguson have always been too stupid to understand the vulnerability of the institution that supports them, and they began wrecking it from the inside as soon as they met.’
Andrew O’Hagan on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, in the next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Are you doubting it has a zoo🤔
Trump's war on Iran is teaching all countries in the region the madness of a hot war in 2026.
The vital infrastructure they depend on for living, such as desalination plants and power plants, is uniquely vulnerable to newfangled drone warfare.
Harsh way to learn that lesson.
Energy companies sold off the storage tanks to increase profits. They then (I understand) asked the gov't to replace them at the cost of the taxpayer, & gov't refused.
It's all down to privatisation again. Profits before people.
Greed.
If your energy needs are met from solar, wind, tidal, geothermal and nuclear sources, backed by copious battery storage, you're far less vulnerable to sudden crazy oil and gas price spikes.
Trump's war on Iran is the best possible ad for accelerating the greening of the economy.
This is insane.
Blair is the last person who should be piping up.
US is not at war with Iran so its decision to sink a ship hundreds of miles from Iran, leading to the drowning of most onboard is...
#warcrimes
Yes I realised after posting they meant money in 'contributing more'. Silly me for assuming contributing meant to....society as a whole 🙄
The ‘ridiculously obvious’ being.… what?
#Thread A compilation of false claims, fake videos, AI-generated clips, and old imagery being shared in the pretext of the ongoing situation in #Iran #Israel and #MiddleEast on social media. #FactCheck
Ed Davey, "We rightly expect our armed forces to protect British citizens around the world in crisis like this"
"But that includes tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes here"
I remain your devoted admirer, Russ.
Followed you all through the tory years. Hoped that a Labour government would be so good it would cramp your style, but, heigh ho, you're back on form 😂
Corporate Welfare
Rolls-Royce boss defends state aid bid for new engine despite record profits and £9bn share buyback.
Corporate bosses attack benefits for the needy and decent wages for workers but want free money.
No free money for any corporation without equity stake.
archive.ph/oBO3x
Huge congratulations to @greenparty.org.uk and to Hannah Spencer MP on a truly historic result in Gorton and Denton 🎉
As we build on momentum, all of us on the British left must now avoid falling into a very familiar trap. 🧵 1/
We need to tax them enough to *stop them getting so rich*. We did it in the 30 yrs post WW2 and it was working.
According to AI the Democracy Volunteers is a pukka group but there are so many questions to ask about this 'family voting' claim. Not least the layouts of polling stations (booths are in full sight of election officials where I vote) and the training given to election officials..
Well, exactly. You don't need to be surrounded by your family in the polling booth to be influenced to vote.
My parents would never tell us how they voted because 'secret ballot'. But that was a different age from now..
Following the Joseph Rowntree link it appears that ‘family voting’ is something of a ‘thing’ for this group.
I’d like to know more about the ‘founder’ John Ault.
I wonder what the motive for its formation was 10 years ag?
Billie Eilish recently asked a room full of billionaires an important question:
“If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?”
Another important question:
Is billionaire philanthropy a complete sham? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNZ7mE82UJ0
Good piece. This isn't sufficiently acknowledged.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is an excellent post and the comments on the substack version are 'illuminating'
Sometimes even the BBC understands that the state creates the currency that the private sector relies upon to pay down its private debts.
youtu.be/MdVRFYDsyNU?...
In the UK House of Lords I argued that political donations are part of political corruption.
Corporations and super-rich buy influence and power. Possibilities of democracy are stymied.
Can't nave democracy whilst parties are for sale.
Your thoughts pls
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMnY...
It was *even worse* once Thatcher came to power. Soaring unemployment, soaring inflatio. Destruction of the unions and heavy industries. Privatisation (that’s turned out well, hasn’t it?) The north still hasn’t recovered.
I was there, too. The bad things you describe weren’t UK wide.
This is so pretty.
How women abandoned these lovely, comfortable styles for a return to figure constricting corsets and billowing skirts is beyond me...
(Yea, I know they still wore corsets under this type of dress)
High energy prices threaten UK’s status as manufacturing power, business groups say.
The same groups supported privatisation of rail, mail, water, energy and more.
Households ripped-off to appease shareholders.
Subsidies aren't the answer. Need public ownership. Gives govts more economic levers.
Billie Eilish recently asked a room full of billionaires, “If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?”
One reason? Their wealth keeps growing, yet many of them are giving less to charity now than they have in years.
Billionaire philanthropy is a sham. Watch. youtu.be/aNZ7mE82UJ0?...
We live about 20 miles south under the N'castle airport flight path. A significant number of planes land after midnight, holiday flights.
No way I'd pay £5million to live with that 😆
