Sanders: When Trump looks out at this crowd… they pay attention to this stuff, Elon Musk does. You are scaring the hell out of them. Because they know what we know: They are the 1% and we are the 99%
All Donald Trump's crap is made in China.
What a shame that will be priced off the streets...
Not.
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90,000 of you calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting.
If we reach 100,000, we can get this debated in parliament. So please sign and share - help us get there!
£85.9bn wealth transfer to the rich.
Since 2022 UK govt has sold gilts/bonds acquired with QE at a loss.
It is also paying interest to banks on deposits they hold with the Bank of England to facilitate interbank transactions. Unnecessary.
£85.9bn enriched the rich, inflicted harms on others.
"The notion of incentivising protesters to lie – to affect remorse for conviction views – is both madness and consistent with a legal system that protects those who destroy the planet for personal enrichment and attacks those who selflessly try to save it."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/mar...
How we treat people matters - from the DWP's spirit crushing approach to the #CarersAllowanceOverpaymentsScandal, to the way this government has rolled out today's welfare cuts - real people are impacted and worried sick. Today I put this to the Secretary of State.
If the Tories had been in power, Labour would be SCREAMING about the unfairness of yesterday's announced welfare cuts.
Instead we have the bizarre and unedifying spectacle of the Tories going "yes, that's a good start, but the cuts don't go far enough".
There's no Opposition when you don't oppose.
NWRC chefs from Limavady and Derry campuses shine at Rotary competition
Instead of slashing welfare and disability benefits — forcing more disabled people and children into poverty — the government could introduce a 2% tax on assets over £10 million.
It would raise £24 billion — five times the savings from these cuts.
This is austerity 2.0
Baroness Mone standing in the sunshine on her PPE paid for boat.
Lord Agnew, a Tory Cabinet Office minister responsible for PPE procurement said to the Covid enquiry, ‘I really struggle to understand why the VIP lane is such a point of obsession.’
Clearly the man operates to different moral standards to the rest of us.
"There will be absolutely exclusions there for those who are so sick and disabled that they will never work."
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall defends the government's welfare cuts in an interview with Jackie Long.
Read and watch here:
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy review – incurable sadness if bravely borne - Review by John Banville
Colm Tóibín introduces this welcome reprint of the US author and critic’s poignant account of orphanhood, first published in 1957
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
GP Crisis
GPs are currently doing 1m advice & guidance requests to 2’ care
4m more people waiting for hospital treatment than 2019, 1/9 of the population
31m consult GPs/month
GPs awarded £889m extra just 4% of the £22bn given to NHS as an uplift
GPs get £10bn just 5.6% of total NHS budget
People on disability benefit don't store their money off-shore, they use the money locally to enable their daily life.
Disability benefit is very hard to get. Many people with disabilities go without because they already can't navigate the difficult system, or the system is too harsh.
PICTURES: Leprechauns, pots of gold and smiling faces at Swatragh Jumping Clay workshop
Scores of Labour MPs raise concerns over welfare changes.
Cuts are a political choice, as there are alternatives.
Please ramp up pressure on local/nearby Labour MPs.
Insist on meeting them face-to-face.
Hang on a second - why was an organisation representing private healthcare companies involved in a pilot programme for the NHS?!🚨 👇
I’ll explain what’s going on in my newsletter- jujuliagrace.substack.com
“Supported by the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN)…
Former sub-postmaster Lee Castleton launching legal action against the Post Office and Fujitsu.
Good on Lee.
Civil judgement against him was obtained by fraud.
Elsewhere Govt slow to compensate, many offered lower amounts.
No one charged with mega fraud and perjury.
will they ever be?
Every drug cartel needs someone to do the money laundering. The perfectly legal drug industry Big Pharma channels its vast profits through the equally respectable industry...Big Dry Cleaners. The most efficient is Ireland We have to be honest about this
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
David Beckham out pheasant shooting.
Why do the rich people all have to be such twats?
UK Govt assault on the poor & disabled in context.
In 2024-25, the govt spending £1,276.2bn.
Benefit cut will save £1bn a year. Hardly significant.
It can have up to £20bn by taxing capital gains and dividends at the same rate as wages, and charging NIC. But won't do it.
Political choice.
"It should take into account our interests and be friendly...not be hostile to us."
Andrei Kelin, Russia’s Ambassador in London, tells @krishgm.bsky.social Ukraine needs to recognise its duty to Russia as a neighbour for a "peaceful existence."
Read and watch here:
EveryDoctor is just about to announce which political party has received the most donations from people and companies associated with the private healthcare sector.🚨
Please follow @everydoctor.org.uk and repost once the info is out!
Free speech latest.
After Labour announced sweeping changes to welfare programmes, Jackie Long spoke to disability activist Anastasia Tempest and Rameesah Ahmed, youth lead for the Leeds branch of the charity Healthwatch, about potential consequences.
Read and watch:
Curious that when I had this conversation with Torsten Bell a couple of years ago...
He never mentioned his plans to be a Labour MP and push for devastating welfare cuts particularly for disabled people.
We all know what could fix this, don't we? 🇪🇺
This isn’t happening in a theocracy or a far-flung dictatorship. This is happening in the European Union.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
