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Tracking politics, policing and civil liberties in the UK.

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2024-11-02 11:48:25

"Badenoch herself is unlikely to talk much about being the first black leader of a major UK party. Although she was equalities minister, she thinks leftwingers exaggerate the extent to which black people are disadvantaged by structural inequalities in Britain."
#UKpolitics #Tories
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/nov/02/tory-leadership-election-results-live-kemi-badenoch-robert-jenrick-new-conservative-leader

2024-10-27 21:32:04

"We've got to be realistic about the tax we pay and the funds that are needed to improve services."
#UKpolitics #Budget #Tax
https://news.sky.com/story/why-some-strivers-say-theyre-spooked-by-rachel-reeves-halloween-budget-13242966

2024-10-14 21:33:35

"#Labour’s claims to be a party of the working class are only credible to those desperate to be convinced."
#UKpolitics
https://www.counterfire.org/article/labours-next-steps-to-make-workers-pay/

2024-10-12 11:44:03

"Since October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed at least 722 Palestinians, including at least 164 children, in the occupied West Bank."
“We watched their bulldozers tear up streets, demolish businesses, pharmacies, schools. They even bulldozed the town soccer field, and a tree in the middle of a road.”
#Israel #Palestine
https://truthout.org/articles/as-israel-extends-its-genocide-into-the-west-bank-it-targets-and-kills-children/

2024-10-01 18:41:32

"#Israel used the term “limited” during its #Rafah operations, yet the outcome there was no different from the devastation seen across #Gaza. “Limited” operations, when repeated, become something larger. “Limited” operations undergo mission creep, intentionally or otherwise – and their outcome is not determined by Israel alone. #Hezbollah, #Iran and others are rethinking the limits that – for entirely self-interested reasons – they had previously set in striking Israel."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/01/the-guardian-view-on-war-in-the-middle-east-israel-conflict-with-hezbollah-is-growing

2024-10-01 18:18:41

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"Labour’s new bill could compel banks and other third parties to trawl the accounts of the entire population to target welfare recipients for monitoring. By its own estimation it would stop only about 3% of the total amount lost to fraud and error."

2024-10-01 10:29:15

"Not one scintilla of a new idea upsets the quiet of the Conservative grave."
"The fundamental tenets of everything Conservatives believe are now so rebarbative that whenever they open their mouths, out jump frogs that scare most people."
#UKpolitics #Tories
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/01/conservative-party-delegates-birmingham-conference-labour

2024-09-28 09:15:48

Has mastodonapp.uk got netsplit from mastodon.me.uk again? I can't share or find a post by https://mastodonapp.uk/@MarkHoltom on here...

2024-09-25 12:30:19

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“The riots did not emerge from a vacuum but were fed by years of anti-migrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric and campaigning from the far right, from mainstream politicians and the reactionary press.”

2024-09-25 12:27:53

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“Decades of austerity, a cost of living crisis, the pandemic, inflation, rising rents, mortgages and energy bills have intensified collective grievances.”

2024-09-21 12:26:28

"Imprison them in rat-infested squalor. Send them to any old country. As long as they aren’t here. She has no idea how to achieve any of this. Nor any interest in international law. But neither has the audience. They all believe that foreigners belong anywhere but here. She gets a standing ovation."
#UKpolitics #ReformUK
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/20/reforms-conference-is-all-blame-grumpiness-and-no-ideas-of-to-fix-things

2024-09-14 16:44:38

"They are not telling us that is what they are doing, but they are just pretending that he said these understandable coherent things."
#USpolitics #Trump
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-sane-washing-mary-trump/

2024-09-14 08:45:01

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I would prefer them to transfer far more of the load onto broader/stronger shoulders... they're making decisions that favour big business over poor people a bit too regularly for my taste so far.
But you are right, they're not going to have many popular decisions to make for a while. On both the bright and the down side, their majority is so huge that they don't have to be popular right now.

2024-09-13 12:10:11

"Deliberately attacking a cargo ship is a serious violation of international humanitarian legal norms governing the conduct of war at sea."
#Russia #Ukraine
https://kyivindependent.com/romania-condemns-russian-strike-on-cargo-ship-with-ukrainian-grain-in-black-sea/

2024-09-10 16:53:48

“This report highlights a grim reality: our national debt risks developing on an unsustainable path. This has not received the attention it deserves – partly because of a flawed debt rule, created by the last government, and adopted by the new government in a similar form.”
#UKpolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/10/uk-debt-must-be-steered-off-unsustainable-course-warns-lords-committee

2024-09-08 14:44:57

“The value of an undergraduate degree has been called into question by the previous government, and that is a psychological barrier.”
#UKpolitics #Education
https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/sep/08/future-nobel-prizes-rely-on-young-people-going-to-university-says-science-minister

2024-09-07 12:12:11

"The Taxing Wealth Report 2024: recommendations to date and their suggested value"
#UKpolitics #Tax
https://taxingwealth.uk/2023/09/13/the-taxing-wealth-report-2024-recommendations-to-date-and-their-suggested-value/

2024-09-07 10:42:59

"If you look at the investments made in the Netzarim Corridor, it's clear they have no intention of withdrawing anytime soon, they've got concrete barriers, forward operating bases with towers and walls - you don't build those if you're planning on withdrawing.”
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #IllegalOccupation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewlqpk9e99o

2024-09-07 10:30:38

"The average constituency in England and Wales has 16,000 pensioners who will lose their winter fuel payments under the government’s plans, of whom 1,500 are eligible for but not receiving pension credit."
#UKpolitics #Labour #Benefits
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/07/labour-ministers-reveal-grave-concerns-about-winter-fuel-payment-cut

2024-09-07 10:11:04

"Trump assured supporters in Pennsylvania on Saturday that what might look like incoherent ramblings as he frequently departed from his scripted speech were instead indicators of his brilliance that impressed other great minds." 😂
#USpolitics #Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/07/election-trump-speeches

2024-09-07 09:57:58

"More than two-thirds of managers (68%) agreed with the general statement that ordinary workers’ rights should be strengthened, and 74% thought it would help with retaining staff."
#UKpolitics #Labour
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/07/labours-plans-to-boost-workers-rights-widely-supported-by-managers-poll-says

2024-09-07 09:54:09

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Anybody who has income from renting shouldn't be allowed to vote on it. Our parliament is so weirdly unregulated sometimes.

2024-09-07 09:28:42

"The company’s founders were aware that their benefactors were Russian (less clear is whether they understood their affiliations with RT). The pair accepted the money and hired numerous high-profile #MAGA influencers to create political videos for the site, without disclosing to the influencers or their audience where the funding was coming from."
#USpolitics #Russia
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/09/tenet-media-indictment/679743/

2024-09-06 19:32:09

"No state on Earth has been able to inflict so much damage to the Israeli economy as the State of #Israel itself."
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/07/the-end-of-israels-economy/

2024-09-06 18:47:05

"Landlords will soon be banned from removing tenants without cause as the government prepares to launch a long-delayed package of measures for renters including stopping no-fault evictions within months."
#UKpolitics #Labour #Housing #NoFaultEvictions
https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/sep/06/labour-moves-to-end-no-fault-evictions-within-months

2024-09-06 18:29:00

"Now that Tucker Carlson is crossing the reddest of red lines — actively apologizing for Adolf Hitler — can the Republican party cut ties? The answer has been a resounding no. "
#USpolitics
https://www.vox.com/politics/370519/tucker-carlson-holocaust-nazi-churchill-darryl-cooper-martyrmade

2024-09-06 18:20:27

Right-wingers who object to DEI initiatives are just racists, film at 11.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91183315/what-s-behind-conservative-opposition-dei-take-look-this-study

2024-09-06 15:30:59

"Come December, the Migration Observatory had pointed out that the 100,000 calculation even included a mathematical error, but this didn’t stop Richard Holden—Greg Hands’ successor as [Tory] party chair—from repeating the claim in a comment piece for the Express, published on Boxing Day."
#UKpolitics #Tories #Migration
https://fullfact.org/blog/2024/sep/full-fact-v-daily-express/

2024-09-06 12:40:59

"It’s not ideal, but paying a small group of aristocrats £361 a day to turn up to a nice building and wrap themselves in dead stoat is a relatively affordable part of the furniture of a country in which the head of state is a 75-year-old man whose sole qualification is the ownership of a magic hat. The far more expensive and serious problem is that these people have a role in making our laws."
#UKpolitics #Lords #LordsReform
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2024/09/why-house-of-lords-will-be-hard-abolish-keir-starmer-reform

2024-09-06 12:28:48

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*know _who_ to

2024-09-06 12:20:32

Just heard on @npub1wcr…2n0p that the UK prison population is at an all-time high, of ~88,000
I bet the USA isn't even slightly impressed. #RookieNumbers

2024-09-06 10:26:59

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The Grauniad is infamously unacquainted with the notion of spelling things correctly 😆
That one does particularly wind me up though.

2024-09-05 19:17:33

"Those people died because of incompetence and greed. The incompetence of public officials and the greed of private companies."
#UKpolitics #Grenfell #Corbyn
https://youtu.be/pJpizeqkfHY

2024-09-05 18:40:46

"The leaders of the Green party have promised to hold to account a “timid” Labour government"
#UKpolitics #Greens
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/05/green-party-leaders-carla-denyer-adrian-ramsay-labour

2024-09-05 11:38:52

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For now, yeah.
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/26-july/news/uk/hereditary-peers-out-but-bishops-to-stay-in-the-house-of-lords-for-now

2024-09-05 11:25:24

"Abolishing the 92 seats reserved for hereditary peers - who inherit their titles through their family - was one of Labour's election promises. The move finishes reforms started by the last Labour government, which revoked the 700-year-old right of all hereditary peers to sit in the Lords in 1999, leaving only 92 remaining as a comprise with the Conservatives."
#UKpolitics #Labour #Lords
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl2j90ydzgo

2024-09-04 21:39:29

"Police, the UK government, analysts and commentators were unequivocal in their assessment that the recent extreme right race riots in the UK were fuelled by X and by Musk personally. While Musk presents himself as a ‘free speech absolutist’, it is foremost his free speech and the free speech of those that align with his views that are protected, and algorithmically boosted."
#Twitter #X #Xitter #ElonMusk
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2024/08/29/it-is-time-for-users-of-x-to-delete-their-accounts/

2024-09-04 21:14:03

"Only film can capture the blank-eyed soullessness of the Russian president and the ineffable sense of wrongness he carries with him – even if you knew nothing of him or his history; only film can capture the warmth, charm and humanity radiating from his Ukrainian counterpart, brimful of soul."
#Ukraine #Russia
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/sep/04/the-zelensky-story-review-you-can-feel-the-humanity-radiating-from-the-ukrainian-president

2024-09-04 19:47:26

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Pretty much, yeah.

2024-09-04 18:44:03

"New governments usually come into office with an agenda to try to move on from the sorry past – but not this time. Last week Keir Starmer told the country that things were “worse than we ever imagined” and that the public should prepare for “short-term pain for long-term good”. In other words, the government is preparing us for unnecessary cuts."
#UKpolitics #Labour #Austerity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/04/keir-starmer-rachel-reeves-austerity

2024-09-04 15:10:10

"These are necessary steps to effect any and every improvement in the substance of the relationship, up to and including any possibility of ever joining the EU in the future. So what has happened already shouldn’t be dismissed or belittled. However, it clearly isn’t anything like enough..."
#UKpolitics #EUpolitics #Brexit
https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-government-needs-post-brexit.html

2024-09-04 10:05:50

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"EU leaders could do something a lot simpler and closer to home for the sake of public mental health - just switch to any other less sleazy platform instead."

2024-09-04 09:58:42

"This summer Elon Musk turbocharged his platform into an overflowing sewer of bigotry, nihilism, and greed. Racist, antisemitic, and homophobic content "surged". X had more Russian propaganda than any other big social media."
#Xitter #Racism #Sexism #Antisemitism #Homophobia #Russia
https://euobserver.com/EU%20&%20the%20World/ar1eb43d53

2024-09-04 09:38:23

"For French politicians and civilians in resort towns scattered along this coastline, the reaction to yet another deadly incident is not to focus on the criminality of the smugglers, but on the motives of the migrants, on what still drives so many of them to attempt this dangerous crossing."
#UKpolitics #EUpolitics #Migration
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9v8272vkxpo

2024-09-03 19:24:01

"A growing number of performing artists have demanded #Trump stop playing their music at events in recent months, and threatened legal action for unauthorized use, including Abba, the White Stripes singer Jack White, Celine Dion and Johnny Marr of the British band the Smiths."
#USpolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/03/trump-isaac-hayes

2024-09-03 18:47:44

"Miliband’s target of having 60 gigawatts of installed offshore wind capacity by 2030 is still a long way from being credible."
#UKpolitics #RenewableEnergy
https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/article/2024/sep/03/nice-auction-but-ed-miliband-is-still-a-long-way-from-his-2030-targets-for-offshore-wind

2024-09-02 17:48:37

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/162557-it-comes-from-a-very-ancient-democracy-you-see-you

2024-09-02 17:27:46

"As things stand, the budget is expected to include substantial cuts in public spending that could be at least partly avoided by such a wealth tax, and it is worth noting that some European countries such as Switzerland and Spain have already introduced them."
#UKpolitics #Labour #Budget #Austerity #Tax #WealthTax
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/keir-starmer-budget-austerity-rachel-reeves-wealth-tax-needed/

2024-09-02 17:15:57

"If Keir Starmer’s new government is serious about its “laser focus” on poverty, it must start by rebuilding our broken safety net."
#UKpolitics #Labour #Poverty
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/two-child-limit-benefit-labour-social-security/

2024-09-02 14:30:57

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We can but hope.

2024-09-02 13:08:48

"Jeremy Corbyn's new Parliamentary group will have the same number of MPs as Reform UK and the Democratic Unionist party, who each have five MPs, and more than the Green party and Plaid Cymru on four."
#UKpolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/02/jeremy-corbyn-alliance-independent-pro-gaza-mps

2024-09-02 12:17:39

"She’s a good person and she’s not racist."
https://metro.co.uk/2024/08/07/tory-councillors-wife-arrested-saying-set-fire-migrant-hotels-21375410/
orly
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/tory-councillor-wife-pleads-guilty-stirring-up-racial-hatred-southport-stabbings/
#UKpolitics #UKriots #Tories
https://metro.co.uk/2024/08/07/tory-councillors-wife-arrested-saying-set-fire-migrant-hotels-21375410/

2024-09-02 10:45:46

"Mark Tyrrell, 55, who was part of the #MetPolice parliamentary and diplomatic protection command, will appear at Westminster magistrates court on Wednesday 4 September to face two charges of rape and 15 of sexual assault."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/sep/02/met-officer-mark-tyrrell-from-same-unit-as-david-carrick-and-wayne-couzens-charged-with-rape

2024-09-01 18:24:18

Interesting set of graphs showing before and after Reagan (and, I suspect, Thatcher):
https://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/the-true-story-of-reaganomics-8-simple-graphs/86146186/

2024-09-01 16:55:53

“This partly stems from ... the total absence of political leadership and willingness to confront the far right at the Home Office for many years.”
#UKpolitics #UKriots #TwoTierPolicing
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/sep/01/uk-police-npcc-risk-assessment-far-right-threat-minimal

2024-09-01 15:54:29

"Keir could have taken this historic opportunity to blame the decades long and increasingly toxic political discourse on asylum and immigration. He could have blamed racist, far-right organisers. He could have blamed social media platforms and celebrity influencers. His failure to name these elements seems to show an unwillingness to tackle these issues head-on, leaving the underlying negative narrative around #asylum and #immigration still firmly in place."
#UKpolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/01/what-keir-starmers-rose-garden-speech-tells-us-about-his-politics

2024-09-01 15:26:54

"Although Musk describes himself as a “free speech absolutist”, a gussied-up term that supposes some deeper philosophical thinking behind his actions, this isn’t ideology, it’s grift."
#Twitter #X #Xitter #Telegram
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/31/elon-musk-x-brazil-telegram-pavel-durov

2024-09-01 10:43:06

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Interesting how many places the Green Party is in second place behind Labour now. Especially in London.

2024-09-01 10:30:47

Chart showing votes won vs seats won in last UK General Election:
https://election2024.electoral-reform.org.uk/
#UKpolitics #GE2024

2024-09-01 09:10:13

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are here!
@npub1tvx…xvrp are too!

2024-09-01 08:52:44

"It is a culture that goes beyond #Grenfell. You can see it in water companies’ dumping of sewage into rivers, in the flawed responses to Covid, in the Post Office Horizon scandal. If this culture doesn’t change, there will continue to be catastrophes in contexts – home, work, travel – where the public should feel safe."
#UKpolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/01/grenfell-inquiry-culture-of-contempt-britain

2024-08-29 18:15:09

“I sent emails. I made phone calls. I met with the representatives, and it felt like nothing was getting through. They didn’t show the humanity needed. They didn’t show the courage to say, ‘Hey, we are not OK with our American taxpayer money going to killing Palestinian children.’
#USpolitics #Israel #Palestine #Gaza
https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/uncommitted-dnc-harris-biden-trump/

2024-08-27 10:53:59

https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/113/033/608/856/110/550/original/83d0c54b22fc5339.png

2024-08-25 15:08:29

“The public has the right to express their views over how their money is spent. Gathering at a camp to express these views is not a crime. Police taking equipment to prevent this camp going ahead is an unreasonable restriction of free speech and is highly oppressive.”
#UKpolitics #ClimateChange #Protest #Policing
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/25/police-acting-as-private-security-for-drax-power-station-say-climate-activists

2024-08-25 12:15:09

"Among Telegram's investors were Russians David Yakobashvili and Roman Abramovich. The former is under Ukrainian sanctions, while Abramovich is on the sanctions lists of the European Union, the United States, Switzerland, Canada, Ukraine and other countries. They are both believed to have close ties to the Kremlin."
#Russia #Ukraine
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2023/10/1/7422200/

2024-08-17 08:35:54

"Britain’s biggest law firm has sought more than £1m from climate protesters to cover the cost of court orders banning them from protesting."
#UKpolitics #Justice #Climate #Environment #Protest
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/16/climate-activists-court-costs-protest-bans-uk-biggest-law-firm-dla-piper

2024-08-15 08:55:54

"The inequality in results between independent schools and comprehensives in England has widened."
#UKpolitics #Education
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/alevel-results-grades-2024-b2596685.html

2024-08-13 20:49:41

"The British public would vote by a sizeable margin to rejoin the European Union if a new referendum was held, according to a nationwide poll."
#UKpolitics #Brexit
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-poll-vote-rejoin-eu-brexit-new-referendum-pm-keir-starmer/

2024-08-11 10:59:18

"The violence in the UK has brought one defining feature of the far-right into clear view: the belief that it is above the law. While it demands vicious punishments for migrants, the far right believes that its supporters must be free to attack Muslims, asylum seekers, and the police, and never face the consequences of their crimes."
#UKpolitics #FarRight #UKriots
https://nickcohen.substack.com/p/the-far-right-wants-to-be-above-the?r=1oktco&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

2024-08-10 18:15:32

"A UK government minister told how she scaled back her use of the social media platform X, claiming it had become “a bit despotic” and was “a place of misery now”."
#UKpolitics #Twitter #X #Xitter
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/social-media-site-x-is-only-a-place-of-misery-government-minister-says/a945339865.html

2024-08-10 09:22:24

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I feel like in my lifetime politics has suffered a lot from being increasingly about triangulation rather than principles.

2024-08-09 12:10:55

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