I'm precisely "God that's lovely. I bet that pavement's lethal in wet weather" years old

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has refused to rule out scrapping the 25% Single Person council tax discount. If the discount is scrapped, around 8 million people will see their council tax bill rise by hundreds of pounds per year. Half of these people are over 65. (Source: ITV)

I cannot recommend this book highly enough. If, like me, you’re finding it hard to comprehend how former communists have allied with Thatcherites to form the new & menacing populist right, it is enormously valuable. Short, clear, and analytical. Well done for publishing

Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 Conscription? A great idea Thomas! You and your skinhead pals could learn some discipline and curtail your foul language. The leftist youth could learn about ironed trousers and proper haircuts. Young men like you Thomas don’t appreciate what older chaps like me did for you! 😡🇬🇧

Why did West Media hide this?

One of the #Shipley4 after the jury refused to convict them of causing over £500K+ in damages to a producer of parts for Israeli missiles

Your Friday funny, to start the weekend with a smile.

The Doctor. Keir Starmer Who is Starmer working for? #SaveOurNHS

The famous Falkirk Wheel which links the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal 😎 #falkirk #visitfalkirk #canalmagic #scotland #visitscotland #drone

Woman acquitted over 'coconut' protest placard skwawkbox.org/2024/09/13/wom… via The SKWAWKBOX

This DWP analysis confirms the hardest hit by cutting Winter Fuel Allowance will yet again be disabled people and the most elderly. In other words, the most vulnerable in our society. How can this policy be morally right?

"My hair fell out in fear of the bombing." "I wish my hair would grow back so I can comb it like the other girls." After the Israeli army bombed the top floor of the hospital where Sarah was staying, her hair fell out in fear.

Israeli forces murdering American citizens and the US doing nothing but express sadness shows how ‘ridiculous’ the US-Israel relationship has become, says Muslim scholar and human rights activist Omar Suleiman.

A Russian soldier posts this photo, claiming to have captured a Ukrainian female soldier. Immediately, 200,000 followers wrote that this act is inhumane. He replied: Sorry, this woman is Palestinian and these soldiers are Israeli. No follower commented and everyone was silent.

Long thread: The story and treatment of Marieha Hussain is one of the most alarming, ludicrous and unbelievable I’ve ever witnessed. It is a story of eye-wateringly blatant state racism, media complicity in that racism, police manipulation and cultural incompetence. And it is a

Barbara The pensioners’ winter fuel allowance of £1.4b amounts to 0.13% of annual government budget and there’s no way that it could destabilise the economy.

I have followed two accounts with whom I am the polar opposite. If we don’t know what they’re saying how can we know when to speak out?

This made me laugh. You go for a shit and 1200 years later someone’s holding it up like a trophy.

Rishi Sunak was a self centred millionaire PM with no idea. Keir Starmer however, well he has an ology, unfortunately it’s an ideology that is going to undermine us all.