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UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children bbc.in/44m7eF8
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🚨🇮🇱 NEW: The UN commission of inquiry says Israel has deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip and Occupied West Bank
[@BBCNews]
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Thanks in part to this filthy website, we seem in very recent times to be slipping back towards a place where whole groups of people, sometimes races or ethnicities, are being blamed for the evil-doing of a tiny minority. It is a profoundly backward, poisonous and anti-British ideology that is rooted in the gutter and represents the road to perdition.
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This is counter-productive, authoritarian and chilling. The British state should not be in the business of banning commentators and journalists from entering the country, without compelling reason. Finding their views objectionable is nowhere near enough.
theguardian.com/media/2026/j…
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‘The rise of base, reflexive racism in this country is disturbing.’
@Lewis_Goodall hits back at social media accounts stoking talk of ‘civil war’ after quoting an unnamed ‘academic’.
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Nothing snarky to say about this. Just unambiguously good. Entire thing is an economic nuke
Settlement must then be earned.
The time to qualify for Indefinite Leave to Remain will double from five to ten years.
ALT The image shows Shabana Mahmood in a blue blazer walking, with a serious expression, next to bold breaking news text. The headline announces that the time required to qualify for indefinite leave to remain in the UK will increase from five years to ten years. A label at the bottom identifies the Home Secretary as Shabana Mahmood.
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It’s a testament to both the incompetency & petty authoritarianism of @HMCTSgovuk that they destroyed one of the most valuable artworks they own, but they did it so badly that you can still see the shadow of the work, which conveys its message perhaps even more powerfully than the original piece.
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This Banksy, which appeared overnight on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in London, is extremely powerful.
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Thank you Britain, truly an incredible tax system. Definitely couldn't be improved.
(This is what's so annoying about the UK. There's so much low hanging fruit that could be picked (development regulation, basic infrastructure, tax system) that politicians just don't act on.)
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If Ofcom and the Secretary of State decide to impose Category 1 duties on Wikipedia, it will be one of the biggest and most egregious acts of censorship on free expression in the history of British law.
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Ofsted has a new interim chair. He's a trained teacher, became a head, led schools in tough areas, his schools that are now THE BEST in the country for social mobility. Incidentally, he's a muslim. What bit do you think the Telegraph decided to focus on? Utterly disgraceful.
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I’ve been reading through Tweets to try and work this out for myself. The problem with rightwing accounts is that they don’t really tell you what they are cross about. Just that they hate the Government and they have been covering things up.
From what I can discern, this is what they are angry about..
1. That the police knew the evil murderer had an Al Qaeda manual and was making ricin soon after the horrific crime. But they didn’t reveal it to the public until the end of October.
2. That they believe the crime was an act of terrorism. Even though it does not meet the criteria for this under English law. I’m not even sure why this is so important to be honest.
3. That there wicked criminal was reported to Prevent 3 times but this was not revealed to the public until after his guilty plea.
4. That information about his religion and family history is still being “covered up”. I assume this is because the truth does not fit with their bigoted viewpoint.
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NEW: British infrastructure projects waste billions on fish discos and bat tunnels because of dumb environmental rules.
These rules make it harder to build new infrastructure, but do almost nothing for nature.
Here’s how to solve the bat tunnel problem.
samdumitriu.com/p/how-to-sol…
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Why are campaigners allowed to write news headlines?
Hinkley Point will have a net biodiversity gain for wildlife. It will not “decimate” fish stocks just because a “wildlife campaigner” says so.
Nuclear plant 'will decimate fish stocks' bbc.in/3XQMrpq
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Headline is misleading. From the article itself:
"Proposals for the sea-water cooling system at Hinkley Point C will see 44 tonnes of fish ingested and killed every year.
For comparison, fishing vessels at Newlyn, in Cornwall, landed 1,700 tonnes in the month of July alone."
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this isn’t how triage works and an absolutely insanely irresponsible thing to say to the press 👍
🚨 NEW: Labour minister Jess Phillips reportedly claimed she received ‘quicker’ A&E care after voting for a Gaza ceasefire
“The doctor who saw me was Palestinian. He was sort of like, ‘I like you. You voted for a ceasefire’. I got through quicker.”
[@MailOnline]
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Luxury flats start ‘moving chains’ freeing up housing lower down the ladder. Luxury flats don’t create people out of thin air. If you don’t build these apartments, high flying Manchester executives will outbid someone for another gaff nearby.
