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"Emily Thornberry, the chair of the foreign affairs select committee, said that if the west did not act soon, there would be no #Palestine left to recognise."

#UKPol

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/13/labour-mps-pressure-foreign-office-to-recognise-palestinian-statehood


Troll alert

@renebeitler

This person posts racist, sexist, homophobic & violent comments.

I've reported them.

#uspol #auspol #ukpol #cdnpoli #europol #trollalert #racism #sexism #homophobia .


Interview: "In general, there needs to be an end to racial discrimination & the domination by one racial group over another from the river to the sea"

A masterclass Q&A from international lawyer Ralph Wilde on what the ICJ demands of Israel.

The International Court of Justice deemed "Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories illegal & that it must cease immediately."

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/centre-stage/2025/4/10/cs-ralph-wilde-100425

#icj #ralphwilde #illegaloccupation #uspol #ukpol #GazaGenocideNotWar .
Ralph wilde: THERE NEEDS TO
BE AN END TO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION


The UK's murder prediction AI will create a dangerous, criminalising loop.

This tech repackages flawed police data as neutral. Then replicates itself.

The existing over-policing of racialised, low income and migrant communities will be hardwired into police operations.

We need #SafetyNotSurveillance

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill

#PreCrime #policing #police #AI #crime #ukpol #ukpolitics


People ask, "What can be done?"

Become aware & act:

The Palestinians are indigenous to Palestine.

The British empire gave most of Palestine to Zionists from Europe to colonise. Out of racism, the British didn't consult the Palestinians.

Now that the US is greenlighting the final ethnic cleansing of Gaza & the West Bank, & Europe is helping, the only thing that can save the Palestinians is mass protests & strikes across the world.

And #BDS

#palestinehistory #racism #uspol #ukpol #zionism .
Palestine from 1917 to today. A series of maps of Palestine showing progression from Balfour, Nakba, and occupation. 1917: Palestine all shaded in green. 1946: Small segments of Palestine appear white, splitting the green a little. 1947: About half the map is white with 3 large segments of green. 1967: 2 green segments remain—a large West Bank and Gaza. Now: Gaza remains and the West Bank is fragmented into dozens of pieces that are substantially less area than before.


"Independent research shows deeper regulatory alignment as part of a common sense deal with the EU would boost the UK economy by as much as 2.2%, meaning more money for public services and more jobs across the country. The report also recommends a EU-UK Youth Mobility Scheme, a new EU-UK security pact, greater energy co-operation, a data adequacy agreement, and the UK rejoining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention on rules of origin."

#UKPol #EUPol

https://www.bestforbritain.org/twenty_ways_to_fix_brexit_s_growth_hit


Britain under the Conservatives was bad enough, But Starmer and his like minded autocrats really can not get enough of a good bit of repression (builds character, a Cabinet minister was heard to explain).

‘The police, governments and the media have sought to conflate peaceful protest with extremism and terrorism. Protest methods used for centuries, such as blocking roads, have been recast as the end of civilisation.’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/03/protest-britain-activists-quaker-meeting-house

#Ukpol #Starmer #Repression #Autocracy #Labour


Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising

#UK petition

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/713456

#CorporateSurveillance #UKpol


You know what would make life better for everyone? If the British left Northern Ireland and returned it to be part of an independent whole country, all of which is in the EU. Then Hilary wouldn’t have to try and boss Ireland or the EU over tariffs. What would work well also would be the UK aligning themselves with the EU, rather than cowering in acquiescence before the toxic bullying of the USA.
#Tariffs #USPol #UKPol #RejoinEU #Brexit #IrlPol #Think32 #UI https://www.eppingforestguardian.co.uk/news/national/25057871.hilary-benn-warns-issue-ni-eu-imposes-tariffs-us-trade-dispute/


Inhaltswarnung: UKpol April Fools


This commentary takes a somewhat contrary view from many, but it is a useful reminder that while the US has been great (honestly) in many ways, the darker side has resulted in crap and chaos.

Tisdall's swan song as the Observer gets dismantled?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/29/britain-has-been-paying-a-high-price-for-uncle-sams-craziness-its-time-to-turn-to-europe

#USPol #UkPol #Tisdall #Observer #Guardian #Enshitification


Labour MPs clearly despise experts as much as the Conservatives. How much do they know about the consequences of what they are voting on? Or do they really care? I suspect a mixture of the two.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/30/mps-to-vote-on-disability-benefit-cuts-without-knowing-full-impact

#UkPol #Labour #Ignorance #Disability #Hypocrisy


What are stalker ads?

Meta harvests personal data to track your behaviour, making assumptions about who you are and what you believe. This is used to sell targeted adverts 🏧

By settling Tanya O'Carroll's case, Meta admits that you have the right to opt-out.

It's time to #StopStalkerAds

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta-settles-u-k-right-to-object-to-ad-tracking-lawsuit-by-agreeing-not-to-track-plaintiff/

Use our tool to opt-out ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out

#meta #dataprotection #surveillanceadvertising #surveillancecapitalism #adtech #GDPR #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol


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Last week saw a big win for data rights! Meta settled Tanya O'Carroll's legal case against them. They agreed to stop using her data for targeted advertising.

Now it's your turn 🫵

Use our tool to #StopStalkerAds (UK residents) ⬇️

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#meta #dataprotection #surveillanceadvertising #adtech #GDPR #privacy #surveillancecapitalism #ukpolitics #ukpol #Facebook


So well put by George Monbiot. Applies to our tepid Labor government here in Australia too. People don’t want to be regarded only as economic units, and if you block leftist reform they reach for hard-right chaos.

"The democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s aspirations for a fairer, greener, kinder country, he cuts off not just faith in the Labour party but faith in politics itself. The almost inevitable result, as countries from the US to the Netherlands, Argentina to Austria, Italy to Sweden show, is to let the far right in."

#UKpol #USpol #auspol https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/fascism-britain-neoliberalism-opened-door-for-it-labour


An opinion piece. But IMHO (as goodd as this) we all know that Westminster Ministers typically only think of their own advantages - now and in the future. Others who will not benefit them are only of interest if it might effect their votes (and earning potential)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/28/uk-ministers-need-to-ask-why-they-are-offered-freebies-and-who-loses-out

#UkPol #Westminster #Labour #Conservative #Freebies #Corruption #Stupidity


Labour's enablement of the far right

A decent aerticle (they normally are) from Mombiot. In aping Reform and yhr Tories, Labour are enabling them. Just as well when they promised 'change' they were not prepared to define what is meant. Trading Standards might have been after them, rather than just people who despise their policies.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/fascism-britain-neoliberalism-opened-door-for-it-labour

#Ukpol #Reform #LabourEnablers #PromisesPromies #Starmer #Mombiot


You know who this evasion and gaslighting reminds me off?
Boris Fucking Johnson.

As for the 'Coalition of the Willing', only one in five voted for Starmer to be our PM, his poll ratings have never been in the plus since he took office and he's supposed to be getting 30 other countries to sign up to a military alliance is he?

#Starmer #Ukraine #Russia #UKPOL #UKpolitics #CoalitonOfTheWilling
2hago 14.22 GMT

Starmer ducks question about whether plan based on hoping
Russia might agree to ceasefire is doomed to fail

Q: [From the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen] Isn’t it time to admit that Russia has no
interest in a ceasefire, and that a different approach is needed?

Starmer says he does not accept that.

He says he thinks President Trump is serious about wanting peace. And the
Ukrainians want peace too, he says.

Q: But what makes you think Putin will give up his long-held views on Ukraine?
Starmer says this is a process. A lasting peace is the right goal, he says. It is
what Trump wants, and what the Europeans want.

If they can provide leadership, backed up by operational plans, that is the
best chance for peace.

Bowen tried twice to get Starmer to addresss his point about Russia, but both
times Starmer refused to engage with Bowen’s point.
2hago 1415 GMT

Q: You have been talking about this for almost a month. But only the UK and
France have committed to putting troops on the ground. Why aren’t you
making more progress?

Starmer insists they are making progress. He says 200 planners attending the
planning meeting in London last week.

44 There was a feeling around the table [at the meeting today] that Europe,
taking Europe as a whole, has not been this strong and united for a very long
time.

He says Russia is delaying. That is tactic they had tried before.

Q: When will there be progress?

Starmer says he does not want to put a deadline on things, but “we need to
see this developing in days and weeks, not months and months”.
2hago 14.11 GMT

Starmer says support in Europe for cooperation to help Ukraine
is ‘stronger and broader than ever’

Starmer is now taking questions.

Q: The US describe Europeans as pathetically freeloaders. How can you trust
them? And will you commit to putting troops on the ground?

Starmer says there were 30 countries at the meeting today, as well as Nato
and the EU.

AA There was a broad consensus that this group of nations is now stronger and
broader than it’s ever been.

In terms of military planning, that is going alongside the political process, he
says.

He says he has always been clear that a European-led initiative would need
US support.


#Europe moves without the US.
"Sir Keir Starmer has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of making "hollow promises" on a ceasefire in Ukraine."
#France
#UKpol
#EU
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78e2x7lz25o


SOAS panel | Mobilizing Law in Defence of #Palestine: The #ICC Arrest Warrants, the #ArmsTradeTreaty & the UK's Obligation to Prevent #Genocide

⦁ Daniel Machover, Partner, Hickman & Rose Solicitors
⦁ Dr Irene Pietropaoli, British Institute for International & Comparative Law
⦁ Dr Shahd Hammouri, School of Law, Univ. of Kent

Comment & discussion by Dr Nimer Sultany, School of Law, SOAS

https://youtu.be/aUoRsOAmeYw

#Gaza #oPt #InternationalCriminalCourt #InternationalJustice #UKpol @palestine


English councils deprived of funding are reduced to selling off the families poorer chattels (the Tories did away with the silver many years ago). It will just make England poorer (and a small number richer)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/26/cannes-english-councils-property-developers-housing

#Housing #England #UkPol #LabourPolicy


So, Labour voters in Scotland, are you regretting the shiny baubles that were promised and then vanished with the rising sun? Fed children are not just a moral obligation but a practical one as well. They can learn.

Meantime ‘Erasmus’ the pisspoor replacement for the EU exchange program looks to be scrapped as well.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25030965.education-secretary-suggests-cutting-free-school-meals/

http://archive.today/2025.03.24-115705/https://www.thenational.scot/news/25030965.education-secretary-suggests-cutting-free-school-meals/ (archive)

#Ukpol #Labour #WhatFuture #Education
Photo. ENGLISH education secretary Bridget Phillipson, caption ‘has also offered to axe funding for free period products in schools as well as dance, music and PE schemes’


Neville Chamberlain here, selling out the country to protect the country, another bad strategy from a man who keeps fucking up.
He is not an agile thinker, he doesn't like change or rocking the boat.
He is not the person we need leading the country today, he's a coward.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/23/starmer-is-warned-against-appeasing-trump-with-tax-cut-for-us-tech-firms

#Starmer #Appeasement #UKPOL #UKpolitics #TechBros #SiliconValley


I have just come from a #Council meeting not directly associated with my #Politics but facing similar #community #communication #Issues. On the '#Liberal #Left #Socialist ' wing we are fragmented, Many #narcisstic #Officers . I always argued for one #media #office to speak for all. 'We' had the £'s pre #StopBrexit & after to fund an office & the talent to staff it. Now? No one single voice speaking #Truth to #Power @NRM @PeterCorr
#RejoinEU #europeanunion #EuropeanMovement #ukpol #UK_politics


I have just come from a #Council meeting not directly associated with my #Politics but facing similar #community #communication #Issues. On the '#Liberal #Left #Socialist ' wing we are fragmented, Many #narcisstic #Officers . I always argued for one #media #office to speak for all. 'We' had the £'s pre #StopBrexit & after to fund an office & the talent to staff it. Now? No one single voice speaking #Truth to #Power @NRM @PeterCorr
#RejoinEU #europeanunion #EuropeanMovement #ukpol #UK_politics


I have just come from a #Council meeting not directly associated with my #Politics but facing similar #community #communication #Issues. On the '#Liberal #Left #Socialist ' wing we are fragmented, Many #narcisstic #Officers . I always argued for one #media #office to speak for all. 'We' had the £'s pre #StopBrexit & after to fund an office & the talent to staff it. Now? No one single voice speaking #Truth to #Power @NRM @PeterCorr
#RejoinEU #europeanunion #EuropeanMovement #ukpol #UK_politics


I have just come from a #Council meeting not directly associated with my #Politics but facing similar #community #communication #Issues. On the '#Liberal #Left #Socialist ' wing we are fragmented, Many #narcisstic #Officers . I always argued for one #media #office to speak for all. 'We' had the £'s pre #StopBrexit & after to fund an office & the talent to staff it. Now? No one single voice speaking #Truth to #Power @NRM @PeterCorr
#RejoinEU #europeanunion #EuropeanMovement #ukpol #UK_politics


I was taken by a comment on an article (excellent) by Stuart Lee. It reflects on exactly what Trump and his MAGA diehards are doing in the USA and reflects change in the UK as well - especially the new ‘trustee’ ha ha at the British Museum.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/mar/23/british-museum-is-right-to-keep-parthenon-marbles-says-new-trustee

Rewrite history to make your next putsch all the easier.

The Taliban are winning.

#Media #RewritingHistory #UkPol #USPol
Screenshot of comment in the Gruaniad, reads 
‘When Islamic stare marched across Syria they destroyed as much of the shared history if the
Syrian people as they could. They blew Palmyra, a city thousands and thousands of years old
reduced to rubble because from that point on history would begun again and it would be their
history.
When the Taliban at the height of their charnal house government moved from killing their own
to destroying the culture of Afghanistan millenniums in the making they did so start history
again. To create a new nation but under their brutal foot. Buddhist statues built by Greek
soldiers on the silk road. Symbols not just of Afghanistan's history but our global history
destroyed so history could start again.
One of the first thing tyrant secured is culture. They set the terms of what isn't and is
acceptable expression. What is it what isn't German or Catholic or Peasant or American. They
killed the comics and the satirists. Their jokes become brutal and violent. They punch down
again and again and again. And their music becomes dark, brutal and geared for war.
Even love becomes regulated and controlled. Reproduction is now a duty because the birth rate
is falling, because immigrants are swamping us and with it the culture you already suppressed.
Deviance, straying from the path is now treason. Your love becomes a tool to be used to hurt
those you love.
That's what tyrants do…’


Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP and Branchform

A measured assessment (but that will not satisfy the haters and given the comments it has not)

http://archive.today/2025.03.22-191808/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/operation-branchform-nicola-sturgeon-murray-foote-b992xgtn2 (archive)

Unionists are desperate to cripple any taslkj of indep3ndence and will do what it takes.

#Sturgeon #Beattie #SNP #Branchform #PoliticalPolicing #Ukpol
The infamnous Blue Tents - erected, not to hide anything but allow the unionist media to claim she was
Photo. Nicola Strurgeon, talking to the press after she had been exonerated


Businesses back SNP for growth

Colour me amazed. The Times reports something vaguely positive about the Scottish government. Although I suspect this was simply necessary to critique #Starmer, #Sarwar and #Labour.

Having said that, businesses that favour ‘Reform’ as a party for growth are either deluded or taking the piss. So the survey is probably useless.

Meantime this has driven the haters mad in the comments.

http://archive.today/2025.03.21-184005/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/businesses-back-snp-for-growth-as-labour-support-slides-prwmgq828

#Scotland #Business #NotLabour #SNP #ScotPol #Ukpol
Screen capture from article, reads
‘The survey also revealed a stark difference in perception between the Scottish and UK governments. Nearly half (48 per cent) of respondents believe the Scottish government is concerned with the needs of businesses in Scotland, compared with just 33 per cent who feel the same about the UK government.
Scott Edgar, the senior research manager at The Diffley Partnership, said: “These results show that the SNP is seen as the party best placed to support business growth and investment in Scotland, albeit by a small margin. The drop in support for Scottish Labour suggests business has grown more cautious about their approach over the last 12 months.”’