Alexander Charlton

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[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Millionaires in Oxfordshire won’t see a train passing. Which means northern England doesn’t have high speed rail.

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[The White Bear @ScotsWhiteBear]

To give you an idea of how British politics has degraded into deranged radical-right lunacy, just consider what the public reaction would have been had a politician in the 60s or 70s proposed the following:

[colin oliver @100Magpie]

Barely spent a thing in 4 windows then we have one window spending over £200m whilst making £165m back in sales and we're punished for it 🤣 This is football now

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Elon Musk asked for a name of a person he has killed.

He got a list.

[Sam @SamCKx]

Adam is so right. The far left gave us Brexit, a drop of 6-8% in GDP costing the average family £6-8000 per year, a spike in racist and xenophobic hate crimes, years of political chaos, attacks on judges and experts, the anti-immigration culture wars, climate science denial, and the recent riots.

Oh, hang on a minute...

[Jon Burke 🌍 @jonburkeUK]

I see all of Hackney's anti-Low Traffic Neighbourhood candidates were once again soundly beaten at the ballot box in yesterday's by-elections.

The iron law of local politics is to serve the voters who live in your neighbourhoods, not the drivers who want to rat run through them.

[Sean Biggerstaff @Seanchuckle]

Few things in British politics are more dependable than Tories hating the predictable consequences of Toryism.

[Francis @FrancisChipp]

That Carabao Cup win really did cut them deep. Spent the last 18 months wasting hundreds of millions on players they don’t need just to spite us. Have to respect it really.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

🚨 BREAKING: Lebanon files UN Security Council complaint accusing I$rael of violating the Chemical Weapons Convention in the south

Lab tests from Aita al-Shaab, Naqoura, and Dhaira confirmed catastrophic levels of Glyphosate—a cancer-linked chemical—in agricultural soil.

Normal farming levels would show 0.5 to 2 mcg/g but tests on soil in South Lebanon show 22,750 mcg/g, 11,000 times above safe levels

It has been labeled by some as a deliberate war crime designed to permanently destroy arable border lands.

Here is our report from the scene filmed in February

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

This is the most important image of the 21st century to date. Study it. Never forgive. Never forget.

[Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden]

The average terror suspect arrested in England and Wales is now a white woman in her 50s as a result of the Palestine Action ban

2,800 arrests were made for supporting the group in 6 months -surpassing number of terror suspects detained in previous decade
https://t.co/cVBT83S6Ae

[Brendan Cox @MrBrendanCox]

10 years ago my wife, the mum of our kids & the MP for Batley&Spen was killed by a far right extremist.

At anniversaries I try to be optimistic about the future. But not this time. In the ten years since she was killed we have gone backwards & I fear our democracy is now at risk

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

That’s because Israel does not consider itself bound by any agreement, cease-fire, or even international law.

It is a rogue, genocidal state.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany needed compliant judges to provide a legal veneer to their darkest crimes.

Judge Johnson joins their wretched company. He overturned a jury's conviction of four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead.

As one their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence.

Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes.

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

A nazi becoming the first trillionaire off taxpayer subsidies mergers and apartheid mine inheritance isn't an anomaly. It's showing you what the system rewards.

Capitalism is a death cult

[David Norris @DayNogs]

City bidding £120mil for a player Newcastle had to sell to comply with FFP while still having not had a single punishment for 115 charges. On the day Everton are punished yet again for one overpayment that only occurred because of the War in Ukraine. Football has become a farce

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

You created them. Every single one of those NEETs is a product of your former party's choices. The ones you made while you were in Cabinet.

Adult education and apprenticeship spending: 25% lower in 2024-25 than when your former party took office (IFS, Nuffield Foundation).

Publicly funded adult further education courses: fell from 5.4 million in 2004 to 1.7 million by the time you left office. A 70% reduction, the majority of it on your watch (IFS, January 2026).

College funding per student: 11% lower in real terms than 2010. Sixth-form funding per student: 23% lower (IFS, January 2025).

Adults taking qualifications at GCSE level and below: down 50%. At A-level equivalent: down 33% (IFS, Nuffield Foundation).

Intermediate apprenticeship starts, the entry-level route for young people without degrees: collapsed from 200,000 in 2010 to fewer than 50,000 by 2020. Your government did that (IFS).

Youth services: cut by 70% since 2010 (Mind, Big Mental Health Report 2025) .

You had 14 years to invest in British young people. You cut adult education by 25%. You cut FE courses by 70%. You cut college funding. You cut sixth-form funding. You cut apprenticeships for the people who needed them most. You cut youth services. Then you left office and started tweeting bollocks about NEETs as though they materialised from thin air.

The £5,000 Reeves is offering is a reimbursement of the Immigration Skills Charge, a levy your own government introduced in 2017 to fund domestic skills training. You created the charge. You collected the money. And you still cut the training budget by 25%.

And these visas are for high-skilled workers: doctors, engineers, specialists in fields where your 14 years of cuts left a workforce gap so deep that British employers cannot fill it domestically. They are not competing with NEETs. They are filling holes your government drilled.

You were Home Secretary. You were Attorney General. You sat in Cabinet while all of this happened. You do not get to set the house on fire and then complain about the smoke.

Sources:
Adult education and apprenticeship spending 25% below 2010 levels: Institute for Fiscal Studies / Nuffield Foundation, October 2022 (https://t.co/ptZIX5c4b8)

Adult FE courses fell from 5.4 million to 1.7 million (70% reduction): Institute for Fiscal Studies, January 2026 (https://t.co/ViEuIX7qIj)

College funding per student 11% lower, sixth-form funding 23% lower: Institute for Fiscal Studies, Annual Report on Education Spending in England, January 2025, cited in House of Commons Library (https://t.co/c6qLKyCyjA)

Adults taking Level 2 qualifications down 50%, Level 3 down 33%: Institute for Fiscal Studies / Nuffield Foundation (https://t.co/1veNy8CJcY)

Intermediate apprenticeship starts collapsed from 200,000 to fewer than 50,000: Institute for Fiscal Studies / Nuffield Foundation, same source as above

Youth services cut by 70% since 2010: Mind, Big Mental Health Report 2025 (https://t.co/zTQbfpIdQq)

Immigration Skills Charge Regulations 2017: (https://t.co/IcciQZPTer)

Skills policy and apprenticeship data: House of Commons Library (https://t.co/trQjEw6FEZ)

Immigration Skills Charge parliamentary debate: Hansard, 21 March 2017 (https://t.co/yD8OvAthBl)

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen