Boris Long 💙

I won't live my life in an echo chamber. #BewareOfFreeports
#InVordersWeTrust #MIPO #ImWithNye #FriendsOfSangita #TuftonStreetMustFall #BeMoreDarren 🦋

[Jim Cognito @JimCognito2016]

💥 Inside the "rudderless chaos" of the Makerfield response to Restore 💥

Reform insiders tell of:

☑️ Confused & contradictory response to the party polling
☑️ An underestimation of their threat
☑️ Dissatisfaction at the candidate put up
☑️ "Dire" internal polling kept secret

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Since 1980, UK councils sold 2.8m social homes, 1.9m in England for £51bn.

In 2024 England homes were worth £430bn.

Councils didn't receive full sales proceeds, couldn't replenish housing stock.

Social homes down from 6.8m to 5.4m.

Huge housing crisis.
https://t.co/pOUoJsmCE9

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Why are interest rates so high? Nothing the Bank of England is doing makes sense right now, and as the recession we are heading for worsens, what it is doing will make everything much worse. So, will they cut rates, as we need? What do you think? https://t.co/nINBHmdnqK

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski is highlighting the case of Marwan Barghouti, the most well-known Palestinian political prisoner, held in Israeli detention for 25 years. “Good. Let’s talk about Marwan Barghouti,” Polanski wrote in response to a pro-Israel tweet, noting an Inter-Parliamentary Union report found Barghouti was not given a fair trial.

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

Short-sighted, feckless, foolish. The quickest way to understand why things have gone so astray in this country for so long is to understand that we have failed to make capital investments for a long period of time.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

The brilliant @yanisvaroufakis explaining how Palantair used Gazan ‘panic data’.

When civilians are bombarded - their phones record masses of data points that can be tracked and utilised by AI.

This he says was commercialised and sold to the NHS as emergency responder software for £1bn.

Palantair has no place in our NHS or anywhere else for that matter.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Ministers are actively turning what might need only be a crisis into a disaster https://t.co/JyTpONgegZ We have a food crisis coming our way - and ministers are completely ignoring it.

[SukhWaLT1 @Lt1Win]

@LBC The real trap which is being setup by madman terrorist Trump is to occupy the Strait for the Uggh Savage Animal Epstein regime.
The story put out is fake.

[LBC @LBC]

Anger grows in Albania as protesters take to the streets for sixth day over Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner plans for $1.6b luxury island resort https://t.co/Ui4utbzu9V

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Leaked documents show Israeli drones made by Elbit – which has factories in the UK – took a leading a role in the mass slaughter in Gaza, with onboard AI systems selecting targets autonomously, based on algorithms. The drones are integrated into a "Server in the Sky".

Palestine Action was declared a terrorist organisation by the UK government for trying to destroy this drone production.

Israel announced last week its annual defence exports had surged by 30% on the back of showcasing what Israeli tech can do in Gaza, to $20 billion.
https://t.co/njgIZgWMLZ

[Jess Asato MP @Jess4Lowestoft]

Technology companies shouldn't be able to create harmful products and then walk away from the consequences.

That's why I'm taking legal action.
Not just for me, but for the thousands of people who have been affected by AI-generated abuse.

https://t.co/oAzlM4r5ng

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Richard Murphy’s Views On…Inflation https://t.co/jsZhxQrtb1 A Saturday long read on a critical topic of the moment.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

“It’s insane, we have a rogue US military contractor handling our most sensitive data. Palantir has a contract running our nuclear missile program. We have no national security.”

Palantir. IT'S WORSE Than You Think @carolecadwalla

[Melanie Ward MP @melanie_ward]

This is unacceptable.

Is a 17 year old boy being pushed to watch antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish people after just 11 minutes what Meta considers to be age-appropriate?

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[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

KPMG’s global bosses refused to probe Australia whistleblower claims.

Self-investigations are a sham. That is the model in the UK.

UK regulator is reducing audit inspections, thinks big firms will self-report abuses.

Need robust independent regulators.
https://t.co/3nn6YKYmSO

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Así es la esclavitud en las minas en el este del Congo, de donde sale más del 70% del cobalto del mundo, miles de esclavos diariamente extraen el mineral por apenas 2$ al dia para llenar los bolsillos a las multinacionales capitalistas.

El capitalismo que no te enseñan, así es como se sostiene el nivel de vida y de consumo en Occidente, en estas minas al menos hay 40.000 niños esclavizados que pican piedra para que Apple saque 4 modelos de Iphone cada año.

[LBC @LBC]

‘Russia and its war is only allowed to function with this lifeline... so I’m pressuring them to take it down.’

Meet the 17-year-old sanctioned by the Russian government for investigating crypto laundering.

@TomSwarbrick1

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Packed village hall meeting in the Fife village of Auchtertool to discuss the proposed massive 600MW AI data centre right next to the village and on scenic farmland - that is estimated to consume so much energy - equivalent to half of Scotland’s entire energy consumption. No environmental impact assessment has been provided by Fife Council. This must be stopped, No one voted for this.

[Boris Long 💙 @BorisLong4]

@Jess4Lowestoft I'm listening to you on LBC.
Good on you.

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

In 2024 Wes Streeting said that South Africa's ICJ case was a "distraction."