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[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

I am begging people to understand the reason you pay so much tax is because the richest pay so little.

The combined tax dodged by the richest 1% is more than the tax contribution of the bottom 70%.

If they paid their tax, you wouldn't have to pay any.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Thames Water moves closer to Nationalisation as it can't pay debts

However under the Government rules, YOU will pay off billions of Thames Water's debt, then it will be sold back to thieves to rip you off and bankrupt the company again

NO, it must be renationalised for good.

[Chris Heatherly @chrisheatherly]

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.

The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.

There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.

What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.

Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.

This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.

That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.

What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.

Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?

No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

Israel runs one of the worst mass torture programs in all of human history. Believe me, this is no exaggeration. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were detained and tortured since 1948. People lost their mind, some never spoke again, and others did not recognize their family when they were freed.
People still don't get the true meaning of Zionism and Israel. Maybe someday they will. A great service to humanity, this show by Carlson

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

The financialisation of education was one of the worst mistakes this country has ever made.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

"I think it's pretty grotesque to see him selling the future of our children and grandchildren down the river" - Zack Polanski discusses Tony Blair's latest intervention on Sky News

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Me han bloqueado todas las tarjetas por emitir la orden de arresto contra Netanyahu, no puede comprar ni tomar un avión ni alquilar una habitación de hotel".

Nicolas Gouyou, juez francés de la Corte Penal Internacional, quien emitió una orden de arresto contra Netanyahu, afirma que "Israel" y EEUU han bloqueado todas sus cuentas y están hundiéndole la vida solo por intentar que el sionismo rinda cuenta.

Esta es su "justicia internacional" donde los pocos jueces que intenten hacer rendir cuentas a "Israel" son perseguidos y hundidos por el sionismo, todo esto de los tribunales internacionales es una farsa que solo sirve para perseguir a países enemigos de EEUU.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

@RachelMillward on why water should be run for people and planet, not profit 💧🌍💚

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

Wow! Really intrusive.
Scrutiny is good in a democracy, but this is destructive.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israel has been gradually expanding its "kill zone" in Gaza. Its army has now officially seized 70% of the territory. In a few months, 2 million Palestinians will be crushed into 20% of Gaza. Then 10%.

The "ceasefire" is a cover for genocide, not an end to it.

[Devutopia @D_Raval]

This is what real opposition looks like.
While the media and other parties is busy treating Blair's essay as serious political commentary, Zack was asking the question nobody else would.

Who paid for it? Who benefits? And is the Tony Blair Institute buying access to this government?

23,000 views and a formal letter to the Cabinet Office in the same day.
That's your Green Party leader at work.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Britain has the dirtiest rivers, the most expensive energy, the least reliable trains, the most overcrowded prisons, the worst access to healthcare and the widest gap between rich and poor in all of Europe. If you want a verdict on 40 years of neoliberalism, there it is.

[B O G ~ D W E L L E R @real_bogdweller]

we've had 40 years of systematically eradicating community life in the uk, ripping up policies and schemes that help young people get a start in life, ignoring the escalating environmental disaster we are in, but no the kids are anxious bc of social media

[Hugo Papé 💚🌱🌍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇸 @HugoPap2]

The problem with Thatcherism is that you eventually run out of state assets to sell off

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

In Britain we’ve essentially privatised care for kids with complex & high risk needs.

Dysfunctional, wildly expensive. Basically insane.

This is how so much outsourcing works. It’s deranged some still defend this.

[Dr Susan Grey @SJG99]

It's truly pathetic the lengths the current Labour leadership will go to to prevent its members doing anything remotely left wing.

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

Kit Malthouse, a mainstream British *Conservative* MP:

"If that is what Ben-Gvir and his henchmen are willing to do to British and European citizens on camera, what does he think they are doing to Palestinians off camera?"

[Eva Karene Bartlett @EvaKBartlett]

Some background to this Israeli war crime:

The horrific account which this woman (whose name is yet not clear) describes--of a mass grave with 300 bodies of Palestinians, including small children, hands bound behind their backs, who were executed by Israeli soldiers--is likely from 2024.

What she reports is substantiated by reports from when the mass graves were found in 2024.

Israel has not allowed investigators into Gaza precisely because Israel is attempting to cover up its massive (and ongoing) war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza. Through the courageous reporting of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, as well as those aid workers/doctors who came to Gaza, Israel's war crimes have been widely exposed in spite of its efforts to the contrary.

"In April 2024, over seven months into Israel's genocidal onslaught on Gaza, Palestinian emergency workers in Gaza discovered several mass graves at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City... 

The Civil Defence in Gaza reported that nearly 400 bodies of women, men, children, and the elderly were buried in these graves. The bodies bore the marks of genocidal violence; some were discovered naked with their hands tied behind their backs, suggesting they were victims of extrajudicial executions; other bodies were severely mutilated, showing signs of torture, while still others had medical tubes attached, indicating that the Israeli military had also killed the wounded and sick. Even healthcare workers, still in their scrubs, were among the dead. Reports suggest that Israeli troops may have buried some Palestinians alive.

Following the initial discovery in April 2024, Palestinian emergency workers continue to uncover mass graves throughout the Gaza Strip, particularly around hospitals that the Israeli military besieged and violently attacked.

Approximately 140 mass graves have been identified since October 7, 2023, likely containing the remains of thousands of victims. Lacking forensic equipment, it is difficult for the emergency teams to investigate and document these graves."
https://t.co/KGuFZeHEov

Reported here, too, with photos: https://t.co/NnqWD0JXVp

Note:

In March 2025, in Rafah (southern Gaza), the Israeli army slaughtered 15 Palestinian medics/emergency workers (8 PRCS, 6 Civil Defense and 1 UN staff)--who were wearing uniforms and in their clearly marked vehicles (ambulances, fire truck, UN vehicle) with lights flashing--attempting to reach injured Palestinians. Israeli soldiers point-blank assassinated these Palestinian heroes, also tying their hands behind their backs and burying them in a mass grave after murdering them.
https://t.co/cLxYFzCTfp

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

If a non-jewish British citizen said that the pro-'israel' jewish lobby controls the police, government, media, national agenda, policies, and law—they are doxed, fired, and arrested.

Yet Campaign Against 'Antisemitism' boasts about it openly. And raises £1 million for it.

CAA is a de facto enforcement arm for 'israel' on British soil. And it does so while being granted charitable status. Receiving tax breaks. Gift Aid.

Meaning British taxpayers subsidise CAA's activities.

Our money literally funds their lobbying and legal action against us.

This is how emboldened these zionist political militias are in Britain.

This is why British sovereignty, national independence, and civil liberties are contingent upon shutting down the pro-'israel' lobby.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

We need an end to tinkering around the edges. The public have had enough of this rip off.

Andy Burnham must commit to taking water back into public ownership.