Boris Long 💙

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

[Zeteo UK @zeteouk]

👏 🇬🇧 Zeteo UK is here to disrupt Britain’s broken media! We’ll be bringing fearless, independent journalism to the UK - no bowing to political pressure, no corporate interests, just fearless journalism.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Tory legacy

England social housing lists ‘would take 119 years to clear at current building rate’.

1.3m households waiting, 12198 built.

Govts prevented councils from building social homes to support private developers, push people into private renting.
https://t.co/hJwNvb7BXM

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Well said sir, tip of the hat. 👏👏👏

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

JERSEY JAILED THE MAN WHO TRIED TO SAVE ITS CHILDREN

Stuart Syvret @StuartSyvret was Jersey's Health Minister. In 2007 he started asking uncomfortable questions about what was happening to children in the island's care homes. He said he was sacked for whistleblowing. Jersey said he was sacked for his behaviour.

That's the kind of framing you get when the institution decides the story.

Syvret had been collecting his own evidence since 2006. In May 2008 he made a formal complaint to police claiming senior civil servants had perverted the course of justice by covering up abuse in care homes.

So what happened to him? His house was raided. His computers and papers were taken. He was hit with a superinjunction, a secret gag order that was later exposed by UK Parliament, and imprisoned three times in connection with his efforts to expose what he described as horrific crimes across the island.

The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry eventually confirmed that children in care on the island endured 553 offences between 1947 and 2004. Most occurred at the notorious Haut de la Garenne children's home. The inquiry concluded that survivors were left with devastating and life-long consequences.

A constant theme in the inquiry report was the "Jersey Way" - a culture of ignoring and downplaying uncomfortable issues, which allowed abuse to continue without full investigation.

One UK judge called Syvret "a thorn in the side of the Jersey establishment." A Liberal Democrat MP accused Jersey's judiciary of misusing the Data Protection Act to silence critics.

Syvret eventually left Jersey fearing for his life, having received death threats for years. He ended up in an undisclosed location in the United States.

His conclusion, years later: the obstructions to the original police investigation were "astonishing." And those who blew the whistle paid the price while the system stayed intact.

Think about that. The man who raised the alarm about child abuse on a British Crown Dependency got jailed, gagged, and exiled.

If this case matters to you, share it. These children deserved better than this.

Sources: @BBCJersey @BBCNews @JEPnews @guardian

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

UK universities are being killed by deliberately designed neoliberal government policy. https://t.co/dJCadWsbLb

[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