Woah! Watch every minute of this. AMAZING undercover reporting from inside Reform.
Huge kudos to new investigative kids on the block, @Verbatim_Media via @Channel4News.
https://t.co/mnHeHeaa3H
As Arundhati Roy said, what is under the rubble in Gaza is not only the bodies of countless Palestinians killed by Israel, but also the carcass of Western Liberal Democracy...
Israel has said that paper kites flown by Palestinian children will be treated as weapons of war.
Read that again.
This is the reality of genocide: the total destruction of innocence, freedom and joy.
End all military cooperation with Israel, now.
The guy who delightedly claimed to bring down Jason Arday, Nathan Cofnas, had his own work demolished as “unintelligible, wrong-headed …nonsensical” by nine more senior academics two years before Cambridge appointed him. He has argued that universities like Cambridge would have virtually zero Black professors if appointed solely on merit (which, funnily enough, is more or less what the supposedly ‘woke” Cambridge in fact has). He argues that Black people can only excel in sport and entertainment. A strangely under-covered aspect of this sad story https://t.co/rZ40w2dzvO
The Good Law Project - undeniably a force for good in these hateful times - was helping Jason Arday after his character assasination. Very moving statement by Jolyon Maugham . @GoodLawProject
The term “witch hunt” is overused in politics. Perhaps not this time. Quite a bit of the British media should ask themselves some serious questions as to whether the tenor and volume of the coverage they gave to this man was remotely proportionate. Likewise there are questions for Cambridge- and whether they discharged their duty of care.
Professor Jason Arday was subjected to intense, disproportionate and intrusive media attention over the past week. There can be no doubt that the behaviour of some in certain corners the British media have contributed to today’s tragic events and his untimely death.
The need for urgent media reform and a continuation of the Leveson Inquiry remains as stark today as it was following Hillsborough disaster, phone-hacking scandal and other failures in journalistic culture.
We continue to call for further accountability in the British press — and justice for all who it fails.
Half of England is in drought. 40% of us are under a hosepipe ban. Here’s what the water companies did with the 35 years they were given:
💧 2.87 billion litres leaked every single day. Nearly one in five litres put into supply, lost.
💧 A national hosepipe ban saves about 577 million litres a day. Five times less than they leak. They ration us to cover their own failure.
💧 25 reservoirs sold off. Not one major new reservoir built since 1992.
💧 England faces a 5 billion litre a day shortfall in public water supply by 2055.
💧 £85 billion paid out in dividends since privatisation.
💧 £0 of debt in 1989. Over £70 billion now. Borrowed against your bills, to pay their shareholders.
💧 Almost a third of your bill goes on servicing that debt and paying dividends. Not on pipes.
💧 Thames Water took a £3 billion rescue loan at 9.75% interest. You pay for that too.
💧 £25.3 million in pay for chief executives and finance directors last year, up on the year before, despite a bonus ban. Thames handed £4.1 million to senior staff the ban didn’t cover.
They didn’t fail to fix the pipes because it was hard. They didn’t fix them because leaking is cheaper than investing, and the money got pissed away to the assorted circus of vulture capital.
We don’t need better regulation of them. We don’t need tighter control of them. We need to own it.
Public ownership. Nothing less.
50,000 Moroccans enter Ceuta, the Spanish-administered area in Morocco
Virtually ALL return home within 24 hours & rest today
Anti-migrant & anti-Spanish voices have exactly the narrative they wanted
Whoever set out to inflame tensions,it's hard to imagine a more effective script
Trump, Netanyahu, Musk, Meloni, Abascal, Feijóo, Ayuso contra Pedro Sánchez.
La extrema derecha mundial no soporta que un gobierno de izquierdas les plante cara con políticas que combinan el crecimiento económico, la igualdad social, el éxito deportivo y los derechos humanos.
Pedro Sánchez has just delivered a huge reality check to Italy after its government floated the idea of closing the Schengen border to Spain over the migration crisis in Ceuta.
Irregular arrivals to the EU between 2021 and 2026:
Italy: 478,600
Spain: 234,760
La solidaridad y la empatía son opcionales.
El respeto a los tratados europeos y a los datos, no.
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Número de entradas irregulares entre 2021 y 2026 según Frontex:
Por Italia: 478.600
Por los Balcanes occidentales: 340.600
Por Grecia: 259.800
Por España: 234.760
Por la frontera oriental: 48.000
No es tiempo de dividir. Es tiempo de seguir construyendo una UE fuerte y unida.
Analysts at Israel-funded think tanks argued back in April that Israel should help Morocco take over Ceuta in order to punish Spain
https://t.co/VkV4Gx2qpP