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[Covie @covie_93]

A FIFA referee has spent more time in federal custody for being Somali than anybody on epstein's list who raped kids.

[Reece Dinsdale @reece_dinsdale]

A word in your ear, Mr Trump and America.
Don’t ask to host a World Cup if you are not prepared to welcome with equality and open arms all the countries who have qualified fairly & squarely for it, and who have every right to be part of it. https://t.co/ZOuk1QsS6f

[Βυρωνας-- CENSORED @Brnas05576799]

There's only one thing I find more appaling than the discriminatory treatment of the Iranian football team by the US in the upcoming World Cup 2026 and it isn't that corrupt FIFA allows it. It's the collective silence of 47 other nations that are participating.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

This is a reminder that supermarkets made £230,000,000,000 last year, making £12,000,000,000 for shareholders

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The UK is spending £369m refurbishing Buckingham Palace for King Charles, who has £22bn and gets £500m more a year.

He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country.

[thistle21 @thistle211]

@Royal_Greenwich Thanks have sent DM

[thistle21 @thistle211]

@Royal_Greenwich morning team. I paid for a bulky waste collection but the cabin bed was not collected, only the sofa suite. It's too big to go in car, can you rearrange please. Contact page on website down hence on here.

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

Minimum wage in the UK should be £19.65 an hour and here's the proof.

In 2005 minimum wage was £5.05 and a Freddo cost 10p. That meant one hour of work got you 50 Freddos.

Fast forward to 2026, minimum wage is £12.71 and a Freddo is 39p. Now one hour of work gets you about 32 of them.

That's roughly a 152% rise in pay... but a 290% rise in frog-shaped chocolate bars.

If wages had actually kept up with the price of Freddos, minimum wage would be closer to £19.65 an hour.

The economy's in bits and yes, I'm measuring it in chocolate frogs. But it says something. Because this isn't really about Freddo's, it's about the fact that you can work full time and still feel like you're going backwards, because everything around you is rising faster than your pay.

We're honestly done at this point and something needs to change.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

I think that 35 hours work a week should not only pay the rent and put food on the table, but leave you enough over for the odd night out and an annual holiday. And if that belief makes me an economically illiterate leftwing extremist, so be it.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.

When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.

They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.

In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.

The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.

We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell. An activist exposes the UK legal system's terrifying descent into authoritarianism to protect Israeli arms factories.

The judge literally banned defendants from mentioning genocide and secretly reserved the right to sentence them as terrorists.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Britain is a place where a Prime Minister who has lost his authority and who everyone hates is trying to ram through legislation (outlined in the King’s Speech) on something that no one voted for, no one needs and no one wants - digital ID. Absolutely disgraceful abuse of power.

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

On behalf of their client, Zara Sultana, Bindmans Media and Information Law Practise Group requires that I publish the following statement on X, and that such statement must be clearly visible and pinned to my
profile for a continuous period of no less than 24 hours:

“On 30 March 2026, I published a post on my X account addressed to Zarah Sultana in which I stated that she encourages and incites violence and is friends with terrorists.

Those statements are false. I was wrong and offer my sincere apologies to Ms Sultana for the harm and distress caused to her.”

It is my very great pleasure to do this, and I reiterate my sincere and repeated offer to meet with Miss Zara Sultana in person to resolve our differences.

[Sonny @rawespresso]

The UK personal allowance has been frozen at £12,570 since April 2021.

That's the bit of your salary you keep before HMRC starts taking 20% off everything above it.

In 2021, £12,570 was a reasonable tax-free bracket. Inflation since then has been roughly 25% cumulative, and the price of basically everything you actually spend money on has gone up — energy, rent, food, council tax, fuel.

If the personal allowance had simply tracked inflation, it would now be closer to £15,700.

Instead, the threshold sits exactly where it did when Sunak set it five years ago, and is locked there until 2030.

The cost shows up everywhere except on your payslip. Every shop, every bill, every bit of your monthly budget feels tighter — while the threshold that's supposed to protect the first slice of your wages from tax just sits there at 2021 levels.

The official line is that they 'haven't raised taxes.' They haven't needed to. Inflation does the job for them, every single year, until 2030.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

True 😂

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The Prime Minister says his government has got "the big political decisions right". Let's go through them.

The government chose to cut welfare so it could spend even more on weapons and war.

The government chose to demonise the sick and disabled.

The government chose to keep children in poverty until it was dragged kicking and screaming to finally scrap the two-child benefit cap.

The government chose not to bring water into public ownership, not to tax wealth and not to implement rent controls.

The government chose to arm Israel and participate in genocide.

The government chose to let the US use British air bases for its war crimes in Iran.

The government chose to let Palantir get its hands on our NHS.

The government chose to scapegoat migrants and refugees for its own failures.

Poverty, inequality and genocide. Those are the government's big decisions. And that is how this government will be remembered.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We learned from COVID 19 that oil is worthless in a society without consumption, healthcare has to be public because health is public, 50% of jobs can be done from home while the other 50% deserve more than they're being paid, and that we live in a society, not an economy.

[Adnan A. Husain @adnanahusain]

One part of the travesty of the Filton 6 actionists’ trial and retrial that has received less attention but is very important: Rajiv Menon, King’s Council, barrister for a member of the Filton 6, is being persecuted on a wholly unprecedented charge of contempt of court, carrying a punishment of up to two years imprisonment, for mentioning legal history and principles of law that allow juries to make independent decisions on conscience that Judge Johnson ruled out.

In the first trial’s closing statement to the jury, Menon pointed out the case that established this principle from 1670 and quoted the public plaque outside the Old Bailey (the central court in London) commemorating the case. He also reminded the jurors six times that the judge could not direct them to convict. The jury exonerated all the defendants in that first trial. Now they have been retried and convicted on some charges.

It sounds like Rajiv Menon is being punished for being extremely good at his job and for explaining the actual law relevant to the rights of the jury that this establishment judge close to the UK police and security services unethically suppressed to secure a political conviction to protect Elbit Systems. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Judge Johnson set up the rules and judgments precisely to engineer a conviction to circumvent the propensity of juries to acquit actionists. Then he plans to sentence them under extremely harsh terrorism laws by manipulating unjustly what jurors could know. Rajiv Menon initially disrupted that plan in the first trial. So now the judge and state are going after him.

We must support Rajiv Menon, a fantastic and principled barrister, and the actionists against the UK state’s punitive crackdown on those using democratic rights to protest and stop the Israeli arms industry from facilitating war crimes, illegal occupation and genocide. The corrupt and complicit political establishment in the UK has shown themselves willing to evacuate rights to free speech and assembly, jury trials, press freedom and a host of democratic rights for all citizens simply to protect Israel’s impunity and their own complicity in the genocide.

Support Rajiv Menon for defending pro-Palestine actionists and condemn what the UK courts and injustice system have done to jury trials and democratic rights!

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer.
In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll.
We won because the Tories imploded in 2024.

[MusicaCallada @musica_callada]

@AngelaRayner Angela, you're a govt with a 170-seat majority.

You could have nationalised and price capped utilities, capped rents, increased the NMW to a liveable level.

Instead, you've cut benefits, backed a genocide and smeared anyone who objects as a racist.

That is why Labour is dead.