Must watch, Caroline Lucas on Newsnight
First she sheds Keir Starmer citing his criticism of the Conservatives for cutting the foreign aid budget, now doing the same himself
Then she sheds Matthew Syed who spews the usual 'the rich will leave if we tax their wealth' nonsense
Crucially, Lucas asks why the 'tough decisions' are to make the poorer and more in need worse off, and why the 'tough decision' is not a wealth tax on the rich
Labour's refusal to tax the rich is going to come and bite them in the rear
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7 people who committed horrific sexual abuse of children in a Glasgow drug den are given life sentences.
So are we assembling mobs to burn down churches or is that not the energy we’re going for here?
Exceptional expose by Channel 5 on Michelle Mone and PPE MEDPRO
Jo Maughan, "Why was government buying from this new company with no assets, no record of selling anything let alone PPE?"
Anna Gross, "Within 2 months of registering it's awarded £200 million in government contracts"
Nadine Dorries, "At the time nurses were cutting up bin bangs in order to protect themselves, she was coining it in, using her contacts to get PPE contracts"
Laura Kuenssberg, "You had lawyers telling the public you had nothing to do with the company"
Michelle Mone, "That's something we regret doing, we were listening to our advisers.. I can't see what we've done wrong"
"Your channel refers to Palestinians as prisoners, even the children arrested without trial, & the Israelis as hostages, is again a racialised othering of Palestinians that has allowed the genocide to happen for 15 months"
@GhassanAbuSitt1 yesterday
To be clear, it's not some antisemitic conspiracy theory that US lawmakers voted to ban TikTok in order to shut down criticism of Israel among young people. They openly admitted that this was in fact what they were doing.
48 people are still in custody and MPs are being questioned by police for participating in peaceful protest. A real line has been crossed here. This need to be fought be everyone who believes in free speech.
The Palestinians that were released today were women and CHILDREN. Israel is an occupying force that regularly detains children and holds Palestinians without charge, but they’re never called hostages. The difference in language is by design.
🇮🇱: Hostages 🇵🇸: Prisoners
Western journalists will soon flood into Gaza. Many will report the appalling conditions they find there as a revelation.
Don’t be fooled. At Al Jazeera we have been laying bare the full horror all along. “Nobody can say they didn’t know.”
https://t.co/BR56BK8b8b
Jess Philips is a committed and caring minister, and you, sir, are a toxic gonad. The UK is not your plaything, wealth doesn’t exempt you from international law, and owning X doesn’t give you license to poison the discourse of any country whose government you disagree with.
Why is it always 'What are Arabs doing outside of Arabia?' and 'What are Africans doing outside of Africa?' and never 'What are white people doing outside of Europe?'