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Sharman Prince* retweeted
Once you start noticing that the British press keep framing new massive benefit cuts as a question of whether Labour MPs have the personal bravery to vote in favour of them, you can’t stop seeing it. Over and over, now.
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A hundred grand a year plus maybe three times that in expenses to sit there spouting decades old tabloid attack points about disabled and unemployed people while looking like she's got ring sting. How's that for value for the taxpayer's money?
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Some say "it was a different time" but there always people - primarily women - calling it out. But a particular coterie of protected celebrities just didn't give a shit.
Sharman Prince* retweeted
Speaking as a gay person I believe it’s this billionaire funding litigation that seeks to exclude trans people from civic spaces that is the biggest threat to gay rights for decades.
Sharman Prince* retweeted
Those who dismiss criticism of the BBC's coverage of Gaza and describe its bias as impartiality often forget that there's data. And it's unimpeachable.
The BBC Israel Would Say Files. The full results are in for both broadcast and articles.
Analysis of 267 broadcast interviews between October 2023 and October 2026:
- BBC presenters put Israel's case, in Israel's name, to guests criticising Israel's conduct in Gaza in 252 separate interviews.
- They put the Palestinian case, in its name, to guests defending Israel's conduct in 15.
- To better portray this disparity, our compilation of the BBC defending Israel in their own words now runs at 48 mins 12 secs. Our compilation of the BBC defending Palestinians in their own words runs at 2 mins 38 secs.
- The plainest form, “Israel would say”, was put to critics in 75 interviews. “Palestinians [or any Palestinian group] would say” was put to defenders in 4.
- 10 of the 15 Palestinian cases came in the first six weeks after 7 October 2023, and 5 in the three years after. Presenters were still putting Israel's case to critics in 2026.
- The above point suggests an editorial shift to stop conveying what Palestinians are saying, but to continue conveying what "Israel would say".
Analysis of 1,618 written articles, from October 2023 to October 2026:
- When an article reported criticism of Israel's conduct in Gaza, the BBC added Israel's position 49% of the time (1,771 of 3,648 claims).
- When an article reported Israel's claims, the BBC added a Palestinian or UN position 38% of the time (914 of 2,431). A Palestinian position alone: 25%.
- Put the two official sides side by side. When the authorities in Gaza made a claim against Israel, the BBC added Israel's position 58% of the time (334 of 575). When Israel's government or army made a claim, the BBC added a Palestinian or UN position 39% of the time (855 of 2,165).
- Article by article: 71% of the articles reporting criticism of Israel gave Israel's position at least once. 53% of the articles reporting Israel's claims gave a Palestinian or UN position.
- In other words, in almost half of the articles where Israel makes a claim, it goes completely uncontested.
The full report, including every single broadcast and article in the corpus, can be found here, completely free of charge: newscord.org/editorials/bbc-…
Sharman Prince* retweeted
Fucking Disgusting. And makes it even worse that not a Single UK Mainstream Broadcaster will ever hold them accountable for it. We're living in a Country that is willing to Compost the lot of us For Israel.
AJ EXCLUSIVE: The UK awarded £10.7m ($15m) in new public contracts to firms linked to illegal Israeli West Bank settlements, despite UK gov’t pledges to punish companies that profit from settlement activity, an Al Jazeera investigation reveals.
🔗: aje.news/99ct5z
Sharman Prince* retweeted
No, you control the access of aid, which according to the U.N. and aid agencies, you've been blocking for more than three years.
Sharman Prince* retweeted
This is winter in Gaza because Israel had blocked the entry of not just aid, but essentials for life.
Tents are not allowed in because the poles are considered dual use.
950k need new shelters. Hundreds of thousands are at high risk of flooding.
Palestinians in Gaza need life essentials to enter. This is collective punishment and a crime in intl law.
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Keep signing here: petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Today, our petition for a public inquiry into British complicity in genocide reached 100,000 signatures.
I have written to the Petitions Committee to ensure a parliamentary debate is arranged as soon as possible.
Well done to all those signatories who made this happen.
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BLOG: We Paid For The National Theatre: Now We Cant’t Afford To Go mrcarlwoodward.com/blog1/we-…
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Can't even get my head around how crass it is for Remembrance Sunday to be used by the mainstream media to do nothing but talk about their favourite subject: cutting billions in support from the most vulnerable people, to pay for American bombs, for use in illegal wars.
"We are at a moment when the enormous price of rebuilding our defences is causing politicians to hesitate."
Sunday Morning presenter @MarkUrban01 reflects on the state of defence spending ahead of Remembrance Sunday commemorations.
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📺 Sky 501
Sharman Prince* retweeted
We launched this petition 2 weeks ago.
Now, we are just 2,000 signatures away from forcing a debate in Parliament.
Will you be one of 100,000 who helped exposed the truth of Britain’s complicity in genocide?
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Has the the human race not invented secure, portable, quickly constructed housing?
🚨HORRIBLE: Around 70,000 displacement tents across Gaza have been flooded, leaving thousands of families exposed to the harsh elements.
Floodwaters have also damaged shops, cafés, streets, and already-damaged buildings sheltering displaced families, compounding the suffering caused by Israel’s genocidal war.
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“They have stolen my harvest and taken everything from us they’ve left us with absolutely nothing. They’ve destroyed our identity.”
A Palestinian grandfather cries after Zionist settlers destroyed his olive groves and stole the olives in Tulkarem (West Bank).
Sharman Prince* retweeted
Hope Britain’s anti-trans campaigners are proud of themselves!
They’ve succeeded in:
- creating a hostile environment for trans people
- having women with alopecia booted out of women’s toilets
- with no improvements in the lives of women
What a triumph!!
Gateshead woman with alopecia accused of being male while using female toilet at Tesco
chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor…
Sharman Prince* retweeted
So....over 20 AI Data Centres proposed for Scotland, you wonder why ? Well, Scotland has an abundance of water and electricity to keep these noisy giant structures fed.... far away from England who will reap the benefits....a bit like a nuclear submarine base actually.
Sharman Prince* retweeted
"Now you get all the Labour MPs saying.. Abdul El-Sayed is so good. You would have 100% blocked him"
Yep! @michaeljswalker remembers how El-Sayed was in the UK in 2019 campaigning for Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen. Who was subsequently blocked by the Labour right leadership.
Sharman Prince* retweeted
This is the worst idea anyone has ever had
Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.
Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.
The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.
Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.
This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.
A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.
“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”
Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵