cr: the witch by marie ndiaye 📖: 13/20
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but tell us more how you liking and buying and paying for the wizard stuff isn’t connected.
JK Rowling offers to legal funding to fight trans-inclusive NHS spaces thepinknews.com/2026/08/10/j…
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genuinely what the actual fuck. it shouldn't be acceptable for a national newspaper to be saying this kind of shit or using this kind of language.
Britain is crippled. More of us than ever before are disabled. One in four, at the last count. But it is a statistic so obviously at odds with reality that anyone with working eyesight should question it.
Instead, it has been adopted as fact by government, doctors, charities and benefits assessors.
This mass collapse in health – nearly four million more people describing themselves as disabled in the past decade – is driven, we are told, by genuinely worsening mental health and a surge in diagnoses of conditions such as ADHD and autism.
So vast is the problem that a government review last week found the sickness-welfare system 'not fit for purpose'.
No wonder, when the number of working-age Britons claiming disability benefits is rising faster than the estimated disabled population itself.
✍️ Michael Simmons
Article | spectator.com/article/shut-u…
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Accept no imitations.
To actually change our society for the better, we need to replace Labour.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Starmer calling Corbyn's Labour morally bankrupt in his resignation speech — from a man who defended collective punishment in Gaza, fed intelligence to Israeli génocidaires, and had activists trying to stop it arrested as terrorists. Not a decent man. An indecent sociopath.
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Hot take: you should be squeamish about making life worse for poor people.
This man will just continue to be the midwife of a Reform Government, just like Keir Starmer.
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham says he is "not squeamish" about cutting welfare spending
He says he wants to get more people into work through a ten-year plan which will also increase defence spending
[@thetimes]
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Is this not a terrorist attack then?
Imam's house in Bolton petrol bombed
Yesterday evening, the home of an imam in Bolton, identified as Moulana Hassan, was targeted in a petrol bomb attack.
No one was hurt in the attack but the Muslim community has been urged to remain vigilant.
The imam's brother wrote on social media: "We humbly request your duas for the safety, protection, and well-being of the family, as well as for the protection and safety of everyone in our communities.
"May Allah Ta'ala keep us all under His mercy and protection and safeguard us from all harm. Jazakumullahu Khayran. Aameen."
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Young disabled people will be left destitute if these plans come to fruition.
The irony is that politicians KNOW there aren't enough jobs out there for young people, disabled or not...so this is sheer cruelty.
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it is truly astonishing how anything happening in another country 100% of the time leads to “oh yeah? well what about me?” comments from americans
Today becomes the UK’s hottest day during May in recorded history at a high of 34.8C.
(bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1w24llv…)
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So about 15 years ago I attended the breast screening clinic as I had a lump that had appeared in my chest.
It turned out to be benign breast tissue growth (gyno) and nothing serious.
Weird how I, a cis man, was able to attend this kind of service, but trans women now can't.
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Andy Burnham voted for the Iraq War, an illegal war that killed over a million people.
As Health Secretary, he helped drive NHS privatisation.
He joined Labour Friends of Israel, opposed BDS as “spiteful”, praised Israel as a “democracy”, and called the Balfour Declaration “British values in action”. He is a Zionist.
Stop pretending he’s a radical alternative, he’s more of the same.
I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election.
I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics.
Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic.
Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures.
However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people.
Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place.
I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that.
Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again.
ENDS
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Nigel Farage has 5 houses.
Zack Polanski lives in a house share with 5 other people.
The media is trying to tell you Zack is the problem.
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this should be one of the biggest political scandals in modern british history, but the media is more interested in beating the migrant bashing drum, so it won’t be.
We've known this for over a year, but were not allowed to say it until today.
Our loved ones convicted of criminal damage in Elbit's weapons factory in Filton could be SENTENCED AS TERRORISTS.
The jury who convicted them had no idea.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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The UK public celebrates a genuine national treasure on his centenary, which coincides with a landslide of council votes for a political party that rejects net zero, wants to defund the institutions that Attenborough's life has enriched, and doesn't care about nature. Go figure.
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🎉HUGE GREEN WINS IN MANCHESTER!🎉
💚 Greens top the poll across the city, electing 18 Green Councillors.
🐝 We now have a total of 21 Green councillors on Manchester City Council.
ALT Local Elections 2026. 18 Councillors Elected in Manchester. Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ.