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His name is Saleh Mohammadi, 19 years old wrestler. He was hanged today in Iran for the crime of protesting in last January and demanding💔

Donald Trump has admitted that he bombed Iran “out of habit.” Our government has given this man permission to use our bases for an illegal, unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression. End British complicity — and stop bombing Iran.

Will be the first Prime Minister that the UK has had since 1979 that isn't controlled by Rupert Murdoch. Which apparently makes many people very angry.

A couple and their 5 and 7 year old kids… Shot and killed in front of their 2 other kids by the IDF This would be on every front page and condemned by politicians far and wide if the victims has been Israelis And yet when they’re Palestinians… Utterly utterly shameful.

Since the liberation of Cuba in 1959 from US imperialism. The USA has bombed 25 countries, invaded 13 countries and killed at least 20m people. The 'evil' Cuba has bombed no one, invaded no one, and killed no one. ¡Viva Cuba!

In January BBC News provided 37 minutes of live coverage of a Reform press conference (12 minutes and then 25 minutes). @ZackPolanski has done a press conference for the Greens this morning, & never mind any live coverage, I haven't even see it mentioned!

😆😆😆 #archaeohistories

Iran has asked FIFA to move its World Cup matches to Mexico after Donald Trump said the Iranian team would not be safe in the USA. FIFA appears to have refused their request. The World Cup needs to be removed from the USA, let Mexico and Canada host it alone.

The right wing papers are saying the pension age needs to be raised to 75. I counter, the number of billionaires needs to be reduced to 0. That will affect 0.00006% of people, and they will still be far too rich. But it will pay for pensions, healthcare, housing and much more.

Richard Tice said that Angela Raynor should resign over £40,000 of stamp duty. Today it is revealed that the same man has avoided £600,000 of corporation tax. Should he resign? Or is it one rule for posh blokes and another for working class women?

Attention BBC and Daily Mail newsdesks. It is being reliably reported that Reform UK MP Richard Tice dodged a £600,000 tax bill. Where's the media coverage?

Reform voters spent months raging about Angela Rayner’s tax affairs, calling it corruption and demanding investigations. Now questions are raised about Richard Tice and suddenly it’s “a witch hunt” and “media bias”. Same issue. Very different outrage.

Here we have Reform Richard Tice. He believes in reimposing the cruel two-child benefit cap. Willingly innocent children back into abject poverty. Happy for said children to starve. Whilst he avoids paying a staggering £600,000 in Tax. Tice = morally bankrupt. #bbclaurak

Richard Tice must explain himself immediately.

Isabel Oakeshott moved to Dubai to avoid paying VAT on private school fees. Richard Tice avoided £600K in corporation tax. The Temu George and Mildred are a pair of brazen, unpatriotic ninnies. #Taxes #HMRC

Since privatisation water companies have taken more than £85billion in dividend and piled up more than £60billion of debt. Yet all capital and operational costs are covered by bill payers. So why keep a privatised structure for a natural monopoly like water?

In 1348, the Black Death reached England. By 1350, somewhere between a third and a half of the English population was dead. What happened next was, from the perspective of the English nobility, a disaster that had nothing to do with plague. Labour was suddenly catastrophically scarce. Peasants who had survived the decimation found themselves in possession of something they had never previously held: leverage. Lords needed workers to bring in harvests, to tend livestock, to maintain estates. Workers could demand pay. They could demand conditions. They could, in the chaos that followed, demand food. And what they demanded, when they had the power to demand it, was meat. The historical record here is specific and striking. Post-plague wage contracts from the 1350s and 1360s frequently include food provisions as part of the payment, and the food provisions include meat. Fresh meat. Multiple times per week. Not the feast-day and harvest-time access that had previously defined peasant protein consumption. Regular, weekly, contractual meat. Within a generation of gaining access to adequate animal protein, the skeletal record shows measurable change. Average height among the labouring classes increases. Bone density improves. The markers of chronic nutritional deficiency that define pre-plague peasant remains begin to appear less frequently. A well-fed labouring class is a productive labouring class, which is good. It is also, however, a physically capable labouring class, which is rather more complicated. The English nobility was alarmed. In 1349, Parliament passed the Statute of Labourers, attempting to freeze wages at pre-plague levels and prevent workers from demanding "excessive" compensation. The Statute was widely ignored because the economic reality overwhelmed the legal intention. Labour remained scarce. Workers remained able to negotiate. The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 brought a well-fed army of common people to the gates of London. They burned the Savoy Palace. They beheaded the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord High Treasurer. They presented a list of demands to Richard II that included the abolition of serfdom and free access to the land. Richard, who was fourteen years old, rode out to meet them at Smithfield. His advisors had the rebel leader Wat Tyler killed during the negotiations. The revolt was suppressed. The lesson the ruling class drew was not that they should keep feeding people adequately. The lesson they drew was that they should never again allow the conditions that had produced an adequately fed peasantry. The Forest Laws tightened. Sumptuary legislation was introduced: laws dictating what foods the lower orders were permitted to consume, framed in the language of moral propriety. Religious fasting requirements were enforced more rigorously. The experiment in meat equity lasted approximately thirty years. The nobility shut it down as quickly as they were able. The Peasants' Revolt is taught as a failed rebellion. It might more accurately be taught as proof of what happens when you feed people properly.

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The truth about Donald Trump is that he should have been in prison decades ago. Fraud, Epstein Island, disappearing wives. The problem isn't just American politics, it's America. The criminals are in charge.