@AlbyEarley @Mr_Considerate The "single issue"(s) are also supposed to address groups like XR, the original concept was pushed by people like Woodcock.
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Chris S
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Chris S
@stylites_c
sic transit gloria mundi https://t.co/cGccNbAMco
London, England Katılım Nisan 2016
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@ireallyhateyou @therealrthorat How can he claim to be a historian if he ONLY trusts Zionist sources?
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"Jewish forces carried away 28 Arab inhabitants who were then burned alive with petrol."
Speaking of ceasefires: A British document from August 1948 refers to a massacre in the recently-occupied and uprooted Palestinian village of Al-Tira, Haifa, which took place during a truce.
A few weeks earlier (see quoted tweet), before the final occupation of Al-Tira (today the Jewish town of Tirat HaCarmel), the newly-founded State of Israel literally threatened the village's residents with a "Nakba", in what might be the first use of the Arabic term in reference to 1948.
Lorenzo Kamel@lorenzokamel
Constantine Zurayq mentioned "al-Nakba" (to describe the defeat of Arab nations) in his essay published in Aug. '48: the🇮🇱soldiers used al-Nakba to push Palestinians out of their home in July '48. Please stop repeating the bogus claim that Zurayq was the 1st one to use al-Nakba.
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Not that I pay special attention to this stuff, but this is a new term on me.
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@shuhu217927301 @EwanBen It can also be used as a means of tamping down on news coverage, again probably intended and an equally bad idea.
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patently ridiculous decision. it’s the military of a foreign state!
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: The UK Government has proscribed the IRGC as a terrorist organisation under the new National Security Act
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Knock knock
Who's there?
It's the new starter at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Joe Pike@joepike
EXCL: Former Makerfield MP Josh Simons will not take a job in Andy Burnham's administration, the BBC has been told. Simons, whose resignation as an MP cleared the way for Burnham's return to parliament, has been heavily involved policy preparations for the new administration. A Labour source has said Simons has decided to take a breather after Burnham's premiership begins on 20th July. Simons resigned as a minister in February amid questions over his leadership of the think tank Labour Together.
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looks very much like an overzealous subeditor imposing a certain interpretation on the raw material.
Tom Gann@Tom_Gann
Interesting shift in this story from “Russian communist literature and other items of political ideology” to “items of varying political ideology, including Russian material.” archive.ph/IPH74
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does he talk about getting de facto pulled as a candidate during the GE in this or not (he doesn't before the paywall kicks in).
The New Statesman@NewStatesman
Jovan Owusu-Nepaul: Nigel Farage doesn’t care about Clacton When I stood against him, I realised he had no interest in serving his “people” When we opposed each other in Clacton, I saw first-hand how he championed himself as a man of “the people”. His 2024 campaign, much like in the upcoming by-election, was to lead the charge against an “establishment” who had failed people in Clacton and elsewhere. Yet he conveniently overlooked the fact he had dismissed the existing local candidate in 2024 and imposed himself. Moreover, his parliamentary record has shown his opposition to worker protections, and he is committed to scrapping the Equality Act, which would harm many vulnerable members of his constituency. Yet his empty rhetoric has been honed over 20 years, and with an effective communications team, he has been able to persuade the people of Clacton to support him. @JOwusuNepaul newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…
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@yet_so_far Fair enough. I went through those copperplate books as a kid, and writing very neatly and significantly with very tiny letters seemed to be prized (then changed school system and ended up with inconsistent handwriting anyway)
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@stylites_c Not quite, we were allowed to print if we wanted, they just wanted me to write neater and prettier I still have no idea why.
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@yet_so_far Was it a schooling system that stressed copperplate and used those books where you traced the perfect letter shape?
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@jenuflexion It also makes it much harder to report from/about Iran.
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You have to assume the real reason for this is simply to save israel's graces and legally prevent people from pointing out the obvious, that iran won the recent war.
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar
BREAKING: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards will be effectively proscribed as a terrorist group, the home office has announced. Ministers are today laying draft regulations before parliament to ban the IRGC and fellow Iranian group the Islamic Movement of Companions of the Right (IMCR). The GRU, the Russian military intelligence unit, will also be designated, if approved by parliament.
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“Israel now believes it is successfully engaging in a final offensive to shatter the Palestinian community in East Jerusalem, to fragment and atomize it and transform it into a demographic reality with no political or national significance,” said the author Mouin Rabbani, “as in any other situation, cultural institutions are central and integral to sustaining communal life and providing it with its identity. This explains their targeting.”
I was interviewed by @HalaGorani for her @newlinesmag article on Israel's assault on Palestinian cultural life in Jerusalem.
newlinesmag.com/reportage/isra…
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@ThaRubyPrincess @Willibee64 Don't even think he necessarily liquidated it, the $3m valuation is based on the last (and only) round of funding (around $500K).
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@Willibee64 Honestly liquidating a failing startup at a 3m valuation seems like a pretty good strategy to me, nice pay day
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If his startup was actually worth 3mn he wouldn't have left it for a 200k job.
Lucy Fisher@LOS_Fisher
Meet the 22-year-old Harvard drop-out bringing AI to the public sector William Tarr is among 30 new ‘No 10 innovation fellows’ on ‘tours of duty’ - and salaries of up to £200k - on Whitehall Last summer he was living in San Francisco running his $3 mn-valued start-up when he spotted a maths puzzle placed in the @FT by the Cabinet Office as part of a talent search... By autumn, he’d moved back to the UK and was building bespoke AI solutions for HMP Elmley on the Isle of Sheppey He’s joined the ranks of data scientists and engineers introducing cutting-edge tech to Whitehall and beyond My dispatch 👇 ft.com/content/4df509…
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@bat020 @Ken_Stonger The implication is that Starmer was freelancing and deliberately trying to collapse the talks for his own purposes.
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he's lost the whip because of his (mild) criticisms of Israel btw. cannot abide the guy but that is what is twisting their melons about him.
James Heale@JAHeale
Gavin Barwell has lost the Conservative whip. Party sources keen to emphasise it’s not just about views but conduct too Letter from Baroness Williams, the party’s Chief Whip in the Lords, reads as follows:
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@Ken_Stonger @bat020 More likely with Burnham than Starmer, since he more or less accused Starmer of being underhand and lying in his book.
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@bat020 He's been itching to cross the floor to Labour for ages, wonder if he still will with Burnham in charge
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@ACSpinner @flying_rodent A $3m valuation is tiny, chances are he returned to the UK because he failed to raise further funding.
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@flying_rodent His $3m start up he left to work in UK gov?
Riiiiiight
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@GayTory @alansritchie @Michael57788258 Not debunking the theory that most people talking about ‘public sector productivity’ are cranks.
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So you worked with loads of good people, but none of them appear to know how productivity is measured?
Not all jobs in the private sector are the same.
Every economist will tell you public sector productivity is the drag on our economy. Even the French have better productivity than us, and they work fewer hours.
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Why don’t we remove all defined benefit pension rights from all public sector workers, including those that’ve retired, and put them into the same position they would’ve been if they’d have had been in a money purchase scheme invested in a balanced fund from the date they started saving….on average employer contributions in the private sector.
Jonathan Hinder MP@Jonathan_Hinder
The Right’s response to a wealth tax is always “but it won’t work!” What I find interesting is that there is rarely an attempt to argue against it on moral grounds, because they know most people find such wealth inequality utterly grotesque. There is overwhelming public support for doing something about this - I mean, LOOK at that polling👇👀 So, why don’t we crack on with the most effective and practicable ideas? We know that a proportional property tax, while a bit less flashy, actually works, so let’s start there! @FairerShare
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Here you go.
The last dying kicks of this corrupted, authoritarian government.
This is being done under the State Threats Bill that Mahmood and allies like Luke Akehurst pushed through Parliament in the last month. This is going to have wild, unpredictable effects. Practically what it will mean is that it will be almost impossible for media outlets to work with on- the-ground journalists to report on Iran, Gaza or Lebanon.
But I fear this will also be turned on the movement protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Don't believe me? Just days ago NGO Monitor produced a wild-eyed report, endorsed by Lord Walney and Michael Gove, that paints the huge public protests in the UK against Israel's genocide as the work of an international campaign linked to nefarious foreign actors. The report urged the IRGC to be proscribed.
Proscribing the IRGC is one of the most consistent and powerful demands of the Board of Deputies and other pro-Israel organisations.
Deeply chilling, authoritarian, irresponsible stuff. Mahmood and the Labour Together project have waged a vicious war on our democracy and basic civil liberties.
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar
BREAKING: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards will be effectively proscribed as a terrorist group, the home office has announced. Ministers are today laying draft regulations before parliament to ban the IRGC and fellow Iranian group the Islamic Movement of Companions of the Right (IMCR). The GRU, the Russian military intelligence unit, will also be designated, if approved by parliament.
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@JosephKBennett @Leftwood Sure, that's how they'll cope, but in the meantime they are a block on a proper environmental policy.
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@stylites_c @Leftwood They’ll just do grouse shooting on totally barren dust-dry moors and keep them in cages, fed on soy pellets
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@JosephKBennett @Leftwood and creating artificial ecosystems to support grouse and so on.
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@Leftwood U.K. agriculture is funny because we saw the pending risks in the tropics, decided to get 85% of our grain and feed from there with no plan b or diversification, and manage our own land strictly in the interests of tax breaks and glamping fields
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