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Remind me again where all the available jobs are that disabled people are just choosing not to do. Oh?

Joint Statement: Paul Holden and Andrew Feinstein Regarding Labour Together, APCO and the Labour Party On Wednesday last week we received documents from Labour Together following Subject Access Requests that we submitted to Labour Together in February 2026. The documents provided by Labour Together are deeply disturbing. They show that Labour Together and APCO targeted us, our colleagues, our associates and Paul’s family with utterly false and highly defamatory allegations, and that this was done with the knowledge of the highest levels of the Labour Party. Indeed, we are now of the view that the operation to investigate us, our families and associates was effectively a joint operation run by the Labour Party, Labour Together and APCO. This highly invasive campaign was launched because of Paul’s factually accurate reporting. This reporting raised serious questions about whether Labour Together and Morgan McSweeney deliberately failed to report £730,000 in donations to the Electoral Commission in violation of the law. It is now plain that Sir Keir Starmer benefited from the work funded by these donations and that they facilitated his rise to power. We are calling for a full inquiry into Labour Together. We also call on Sir Keir Starmer to clarify his role in this scandal. Considering the documents that have been disclosed to date, we find it nearly inconceivable that Sir Keir Starmer did not know about this despicable project that included Labour Together reporting us to the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), a part of GCHQ, based on utterly false and highly defamatory allegations. These highly defamatory allegations were then shared with at least one major newspaper outlet. The newly released documents reveal six important facts. First, they show that Morgan McSweeney and Paul Ovenden were aware of the APCO and Labour Together investigation into us from at least January 2024. McSweeney was the Labour Party’s head of campaigns and subsequently Sir Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff in Number 10. Paul Ovenden was the Director of Labour Party communications and subsequently Head of Strategy in Number 10. The emails show Simons arranging a meeting between himself, Ovenden, McSweeney and Tom Harper, a senior APCO employee, to discuss the investigation into us. A third Labour employee was copied into the email, but, because of redactions, we do not know who this is. We ask the Labour Party to confirm who else was copied into this correspondence. The excellent @PeterKGeoghegan and Democracy for Sale have confirmed with a Labour Party source that the intended meeting did take place. Second, they show that APCO’s Tom Harper actively coached Josh Simons and Labour Together on how to submit a ‘crime complaint’ about us to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ. Harper provided text for Simons to submit to the NCSC. The decision to complain about us to the NCSC was made only days after Simons had emailed McSweeney, Ovenden and Harper about APCO’s upcoming report into us, asking for a meeting to discuss its contents. Third, Josh Simons has repeatedly claimed in public that he appointed APCO to investigate a ‘hack’ of Labour Together materials. But the new documents show that Labour Together and Simons did not conduct any meaningful cybersecurity review to establish whether materials had been hacked from Labour Together, or where else they may have been sourced from. Labour Together did, however, appoint a cybersecurity expert to review a potential hack in late 2025. This review, a summary of which has now been disclosed to us, shows that there was no ‘hack’ of Labour Together. This is obviously true, as we have repeatedly explained that the investigation into Labour Together was based on documents legally leaked from the Labour Party by whistleblowers concerned about misconduct by the Party’s most senior officials, open-source materials, and Freedom of Information requests. … 1/2

The #Corran ferry, MV Maid of Glencoul, photographed on this day in 1993 [photo: Ken MacKenzie / @HighlandCouncil]

EXCLUSIVE: The UK Government has been told to intervene 'as a matter of urgency' after Israel kidnapped a number of UK activists while sailing in international waters on a historic aid mission to Gaza Hughie Stirling, 68, from Ullapool is among those detained by Israel

France and Italy have summoned the Israeli ambassadors over this utterly appalling footage. While other countries rightly express outrage, the UK remains silent. 15 of their own citizens are in this horrific video 👇

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🟡 UPDATE: Edinburgh to Dunblane services will start and terminate at Falkirk Grahamston. Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh services will start and terminate at Linlithgow. Passengers travelling to Glasgow should board Glasgow Central services where possible.

Andy Burnham is a liar he won’t nationalise fck all Labour are a corporate machine owned by the rich They won’t nationalise fck all

First Minister John Swinney has appointed his new Cabinet. gov.scot/news/first-min…

Le immagini del ministro israeliano Ben Gvir sono inaccettabili. È inammissibile che questi manifestanti, fra cui molti cittadini italiani, vengano sottoposti a questo trattamento lesivo della dignità della persona. Il Governo italiano sta immediatamente compiendo, ai più alti livelli istituzionali, tutti i passi necessari per ottenere la liberazione immediata dei cittadini italiani coinvolti. L’Italia pretende inoltre le scuse per il trattamento riservato a questi manifestanti e per il totale disprezzo dimostrato nei confronti delle esplicite richieste del Governo italiano. Per questi motivi, il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale convocherà immediatamente l’ambasciatore israeliano per chiedere chiarimenti formali su quanto accaduto.

Food is a human right. It's not a commodity.

✍️ I have signed EDM 80 marking 78 years since the Nakba and recognising the ongoing oppression faced by Palestinians. The UK Government must impose meaningful sanctions to end their complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation of Gaza. 🇵🇸

'The Tail of the Bank' an undated watercolour by Frank Henry Mason (1876-1965). Mason was an etcher, illustrator and poster designer and marine painter working in oil and watercolour. He spent time at sea and in the shipbuilding industry in the Northeast of England. Mason

But when Swinney had a call with Starmer & said he would discuss independence Westminster were quick to deny it saying no such thing was said Well I guess we have our answer as to who was telling the truth Clue - Not Westminster

As @BBCScotlandNews and the unionist media obsess about ferries, this is the real scandal - which Scottish taxpayers have to cough up for.

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The think tanks that shaped disability cuts were outfits like the Centre for Social Justice and Reform, built to justify sanctions, conditionality and harsher assessments, while groups fighting for disabled people such as DRUK, Inclusion London and JRF are left underfunded.

Reports that the Government plans to slash planned doctor numbers and rely on AI are a massive, dangerous gamble. "It is crushingly disappointing to see Government apparently planning to simply accept that the low number of doctors we have in this country is just a fact of life." says Amit Kochhar, BMA workforce lead. Find out more bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…

The US Secretary of State repeats his mendacious script and attempts to blame the #Cuban government for the ruthless damage caused by the #US government to the Cuban people. He is the spokesperson of the corrupt and revanchist interests concentrated in South Florida which do not represent the feelings of the majority of the US people or the Cubans who live there. He keeps on talking about a 100 million dollars' assistance that Cuba has not refused. His cynicism is evident to anyone when it comes to the devastating effects of the economic blockade and the energy siege. He takes the occasion of the nefarious date of May 20, which marked the neocolonial period for Cuba as an appendix to the US government, which the top US diplomat intends Cuba to go back to. The neocolonial Cuba and the Platt amendment are bygones. Independence and sovereignty are the future.