Miss Spectacles
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Miss Spectacles
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Waiting for Thor

Today, the UK convened representatives from more than 40 countries to discuss the Strait of Hormuz, and the urgent need to restore freedom of navigation for international shipping, and see the Strait reopened once more.

🙌 Fantastic news - Labour is abolishing the two child benefit cap. It received Royal Assent today . 2,550 children in Putney will be lifted out of poverty changing lives, families and communities.

Minimum wage rising 📈 State pension increasing 💷 Two child limit abolished 🏡 Child poverty falling 📉 Rights at work strengthened 💪🏻 Labour promised change. We are delivering change. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Absolutely fantastic day out campaigning in Gipton and Harehills, thanks to everyone that came out to help. Our community has been failed by the Labour Council, we finally have a credible alternative. For change, for hope, VOTE GREEN 💚

He's not going to get a free run anymore, Farage and his band of scam artists are going to be challenged at every step, there is now a credible opposition to the far right! join.greenparty.org.uk

From tomorrow, Labour is scrapping the two-child benefit cap, benefiting 69,270 children in Wales.


The window to avert a massive global hunger crisis is rapidly closing. Must-read from the @guardian on the food security timebomb that will go off if fertiliser cannot pass through the Strait of Hormuz: theguardian.com/world/2026/apr…





Labour is bringing workers’ rights into the modern age. Reform would drag Britain backwards. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…



In London 🇬🇧, a theatre event featuring a play about LGBTQ+ Palestinians 🇵🇸 was disrupted by Free Palestine protestors. The play "Sharif" explores the experiences of LGBTQ+ Palestinians who flee to Israel to escape persecution, drawing on real-life testimonies and years of research. The Q&A that followed the reading with the creative team became hostile, as protestors made antisemitic comments and the audience left in response.

