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“The faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.”
#UK #Starmer #neoliberaism #fascism
Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that’s the price of protest in Britain today
It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissent, says Guardian columnist George Monbiotinkl
#Trump says he will charge the #UK a 10% #tariff. Remarkable, since the US runs a #trade surplus w/Britain, it’s a close ally & the country has been trying to negotiate a trade deal w/Trump.
Trump says he will also establish a “universal baseline tariff” of 10% that will apply to ALL COUNTRIES, in ADDITION to the numbers he’s already announced. That means a country like China will face a 44% tariff on top of the 20% already imposed.
#RevengePolitics #economy #inflation #recession #geopolitics
82% of #UK citizens 🇬🇧 want public ownership – let’s make it happen! 💪
#Water is essential!💧🥰
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👇 #Petition
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions… via @38degrees 👏
Put Public Ownership of Water Back on the Table
Privatisation of water isn’t failing - it is the failure. The Government is mid-way through a major review of the water sector. But so far, it has refused to consider a potential solution that’s backed by 82% of the British public: public ownership.38 Degrees
In #Bath #Somerset #UK.
#Nature #Wildlife #UKWildlife #Mammal #NatureCommunity
What does normalising fascism look like? Like a perpetually baseline-inebriated geriatric Tory fart at a posh British wedding, apparently.
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#USA #fascism #TheGuardian #UK
Donald Trump is moving fast and breaking things, but that may result in a better US
The chance of the president succeeding in his radicalism is small, but amid the chaos are challenges to convention that were overdue, says Guardian columnist Simon JenkinsSimon Jenkins (The Guardian)
The highland cows have returned to the reserve,. Beautiful beasts.
#nature #cows #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #MoominPhotography #CowsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling #Moomin
#EdDavey, Ldr of the #UK’s Liberal Democrats:
“#JDVance & his mates clearly aren't fit to run a group chat, let alone the world's strongest #military force. It has to make our #security services nervous about the #intelligence we're sharing with them.”
“#Trump's #WhiteHouse can't be trusted. Their reckless approach to security means it's only a matter of time before British intelligence is leaked.
“The Govt must urgently review our intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US.”
Another case like #MahmoudKhalil & #BadarSuri:
On March 15, #MomodouTaal, a #CornellUniversity PhD student w/ #UK & #Gambia citizenship, here on a #StudentVisa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn #Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism”.
This morning at 12:52AM, the #DOJ emailed asking him to come to #ICE to be detained & put into removal proceedings.
courtlistener.com/docket/69743…
#immigration #law #Constitution #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly
UK schoolchildren dissuaded from climate action due to bullying and peer pressure
Research released today by education charity, Another Way, has revealed that students actively involved in climate change projects in their schools/colleges are being prevented from taking part in initiatives due to peer pressure and bullying from classmates
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#UK #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #MassExtinction #environment #climate
UK schoolchildren dissuaded from climate action due to bullying and peer pressure | London Daily News
Research released today by education charity, Another Way, has revealed that students actively involved in climate change projects in their schools/colleges are being prevented from taking part in initiatives due to peer pressure and bullying from cl…LDN Guest Post (London Daily News Ltd)
Elon Musk’s DOGE is tearing through the US government with disastrous consequences.
But beyond its borders, the extreme right is gearing up to push their own DOGE-inspired austerity campaigns in countries around the world.
disconnect.blog/p/doge-is-goin…
#tech #doge #elonmusk #politics #austerity #canada #uk #nz
DOGE is going global. It needs to be stopped.
The extreme right is organizing for a new austerity campaign modeled on Elon Musk’s destructive effortsParis Marx (Disconnect)
#Simplex
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...(Lösungs-)Auswahl nur ein Kriterium.
Bei derart "systemkritischen" Anwendungen ist das "Lieferantenrisiko" m.E. mindestens genauso wichtig. Der #Startup hat es bislang "einfach nicht im Kreuz".
Außerdem ist natürlich der bisherige "Netzwerkeffekt" negativ zu bewerten (zu wenige Installationen).
Hinzu kommt, dass ich ein großes Länderrisiko sehe: seit dem #Brexit ging es mit dem #Datenschutz im #UK...
Well, #Canada is still part of a European, #UK-based #Commonwealth, for one thing.
Then, there is #CETA. And #NATO.
Maybe #EuropeanUnion might not be an appropriate term anymore, maybe #TransatlanticUnion would be more appropriate?
In fact, I favor #CEUM, for the time being.
An #FTA, similar, to how the #EuropeanCommunity got started, back in the day.
A beaver dam in British Columbia shows its ability to hold back sediment pollution during heavy rainfall, sediment damages freshwater habitat.
Two pairs of beavers are making a new home in Studland #UK unrestricted by fences or enclosures. This reintroduction follows the government's decision to allow wild populations return to England's rivers & wetlands. #Wales needs them too.
#hedgesandedges - #trees & #nature reducing floods, restoring nature & #climate
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Wild beavers make historic return to England at Dorset nature reserve
Two pairs are settling at Little Sea lake in Studland, after government granted licenced release.Steve Harris & PA (BBC News)
Anti-monarchists protest outside Westminster Abbey before the start of the annual Commonwealth Day service, London, #UK
Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP
#aiart #ban #signplease #UK
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…#oil spills into the #sea have the potential to have significant impacts for #MarineLife, & have been responsible for the some of the worst #environmental disasters in the #UK.
The SS Torrey Canyon ran aground in Cornwall in 1967 which led to >100k tons of crude oil being spilt into the English Channel, killing thousands of sea birds.
The size of the spill, weather & sea conditions, & the type of oil being carried play a big role in the outcomes for #wildlife.
The #UK #Coastguard says it is assessing the "likely" counter-#pollution response required following the #NorthSea collision.
"The incident remains ongoing & an assessment of the likely counter pollution response required is being enacted," a UK Coastguard spokesperson says, as the incident off the east coast of #England continues.
The U.K.'s Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has backed a total ban on smacking children. Currently, it is totally illegal in Scotland and Wales, but unlawful in England and Northern Ireland except in cases where it amounts to a "reasonable punishment" — a distinction the RCPCH says shouldn't exist. Prof Andrew Rowland, RCPCH officer for child protection, told @BBCNews: "Now is the time for this Victorian-era punishment to go."
#UK #UKLaw #Children #Parenting #CorporalPunishment
Doctors back total ban on smacking children in England
Smacking is legal in some cases in England and Northern Ireland, but is banned in Scotland and Wales.Nathan Standley (BBC News)
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... certain, the #UK surely does not want to be left out alone in the cold when the remaining 27 #EU members (26?--#HUN) all regroup under #France's #NuclearUmbrella to
finally form a #EuropeanDefenseForce.
That must be equipped and financed. A "#DefenseUnion' is indispensable now.
Also, in economic terms, as I don't disagree with your current #UKpol assessment, and as I do believe that 👉ALL European countries...
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I don't disagree with your assessment of the current situation.
However, in a world where the German chancellor elect says rearmament will be done "whatever it takes," where the #CAN #PM all but calls the #POTUS dumb on prime time TV, and the President of #Uraine gets thrown out of the #WhiteHouse, I forecast enough fluidity also in the #UK for things to change in many respects until years end.
One thing is...
#CEUM
#CETA #Turkey
#GeoPol #TrumpCoup #TrumpTariffs
#USpol #CANpoli #EUpol
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...precursors to the #EuropeanUnion, like the #EC, as well as (finally!) a #DefenseUnion, should be on the table. Non-EU neighbors, such as the #UK and #Turkey should be considered as further partners. Too many different treaties are red tape slowing down decision-making processes and thus resilience in a chaotic environment.
Concurrently, the project of a #EuropeanArmy...
#CEUM
#TrumpTradeWars
#CETA
#GeoPol #TrumpCoup #TrumpTariffs
#USpol #CANpoli #EUpol
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... more than make up for the #Transatlantic trade with the #US.
#CETA, the #FreeTradeAgreament, a project started in 2014, should now be rapidly brought to completion:
"As of 2023, only 17 of 27 EU countries have ratified (as did the #UnitedKingdom before leaving the #EU), and #Cyprus has voted against ratification." 1)
Also, the #UK. Must...
Make no mistake, Trump not only wants no alliance with Ukraine but is now actively working to undermine its government and therefore its war effort.
He is in league with Vladimir Putin in every way that matters.
He's the definition of a traitor.
"They clearly have a plan to get him out and a pro-Russian politician in to claim ‘democracy won it’. Russia is losing the war and using Trump and a dodgy election is the only way they can win. I have also yet to hear Trump censure Putin for any of his actions." USA as a Russian asset.
#Ukraine #eu #europe #UK #nato #usa
Shipwrecks reconstructed
A Lego model of the ship Batavia, wrecked on its maiden voyage in 1629, at the exhibition Brickwrecks: Sunken Ships in Lego Bricks at the Historic Dockyard Chatham in Kent. It took 1,336.5 hours and 170,463 bricks to create eight ships dating from the oldest known shipwreck in about 1300 BC, Chatham, #UK
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
@photography
#Lego
#ships
#shipwrecks
Damn those anti-semitic Holocaust survivors, amirite, zionists?
#Israel #apartheid #warCrimes #ethnicCleansing #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #UK #USA #Europe #complicity syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11410896…
This fucking country 🤬Byline Times: "Holocaust Survivor Summoned For Police Interview Over Gaza Solidarity March"
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/04/hol…
Here's an interview with Stephen on Double Down News.
#UKPolitics #FreePalestine #RightToProtest #PoliceState
Holocaust Survivor Summoned for Police Interview Over Gaza Solidarity March – Byline Times
Stephen Kapos, 87, is among dozens of activists interviewed or charged by police for their part in the January 18th pro-Palestine protest in LondonJosiah Mortimer (Byline Times)
#Employers remain blissfully unaware/wilfully ignorant of the impact of #surveillance on staff
More than 3/4 of #UK employers admit to using some form of surveillance tech to spy on their #remoteworkers.
Most popular form of surveillance was monitoring active work hours, with 54% saying this was going on, and employees' emails and chat logs were also examined, while 15% said they went as far as tracking keystrokes.
theregister.com/2025/01/30/for…
WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff
Employers remain blissfully unaware/wilfully ignorant of the impact of surveillance on staffConnor Jones (The Register)
