Michael

Tory Brexit border checks will cost UK firms £470m a year, says watchdog www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

Brexit border checks will cost UK firms £470m a year, says watchdog

‘More than three years after end of transition period, it is still not clear when full controls will be in place’

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Iranian President Raisi dies with other occupants of helicopter

I doubt he will be missed. It's what happens next that will be interesting..

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Iranian President Raisi dies with other occupants of helicopter

Iran's State Media has announced the deaths of President Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash siteAl Jazeera's Ali Hashe...

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MAYDAY: Assange extradition decision tomorrow – get there if you can, watch live if not

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MAYDAY: Assange extradition decision tomorrow – get there if you can, watch live if not

Wikileaks founder faces court tomorrow to find out if UK will give in to disgraced US extradition case – supporters have asked for you to join them at the High Court if possible and will be s…

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Israeli army airdrops photos of children with warning to run to IDF in psych warfare

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Israeli army airdrops photos of children with warning to run to IDF in psych warfare

Vile psychological warfare as flailing occupiers try to turn Palestinians against each other The Israeli military has begun airdropping leaflets with the faces, names and security numbers of Palest…

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Time for supply-side policy: Thatcher versus Schumpeter

What lies behind the conflict within Germany’s Ampelkoalition on economic policy.

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Time for supply-side policy: Thatcher versus Schumpeter

Peter Bofinger explains what lies behind the conflict within Germany’s Ampelkoalition on economic policy.

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The latest Brexit benefit is …pavement cafes. 19 delicious takedowns www.thepoke.com/2024/05/20/l...

Tories 'safe country' Rwanda denies entry to senior human rights researcher

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Rwanda denies entry to senior human rights researcher

Human Rights Watch says Clementine De Montjoye’s case raises fresh questions about UK’s asylum seeker scheme

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Report Indicates Israel Uses WhatsApp Data in Targeted Killings of Palestinians truthout.org/articles/rep...

A quarter of a million march in London to oppose Gaza genocide and mark Palestinian Nakba www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

She has. She is anti-war wherever it takes place and supports peace full stop. She received death threats when her views on Ukraine were misreported.Please don't make assumptions without checking the facts. It's not helpful.

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Labour MP blames media after death threat over Ukraine statement

Zarah Sultana was among MPs told to remove their names from a Stop the War statement this month

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I remember them well. A nasty piece of work.

The Week in Ableist Bullsh*t: minister reveals the DWP is even sh*tter than we thought www.thecanary.co/opinion/2024...

Zarah Sultana: the Labour MP taking on the Tories, and her own party, over Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Introducing Dr Julia Grace Patterson – our new columnist on the NHS

Good news

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Introducing Dr Julia Grace Patterson - our new columnist on the NHS

Dr Julia Grace Patterson is the Canary’s newest columnist, and she’ll be updating you with NHS news and the fight to save our health service

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Royal Mail is About to be Sold to a Czech Billionaire, Yet the BBC Tells Us to Watch the Boats dorseteye.com/royal-mail-i...

Israeli soldiers are STILL posting videos of their own atrocities on social media www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Top of the Plops: Faecal bacteria found in water supply in EIGHT more UK regions www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/where-w...

Doctors FURIOUS as Labour’s shadow NHS secretary shows he still doesn’t know how the NHS works www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

My sentiments too, as you know..

That too, I agree, but don't pretend that Streeting is either good for the Labour party or the saviour of the NHS. He's bad news.

Streeting pulls out prompt card as he forgets Keir Starmer’s key Labour pledge

Shallow as well as toxic

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Wes Streeting pulls out prompt card as he forgets Keir Starmer’s key Labour pledge

Wes Streeting needed to pull out a prompt card as he recited Sir Keir Starmer’s six Labour pledges. Appearing on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the shadow health secretary was sat opposite Grant Shapps...

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My view too

A British wildlife conservation group has said it had uncovered thousands of breaches of animal welfare standards at zoos across Europe and urged improvements – including at UK zoos.

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UK zoos breaching basic animal welfare standards as investigation shows standards not fit for purpose

UK zoos have come under the spotlight, as an investigations has found repeated and multiple breaches of animal welfare standards

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Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents www.theguardian.com/education/ar...

Pro-Palestinian march in central London to mark 76th anniversary of Nakba www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of_Y...

Archbishop of Canterbury criticises two-child benefit cap as ‘cruel’

About time he did something useful...

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Archbishop of Canterbury criticises two-child benefit cap as ‘cruel’

The Archbishop slammed the cap as ‘cruel’ and called on Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer to commit to scrapping it

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Labour has reneged on its promise to criminalise polluting water firms voxpoliticalonline.com/2024/05/18/l...

Is mainstream news at last realising how the government harms disabled people? voxpoliticalonline.com/2024/05/19/i...

Gaza: Nearly 800,000 now displaced from Rafah www.globalissues.org/news/2024/05...

Jabalia targeted: Israeli bombs hit residential buildings www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTrn...

Police beat and arrest pro-Palestinian protesters in New York www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jQs...

It was Major who kicked it off to be fair, although I agree Blair and Brown accelerated it. I'm not a fan either, but I have no issue with him using his influence to raise the profile of poverty

Badenoch rinsed for saying ‘Brexit freedoms’ are to thank for pavement dining restrictions being lifted www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bad...

Thousands gather across UK to demand clean rivers, beaches and lakes www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

‘People haven’t woken up to the scale of this’: Gordon Brown on the UK’s child poverty scandal www.theguardian.com/society/arti...

The War on Humanitarians www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/18/t...

We Can’t Have a Fair Society Under Capitalism jacobin.com/2024/05/rand...

Did Gaza cause Jeremy Corbyn film to go viral? voxpoliticalonline.com/2024/05/18/d...

Fears of new Windrush as thousands of UK immigrants face ‘cliff edge’ visa change www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

The State Department Says Israel Isn’t Blocking Aid. Videos Show the Opposite. theintercept.com/2024/05/18/i...

The Elphicke effect – a straw in the wind as to how bad British politics might get to be

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The Elphicke effect - a straw in the wind as to how bad British politics might get to be — Chartist

The Elphicke effect

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No, extremist minister Ben-Gvir didn’t pull gun on settlers – he wanted to shoot Palestinians

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No, extremist minister Ben-Gvir didn’t pull gun on settlers – he wanted to shoot Palestinians

A video has been circulating on social media claiming to show Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s far-right security minister and one of the architects of its genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, mak…

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Dr. Jill Stein & Michael Hudson: Fighting Russia & China to Last American: Destroying US From Within

The high cost and risks of the Biden Administration commitment to pursue forever wars with Russia and China

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Spanish protesters rally against meeting of far-right leaders ahead of EU elections www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Watch: Spanish protesters rally against meeting of far-right leaders

Watch as protesters take to the streets of Madrid on Saturday 18 May to rally against the meeting of far-right leaders organised by Spain's Vox party ahead of the EU election.

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Spanish protesters rally against meeting of far-right leaders ahead of EU elections www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Watch: Spanish protesters rally against meeting of far-right leaders

Watch as protesters take to the streets of Madrid on Saturday 18 May to rally against the meeting of far-right leaders organised by Spain's Vox party ahead of the EU election.

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Barclays has responded to an investigation that found it helped raise billions for fossil fuel companies last year – and called it “sustainable” finance.

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‘Financing the real economy’: Barclays hits back at greenwashing…

The bank worked on $41bn worth of deals for the fossil fuel industry last year that were classified as sustainable

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How can a child in care cost £281,000 a year? Ask the wealth funds that have councils over a barrel | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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