Interesting analysis of voter preferences and which policies all voters agree on. #Politics #UKPolitics Unity and Division in the Public’s Policy Preferences After the 2024 General Election | Political Quarterly
Political Quarterly
Unity and Division in the Public’s Policy Preferences After the 2024 General Election
Switchers are not simply disillusioned Labour supporters, so Labour’s attempts to appeal to them may be unsuccessful.
"Two million Palestinians remain in Gaza. If they are to have any hope for the future, their fate must not rest in the hands of a distracted US president who thinks his job is done" #Israel #Gaza They call it peace, but in storm-tossed Gaza, it looks like purgatory | The Observer
The Observer
They call it peace, but in storm-tossed Gaza, it looks li...
Israel is still regularly launching attacks inside Gaza and aid is still woefully insufficient, whatever Trump might say
"Are non-profits like the [Canals and Rivers Trust] (CRT)and Peabody – well-intentioned though their staff may be – fronts for asset speculation and sell-offs in the private sector? And are the CRT’s investment decisions being made by people with those inclinations?" Alarming report on how live aboard boaters are being ill served by the CRT. #Canals #Rivers #Boaters #CR The UK’s Waterways Are Run by Property Developers | Novara Media
Novara Media
The UK’s Waterways Are Run by Property Developers | Novara Media
The Canal and River Trust denies it’s a landlord, but routinely fines, evicts and even repossesses boaters’ homes. Guess who runs it? Cameron B...
A man who heroically tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach gunmen has been identified as father-of-two fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed. #BondiBeachShooting #Australia Bondi Beach hero dad who disarmed gunman 'shot twice' in wild struggle - World News - Mirror Online https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-bondi-beach-hero-dad-36399293?%2F%3F0876087=
"This is not a government being sabotaged by resident doctors - it’s a government terrified of being exposed at having taken over a broken system and having made choices, consciously, to make it even more brittle." Excellent as always from The Bear. #NHS #Labour #UKPolitics Saturday Long Read: The NHS is Collapsing and Labour is Running out of Excuses
Saturday Long Read: The NHS is Collapsing and Labour is Running out of Excuses
A system shaved to the bone, a winter crisis already unfolding, and a government furious because the arithmetic no longer works.
"Austerity has scarred the UK for the last 14 years. If it wants to finally break free, then it’s time for a radical new approach. And that starts with rethinking how government finances work" Excellent in the New Statesman re Green Party leader, Zack Polanski's use of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in a recent interview.
New Statesman
The economics behind Zack Polanski's claims
The Green Party leader's recent arguments sound a lot like Modern Monetary Theory
Nigel Farage was performatively racist at Dulwich College, recalls a contemporary who claims to have heard him sing a song celebrating the Holocaust. #NigelFarage #ReformUK #Racism #UKPolitics On Dulwich school trips, Nigel Farage and the other smokers took the ‘Belsen Bus’ | The Observer
The Observer
On Dulwich school trips, Nigel Farage and the other smoke...
The Reform leader was performatively racist at Dulwich College, recalls a contemporary who claims to have heard him sing a song celebrating the Hol...
"This week, Israel’s defence ministry made clear that this would mark only the first section of a new 5.5bn-shekel (£1.3bn) barrier that will eventually run 300 miles, from the Golan Heights on the Syrian border to the north all the way down to the Red Sea near Eilat. Labelled “Crimson Thread” by the Israeli military, the barrier will split countless Palestinian communities along its route" Illegal of course, but who will stop them? #Palestine #Israel #WestBank
the Guardian
New Israeli barrier will slice through precious West Bank farmland
Palestinians who have worked the ‘breadbasket’ area for generations face being replaced by Israeli settlers
Some good news. ""Remarkably, Nottingham has the second highest bus usage outside of London, following Brighton and Hove, at 130 passenger journeys per head. Bus industry magazine Route One also reported that Nottingham, is one of the few local authorities this year to exceed levels of patronage from 2010" #PublicTransport #Transport #Buses #Nottingham Nottingham’s buses are second to one! - Transport Nottingham
Transport Nottingham
Nottingham’s buses are second to one! - Transport Nottingham
Bus usage is up in Nottingham, with the second highest passenger numbers outside of London.