This from the man who told us that "handouts lack the dignity of wages." Yeah? So buy your own fucking clothes. opendemocracy.net/en/keir-starme…

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No, I've never heard of Kemi Badenough. Remember, I don't have any working class friends.

A 'tactical triumph', an 'operation', a 'spectacular coup', says the BBC's Jeremy Bowen. But if the Israeli-Hezbollah roles had been reversed, he would surely have used the word 'terrorism'.

Imagine an 8-year-old Ukrainian girl was killed because of exploding pagers orchestrated by Russia. Would the headlines read “Russia used innovative methods to carry out a precise military operation…” No they wouldn’t. It’d be called terrorism.

Great news, everyone! The SNP has a new buzzword with which to waste the next 10 years like they wasted the last 10. wingsoverscotland.com/objection-sust…

Imagine an Iranian newspaper featured the equivalent front page, if Hezbollah had launched the same attacks on Israel. It would be presented as evidence of Iranian barbarism. I know it, you know it, we all know it

Always a tweet.

It’s all in the Jewish Talmud.

Hogmany in New York paid for by the famous Mr Ali . He's a generous dude.

The New Statesman magazine will host an event at this weekend's Labour Party conference sponsored by Northrop Grumman, a key supplier to the Israeli airforce, on the subject of ‘a new era of defence’. novaramedia.com/2024/09/05/key…

Red card!

The BBC political editor (260K pa) thinks it's a story that the Downing Street chief of staff (170K pa) earns more than the PM (167Kpa). Welcome to political journalism! PS Laura Kuenssberg is on 325K, Nick Robinson 340K and Fiona Bruce even more. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

So, it is becoming clear that through infiltration of private companies, Israel has intervened directly into the supply chain to flood Lebanon with booby trapped machinery, which is now detonating, killing and injuring random civilians. Sophisticated savagery unprecedented.

Unlike in the UK/GB where in the same period we only had 6 PMs with no divisiveness , tragedy or pointless politics. Ian you should the book "Brexit: what the hell happens now?" by..checks notes.. Ian Dunt

The internet is a powerful thing. There will be a record of every maniac slobbering over themselves to praise these waves of bombings.

Jesus .. the Labour Party really has been transformed , a party where you'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy investing in it.

Zdzisław Beksiński (Polish, 1929-2005) Untitled, n.d. Oil on hardboard

Che Guevara with Egyptian farmers during his visit to Egypt in 1966.

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