There has been a major escalation in the scale and intensity of Israel's terror attacks on Lebanon today. Being here among the lovely people on the receiving end, it is simply astonishing that Biden, Starmer, Scholz etc all support this. The world has not gone mad, but evil.

Energy prices forecast to rise again in January. No govt/regulator curbs profiteering by energy companies, pushing poverty and business costs. UK has highest electricity price in the world, destroyed steel, shipbuilding, more. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Raw sewage from new homes being flushed into river. Back to the 19th century. Did Thames Water and developers not know? That's what you get with privatisation of essential services, deregulation of planning. Govt promising more housing deregulation. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Thames Water supply ‘on knife-edge’ with £23bn repairs needed. Ignored safety concerns, didn't upgrade IT systems, staff bullied. Extracted billions in dividends, fleeced customers. Govt must enforce environmental laws, help it go bankrupt, buy for £1. theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Al Jazeera finds the UK has flown nearly half the reconnaissance missions over Gaza since the genocide began. This is more than double Israel itself. Britain is a participant and leads in providing intelligence for the genocide. This has never been reported in a UK newspaper.

🔴Public Demands Starmer Resurrects Leveson Press Corruption Inquiry Amid Collapse in Trust in UK Media The mother of late TV presenter Caroline Flack calls for Starmer to “find the courage” to take on newspaper owners and restart the inquiry bylinetimes.com/2024/11/12/pol…

New data suggests the countryside has been 'ethnically cleansed' of farmers - by people like Jeremy Clarkson 👇

An airstrike hit central Beirut a short while ago, near the UN headquarters and next to a Lebanese Civil Defence station, the strick came without prior warning. I went there to report

Anti-genocide journalists + activists arrested/raided under UK terror laws since August: -Richard Medhurst -Sarah Wilkinson -Asa Winstanley -Haim Bresheeth -Natalie Strecker Not a word about any of it has ever appeared in a UK paper. The public realm in UK lies undefended.

The UK, US and Israel: partners in genocide. The US supplies most of the weapons. The UK supplies most of the targets. Israel does the actual murdering.

Is it about farmers or is it about billionaire tax dodgers?

Privilege and Property: 'How Reporting on Private School and Farm Taxes Reveals More About Newspaper Owners Than Anything Else' bylinetimes.com/2024/11/11/lab…

16m Britons (24% of the population) live in poverty. 10m live in families in full-time work. 5.2m children live in poverty (36%). Austerity, low wages, benefits, pension take toll. Destroy lives. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. theguardian.com/society/2024/n…

Half of farmland sold last year went to non-farmers including wealthy individuals trying to avoid inheritance tax. It's right that tax changes will ensure everyone pays their fair share - and young farmers can realise their dream of buying their own farm. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Quick reminder that 355 huge aristocratic estates benefit from a *different* inheritance tax break for 'heritage assets', separate to APR This rewards them for owning ecologically damaging grouse moors & pheasant shoots Let's close this loophole: theguardian.com/money/2024/oct…

Great British Farmer, Jeremy Clarkson, protesting inheritance tax today… The same Clarkson who said that avoiding inheritance tax was the main reason for buying a farm…

If you bought a farm to avoid tax, don’t cry about your chickens coming home to roost… It’s a 20% tax, half what the rest of us pay… Billionaire Dyson should suck it up…

"What do we want?" "For really rich landowners not to have to pay their fair share of tax." "When do we want it?" "Forever and ever."

Must replace the House of Lords with an elected chamber. But there is a problem. No matter what the electoral reforms, one party remains in power. That is big corporations and the rich. They fund parties, subvert democracy and are accountable to no one. leftfootforward.org/2024/11/why-we…