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Utterly tone deaf, abhorrent moment from the ghouls at @BBCNews
Perhaps the most heartless BBC interruption in this compilation is this one:
Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam Policy Lead for Palestine, explains how his family in Gaza have never been allowed to leave Gaza, and how Israel is besieging the Strip and causing mass displacement.
The BBC: "I'm sorry this is obviously very personal, difficult situation for you and your family, and as you would understand as well, Israel would say well, they can't live next door to Hamas."
There is nothing journalistic about this. There is no world where that is a rational, humane response.
The presenters and journalists at the BBC are reading off a strict script where they have to staunchly defend the apartheid entity at all costs.
They have weaponised the term "impartiality", which is what they cite when they launder propaganda. But as we've proven, this "impartiality" has only worked one way.
They interject much less when they platform genocide deniers, and have never volunteered the other things that "Israel says", such as the genocidal statements from Netanyahu, Gallant, Katz, Smotrich and Herzog.
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Trying to decide which version of Yvette Cooper is worse
As Home Secretary, her policy has now seen over 4,000 non violent protestors arrested.
As Health Secretary, she's renewing the contract with Palantir.
Really liked YC in opposition, she repeatedly tore Conservative politicians to shreds. In office, what a disaster and let down.
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Labour are now admitting, under a veiled threat, what we all know, that we aren’t in a union of equals, at all.
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Ah yes, the union of equals argument... How's that going @WelshLabour?
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Exclusive: Andy Burnham ally Clive Lewis says the continued Palestine Action ban is a "sh*tshow” and calls on the government to extend sanctions on Israel.
@labourlewis told Helena on Novara Live that the ban is “toxic for the Labour party” - and that it will become an issue at the next general election unless it’s reversed.
“The sooner we can drop it and move away from it the better.”
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An unelected Lord lectures democratically elected governments in 🏴 and 🏴 about behaving “properly”, with the thinly veiled threat of abolishing devolution.
And they dare call this a “Union of Equals”!
Independence means our nation’s voice and democracy can never be silenced at Westminster’s whim!
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So Palantir buying a Labour Lord was good value for their money after all.
Cash for access. Stinks.
Palantir’s Tom Watson, ex-Labour MP, wrote to Yvette Cooper last month saying the controversial US company could help boost the UK’s tech sovereignty, letters show. Weeks later, sources say the UK is extending its NHS contract for two more years
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America isn't looking for a fucking bassoonist or virtuoso singer, Chuck. It's looking for a leader with the balls to hold Trump and his criminal regime accountable. Enough ‘conducting.’ Start fighting, you spineless twat.
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They expect us to pay for this. GTF.
Where the fuck is Lisa Nandy, she's nowhere. Hiding under the excuse of X is not the appropriate platform to post on.
Is she the laziest, most evasive minister ever? I'm pretty sure she is, and one of the most disingenuous
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Woman in France throws water on protestors, so couple above who support the protests throw water on her!
Viva la France.
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The minimum wage is £12.71 an hour.
Nobody on this panel is on £12.71 an hour.
@nowak_paul on #BBCQT
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The British government says in the Supreme Court that those thousands of pensioners being arrested for holding placards are criminals and are engaged in terrorist activity.
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Gent in purple, "State pensioners who have contributed their whole lives are on a lot less than minimum wage"
"I'm very lucky to have a small German pension, and believe me, it's a lot more than what we pay in this country"
"Most of western Europe their pensions are much higher than the state pension in this country"
"I'm lucky I get a pension from the military"
"But people on the basic state pension, I reall feel sorry for them"
My view:
The full new State Pension is roughly £12,548 a year.
Someone working 37.5 hours a week on the £12.71 minimum wage earns about £24,785 before tax.
That puts the full new State Pension at barely half a full-time minimum-wage salary.
Government figures show that 12% of pensioner families received their income entirely from the State Pension and other state benefits in 2024/25.
That same year, around 1.7 million pensioners — one in seven — were living in relative poverty after housing costs.
A better pension means being able to heat your home, eat properly and see friends without calculating what you’ll have to go without afterwards.
It also means money spent in the communities where pensioners live.
After a lifetime of working, caring and contributing, financial security should be something people can expect.