
Nick Aspey
@NickAspey
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Reminder that Israel has a “ceasefire” with Lebanon. Many villages in Southern Lebanon have been completely flattened by the Israelis - there are still families living in tents. The way the world has ignored what the Israelis did to the Lebanese isn’t surprising but is still
🇱🇧 Israeli Airstrikes Pound Southern Lebanon’s Reconstruction Sector Some 20+ Israeli airstrikes struck multiple sites across southern Lebanon in less than half an hour, destroying a quarry, a concrete plant, and a stone-cutting factory—facilities built after Israel’s 2000
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If you want to understand what racism, dehumanization, & double standards look like, I have seen more outraged tweets from British centrists & conservatives today over racist Israeli football hooligans being banned from a game in the UK than I ever did from these same people over
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Caerphilly the litmus test. Lab heartland that may switch to reform. So far: Labour parachuted in candidate, alienating local lab apparatus; Lab’s campaign has mainly targeted plaid; Reform throwing the kitchen sink at it (& also targeting plaid); greens running v unwelcome
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‘Red wall’ can’t capture the extent of the radical history of the s wales coalfields. Parts of this area were cpb strongholds, Jack Russia’s old stomping ground. Still memorials in many places to locals who fell in Spain. big plaid tradition too. If this goes reform anywhere can
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Two take away points in response to this extraordinary poll: 1. The Labour Party must seek to impose its PR policy on Starmer. #GetPRDone 2. Starmer must go to #SavetheLabourParty Apologies that both points are so self evidently obvious! But common sense can be obvious!
Find Out Now voting intention: 🟦 Reform UK: 32% (-) 🔵 Conservatives: 17% (-) 🟢 Greens: 15% (-) 🔴 Labour: 15% (-2) 🟠 Lib Dems: 12% (-) Changes from 8th October [Find Out Now, 15th October, N=2,705]
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Green Party level with the Labour Party for the first time. Let’s see if the media give the Greens as much coverage as they gave Farage when he didn’t even have MPs.
Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 32% (=) CON: 17% (=) LAB: 15% (-2) GRN: 15% (=) LDM: 12% (=) SNP: 3% (=) Via @FindoutnowUK, 15 Oct. Changes w/ 8 Oct.
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🚨 BREAKING | Greens TIED with Labour ➡️ REF – 32% (-) 🔵 CON – 17% (-) 🟢 GRN – 15% (-) 🔴 LAB – 15% (-2) 🟠 LD – 12% (-) Via @FindoutnowUK, 15 Oct (+/- vs 8 Oct)
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I’ve never in my life seen an American campaign for public office so committed to generating community interactivity to open people’s eyes to the beauty of mass politics.
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"The main cause of Antisemitism today is Israel committing a genocide in Gaza in the name of all Jews" Son of a Holocaust Survivor Mark Etkind
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It's incumbent on every mental health professional to listen deeply to critiques of their profession - to even seek them out. To engahe with them non-defensively & to see what happens. We are very poor at this. The prickly/defensive (i.e. insecure) professional is a huge red flag
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Idk the solution, given the soft left/ hard left split became a disaster for both sides. Sectarianism is a poison, but so is the refusal of some sects and factions to put the interests of a greater project or collective goal ahead of their own short-term organisational interests.
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Many Brits born in the UK wouldn’t pass this test. Most jobs in the UK do not require that standard of English proficiency.
Migrants must learn English to A-level standard to work in Britain, Home Secretary announces https://t.co/7Knx5IfSi0
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Total wealth of billionaires in 1990 = £59 BILLION Total wealth of billionaires in 2025 = £795 BILLION Number of food banks in 1990 = 0 Number of food banks in 2025 = 2400 Tax the rich.
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An extraordinary story in the latest edition of @PrivateEyeNews. This only reinforces my view that there absolutely MUST be a retrial in Lucy Letby's case.
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Six reasons people keep repeating painful experiences 1️⃣ To alleviate guilt. Some people feel guilty about success or pleasure, as if enjoyment were a transgression. They seek suffering to expiate guilt and pay off their conscience. In some cases, pain and suffering become the
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Today's unemployment figures are bad, but NB the total on all out-of-work benefits (including sickness benefit) is far worse and overtook Covid peak some time ago.
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The major story in Western media today is that Israel says Hamas sent a body that wasn't a hostage and not that several bodies returned by Israel were blindfolded, handcuffed and some had literal tank tracks on them.
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