Armand1
@Armand1@lemmy.world
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- Students and academics sanctioned over emojis as part of Palestine protests crackdownwww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 1 day ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
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The Good Law project are doing great work as usual.
- Comment on Liberal Democrat party boycotts Greens for calling Zionism racism. 1 day ago:
Our party adopted the IHRA definition of antisemitism
This whole letter is stupid and childish, but this us the most damning part of this whole thing. What credibility does a party that accepts a definition of antisemitism that prohibits criticism of the Israeli state have?
All it does is establish them as bootlickers of a genocidal state.
I have a Lib Dem MP who’s really pretty good and pretty nice, but I’ve had to write to her about this. This is not acceptable.
- Comment on Tony Hall has lived in the UK for 50 years. Why is the Home Office trying to deport him? 2 days ago:
Well, maybe if he had been deported right after the crime (which wasn’t violent, it was a planned robbery). That’s the strongest argument you could make, to not punish him here but instead deport him. But he wasn’t, he served his time in the country he committed the crime (pretty standard I think) so now there is no reason to deport him.
What would it help to deport him? Wouldn’t help him, he doesn’t have any family where he was born. Wouldn’t help the state, or anybody in the UK.
The current state of things is also ridiculous. He can’t work, he has to waste government money and time checking in every two weeks. Travel which he has to pay out of pocket even though he has no job, god forbid he can’t pay one day and is arrested. For 14 years this waste of time has happened.
- Comment on Tony Hall has lived in the UK for 50 years. Why is the Home Office trying to deport him? 2 days ago:
Why?
- Comment on The Canary news website announces closure after ‘vicious campaign against us’ 2 days ago:
They’re basically what you’d get if pro-Palestine activists that go to marches made a newspaper. Very emotionally driven and a little prone to conspiracy theories.
I read a few of the articles. They were ok.
- Comment on Trans kids glue posters onto the Equalities Minister's office 2 days ago:
A bit more tame than the French “burn the building down”, but still good.
- Comment on Cut benefits to fund work support for young people, says Neet review author Alan Milburn 2 days ago:
How about we just take the money of the billionaires to find this, instead of punishing people on welfare?
- Tony Hall has lived in the UK for 50 years. Why is the Home Office trying to deport him?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 14 comments
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- Comment on More than half of UK first-time buyers paying more for mortgage than they did for rent 2 days ago:
Yep. I’m in that half.
- Police investigate Reform mayor for allegedly sharing ‘naked and sexualised’ images of himselfwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Zack Polanski says application of Zionism is racist and no state has right to exist 4 days ago:
Ah, I should have posted a summary, I forgot, thanks.
- Zack Polanski says application of Zionism is racist and no state has right to existwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 30 comments
- Comment on More peas, please! 17 delicious ways to devour Britain’s most brilliant vegetable 4 days ago:
Sponsored by Big Pea.
- Reform candidate filmed saying asylum seekers should be put in ‘concentration camps’www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 15 comments
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- Comment on Trans women no longer to be placed on female-only wards under new NHS England guidance 6 days ago:
One thing that was missed in this article but included in the (imo slightly better) Independent one
It adds that “where clinical needs and same-sex accommodation requirements cannot both be met, clinical needs are the priority”.
Such occurrences, where a trans patient was placed on a ward of their gender identity, are described in the guidance as likely to be “rare” and reasons should be “clearly recorded and reported nationally as breaches of this guidance”.
So respecting the gender identity of trans people is so scary that they have to report it nationally when it does happen.
- Comment on Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from early November 6 days ago:
Well, you cant see porn in the UK without giving ID anyway, so I assume no one actually accesses these sites from the UK anyway (without a VPN), so this will have no effect.
- Comment on BBC to force more to pay licence fee with ‘YouTube tax’ 6 days ago:
Personally I actually think this is more reasonable. If you’re going to go as far as to charge everyone for it, you might as well do it means-based and have to compete with other funding.
The only problem with this is it potentially gives less independence from the government, which means that they will become even less critical of their agenda, and may lose more credibility.
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- Comment on Warwickshire Pride accuses Reform UK of ‘censorship’ over library LGBTQ+ restrictions 1 week ago:
You’re telling me that open bigots are bring bigoted?!
- Comment on Burnham Rules Out Coalition With the Green Party 1 week ago:
While Mr Polanski had wanted the controversial motion to be amended, he has pushed back against claims that it was antisemitic.
Earlier this week he posted on social media: “As a British Jew, I’m deeply concerned about the cynical blurring of Zionism & Judaism. Whatever our political differences, Jewish people must never face prejudice or discrimination. So after the Labour government apologised over Gaza: why are they still arming Israel?”
I agree with him on this one, personally.
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- London Mayor’s office resolves £50m contract dispute with US AI giant Palantirwww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on Amputee told he needs more proof for blue badge 1 week ago:
He said he believed fraudulent claims had led to more scrutiny of genuine applicants.
That’s the neat part, there doesn’t have to be widespread fraud for authorities to try their best to deny you what you are due. They will do it just to save money, hatred of poor people or for other nefarious reasons!
Just look at the claims by right wingers of widespread voter fraud, when confirmed cases are in less than double digits over decades.
Same sort of thing for benefits claimants. We make them go through so many, humiliating hoops that a not insignificant amount of them give up. The media then creates clickbait articles about isolated cases of fraud which makes people believe they are more widespread than in reality, and then you cause mistrust of people who need help.
- Comment on Businesses could be barred from non-essential water use amid supply threat 1 week ago:
I’m sure these will apply to AI data centers… Right?