NOW OVER A MILLION VIEWS. Are you listening @Keir_Starmer? More than 3,200 lawyers including 300 top barristers and retired judges have called on you to drop your plan to restrict the right to trial by jury. 30 organisations representing victims of violence against women and girls have written to the Justice Secretary urging him against curtailing the right to jury trials. Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism. The government has no mandate to restrict it - a move which will put us on a path toward authoritarian justice. It’s not too late for you to listen to the thousands of voices of victims, judges, barristers, other legal professionals and academics who oppose this. Please now do the right thing and abandon this blatant act of constitutional vandalism.

Am I the only one to be shocked by #BBC news? For days, its lead story has been breathless reporting of the US moonshot, repeating something already done nearly 60yrs ago, while the US pounding of Iran, which has huge consequences for all of us, comes 10’ later as an afterthought

‘we’ve also launched an ambitious industrial strategy’ What Starmer is referring to here is Labour’s rebranding of the Tories 12 Freeports and 74 Special Economic Zones, by merging them with AI Growth Zones under the collective title of Industrial Strategy Zones. The Petition That Rattled the Cage When I submitted petition 729478 demanding transparency and accountability for the UK’s so-called “Industrial Strategy Zones” (the new branding for Freeports and Investment Zones), they expected pushback. What I got on 28 November 2025 was something far more sinister: a government response so drenched in doublespeak it could win awards for Orwellian prose.[1] The petition asked two simple things: 1. Release data on governance, funding and operations 2. Conduct an independent review to assess whether these zones deliver value or just displace existing jobs The government’s response? “We don’t believe a further independent review is required.” The Big Lie: “Same Laws and Regulations” Government Claim: “All ISZs are subject to the same laws and regulations as the rest of the UK.” What That Actually Means: Absolutely nothing. If these zones operated under identical rules to the rest of the country, they would be pointless. The entire purpose of carving out 86 deregulated fiefdoms across England, Scotland and Wales – from Plymouth’s 75km-radius blob (which swallows Dartmoor National Park whole) to Suffolk’s A14 corridor – is to create regulatory divergence. And the government’s own documents prove it. open.substack.com/pub/europe…

Trump is seeking to pay for his new $1.5 trillion military budget by cutting the following: $510 million - Grants for farmers and agricultural research $82 million - Loans for rural small businesses (Fully eliminated) $61 million - Support for farmers and food markets (Fully eliminated) $240 million - School meals and food education for children abroad (Fully eliminated) $659 million - Community building grants $47 million - Support for minority-owned businesses (Fully eliminated) $449 million - Economic development grants for communities $1.6 billion - Weather forecasting, fisheries, and coastal protection (NOAA) $993 million - Scientific research and technology standards $150 million - Support for American exports and trade $2.2 billion - Broadband and internet access programs $8.5 billion - Funding for public schools $1.5 billion - Vocational training and adult education (Fully eliminated) $2.7 billion - College access and higher education support $15.2 billion - Roads, bridges, and infrastructure projects $1.1 billion - Home energy efficiency and clean energy programs (Fully eliminated) $1.1 billion - Scientific research funding $386 million - Environmental cleanup programs $150 million - Cutting-edge clean energy research $4 billion - Help paying home heating and cooling bills for low-income families (Fully eliminated) $768 million - Refugee resettlement assistance $819 million - Care and shelter for migrant children $775 million - Local anti-poverty programs (Fully eliminated) $5 billion - Public health programs, mental health services, and disease prevention $5 billion - Medical research (NIH) $129 million - Healthcare quality and safety research $356 million - Emergency preparedness and disaster response $1.3 billion - FEMA community disaster preparedness grants $707 million - Cybersecurity protection for critical infrastructure $52 million - Airport and transportation security $40 million - Protection against chemical and biological weapons threats $53 million - Funding for homeland security operations $3.3 billion - Community development block grants for local neighborhoods (Fully eliminated) $1.3 billion - Affordable housing construction grants (Fully eliminated) $393 million - Programs to reduce homelessness $529 million - Housing assistance for people living with HIV/AIDS (Fully eliminated) $489 million - Housing and services for Native American communities $50 million - Grants to help communities build more housing (Fully eliminated) $60 million - Enforcement of fair housing and anti-discrimination laws $58 million - Homebuyer and renter counseling services (Fully eliminated) $45 million - Renewable energy development programs (Fully eliminated) $1.7 billion - Grants for local law enforcement and public safety $20 million - Civil rights mediation and legal access programs (Fully eliminated) $1.6 billion - Job training for at-risk youth (Fully eliminated) $395 million - Jobs program for low-income seniors (Fully eliminated) $234 million - Worker safety and labor protection programs $101 million - Enforcement of equal pay and workplace anti-discrimination laws $46 million - Programs to combat child labor and forced labor abroad $2 billion - International humanitarian aid $1.2 billion - Food aid for hungry families abroad (Fully eliminated) $4.3 billion - Global health and disease prevention programs $2.7 billion - Funding for the United Nations and international partnerships $642 million - International economic and treasury programs $315 million - Democracy and anti-corruption programs abroad $486 million - Grants for public transit projects $4.2 billion - Electric vehicle charging infrastructure $372 million - Airline service for rural and small communities $145 million - Grants for sustainable and equitable infrastructure $204 million - Loans and investment for underserved communities $1.4 billion - IRS taxpayer services and enforcement $100 million - Air pollution monitoring and reduction programs (Fully eliminated) $1 billion - EPA grants to states for environmental protection $2.5 billion - Clean drinking water and wastewater infrastructure funds $90 million - Grants to reduce diesel pollution (Fully eliminated) $3.4 billion - NASA space and earth science research $297 million - NASA technology innovation programs $1.1 billion - International Space Station operations $143 million - STEM education programs $309 million - Small business development and entrepreneurship programs $170 million - Small Business Administration operations $158 million - Loans for small businesses

Hundreds of pickups from one of the largest militias in Iraq arrive in Iran to deliver support to the Iranian Government. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are uniting the entire Middle East against them. They will lose the entire Middle East not just the Strait of Hormuz.

🚨HOLY SHIT !!!!! Israeli politician Yitzik Kroizer says killing Palestinian children is normal if it supports the IDF mission. He adds there are no innocent children in the West Bank. Repost this. Please I beg you

3 total generals fired today. They are refusing to put troops in Iran.

Nigel Farage refuses to apologise for the appalling Grenfell comments of the Housing Chief who he hired and fired. Claiming it is the same as apologising for everything that happened in the last couple of hundred years. He is a scumbag of the lowest calibre.

Those who promoted Brexit should never be anywhere near power ever again.

We all know Brexit is dead in the water. Even the Brexiteers know, though they won’t admit it in public. So much money lost every single week by being outside the EU. Money that could be used throughout the UK. Give us a follow if you have the same thoughts.

More than 100 international law experts express "profound concern" about serious violations of international law by the US, Israel and Iran. US-Israeli decision to attack on Iran was a clear breach of the United Nations Charter. Who will enforce the law? justsecurity.org/135423/prof…

Epstein Files: Two children were strangled and raped to death. Do not stop talking about the Epstein files.

And magically nobody is talking about them anymore. Ted Lieu on camera: "The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped children." A sitting congressman said this on the record.

Epstein Files: Two children were strangled and raped to death. This is why I will never stop.

The Green Party have proposed a policy where the highest paid person in a company could only earn 10x as much as the lowest, currently the ratio is over 1000x in some companies. Do you agree?

The Meningitis outbreak could have been prevented by vaccination. The Meningitis vaccine is currently available to Year 10/11 pupils and under 25's for free, still only 79% are taking it. Get your vaccines they save lives.

Superbugs resistant to antibiotics are rising fast. I tested water at Lough Neagh (40% of Northern Ireland’s drinking water) & found high levels of antibiotic-resistant genes from human & livestock poo. If we treat waters like sewers, this is what we get. theguardian.com/environment/…

Funny how many self-proclaimed ‘patriots’ spend huge amounts of time and effort avoiding taxes that pay for 🇬🇧 hospitals, schools, roads, defence and all the rest.

Reform is treated by much of the broadcast media as though it is the official Opposition and next government. Could @ChrisMasonBBC @BethRigby @itvpeston etc therefore please apply to this scam the same levels of scrutiny and news value as the lesser sums involved in the tax affairs of @AngelaRayner …. Thank you for your attention to this matter and well done @Gabriel_Pogrund