Why are banks abandoning our communities? youtu.be/Afw9TyrVtRo?si=ChJY…

13 years ago this month, the Guardian broke the Snowden story...the biggest mass surveillance exposé in history. Today it calls your concern about ID-linked browsing, spyware in your photos and messages, and broken encryption, "fake outrage" while Starmer's government demands backdoors into your iCloud and calls for people to be arrested for tweets. The watchdog became the lapdog.

I cannot believe what I’m witnessing in Kyiv tonight. Priests at the Kyiv Lavra one of the holiest Christian sites in Europe are rushing to save crucifixes, icons and sacred artefacts while Russia attacks the city. This is what Moscow’s “Christian values” look like.

Here’s what all the organisations have said about the Bill :

The 50 richest families own more wealth than 34 million people. A handful have everything. Millions are struggling. End Rip Off Britain. Wealth tax. Now.

It’s a gorgeous summer’s evening here in Newcastle-under-Lyme. About to pack my bag for Parliament and have just been told that there will be *breaking news* at 9:30 tonight. The Assisted Dying Bill is going to brought back to the House. Bad, bad news.

Why does The Economist hate wealth taxes?

Result of Tory/Labour freeze of personal allowance at £12570 since April 2021. Number of income tax payers: 2021/22, 33m; 2025/26, 39.1m. Basic rate payers: 2021/22, 27.4m; 2025/26, 30.4m Pensioners paying income tax, 2021/22, 6.74m; 2025/26, 8.72m. More poor pay income tax.

This is barbaric. They were not permitted to explain to the jury why they carried out the attack on the Elbit factory - which makes the weapons that kill Palestinian children. And the jury was never told they would be sentenced as terrorists. /1

Elon Musk can say what he likes about me but I won't stay silent whilst foreign tech billionaires, money earned off the backs of real workers, try to interfere in our democracy, incite violence in our communities and tear apart our country. Time for him to pipe down.

Multi-millionaire Iceland boss wants to axe pension triple lock. Full UK state pension (received by 35% of pensioners) is less than 50% of minimum wage. Millions can't save for private pension 2m pensioners live in poverty. 110000 a year die in poverty. archive.ph/OIdCF

🚨 Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. That is not a sign the economy is working. It's a sign that decades of policy choices allowed extreme wealth to concentrate at the top while working people fell further behind. patrioticmillionaires.org/pr…

Jeremy Johnson - in 50 years time this will be the only 1.39 minutes of your life you'll be remembered for. It'll be played in genocide museums to sum up the complicity and callous brutality of the British state in the face of the slaughter of the Palestinian people - and the courage of those who opposed it.

Scale of sentences on the 4 young people who took direct action against the arms supplier to Israel is truly shocking. To impose years of imprisonment for protesting to save lives in Gaza is unjust, especially sentencing on terrorist grounds they were never convicted of by a jury

It's also worth remembering that Gove is a director of the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation (along with Reform's James Orr), which historically received most of its funding through Viktor Orban

"There are roughly 60-80 times more Blacks in South Africa than there are whites in the ENTIRE continent of Africa outside South Africa. But yes, 'apartheid'." See how you sound Zac? Meanwhile, here's Human Rights Watch's report on apartheid in Israel: hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/th…

A judge has sentenced the Filton 4 as terrorists, behind the back of the jury, who only ever considered charges of criminal damage. This grotesque distortion of the law tightens the screws on the public’s right to protest, placing more limits on our freedom to fight injustice.

Michael Gove - editor of the Spectator, Orwell Prize judge & overseer of the biggest electoral fraud in modern UK history - apparently upset that I called out his boss’s investment in Palantir after he ran a sycophantic pro-Palantir piece

This was Palestinian athlete Moazaz Obayat before and after 9 months of captivity in the prisons of the Zionist regime.

The many takes flying around about John Healey, resignation gossip and national security spending miss a fundamental point. In Finland, where people have a strong social safety net and a real sense of shared national purpose, around 80% say they would be prepared to defend their country. In the UK, that figure is closer to 30%. That should tell us something. Until we change the financial architecture of our economy and bring the essentials of life out of the grip of corporate extraction and into public ownership, we will always be told to choose between bombs and butter. But the reality is we need both. Modern hybrid warfare means every public service is part of our national resilience. Energy, water, housing, health, transport, food security and social care are not separate from defence. They are defence. If we want people to defend the country, we have to build a country people believe is worth defending. A thriving state. A fair economy. A society where everyone feels they have a stake. I spoke about this on Peston on Monday night.