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Gareth Mclean 🥀 retweeted
Buried on page 30, Sir David Bell’s schools review says anti-Jewish attitudes “have remained more stable, whereas anti-Israel sentiments are more prevalent and have been increasing.”
The government has accepted all 27 of its recommendations anyway.
Gareth Mclean 🥀 retweeted
This is journalism at its very best. It took this Channel 4 team months to scrape the truth from this Labour government. Not just complicit in a genocide, actively providing military arms. Humanity remembers
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Thanks Coach- here’s the no copyright music version of the 8th front if anyone wants to download or share it
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Eric Weinstein blocked me, but we’re all still wondering who “they” are?
But he inspired me.
Free speech Friday this afternoon so we can explain to Eric and to “them” exactly what they wanted to know.
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Labour was once the workers party. It’s now the political wing of Palantir.
Sagal Abdi-Wali has just filed her first register of interest in Parliament, revealing who funded her election campaign in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election where she defeated Zack Polanski.
And they stink.
They are from sources with strong historical ties to Labour Together. And through one of her key donors, Sagal is linked to investments in companies like Palantir and Elbit Systems and Boeing. There is something completely broken about how the reporting regime for donations works that we're only finding this out now, after the election.
The returns show that Abdi-Wali had two big donors: Daniel Luhde-Thompson and his wife Cressida Pollock who donated jointly, and Green Britain Group Ltd, the holding company of Dale Vince's Ecotricity. Both donated £50k to the campaign.
Daniel Luhde-Thompson is mega-wealthy. He is one of the co-founders of the quant-trading hedge fund Quadrature Capital. Quadrature, whose holding company is registered in the Caymans, donated £4m to the Labour Party during the 2024 General Election.
It was the single largest donation Labour had ever received. But nobody knew this fact during the election itself, as the donation was only declared after the election as it was made in a specific week-long window that was exempt from immediate reporting.
As I revealed in OpenDemocracy in October 2024, Quadrature had held shares in companies connected to the genocide in Gaza in late 2023 and early 2024. It held an average of $121m in shares in companies linked to the genocide in Gaza between December 2023 and July 2024. This included shareholdings in arms companies like the lead contractor on the F-35, Lockheed Martin.
I've just checked Quadrature's most recent SEC filings submitted at the end of June 2026. They show that Quadrature still has investments in arms companies like Boeing and Lockheed. The June fillings show it held $9m in Elbit shares and an astonishing $117m in Palantir.
What is it with the Labour Party and connections to Palantir?
Luhde-Thompson also donated to Labour Together. He donated £50k at the end of November 2023: smack-bang in the middle of the period when Labour Together hired APCO to investigate journalists (including me and my family) who had exposed Morgan McSweeney's failure to report donations in violation of the law between 2018 and 2020 (of course there is no indication Luhde-Thompson knew about this).
Dale Vince, Sagal's other donor, was also a big donor to Labour Together. He has, most recently, strongly supported approving drilling at Jackdaw and Rosebank oilfields.
We found out about Dale Vince donating to Sagal during the campaign because it was leaked to the Independent. But voters in Holborn & St Pancras had no idea that she was also being funded by Daniel Luhde-Thompson, linking her to Quadrature and, through that, investments in companies complicit in genocide.
There is really something deeply wrong here. Voters were deprived of key information before they cast their vote. Our electoral laws around donations, which allow the mega-rich to dominate our politics, have to be reformed.
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Those who dismiss criticism of the BBC's coverage of Gaza and describe its bias as impartiality often forget that there's data. And it's unimpeachable.
The BBC Israel Would Say Files. The full results are in for both broadcast and articles.
Analysis of 267 broadcast interviews between October 2023 and October 2026:
- BBC presenters put Israel's case, in Israel's name, to guests criticising Israel's conduct in Gaza in 252 separate interviews.
- They put the Palestinian case, in its name, to guests defending Israel's conduct in 15.
- To better portray this disparity, our compilation of the BBC defending Israel in their own words now runs at 48 mins 12 secs. Our compilation of the BBC defending Palestinians in their own words runs at 2 mins 38 secs.
- The plainest form, “Israel would say”, was put to critics in 75 interviews. “Palestinians [or any Palestinian group] would say” was put to defenders in 4.
- 10 of the 15 Palestinian cases came in the first six weeks after 7 October 2023, and 5 in the three years after. Presenters were still putting Israel's case to critics in 2026.
- The above point suggests an editorial shift to stop conveying what Palestinians are saying, but to continue conveying what "Israel would say".
Analysis of 1,618 written articles, from October 2023 to October 2026:
- When an article reported criticism of Israel's conduct in Gaza, the BBC added Israel's position 49% of the time (1,771 of 3,648 claims).
- When an article reported Israel's claims, the BBC added a Palestinian or UN position 38% of the time (914 of 2,431). A Palestinian position alone: 25%.
- Put the two official sides side by side. When the authorities in Gaza made a claim against Israel, the BBC added Israel's position 58% of the time (334 of 575). When Israel's government or army made a claim, the BBC added a Palestinian or UN position 39% of the time (855 of 2,165).
- Article by article: 71% of the articles reporting criticism of Israel gave Israel's position at least once. 53% of the articles reporting Israel's claims gave a Palestinian or UN position.
- In other words, in almost half of the articles where Israel makes a claim, it goes completely uncontested.
The full report, including every single broadcast and article in the corpus, can be found here, completely free of charge: newscord.org/editorials/bbc-…
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The BBC will always be remembered for being complicit in genocide. A failure of an institution.
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It took 8 years to produce a report because the Met refused to give the panel access to its system for 7 years ...The conclusion was blunt. The Met was institutionally corrupt. Then commissioner Cressida Dick was personally called out for the years of delay and obstruction.
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH ABOUT BENT COPS
Daniel Morgan was a private investigator who was about to sell a newspaper story exposing police corruption. On 10 March 1987 he was found with an axe in his head in a pub car park in Sydenham.
Should have been a straightforward case for any competent police force. Except the Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk left the crime scene unsearched and unguarded, which is an odd way to run a murder investigation unless you already know who did it.
Five separate police investigations followed over the next 24 years. All five collapsed. 67 people were arrested along the way, including 8 serving or former police officers.
Nobody was ever convicted. Morgan's case also got tangled up with corrupt officers linked to the News of the World, the newspaper that later imploded in the phone hacking scandal.
In 2013 the Home Secretary finally set up an independent panel to find out what actually happened. It took the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel, chaired by Baroness Nuala O'Loan, 8 years to produce an answer, partly because the Met refused to give the panel access to its own case management system for 7 of those years ...
... The police obstructed the inquiry into how the police obstructed the investigation.
The final report landed in June 2021, running to 1251 pages. Its conclusion was blunt. The Metropolitan Police was institutionally corrupt, more concerned with protecting its own image than solving the murder of a father of two.
Then commissioner Cressida Dick was personally called out for the years of delay and obstruction.
The Met's response hit every note of a corporate crisis playbook. It admitted corruption played a role in the failed original investigation, then in the same breath said it did not accept it was institutionally corrupt.
A separate watchdog review the following year decided it would not use that label either. So the country ended up with a 1251 page report calling the force corrupt, followed by polite disagreement about the wording, while the murder stays unsolved 39 years on.
The Morgan family fought for over three decades to get even this far. Not because Scotland Yard offered them the truth. Because they refused to accept anything less.
This is what institutional accountability looks like when the institution under investigation gets to mark its own homework. If you have ever wondered why whistleblowers inside British policing keep getting ignored, start here.
SOURCES
@BBCNews @thetimes @SkyNews @guardian and others.
Gareth Mclean 🥀 retweeted
The BBC Israel Would Say Files. The full results are in for both broadcast and articles.
Analysis of 267 broadcast interviews between October 2023 and October 2026:
- BBC presenters put Israel's case, in Israel's name, to guests criticising Israel's conduct in Gaza in 252 separate interviews.
- They put the Palestinian case, in its name, to guests defending Israel's conduct in 15.
- To better portray this disparity, our compilation of the BBC defending Israel in their own words now runs at 48 mins 12 secs. Our compilation of the BBC defending Palestinians in their own words runs at 2 mins 38 secs.
- The plainest form, “Israel would say”, was put to critics in 75 interviews. “Palestinians [or any Palestinian group] would say” was put to defenders in 4.
- 10 of the 15 Palestinian cases came in the first six weeks after 7 October 2023, and 5 in the three years after. Presenters were still putting Israel's case to critics in 2026.
- The above point suggests an editorial shift to stop conveying what Palestinians are saying, but to continue conveying what "Israel would say".
Analysis of 1,618 written articles, from October 2023 to October 2026:
- When an article reported criticism of Israel's conduct in Gaza, the BBC added Israel's position 49% of the time (1,771 of 3,648 claims).
- When an article reported Israel's claims, the BBC added a Palestinian or UN position 38% of the time (914 of 2,431). A Palestinian position alone: 25%.
- Put the two official sides side by side. When the authorities in Gaza made a claim against Israel, the BBC added Israel's position 58% of the time (334 of 575). When Israel's government or army made a claim, the BBC added a Palestinian or UN position 39% of the time (855 of 2,165).
- Article by article: 71% of the articles reporting criticism of Israel gave Israel's position at least once. 53% of the articles reporting Israel's claims gave a Palestinian or UN position.
- In other words, in almost half of the articles where Israel makes a claim, it goes completely uncontested.
The full report, including every single broadcast and article in the corpus, can be found here, completely free of charge: newscord.org/editorials/bbc-…
Gareth Mclean 🥀 retweeted
If true this is outrageous.
It seems that Andy Burnham’s latest version of ending 40 years of neoliberalism is handing Thames Water over to US hedge funds.
Labour have stopped even pretending to serve us or our communities anymore.
Labour stand for the hedge funds.
🚨BREAKING
The Financial Times has just revealed that Thames Water’s US hedge fund creditors are close to agreeing a ‘last and final’ deal to take over the company.
A handover to US hedge funds. A continuation of the privatised chaos. And a huge reward for the people who have run our water into the ground.
The deal would see them allowed to pollute our rivers and seas without consequence - in exchange for an upfront payoff.
This deal is absolutely outrageous, in every regard.
112 MPs have already called for special administration of Thames Water.
A cross-party group of MPs - who scrutinise the Environment Department - have said that the creditors’ proposal should be rejected and Thames Water should be brought into special administration.
And the former Environment Secretary rejected a previous version of the creditors’ deal in June. This new version is not better in any way.
@andyburnham promised to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation. He promised public control of life’s essentials.
This really is the moment of truth for Andy Burnham. If he allows the water supply of 16 million people to be sold off to US hedge funds - how can we take him seriously about any of his promises?
NO DEAL to the Thames Water creditors. Special administration now.
Gareth Mclean 🥀 retweeted
Investigators just discovered a mysterious advertising firm as the #1 bidder targeting satellite communications in over 100 countries
The ads were being used to secretly GEOLOCATE and SURVEIL users worldwide.
@grok, Which country is behind this?
Country only, bitch
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Estimates range from roughly 4–8 million for direct deaths in major US-involved wars (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and related) to 13–30 million when including indirect deaths, proxies and broader interventions, per researchers like Brown University’s Costs of War and compilations such as James A. Lucas. No official total exists; figures depend on methodology and what is counted.
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hey @grok, concise, no spin.
Gilbert Bigio, a billionaire sanctioned for supporting a military coup in Haiti and financially enabling armed gangs terrorizing and destabilizing the country.
his name appears in the Pandora Papers, exposing offshore fortunes hidden in tax havens.
also exposed: business transactions linking him to Jeffrey Epstein’s estate.
his empire built a private port later identified in a UN report among illicit weapons trafficking routes.
for over 20 YEARS, he represented a foreign country as honorary consul.
@grok,
1. which country did he represent?
2. what was his religious background?
@grok, country and religion only
Gareth Mclean 🥀 retweeted
Boom.
Burnham’s government refused a Gaza inquiry. A UN inquiry found genocide. The ICJ ordered it prevented. Corbyn’s Gaza Tribunal found Britain failed to. 100,000 people have demanded the inquiry ministers refused.
We’re taking this to Parliament. Complicity gets a hearing.
Keep up the pressure. Sign:
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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We want the UK Government to launch an inquiry into any British involvement in Israeli operations in Gaza.
This petition is so close to the 100,000 needed to be considered for a debate in Parliament.
Please sign & share - let's get it over the line!
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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JUST IN: Another foreign spyware infected devices linked to Italy’s CENTRAL BANK, DEFENSE MINISTRY and PARLIAMENT.
Investigators found a system capable of silently infecting phones without a click.
The company: Discover-Tech.
@grok, which country is it from?
Country only.
Gareth Mclean 🥀 retweeted
The oldest papyrus on Earth is a logistics diary about the Great Pyramid, and it doesn’t describe the pyramid being built.
Merer was a crew leader hauling fine limestone from Tura across the Nile for the casing.
That’s what the pages say, in detail, boat by boat, yet people cite it as proof we know how the pyramid went up.
It says nothing about the 2.3 million core blocks, and nothing about getting 80 tonne granite beams out of Aswan and 150 feet up into the King’s Chamber.
We literally have the delivery note for the paint job and we are calling it the blueprint.
