"Undercover police officers spied on the justice campaign run by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent man shot dead by police on the tube in 2005, the #SpyCops public inquiry has heard.
"The surveillance took place while the grieving family was seeking to hold the Metropolitan police to account and uncover the truth of why officers had mistaken him for a suicide bomber when they shot him seven times in the head."
Excellent. Full acceptance of all the recommendations from the Fingleton review of the regulatory landscape surrounding nuclear power.
This should've been done years, even a decade or more ago.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/overhaul-of-nuclear-system-to-speed-up-building-and-cut-costs
Dear god, no. Please don't let this be a part of our new reality.
Quite right.
There are people with who one may disagree on political subjects while retaining a friendship — but not populists intent on tearing the country apart and destroying our politics.
The #UK is ejecting hereditary #nobles from #Parliament after 700 years
By Jill Lawless, March 11, 2026
Excerpt: "Centuries of British political tradition will end within weeks after Parliament voted to remove hereditary #aristocrats from the unelected House of Lords.
"On Tuesday night members of the upper chamber dropped objections to legislation passed by the House of Commons ousting dozens of #dukes, #earls and #viscounts who inherited seats in Parliament along with their aristocratic titles.
"Government minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the change put an end to 'an archaic and undemocratic principle.'
" 'Our parliament should always be a place where talents are recognized and merit counts,' he said. 'It should never be a gallery of old boys’ networks, nor a place where titles, many of which were handed out centuries ago, hold power over the will of the people.' "
New poll from Focaldata out including Restore and Your Party.
https://www.focaldata.com/blog/westminster-voting-intention-greens-surge-after-by-election-win
Your Party on 0% with only a single respondent in the sample supporting them — 1 more than George Galloway's Workers Party, also on 0%.
In a random sample of the UK, in which Wales only has something like 4% of the population, Plaid Cymru gets 6 respondents.
The joys Your Party provide might be the only thing keeping me from being entirely forlorn by our present politics.
Finally hereditary peers have been removed from the UK House of Lords. Personally this should just be the start.
Bishops next, the Lords Spiritual have no place in Government in the 21st century.
Then just get rid of the whole Lords and Ladies sh1t. When Lord Cameron was foreign secretary were other countries impressed or did they just laugh?
The UK may be the land of the Magna Carta and the home of the mother of Parliaments but it shouldn’t be run as if it was still the Middle Ages.
let me just remind you that at the same time Polanski was calling for an arrest of Israeli president and cutting ties with US.
but putin? "yay let's directly negotiate and build a relationship!"
sincerely, fuck GPEW (at least while its current leadership is in place) and their "zacktivists". uneducated and pseudointelligent morons.
On Wilson's 60th birthday — 11th March 1976 — he suffered a rebellion on his proposed cuts to public expenditure.
He immediately challenged the left of Labour to depose him, and in the ensuing debate Tony Benn described his as a right wing government. Chancellor Denis Healey, responding to jibes from left wing backbenchers, famously shouted, "Go and fuck yourselves you fuckers!"
Wilson won the vote but resigned a few days after. Thatcher came to power 3 years later.
Finally.
We need a legitimate and strong second chamber, and every inch of ground we gain modernising it is worth the agonising and glacially slow fight to win it.
Here the last ~90 or so hereditary members will lose their seats — some of who can trace their family's presence in the chamber back ~900 years — after a compromise to offer peerages to *some* of them in order to get the Tories to drop their opposition.
I can't disagree with these people.
I could perhaps support an actual humanitarian intervention specifically aiming for regime change to impose democracy, true to my warmongery liberal hawk side, but nothing about this conflict is even remotely close to that.
Instead, an aimless bombing campaign, weeks too late to support a popular uprising.
Starmer's taken exactly the right tack in my view, albeit while pissing off absolutely everybody.
🚨 Wide ranging powers to restrict Internet access in the UK have been voted through 🚨
Ministers will be able to impose digital ID checks, curfews and VPN restrictions without Parliamentary scrutiny.
This can be used on websites, social media, apps and games with no need to show there's any harm to children.
Find out more ⬇️
#onlinesafety #digitalid #id #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol
I just wrote a letter to the Home Secretary using @theactionnetwork.bsky.social's template (adding a note about the fact I'm an immigrant). You can write your own letter here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-home-secretary-shabana-mahmood-her-new-proposals-plunge-over-1-million-migrants-into-poverty-and-uncertainty
I have mixed feelings on this. I have my affection for the constitutional principle, but also concur with Leveson's report. Plus I have a lot of faith in our judiciary so doubt it'd lead to short term disaster.
Were the Tories (who caused all this in the first place) or Reform doing this though, I'd oppose it, particularly since it'll poison and politicise the judiciary in the long term.
I think on balance then I oppose this.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar/10/lawyers-urge-keir-starmer-rethink-plans-cut-jury-trials
This is good.
The Lords' amendment was an incredibly blunt instrument that nobody sane was backing. It would've defined most of the web as 'social media' and thereby banned it for under 16s, with loads of negative knock-on effects.
The government whipped against this amendment, but there were lots of abstentions and one rebel — John McDonnell, continuing his long career of voting contrary to Labour.
The political violence hurled towards Green Party politicians in the UK is an example of how normal people are pushed out of politics so only sociopaths and the Corrupt remain.
Mothin Ali and Hannah Spencer have both had to resort to police protection (for what good that will do) simply for representing us in Politics. This is not normal, despite how the Press reports it.
#HannahSpencer #MothinAli #ACAB #FarRight #Fascists #Nazis #Terrorism #Nazis #PoliticalViolence #UKPOL #UKPolitics
“When you create a law, you have to think about what a future government could do with those powers."
Ministers would have unilateral powers to lock what they see as 'harmful' behind digital ID checks.
This could end up being used on LGBTQ+ and reproductive health content.
🗣️ ORG's James Baker.
#onlinesafety #digitalid #privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
He really wants to destroy the Labour Party, doesn't he?
Making things too easy for the Greens!
#KeirStarmer #Starmer #IranWar #TikTok #Greens #GreenParty #GPEW #UKPOL #UKpolitics
🚨 ID checks to get online could become the new norm 🚨
A new amendment would give the UK government sweeping powers to block access to lawful information and communications.
That's unless we submit our identification to a bounty of providers.
Tell your MP to stop this broad and repressive law ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/no-id-checks-web-access
#privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #digitalID #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol
Putting VPNs behind an age wall threatens our privacy.
They keep young people safe from harassment. Business networks secure. Journalists, campaigners and whistleblowers shielded from harm.
Privacy is online safety ✊️
Sign the petition to protect VPN use in the UK ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-protect-vpn-use-uk
#vpn #privacy #cybersecurity #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
Ending online harms isn't a game of whack-a-mole.
The only way is to bust the business model that rewards harmful results.
Nothing changes until we break the spell that keeps us on platforms; the harvesting of our data to maximise engagement and fuel advertising.
We need to get off the regulatory treadmill and #BreakBigTech.
Sign the petition ⬇️
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/break-big-tech
#OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #bigtech #meta #x #musk #zuckerberg #ukpolitics #ukpol
