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This is our Foreign Minister, do we think he's compromised?

"As shadow foreign secretary, I’m an Atlanticist, a deep believer in Britain’s military, intelligence and nuclear alliance with the US. But as a person, I’m also a product of the Atlantic. Sometimes, when the cabin stills, flying over the ocean, I think about the crossings that made me."

Frankly anybody who calls themselves an "Atlanticist" is just carrying water for Oceania

newstatesman.com/diary/2023/09

The UK Online Safety Act comes into effect today.

Its onerous duties may cause many small sites, blogs and fedi instances to shut down or geoblock UK users when faced with potential fines and penalties.

This won't keep children safe. It'll benefit large platforms like Facebook and X that are laying waste to content moderation.

theregister.com/2025/01/14/onl

The Register · It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the boardמאת Lindsay Clark

Starmer: We can't tax the rich, that would hurt the economy

Also Starmer: The British people have spoken* and Brexit is final no matter how much damage that's done and continues to do to the economy

* What the British people said was, a third wanted to Leave, a third wanted to Remain, and a third didn't know or didn't care. Also, the year after, the British people said we wanted a Blue Tory government so you should resign, Keir. What's that? Changing views? Also, in the last election, 80% of the electorate didn't vote for you so the British people speaking doesn't seem to be high on your actual list of policy drivers mate

This Wes #Streeting guy is a real villain of a human.

For what it means to anyone (and everyone else's case is valid), when I had my mental health collapse, I didn't claim these so-called 'benefits', and still people looked at me like I was making it all up.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7ejv

Health Secretary Wes Streeting
BBC NewsMental health conditions are overdiagnosed, Streeting saysWes Streeting says too many young people are "being written off", as he defends upcoming welfare reforms.

Morning all.

Musing: the lies from Labour about helping people into work.

If you want disabled people to work, and I don't know why you would other than some twisted belief that human lives are meaningful only in terms of our economic output, but if you do then you could do it this way:

* Identify areas in which deploying large numbers of people with varying skills and ability levels could improve society for all, and if you must do it this way, improve national economics capability

* Offer flexible and realistic positions to make progress in those areas, to disabled people, without threat and at market rates

* Pay for this using the power of a fiat currency with a national central bank

Maybe this would work instead of forcing people to compete in an ableist job market deliberately designed to have large numbers of unemployed in order to suppress wages.

But you don't want it to work. You just want to look good to the gammon and the City and the cost will be the lives of disabled folk.

"US politicians and privacy campaigners are calling for the private hearing between Apple and the UK government regarding its alleged encryption-busting order to be aired in public."

theregister.com/2025/03/14/app

"Colloquially, the IPA is referred to as the Snooper's Charter since its aims are to legally empower intelligence agencies with greater surveillance powers."

The Register · Apple's alleged UK encryption battle sparks political and privacy backlashמאת Connor Jones
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@alisynthesis I guess Bernie would have to attract billionaires that he's not willing to court, which is sad because there are enough on the "giving pledge" list who would at least listen.

There are still some Chuck Feenyes in the world.

I watched the same with Michael Foot in Britain, who was a fantastic socialist leader, and a fantastic speaker - and was very similar to Bernie in a lot of ways. But he was completely unelectable because in an ultra capitalist society, you need friends in that world (very oversimplified).

Now I will spend too long trying to find out if Foot and Bernie ever met, but I think a plane ticket to America would have been far too opulent for him 😁

‘Absurd’

When you have the press and civil society camped outside the courtroom, the secret might be out 🤷

Even so, we’re still denied the reasons why the UK government wants to take a battering ram to our security and privacy.

It shows contempt for the public interest in the Apple encryption case.

pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/a

"There is still time for the Labour cabinet to act like a cabinet, and for its members to stand up to the Treasury to halt the cuts in benefits to the sick and disabled, and to insist on a more flexible interpretation of the fiscal rules and a limited set of tax measures."

John McDonnell

Benefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared and short-sighted? | John McDonnell | The Guardian
theguardian.com/commentisfree/
#UKPol #Labour #welfare #austerity

The Guardian · Benefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared and short-sighted?מאת John McDonnell

"Google refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK government"

The UK’s encryption-breaking order for a backdoor into iCloud isn’t a one-off.

The secret hearing happening RIGHT NOW is bigger than just Apple. If the government wins, our right to privacy and security falls.

Other services will be hit.

therecord.media/google-refuses

Sign our petition ➡️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions

therecord.mediaGoogle refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK governmentU.S. lawmakers say Google has refused to deny that it received a Technical Capability Notice from the U.K. — a mechanism to access encrypted messages that Apple reportedly received.