Radical Listening sessions in Newcastle aim to tear down the walls dividing us

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Majority has been hosting “Radical Listening, Radical Persuasion” sessions in Newcastle in recent months. And ahead of the latest session, on 24 June, we spoke to co-presenters Steph Langford and Hugo Fearnley to find out more about their efforts to unite people across different communities by finding common ground between them. What does ‘radical listening’ actually mean? Radical listening, Fearnley explained, is about connecting with other people: in a different way so that you understand where they’re coming from a little bit more before you even open your mouth and try and have a conversation, debate, argument Few people, he said,…

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New report details long-standing systematic failures in Nottingham’s maternity care

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On 24 June, independent senior midwife Donna Ockenden published her long-awaited review of failures in maternity care under Nottingham university hospitals (NUH) NHS trust. The report identified: long-standing and deeply embedded systemic failures across multiple areas of maternity and neonatal care. Then-health secretary Sajid Javid first commissioned the review after eight families came forward with accounts of the harm and loss they suffered. However, by the time the review closed in May 2025, almost 2,500 families had taken part. For the most part, their experiences covered just over 3 years, beginning in 2012. Likewise, over 800 members of NUH staff contacted…

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Trade Unions and climate groups call national Heat Strike

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A coalition of trade unions and climate groups announced on 23 June that they’re calling a national Heat Strike at the peak of the heatwave this week. This is after the UK Health Security Agency issued a rare red heat health alert, followed by the Met Office’s Red Extreme Heat Warning for parts of England. Temperatures were forecast to reach as high as 39°C, smashing previous records for June. Along with members of the public around the UK, the organisations taking part in the Heat Strike include: Trades Union Congress (TUC). Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU). Fire Brigades Union…

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Badnoch sinks to new lows as MPs appear increasingly out of touch

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Conservative leader Badenoch has descended into the gutter of British politics as she threw loaded words like “traitor” at Labour MPs and made clear her disgust at politicians apparently seeking to improve inequality in the UK. Taking aim at Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, who she says has been “loyal and incompetent”, Badenoch disgustingly stated: It turns out, appointing a spiteful class warrior as education secretary was a disaster. However, she also pointed out how the taxes were introduced to increase the number of teachers in state schools — which hasn’t borne out — but Badenoch appears more to have an issue…

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Protests outside global far-right ARC London conference

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Activists gathered outside Kensington Olympia on 23 June, as delegates arrived for the first day of the far-right ‘Alliance for Responsible Citizenship’ (ARC) conference. Over 10 other campaign groups, including Greenpeace, Take Back Power and Queers for Palestine, joined protest organiser Fossil Free London. The conference has been described as: Glastonbury for climate science deniers, Trump acolytes, manosphere enthusiasts and nihilists in general. Protesters wore frog costumes and carried signs reading “Fossil Fuels Fund Fascism”, “Oily Fascists Out of London” and “Frogs Together Strong”. The theme took inspiration from the protest movement that emerged in the US in late 2025, where…

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Burnham says “we under tax wealth” but will he do anything about it?

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Tax Justice UK have posted a video filmed in November, challenging the newly elected Makerfield MP and likely-PM Andy Burnham on his position on wealth taxes. This comes as Burnham looks likely to take the top job of PM, leading many to pay attention to whether he sticks by his prior commitments. At the time, Andy Burnham seemed to recognise the unfairness of a system that taxes work heavily while allowing many of the wealthiest to pay less than ordinary workers. He notably said: We under tax wealth. If you take something as simple as council tax, people here [Manchester city…

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EXPOSED: UK media’s hierarchy of racism after Edinburgh terror attacks

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Islamophobia — The UK’s hierarchy of racism was clearly on display after the terror attacks in Edinburgh on 19 June, as an analysis of news coverage has shown. The Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) has previously called out the amount of anti-Muslim propaganda in the British media. And having now compared coverage of the Edinburgh attacks with coverage of the 29 April Golders Green attacks, it has found that the media is also underplaying terror attacks that target Muslims. Islamophobia — The UK’s racist media establishment The hierarchy of racism in the UK is particularly obvious on the right of the…

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US Senate passes War Powers Resolution, heaping embarrassment on Trump’s Iran loss

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Trump’s war on Iran has finally gone too far even for the Republican-controlled US Senate — on 23 June, the upper house passed a War Powers Resolution nominally barring the president from continuing hostilities against Iran without congressional approval. Unfortunately, the resolution is primarily a symbolic gesture. Whilst the resolution passed the lower House of Representatives at the beginning of June, and has now passed through the Senate, it won’t be passed to Trump for his approval. Likewise, it won’t carry the weight of law. Meanwhile, Trump has called the act “poorly timed and meaningless”, and signalled his intent to ignore…

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Heroes disrupt Dublin conference hosted by genocide-backing Microsoft

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The absolute legends from pro-Palestine campaign group Your Tech Their Deaths (YTTD) have disrupted a Dublin conference hosted by the disgraced Microsoft, a company that has operated as the tech backbone of so-called ‘Israel’s’ holocaust in Gaza. The conference in question was Big Data Dublin 2026, held at the vomit-inducing address ‘One Microsoft Place’. In Ireland, we don’t just enable genocidaires, we now name streets after them. The blurb for the event says: Join Microsoft and Analytics Engine for Big Data Dublin 2026, a flagship event bringing together Ireland’s leading organisations to explore how AI and data are being applied to…

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Anti-ICE protesters jailed for decades

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Demonstrators in the US will spend decades in prison after being sentenced for taking part in a protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centre last July. Journalist Mehdi Hasan called the sentences “insane” and noted the hypocrisy and authoritarian nature of the punishments. Protesters Accused of Antifa Ties Sentenced to Up to 100 Years in ICE Attack https://t.co/7eMN3ohmDM via @NYTimes Insane sentences. Same people who protested at 5 or 10 yr sentences for Jan 6 rioters will say nothing about this. Oh, the hypocrisy. Authoritarian for thee, not me. — Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) June 23, 2026 A total of…

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Polanski claims Burnham’s on the run as Labour literally retreats from Greens

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On Wednesday 24 June, the Labour Party and Green Party simultaneously convened in Lambeth’s Agnes Riley Gardens, and Zack Polanski had something to say about it. These duelling rallies should have been a good opportunity for each side to demonstrate how much support they have. Things didn’t pan out that way, however, because the Labour side retreated from the field: Great rally this morning in Lambeth! Bizarre that Labour cancelled their rally an hour after I announced I was coming. Have they thrown in the towel already? Vote Green! https://t.co/1KnAdbnX0c — Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) June 24, 2026 Polanski and ‘the Battle…

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Elon Musk no longer a trillionaire as AI bubble pops and SpaceX crashes

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On Friday 12 June, Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire. He achieved this on the back of his company SpaceX going public, despite said company not being profitable. This has inevitably led to the following: JUST IN: SpaceX lost $1 trillion in market cap since last week — Kalshi (@Kalshi) June 23, 2026 Oh, and thanks to all this, the wretched Musk has already lost his ‘trillionaire’ status: Elon Musk is no longer a trillionaire after a global rout in tech shares wiped $500bn (£379bn) off his fortunehttps://t.co/XYksFxIBdq pic.twitter.com/IMDRbV9LwZ — The Telegraph (@Telegraph) June 24, 2026 Hey Elon Musk: money…

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Norway steals the limelight at the World Cup with Viking rituals

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The Norwegian national team’s appearance at the 2026 World Cup was not merely a return after a long absence. Rather, it has felt like the reclaiming of a whole identity, bringing the fans back to the forefront – this time with a different face and a louder voice from the stands. Whenever the team achieved a positive result, a now-familiar scene would unfold: hundreds of supporters sitting in tight rows, swaying in unison, as if rowing together in a single ship navigating the tournament’s waves. A simple scene in appearance, yet it quickly became a defining feature of this summer’s World…

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Kylian Mbappé and Harry Kane chasing historic World Cup feat

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Since the World Cup began in 1930, dozens of goalscorers have taken part in the tournament and left their mark on the history of the game. But one thing has remained constant over the course of nearly a century: no player has ever won the World Cup Golden Boot twice. Although the tournament has featured legendary names such as Pelé, Diego Maradona, Ronaldo (Brazil), Zinedine Zidane, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Lionel Messi, none of them have managed to top the scoring charts in two different editions. In fact, most have never even won it once. Today, the 2026 World Cup presents a…

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WATCH: Scottish MP Lara Bird mogs ‘royal’ oath with crossed fingers

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Scottish MP Lara Bird bested the archaic royal oath of allegiance with what look like crossed fingers when she was sworn into Parliament this week. Crossing one’s fingers when making a promise means that the would-be promiser has no intention of sincerely holding that promise. Bird therefore smartly worked her way around the anachronistic ‘pledge of allegiance’ to the Windsors. This amounts to what Gen-Z and Gen-A would call a ‘mogging’ of the British crown. And too right — MPs are elected to serve us all, not just one wealthy family. It’s time more MPs did the same. In making her…

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Another Reform candidate exposed for grim social posts

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Once again, a Reform candidate’s social media history has exposed the party‘s lax vetting procedures. The candidate in question is Andy Curwen, the National revealed. Gordon Highlanders veteran Curwen is running in the Peterhead South and Cruden by-election which will take place on 2 July. Reform UK candidate blasted for misogynistic Instagram postshttps://t.co/abuets3LRp — Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed) June 23, 2026 Curwen’s posts also include this blatantly racist meme from 2021. There’s also this which reads: “Women can argue for 3 straight hours but 2 minutes into a BJ and her jaw hurts”. A ‘BJ’ is a sexual act. The…

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The Hidden Cost of a Slow House Sale in the UK

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Selling a home is often treated as a simple question of price. Get a valuation, list the property, wait for offers and hope the sale goes through. But for many homeowners, the real cost is not just the final sale price. It is the money, time and stress lost while the process drags on. That is why some sellers now compare estate agents, auctions and companies that buy houses for cash when weighing up what a delayed sale could actually cost them. A slow house sale can look harmless at first. The property is on the market, viewings are happening and…

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Restore Britain candidate helped lead biased grooming gangs inquiry

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The leader of Restore Britain has announced its candidate for the Greater Manchester mayoral elections: Marlon West, whose daughter is a victim of group-based child sexual exploitation. However, CSE survivor, Femi Mohammed, says West is one of the people who deliberately excluded her from Lowe’s intensely biased ‘Rape Gang Inquiry Report’. The goal? To reinforce the misinformation that only Pakistani Muslim men prey on white British girls. Restore Britain: Who is Marlon West? On 22 June, Rupert Lowe posted that he was “delighted” about the announcement. West is one of the most prominent campaigners against the rape gangs in the country…

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UK officials chose cosying up to oppressor UAE over preventing mass murder in Sudan

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The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) now face serious questions after being proven to be politically captured, yet again, by an oppressive state funding mass-murder, this time at the hands of the Rapid Sudan Forces (RSF). Afraid of upsetting foreign tyrants, thus choosing to ignore warnings about the mass slaughter of Sudanese civilians in el-Fasher. Instead, human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond has claimed that the FCDO instead prioritised cosying up to the UAE out of fear it would upset existing ‘good relations’. Founding director of the Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at Yale School of Public Health, Raymond, provided damning testimony…

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Reform has the gall to call out another party’s voting record

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As we’ve covered, Reform UK politicians have a terrible record for showing up to work. Despite this, Reform’s chairperson, Lee Anderson, had the brass neck to say the following: A Tale of Two Priorities. The first picture is from last night's debate on the British Coal Superannuation Pension Scheme, which shows a lack of interest from the majority of Labour MPs. The second picture was taken a few hours earlier. Makes you wonder doesn't it? Vote… pic.twitter.com/EtPEjKTbfU — Lee Anderson MP (@LeeAndersonMP_) June 23, 2026 Reform has some gall First, let’s look at the record of the Reform MPs who entered…

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