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This under the radar benefits cut reminds us why disability justice must centre migrants’ rights

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This under the radar benefits cut reminds us why disability justice must centre migrants’ rights

The Labour government is floating another vicious programme of sweeping cuts to disabled people’s welfare. However, the public could be forgiven for not knowing about these because nowhere in the media or wider sociopolitical disability discourse is anyone talking about them like this is what they are. Notably, while the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has meted out devastating cuts to Universal Credit’s health element, and gears up to once again target personal independence payments (PIP), it has also been colluding with the Home Office to strip hundreds of thousands of migrants of access to welfare. This includes those very same…

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AI companies are destroying rare books for profit

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AI companies are destroying rare books for profit

As a result of a legal loophole, AI companies have taken to sourcing rare books which they are subsequently scanning and destroying. And as people have highlighted, it could mean many texts are being lost to us forever: So AI labs are buying old books by the pallet, slicing them apart, scanning the pages, and pulping what's left. The orders are keyed to ISBNs and blind to scarcity. Nobody in the pipeline checks whether the book being shredded is one of the last copies on earth. Some of them… https://t.co/3WECoCQ7wG — Brad Carson (@bradrcarson) July 27, 2026 AI companies carry out…

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Labour has obliterated Reform’s poll lead

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Labour has obliterated Reform’s poll lead

Now that Keir Starmer has gone, the much anticipated ‘Burnham Bounce’ seems to have materialised. If Andy Burnham can keep this momentum going for Labour, it will be bad news for Reform UK and the Green Party. BREAKING | Labour surge to poll LEAD (!) Lab: 28% ( +4 ) Ref: 24% ( -2 ) Con: 22% ( – ) Lib: 12% ( +1 ) Grn: 8% ( -3 ) { Seats } Lab: 246 Con: 128 Ref: 115 Lib: 72 Nat: 59 Grn: 8 Poll: More in Common, 24-27 Jul (+/- vs 22 Jul) pic.twitter.com/AkKoPyIlQf — Stats for Lefties (@LeftieStats)…

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Thousands of customers ‘furious’ at Pret in frankenchicken backlash

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Thousands of customers ‘furious’ at Pret in frankenchicken backlash

Activists celebrated Pret A Manger’s 40th birthday by dumping a 6 foot birthday card filled with angry messages from customers outside its HQ. In the past four weeks, Pret has received 2,200 comments on its social media accounts about “frankenchickens” amidst the ongoing animal welfare controversy. The backlash follows Pret’s decision earlier this year to push back its 2018 commitment deadline to stop using fast-growing chicken breeds from 2026 to 2032 – a 14-year delay from its original commitment. No progress at Pret Compassion in World Farming’s Chickentrack confirms Pret has made 0% progress on phasing out frankenchickens. Campaigners argue that…

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Netanyahu challenger thinks Israel isn’t attacking enough neighbours

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Netanyahu challenger thinks Israel isn’t attacking enough neighbours

Israel’s former prime minister, Naftali Bennett has said he will declare US ally Qatar to be an “enemy state” if he succeeds in replacing current Benjamin Netanyahu this autumn. The far-right politician also told Bloomberg he wants to start a war on Turkey. Bennett, who used to be Netanyahu’s chief of staff, clearly thinks Israel is not waging war on enough of his neighbours. Qatar was trying, at the request of the US, to facilitate a peace deal between Israel and Hamas when Israel bombed the capital city, Doha, to try to murder the Palestinian negotiators. Bennett has boasted of how…

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‘Israeli’ settlers nearly kill newborn baby in arson attack

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‘Israeli’ settlers nearly kill newborn baby in arson attack

A newborn baby girl, just 45 days old, has survived an arson attack on her home in the occupied West Bank, carried out by ‘Israeli’ settlers. On 24 July, the village of Urif, south of Nablus, was hit by a large-scale settler attack, following a deadly confrontation in the nearby village of Tal. Israeli settlers inflict violence on village Around 150 armed illegal ‘Israeli’ colonists stormed Urif, opening fire on residents, throwing stones, and conducting a wave of arson which saw homes, balconies and community halls go up in flames. Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian homes, businesses, and a Palestinian-owned…

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Greyhound racing supporter tells activists ‘We’ll blow all our dogs away’

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Greyhound racing supporter tells activists ‘We’ll blow all our dogs away’

The pantomime of cruelty known as greyhound racing is slowly fading away, emitting a death rattle that matches the unpleasantness of what preceded it. New Zealand has now banned the sport and Auckland’s Manukau Stadium held its final parade of sadism on 26 July. The country will permit no further greyhound racing after 1 August. One supporter was finally prepared to offer some transparency into the notoriously opaque sport, telling activists who oppose the cruelty: On Monday we’re gonna blow all our dogs away. Fuck you. Owners of greyhounds abused for racing have been found to massacre their dogs in vast…

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MP: UK must stop evading genocide obligations after Sadiq Khan’s admission

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MP: UK must stop evading genocide obligations after Sadiq Khan’s admission

Independent MP Adnan Hussain has demanded action from the UK government after London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan admitted Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Khan is supported in his demand by at least nine other parliamentarians. International law requires International Criminal Court (ICC) member states take every available action to prevent genocide. The Starmer government contorted itself shamelessly to strenuously deny the genocide. New PM Andy Burnham has shown similar evasiveness. But Khan’s admission, coming from one of the Labour party’s most senior representatives, puts the Burnham government firmly on the legal hook. Quoting Khan’s recent speech, Hussain made the point emphatically below.…

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An Indigenous Elder in Australia is suing King Charles III for genocide

An Indigenous Elder in Australia is suing King Charles III for genocide

In June 2026, Krauatungalung Elder Djuran Bunjileenee Uncle Robbie Thorpe appealed to the Victorian Supreme Court in Australia as part of a genocide court case. The accused? King Charles III as the UK Crown representative. It is one of a series of court cases Uncle Robbie has filed. Another is a trespassing case brought against Margaret Gardner, the governor of Victoria. Governor’s trespass Uncle Robbie stands in front of the Victorian Magistrates’ Court in trousers and a North Face jacket. As I step onto the curb, he holds an arm out for a hug and warns me against being mown down…

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WAFCON 2026: Why UK viewers have been left without coverage

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WAFCON 2026: Why UK viewers have been left without coverage

The 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) has kicked off in Morocco but for UK viewers, the opening round has passed without a single minute available to watch on any domestic platform. Despite a late announcement from the CAF Women’s Champions League naming Channel 4 as the UK broadcast partner, the reality has been stark. No live listings, no on‑demand replays, and no sign of future scheduling. For a tournament that has grown in profile, the absence of coverage has left fans confused and frustrated. WAFCON 2026: CAF’s announcement Two days before the opening fixtures, CAF released its global broadcast…

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Fury vs Joshua: The heavyweight boxing showdown fans still want

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Fury vs Joshua: The heavyweight boxing showdown fans still want

Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua remain the two biggest names in British boxing, and talk of finally staging their long‑anticipated fight has resurfaced once again. The matchup has been discussed, negotiated, collapsed and revived multiple times over the past few years, but momentum is building behind a fresh proposal that could bring the pair together in the ring at last. Both fighters have repeatedly said they want the fight. Promoters have indicated renewed interest. Broadcasters are open to it. Right now with the heavyweight landscape shifting again, the timing may finally be right. Fury vs Joshua: Where talks currently stand Discussions…

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The Part of the Electric Transition Nobody Wants to Discuss

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The Part of the Electric Transition Nobody Wants to Discuss

The public argument about electric vehicles has settled into two entrenched positions, neither of which is especially interested in detail. One holds that electrification solves road transport’s environmental problem. The other holds that it is an expensive imposition on ordinary drivers. Both skip past a set of genuinely difficult questions about weight, particulate pollution and who actually bears the cost of the transition, and those questions are becoming harder to avoid as the fleet turns over. Weight Is the Problem Underneath Several Others An electric car is substantially heavier than an equivalent petrol one, because batteries are heavy and the range…

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Revealed: Qatar and Israel top Westminster lobbying league table

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Revealed: Qatar and Israel top Westminster lobbying league table

Foreign governments and influence groups have splurged vast amounts of money taking British MPs abroad since the last election, Declassified can reveal. Israel, Qatar and Taiwan top the rankings, with charm offensives to promote the countries in Westminster. The Middle Eastern monarchies of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Jordan also make the top ten. The findings are part of a joint investigation between Declassified and Consolidate, a political finance database.  Since July 2024, donors have paid for MPs to go on some 658 overseas junkets, at a cost of £2.2m. The majority were funded by private companies, charities or wealthy individuals. But…

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Ecuadorian lawyer investigating US drone strikes assassinated

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Ecuadorian lawyer investigating US drone strikes assassinated

A motorcycle hitman allegedly killed an Ecuadorian lawyer investigating US drone strikes. Alexandra Bravo and her sister were killed on 14 June 2026 when a hitman “aboard a black motorcycle opened fire”. This may be the latest phase in a renewed US bid to dominate the Americas. US drone strikes probe Drop Site News reported: Upon arriving at the crime scene, officers say they found five 9mm shell casings and Bravo’s injured driver, but no sign of the police detail that had been assigned to protect her. The Police Directorate, which operates entirely under the executive branch, has launched a probe…

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Greater Manchester’s working class rallies against far-right advance

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Greater Manchester’s working class rallies against far-right advance

Across Greater Manchester, the last few years have seen a rise in openly racist street activity and anti-Muslim attacks. Unprecedented electoral success for Reform in the recent local elections met and likely spurred this on. This mirrors familiar trends across Britain, wider Europe and internationally. Open fascism swells in Greater Manchester The first half of 2026 saw far-right group Britain First call two major national mobilisations on the streets of central Manchester. There, Greater Manchester Police were ‘disproportionately’ hostile towards antifascists and counter-demonstration organisers, rather than countering openly fascist elements. Further evidence, if it were needed, that the British state’s hired…

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Disgusting video exposes brutal reality of gannet hunt

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Disgusting video exposes brutal reality of gannet hunt

Horrifying new footage has come to light revealing the real cruelty behind the infamous Scottish Guga hunt. As workers race across the protected gannet colony on Sula Sgeir, wildlife campaign group Protect the Wild shared the video before it was scrubbed from the internet. This damning footage comes just days before NatureScot will decide whether to grant new hunting licenses for the annual massacre of the protected sea birds. Terrified chicks and bloodied sacks The now-deleted YouTube video is vile. It shows three men racing through the middle of the breeding colony. The macabre footage shows them using the very sacks…

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Burnham backs ‘conditional’ welfare support in first PM interview

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Burnham backs ‘conditional’ welfare support in first PM interview

In Andy Burnham’s first interview as PM, the newly-minted Labour leader spoke about the need to “get really serious as a country” about “getting the welfare bill down”. And how exactly does he plan to accomplish this feat? Well, Burnham claimed that he didn’t want to “blame” people on benefits, before adding: It’s about changing the nature of the support, and making some of the support conditional upon people taking opportunities that are presented. Implying that people on benefits having been taking the “opportunities that are presented” sounds an awful lot like blame, to us. Blame by another name The BBC recorded its…

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White House boasts of deportation concentration camps

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White House boasts of deportation concentration camps

The White House‘s official X account has posted an image glorifying its racist ICE thugs and its ‘deportation maxxing’ concentration camps. While human beings responded with disgust, many US right-wingers don’t think it was racist enough. ‘Be more racist’ The rabid ‘MAGA’ right responded to the post with a howl of outrage – that the Trump regime is not going far enough in deporting Black and Hispanic people. So-called ‘Christian nationalists’ showed no hesitation in posting blasphemous racist trash: pic.twitter.com/QIluf4tRy2 — Richard M Masliah B, Sc. LLL. LLB. (@Richard4m) July 24, 2026 So-called ‘reverends’ were no less rabid, accusing Trump of…

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Elon Musk throws his support behind ethnic cleansing

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Elon Musk throws his support behind ethnic cleansing

Elon Musk – the world’s richest buffoon – has thrown his weight behind the policy of ‘remigration’. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, it’s the right-wing plan to ethnically cleanse Europe of all ‘non-indigenous’ people. And this makes it a very strange policy for him to support, because he’s a white South African living in America: Anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 26, 2026 So is he going to self-deport then or what? Tweets of a clown The UK group Remigration Now describes ‘remigration’ as follows: Remigration is the act of returning immigrants and their…

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Unite disengaged under Graham – MP and EC member come out for Dubbins

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Unite disengaged under Graham – MP and EC member come out for Dubbins

Incumbent general secretary (GS) Sharon Graham‘s disengagement from the politics Unite should be pushing for its members. The cushy cowardice of her paid organisers. These are the reasons a well-known MP and an elected Unite executive (EC) member have cited for calling on Unite members to support challenger Simon Dubbins in Unite’s GS election. The MP Scottish MP Brian Leishman is one of only a handful of Labour MPs to show honour and humanity over Israel’s genocide in Gaza. And Leishman was straightforward in his assessment of the GS contest: under Sharon Graham, Unite is betraying its members by ‘removing itself’…

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