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Part One – Local and National News Review
This pushes people who are already struggling with debt further into financial hardship, making it harder for them to get back on track with bills. Who stands to benefit from this? Bailiff companies who know this will ensure they keep getting business! We’re still waiting for decisive action from Bristol City Council. You can write to your local councillor here… ACORN is a community union, bringing people together to build power, fight and win the changes our people and our communities need and deserve. We know that the economic and political set up in this country isn’t working for us, so we set up ACORN to win the power and representation we are entitled to. Formed in Bristol in 2014, ACORN started organising in an area plagued by rogue landlords, homes in awful conditions and runaway rents. We brought neighbours together to link arms and resist evictions, marched on dodgy landlords and lettings agents to get repairs done and stolen deposits returned, and put pressure on the council to get tough on the rogue landlords in the city. Since then, we have grown to nearly 30 branches right across England and Wales, fighting and winning on many of the big issues affecting our communities: the cost of living crisis, public transport that doesn’t work for us, cuts to community services, councils sending bully bailiffs to our doors and much more. From stopping people from getting evicted, to major policy changes that improve people’s lives at local, regional and national levels, we use direct action and our strength in numbers to take back power from those who benefit at our expense, to change our country for good. Here’s just a snapshot of our achievements so far: Renter’s Rights Social Housing Eviction Resistance Bailiffs ACORN vs the Banks Cost of living crisis Benefits Public Transport Public Services COVID-19: Community Support & Eviction Ban
The evening’s host was probably as bright as any of his guests: a fellow of All Souls who since his teens had been tipped as a future Prime Minister, the then Minister of State for the Environment, William Waldegrave. For 18 months the assembled company – politicians, civil servants, academics and outside advisers – had been grappling with one of the most difficult problems in British politics. Now, as they enjoyed food prepared by Caroline Waldegrave, managing director of the Prue Leith cookery school, it was time to celebrate. Between them these men and women had apparently succeeded where numerous previous enquiries had failed. They had devised a new scheme to finance local government spending, and to replace the long-despised domestic rating system. It was designed to make local authorities more accountable to their voters, and more responsible in their taxing and spending. Although fewof those present considered themselves Thatcherites ideologically, most of them admired the Prime Minister and were pleased to have found a solution she wholeheartedly approved of. When Mrs Thatcher spoke of a radical manifesto for the next election, Kenneth Baker told the gathering, their work was what she was talking about. Privately, however, some of WilIiam Waldegrave’s guests could not believe that the Conservatives would ever carry out the scheme they had dreamed up. The poll tax would soon be described by Mrs Thatcher as the ‘flagship’ of her third term, but in retrospect it will probably go down as the iceberg that sank her – her greatest blunder. Although disagreements over Europe were the immediate cause of her downfall in the autumn of 1990, it was theunpopularity of the poll tax or community charge which caused somany Tory MPs to doubt whether Margaret Thatcher could pull off a fourthelection victory. Indeed, in thechronicles of disastrous mistakes made by British governments, the poll tax is one of the worst. What is so remarkable is that so far only Mrs Thatcher herself seems to have been blamed. The poll tax cost the Treasury billions in subsidies; it has caused chaos in local government; it greatly damaged the Tories’ election prospects. The main proponents of the poll tax, who invented it well before Mrs Thatcher gave her stamp of approval, managed to escape unscathed. Indeed what is so remarkable is how easily several of them have progressed to higher jobs in government. For a complete account of how Mrs Thatcher and her party came to adopt the poll tax we will have to wait until the public records become available around 2015. Even then we may not get the full history. In December 1990 BBC ‘Panorama’ began piecing together an interim version of the story, attempting to trace the true origins of the poll tax, and to ascertain exactly who deserves responsibility or blame. Eventually our research was overtaken by the Gulf War, and it will never be used for a ‘Panorama’ programme. But it isstill worth placing some of our work on record. Today many are understandably reluctant to talk about their role in the affair. On the other hand, a few unrepentant souls are happy even to exaggerate their contribution. Quite how the poll tax came to be adopted between 1984 and 1986 is a fascinating tale, rich in irony and amusing twists. Several intriguing questions have yet to be answered. The story goes back to 1974 when Edward Heath appointed Margaret Thatcher as Shadow Environment Secretary following the Conservatives’ February election defeat…..
The price of the average UK home dropped 0.6% in May compared with the month before, according to the lender Nationwide. The typical house price was 1.7% higher than the same point last year, at £278,024. However, that marked a slowdown from an annual growth rate of 3% in April. Robert Gardner, the chief economist at Nationwide, said a “loss of momentum was to be expected” given uncertainty caused by conflict in the Middle East and the subsequent rise in energy prices and market interest rates. Mortgage rates have broadly risen across the market in recent months. The average two-year fixed rate was 5.68% at the end of May, while the average five-year fix was 5.63%, according to the financial data provider Moneyfacts. Tom Bill, a researcher at the estate agent Knight Frank, said Nationwide’s figures showed the housing market was slowing down “at precisely the time of year when you would expect momentum to be building”. “There won’t be a cliff-edge moment, but the impact of higher borrowing costs will erode spending power and squeeze house prices this year as mortgage rates agreed before the Middle East conflict gradually disappear,” he said. The estate agent Savills has forecast that house prices will fall this year owing to rising mortgage rates. It said the impact of war in the Middle East had “fundamentally changed” its outlook for the UK property market, predicting that average house prices will fall 2% this year, compared with its previous expectation of a 2% rise…
Many residents argue the council is failing to listen to local concerns, while others contend that amendments are already under way and should be informed by data rather than street demonstrations. Contractors have made limited headway installing a new bus gate as part of the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood scheme, only to be halted by protesters. ETM, working on behalf of Bristol City Council, has encountered significant resistance in its efforts to install the bus gate on Avonvale Road in Barton Hill. The team arrived in the early hours of Thursday last week (May 21), successfully painting a section of the road red before demonstrators intervened and brought the work to a standstill. By late morning, contractors and a small number of local residents were left watching the freshly laid paint dry. The council is working to move the bus gate from its current location west of the junction with Marsh Lane to a fresh position east of the junction, directly outside Hamblins fish and chip shop. The relocation aims to enhance access for local residents undertaking necessary car journeys, including trips to the Wellspring Centre. However, a group of resolute protesters have consistently prevented this move. Muttsnuts feels: “The Council ain’t listening, so they still not getting it. No one wants this.” Altreality says: “Good! Next get rid of the Cumberland Road bus gate.” Pointer2null asks: “Why doesn’t BCC hold a binding referendum of all the residents within the boundary of the scheme and abide by the result?” MorningStsr writes: “Finally! A good protest!! Keep up the good work people.” HanhamHeights disagrees: “You can’t claim the council isn’t listening while physically blocking the bit where they’re changing the scheme in response to feedback. That’s not democracy, it’s a tiny minority throwing a tantrum because they didn’t get their way. While over on our Facebook page, Ben J comments: “Instead of Council/ETM doing something the locals don’t want, they could be repairing dozens of damaged footpaths and potholes.”
Bristol Blue Glass Factory announced back in April that increasing rental costs and fuel prices had created an “overwhelming” financial strain, forcing the company to close. David Barry, the factory’s hot floor manager who has worked for Bristol Blue Glass for 17 years, said: “I am very anxious for the future, the day the furnaces went off, that was the day it really died.” Bristol Blue Glass was set up 38 years ago to re-establish a glass-making tradition which had been lost to the city for more than half a century. The city was popularly known for bottle-making in the 18th and 19th Century. The last factories closed in 1920 and it was not until Bristol Blue Glass opened in 1988 that the skill was revived. Its managing director, Suzanne Adlington, said rises in National Insurance and fuel prices had made it harder for energy-intensive firms to operate. Staff are working in Bristol Blue Glass factory’s workshop. The factory is surrounded by boxes and planks of wood. Everyone is wearing black and grey outfits. Three people in the middle of the picture are standing together and one man in the distance is scratching his head. The walls of workshop have 11 blue glass vases painted on it. Image source, Bristol Blue Glass “There was so much to sort,” he said. “It was so stressful. Breaking down the furnaces is not an easy feat.” He added turning off the furnaces had been like switching off the company’s life support. Barry is hopeful that he can continue to use his skills in some capacity, but is doubtful he will ever have another full-time job making glass.
We break down exactly where your money goes at the pump. It’s a common frustration: you see news reports of crude oil prices dropping globally, yet the price at your local petrol station barely budges. Understanding why UK fuel prices are so persistently high requires looking beyond the barrel and into the heavy taxation structure. The Tax Burden: Duty and VAT The single biggest factor driving up UK pump prices is tax. Unlike many other nations, the UK taxes fuel twice: Fuel Duty is a fixed tax levied per litre of fuel. Despite recent freezes or temporary cuts by the Chancellor, fuel duty remains one of the highest in Europe. VAT (Value Added Tax) is a 20% tax applied to the total price of the fuel, meaning you are paying tax on the fuel duty itself. When you combine Fuel Duty and VAT, well over 50% of the price you pay for every litre of petrol or diesel goes straight to the Treasury. Wholesale Costs and Global Oil While taxes form the baseline, the wholesale cost of refined fuel is the primary driver of price fluctuations. This cost is dictated by the global price of Brent crude oil, traded in US dollars. Because oil is priced in dollars, the strength of the British Pound against the US Dollar plays a massive role. If the Pound weakens, oil becomes more expensive to import, pushing up prices at the pump even if the global oil price remains stable. Retailer Margins Finally, there’s the retailer margin, the profit taken by the supermarket or independent forecourt operator. Recent investigations by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found that supermarket margins had increased significantly over the past few years, costing drivers millions. Using comparison tools like DailyPetrol is the most direct way to fight back. By choosing the cheapest local option, you force retailers to stay competitive with their margins.
The Labour Party was previously quite undemocratic, but the rule changes made it more democratic. It made it easier for anyone really to vote in parties internal elections. Wasn’t quite as open as the Democratic and Republican primaries in the US where anyone can essentially register to vote as a Democrat or a Republican and then vote in the primaries. But it made it easier. It meant that not only were there Labour Party members could vote in the elections, but also anyone who was, you just had to pay three pounds basically to become a registered supporter of the Labour Party. It just made it a lot easier and it gave the members a lot more say. The percentage of the electoral college as it were within the Labour Party that went towards members and supporters as opposed to the MPs who would choose the leader, was increased. It meant that the left wing candidate won, which had never happened before. We should be clear that the Labour Party under Tony Blair transformed itself into a neoliberal version. Much like Clinton did to the Democratic Party. Labour, which traditionally had been a political bulwark for the working class, no longer was. It was a very different party from what it was at its inception. Asa Winstanley: Yeah, it was ostensibly still a socialist party on paper. But in reality it was the party of Tony Blair, which meant it was the party of privatization. It was the party of war. I first got my political education during the early ’90s after the 911 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan being involved in the anti-war movement. To me at that time and to so many other people, the Labour Party was the war party. It was the party that was helping George W. Bush to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. Jeremy Corbyn becoming the leader of the Labour Party, was the last possible thing you could imagine. Because he was in the Labour Party, he was a Labour MP at that time. But he was on the back benches. He was basically rebelling against his party leader. He was voting against the Iraq war. He was voting against privatization. He was voting against dismantling of the welfare state and things like that. He would be on our demonstrations, he’d be leading our demonstrations. He’d be doing the speeches against the Iraq war and crucially, he was part of the Palestine solidarity movement as well.
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the Net Zero 2050 target was wrong, and how we need to adapt now to changing circumstances. Is Ed Miliband’s push towards net zero heading for trouble? As the government confirms an intermediate target of an 87% cut in greenhouse gases by 2040, doubts about the plan are growing Ed Miliband has signed up to a legal target to cut UK climate-changing emissions by 87 per cent by 2040, prompting the usual slew of stories about heat pumps, electric cars and eating less meat and dairy produce. The energy secretary is promoting the dry announcement of an intermediate target on the way to net zero by the middle of the century by emphasising “energy security, jobs and investment” rather than the aim of minimising climate change. “Families and businesses will continue to reap the benefits of the clean energy transition in the coming decades,” he said, “as Britain steps up action to get off the fossil fuel rollercoaster.” Claire Coutinho, the shadow energy secretary, said that the new emissions target “will make us weaker, poorer and send everyone’s energy bills even higher”. Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform and its energy spokesperson, accused Miliband in the Commons of “inadvertently misleading” parliament about the benefits of the government’s energy policy. What is the government proposing? The government is required by law – the Climate Change Act 2008, introduced by Miliband in the last Labour government and strengthened by the Conservatives under Theresa May – to set out five-year “carbon budgets” to show how the country will reach the target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Miliband has accepted the seventh carbon budget, going up to 2038-42, as proposed by the independent Climate Change Committee. The committee’s reports consistently suggest its targets will require banning gas boilers, banning petrol and diesel cars and dramatic changes in diet – but ministers run a mile from such unpopular ideas and pretend that the targets can be achieved by other, unspecified changes. What happened to the net zero consensus? The casual way parliament legislated for net zero in the dying weeks of Theresa May’s premiership seven years ago ought to be an embarrassment to our democracy. Kemi Badenoch, then a Conservative backbencher, said: “Many of my constituents, especially schoolchildren, will be delighted by this announcement, but others are rightly sceptical about the costs. What steps will the minister take to ensure that the plan will be achievable and affordable?” She didn’t get much of an answer, and the order was passed unopposed, increasing the target set by the Climate Change Act 2008 of cutting greenhouse gas emissions from 80 per cent to 100 per cent – that is, to “net zero” – by 2050. Since then, the doubts have grown. Many of them have been stoked by Nigel Farage’s Reform party and by right-wing Conservatives, which has tended to force Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green supporters of net zero to double down. But Tony Blair broke the conspiracy of silence on the left in April last year, when his institute issued a report warning that “phasing out” fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail. Monday’s release of documents related to Peter Mandelson revealed that Blair had supporters at the heart of government. Pat McFadden, who was then minister for the Cabinet Office, messaged Lord Mandelson to say “TB content bang on”. How has Ed Miliband fought back? The energy secretary cites studies from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, supported by analysis from the CBI Economics, which reports that the “net zero economy” supports over 1 million jobs in the UK, adding £105bn in gross value added to the UK economy in 2025, “as it continues to thrive as one of the UK’s fastest-growing economic sectors”.
While total reserves declined slightly year-on-year, the report highlights a significant 31% increase in prospective resources, now estimated at 4.6 Bboe, largely due to new opportunities identified under the 33rd Offshore Licensing Round. The UK also holds an estimated 6.2 Bboe in contingent resources, representing discovered but undeveloped petroleum that could be matured through new investment and field development activity. To date, a total of 47.7 Bboe has been produced from the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). In 2024, production totaled 401 MMboe, with two new field development plans adding less than 50 MMboe to reserves. The NSTA noted that limited exploration drilling last year—only four wells, with less than 100 MMboe discovered—underscores the need for continued investment to progress drill-ready prospects and sustain the UK’s offshore production base. The report also reaffirms that the UK’s petroleum mix remains roughly 70% oil and 30% gas. The NSTA said managing remaining reserves efficiently will be critical to maintaining energy security and ensuring value recovery from the mature North Sea basin as the country transitions toward net zero.
Henry Nowak stabbed by a Sikh – details of this. PMQs Starmer on Henry Nowak.
Part Two – International news review, Accelerationist, Armageddonist reports and investigations
The 18-year-old was just a few months into his first year at university when he was killed on his way home to his accommodation in Southampton on 3 December. Digwa has been jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years for the murder. This is what we know of how the night unfolded, including what we learned from CCTV and bodycam footage, a transcript of the 999 call and the judge’s sentencing remarks. At 20:30 GMT on the night of the murder, Nowak was seen on CCTV entering a lift at his university’s halls of residence wearing a white shirt, tie and quarter-zip fleece while holding a bottle. Footage from inside the pub shows Nowak going down the stairs and passing a group of people in the beer garden. He then made his way back upstairs to head out onto the street. At 23:07, Nowak can be seen making his way back towards his university accommodation. Nowak is then captured on CCTV walking past a group of people on a road lit up by streetlamps. At the end of the footage, he can be seen picking up his pace and jogging down the road. Henry Nowak stands in front of two 18th birthday balloons. He is smiling. Image source, PA During Digwa’s sentencing on Monday, Judge William Mousley KC described, external how Nowak’s journey home took him north along Belmont Road to the junction with St Denys Road – where his killer lived. Judge Mousley said Digwa, 23, was walking south along Belmont Road at the same time, in what “was to be a chance meeting”. Nowak was alone and unarmed, the judge said. He added that the 18-year-old was not drunk, and his blood alcohol level was found to be below the drink-drive limit. Digwa, who is Sikh, was carrying a knife in a sheath on his belt which Nowak then began filming on his phone, the judge said. Judge Mousley commented that it is a strict requirement of the Sikh faith to carry a knife, called a kirpan, at all times. The judge also said Digwa was carrying a second, larger dagger in a sheath – which is also a part of his tradition as a member of the Nihang order of Sikhs. Wearing the second knife is not a strict requirement, he added. Mousley KC said that Nowak asked Digwa if he was a “bad man”, likely to have been prompted by him noticing the dagger. The judge said Digwa told Nowak he was “a bad man” and took the student’s phone. The “exact events which immediately followed” were only witnessed by the two men, the judge noted. But in his sentencing remarks, he explained: “it would not be unreasonable to conclude that Henry would have wanted his phone back, believing it had been stolen from him or that he had been robbed.” The judge said that in the ensuing altercation Digwa drew the dagger from its sheath and deliberately stabbed the defenceless student in the chest. He added that Digwa stabbed Nowak four times including twice in the upper leg and that “one or more of the stab wounds must have had an immediate effect as Henry was never able to put up his hands to defend himself from further serious injury”. The judge explained that footage filmed by Digwa showed Nowak “desperately trying to get away” by scaling a fence and getting onto a communal bin before landing on a car in front of the next-door property. Digwa “continued to make films of Henry suffering, ignoring much of his desperation at having been stabbed”, the judge added.
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Jacob Rees Mogg, who supports Israel who Peter Mandelson is still working for, on the new Mandelson releases, and WhatsApp messages being deleted. Government by WhatsApp Jacob Rees-Mogg The recent release of more files relating to Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the UK’s ambassador to the US tell us two things. They tell us about Mandelson himself, but not much that we did not already know. But more importantly, they reveal how government decisions are being made, and this should concern us all.
Peter Ford on Mandelson, Epstein, Rothschild and Israel.
NHS – not allowed to wear political badges. House of Commons, Jeremy Corbyn – how is UK supporting Israel crimes? Jeremy Corbyn: UK must decide if it will ‘block efforts to expose truth’ over Israel support – Former Labour leader tells MEE government can support inquiry into UK involvement in Gaza
PMQs Palestinian ‘hate marches’ – history of the Jews. Board of Deputy of Jews.
Pakistan rumours hint Iran may have a nuclear weapon
Senior minister Darren Jones told Peter Mandelson he had done a “great job” after the peer was fired as the UK’s ambassador to the US, it has emerged. The previously unpublished messages between the pair show Jones told the Labour grandee he was “so sorry” on the day he was sacked. The exchanges, published by the Spectator, external, were not among dozens of pages of WhatsApps published by the government earlier in the week in the latest batch of papers about the appointment. Jones had denied sending the peer a “warm message” on the day he was sacked, in an interview with the BBC a few weeks ago. Lord Mandelson was appointed to the Washington role in late 2024 but sacked the following autumn, after further details of his previous friendship with late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein came to light. On the day Sir Keir Starmer dismissed Lord Mandelson, Jones wrote: “You’ve been doing such a great job, and you worked wonders with Trump. I’m so sorry about today.” In a BBC interview in April, Jones had denied reports he had sent a “warm message” to the peer after his departure. Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg, he said the peer had got in touch with him on the day of his sacking to ask “what was going on in Downing Street”. “I replied along the lines of, I don’t know what’s happening, I’m not in the room, I’m sorry it all seems so difficult,” he said. “I wouldn’t say it was warm and I didn’t know what was taking place. I just felt that it was difficult at the time for everybody involved.” A source close to the minister said he did not have access to the messages at the time of the interview, and had been recalling a wider exchange on the day, rather than a single message. ‘I like MoD’ The newly-unearthed message also show Lord Mandelson criticised the government’s plans for growth, telling Jones the plans were in the hands of Chancellor Rachel Reeves, then-deputy prime minister Angela Rayner, and then-business secretary Jonathan Reynolds. Jones, who is now chief secretary to the prime minister but at that point was Reeves’ deputy at the Treasury, replied: “It doesn’t fill you with confidence.” In another exchange about Reynolds’ special advisers and industrial policy advisers, Jones said: “I lost faith in his spads when, on a call about Port Talbot, they repeatedly took a different position to us in HMT [the Treasury] ‘because that’s what the unions want’.” Jones also sought Lord Mandelson’s advice on promotion during last year’s Cabinet reshuffle, sparked by Rayner’s resignation as deputy prime minister and housing secretary over a tax row about unpaid stamp duty. Talking about his ambitions, Jones said his first preference was a role in the Department for Business and Trade, then headed by Reynolds but now led by Peter Kyle. That was followed by the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, then led by Kyle and now by Liz Kendall, or the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, led by Ed Miliband both before and after the reshuffle. Jones added: “I also like MoD but think that’s unlikely.”…
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So I am aligning myself with Jewish people in our country. I don’t align with a particular Yeah. Well well yes but where did you Well if you were prime minister of this country you would have to make public statements about the Israeli government given the way that certain members of that government behave now and what we see with our own eyes. uh would you be comfortable fully supporting that government? So let’s remember uh Israel is an ally of the UK there will be all sorts of people who will be in any foreign government uh is Israel or elsewhere that I might not be comfortable with might dislike their views but when I was trade secretary I saw how Israeli intelligence helped protect British citizens and this country. uh they are fighting a lot of battles which are really fights for western values and I think that when you look at what happened on October 7th the massacre that happened really horrific stuff which I even find uncomfortable thinking about knowing what I’ve read about what I saw that I understand why they are in a fight for for their survival uh if there are specific do you feel comfortable about the scale of the response in say Gaza and now in Lebanon are you are you comfortable about that so I know that mistakes have been made, but I can also see that Israel takes uh actually quite a lot of care people. Um it’s so I disagree when people call it a genocide. It’s a war. Uh all death, you know, is something which I think should be avoided. I think Israel actually takes care to try and target the specific people. Uh but they’re killing a lot of civilians in the process because Hamas uses the civilians as human. Is that a good enough excuse eventually if it looks like eventually we hear from Bengavir and Smodrich what they really want to do is kick all the Palestinians out of Gaza? I don’t I don’t know him and I don’t know what he said. So I can’t comment on that. I do think it is wrong the Hamas uses innocent civilians uh as human shields. That is what has caused a lot of the uh the scale of the violence. You look at what they did with Hezbollah and the pages. You look at uh the very precise targeting in Iran. I believe uh the Israeli government when they say they do everything they can to minimize human life. Hamas does not do that and even Palestinians will say that Hamas is the biggest oppressor of Palestinian people. Uh getting rid of Hamas I think is important. It is a terrorist group. Uh that’s the issue I think with um the the guest on your show. Um I’m sorry I’ve forgotten his name. He has said that prefers Yeah. He has said that he prefers Hamas to Israel. Hamas is a terrorist group. He’s No, he’s always condemned Hamas to me. But um um I was told that he had said that and I just don’t want people who support terrorist groups coming to our country. Yeah, he’s not a Hamas supporter. That’s that would be a mischaracterization.
Trump argument with Netanyahu. Trump wants Netanyahu to stop attacking Lebanon. Trump may run for President of Israel. Trump cursed at Netanyahu in call over Lebanon escalation, sources say Trump accused Netanyahu of being ungrateful, sources said. President Donald Trump cursed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a roughly 15-minute phone call on Monday, multiple sources familiar with the call told ABC News, with the president angered by Israel’s escalation in Lebanon and its potential to imperil the administration’s ongoing negotiations with Iran. Trump accused Netanyahu of being ungrateful and called him “crazy,” sources familiar with the call said. At one point during the tense call, Trump asked Netanyahu, “What the f— are you doing?” Axios first reported on the expletive-filled call. News emerged on Monday that Iran was threatening to call off talks over Israeli conduct in Lebanon — where the Israel Defense Forces are engaged with the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia.
Peter Ford – sticking points in Iran peace deal.
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Piers Morgan interview with Lebanese journalist Hezbollah are saving Lebanese women from the Israeli rapists. Rania Khalek reacts to Dr Saleh’s interview 42:00 Piers asks Rania: “How would you categorise Hezbollah?” – 48:40 Piers challenges Rania on Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich doing a disservice to Israel
Peter Ford – Palestine Action not terrorists – how does Israel lobby function in UK?
British citizens who have served in the Israeli military. Polanski signed an open letter organised by Declassified UK and the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper urging them to “track the movements of Brits who have served in the IDF” and “subject them to secondary screening where necessary at ports of entry”. The letter called for “robust war crimes investigations in line with domestic and international law”. Around 2,000 British-Israeli dual nationals have served in the Israeli military during Israel’s war on Gaza, which a UN commission of inquiry found was a genocide last year. Israeli forces have killed nearly 73,000 Palestinians since the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023 which killed 1,200 people, with a further 170,000 wounded. Thousands more in Gaza remain missing and are presumed dead beneath the rubble. The letter says: “We, the undersigned, are politicians, lawyers, campaigners, human rights defenders, journalists, and other professionals who believe the public interest is best served by monitoring the entry of British-Israeli dual national citizens into the UK and investigating potential links to war crimes, in cases where they have served in the IDF.” Israel seeks to recruit ultranationalists for police unit at Al-Aqsa Mosque It adds: “Individuals who have returned from fighting in Gaza may now be living alongside us and working in public institutions such as hospitals, the police, and schools. Nobody wants to live next to a potential war criminal – not least members of the Palestinian community in the UK who have family or friends who have been subjected to war crimes.” In April London’s Metropolitan Police announced it would not investigate 10 British nationals accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity while fighting with the Israeli military in Gaza. This came after the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) filed a 240-page dossier to the Met’s War Crimes Team in April last year…
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Russia. Jeffries Sachs letter. Jeffrey Sachs: Germany Is Leading Europe Toward World War III Glenn Diesen Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses his open letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Recorded On May 31, 2026.
Please send your foreign minister to Moscow or invite Russia’s Foreign Minister to Berlin. Please reopen the OSCE channels that Germany has allowed to atrophy. Please tell Kyiv to cease its strikes on civilian targets. Most importantly, please tell the German public the truth: that a negotiated peace based on Ukrainian neutrality is the realistic path out of catastrophe, and that restoring a normal economic relationship with Russia is the realistic path out of Germany’s industrial decline. The terms of an acceptable agreement that Germany could propose are clear. The fighting would stop on an armistice line. All sides would renounce any future resort to violence on the question of borders. Ukraine would restore its neutrality, and NATO would permanently renounce further eastward enlargement. Europe and Russia would restore economic relations and would stop the warmongering. The OSCE would once again become the central forum for European security, with the fundamental precept that European security is indivisible, not based on military blocs dividing Europe. Alongside this peace, Germany would redirect its national resources toward the digital, AI, semiconductor, and energy investments that Germany’s economic future demands. History will record what you do in the weeks ahead, and what you fail to do. So will the German public. So will the peoples of Russia, Ukraine, and Europe generally. It’s time for diplomacy, Mr. Chancellor. The choice is yours to make.
Oliver Tickell on human ecology, UK responsibility for Ukraine war UK state being captured by US and Israel – 1000 drones, 11 killed. If Putin is trying to inflict mass murder on Ukrainian civilians he’s making a remarkably bad job of it. Ukraine could teach him some lessons in mass murder – one drone twenty + schoolchildren killed in one strike on Lugansk ! And Israel !! The truth is that Russia is trying very hard to avoid civilian deaths, striking military / military infrastructure targets. Increasingly these are located in cities. For example drone guidance farms, military command posts and intelligence offices in apartment buildings, arms factories on industrial estates and shopping centres. UK pressaganda telling the precise reverse of the truth as usual.
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How Android and Google have mutated into monopolists and fascists with Ruby Whim. A Google approved device is now required use the internet? Ruby Whim Websites are starting to ask for your phone to prove you’re human. Google’s new CAPTCHA system uses QR codes and device verification to fight bots. But underneath that technical change is a much bigger problem brewing across the internet: participation is getting tied to approved devices, approved software, and approved ecosystems. Google’s new reCAPTCHA changes Play Services requirements remote attestation Android becoming more permissioned why the EU’s Digital Markets Act is important here and what happens when infrastructure-scale companies become the condition for digital participation itself. This is a story about who gets to participate online without asking permission first. Chapters: 0:21 What reCAPTCHA actually is, and who owns it 3:47 The pattern: three moves, one direction 9:55 Why this is an infrastructure problem and what needs to happen next
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Life Site News – Catholic – ‘The State We Are In: The Elephant in the Room’.
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The Bristol Politics Show Android and Apple app is now in its second year and gives listeners a weekly update every Friday evening plus a searchable database of longer interviews/stories from many years of broadcasts Tony’s paperback Traitors Of Arnhem , Siege Of Heaven ; Siege Of Heaven Reader – all available for donation, or to buy, via www.bilderberg.org NOT The BCfm Politics Show CANCELLED and attempts to intimidate us
July 2024 – Tony, Dave and Martin’s NOT The BCfm Politics show was CANCELLED/EVICTED in a no fault, no notice, no appeal, eviction by The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft (PRSC) arts centre – An email from Chloe Slater and Keith Cowling explained that: ‘Transphobic’ leaflets had been left in the building by a recent guest (who denied it) making Transsexual users of the building feel ‘offended’ and ‘unsafe’. To quote: ‘Please let us know when you or Dave would like to come and retrieve your equipment and drop off your keys. Kind regards’ PRSC Directors (Keith Cowling, chair) PRSC / Stokes Croft China 17-35 Jamaica St Bristol BS2 8JP. Chloe Slater (formerly Jez and self-defined as ‘she’) also made it difficult for us to retrieve the last of our equipment by inferring we couldn’t be trusted, we were made to wait outside their building for over 30 minutes to return their mixing desk in December 2024. March 2020 – BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers was forced off FM, now online only by station manager Pat Hart. He decided the show should be ‘rested, due to the pandemic’ on 24 March 2020 and then refused to communicate at all when we requested to do the show remotely. Bristol Community FM (BCfm) charity ‘CEO’ Patrick Hart is a longtime personal friend of Bristol’s all-powerful right-wing ‘Labour’ mayor Marvin Rees. Now on Internet only NOT The BCfm Politics Show is available 17:00-c. 21:00 live on Fridays. Pat Hart replaced us with an inane student show repeating MSM stories called The Bristol Agenda . If you’d like to share your views on his deliberate dumbing-down and pro-Covid jab mismanagement you can contact UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom or BCfm board chair and the ‘Don’ himself, here .
i-Contact Video Network to distribute documentaries on VHS video and DVD and to make their own documentaries as well as attend news events and sell video footage to TV news channels. Amongst the films we distributed were Operation Solstice, Coconut Revolution, Mark Purdey and Organophosphates, McLibel, 9/11 In Plane Site, Ludicrous Diversion and The Battle of Trafalgar. These, plus books, and even a board game about drug dealing ‘Dollars and Dibble’, were all available via mail order and we supplied libraries around the world too. The bank had clearly been ordered to investigate us for money laundering, although they never admitted it. All the questions they asked Ben and I were about proving our identity through passports etc.. When we did, yet more letters kept arriving demanding more proofs, birth certificates etc. and eventually when one of us missed supplying the required information, within a week or so of being asked, the account was summarily closed and we got a cheque made out to one of us with the few hundred pounds that was in the business bank account. Since neither of us could get a business bank account up and running for at least a few months and the bank account meant nobody could any longer use the website, we made the reluctant decision to shut it down. Thus was a thriving business killed off by the Co_operative bank. Having said that, co-op were not quite the worst. We did apply to open an account at Bristol’s ‘ethical’ Triodos bank, who proceeded to string us along for several months and then said our business was too risky for them to provide an account!
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July 2024 – Tony, Dave and Martin’s NOT The BCfm Politics show was CANCELLED/EVICTED in a no fault, no notice, no appeal, eviction by The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft (PRSC) arts centre – An email from Chloe Slater and Keith Cowling explained that: ‘Transphobic’ leaflets had been left in the building by a recent guest (who denied it) making Transsexual users of the building feel ‘offended’ and ‘unsafe’. To quote: ‘Please let us know when you or Dave would like to come and retrieve your equipment and drop off your keys. Kind regards’ PRSC Directors (Keith Cowling, chair) PRSC / Stokes Croft China 17-35 Jamaica St Bristol BS2 8JP. Chloe Slater (formerly Jez and self-defined as ‘she’) also made it difficult for us to retrieve the last of our equipment by inferring we couldn’t be trusted, we were made to wait outside their building for over 30 minutes to return their mixing desk in December 2024. 
[UPDATE channel restored by YT in July 2025] October 2022 – Tony’s Public Enquiry Channel opened in March 2008, with 13 million views, over 1,600 videos and 26,000 subscribers is removed under false pretences by YouTube – A video Tony recorded in New Zealand ‘Bill Gates, ID2020 & Revelation: Quaker Tony Gosling on Covid 19 & the Bible’ and uploaded on 8th April 2020 got a ‘third strike’ but YouTube’s ‘medical misinformation’ regime was introduced in September 2021 so should not have included as ‘strikes’ videos uploaded before that date. Documentary makers are just about the only public interest investigators left in the NATO zone. From the top down, our mainstream media, police, political parties & intelligence services are being compromised by feudal banksters, secret societies and the mafia. Key people intimidated by psychopathic black magic types and their pliable drones who will even kill to take over positions of power? Just search for “John Scarlett” and “Dodgy Dossier” and you’ll see what I mean. The Zionists are every bit as fundamentalist and twisted as the leaders and followers of ISIS. Register here and join us in the discussion as we wriggle free of the psychopaths, back to sanity http://www.911forum.org.uk
March 2020 – BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with Irish Republican Labour activist Martin Summers was forced off FM, now online only by station manager Pat Hart. He decided the show should be ‘rested, due to the pandemic’ on 24 March 2020 and then refused to communicate at all when we requested to do the show remotely. Bristol Community FM (BCfm) charity ‘CEO’ Patrick Hart is a longtime personal friend of Bristol’s all-powerful right-wing ‘Labour’ mayor Marvin Rees. Now on Internet only NOT The BCfm Politics Show is available 17:00-c. 21:00 live on Fridays. Pat Hart replaced us with an inane student show repeating MSM stories called The Bristol Agenda. If you’d like to share your views on his deliberate dumbing-down and pro-Covid jab mismanagement you can contact UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom or BCfm board chair and the ‘Don’ himself, here.
February 2019 – Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories – It could have resulted in BCfm radio station being shut down if the complaint was upheld Tony Gosling reported to Ofcom by UK Lawyers for Israel after being accused of anti-semitism A Bristol radio station, which had one of its programmes reported for anti-semitism and racism has been cleared by Ofcom. The radio regulatory body received a complaint from “UK Lawyers for Israel’ over a show on BCfm radio, hosted by investigative journalist Tony Gosling. The weekly politics show, on the popular community radio station based in Easton, was reported for several allegations on a show which aired on November 23. Tony Gosling, who was a former BBC journalist between 1989 and 1993, has been producing and presenting ‘The Tony Gosling Politics’ show every week on BCFM radio for 11 years. They have released a statement which reads: “Whilst we are supportive of all our volunteer presenters, The Tony Gosling Politics Show only represents approximately ten percent of our political output content wise, and less than two per cent of our entire weekly output.” Mr Gosling’s programme looks at local politics and he interviews a range of councillors and MPs in the city. The show is also perhaps more well known for its alternative look at international politics, and he has a cult following online from across the world. Mr Gosling has made regular appearances on national media including the politics show with Andrew Neil on BBC One, and international channels such as Russia Today, Channel1 Russia, NTV, and recently for both Turkish and Lebanon TV.
November 2012 – Tony gets death threats on the phone from the Jewish Defence League – ‘you’re a dead man walking’ – a man calls him and Tony records the call. Audio of UK Jewish Defence League (JDL) death threat against British journalist Tony Gosling (2012) – Avon and Somerset police Special Branch investigate, trace the caller, and after six months report to Tony that the individual has been served a caution that they will proceed with a prosecution for harassment under the 1861 offences against the person act. Seems pretty clear this death threat was issued alongside the lies, copied below, which were published on their blog by London based UK JDL in November 2012. Firstly Tony Gosling is not a ‘homophobe’. That accusation was first made in an article published by the ‘Harry’s Place’ blog, penned by Zionist David Toube and propelled by him anonymously into Private Eye in 2008. It refers to Gosling’s criticism of senior teachers at Bannerman Road Primary school in Bristol who used homosexual early learning picture books against the express wishes of the parent governors. His criticism was about the deception by teaching staff not because of the homosexual content of the books. Secondly, if you follow the JDL link you’ll find what Tony Gosling actually says about the ‘Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Zion’ says “…I don’t think there is much doubt that the Protocols are fake…” Thirdly he is not a member of Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign and has never been to any of their meetings.
Autumn 2014 – Tony’s documentary production and distribution business shut down by its bank. Our thriving Co-op business bank account ordered closed for undisclosed reasons. Tony Gosling and Ben Edwards founded i-Contact Video Network to distribute documentaries on VHS video and DVD and to make their own documentaries as well as attend news events and sell video footage to TV news channels. Amongst the films we distributed were Operation Solstice, Coconut Revolution, Mark Purdey and Organophosphates, McLibel, 9/11 In Plane Site, Ludicrous Diversion and The Battle of Trafalgar. These, plus books, and even a board game about drug dealing ‘Dollars and Dibble’, were all available via mail order and we supplied libraries around the world too. The bank had clearly been ordered to investigate us for money laundering, although they never admitted it. All the questions they asked Ben and I were about proving our identity through passports etc.. When we did, yet more letters kept arriving demanding more proofs, birth certificates etc. and eventually when one of us missed supplying the required information, within a week or so of being asked, the account was summarily closed and we got a cheque made out to one of us with the few hundred pounds that was in the business bank account. Since neither of us could get a business bank account up and running for at least a few months and the bank account meant nobody could any longer use the website, we made the reluctant decision to shut it down. Thus was a thriving business killed off by the Co_operative bank. Having said that, co-op were not quite the worst. We did apply to open an account at Bristol’s ‘ethical’ Triodos bank, who proceeded to string us along for several months and then said our business was too risky for them to provide an account! 
