The ECHR is vital - and we're campaigning to save it.

Please do sign this petition to get on board with European Movement UK activities to fight for it.

👉 www.europeanmovement.co.uk/echr-petition

This is awkward...
https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israelis-have-suddenly-discovered

* Government complicit in committing genocide brands sabotaging genocide as terrorism

#uk #littleEngland #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #complicity #Palestine #Gaza https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-hc55lmo2z/-/a-t6XXQbACSuCQibsu3I2Jlw%3Aa%3A3199692-%2F0

The Labour Govt. is launching a new series of Public Private Partnerships to finance various aspects of its infrastructure ambitions, and claims it'll avoid the problems with earlier Private Finance Initiative projects.

But given the key issue was the weakness of civil service capacity to negotiate fair & equitably PFI contracts & since the civil service has seen attacks & budget cuts (ongoing), can we be sure the new negotiations will be better?

I'm not betting on any improvement!

#politics

I missed this news late last month.

Organic Maps forked over governance concerns: CoMaps is born.

"Powered by OpenStreetMap data, CoMaps is an offline-focused navigation app that offers detailed maps and turn-by-turn directions without mining for user data.

It offers the ability to download maps, find places, get directions for walking, biking, or driving, and has support for both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay."

https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

#CoMaps #OrganicMaps #GoogleMapsAlternative #FOSS

In other news, apparently assassinating two sitting lawmakers in their homes is not domestic terrorism.
Spraypainting a Tesla remains an act of domestic terrorism.
That's where we are.

#USPolitics

@ChrisMayLA6 Labour is still cutting PIP in really stupid crass and crude ways which will cut even more people's care allowance as well.

More people will end up needing statutory care cos their family won't be able to care for them like now cos the finances just won't allow it. But that's Councils' budgets so Westmonster doesn't care.

More and more cases are going to be getting publicity (like the Horizon scandal) as more and more carers realise that the DWP is harassing carers across the country - they likely no longer feel so isolated by the clawback demands.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again; the DWP needs to be stopped, and carers been to be valued not treated as fraudsters & criminals - the DWP must be changed & that change must be comprehensive - top to bottom!

#carers #DWP #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/16/carers-allowance-woman-who-won-case-against-dwp-calls-for-end-to-sickening-harassment

Interview: "How did the press turn itself into a fawning echo chamber for the billionaire class?"

"The acceptable range of opinion is so narrow it is almost nonexistent."

"How did this happen, & what can we do to fight back?"

"Journalists & Their Shadows: the dark psychological reality behind media complicity in schemes of the powerful".

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/journalists-and-their-shadows-w-patrick

#Journalism #Racism #Fascism #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #Plutocracy #GazaGenocide #MediaComplicity .

Media, be clear.
Trump's militarization of peaceful protests isn't designed to stop violence. It's designed to incite violence.

When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left? All the shifts are in just one direction. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Wi...

Britain can be transformed on the cheap - but Starmer isn't brave enough
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/britain-transformed-on-cheap-keir-starmer-3739558

"New report reveals multibillion price British taxpayers paid for reckless handling of Covid contracts.

Failed pandemic-era PPE contracts cost the British taxpayer £1.4 billion "

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/failed-covid-contracts-cost-british-taxpayer-14-billion

‘A society that lets the rich get richer while kids go hungry, and old people die waiting for care, is broken. Rachel Reeves: fix it. Tax us.’

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/please-rachel-tax-me-more/

Hey pundits, if you're arguing that it's the protesters fault that Donald Trump is illegally calling out US troops to counter public protests, The Onion is mocking you. Deservedly.

https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing/

Interesting. Increasing the taxes on the super rich has not been shown to increase their relocation to other countries.

https://taxjustice.net/press/countries-can-raise-2-trillion-by-copying-spains-wealth-tax-study-finds/

The US has again vetoed a UN Security Council ceasefire resolution for Gaza - the 5th time since 2023

All other members voted for it.

"Had it been adopted, the draft would have demanded “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza” to be respected by all parties."

Note that the UN General Assembly can invoke the "Unifying for Peace" mechanism, but won't:

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1164056

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/06/gaza-un-experts-demand-safe-passage-freedom-flotilla-coalition

#UN #USVeto #UNGACanAct #USPol #UKPol #europol #BDS @palestine .

Analysis: "BBC promotes Israel's lies about aid massacre"

"The Western media is still actively collaborating with Israel's propaganda machine, 20 months into genocide".

"The Israeli state is repeatedly massacring starving Palestinians desperately trying to get aid, & the Western media’s refusal to spell out those facts has enabled these atrocities to happen again & again."

https://www.owenjones.news/p/bbc-promotes-israels-lies-about-aid

 #GazaGenocide #EthnicCleansing #USEnablement #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol @palestine #BDS #GHF .

The fight against the climate crisis is a lost cause if w...
https://observer.co.uk/news/opinion-and-ideas/article/the-fight-against-the-climate-crisis-is-a-lost-cause-if-we-ignore-the-oceans

Speech: A reckoning is coming for western media complicit in genocide

"Gaza is a crime scene. Dust it off, and you will find the fingerprints of British editors and British journalists amongst the apocalyptic rubble.

"British media outlets... have not been passive bystanders in one of the great crimes of our age, but active participants."

https://www.owenjones.news/p/a-reckoning-is-coming-my-speech-at

#uspol #ukpol #europol #auspol #GazaGenocide #WesternEnablement #Racism @palestine #WesternMediaEnablement .