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Netflix raises prices despite password crackdown success (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Politic's joe - It's The End Of The Tories And They Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M. remix (www.youtube.com)
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JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns (www.thepinknews.com)
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Storm Babet: Evacuation warning as Scotland prepares for storm (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Government has ‘no plans’ to stop arms sales to Israel despite civilian deaths (www.opendemocracy.net)
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The Department of Business and Trade said it would suspend and review its export licences for arms to Israel in light of the reported civilian killings. It said the licences were “under continual review” but there were “no immediate plans to stop arms export licences to Israel”.

Emily Apple, media coordinator for the Campaign Against the Arm Trade, said: “It is disgusting that the Department for Business and Trade is refusing to suspend and review arms licences to Israel given the mounting evidence of war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza.

"UK industry is responsible for 15% of the components used in the F35 stealth combat aircraft that are being used in airstrikes, and the UK is therefore complicit in war crimes committed by the Israeli government," Apple added.

Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, warned last week that “Palestinians are in grave danger of mass ethnic cleansing”.

[Edit typo.]

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Private Eye magazine (photos.app.goo.gl)
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British Museum to fully digitise collection after 'inside job' thefts (www.reuters.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/4311794

Archived version: https://archive.ph/nnhGW
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231019004015/https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/british-museum-digitise-its-entire-collection-after-theft-incident-2023-10-18/

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Woman slams selfish paragliders who 'made her think Hamas were invading Doncaster' (www.mirror.co.uk)
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Storm Babet: Red warning of 'unprecedented' levels of rain (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Tory candidate shared post using foul language towards struggling parents (www.theguardian.com)
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Britons have started handing in XL bullies to be put down, MPs told (www.theguardian.com)
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Outrage after Greta Thunberg arrested at London oil summit protest (leftfootforward.org)
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Jo Maugham, Director of the Good Law Project, posted on X: “What a brave, democratic, free speech loving, nation we have become under the so-called Conservative Party.”

The most pertinent part for me. The Tories have legalised suppression.

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Storm Babet warning upgraded to red alert in parts of Scotland (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Wales' 20mph speed limit: How has the first month gone? (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Why Is Britain Retreating from Global Leadership on Climate Action? (e360.yale.edu)
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Former Ambassador and Assange Advocate Craig Murray Detained Under UK Terror Laws (thegrayzone.com)
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Greta Thunberg detained at Fossil Free London protest (www.bbc.com)
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Greta Thunberg detained at Fossil Free London protest (bbc.in)
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cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/547310

The Swedish climate campaigner was with other activists at a protest outside a central London hotel.

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Say YES to renewables. Join thousands in Generation YES to make change (rippleenergy.com)
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Guardian sacks cartoonist Bell in antisemitism row - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Sounds like the guardian wanted to get rid of him for a while. Apparently he has been involved in antisemitism incidents in the past. They don't need the controversy he brings.

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Andrew Bridgen: MP claims he was slapped on the head in Portcullis House (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Former British minister: ‘The Israelis think they control the Foreign Office. And they do!’ (2021) (www.declassifieduk.org)
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Article is from 2021 but I figured it's relevant.

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In 1998 a magazine predicted how David Beckham would look like in 2020. Their prediction v reality. (photos.app.goo.gl)
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Shameless repost from Reddit because some of the comments made me laugh out loud.

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Demand to reverse Brexit hits ‘highest ever level’ (leftfootforward.org)
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The ratio for those is favour of reversing Brexit is very close to two to one now.

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UK Housing: Sunak Urged To Deregulate & Increase Local Control (stoppopulationdecline.org)
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