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🚨 NEW: Our new analysis has found that the funding settlement issued with the Defence Investment Plan will lead to a net loss in jobs in the UK.

📑 Buying the Dip: The Defence Investment Plan Will Produce Domestic Unemployment

Our key findings 🧵👇
July 3, 2026 at 2:37 PM
BREAKING EU proposes refusing Ukrainian men of fighting age refugee protection.

"Temporary protection is not to be granted as a rule to newly arriving persons who are not authorised by the Ukrainian authorities to leave Ukraine in view of their military obligations," the European Commission says
June 26, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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"During the five day trial, the judge denied the defendants all legal defences including reasonable excuse and necessity and ruled that agreed facts on climate were 'irrelevant'."

The jury delivered their not-guilty verdict today after approximately six hours juststopoil.org/2026/04/17/s...
Six Just Stop Oil supporters acquitted of disrupting key national infrastructure after Waterloo Bridge slow march – Just Stop Oil
Six Just Stop Oil supporters were acquitted at Southwark Crown Court today, two and a half years after slow marching on Waterloo Bridge to demand an end to new oil and gas licensing. [1] On 8th Novemb...
juststopoil.org
April 17, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Latest from @nicholasroyle.bsky.social has jusy arrived and when I pop into my local Oxfam at lunchtime there's a lovely early Picador I don't have sitting boldly on the shelf! Coincidence? I think not!
April 17, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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Despite grave ethical and legal concerns about the introduction of AI into decision making around the use of lethal force, UK crossing the line as it implements use of AI for lethal targeting under Project Asgard - @chrisco1e.bsky.social via @dronewarsuk.bsky.social
dronewars.net/2025/07/23/u...
UK crossing the line as it implements use of AI for lethal targeting under Project Asgard
Despite grave ethical and legal concerns about the introduction of AI into decision making around the use of lethal force, the UK is rapidly pressing ahead with a number of programmes and projects …
dronewars.net
July 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Campaigners urge F-35 fighter jet producing nations to stop supplying Israel
Campaigners urge F-35 fighter jet producing nations to stop supplying Israel
Exclusive: More than 200 civil society groups say governments have failed to prevent planes from being used to violate international law More than 200 organisations worldwide have called on nations involved in producing F-35 fighter jets to “immediately…
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Found insert of sealed envelope with what looks like an order from 1970s inside. To open, or leave for whoever eventually owns the book after me? What would nicholasroyale.bsky.social do?
November 29, 2024 at 4:37 PM