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TNE cover: Stop THIS Boat (www.theneweuropean.co.uk)

Tory peer Michelle Mone bought herself a yacht with profits from useless NHS protective gear. If Rishi Sunak is serious about restoring faith in politics, he should start here.

Notable rich person in charge of country blames workers demand for living wage on the poor service its government is meant to provide whilst being infuriatetingly oblivious. (ground.news)

Suella Braverman sacked as home secretary (www.bbc.co.uk)

“Museum of Austerity” tells story of those killed due to punitive UK benefits system (www.wsws.org)

Museum of Austerity, recently displayed at the HOME arts centre in Manchester, UK, brings to life the terrible plight of 10 of the disabled victims of a brutal and inhumane benefits system who were failed and left to die....

Sunak warned over 'mad' and 'idiotic' decision to put Elon Musk at centre of AI Safety Summit (inews.co.uk)

Ministers warn English councils not to adopt four-day working weeks (www.theguardian.com)

Nigel Farage fury as regulator finds 'no evidence' of bank account closures due to political views (news.sky.com)

Private Eye exposes Tory councillors who voted through lucrative property development then stepped down (www.thelondoneconomic.com)

Sunak’s family firm signed a billion-dollar deal with BP before PM opened new North Sea licences (www.thelondoneconomic.com)

Liz Truss says being compared to a lettuce was not funny (www.politico.eu)

Alexei Navalny describes 'corrupt officials' living in London helping Putin in never-before-seen interview (news.sky.com)

Labour would introduce ‘no loopholes ban on conversion therapy’ (www.independent.co.uk)

BBC ignores Rejoin March as thousands descend on the capital (www.thelondoneconomic.com)

The public think everything has got worse under the Tories, a new poll has found (leftfootforward.org)

Sunak refused to fully fund repairs of England’s crumbling schools, says ex-official (www.theguardian.com)

Rishi Sunak refused to properly fund a school rebuilding programme when he was chancellor, despite officials presenting evidence that there was “a critical risk to life” from crumbling concrete panels, the Department for Education’s former head civil servant has said....

Rejoin EU 62%, Stay Out 38% (Omnisis poll, fieldwork 10-11 August 2023) (omnisis.co.uk)

More than 60% of Brits want to re-join the EU with nearly the same number saying Britain was wrong to leave in the first place, a new poll shows.

Theresa Villiers: Ex-environment secretary failed to declare £70k Shell shares (www.bbc.co.uk)

King Charles to receive huge pay rise from UK taxpayers (www.theguardian.com)

That’s right yes, after we pay for his fucking hat day he gets a pay rise while we get a cost of living crisis and strikes across the board to get a few pennies....

Nigel Farage fell below the financial threshold required to hold an account at Coutts. (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Labour deselecting left-wing candidates and women of colour in first week of campaign (mastodon.green)

Labour has decided to start their campaign with a bang, pruning women of colour and left wingers from the ballot due to reasons such as liking tweets sharing Jon Stewart videos. At the end of the day it boils down to support for Palestine....