#british news

[workersolidarity]

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BBC PIECE REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE "ISRAEL" RESPONSIBLE FOR MURDER OF FOREIGN AID WORKERS

📹 Footage from a BBC piece covering the deaths of 7 foreign aid workers with the World Central Kitchen (WCK) in an Israeli airstrike refuses to mention "Israel" as the party responsible for the slaughter.

The piece dances around ever mentioning the party responsible for the airstrike, instead discussing the "deaths" of the 7 foreign aid workers in "an airstrike". Even though Palestinian resistance forces do not possess such capabilities.

The piece even mentions how WCK coordinated its movements with the "IDF" (Israeli occupation forces [IOF]) but fails to connect the coordination with the murderous airstrike itself, choosing to avoid any mention of Zionist responsibility for the murder of the aid workers, which included British, Australian and Polish nationals, along with a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen and one Palestinian.

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[nights-are-better]

[krispiecake]

If you are in the UK, another thing you can do is sign this petition and contact your MP in support of MP Zarah Sultana’s bill to stop UK sales of arms to Isreal and any other state that might use them for war crimes.

Since 2015, the UK government has made arms sales to Isreal worth £474 MILLION. These sales include parts of the F-35 fighter jets currently being used in the genocide of Palestinians.

Read further about this bill and what it entails through the link below

[reniadeb]

🐻@reniadeb⛵

[its-all-ineffable]

RIP Paul O'Grady

It's heart-breaking. I grew up watching this man take cracks at our shitty right-wing governments, treat dogs and humans alike with so much kindness, and make British drag something to be proud of.

He was a really special man, and he did so much for the Queer community in Britain, and so much for all the people whose lives he touched.

My thoughts and condolences are with his family and friends.

Give 'em hell, Lil.

[atheostic]

British University Issues Trigger Warning on Greek Mythology

"Women should just be okay with reading about brutal sexual violence against women because it's a classic that's thousands of years old" is such a privileged Man perspective.

Just because it doesn't bother you to read about it doesn't mean everyone will be okay with it too -- especially not people who have personally experienced such violence in real life.

Saying "Hey, heads up, ancient depictions of how women were treated -- especially during war -- can get super duper gnarly and horrific. Take a mental health break when you need it" is just being kind and realistic.

When writing a capstone essay for my undergrad about Indian Residential Schools I had to take constant breaks because of the way kids were treated according to the Truth and Reconciliation Council's findings. It has to do with empathy, not weakness. Some people can read about a kid getting flogged in front of their peers in order to be an example for anyone thinking of trying to escape, but I can't.

Now imagine going into a class that talks about that kind of thing constantly but having no warning about it. If anything, it's irresponsible to NOT have the warning.

[tinkerbitch69]

Truly a newsworthy occasion in the British isles!

I’m not even joking btw genuinely entranced by the S M O O T H M A R S

Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmzlwy909po.amp

[stainlesssteellocust]

Does anyone have that image where some English paper, might have been the Independent, is declaring that we NEED X Tory wanker to deliver success and stability

and it’s a collage of four of them because they ran the same story each time one fucked up

[futuresong]

hey tumblr, the portrait is continuing to provide

[nights-are-better]

WHO EVER PLAYED THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER YOU UTTER FUCKING LEGEND

[workersolidarity]

🇬🇧 🚨 💷 BRITISH MILITARY FACES A £17 BILLION EQUIPMENT FUNDING SHORTFALL OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS

Britain's National Audit Office (NAO) is reporting that Britain's Armed Forces are facing a £17 Billion ($21.6 Billion) shortfall over the next 10-years for military equipment acquisition.

According to the report, the estimated cost for weapons and equipment acquisition for the period lasting from 2023 to 2033 is expected to be £305.5 Billion, a total of £16.9 Billion over budget.

In response, British Defense Minister Grant Shapps dismissed concerns over the military acquisition budget, telling reporters "the department is confident it can live within its equipment budget" and insisting that there were also scenarios in which the Ministry of Defense (MoD) would have a surplus over 10 years.

The UK's MoD has already boosted defense spending this year, increasing the budget from about 2% of GDP to approximately 2.25% of GDP.

Shapps also said the report does not account for the current government's goal of raising British Defense spending to 2.5% of GDP whenever economic conditions allowed.

In a statement, the head of the NAO, Gareth Davies said that "The Ministry of Defence acknowledges that its Equipment Plan for 2023–2033 is unaffordable," and that decisions over scrapping or scaling back projects deemed unaffordable should not be deferred, risking "poor value for money."

However, the NAO believes the deficit could go even higher, because their report does not include the cost of developing future capabilities nor does it include the cost of extending the life of some equipment like tanks and armored vehicles.

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[ev1llesb1an]

As someone who is british and watches british news, why is this something BBC news, ITV news, Channel 4 news etc either hardly report on or do not report on at all? Where is the outrage? Where is the ATTENTION at the very least? Don’t ever stop holding the media accountable for failing to cover this news. Don’t ever stop demanding answers from the government as to why they are allowing this genocide to continue.

[atheostic]

Study explains global rise in atheism and shows that atheists now outnumber theists in the UK