50 m. ago It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones

In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage governmentIn Britain, protest is no longer a right. Instead, it is a privilege that is granted – or withheld – at the whim of those in power. This is the implication of new rules that the Labour government is proposing, which would dictate the time and place that protests are permitted to occur, and carry the risk of prison time for those who defy orders. Successive governments had already chipped away at this right: the last Conservative administration granted the police sweeping new powers, which the United Nations’ human rights chief condemned as “serious and undue restrictions” on democratic freedoms. Taken together, these incremental assaults on freedom have effectively abolished the hard-won right to freedom of protest.The latest assault is justified by last week’s heinous antisemitic attack on a mosque in Manchester. There should be universal agreement that...

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68 m. ago Rod Stewart, 80, hints at upcoming projects: ‘I still enjoy what I’m doing’

‘Forever Young’ singer is currently on his One Last Time farewell tour

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71 m. ago Half of Tories think Kemi Badenoch should QUIT as leader before next election

A poll of Tory faithful by YouGov found just 46% think Kemi Badenoch should be Conservative leader when the country next goes to the polls and 50% think she shouldn't

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76 m. ago Half of Tory members think Badenoch should not lead party into next election

Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick would be the favourite to succeed her if she stepped down in the next few months.

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87 m. ago Greta Thunberg was 'beaten and dragged by hair by IDF', flotilla crew claims before she is kicked out of Israel and arrives to hero's welcome by crowd chanting free Palestine in Greece

Over 70 activists, lawyers and journalists were deported from Israel after they were seized aboard an intercepted Gaza aid flotilla.

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95 m. ago Greta Thunberg is given a hero's welcome by crowd cheering 'Free Palestine' as she arrives in Greece after being deported from Israel amid claims she was 'dragged by her hair and beaten' by IDF

Over 70 activists, lawyers and journalists were deported from Israel after they were seized aboard an intercepted Gaza aid flotilla.

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97 m. ago Gaza flotilla latest: Greta Thunberg speaks out after being deported by Israel along with 170 other activists

Around 450 people were arrested when Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla

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1 hour ago Tories should work with Reform to defeat Labour, says shadow minister

Andrew Rosindell urged right-of-centre parties to ‘unite together’.

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1 hour ago AOC wants supporters to laugh at MAGA men starting with Stephen Miller who she claims is upset about his height

AOC mocked Stephen Miller, saying the MAGA aide was ‘mad’ that he is 4-feet 10-inches tall

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2 h. ago Cancelling HS2 in Manchester was 'very odd', Conservative MP admits two years on

The shadow rail minister defended the decision despite conceding the location chosen for the announcement was quite peculiar

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2 h. ago When Trump faces a challenge, where does he run? The Supreme Court’s shadow docket

Each time Trump faces a challenge to his attempts to expand his executive authority, he runs to the Supreme Court’s shadow docket and his conservative majority complies, Ariana Baio reports

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2 h. ago Term ‘disabled’ being used too widely, shadow work and pensions secretary says – UK politics live

Helen Whateley says ‘millions are sitting on the sofa at home’Mel Stride, the shadow chancellor, was doing an interview round for the Conservatives this morning, and Miatta Fahnbulleh, the faith and communities minister, was on the air on behalf of the government. They were both asked about the latest development in the flag phenomenon – the former footballer turned property developer Gary Neville saying that he took down a union flag flying at one of his building sites because he felt it was being used in a “negative fashion”.Asked if Neville (a Labour supporter) had a point, Fahnbulleh told ITV’s Good Morning Britain:I think he’s really right, that there are people who are trying to divide us at the moment I spent a lot of time going around our communities, talking to people. People are ground down. We’ve had a decade-and-a-half in which living standards haven’t budged and people have seen their communities held down. And you will get people trying to stoke division, trying to bla...

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2 h. ago Enjoying the implosion of the Tories? That’s understandable – but completely wrong | Zoe Williams

The world’s most successful democratic party is in a death spiral of its own making – leaving no bulwark between the moderate and truly far rightThere have been times in living memory that Conservative leaders have sounded almost sensible on the surface – and times where they have sounded animal crackers, yet were still adored by their party. This is not either of those times. Kemi Badenoch left the crowd unmoved when she addressed her conference, even as she threw out the red meat of migrant-baiting she thought they wanted. It’s not so much that they’d all woken up with a renewed sense of humanity; more that they didn’t believe she’d ever be in a position to deliver it. It was, in effect, fake vegan meat. Tories hate that. One senior Conservative apparently called it a “New Orleans funeral”: noisy, energetic, but still a goodbye.What next for the group with a decent case to make for itself as the most historically successful democratic party in the world? Some are having another sq...

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3 h. ago Bayern Munich chief drops new Harry Kane contract hint amid Tottenham return rumours

The striker has scored 11 goals in six Bundesliga games

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3 h. ago Conservatives should stop defending triple lock ‘Ponzi system’, says senior Tory

Tom Tugendhat compared the UK economy to a ‘Ponzi system’ during a fringe event at the party conference in Manchester on Monday.

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3 h. ago Kent ‘down to the bare bones’, says care chief amid council tax rise fears

Nigel Farage’s party ousted the Conservatives at Kent County Council (KCC) in May, with a promise to slash ‘wasteful spending’.

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3 h. ago From post WWII soldier to trans sensation: How Christine Jorgensen became the talk of the town decades before Caitlyn Jenner and Dylan Mulvaney

As the modern-day transgender movement has surged on social media, decades ago there was one trans woman who dominated headlines and captivated the nation, Christine Jorgensen.

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3 h. ago The Tory conference is a ghost town – even the protesters haven’t bothered to show up

Any hopes that the event in Manchester would inject some life into the beleaguered party are long gone, write Millie Cooke and Archie Mitchell

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3 h. ago How the Supreme Court’s shadow docket is shaping American life – without explanation

Each time Trump faces a challenge to his attempts to expand his executive authority, he runs to the Supreme Court’s shadow docket and his conservative majority complies, Ariana Baio reports

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3 h. ago Greta Thunberg is booted out of Israel still wearing prison clothes as activist friend claims Gaza campaigner was 'dragged by her hair' and beaten 'as a warning to others'

The Swedish climate activist is among more than 70 people of different nationalities who have left Israel after they were seized aboard an intercepted Gaza aid flotilla.

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