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A HISTORIC MILESTONE: For the first time, solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear, making it the world’s 4th largest power source. In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up. @ember-energy.org

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Despite damning evidence the govt clinging on to private ownership of water in England; people fleeced for 36 years. Prospect is sewage dumping, health hazards, lack of investment, higher domestic/business costs, tax dodges, asset-stripping. Public ownership is the only way out.

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[Narrator: That’s not a Muslim]

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The UK's defence review names Russia as the threat. But fascism is the real enemy – & it’s inside the house. We’re facing 21st-century fascism with a 1945 defence playbook. Maybe it’s time for an update. Read Prof Richard Murphy’s analysis ⤵️ #UKPolitics

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🇺🇦🗣️ "We are not children with Putin on the playground in the park. He is a murderer who came to the park to kill children," — Zelensky responded to Trump’s comparison of Russia and Ukraine with “two children fighting.”

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So British DOGE's search for wasteful spending discovered that... councils need more money to update their IT systems? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Doctors routinely lose hours in the day to laptops that take 15 minutes to boot and crash four times a day. Patient recording sharing is abysmal (anyone with a relative who needs help from multiple consultants will be all too aware) and compounds health issues. And it’s just all…ignored.

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Nuclear power: a dream not worth having The Government wants more nuclear power stations, but renewable energy is cheaper, safer, and more sustainable @westenglandbylines.co.uk @stevedawe.bsky.social westenglandbylines.co.uk/business/ene...

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The Govt’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” ruled out public ownership - a solution 82% of us support - before even starting. This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...

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🚨URGENT: Sign and share our petition. ❗KKR, the predatory US private equity firm lined up to rescue Thames Water, has pulled out. Thames Water is back in crisis. It's time for Steve Reed to cut the 💩and bring it into public hands. vist.ly/3n529qc

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It’s always struck me as insane that clean electricity is tied to the price of polluting gas and oil…not just tied to it but charged at nearly 4 times the rate of gas per kWh. Hardly surprising that people hesitate before going to the expense and disruption of heat pump installation

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There’s a simple method for situations like this, including e.g. live music, busy bars, and so on. If you lived there before the establishment existed, your complaint should be addressed seriously and carefully. If the establishment was already there when you moved in, you can fuck off.

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18 months ago, Michelle Mone admitted she lied to the media about her links to a PPE firm that profited during the pandemic. Enough is enough. Sign the petition to demand she’s expelled from the House of Lords:

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A damning new parliamentary report warns that “the site is becoming increasingly unsafe” due to the delays

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As Arron Banks appears in the Reform Party video after Vladimir Putin has exposed his violent expansionist plan for Russia, it is worth revisiting what the judge said about Banks and the undisclosed Russian Embassy visits in the lead up to Brexit

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"You should have AI nurses, AI doctors," says Tony Blair & he could not be more wrong. This is exactly the kind of gushing, uncritical AI hype that has already squandered ££millions of NHS funds on the likes of Babylon (Hancock's fave - soon went bankrupt) &, I kid you not, NHS penguin robots. 1/3

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The awesome @carolecadwalla.bsky.social warning Americans of the techno authoritarian state being built by Trump and his tech broligarchs youtu.be/vG7CvbccdVM?...

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Reform are up to no good at Kent County Council. By passing democratic processes, cancelling committee meetings, unelected officials trying to access data they shouldn't have access to, threatening staff, people with no connection to Kent and not elected to the council announcing decisions. 1/2

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Jon Stewart is a legend & the way this show is trying to explain to a mainstream audience the gravity what is happening in the US is amazing. It was both thrilling & terrifying to be part of it. Thank you @TheDailyShow 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...

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Privatised water is failing, but the Government’s ‘once-in-a-generation’ review is just more false solutions dressed up as reform. That's why we’re backing @labourlewis.bsky.social’s call. Public ownership works. Let’s put it back on the table. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...

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Cos the best way to defeat Farage is to agree with him about absolutely everything Tories proved this by running a 10 year experiment that left them polling at "functionally dead", while Reform are favourites to win the next election Top thinking, Blue Labour! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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What a headline 😂 www.ibtimes.co.uk/builderai-co...

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Everybody needs to watch this www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...

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We need more than proper regulation to clean up the water industry. Lenders who have been raking in fat profits need a haircut www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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By taking public ownership off the table from the start, the government’s "largest review of the water sector since privatisation" is just moving deck chairs on the Titanic. Privatisation is not a problem - it is THE problem. Sign my letter to Sir Jon Cunliffe: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...

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actionnetwork.org/petitions/si... PLEASE SIGN Clive’s open letter!! This COULD NOT BE MORE URGENT!! Please sign and share in every platform you use! Thank you @labourlewis.bsky.social for ALL you do 👏👏👏

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In an indemnity deal with The Sunday Times dated 17 November in which she handed over a dossier to the Murdoch Sunday paper, Oakeshott said: “I am in no doubt Banks and Wigmore have been acting as agents of influence for the Russian state”. bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...

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Thames Water is now at the end of the road. The Government should get in, sort the mess out, get out, and then make the company a public benefit company mutually owned by its customers. news.sky.com/story/kkr-ab...

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The Govt’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” ruled out public ownership - a solution 82% of us support - before even starting. This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...

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Well well welll

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BREAKING: Watch as San Diego residents chase Trump’s ICE out of a neighborhood. Notice how only the ICE agents hide their faces.

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Your occasional reminder that in two years' time, Nigel Farage will be taking his gold plated £73,000 annual EU pension.

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Failed pandemic-era PPE contracts cost the British taxpayer £1.4billion. The Covid counter-fraud commissioner uncovered the figure in the first phase of his probe into wasteful Tory spending during the pandemic www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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I had to double check that this was real and yep there's the president sharing a post claiming his predecessor was executed in 2020 and replaced with a robot or a clone I mean CHRIST can the legacy media please normalize calling him unhinged, at the very least

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Dido Harding’s entire model was wrong. Instead of using existing public health networks, including GPs, she, at a time when urgency was key, decided to re-create everything from scratch, directing huge amounts of public money into the profits of failing private firms It didn’t work and people died

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Proof that Farage will not keep his promises.

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If only there was some way of knowing what caused all this…

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Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.” MPs are watching. We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

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You wouldn't know it from today's newspaper front pages screaming "betrayal", but new YouGov polling finds that 66% of British people now want the Government to deliver a closer relationship with the EU, compared to just 14% who don't

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June is Pride Month. Let's call out companies who show support for LGBTQ+ people while also advertising on GB News, a channel that pumps out LGBTQ+ hate. Tell these companies to pick a side - hate or Pride: action.goodlawproject.org/pick-side-ha...

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🧵 1/ Not enough people are linking Reform & MAGA. It’s time to correct that by talking about Nigel Farage, MAGA money, and a US PR firm with direct ties to Bannon. It’s not patriotism and pints it’s a shared plan and international far-right coordination. Grab a cup of tea and strap in👇

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It will be interesting if this photo is broadcast on any of the main news channels tonight. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social

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Amidst the driest Spring in 69 years, the National Drought Group says many water companies’ plan for drought is « simply praying for rain. » Selling off reservoirs, failing to invest, polluting our water – these acts undermine our national water security. It's time for public ownership.

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We’re outraged when Trump imposes trade arrangements/tariffs without congressional approval. & that’s just been ruled unconstitutional. But the British PM, unlike US & EU counterparts, can use Royal Prerogative to sign huge trade deals without scrutiny by MPs 😳 blogs.sussex.ac.uk/uktpo/2020/0...

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