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Is privatised water undermining the UK’s green goals The water industry is unpopular but more seriously, is it fit for purpose as the nation tries to meet the challenges of climate change | Darryl Rigby @northwestbylines.co.uk

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#bbclaurak says taxation is at sky high historic levels. For who? The recent history of Corporation Tax (main rate): 1982 52% 1983 50% 1984 45% 1985 40% 1990 35% 1997 33% 1998 31% 2007 30% 2010 28% 2011 26% 2012 24% 2013 23% 2014 21% 2016 20% 2017 19% 2023 25%

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Time for @bbc to start being impartial. Let’s have some sensible guys from the LibDems and Greens rather than the fascists who want to bring Trumpism chaos to the UK

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A truly terrible development, for everyone. Things will not be ok in this country until liberal conservatism returns, but by God there isn't much sign of that.

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Two LA photojournalists have been shot with tear gas canisters by DHS HSI, including @acatwithnews.bsky.social who was directly targeted by HSI and struck in the head. Sean is en route to the ER with obvious facial injuries. He was conscious and talking when he left the scene.

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At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

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💔 Sunday School: X-Communicated 💔 ☢️ The Trump/Musk rift goes nuclear 🐸 Tensions erupt inside Reform UK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Full analysis of Hamilton by-election @pimlicat.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0yaL... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

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💥 Sunday School: Exit far right, pursued by despair 💥 💊 Musk's Top Gear 🌮 Trump's TACO 💷 End of the Bail-out Era 🚇 Jenrick's fare game @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social 🔀 open.spotify.com/episode/3L19... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

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"What has the ECHR ever done for us?" 🤔 [SOUND ON 🔊]

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This should be compulsory reading. Excellent: Six Conversations We're Scared to Have by Deborah Frances-White on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/140555131...

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STORY from @soph-husk.bsky.social Youngsters could face two-hour social media cap per app in new online safety package www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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The Spending Review is an opportunity for the Government to target spending at areas which benefit lower-income families. One option is to tilt funding towards the the public services that have been poorly funded & are used intensively by the poorest half of families. Read more: buff.ly/BLx1kng

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Reminders here from the County Councils Network and Campaign for Better Transport of the significant investment needed in buses. - Bus services in rural areas of England declined by 18% from 2019 to 2024 - 4 in 10 council wards in England and Wales do not have a “reasonable” level of bus services

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No evidence. Politicized justice to save their asses. I have not the vocabulary to express my loathing and contempt for these people, who have absolutely no shame, no honor, no integrity, no respect for the constitution. Despicable, vile, criminal, corrupt and cruel.

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Financial Times editorial on Israel, calling on Europe to recognise a Palestinian state www.ft.com/content/8856...

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EXCLUSIVE: Neil Kinnock slams Labour’s strategy on Reform as “100% wrong” and “mortally stupid” in a new Prospect interview with @arusbridger.bsky.social. “Appeasers get eaten,” he says. www.prospectmagazine...

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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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Most new build homes must have solar panels, Ed Miliband says "The rules will be included in the Future Homes Standard, which will detail a wider plan for improving energy efficiency" Looks like a big win for green-energy goals (and bills), though worth watching how it impacts house-building

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Ooh. They're all falling out. It's only been four months.

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German Chancellor Merz sets the record straight after Trump tries to draw moral equivalence between Russia and Ukrainian actions: "Ukraine is only targeting military targets. Not civilians, not private [property], not energy infrastructure. This is the difference."

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A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.

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It helps to call things as they are things as they are 👇

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Free school meals to be extended to 500,000 more children in England, learning from Wales where there are universal free school meals in primary schools. Wales will get matching funding - which could be used to further extend free school meals www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Mel Stride doing the rounds this morning. He's angry that the UK economy, after years of low taxes and austerity, is underperfoeming. So he's essentially suggesting lower taxes and more austerity. Nice work fella.

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So Jenrick does a PR stunt and the BBC lap it up and do a prime time hour long phone in giving him the publicity he was after. But then again it fits in perfectly with the BBC agenda under Robbie Gibb.

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Congress wasted how many millions of US tayxpayer dollars on endless, fruitless investigations into the few bucks Hunter Biden may have made off being related to Joe? And now crickets? Really????

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"It's a Yes or No Question"

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My film #InTheLoop now up on #BBCiPlayer for 19 days or so.

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Labour's attempts to blame rising small boat numbers on the weather are "pathetic" says Shadow Conservative Home Secretary Chris Philp In other news, here's Chris Philp, when he was Immigration Minister, blaming rising small boat numbers on the weather

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This will be a huge boost to the cities, towns and regions around them creating access to jobs and new opportunities. It also shows the government’s commitment to long term investment enabled by the new fiscal rules. A big step on the path to rebalancing the country. 💪

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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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This will probably come as no surprise to anyone but… www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...

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