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We really need to understand what drives people to vote against their self interest. Is it cultural, sentimental or simply a staggering level of ignorance? With the US and Russia now supporting far right candidates the EU needs to counteract more aggressively otherwise all is lost.

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I’m so fed up with people voting for absolute cunts. #poland #ffs

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A friendly reminder that those who accept, justify, excuse or refuse to push back on brexit red lines - no to CU, no to SM & No to Re-join - are not helping anyone, other than Farage & Co. It's a Lose-Lose for both britain and the EU. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

submitted 6 days ago • 1122 comments

This from Ed Balls is spot-on and if Reeves has any sense is where she will end up. If you are going to retreat you do it with a below not a whimper

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

It's time to weaponise the economy against fascism. Is that so very hard for Labour to work out? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

Robert De Niro Never shut up Keep on telling the truth

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

“Eighty percent of England’s peatlands are dry and degraded, new mapping shows” Time to stop letting grouse moor owners & farmers burn them, then…! (Consultation still open on moorland burning ban plans) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 23 days ago • 12 comments

England is heading towards a drought this summer > No reservoirs have been built in England for more than 30 years www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

"In elevating Trump, Republicans have committed themselves to corruption. Not just the sort of tawdry grift & money-shuffling DeSantis did here, but to a bone-deep debasement of democracy. All rules are out the window, save for one: show fealty, financial & otherwise, to Trump" — @snipy.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 42 comments

Child poverty in the UK. A young child hospitalised with malnutrition leading to the loss of all her teeth. Years of austerity, real wage cuts, profiteering, two child benefit cap, cuts to public services take toll. Govts appease the rich, blight lives of many. archive.ph/IwH73

submitted 30 days ago • 19 comments

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

submitted 32 days ago • 2341 comments

If Scotland became independent, it would be the richest country ever to do so. Hard to argue with Andrew Wilson youtube.com/watch?v=6wzs...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Wrote about how Musk's illegal shuttering of USAID is likely to cause 25 million deaths over 15 years. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/elon-musk-...

submitted 34 days ago • 20 comments

It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 41 days ago • 73 comments

Extreme wealth isn’t accidental - it’s a product of a broken system that lets the super rich exploit resources, dodge taxes and control politics. We need to draw a line. The Extreme Wealth Line. 1/3

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

Column, on derailing Farage's fossil-fuelled climate cynic bandwagon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 42 days ago • 8 comments

Workers in Britain’s financial services sector are being handed the the biggest bonuses in the world after the UK scrapped a cap on bankers’ payouts. Average bonus paid to financial workers last year rose by 26% to £112k, according to eFinancialCareers.

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Eye-opening graph. The biggest wildfire incidents in the UK don't occur when it's hottest, in high summer: they take place in April - when landowners set fire to their grouse moors & lose control of burns. Time to ban moorland burning. Source: www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/sites/defaul...

submitted 47 days ago • 14 comments

Why are Cayman-registered companies getting UK farm subsidies? Norfolk’s biggest landowners include foreign billionaires exploiting loopholes while farmers lose their land. @owensennitt.bsky.social reports #FairFarming

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from experienced presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future. Here's what he got wrong... 🧵

submitted 51 days ago • 88 comments

"Something is very wrong at the heart of NatureScot." From Ireland, there is much to envy about Scotland, where rewilding has massively taken off. But even there, even within 'nature conservation', powerful forces continue to doggedly block positive change. www.thenational.scot/comment/2508...

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

It's a straightforward relationship: high #inequality leads to the triumph of the far right. It will keep winning until governments deliberately seek to make societies more equal. I'm looking at you, Keir Starmer. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 52 days ago • 94 comments

L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week. R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday. Putin’s stooge.

submitted 52 days ago • 1191 comments

May this grotesque little Marie-Antoinette and all of those like her taste the suffering of what real poverty means one day very soon web.archive.org/web/20250405...

submitted 60 days ago • 9 comments

Matt Hancock used his personal email account to help a 'VIP' supplier win a £25 million PPE Covid contract The company, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of completely unusable PPE, later went bust, owing taxpayers millions bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...

submitted 62 days ago • 125 comments

Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows - Experts say previous economic models underestimated impact of global heating, as well as likely ‘cascading supply chain disruptions’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 64 days ago • 11 comments

Seems that all Farage’s trips to US had an actual purpose. Clacton to all intents and purposes is - in the words of one local "about to become the 51st state" of America. Incredible story bylinetimes.com/2025/04/01/f...

submitted 64 days ago • 184 comments

1. Infuriatingly, here in the UK, the government still seems to believe that the only way of introducing trees is to plant them (see, for example, the current Land Use Framework consultation). News just in: trees can self-seed, which could be why they've survived for 360m years. 🧵

submitted 65 days ago • 58 comments

This is awful.

submitted 68 days ago • 46 comments

Make this go viral! Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.

submitted 69 days ago • 1451 comments

Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene literally telling a British reporter to "go back to your country" and berating her for trying to ask a question. "We don't give a CRAP about your opinion."

submitted 69 days ago • 1373 comments

BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime. Keep sharing everywhere.

submitted 73 days ago • 332 comments

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I don't often ask people to write to their MPs. But I think they might listen to you on this, as it's so jaw-droppingly awful, and they're almost certainly unaware of it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Please also write to the Environment Secretary: [email protected] Thanks.

submitted 74 days ago • 56 comments

#GoodQuestion #PublicHealth #RoadSafety #20sPlenty www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments

I see your “spectre of Liz Truss”, and I raise you George Osborne.

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments