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Gratitude to everyone who contributed — whether with a donation or through action 💛💙 #ThankYou #SupportUkraine #UaView

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Nearly half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Injure seven police officers driving at 119 mph earns 1 yr and 2 months in prison. Planning environmental activism earns 5 yrs in prison. Justice???

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Fishing is peak Ladybird Libertarian territory. It taps into grand notions of "who we are" and noble and heroic traditions of "man versus the sea" and "man versus fish." That's why the Brexiters weaponised it, and I'm just sorry for ordinary fishing communities that were pawns in the game.

submitted 21 days ago • 37 comments

Gary Lineker had the courage to speak up for the rights and freedoms of the Palestinian people And for that, he was cancelled We say 'never forget' but when someone points out that we've forgotten' and speaks out against a genocide, they're dismissed Thank you Gary for being human and caring 🙏

submitted 21 days ago • 36 comments

~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline. That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production. Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.

submitted 32 days ago • 67 comments

Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.

submitted 39 days ago • 303 comments

“Starmer must not trade away our food standards as part of tariff negotiations. We are as indignant about American animal welfare as JDVance seems to be about the control of anti-abortion demonstrations outside UK clinics” So many reasons to focus on the EU, not the US. Letter of the week The Week

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we are the #dangerous

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

Stop Musk! Change the law on political donations On 31st March, MPs will debate the petition that 140,000 of us signed - to stop overseas billionaires polluting our politics: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Make sure your MP attends - email them now: www.writetothem.com

submitted 89 days ago • 49 comments

Britain: Time to wake up and smell the coffee. That special relationship was a myth.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

This is the most dangerous, irresponsible framing imaginable. Not to mention it is bollocks. The big big winners from positioning Ukrainian security against poor British people & our public services are the far right. TAX THE RICH TO PAY FOR DEFENSE. PROTECT OUR WELFARE STATE.

submitted 96 days ago • 123 comments

I constantly hear/see journalists, commentators & interviewers asserting how easy it is to get incapacity & disability benefits despite clearly having no real understanding of how the process actually works or having spoken to someone who's been through it. Completely distorts public understanding

submitted 96 days ago • 20 comments

In other words, stop pandering to a megalomaniac.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Appeasing Trump is not realpolitik. Realpolitik is grasping the fact that Trump is an enemy of democracy allied with Putin. He is not a troublesome ally. He is an enemy. There's no bringing him onside. There's only letting him use our desperation to manipulate us.

submitted 97 days ago • 3 comments

Is this another cover up? This time the Covid Inquiry not talking to PPE Suppliers?

submitted 101 days ago • 61 comments

The USA gives Israel way more money than Ukraine but Donald Trump daren't say a thing to Benjamin Netanyahu.

submitted 101 days ago • 31 comments

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to Zelensky: "You are never alone, Dear President"

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Since I offered you 10 reasons for modest optimism last week, discontent with the Trump-Musk regime has surged even further. America appears to be waking up. Here’s the latest evidence — 10 more reasons for modest optimism. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-reasons-for-moderate-optimism

submitted 101 days ago • 61 comments

I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.

submitted 101 days ago • 272 comments

Time for the UK to recognize that the "special relationship" was only ever a one-sided love affair. Time to stop hankering after the US and turn back to Europe #brexit

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, it’s only one poll but a significant drop in opposition and an increase in support for lynx reintroduction in Scotland since they last asked the question. www.rewild.scot/scottish-peo...

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 115 days ago • 533 comments

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submitted 113 days ago • 917 comments

Will we ever get to the bottom of the many corruption scandals such as PPE or does the incoming government simply brush them beneath the carpet and pretend they never existed? #corruptpolitics

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Supressing a woman’s right to vote. They’re just a white Christian version of the Taliban.

submitted 118 days ago • 99 comments

If this were Just Stop Oil, there'd have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much. The real #TwoTierPolicing www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

submitted 118 days ago • 99 comments

Laura Kuennsberg repeats the 'we know there isn't much money around at the moment' line again this morning. Without asking WHY there is 'no money around'. Politicians must be challenged on their decisions to refuse to tax the super-rich so that there IS 'money around'. #BBCLauraK

submitted 121 days ago • 3 comments

Every constituency in Britain favours trade with EU over US, new poll suggests The poll saw just 21 per cent of people say the US should be the UK’s priority over the EU www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 134 days ago • 59 comments

We need to all be getting behind the call for a ban on lying in parliament. A simple fix to so many problems and a practice that would influence other countries too.

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

So how’s it going so far?

submitted 135 days ago • 506 comments

Must speak truth to power. Is Mariann Edgar Budde the person of the year for standing up to Trump? There is nothing more patriotic than social justice; protection of the vulnerable; eradication of poverty, hate; giving visibility to what is ignored/marginalized. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 136 days ago • 26 comments

We need to all be getting behind the call for a ban on lying in parliament. A simple fix to so many problems and a practice that would influence other countries too.

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

When a government tells us, within the course of one week, that we can't have new hospitals but must have new runways, you know that it is not working on our behalf, but on behalf of economic power.

submitted 137 days ago • 63 comments