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The privatisation of Britain’s water infrastructure has been a complete disaster. We need to bring water into public ownership to end the shameful cycle of rip-off bills for customers, pollution in our waterways and obscene shareholder profiteering.

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A 450-yo oak is felled without permission by a Toby Carvery (don’t eat there), who falsely claimed it was "dead". A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces. Legal protection for heritage trees needed. enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...

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Water companies’ pollution incidents in England increased by 30% in 2024. Customer bills hiked. Shareholders extracted £1.2bn in 2023-24. Industry controlled by organisations with criminal records. No director prosecuted. Nothing will change until profit motive is removed. Nationalise.

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Shiny new toy. 🎶 Not that I'm expecting any reciprocal tariffs on US products from our weak Govt...

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🚨The government pledged to protect at least 30% of the ocean by 2030, yet bottom trawling is STILL allowed in UK marine "protected" areas. Join us and demand #bottomtrawling is BANNED in our #ocean havens! ➡️➡️➡️ act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-...

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PCBs, banned in 1980s, are still found in bodies of common dolphins stranded on UK beaches. A ZSL study based on CSIP + SMASS data shows higher levels of PCBs in the body and increased sea surface temperatures linked to greater mortality risk. www.newscientist.com/article/2476...

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Astounding!

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Great win-win initiative. How about it @hertscc.bsky.social ? @chrishinchliff.bsky.social

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Niccolò Machiavelli argued that sometimes it is “a very wise thing to simulate madness.”  Wise, that is, for the manipulative ruler. Trump is simulating madness, but it’s all about increasing his wealth and power. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-only-simulates-madness

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Sad announcement today. NOAA ending cooperative agreement with Princeton that supports many climate science project at NOAA's Geophyscial Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). GFDL & Princeton where Dr. Suki Manabe conducted his Nobel-prize winning climate research www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

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boosting because good and we need more good

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The French would like to thank the UK for funding to them. 2020 - 2024: EDF owned by the French state made £91bn operating profit in the UK, subsidises French households/industry. UK govts oppose public ownership but happy to let foreign govts own UK infrastructure, export billions of profits.

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