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Five more water companies in England appeal against Ofwat’s curb on bill rises. OFWAT permitted average price rise of 36%. They want more People can't appeal, have to pay up, put up with sewage in rivers, exploitation. Corporations rule and no one is protecting people.

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

Despite endless stories that suggest the opposite, unemployment has stayed steady - & historically low at 4.4% The panic about too many people & too many of them being on benefits is misplaced. The problem is the wealth we all create goes only to the rich #r4today

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Why is nobody talking about this?

submitted 11 days ago • 105 comments

Drax burning wood pellets that it ships from Canada and calling it green energy is a scam and it shouldn't get a single penny in subsidies from the Government. It has already received billions for it and it needs to stop.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

It's time to stop pretending DOGE is about efficiency and trimming expenses. The difference between a haircut and a visit to the guillotine matters, and this is all going to be very expensive for all of us (if not for them). Notably gutting CFPB. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 11 days ago • 34 comments

The most enlightening, yet always comforting start of your Sunday. Quite a balance to strike these days. But they manage to do it. 👇

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia will tomorrow permanently disconnect from Russia’s power grid. Russia can no longer use energy as a tool of blackmail. This is a victory for freedom and European unity.

submitted 16 days ago • 77 comments

Behind ever ‘drain the swamp’ - from Budapest to Washington DC - is actually a highly targeted ploy to ransack the state and destroy those bodies that would ever hold the autocrat, and his oligarchs, to account

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Insanely good news if this holds up. Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Can an audio book be AI generated? The voice human, but the rhythm prosody and cadence clear but unnaturally regular . Every sentence with the same pitch profile and rhythm. Am I mistaken? Can they clone a reader? Matthew Brenher reading “How we Are” by Matthew Deary is bothering me!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified… …once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’. Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

A reminder that the BBC can still do accurate, informative analysis when it wants to. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 18 days ago • 438 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 19 days ago • 1329 comments

Absolutely spot on from Rory Stewart

submitted 20 days ago • 638 comments

An unelected, erratic, ketamine-addled billionaire with far right/white nationalist views has taken control of the personnel and payment systems of the United States government. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.

submitted 22 days ago • 135 comments

@sturdyalex.bsky.social Happy Birthday Alex.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

submitted 22 days ago • 126 comments

Goodwin spreading misinformation over on the other place again. Same old debunked rubbish. Foreign born & British nationals are presented here as two different groups. Obviously they are not. I am a foreign born British national. So is Boris Johnson. But it makes a nice dog whistle.

submitted 25 days ago • 67 comments

Looking forward to Zoe’s upcoming appearance on @quietriotpod.bsky.social tomorrow. Her voice is a wonderful counterweight to the nonsense of the UK right on immigration

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

NEW Kemi Badenoch refuses to publish her tax return and won't say why not www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 24 days ago • 45 comments

Our NHS is not for sale. Trade talks with Trump must not open the door to US healthcare companies profiting from our NHS. Keir Starmer must protect our NHS by keeping it off the table during negotiations. Join me by adding your name to 38 Degrees’ petition:

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Firing independent watchdogs is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Removes another obstacle to corruption and abuse of power www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 29 days ago • 153 comments

Someone thought they could get away with driving this deathtrap around. That was an expensive mistake.

submitted 36 days ago • 87 comments

What turns a wildfire into a disaster, and where does climate change come in? I break it down here ...

submitted 37 days ago • 21 comments