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Yes the super rich have horrendous emissions But they also make unsustainable lifestyles look desirable, use their social and cultural power to perpetuate the idea that everything's fine, and wield their political and financial power to maintain and worsen the status quo

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Trump should be in jail. Instead - he's about to get handed the keys to the White House. That this can happen is not only mind-boggling, it's frankly terrifying I'm afraid. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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So concerned were the Reform MPs at violence against girls, as they claimed, that none even bothered to turn up to the Commons debate. @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

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todays satirical diary from @hugorifkind.bsky.social

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What could possibly go wrong..

submitted 48 days ago • 882 comments

‘A govt spokesperson said: “It is important that we look forward, not backwards, that we do not reopen the Brexit divides, and that we make Brexit work for the British people.”’ Witless drivel. The figures speak for themselves. Brexit cannot be made to work. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Israel has been quietly financing UK parliamentary staff, Declassified has found. This comes after we revealed that one in four British MPs had accepted funding from the Israel lobby. www.declassifieduk.org/how-israel-f...

submitted 51 days ago • 12 comments

Former Business Secretary Badenoch’s dept wrote to Treasury after Dyson lobbying over tax breaks. The rich demand tax cuts and changes in law, Ministers jump. Poor get real wage/benefit cuts, NHS queues, crumbling schools ... Minister heap misery. Who governs? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 52 days ago • 39 comments

The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...

submitted 55 days ago • 51 comments

Let’s make 2025 the year in which other Europeans and NATO become more like the Finns. Finland seizes a tanker, getting tough on hybrid warfare econ.st/4gBufbL

submitted 56 days ago • 24 comments

A social distancing cheat chart:

submitted 56 days ago • 1145 comments

Update: after I pointed this out, the Telegraph have removed the errors. No correction, no apology - but they will have to publish one in due course...

submitted 56 days ago • 9 comments

During the past year, there have been several attacks against critical infrastructure near Finland. Russians are being increasingly apparent in their will to escalate the situation in the Baltic Sea. These events must be set in the right context to understand why they happen. 1/

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This is clickbait from the Telegraph. But it does tell us something about how the UK - esp. exceptionalists and Brexiters - view the US. It even tells us about the end of Empire. A 🧵

submitted 59 days ago • 35 comments

“Thwarted” by “opinion-formers” “They [the Blob] were in a more powerful position than I was. It wasn’t a democratic outcome and I don’t believe it was an outcome that was in the interest of the people of Britain” says noisily deflating Tory balloon-head who grenaded the economy. Howlingly mad.

submitted 59 days ago • 140 comments

The House Dems need to demand a vote to decertify the 14th Amndmnt's prohibition against insurrectionists holding federal office, to enable #TheRapistTraitor to be seated, also per the 14th. Only Congress can allow him to take office. BUT THE GOP DOESN'T HAVE THE 2/3rd majority VOTES TO CARRY IT.

submitted 61 days ago • 586 comments

Boris Johnson does not care about “freedoms” nor the economy. If he did, he’d want us to rejoin the EU. What he does care about, ladies & gents, is you fighting to save his legacy for his own ego’s sake. I say let’s nuke it.

submitted 65 days ago • 171 comments

Looks like the EEA is crumbling in favour of full EU membership. Add to that the recent moves by Switzerland to tighten its own relationship, and the packed pipeline of new EU membership applications. Within a decade it could just be the UK, Russia and Belarus outside. What bedfellows we've chosen!

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Scores of comments from Brexiters and exceptionalists on my threads overnight, including many from the Emir of Exceptionalism himself. Okay, Andy, you pass yourself off as an expert, so have at it. Where in the treaties does it say they can select SM? Or are you just talking about extortion? 1

submitted 73 days ago • 26 comments

Ex-GOP Official Shreds Donald Trump’s Picks With Withering Metaphor “is more built on a Ponzi scheme of populist ideas” www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

But okay, still fine for EU, and other countries, to start talking about returning Syrian refugees and pausing asylum, because obviously now Assad has gone no-one needs safety from there anymore www.standard.co.uk/news/world/i...

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

In other news Boris Johnson also says there were no parties in No10 www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/kerre...

submitted 72 days ago • 86 comments

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." -- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917

submitted 71 days ago • 1004 comments

This is what the Observer team & I were doing between strikes. Please read it because it couldn’t be more relevant. I interview @asifkapadia.bsky.social about his alarming new film, 2073. It’s a stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us.. www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...

submitted 72 days ago • 63 comments

Lol, this is much better.

submitted 73 days ago • 495 comments

If you really wanted to help “protect women” in America, the best thing you could’ve done was— NOT run for president.

submitted 75 days ago • 250 comments

Looking forward to the UK/France LG forum being held in Leeds today and tomorrow. @morayshona.bsky.social @garyrobi.bsky.social and @maureenchalmers.bsky.social all here to represent @cosla.bsky.social

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Rupa Huq, "Post Brexit European kids need passports which is not normal in their culture" @rupahuq.bsky.social Lisa Nandy, "The Home Secretary has to think about national security" Rupa Huq, "Kids on a school trip are 9 years old.. They're not going to abscond and become an uber driver"

submitted 77 days ago • 47 comments

🔴Nigel Farage and the Rise of the ‘Anti-Establishment’ Establishment How by threatening nothing but the interests of the already-marginalised, the Reform leader has made himself the darling of the very establishment he claims to despise www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

submitted 80 days ago • 18 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

submitted 80 days ago • 658 comments

UK ‘needs to play catch-up’ in global race to rewire electricity grids UK paying for wind turbines to be turned off during windy weather because there is not enough grid infrastructure to carry electricity. Crazy lack of focus on long term. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 78 days ago • 37 comments

Starmer to meet Saudi crown prince in push for infrastructure cash. Why get cash from dictators at enormous cost when govt can create money, do QE for infrastructure, borrow at lower cost, tax the rich. Seems everything is for sale in the UK. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 79 days ago • 61 comments

It doesn’t get more bent than this Lord Moynihan referred peers to his register of interests, but did not specify that he held shares in Shell, TotalEnergies, and Well-Safe Solutions. He did not refer peers to his register of interests during his December address. 1/2 www.desmog.com/2024/12/06/t...

submitted 81 days ago • 14 comments

The UK’s rich ARE getting richer. That’s why so many are calling for a wealth tax

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