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submitted 23 days ago • 23 comments

Oh let’s be fair to Zuckerberg removing fact checkers from Facebook - it’s true that facts are politically biased. Reality has always had a left wing bias I’m afraid 🤷‍♀️ #r4today

submitted 50 days ago • 7 comments

US banks bow for Republican campaigns that have characterized net zero groups as climate cartels. Photo from @timothysnyder.bsky.social , On Tyranny.

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

Bravo Cardiff. Absolutely the right thing to do. Local parking reforms have a big role to play in reducing the number of large cars on our roads with all the benefits this brings - for safety, climate, air quality, space in our crowded public realm and, as mentioned here, road maintenance

submitted 89 days ago • 15 comments

Palliative Care Doctor, Dr Rachel Clarke, "There are thousands of people suffering unnecessary pain" "We may be in a peculiar position where we have a state funded dying service but we don't have a state funded palliative care service"

submitted 89 days ago • 15 comments

One of these on Park Street, Bristol now!

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

NEW REPORT: Energy efficiency policies are more important than ever — also for electrification. This powerful, and often overlooked, tool can be instrumental in achieving affordable and inclusive electrification. bit.ly/492OYlH

submitted 93 days ago • 6 comments

The story around China issuing USD-denominated sovereign bonds in Saudi Arabia is generating an enormous amount of buzz in China, and could potentially be immensely important. I strongly suspect it's a message to the upcoming Trump administration. A small 🧵

submitted 98 days ago • 10 comments

What a surprise! Turns out the "Department of Government Efficiency" has nothing to do with government efficiency but is simply a pro-business deregulation, mass layoff and cost-cutting exercise... It's all explained by Musk and Ramaswamy in the WSJ: wsj.com/opinion/musk... A small 🧵

submitted 93 days ago • 5 comments

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

submitted 93 days ago • 92 comments

We really need to stop suggesting, either implicitly or explicitly, that we can decarbonise society without people making any changes. It's not only dishonest, but is sure to bake in further distrust in Gov when it turns out not to be true.

submitted 94 days ago • 15 comments

72% of children in poverty live in a working household.

submitted 95 days ago • 4 comments

1. I’m thinking aloud here, as I really don’t have the answers. This is a thread about the political challenge of the very large numbers of young men now supporting the far right. I’m writing it without blame or derision. I’m just trying to find a way through. 🧵

submitted 94 days ago • 185 comments

Proper informative interview with @garethdennis.bsky.social on railways and why they are great. And yes, I’ve just bought the book! youtu.be/M3afnfNQTu0?...

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

One of the best podcasts going

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

could we maybe do a protest of people who are currently renting and can't afford to buy property and who also won't inherit enough to ever buy a place

submitted 99 days ago • 44 comments

closing a tax loophole is hardly herding the kulaks into kolkhozes... the media needs to get a grip

submitted 99 days ago • 5 comments

Never has a crime so obscene been so confessed to, so endlessly, so shamelessly, so proudly

submitted 100 days ago • 255 comments

Was very proud to nominate my friend (and my MP) @carladenyer.bsky.social to become a Bristol City Council alderwoman this evening. Before Westminster called Carla was a Green councillor for 9 years and I was honoured to talk about the work she did on the council. Congratulations Alderwoman Denyer 💚

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

We are an institutionally racist country. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

I have tried endlessly to point out to white environmentalists that social justice and environmentalism cannot be separated - but for the past year it feels like it has fallen on mostly deaf ears. The silence on Gaza from ‘educated’ white privilege has been baffling, frustrating & devastating.

submitted 99 days ago • 6 comments

The gov't of Denmark has reached a landmark agreement among parties that will dramatically reduce the use of nitrogen in fertilizer, take a bunch of land out of agricultural production, & plant 250K hectares of new forest. Transformational. cphpost.dk/2024-11-18/n...

submitted 99 days ago • 10 comments

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

submitted 99 days ago • 471 comments

Raw sewage from new homes being flushed into river. Back to the 19th century. Did Thames Water and developers not know? That's what you get with privatisation of essential services, deregulation of planning. Govt promising more housing deregulation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 100 days ago • 27 comments

UK deprivation levels have risen to the highest in the 21st century, according to a landmark report. More than one in three children are now in poverty and a quarter of adults. It is a scandal - but so is the pretence that any of this is normal. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

submitted 100 days ago • 11 comments

Why city planning needs diverse perspectives. Touring possible commuter cycling routes. What I saw - Smooth pavement. Separate from traffic. Shade. Not too busy. Perfect. What my female partner saw - Blind corners. No lighting. No escape routes. Too few users. Wouldn’t use this route.

submitted 107 days ago • 32 comments

Shocking news. 36% of UK children are living in poverty according to the latest Social Metrics Commission research (I am one of the Commissioners) www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

submitted 100 days ago • 53 comments

Tax dodging ‘farmers’ like Clarkson & Dyson have exploited the farm inheritance tax rules. The reality is the aristocracy, corporations and Tycoons own 70% of our land, not family farms

submitted 101 days ago • 4 comments

#EXCLUSIVE: At least 24 previously impossible heatwaves have struck communities across the planet, a new assessment has shown, providing stark evidence of how human-caused #globalheating is supercharging extreme #weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity

submitted 100 days ago • 5 comments

That’s what þei say.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

i admit i live in an echo chamber of leftist politics, the only exception being when i hear things said by the president, the next president, the supreme court, members of congress, people on the news, my family, or people i encounter in my daily life.

submitted 101 days ago • 51 comments

“Rural Britain has never escaped the cultural trappings of feudalism…” Great piece by Will Hutton on the landed interests opposed to paying more tax on their land - from the Earl of Derby to James Dyson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 101 days ago • 7 comments

At least 34 killed in Israeli strike on Beit Lahia, northern Gaza

submitted 101 days ago • 3 comments

Censorship on Bluesky. The picture reads: Israel should not be allowed to play football or participate in any cultural forum in the world. It is now beyond any doubt that Israel is committing genocide and war crimes. It should be treated as a pariah state. Empty stadiums until Palestine is free.

submitted 101 days ago • 5 comments

for once it would be nice to have a social media platform that was more pro-active in removing pro-genocide content than it was in censoring resistance to genocide

submitted 102 days ago • 11 comments

BlueSky has already started censoring criticism of Israel. Israel is literally committing genocide. To label criticism of that ‘intolerance’ is obviously absurd — and a mechanism of suppressing opposition to, and therefore emboldening, that genocide. Do better @bsky.app.

submitted 101 days ago • 33 comments

Always felt that two weeks’ paternity leave seemed very low but now, facing my husband going back to work, it’s hard not to feel that two weeks’ paternity leave is an utter joke and a very unfunny one at that

submitted 101 days ago • 27 comments

This is clever. Great work @theo.io 👏 bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

submitted 102 days ago • 23 comments

I don’t love all the people mocking voters who care about the price of eggs. If you have limited wages, you care about things like the cost of eggs. It’s not rocket science to understand this and people sound kinda classist when they mock it.

submitted 102 days ago • 10 comments

This is wonderful!

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submitted 104 days ago • 6 comments