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Like: good quality houses - by which I basically mean #Passivhaus homes - do you know anything else that provides fantastic comfort with really low cost to run? Hate: twat Tories - and hope they will be gone soon, they have already done too much damage.
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Among the insane decisions is the provision of a 100 million quid 'bat shed' that will safeguard a not so rare bat. I reckon we can confidently predict the bats will love going inside this structure to nest and be annihilated by the trains that whistle though.

35 years of England water privatisation. Industry controlled by companies with 1,135 criminal convictions. 1trn litres water a year lost in leaks. Sewage dumped in rivers for 3.62m hrs a year. £85bn dividends, £70bn+ debt, people fleeced Last decade, £112m exec bonuses . Must end privatisation.

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Thames Water on collision course with govt over exec bonuses. TW with £21bn debt, history of abuses & criminal convictions insists that it will pay bonuses, now calls them “retention payments”. Govt must cancel it's licence, let it go bankrupt, prosecute execs, nationalise. archive.ph/FpLe0

Anglian Water pleads guilty, fined £1.42m for contaminating water supply. No exec fined. AW already has 128 criminal convictions. Allowed to operate, fleece customers, dump sewage, neglect investment, pay dividends and exec bonuses. End the farce. Must remove profit motive. Nationalise.

The sooner Trump, Vance and the rest of the amateurs 'walk away', the sooner Europe/UK can get down to making a peace for the invaded, not the aggressor. www.channel4.com/news/us-tell...

Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... -- well, Trump can fuck right off. Has the war ended, are there security guarantees, has the disposition of land for whom been determined, has Russia agreed to get back in its box. No, no... US is no friend of the world, so why would anyone agree to their terms?

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

If you know, you know ...

Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]

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As a sad Tesla owner, now embarrassed to be driving the thing around, please support this worthwhile cause, so official 'Musk rat' ads can continue. gofund.me/9bbe3ac6

Donald Trump is a bullying Putin-loving shit, and must not be invited to see the King. Over 170,000 of us are calling to cancel his second UK state visit - will you join the backlash too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

Not amused by Coughton Court being handed back into private hands. I think National Trust needs to review the way it takes on properties. Is it really right that rich people offset their losses by loaning properties, which NT then spend millions mending, only for it to be returned to them.

Day 29, and we arrive at the day of Trump's IQ. news.sky.com/story/day-29...

We shouldn't take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started. It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work. You need the Europeans, you need the Ukrainians. Extracts from my doorstep ahead of NATO Defence Ministers meeting ↓

@theneweuropean.bsky.social Happy to continue receiving the paper through the post. Always so much to read and many thought provoking pieces. Less happy that you have used a plastic wrapper - the paper wrapper was more friendly and now I just have more junk to throw away.