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Also the collective GDP of the EU + UK + Norway is around $24 trillion compared to $2 trillion for Russia. We have vastly more resources if we choose to use them.

submitted 111 days ago • 61 comments

A fascinating & hopeful river-moment: Lewes District Council agrees to recognise a Charter of Rights for the River Ouse. “The Ouse has long been taken for granted…this is the beginning of a journey to give the river a voice & ensure its wellbeing for future generations.” elflaw.org/news/histori...

submitted 114 days ago • 14 comments

Just feeling we’ve broken the back of winter

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

The 5 W questions BSL signs

submitted 209 days ago • 1 comment

How do the cochlear implants work 👇🏻

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

This is not only morally reprehensible, but a breach of the UN Refugee Convention. No refugee should be discriminated against on the basis of how they entered the country www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 129 days ago • 95 comments

Having gone through a full year of 'voluntary' redundancies (read 'voluntary' as 'strongly encouraged under the looming threat of compulsory severances'), which have seen >5% of staff leave my uni, it's good to see this issue finally getting some press. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

submitted 140 days ago • 2 comments

Did you know the Orient Express built for Kenneth Branagh's film Murder On The Orient Express is now parked up by Bassenthwaite Lake in England's Lake District? And you can have a meal or cream tea there... www.basslakestation.co.uk

submitted 187 days ago • 3 comments

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

submitted 138 days ago • 142 comments

The BBC describes Trump's press conference performance as "combative" How long has combative been a synonym for bonkers, insane, deranged.....?

submitted 141 days ago • 31 comments

The usuals celebrating 5 years of Brexit while they squeeze their eyes shut and close their ears to the crappy reality of their stupid ideology. Taking a showy bow for being awarded a national Darwin Award 5 years on the run. Meanwhile, the rest of the country agrees it’s been utter rubbish.

submitted 141 days ago • 25 comments

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submitted 146 days ago • 1 comment

At aged 68 and having worked for 51 years. If there was one piece of advice I could give anyone still working it would be: Join a Union GMB and Unite both cover all workers if you don’t have your own specialist Union.

submitted 148 days ago • 6 comments

"We need closer ties with the EU and now they are letting us know the door is ajar. All we have to do is push it open. And yet we cannot even find the strength to do it” www.theneweuropean.co.uk/why-are-we-s...

submitted 148 days ago • 123 comments

The £45bn cost of Labour bailing out RBS is held to be a once-in-a-generation economic calamity that the nation barely survived. Brexit cost us just as much every five-and-a-half months.

submitted 158 days ago • 25 comments

To the crowds cheering Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect? Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse? Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?

submitted 151 days ago • 274 comments

I don't want Starmer to turn towards the US, now headed by a climate denier and ecosystems destroyer whose closest ally just jack-in-a-boxed himself out of the fascist closet. Trump and Musk are determined to destroy this Labour Govt. Musk has made it crystal clear. Our future lies with the EU.

submitted 151 days ago • 8 comments

Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation

submitted 160 days ago • 25 comments

The German government is in ongoing discussions about whether to delete its presence on the X platform due to concerns over its algorithms, a spokesperson said reut.rs/3DMCzqp

submitted 162 days ago • 54 comments

57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016. These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits. The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.

submitted 161 days ago • 530 comments

New The coming battle between social media and the state Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength By me, in todays @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/917c...

submitted 161 days ago • 7 comments

I wrote a thing, because these fires are in the increasingly common category of shocking but not surprising. Neither unprecedented nor unforeseen by those who study the subjects..... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 163 days ago • 15 comments

It's lovely to have an excuse to post lots of wintery images! This one, titled 'As the Crow Flies', was painted by mixed media and acrylic artist Jo Grundy More of Jo's delightful winter images here... jogrundyart.co.uk/winter #winter #art #landscape

submitted 162 days ago • 10 comments

Wherever you look, whatever poll, survey or opinion piece you read the underlying theme is the same. Brexit is a disaster. buckslegal.co.uk/how-brexit-h...

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submitted 163 days ago • 138 comments

Company established by Musk in the UK 3 weeks ago on December 12th!! Why we wonder!! Pull your finger out @uklabourparty.bsky.social, grow some balls and stop even more "corruption" destroying what's left of our democracy Right now you have a majority the likes of which you might never see again

submitted 169 days ago • 133 comments

Brexitwang. A total shitshow. But no… Let’s not talk about it Let’s not face up to how the Tories ballsed up an already idiotic idea Let’s not fix the ruinous consequences of turning prejudice and ignorance into policy Let’s just slide into a perma-state of resentful crappiness and ‘move on’. FFS.

submitted 167 days ago • 27 comments

The Farage-athon in our media has to stop.All he represents is the weaponisation of prejudice to keep people angry and uninformed. But headlines about him go on and on, building up a myth instead of exposing him for the nasty little con artist he is. Years of this shit. Please can 2025 be different.

submitted 173 days ago • 61 comments

The problem with Politics is there is no punishment for lying or failure, and you can take as much money as you like off anybody. Anyone else in any other job would be fired or in jail. That is the problem.

submitted 175 days ago • 77 comments

Sir Keir Starmer has been invited to attend an informal “retreat” with EU leaders in February. It will be the first time since Brexit that a British prime minister gets to sit around the table exclusively with the EU’s 27 heads of states and govt Focus will be on security and defence

submitted 176 days ago • 17 comments

On this (Boxing) day of walks, some good walking/access news: c. 40,000 miles of historic rights-of-way in England & Wales have been reprieved from deletion from the “definitive map” of such paths. Great work @ramblers.org.uk & other campaigners on this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 177 days ago • 5 comments

When Britain was in the EU, Britons were also EU “citizens”. Why EU directives always speak of “citizens”? Because we can vote.

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

Through the lens of a fallen leaf in Autumn.🍁 📷 by William Smith

submitted 601 days ago • 39 comments

Since Brexit, we effectively swapped hundreds of thousands of EU immigrants for non-EU immigrants. But although all immigrants on average make a positive contribution to government coffers, not all contribute equally. For each EU to non EU immigrant swap, Britain has effectively foregone £50,000.

submitted 201 days ago • 12 comments

‘Betraying Brexit’ Such a moronic accusation. What does it even mean? Having a functioning relationship with our own continent? Not being diplomatically incontinent? Finding ways to collaborate and improve opportunities, travel and trade? Great. Brexit betrayed us Very happy to betray it right back.

submitted 185 days ago • 45 comments

This is worth reading carefully. Faced with the full force of the Sun's BREXIT BETRAYAL bullshit, Starmer works to reassure and neutralise the attack - but he doesn't give ground on youth mobility or dynamic alignment. Keeps the door firmly open. www.thesun.co.uk/news/3236603...

submitted 185 days ago • 42 comments

Susanna Reid, "Successive governments have failed to tell a positive story on immigration" "We rely on immigration to run our public services, to grow our economy"

submitted 188 days ago • 44 comments

Campbell’s witty response to this homophobe makes me want to enjoy some of their delicious chicken noodle soup right now! 🍜 🏳️‍🌈

submitted 188 days ago • 1645 comments

So there we have it, folks. Exactly what we suspected. There seems no integrity at all.

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments

"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on) youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as

submitted 199 days ago • 68 comments

40,000 people are liable for the Farmers Inheritance Tax. 0.06% of the UK. Such a small group they aren't even worth mentioning once. Except of course it has 21 billionaires and 1500 people with £100m+.

submitted 191 days ago • 9 comments