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Which means reining in the power of the supermarkets and the multinational food manufacturers: ideally getting the manufacturers largely out of the loop altogether - fixing our broken #FoodSystem www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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Those epic battle scenes in space are awesome—and physically impossible. But hey, it’s more fun this way! www.wired.com/story/the-ph...

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A Trump-nominated judge on Thursday issued a groundbreaking ruling that said the president was wrong to claim that the activities of a Venezuelan gang in the U.S. amounted to an “invasion” that justified invoking a wartime law.

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Zack Polanski, deputy leader of @greenparty.org.uk said: “We live in one of the most nature depleted countries… Appalling the government hasn’t thought through consequences of destroying habitats. They're so eager to please huge developers at all costs." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Me and my uterus part 1: it’s trying to kill me! Too many women suffer in silence – it’s time we talked openly about the pain, stigma, and dismissal of women’s reproductive health @gemmagould.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

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Rio Tinto has not fulfilled core pledge five years on from Juukan, Aboriginal group says reut.rs/3GLxj7W

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Not mild: The Dutch military intelligence service today warned that Russia's grayzone tactics are getting more aggressive - and are getting close to tipping over into something even bigger. It also calls on Europe to urgently ready itself for such an escalation. www.defensie.nl/downloads/pu...

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Tech is going to save us and it’s going to be China leading the march China just unveiled a flexible solar panel more powerful than most rooftop systems. Lightweight, bendable, and scalable, it's not a gadget, it's the blueprint for solar domination. interestingengineering.com/energy/chine...

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Hubble has uncovered a magnetar—a neutron star with a very strong magnetic field—traversing our galaxy. Mysteriously, the runaway magnetar was not formed from a supernova explosion as initially thought: bit.ly/3FKcNEr 🔭 🧪

submitted 20 days ago • 39 comments

THE CANARY: Privatised water costs us dearly: Study reveals a staggering 35% 'privatisation tax' on bills. Time for a collective push towards reclaiming our essential resource for the public good? - by James Wright

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

These are some pretty sobering stats on Britain's prisons. (Source - a really great charity, which you should check out, that's hoping to change some of this, plate-by-plate, bowl-by-bowl: @theclinkcharity.bsky.social)

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

An eyewitness said that the U.S.’s March attack on the Houthis, detailed in the Signal security breach, killed women and children, including a newborn baby. Did the Trump Administration have the authority to make the strikes, and was the intelligence reliable?

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

Given the latest news on universities this paragraph from John feels very apt. (As do his comments on the Home Office)...

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

No change to the idiotic, poor-targetting, fiscal rules that Reeves and Starmer insist upon The problem with keeping right on 'til the end of the road is that you eventually fall off a cliff www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

"The links between Britain and America’s intelligence networks go so deep that it may be impossible to untangle them." But what choice is there but to do it? Sovereignty? www.politico.eu/article/uk-u...

submitted 28 days ago • 20 comments

#GoodNews - humans are an adaptable species that can live with others rather than simply wrecking #biodiversity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

every person online who thinks the tariffs are a good idea are people who are trying to figure out how to take their first step as a huamn being

submitted 29 days ago • 641 comments

Sweeping tariffs unveiled by US president Donald Trump on Wednesday will have ripple effects across the tech industry, experts say. Apple, Amazon, and other tech companies reliant on global supply chains stand to lose the most.

submitted 28 days ago • 46 comments

🌎✊ Oil giant ordered to pay ~£577 MLN for destroying Louisiana’s #wetlands. “Our communities are built on coast, our families raised on coast. [We won’t] surrender the coast.” 💪 This is what holding #BigOil responsible for planetary destruction looks like. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

“The High Court of Kenya has found that Meta can be sued over its alleged role in disseminating content that incited violence. It is another example of holding the conduct of tech giants to account for the convulsive info ecosystem so blithely created and exploited.” theaimn.net/addressing-h...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

The spring statement hides a brutal truth: Britain is being reshaped to serve overseas capital | Bryan Rylands @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk

submitted 29 days ago • 11 comments

"If the flooding in outback Australia were a country, it would be the world’s 31st largest" Truly mind-boggling, but just a glimpse of what will become commonplace in the decades to come as our once stable climate falls apart www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

Privatisation Racket. 20 companies controlling UK supply, production, transmission of energy made operating profits of £514bn in 2020-24. Profit margins at electricity/gas supply companies up by 363%; electricity generation up by 198%. They get subsidies too. More in the linked article.

submitted 29 days ago • 23 comments

Ministers consider abolishing hundreds of quangos, sources say

submitted 29 days ago • 15 comments

The UK does not have a credible government "The world has changed, globalisation is over and we are now in a new era" is clearly nonsense. This is the trouble when you look at everything through Brexiter, anglosphere goggles while ignoring the rest of the world and EU. archive.fo/r1KaL#select...

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

Denis Mukwege, a Nobel prizewinning rape crisis worker, says Rwandan-backed rebels in Congo are committing the worst atrocities in decades

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Heavy rains have lashed parts of earthquake-hit Myanmar, complicating relief efforts and raising the risk of disease as the death toll from the powerful quakes that struck the country on March 28 rose to at least 3,471. 🔗: aje.io/pvop4t

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An Ivorian propagandist, an alleged Russian spy, and a Dutch oil trader have joined Russian oligarchs in 57 new lawsuits against EU sanctions in 2024 and 2025.

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A jury in Louisiana ruled on Friday that Chevron must pay a parish government about $745 million to help restore wetlands that the jury said the energy company had harmed for decades.

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The tiny Southern African kingdom of Lesotho — which Trump has described as a country 'nobody has ever heard of' — is one of the world's poorest nations. Thanks to Trump’s tariffs, 'Lesotho will be dead, so to say,' an economic analyst there said reut.rs/4joDEVb

submitted 29 days ago • 20 comments

1/ "Benefits surge" is used by Labour and the media to justify the benefit cuts. The surge data is correct but reporting of it comes with no analyses of: - the failure to manage long COVID - the lack of reinvestment in the NHS - the cuts in mental health services Sources in thread below

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

🇪🇺 Enough talk—time for action. Friedrich Merz’s incoming government will push the EU to cut Hungary’s funding and revoke its voting rights over violations of key EU principles, – Politico. www.politico.eu/article/germ...

submitted 35 days ago • 107 comments

The thing I will say is, it's just...not obvious that Scotland has a different disability caseload than England, two children who entered school at the time of the 2014 Act are now leaving it, and it's not obvious that England has got better results (for kids with SEND) with its post-2014 approach.

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

Breaking News: The S&P 500 recorded its worst month since 2022, driven by uncertainty about the scope of President Trump’s tariffs, which investors fear could accelerate inflation, slow consumer spending and stall the U.S. economy.

submitted 34 days ago • 100 comments

The 'Buy Canadian' movement is sending new ripples of concern through the executive offices of US-based consumer companies that banked on selling their products on Canadian retail shelves reut.rs/3Y8EZqE

submitted 35 days ago • 128 comments

So depressing. So predictable. Whacks vulnerable workers hardest. Increases tax avoidance (and creates huge balance sheet risks for business). And means Government will undershoot revenue targets. Why doesn't Government have a decent advisor on this stuff? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

submitted 35 days ago • 29 comments

Stats released by the Department of Work and Pensions suggest a child poverty plan is needed

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Pretty remarkable findings from @spotlightcorruption.org, focussing not just on the corporate lobbying of ministers but also officials, meaning Whitehall's doors are being opened several times a week to banks and consultancy companies. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 38 days ago • 17 comments

It was the age of fiscal austerity, and the poor—already famished for compassion—now found themselves further starved by decisions both callous and absurd.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Not only is the metaphor crass, the message he is using it to convey is misleading and innumerate. Stop pretending employment gains are going to compensate for these cuts: the orders of magnitude are completely different and the policies are unrelated.

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

Last-minute spreadsheet wars between the Treasury and the OBR are ludicrous way to run a country, a ludicrous way to run an economy, a ludicrous way to fund public services and a ludicrous way to run the welfare system www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

submitted 40 days ago • 34 comments

The system is rigged and it's about time we got comfortable shouting about it.

submitted 42 days ago • 22 comments