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Today’s speech by Rachel Reeves shows that the Chancellor is determined to turn the economy around after a decade of stagnation. But the UK’s challenge isn’t just more growth – it’s better growth. 🖊️ @harryqp.bsky.social for the @newstatesman.com 👇 www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...

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Global warming results from us abusing the global carbon cycle by releasing trillions of tonnes of CO₂ into the atmosphere. The only way to fix this is to stop burning fossil fuels. There is no other way. 📈: @edhawkins.org

submitted 30 days ago • 20 comments

This is the HQ of Avis Capital. It claims to be one of the largest companies in the UK, with £58bn in assets and 31% returns promised to investors. Except it's all a lie. Here's how regulatory failures are letting international fraudsters create massive fake UK companies.

submitted 35 days ago • 39 comments

The NHS and efficiency www.thetimes.com/article/1130...

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Don't fall for the #CCS greenwash - every penny invested in Carbon Capture and Storage is a penny invested in the fossil fuel industry 📖 www.euronews.com/green/2024/1...

submitted 72 days ago • 4 comments

Things teens/young adults in our mental health research had concerns about: Stigma Lack of access to therapy Not being listened to or taken seriously Not having any money in future Not having a planet in the future List of things we apparently are willing to discuss with them: Phone MELT BRANE

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These wage rises are sorely needed after a long period of wage stagnation, and years of rapid price rises. This can help us grow out of our economic slump. But because of our broken monetary policy framework, it might result in the Bank of England keeping interest rates high. 1/4

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…” @nondriver.bsky.social in @motherjones.com #Accessibility

submitted 73 days ago • 12 comments

I do kind of feel that if you are going to push for yet another "Australian style system", especially with a purely economic focus, you might want to mention that KPMG warned that Australia's immigration policies could cost the country $117billion between 2020 and 2030. It seems relevant somehow.

submitted 75 days ago • 5 comments

Life imitating art warning about death. And it’s going to get worse every year. Still think #ClimateAction is “too expensive?” #ClimateCrisis

submitted 77 days ago • 4 comments

Before choosing bottled water over tap water, remember it takes more than 10X the water that a bottle of water holds to make the plastic bottle and transport the water. And that’s before considering the fuel and GHGs, the 1000 year bottle life, and the RIDICULOUS amount of $ we’re paying for water.

submitted 77 days ago • 29 comments

Women, toddlers and babies.

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Living in poverty means significant compromises for many families when it comes to housing conditions. In 2022-23, more than one-in-five (22%) of children in after housing costs poverty were living in a home that their family struggled to heat.

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“Major oil companies, including Shell & precursors to energy giants Chevron, ExxonMobil & BP, were alerted about the planet-warming effects of fossil fuels as early as 1954, newly unearthed documents show.” They’ve known for 70 years. And they prevented action. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

submitted 83 days ago • 22 comments

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

submitted 84 days ago • 130 comments

"Putin is fighting not to conquer Pokrovsk but to destroy Ukraine as a nation. He wants to show Russians that democratic aspirations are hopeless. He wants to prove that a whole host of international laws and norms, including the United Nations Charter and the Geneva conventions, no longer matter"

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The Tories won’t want to hear this. They accuse Labour of “giving away British assets” over the Chagos Islands and Elgin Marbles – yet they’ve been selling off crown jewels for decades. Here are 8 things the Tories flogged (and the damage it caused):

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“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx.com in @gizmodo.com gizmodo.com/silicon-vall...

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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

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A jewel-coloured Roman glass cup for a bright start to the week! Made of ‘ribbon’ mosaic glass, this lovely vessel is a wonderful example of the creativity and skill of ancient glassmakers some 2,000 years ago. From Pompeii. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli 📷 by me #Archaeology

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May I strongly recommend the work of the great @herrfischer.bsky.social if you would like a real-world case study of what country-to-country carbon offset trading already looks like --->>> bsky.app/profile/herr...

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"It’s possible that building the National Grid or West Coast Main Line or London meant a bit of noise and a few more lorries. It is still good that we built those things." Today's nimbywatch concerns a power cable that could provide 8% of the UK's electricity but has upset three people in Devon

submitted 100 days ago • 14 comments

These are the conditions under which Palestinians in Gaza are forced to live. Hours of waiting for a scrap of bread that never comes.

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The plight of women in Florida is dystopian, including the rise of fake abortion clinics offering the untested practice of "abortion reversal." After the failure of the abortion rights referendum in the state, the situation will get worse. Our News Agents film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=df5B...

submitted 108 days ago • 99 comments

I cannot, and I stress cannot, emphasize just how bad things are in Sudan, and how much worse they are about to get. Catastrophe of biblical proportions might not even cut it

submitted 102 days ago • 8 comments

But there is something Starmer can do quickly: Get serious about reforming the UK’s ineffective electoral laws, and really look at capping political donations and closing loopholes

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So, let's get this straight. The US will compromise the security of Europe unless it caves in Elon Musk's business interests.

submitted 111 days ago • 81 comments

And so the formal ethnic cleansing of Gaza begins ("the first official acknowledgment from Israel it is systematically removing Palestinians from the area"), just as Trump and Netanyahu promised would happen if Trump won.

submitted 114 days ago • 78 comments

World still on track to exceed warming of 1.5C this year, EU agency says https://www.ft.com/content/ab1a51fa-a27f-4b19-b125-545b643a2ff1

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

Adani begins to cut off power supplies to Bangladesh https://www.ft.com/content/24820970-01f8-4acb-99a6-a9f372d54d10

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment

Rachel Reeves and Labour have just done something remarkable: expended vast financial and political capital on vital long-term investments on which they can expect no returns in this parliament. That should be a cause for celebration not brickbats. My latest open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...

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“Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros towards a government fund compensating victims of forced labor under East Germany’s communist dictatorship, in a move campaigners hope will pressure other companies to follow” www.cnn.com/2024/11/03/e...

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Clifford Chance took the job other reputable firms declined :reporting on Saudi’s Human Rights record for its FIFA a bid…whilst agreeing restrict itself to looking ONLY at human rights recognised in Saudi Arabia & were considered relevant by the Saudi football federation apple.news/AdasuAHFGR8q...

submitted 118 days ago • 3 comments

21,000 workers have died so far while working on that ridiculous Line city in Saudi Arabia. Remember that next time you see a fancy sponsored ad for it.

submitted 119 days ago • 14 comments

This is the thing, it has never been people coming to the UK to seek asylum who have "cost taxpayers money". It has always been the private companies making tens of millions of pounds of profit keeping them in often atrocious conditions. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

submitted 117 days ago • 2 comments

The same robust science that tells us that +CO₂ is a growing risk & that stratospheric aerosols might reduce some of those risks in the near future, also shows that you can’t simply keep increasing CO₂ for ever and cancel it out. GHGs reduction must still be fast and total.

submitted 117 days ago • 10 comments

I'm probably just yelling into the void but anyway I'll observe that "prisoners walk free" isn't very helpful as a (putatively neutral BBC) summary of some people being released on licence, supervised with specific conditions, electronically tagged, at 40% point rather than 50% point of sentence.

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