Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

Satellites show some of the strongest evidence the AMOC is weakening | New Scientist share.google/9TAbKPeqyRVi... Factor that into the costs of slowing down on net zero please European governments, especially UK.

Overall, we are seeing some very odd deal talks that are supposedly a part of ending the war in Ukraine. But in fact evidence shows these deals are structured (in the most recent case secretly until now) to financially benefit Russia or business partners of the Trump and Witkoff families.

A green light for the Jackdaw gas field isn't the end of the matter Far from it Now we must make sure that the much worse Rosebank oil field doesn't see the light of day Please listen to my @stopcambo.bsky.social call to @andyburnham.bsky.social to leave the Rosebank oil in the ground

Bill Clinton: "I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace's bathroom"

With the UK set to almost double its #solar capacity by 2030, new scheme encouraging developers to create habitats for wildlife alongside clean electricity generation. www.positive.news/environment/...

Ukraine losing access to Starshield raises serious concerns for our national security—like who controls critical capabilities the U.S. government has spent billions to procure & how decisions to restrict them are made. I'm demanding answers from the Department of Defense & SpaceX

No-one could have seen this coming

I mean honestly, who could have seen it coming

Still waiting…

Let’s eradicate our life support systems – that’ll teach the liberals! It's not just about giving destructive industries what they want, important as this is. The likes of Trump and Bolsonaro will kill the planet out of a vengeful desire to hurt. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Seems only right. This should be extended to cover tax avoidance by exile, people like Jim Ratcliffe, why should people who leave our country to avoid paying tax, keep their honours, its a dishonourable thing to do. www.ruck.co.uk/rugby-news/k...

Finally someone like Branson has the balls to Speak up… hopefully European Leaders will follow suit

Europe is not first & foremost a political concept or financial convenience. It is an ideal. We shouldn't forget the words of Winston Churchill, who said in Amsterdam 1948: “We hope to see a Europe where men of every country will think as much of being European as of belonging to their native land”

You don't need to know every detail of EU accession negotiations to believe Britain should rejoin. You don't need to settle every question about the euro or Schengen first. It's perfectly reasonable to decide the destination before negotiating the route.

Combined, combined. Making America global arsonists?

World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says. New #nuclear is much, much, too late for #climate www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Russian oligarchs form a corrupt plutocracy headed by a dictator. They aren't "communists." They gave up the idea of any kind of workers' regime a generation ago. They kept the totalitarial aspects but, in effect, sold the country to themselves at bargain prices.

This is a non story. The police chief cites actual figures. Farage challenges actual figures. Farage has no basis for doing this. Why did the BBC run this?

The Govt claiming we must drill more fossil fuels so we can use the tax revenues to fund the green transition is about as logical as a doctor telling you to smoke 2 packs a day to raise the money for your lung transplant You don’t put out a fire by pouring on more fuel 🔥#Jackdaw

We don't lack solutions. We lack accountability. We have solar. They invest in oil. We have conservation. They have deforestation contracts. We have climate science. They have PR firms to deny it. Name the system. #ClimateJustice

Insulating homes & investing in heat pumps would do far more to cut energy costs, create jobs & support the economy than more fossil fuels. Instead of threatening cuts to it, the Govt should invest more in the Warm Homes Plan & deliver real energy security for all #Jackdaw 🧵4/4

The science is clear: we can’t afford to burn the reserves we *already* have, let alone develop new ones. Existing & approved global oil & gas reserves already far exceed what we can safely burn if we’re to stay below 1.5C. The minister used to say this herself #Jackdaw 🧵3/4

Government support for drilling at #Jackdaw takes a wrecking ball to any pretence of UK climate leadership & pours fuel on an overheating world - and for what? It’s equivalent to just 2 months of UK gas demand, creates just 27 direct jobs & has *no* impact on energy bills🧵1/4

Looks like a fantastic and shocking investigation. One to watch in full. (Was pleased to contribute in a very small way re. a @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation of mine they cite)

Jeremy Hunt on who spent 6 years as Health Secretary underfunding the NHS and social care Says that a lack of resources in the NHS and social care is why we had so many covid deaths in social care

… and hey presto… no changes to capitals gains! … is everyone seeing how this works yet?

UK ‘wealth exodus’ was manufactured by the press. The press complaints body IPSO must investigate or step aside. The story started with one study which now admits it has no evidence. Media owned by corporations and the super rich lapped it up, served their economic interest, ideological purpose.

UK Chancellor rejects calls to raise Capital Gains Tax. UK wages taxed at 20%-45% + NIC. CGT 18%-24%, no NIC. Subject to ifs and buts: Denmark 27%-42% Norway 37.84% Netherlands 36% Ireland 33% Finland 30%-34% France 30%-34% Sweden 30% Spain 30% UK hits workers, showers gifts on the rich.

Plans to ethnically cleanse the whole of Palestine (Lebanon, Syria etc) weren't a response to the Hamas attacks on October 7th 2023 ... meme via James Branch

Please be the first to like, comment, and repost if you believe the remaining forests of the Amazon and Congo Basin must be protected. No to deforestation. No to ecocide.

Invasion, mass murder, rape, kidnapping of children - all fine

Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water. Here are some suggestions. Enforce laws. Prosecute execs for harming health, environment. Cancel licence to operate. Put TW into special administration. Nationalise at knockdown price. Apply to all water companies.

By and large we don't get the governments we deserve; we get the governments funders pay for. As in the US, UK politics is becoming dominated by huge spending. The result is *inevitably* to push us rightwards. The unions' position is breath-takingly blinkered. They will never win the funding race.

The the Institute of Economic Affairs is an anonymously-funded neoliberal think tank whose alumni appear on the BBC virtually every day of the week without viewers having a clue whose interests they represent, in flagrant violation of the BBC's own editorial guidelines. #PoliticsLive

Heart of Europe - European Movement UK's new national ambition for the UK to join the EU within the next decade. Find out more here: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/heart-of-eur...

Heat pumps and insulation would cut UK living costs more than new oilfields, study suggests Warm homes plan would create 50,000 jobs, compared with about 1,100 for Rosebank oilfield www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW: The leader of the UK Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey:

To carry out a referendum as they did, then to implement Brexit as they did and then to fail to scrutinise any of it - as they have done ever since - is an epic abuse of power and betrayal of our country by those charged to act in its best interests. Fault lines that will undermine Brexit forever.

Leveson 2 now please, ( wasn't it a promise?)

Musk is an enemy of Europe. There is no justification for continuing to use his products

I get so irritated how many politicians and commentators seem to think voters share a single view; ‘the people think …… ‘. They often mistake the loudest voices for the majority.