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Some things that will get you muted or blocked: 1) being American 2) endlessly quoting American issues 3) being patronising/superior 4) being irredeemably stupid 5) greeting every initiative by listing its imperfections

I think that after twenty years of scything cuts and demonstrative cruelty, we can conclude that this system is not intended to improve the lives and wellbeing of citizens.

Debating whether Black people are intellectually inferior is eugenics and does not qualify as a legitimate point of 'academic debate'. It is an obscene position that has justified enslavement, empire, murder and the exploitation of millions of people.

Welcome news today that one of the Government’s ‘everyday fixes’ is to end the Carer’s Allowance cliff edge – a damaging design flaw that we @resolutionfoundation.org have previously called on it to fix, and that will disproportionately benefit the bottom half of the income distribution. A thread…

Buying back ex-private rentals is often cheaper and faster for councils than building homes from scratch. Acquiring these homes is part of how we solve the housing crisis and councils need funding to do it. @helendennis.bsky.social explains in a new blog

I have not bult the houses that were in the manifesto and which you were probably saving to move into Forgive me there were NIMBIES so many and so organised

Harry Kane's former Millwall team mate 'so pleased' #Kent #BBCNews

People around the world are uniting to say no to Trump. Yet Andy Burnham does the opposite by approving the Jackdaw gas field.

Don’t tax my capital gains, don’t touch my bonuses squeal all the people who have more money than any reasonable person could possibly spend. If you can afford a private jet you aren’t paying enough tax. Only the Greens care about ordinary families and making their lives affordable.

Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, @oxfamgb.bsky.social report finds

Hello members of the House of Lords 👋 Welcome to the debate on jury trials. Pull up a seat - everyone disagrees and the entire thing is on fire. But, sadly for you, it lands in your lap today👇🏼

It was also Arab scholars that preserved a huge amount philosophy, science, & literature from Ancient Greece. Nearly all the texts we have from then would otherwise have been lost to the world. Much of the Classical culture racists claim to venerate, they only know about because Arabs preserved it.

56 individuals in the UK have as much wealth as the poorest 27 million (Oxfam), but they appear - for some reason - to be immune from government efforts to raise more cash Monstrous and criminal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI data centres are likely to be obsolete in a few years, so what happens to the sites? Planning consents required opencast coal operators to pay into escrow accounts to fund eventual restoration of sites to green end uses. Should such obligations be placed on data centre consents?

Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

💚🙏👇 Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

What will happen is the Crown Court backlog will fall and will be held up as a success story. But, beneath it, will be a log-jammed Magistrates’ Court, with a traffic jam of human misery. That’s not what success looks like.

Second, have a think if Magistrates (respected, trained, advised) should be locking citizens up for up to 2 years. Honestly, just think about it. It’s ok to say it out loud. I’ll go first: Volunteers - even trained and experienced and respected ones - should not be doing that.

I think it doesn't reflect well on the BBC that one its leading presenters is allowed to write an 'analysis' for a highly partisan newspaper which includes lines like "Racial minorities, worshipped by white Democrats" www.dailymail.com/news/article...

"...a dependency on equipment you buy once is very different from a dependency on fuel you buy every month. When a shipping lane closes, a fuel-importing economy feels it within days. If solar panel exports stopped tomorrow, the panels already installed would keep generating for decades."

Households across the UK will soon be able to get interest-free or "low-interest" loans to help pay for solar panels, battery storage, heat pumps and more, the Government has confirmed on Monday 26 October But what “low interest” will mean in practise? www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2026/10...

📢 Another pre-budget reminder that the UK has become a land of Ferraris and Foodbanks. The money exists to improve life for the vast majority - it's just that it's currently hoarded in the greedy grasping hands of a few. The budget needs to set a course to change this... #TaxTheRich #EndBillionaires

If the BBC treated the Green Party as they do Reform, and Reform as they do the Greens, Reform would be on 10% and the Greens 20%

“The emissions resulting from approving drilling at the Rosebank oilfield, expanding Heathrow airport, watering down the UK’s EV targets and cutting heat pump grants would be 402m tonnes of CO2 over the next 25 years… emissions would be greater than those of 106 coal plants running for a year.”

How much of the world’s proven coal, oil and gas (i.e. already found, pays to extract at today’s prices) can still be burned for a 66% chance of holding 2 °C? About 30%. The other 70%, 2,040 billion tonnes of CO₂, are stranded assets. Burn it all and CO₂ alone means roughly 2.7 °C Purple = added

Today Israeli authorities barred me and other European elected representatives from entering the West Bank to meet Palestinian students and civil society leaders, as part of a @progintl.bsky.social delegation.

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As in Hungary, the authoritarian regime in Serbia is being dismantled . “For years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly, and failed to ask the necessary questions. For that, we owe our viewers an apology,” news anchor Goran Eror said.

While you were sleeping, #windEnergy reached 53% of the National Grid's electricity demand. https://winderful.uk

Palantir has worked with the Israeli Ministry of Defence and US immigration agency ICE. It also has a major role connecting and analysing NHS data. For campaigners, those facts belong in the same conversation. Aidan Baker tells why.

‘Unprecedented highs’ of greenhouse gases lock in temperature increase for the planet @davidho.bsky.social climatewithbrian.com/2026/10/27/u...

Reckon this could have anything to do with it? “Before this he spent a year as Editorial Director and Director of News and Programmes at GB News” www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...

The BBC needs to provide an explanation for this.

Children's authors pledge royalties to Sally Rooney after books pulled over Palestine Action support Ireland's and Wales's children's laureates pledge to donate royalties to Rooney, whose books have been pulled over her support for Palestine Action. www.newarab.com/news/writers...

What difference would a Wealth Tax make? Well, according to the latest modelling from @ippr.org it could fun... 👨‍⚕️130,000 more care workers 🏡 Build 90,000 new council houses + 21,000 specialist supported homes for older or disabled people Oh, and... 1/2 🧵 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Imagine a world where we are no longer dependent on oil and nuclear energy. It's coming and it's better and that's why the vested interests are doing everything in their power to stop it

Thailand's #EV boom: plug-in vehicles surged from 1.2% (2021) to 40.4% (Sept 2026), with ICE collapsing from 94.5% to 31.5%. Chinese brands now dominate—9 of top 10 BEVs. A stunning transition. This is technological disruption & the implications for traditional carmakers & the big oil are enormous.

The war is going so well for Russia that Putin is cutting off mobile data in downtown Moscow this week during 2 major conferences he is attending, hoping it will keep Ukrainian drones away. Spoiler alert: it won't keep Ukrainian drones away.

Relative Nino3 El Nino index over +4C (four degrees). Never seen that in my professional lifetime. Unbelievable... but also not. Latest BoM data: www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso...

If only there was a way to distribute the gains of AI broadly... 🤔

Over 2026, multiple sources indicate solar electricity generation will almost certainly far exceed nuclear globally. Nuclear's electricity generation has remained more or less constant since 2000, while solar's has increased some 2,700-fold.

And TBH, people LOVE their heat pumps... have you ever heard anyone say they love their boiler? 9 out of 10 say they're either just as or more cosy than before. Read more: octopus.energy/blog/custome...

It’s thanks to the Boiler Upgrade Scheme that tens of thousands of homes across the UK have been able to move away from gas. This programme is working, and we must continue to back it.

The chance to keep global warming below 1.5°C with no overshoot is gone. But urgent action can still limit the overshoot and bring warming back to 1.5°C by 2100. Current policies, however, put the 🌎 on course for up to 2.8°C this century. New #EmissionsGap Report: https://ow.ly/SNHX50ZZz8l

New from me: The US has faced a higher cost than any other country from the global Hormuz oil shock, with the crisis adding $160 billion to its fuel bill — or $471 per person on average — despite being the world’s largest oil producer.

Growth that kills its host isn’t growth. It’s cancer with good PR.

I have been detained by Israeli security forces all day. Along with with MPs Clive Lewis, Lara Bird, MSP Kate Nevans, former MP Sam Tarry and campaigners from across the world, we were turned back because they don’t want anyone seeing their ethnic cleansing.

Oh boy, are the Right excited by this graph recently published by The Economist! And of course none of them has bothered to read the article itself (TBF, it is behind a paywall!). So as always, let's add a little context and explain why these kinds of comparisons are so problematic 🧵1/25