LonWon

Top-notch plan, addressing the desperate need to reduce taxes on the mega-rich. 👏👏👏

If there's one thing the British people have been crying out for, it's making it easier for the countryside to be concreted over for vast data centres.

Now that the climate change crisis has been averted, keeping the cost of motoring low HAS to be any rational government's primary goal.

This is excellent news for all those on the breadline who have £20k a year leftover from their salary after paying for essentials. They can add that £20k every year to the huge pot of savings that escapes tax. Socialism in action.

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.

The world needed hope right now - and Brazil delivered it. After a wave of pro-American far-right candidates swept Latin America, Lula defied the odds. The world's fourth largest democracy has been saved from far-right authoritarianism. Here's to hope ✊

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.

Why do we design cities around cars rather than people? blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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

Currently wondering what message the UK govt thought it was sending by dressing up the Minister for Net Zero in a literal Shell logo.

As the dust settles we see Burnham is for all practical purposes Starmer with better marketing. Fiscal rules, callous immigration policy, more gas from Jackdaw, & continued arresting of grannys & clergy with signs. And meanwhile the Green party is imploding. I feel very homeless! #r4today

Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

Sure, we should, if we can (many cannot). But as I keep pointing out, the government itself is making no provision at all. No stockpiles, no back-up, no alternative sources. It's individuating the response to a collective problem, and that never ends well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

FEATURES // £191 million Devon SEND deficit grant to leave £27 million shortfall for county council to fund from reserves Further 2026-27 SEND overspend expected to reach £8.8 million as annual EHCP costs rise to nearly £20,000. exeterobserver.org/2026/10/22/1...

The party of business and sound financial management? Give me a break Badenoch pamphlet seems to have made this ridiculous claim about net zero delivery by copying am erroneous spreadsheet from one of the right-wing junktanks www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I don't share Dan's preferences for tax cuts favouring the wealthy, but his analyses are always fair-minded.

Voting is open until 10pm in Holborn & St Pancras - and remember to take photo ID. Rent controls, water nationalisation, tackling the climate crisis - I'll be pushing on these issues from inside Parliament. Vote Green 💚

From the new Private Eye

Here’s a new idea - people get stripped of honours for doing dishonourable things - let’s add tax dodging to the list. buff.ly/6zFAOmn

It's as if WW2 could be won by dutiful citizens closing their curtains during air raids, but the government neglecting to send up the RAF. The Government seems oblivious to the scale of the challenges facing us.

The threats to our resilience are the same as the threats to our democracy: corporate lobbyists shaping policy, with dire consequences for our ability to withstand crises. Burnham seems to want to change this. But is he aware of scale of the task? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour-run Exeter City Council has chosen to prioritise the interests of remote rent-seeking investors over the needs of local residents for homes and value for money. Great journalism by @exeterobserver.org exeterobserver.org/2026/09/30/h...

If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.

This is *not* the result of "the success of Mahmood's reforms", but of earlier measures/other factors. Her proposals could make it considerably *worse* in future years. A few other points linked below.. archive.ph/0psJ8

Femi knows his stuff youtu.be/8KLxXQ03BZM

How Western societies are in decline thanks to policies that channel wealth upwards at home, and thanks to repeated counterproductive military interventions in Muslim-majority countries abroad www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sometimes @theguardian.com really doesn't help itself. A good article about how democracy needs active local journalists, hidden in a round-up of the big stories of the day, under a misleading headline www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

"What is happening in the equatorial Pacific is jaw-dropping and could well mark one of the biggest global weather upheavals in a millennium" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

The grim role of the British monarchy in dehumanising and enslaving Africans www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

Masked gangs blocking ports: "Peaceful protest" Grannies carry placards against the murder of children: "Terrorism" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Naomi Klein argues that the defining political struggle of our time is increasingly between people trying to preserve a habitable democratic world, and billionaires who believe they can opt out of the consequences of the disasters they're creating www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

Fact is we can never compete with a tax haven and anyone minded to move to one - will do that anyway. We need a citizen tax, ensuring all UK citizens pay tax here wherever they live - the US does it like that.

Children are being killed in Gaza. Palestinian families are besieged in the West Bank. Why should Israeli ministers' explicit plans for ethnic cleansing be any more likely to attract the international opprobrium they deserve? asks @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...