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The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Europe is the future now www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

The fall in immigration is mutilating Healey’s Budget iandunt.substack.com/p/the-fall-i...

Depressing to hear the BBC propagating the non-story started by the Tories about the possibility of power cuts because of renewables A classic fossil fuel lie being given credibility by our public service broadcaster #BBCR4Today

Le Pen wants to cut Ukraind off if she is elected. She has long been close to Moscow, as Trump is

UK drivers forced to use parking apps can pay up to 40% more. Hidden charges, full price not shown until the payment page. Neoliberals complain about regulation but silent on daily fleecing of people by predatory capitalism. All done to boost profits, exec pay.

NHS England waiting list hits 7.33m appointments for 6.21m individuals, rises for the third time in 4 months. Privatisation by stealth. NHS capacity neglected. Thousands suffer. Private sector profiteers. www.oecd.org/en/publicati... Hospital beds per 1,000 population, Comparison 2013 and 2023.

These accounts from ex-cons are brilliant; all human life is there. Indeed one of JO'B's best.

And he drove a Smart car ... what a total helmet!

Tom's Substack is well worth subscribing to. drtomharris.substack.com

Something close to euphoria that I've never read from that old cynic Ian Dunt before. I pray Burnam's vision will come to pass, it's last chance saloon for us.

Sign the petition. Let water companies go bust. Ofwat approved 36% bill increases for 2025-2030, companies want more. Prices doubled - in real terms - since privatisation. We got sewage in rivers, water outages, hosepipe bans. Need public ownership.

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

George handing a drubbing to Lord ‘never heard of him’ Jackson. Brexitier Jackson was part of a Tory RW MP group called the Conservative Voice that included Nadine Dorries, David Davis & Liam Fox. He lost his seat in 2017 & failed to get reselected multiple times. So Boris Johnson made him a lord!

Right-wing press and ideologues will have you believe that the UK is the most heavily taxed place. They promise the impossible, European/Scandinavian levels of social security with American levels of taxation. This graph puts things in perspective.

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

Time to deport all these fighting age men terrorising our patriotic lifeboat volunteers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The CCC @thecccuk.bsky.social offers Heathrow a thumbs up, conditional on the massive deployment of “snake oil” technologies (SAF & GGR). Report by Tyndall researchers, building on UK Govt commitments, science & maths, reaches a very different conclusion. See: climateuncensored.com/heathrow-exp...

In this video, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and @marklynas.bsky.social go an adventure to watch bluefin tuna. George explains how Atlantic bluefin tuna were fished to near-extinction — but now, are in recovery Tell the UK Government: Defend bluefin tuna! Sign the petition: shorturl.at/fTY80

A massive flock of snow geese, who have come from the Arctic to spend the winter in the Skagit Valley near Seattle, gradually taking flight like waves: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

I've emailed back again, because I want to understand what is happening here, but am telling you guys because I think transparency is the best way of ensuring I do not go fucking insane

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Neoliberalism in a nutshell.

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80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

Just in time for the 2026-2027 vaccines, a new review shows that COVID19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization across all age groups, including kids. Pregnant women were also protected, as were their babies. Don’t forget to schedule your vaccination!

The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

Love how a 75 year old quote explains most of UK politics for the last decade or so.

This video was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Blue Danube. Original post

No, Elon: it was because the conquest of Egypt (in particular) suddenly made a few Romans so unprecedentedly rich and powerful that they destroyed the Roman Republic.

August 24, 2026 They eat horses don't they? heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-24-...

Time for a motoring topic @mrjamesob.bsky.social ?? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So maybe major distribution hubs are not such a good idea in an uncertain world ...

Bankers' trade association, backed by UK's biggest banks, warns govt against higher tax on the industry. Shows how banks cooperate to advance common interests Silence on profiteering, branch closures, not investigating frauds, bailouts, subsidies, mega bonuses, dividends. Must tax obscene profits

30 years of greening in S England link.springer.com/content/pdf/... @sirgeogy.bsky.social

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From Robin Rouby

The end of USA as a global power ...

It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly.

Water companies are trying to hike your water bills AGAIN. Privatisation is not affordable. Andy Burnham must block these bill hikes. Let the water companies that can't survive without hiking our bills GO BUST. Then we take them into public hands for nothing.

Earlier in the summer I presented a figure showing how a comparable weather event to the summer of 1976 would be experienced in a warmer current climate. It would be 3-4°C hotter, with London hitting 38°C. Yesterday, that is exactly what happened.

Good now to hear J'OB talk about real fear of climate change, after yrs of acknowledging its reality but not engaging emotionally. “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it.”

The Flamingos That Beat the Kushners thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/the-flamin...

Yikes! Effectively this means the end of USA as a global superpower?

I did not work countless hours in an ICU full of proned patients and go back to my hotel crying because we lost more patients in a day than a typical week to hear a moron with a worm in his brain say that the ICU's were empty. I AM SO FUCKING ANGRY.