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

#FOTW Daily Post 19 1.5°C equates to key tipping points such as the loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet that, once crossed, won't reverse on any human timescale. 1.5°C isn't a slogan. It's a set of one-way doors to a different world And it's now shut behind us Pls share + tag 2 #FateOfTheWorld

@andyburnham.bsky.social This makes a complete nonsense of opening up Jackdaw and Rosebank There is simply not one single reason why this would be a good thing NO MORE NORTH SEA OIL AND GAS www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump is telling us as loudly and clearly as he can: he’s not our friend and he won’t protect us. Time we got the message - and acted accordingly. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is this not Keir Starmer in a hat? Portrait of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach the Elder 1529

Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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.

Every time I see news like this I regret again how we cast aside our membership of a forward looking body.

Cats. Most of the engaging people on here share a fondness for cats. Felines must prefer to bond with gentle souls. I make an honourable exception for #sophiefromromania

1/3 Strip away the theatre and Reform UK is a billionaire-backed project to dismantle the public realm, shred regulatory protections and hand what remains of state power to capital. It’s plain to see – just follow the money.

I'm old enough to remember when the entire British right had a month long meltdown about "foreign interference" when Obama said something mildly disobliging about Brexit. The Trump administration pouring millions of dollars into far right political groups in the UK? Not a peep

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Breaking - Trump to overturn Farage’s resignation

#Brexit Join is more realistic than Rejoin, but the first necessary step is honesty. Too much to expect any of the perpetrators to admit Brexit has failed. Telling the electorate that they’ve been stitched up isn’t an obvious vote winner either. The UK needs some hard thinking.

We are now in a fundamentally different place from when we left the EU 10 years ago - Trump in America, Russian aggression and a predatory China. The EU was founded to prevent war and ensure peace in Europe. It is in our best security interests to be a member of the European Union.

Whilst the media commemorates 10 years since Brexit, it’s worth recalling that one of the principal causes of Brexit was the abject failure of the media to call out the lies and the liars.

Migrants and asylum seekers are not our enemy, the racists, bigots and fascists are. eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...

A Good Friday. This evening’s toast will be to the people of Makerfield who shunned Reform, trounced Restore and had a fox on the podium.

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to see Reform, and even better, Restore get a beating was very heaven.

Today we are launching the Global Justice Project. This is the result of two years of research involving more than 40 contributors from around the world. We propose a path to €5,000-a-month average incomes for all countries within +1.8°C of warming. 👇👇👇 globaljusticeproject.wid.world

In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

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I just took part in The National Conversation to share my views on what it's really like living in our area right now. It's a major UK-wide project by researchers at Oxford University, and it only takes a few minutes. You should have your say too! www.national-conversation.ox.ac.uk

1/2 Farage & the Reform leadership have managed a Janus faced strategy. At the leadership level the company is about money. Money for Farage and policies to create yet more money for the donors. The other face attracts mass support from poorly educated racists using anti-immigrant/Muslim propaganda.

Here are three ways to keep Reform out of No 10 – and one of them starts with you | Daniel Trilling I would add reform local government and prioritise affordable housing. Plus. Don’t let’s be ground down by Farage being everywhere in the media.

Just remember. Farage isn’t really winning. He’s having power bought for him by foreign-based crypto billionaires and fossil fuel magnates. They want a corrupt PM who’ll sell off our NHS, bin NetZero and scrap our rights and protections to make more profit for them. Good day for moneymen and morons.

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK. First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

🚨BREAKING PMQs🚨 Sir Ed Davey MP: "President Trump has threatened to rip up his trade deal with the UK as punishment for us not joining his idiotic war in Iran." "Surely the Prime Minister can't send our King to meet a man who treats our country like a mafia boss running a protection racket."

Farage and Kwarteng doing a Bitcoin deal has to sum up the sheer stinking rottenness of their brand of politics. This is not democracy. It’s certainly not public service. It’s pure corruption. And repulsive, piss-taking greed.

Donald Trump: “A whole civilisation will die tonight” Nigel Farage: “I’m the only figure from the other side of the Parliament that has consistently stood behind Trump, and stood behind the MAGA movement” Politically, this should be the end of days for them all.

“We were told Brexit would bring an economic renaissance, yet we are left navigating broken supply chains, rising costs & falling living standards. Now, the same voices…are arguing against ‘Net Zero’ to reduce greenhouse gases & increase renewable energy.” www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/news-op...

That's the way to do it. So good to see progressive politicians pushing back hard on Reform's messaging. Highly effective and so refreshing and Labour could learn a lot from Polanski in this regard. Take the attack to the Faragists - don't let them get away with it.

Pippa Heylings MP: "The Institute for European Environmental Policy has found that since Brexit, the EU has introduced 28 new or strengthened pieces of environmental legislation that the UK has not adopted." "We have weakened protections in habitats, pesticides, forever, chemicals and fisheries."

If you were looking for an exposition of what British values *could* be you could do a lot worse than Ian McKellen wielding Shakespeare like a rapier.

Attention all news outlets. The Beckhams. I’m not interested.

Farage has the unbelievable nerve to talk at Davos about Britain’s “moral decline”. This repulsive piece of shit IS Britain’s moral decline. He’s betrayed our country for self-interest, prejudice and greed. Shame on everyone who’s allowed that. #NeverPM www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Mark Carney has delivered one of the most important speeches of our era. There is a better future waiting for Britain if we dare to follow his example. inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Every single thing the Brexity Right said has been proven 100% wrong, indeed much of it a pack of lies. Everything those of us who warned about the populist Right said has been proved 100% correct. Choose your side.

[1/6] A reminder: Europe has cards to use against the US. Lots of them. To cite some examples: - Tighten screws on US digital giants (taxes, fines, even bans) - Export taxes disrupting US supply chains eg pharma - Exclude US firms from European procurement, inc defence ecfr.eu/publication/...

Brexit is the toxic epicentre of the political shitshow we now have to endure. It promoted idiocy and deceit, endorsed racism, divided us, made us poorer, weaker, less safe and less sane. It’s belittled the country, killed the Tory party and given birth to Reform. A relentless klaxon of failure.

It should be simple: people who cheer on violence in the UK can't enrich themselves with British taxpayers’ money. That means Elon Musk – no government contracts for you, no energy supply license for you.

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation

Unless you oppose right wing extremists now, while they are a minority, there will come a time when their intimidation will mean only the bravest will dare oppose them. All you need to do is be kind to people and treat everyone you meet as a human being www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvyU...

This week Nigel Farage learned what he must have long suspected: that there is nothing so disgusting that he can’t say it for fear of being challenged by the Prime Minister. THREAD