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Who will lead the charge on making our landscapes more resilient to effects of climate change? 🤔

Of course the UK 'doing a better job' has meant that, instead of 60,000 'unelected bureaucrats' as employed across all EU bodies to serve 27 countries, the UK now has an extra 100,000 bureaucrats aka civil servants to cover the same jobs just for 1 country...

Still going on. Twenty minutes uninterrupted coverage so far. Robert Jenrick is currently talking about sex chat bots.

Every argument you need to hear about why the UK must pursue EU membership, in 90 seconds. @pimlicat.bsky.social on Politics Live 👏

Trump is smearing Ilhan Omar in speeches all over the country now because he is an Islamophobic bigot and he thinks that’s a winning message for Republicans x.com/atrupar/stat...

Please everyone Do your Due Diligence on your Ballots and Get Out and #VoteBlue

Private equity buys UK fertility clinics. PE already controls social care, hospitals, GP surgeries, dentistry, child fostering. Usual business model. High debt, quality of care declines, prices increase, high profits. When things go wrong, NHS has to step in, PE doesn't pay.

One by one, Moscow’s wish list items are being fulfilled, bringing pure joy to the Kremlin’s favorite experts & state TV pundits. Head of RT Margarita Simonyan proclaimed there would never be another Ukrainian president. My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/putins-ghoul...

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

First Serbia, and now an even more seismic election result for the geopolitics of now. Hard to overstate how important Brazil bucking the far right trend in Latin America is - also a huge blow to Trump www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

The stock markets and bond markets are no supporters of democracy, and we should never allow them to dictate the limits of politics.

We do not need huge numbers of data centres to gobble up water and power. This isn't about helpful artificial intelligence it is about billionaires taking the biggest share they can get of wealth and leaving the rest of us increasingly powerless. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have never seen anything like it. I have a few friends there and all I heard the day after the 1st round was despair. Then - a day later - they said “we can still do this”, they went to work at the grassroots, and they never ever stopped till it was done. They are my heroes.

There is always hope, and then there is hope + action. A great lesson for all those wrestling to stop fascism defeating democracy.

And the lesson is that, despite his flaws, he had a committed focus on improving the lives of ordinary working people in tangible ways, he was uncompromising in opposition to fascists, and when he lost the first round he used it to motivate his supporters to throw everything at the second round.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

This may shock you, but the far right Bolsonaro is a hypocritical piss-baby.

Lula wins fourth term as Brazil president after historic upset over far-right Flávio Bolsonaro www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Why do shareholders get the rewards when workers create the wealth a company generates? Is it time to rethink just what companies are for and to require that the rewards be shared more fairly? youtu.be/15r28WaimP8?...

'Although there is no complete data, historians agree that only a handful of estates explicitly acknowledge their history of enslavement, in an industry that sold R36.3bn (£1.65bn) of wine last year.'

Guardian reports Police Scotland will get round to watching the documentary at some point ... No rush lads.

'Richard Tice is on the line' - Webb. OFF #R4Today

Billionaires are spending big to defeat candidates like Troy Jackson (ME), Abdul El-Sayed (MI) , and James Talarico (TX). Why? They want anti-Social Security puppets like Susan Collins, Mike Rogers, and Ken Paxton to decide Social Security’s future.

Wealth tax results in Norway: - Less than 100 rich people left Norway - No evidence of significant outbound migration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors - Tax revenue up 71.5% The "controversy" is artificial marketing... the results are real www.nber.org/system/files...

Vote in numbers too big to rig, march in numbers too hard to ignore.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

The reinvention of Jeremy Hunt as a sage and elder statesman overlooks his role as a participant in the creation of the current shitshow. #BBCLauraK

And coming soon - a Reece Shearsmith episode about 12 Days of Christine and more - exclusive to Tier supporters at patreon.com/robinince

Resistance works.

France: neo-nazi gang mingles with riot police to charge at demonstrators. Not an isolated instance. 74% of French police votes RN.

In Montpelier, riot police stood back while fascist thugs attacked protesters. When the protesters started surging back, then retaliated, riot police charged to protect the fascist thugs.

The toilets on my train aren’t working but if you need to go, let the guard know & they’ll hold the train while you do your business in Leamington Spa. I feel like I’m in a Victoria Wood song.

Obama points out that while we may be struck with Trump for two more years, we are not stuck with a spineless Congress

A life in acting. It’s been good to me. Richly rewarding and utterly ridiculous… in equal measure. 😄 Long may it continue!

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SCOTUS conservative majority united by "dark theme". www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Sport radio is on its latest bout of, “One more managerial change will turn around Manchester United”, when the whole enterprise remains fundamentally, perpetually cursed by a takeover expressly designed to bleed dry a club and enrich a family - cheerily waved through by a certain Alex Ferguson.

Reform and Tories have pledged to reverse ULEZ repeatedly.

Love to see it. This is what that man is meant to do.

Trump pardoned them to eliminate the crime not because he cared about them. If he had he would have pardoned them before leaving office in 2021. Not four years later. We will never forget or move on until justice is done.

Ten years on, the Brexiters plan to leave the EU and cosy up with the US looks even more disastrous. That their Brexit was boosted by Putin makes it even more historically catastrophic. We mustn’t forget the people who did this or let them near power again bylinetimes.com/2026/06/23/w...