"More North Sea drilling will not shield households, building domestic green energy will
"More drilling will mainly boost oil company profits
"Once built, sunlight or wind is free. Prices are stable. Green power is an insurance policy against geopolitical risk"
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Like the conspiracies we found in the #EpsteinFiles, Watergate began as a 'conspiracy theory' but ended up as conspiracy fact
Thanks for Alexander Butterfield for making that happen
Other whistle-blowers are always welcome to show the same courage
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Iran does not have Tomahawk missiles
Trump lied about this to avoid taking responsibility for killing children at school
Lies like this demean his office and undermine democracy
Far right hate is being fuelled by the greedy super rich. They're trying to distract us, they're trying to divide us.
We will stand against hate. We will march #Together in love and unity. Join us.
📌 Central London
🗓️ Saturday, 28 March
🔗 www.togetheralliance.org.uk/
Labour's core voters, on which its re-election entirely depends, are crystal clear about this: they absolutely hate its illiberal, intolerant, draconian, rightwards turn. Hence the total collapse in support. So how does the government respond? #SuicideMission🤦♂️
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Emissions (grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour) from North Sea gas vs LNG imports. Source: Carbon Brief analysis
Factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive
Read here: buff.ly/IoMIeUt
Quiz question for today:
Compare the two images below and decide which one is best described by the word 'sectarianism'
Hi @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
Why isn't Eleanor Shearer on Bluesky?
I wanted to congratulate her on her excellent contributions to Any Questions
Why is it that most politicians switch off their bullshit detector when discussing AI?
💥 Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @financialtimes.com:
"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented.
First Past the Post achieves neither."
Trump's massive bombers are arriving in Gloucestershire and will leave to kill people in iran
If you can get to the demonstration today at Fairford base please do
Yes, more like a crow. So are skylarks around and about at this time of year?
Oh I did hear some bird calls like that but I thought they were skylarks. Is it a similar kind of call?
Choughs are such lovely birds. I've only seen them once and actually in Wales
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The rest of the world looked on in horror and disgust at what Israel did to Gaza
But Trump looked at it and thought 'I want a piece of that'
How else do we explain the triumphalist infliction of death and destruction on Iran?
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V warm. A reptile is involved
Further south (and west)
Coastal photo
#WheresMolly
When will [X climate impact] reach a tipping point? “We can say 20 to 30 years. It’s enough time that any normal politician can think: ‘Not my problem,’ but it’s not enough time for someone who’s aged any less than 60 to ignore it.”
The temporal paradox of climate breakdown
Private Eye: Reform fury as someone else wins.
"Mr Badloser concluded: "I'm a victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green."
(H/T @greenpartymolly.bsky.social)
Inequality in Britain is rampant, writes @pollytoynbee.bsky.social, and has become so with the help of our electoral system.
Our new research paper, 'Lifting the Lid', links our fragmenting voting system to mass regional deprivation, and regional deprivation to the all-powerful nature of FPTP.
Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.
A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.
Quit ChatGPT now! Your subs is bankrolling authoritarianism!
'great boycotts of history did not succeed because millions of people suddenly became heroic activists. They succeeded because . . . the small act, repeated at scale, becomes a political earthquake.'
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Global economy must not pander to “frivolous and destructive demands of the ultra-rich”.
They fund political parties, profit from socially and ecologically destructive growth.
UK example - deregulation, regressive taxation, concentration of wealth, inequalities, sewage in rivers.
The govt must do more than express concern over the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and settler violence in the West Bank - they must take action.
Ban trade with illegal settlements and impose new sanctions on Netanyahu and all responsible for this violence.
Solidarity, Mothin 💚
You just know that if Starmer had given permission for Trump to use our bases for the initial attacks, Hunt would have been saying he was Trump's poodle
Utterly without credibility, like all Tories
#BBCR4Today
💚 'Every age-group under 50 now has the Greens in the lead'
Dear Prime Minister, In recent days we have seen a deeply concerning escalation in conflict in the Middle East following a series of illegal and dangerously irresponsible airstrikes on Iran by the United States and Israel. You have now confirmed that UK bases will be used by the US for their operations in the area. This is a significant concession to President Donald Trump and one which risks drawing the UK into a dangerous conflict. During your campaign to be elected leader of the Labour Party, you spoke compellingly about learning the lessons of the Iraq war. In particular, you set out legislation you would pass as Prime Minister, ensuring that military action is only taken if: • The lawful case for it is made • There is a viable objective • Consent is given by the House of Commons. We agree that such legislation is needed to prevent the UK from being dragged into destructive, illegal and dangerous wars abroad, and so we have today tabled the Armed Conflict (Requirements) Bill. The Bill requires that 1. Before armed forces may be deployed for armed conflict, a Minister of the Crown must publish a statement setting out the reasons for the deployment, an assessment of its compliance with international law, the objective of the deployment and an assessment of the viability of that objective, and 2. Any such deployment must be approved in advance by a resolution of the House of Commons
I invite your support to pass this bill. In an increasingly unstable world, it is more important than ever that decisions about the UK’s involvement in military action abroad are taken carefully, soberly, and with the best interests of the British people at heart. We believe this piece of legislation would ensure that. Yours sincerely, Dr Ellie Chowns MP
Today I tabled a bill which would require any UK military intervention to have a lawful basis, viable objective, and approval by MPs - legislation the PM once said he himself would pass when he was running for Labour leader.
He supported it then, and he should support it now.
