The Tories oversaw the degradation of UK gas storage capacity - 2010 to 2017.
Thatcher privatised the gas and oil industry - 1982 to 1986.
Thatcher closed the collieries - 1986 to 1991.
This woman is an idiot - 1960 to 2026
NEW REPORT: The government’s proposed reforms to criminal trials risk tilting the system too far towards speed over fairness and justice, and could lead to further declines in performance and productivity.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?
Heartbreaking. Like this too...
At the Open University we used to receive Commonwealth Scholarships for up to 20 students in east Africa to study the MSc in Environmental Management; this year just 5; as climate change hits the most vulnerable..
Can you imagine any scenario in which this would be feasible today in the UK?! Even if there was good infrastructure the whole way, there's no way all the parents would agree to it due to "concerns" and half the kids wouldn't be physically fit enough.
☀️ Climate change is a real and dangerous threat to our prosperity and our safety. We must take immediate and coordinated action.
Those areas most affected and usually the poorest and least able to adapt.
They had an election in which this was the central issue. The candidates who said they favored the scheme won by significant margins. Then Council stalled and have now called it off. And pedestrians and cyclists will pay the price.
"Catastrophic failure of leadership" is exactly what this is.
The graphic design work of Tom Eckersley (1914-1997). Images via Pinterest.
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
1/ After examining Epstein's corpse, Baden was convinced he died by homicide.
Baden said he has never seen 3 fractures in a suicidal hanging as a medical examiner for 25 yrs, nor while serving for decades as NY state commission that oversees prison deaths.
www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...
"Jews don't belong in American society."
Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America.
But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.
Post by Jason (user name LongWall26): "Confident in my ability to properly tennis, I take the court. I smile at my opponent. Serena does not return the gesture. She'd be prettier if she did, I think. She serves. The ball passes cleanly through my skull, killing me instantly." In response to survey results posted on YouGov account: "One in eight men (12%) say they could win a point in a game of tennis against 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams." Link to survey at yougov.co.uk/opi/surveys/...
For International Women's Day, I need do no more than repost this banger by @longwall26.bsky.social.
A water desalination plant is presumptively a civilian object & it is an object indispensable to survival.
Targeting a civilian object is a war crime.
Targeting an object indispensable to survival can implicate the starvation war crime.
NB: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
" I believe there are many who forget all the tragedy women face in Afghanistan, that is why I use my paintings as a mean to remind the people"
- Shamsia Hassani
Afghan Artist #InternationalWomensDay
Ivor Cutler and Linda Hirst: Women Of The World
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfON...
"Women of the world, take over
Because if you don't, the world will come to an end
And we haven't got long
Men have had their shot
And look at where we've got"
Genuine questions: could these people be in the pay of the regime? And would that, to use language some of them favour, make them both ‘economic migrants’ *and* ‘welfare scroungers’?
We need safe and legal routes for refugees.
George Monbiot explains what’s often missing in the debate about asylum seekers and refugees: "My worry is that we end up talking about what's good for us and forget about what's good for people."
“Winston Churchill did intervene in Iran and we are living with the consequences of that today”
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
In case you didn’t know, the new ‘bravery’ is cheering on an eighty year-old, six-time Vietnam draft dodger who is using other people’s money to drop explosives on school children from bombers 40,000 feet in the air.
Anyone opposed to this kind of heroism is a ‘sucker’, ‘loser’, and ‘coward’ now.
This should be a bright, blinking light catching everyone’s attention.
He is a first class tosser.
NEW BLOGPOST: Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty
For any MP unsure of how to vote on the government’s proposals to restrict trial by jury.
Declaring "Mission Accomplished" - that always works out well for US Presidents
A juxtaposition for the ages…
Oh well, that settles that then.... nothing suspicious there🤦♀️🤣
Poster with the text 'Be an artist' and two stylised figures, one happily playing the guitar
Favianna Rodriguez, contemporary US poster designer and activist of Afro-Peruvian heritage, #womensart
Painting of a young white girl, upper half, with her back to the viewer, standing by a window in an interior, there are bottles on the windowsill with flowering twigs in them
'Spring at the Window' by Tetyana Yablonska (1917-2006), Ukrainian painter #WomensArt
Four images, three of patterned and colourful weaving designs and one of the head and shoulders of a white woman in a monochrome photograph
The work of Gunta Stölzl (1897– 1983), influential German textile artist and designer who played a fundamental role in the development of the Bauhaus school's weaving workshop #WomensArt ##WomensHistoryMonth
