@jamescon
Emeritus Prof, Hull. Writing Collingwood bio / Philosophical Idealism, Environmental politics & ethics, Elections/electoral systems / /J.Connelly@hull.ac.uk / https://hull.academia.edu/JamesConnelly / https://www.minstersrail.com
President Lyndon B. Johnson used the power of the bully pulpit to demand that every citizen be granted the equal right to vote. Today, we have a president demanding that Congress pull back that very right.
IS WIND STRUGGLING?
Not at all. Global deployment rose by +38% last year💪
- 169 GW installed in 2025
- 95% onshore, 5% off
- Led by China: +47% to 126GW
- Outside China: +17% to 37GW
"This momentum is not fading. We expect similar levels to end of this decade."
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67% of Britons describe themselves as anti-Trump, with Reform UK voters the only group more likely to be pro-Trump than anti
By 2024 vote
Lib Dem: 89% anti-Trump / 2% pro-Trump
Labour: 85% / 3%
Green: 82% / 4%
Conservative: 61% / 19%
Reform UK: 24% / 46%
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Nominative determinism gone mad: "Frank Harold Tapp ... was a British composer, pianist and conductor associated with the City of Bath, where he was the director of the Pump Room concerts between 1910 and 1917". Tapp, Bath, Pump ...
Good. Any politician who argued against renewables in the last 5 years needs to be put on trial for their treasonous behaviour.
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It's an odd moment in British politics where we have a group of left-ish wing parties that are looking out for the national interest and a group of right-wing parties that are desperate to serve the US/MAGA interest
My debut piece for @thenerve.news - about how Paul Marshall and the Legatum Group are reshaping the norms of political influence 👇🏻
Dems picked their nominee this week, and Republicans will be infighting for another 3 months. Rick breaks down the political earthquake in Texas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOc9kik2ljA
Colorado River in crisis.
A record warm winter could send Lake Powell to a historic low.
#water
#coloradoriver
#climatechange
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Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.
The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.
Green MP Ellie Chowns on the elections bill last night: "It is really quite extraordinary that the Thailand-based crypto investor Christopher Harborne has been allowed to donate £9 million to Reform UK. I notice that its Members are still not here" (2/3rds of the way into the debate)
Reform are a bunch of crybabies who need to accept that democracy involves losing quite often.
Their petty whinging is surely intensely off-putting to potential voters
How does Nigel Farage know that Green voters in Gorton and Denton don't have jobs...
Oh of course he doesn't
I just heard Hegseth say "no stupid rules of engagement". The descent into barbarism is more or less complete.
The new Representation of the People Bill promises a “fair, secure and inclusive democracy.” Some good stuff, adding 1.7 million 16 & 17-year-olds to the electorate. But it still leaves one major issue untouched... ⤵️
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Absolute perfection and timely 👏💙😎💙
Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs
Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat
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Corruption in England's water industry and its regulation
2,778 serious pollution incidents reported in 2024.
Officials downgraded 2,735 (98%) to minor incidents.
Only 496 attended before downgrading; the rest were deemed minor.
Regulators collude with industry, inflicting harms to people.
NIGEL FARAGE: Allowing non-British citizens to vote in the UK poses a grave risk to our democracy By NIGEL FARAGE For years, I warned of the looming threat of sectarian voting. Naturally, of course, I was derided by the political establishment and accused of spouting outrageous hyperbole.
Grubby racist whinging from a pathetic loser who can't accept that majority of the public just aren't buying bigotry.
People legally allowed to vote didn't vote for him so Farage talks about stripping that legal right from those who don't support his racism.
The Daily Mail has always been a disgrace to the journalistic profession. From 1896 still going strong and wrong.
Neither Tory or Labour governments have governed for the benefit of the people. If they had we would have clean water, affordable energy and food. Their words are excuses and I for one am sick and tired of the lot of them.
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If ever you needed a front page to capture the crass yet also dangerous silliness of so much of our media, and the impact of right wing nationalism which has done so much harm through a history from which some seem so unable to learn
Claiming he "won the Gorton and Denton by-election among British-born voters" because he knows he won't get away with "white people have been cheated out of victory by black and brown people".
Every senior politician should be in and on the media today calling out this blatantly racist agitation.
Farage is annoyed because his man didn't win. What a looser.
Given we are talking about in-person democracy perhaps we can include a clause saying MPs should visit their constituencies on a regular basis in this proposed legislation.
A draft emergency executive order to declare a national emergency to allow President Donald Trump to take unprecedented control over voting is being circulating by anti-voting activists who said they are in coordination with the White House. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
