@dgr70
We live under a 3km blanket - paper thin - that makes Planet Earth 🌍🌎 uniquely friendly to life and protects us from the unimaginable horribleness of space. So we would look after that blanket like our lives depend on it. Wouldn't we? 💙💛 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇪🇬🇱
£0 debt
£0 dividends
Water companies before privatisation
£60 billion debt
£85 billion dividends
Water companies after privatisation
The British public has been robbed - and our waters polluted to an extreme - and STILL Labour are refusing to renationalise water, disgraceful
This was the hardest speech I've ever made, speaking about my own experiences of our justice system in opposition to my own party's proposals on courts.
Very grateful for all of the gentle and kind responses, and hope I have given a voice to other survivors who feel as I do without my platform.
The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017 to 2025.
The top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"can pumping chemicals into the ocean help"
The solution to the ongoing crisis at Royal Mail is simple. Renationalise, just like Starmer promised he'd do, & start running this key part of the UKs infrastructure for the benefit of the country, not a billionaires bank balance
As always, solidarity with our @cwunews.bsky.social posties.
Single Market membership would bring certainty, lower costs and give firs access to customers and supply chains without constant paperwork and delays. It would support growth in goods and services, not just tidy up the margins. This is the pragmatic route back to serious economic Join the Single Market.
The Single Market was responsible for 41% of the UK’s exports in 2024, and remains the largest trading bloc in the world. Rejoining would eliminate trade barriers for most goods and services, control consumer prices, and allow capital, goods and people to move freely.
Why would the people of Durham not vote Reform - what's not to like about increasing council tax, cutting £12.9m from services, having a Deputy Leader who posts AI lies or a Leader who ran two companies that went bust owing more than £500k in tax?
No ships at all going through the Strait of Hormuz
Anyway, here we have it black and white that because U.K. has a less significant currency, it needs to pay a much higher interest ras than France and Italy.
Should we be in the €-zone, we can save £30 billion per year on the interest payments on our £2.9 trillion debt.
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
"Brexit meant Brexit, but 10 years is a long time in politics and the geopolitical landscape has changed beyond recognition. It is time for the UK Government to recognise that the EU is its closest ally and its strongest partner. Progress has been too slow. The EU–UK reset must now be supercharged.”
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
BREAKING - Rachel Reeves on the need for closer relations with the EU 🇪🇺
"To go further in strengthening our global relationships, breaking down trade barriers and deepening alliances with our European partners for a more secured and connected economy.
Fantastic news, and will revolutionise European travel.
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)
"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."
A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown,
Whose compass is no bigger than thy head,
And yet, incaged in so small a verge,
The waste is no whit lesser than thy land.
Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.
Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.
Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.
There's a lot going on on this front page, most of it disgraceful.
I am assuming that the answer to the question in purple font is "Stop reading The Daily Mail"?
For all its efforts, and all its dishonesty, the media could not prevent the Greens succeeding in Gorton & Denton. The revealed impotence of the media might be the most important consequence of the by-election.
Biden on Trump's SOTU speech: The guy talked for almost 2 hours, but never mentioned the anniversary of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Not once. I’ve spent a lot of time in Ukraine. The incredible bravery of those people. Imagine how they feel, wondering,
Could a journalist ask her to explain her reasoning behind "plain wrong"?
There is always a tweet.
Reform asked voters of Gorton and Denton to 'channel their patriotic Blitz spirit'
And they did just that - by defeating fascists.
Thank god. A great win for Hannah Spencer and the Greens, for #GortonAndDenton and for progressive voters. Made even greater by the huge Reform sulk. And the fact that the hateful Goodwin got whooped.
Now Labour, look to your left because you will not win from the right. We’re sick of that failure.
This from @adilray.bsky.social made me cry ❤️
It’s a running joke in academia that Matt Goodwin is bad at maths.
This sort of thing is why: the combined Labour/Green vote could have split in any way possible and Goodwin would have finished 2nd or 3rd. He did not lose because progressives coordinated. He lost *in spite of them not doing so*.
Kevin Nguyen @knguyen ... Tried to add "12 Years a Slave" to Google Calendar and it created a 12-year-long event called "a Slave" • a Slave Tue, February 25, 8pm - Wed, February 25, 2026, 8pm Delete Edit event » 5:27 PM • Feb 23, 2014
It’s finally over
