Welfare spending has risen by 0.9% of GDP since 2007-08, that’s a shift but the idea it’s “ballooned” is overdone.
Lack of growth has been a far bigger problem.
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Welfare spending has risen by 0.9% of GDP since 2007-08, that’s a shift but the idea it’s “ballooned” is overdone.
Lack of growth has been a far bigger problem.
It is extremely difficult to construct a practical case against this position. Net Zero is now as much about patriotism as it is about climate change.
British and Ukrainian flag flying side by side in central London.
🚨🚨 Europe’s plan to keep Ukraine afloat — even if #Hungary keeps blocking €90B loan. Kyiv was expected to run out of money at the end of this month, but an #IMF lifeline and help from the #Nordics and #Baltics are set to keep it solvent.🧵
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
“Elon Musk’s Tesla given go-ahead to supply electricity in Great Britain.” A subheading underneath says: “Ofgem licence means firm can replicate Texas setup of powering homes, businesses and EVs.”
Ed Miliband must step in and bar Tesla from holding an energy licence.
Elon Musk is a threat to our national security and clearly not a fit person to operate in our energy industry.
We can’t have the lights go out because he’s having a strop on X.
The UK's deal with Trump to avoid tariffs by buying more pharmaceuticals from the USA has hidden costs.
Tell the Government to publish their impact assessment. 🙋 hey-mp.uk/hey/Rachel-B...
@rachelblakemp.bsky.social
He's completely right
"The women who changed the system so I could be here"
@greenpartyhan.bsky.social pays homage to women who fought for change in her maiden speech during the International Women's Day debate.
Not content with Russia, now it's North Korea bylinetimes.com/2026/03/12/r...
🇭🇺🇺🇦 Hungarian authorities blocked a cash transport for Ukraine after Oschadbank decided to transport funds independently. Previously, the market was controlled by Criterion, a company owned by Istvan Garanci, a close friend of Orban.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/hungary-deta...
Investigative journalist Peter Geoghegan on huge donations by the super-rich to UK political parties and the need for a cap on political donations 👏 @petergeoghegan.bsky.social
"Palantir is forced to recruit in secret on Cornell because they are a universally unpopular company. No student with any self respect or friends would want to work for them."
www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
Same for Palantir - they should not be offered contracts by govt departments or agencies in the UK which gives them leverage over critical state functions. It's an overtly evil organisation run by fascists.
The government is breaking the law by concealing vital information which would help solve our biggest environmental problems
Really important legal case from my friend and former colleague Ben Webster
Do support if you can!
www.crowdjustice.com/case/governm...
Shell CEO’s pay jumps 60% to £13.8m. Did yours?
Execs rewarded for profiteering.
Average real pay for workers hardly changed since 2008.
Govts claim worker pay rises are inflationary, but silence on exec pay, dividends, share buyback and corporate tax abuses.
🇺🇦 "La seule façon d'obtenir la paix, c'est d'y contraindre Poutine".
Notre entretien exclusif avec Volodymyr Zelensky pour @ouest-france.fr, avec @cyrilpetit.bsky.social, Laëtitia Greffie et Patrice Moyon 👇
www.ouest-france.fr/europe/ukrai...
Wait until they find out he sells car insurance. Oh yes.
Day 470 of daily, uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia. 🇬🇪
Kyiv.
Today, we opened the window wide for the first time this year.
Victory (still a cat) was happy.
Don’t worry, the window has a cat safety screen.
Spring is in the air.
Palantir's Israel partnership began with Epstein introductions.
boingboing.net/2026/03/10/p...
Good evening from Ukraine.
Still here.
Still free.
Still ruining russian fantasies.
Last night I stood on stage and said to Wembley Arena: "the forces of facism, and those who bow to them like Wesley Streeting, will not win.” 👇
"I assure you support continues," NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Alexus Grynkevych told the US Senate Armed Services Committee that weapons deliveries to Ukraine are continuing despite Iran war/but said details would only be shared in closed session. euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/12/s...
We want to launch an important investigation about NHS privatisation🚨- and in just a few days you guys have raised more than 50% of the funding 😮💙🥰.
Can we keep going? The EveryDoctor team is raring to go and we need your help to hit this goal: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/whos-makin...
Tonight at 6pm, still time to get a ticket!
This is really quite significant for our case in Northern Ireland where we assert that the unfathomably poor For Women Scotland (and the way in which it has been interpreted hitherto in the UK) breaches the non-regression provisions in the Good Friday agreement.
The ghouls at the White House posted this video to their official Twitter account with 4 million followers a couple of hours ago.
I so wish that wasn't true. But it is.
They are monsters.
More than 120 Democratic members of Congress are asking the Pentagon for detailed information about how the U.S. military is limiting civilian casualties in Iran and what role artificial intelligence is playing in choosing targets. | NBC
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Putin likely helping Iran with drones, UK defence secretary says
news.sky.com/story/putin-...
Jeez. I thought I had seen everything but this! It’s almost impossible to believe it has actually just been posted by the White House. They’ve just presented the horrors of war as some kind of sick video game. Shameful, disgraceful, obscene and utterly horrific.
