Stunning and historic result in the Gordon and Denton parliamentary by-election in the UK.
The anti-genocide Green Party led by Zack Polanski has won the seat from Keir Starmer's governing Labour Party.
Nigel Farage's Reform UK and its odious candidate Matt Goodwin beaten.
Kenya & Nigeria — two of Africa’s largest economies — are leading the push for local EV assembly to slash fuel import bills, cut emissions and build domestic manufacturing strength. Developing nations aren’t retracing the fossil path — they’re leapfrogging straight into #Bettrification. 🔋
Insightful reporting by David Allen Green at the Financial Times on why Palantir data-analytics defence contracts with UK government should raise concern.
Gosh why isn’t this on the news?? @manchestermill.bsky.social
Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.
Furthermore, China’s rolling out a 2-layer system: solar panels on the surface for electricity, with fish, shrimp & crabs farmed underneath.
It’s called Fishery-Photovoltaic Complementary (FPC) — floating PV integrated with aquaculture.
Energy + food. Same footprint.
That’s how you #Bettrify. ⚡🌞🐟
These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.
*one voice altered to disguise identity
Art Beats ICE 🎭
Check out this dance-theatre protest against the ICE murders in front of the #TrumpOut Kennedy Center.
👏👏👏
Yes but @lisanandymp.bsky.social has it in her gift to sort out BBC news. She isn’t?????
@jenwilliamsft.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com its time the media investigate and report on Reform links to Russian money.
Terrifying that such powerful people have mad and dangerous religious extremist views.
“It could take years to restore Brexit losses”
Especially if Farage comes along and tears up the ‘reset’ as he threatens.
Honest to god.. it’s such a tedious, idiotic, resource-sapping mess. There’s really nothing patriotic about it. Prejudice costs such a lot.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Left: Zia Yusuf, "Mandelson deserves to be in jail. The buck stops with the executive, Keir Starmer is a disgrace to his office and should resign"
Right: Nathan Gill is in jail for accepting Russian bribes. Using Zia Yusuf's logic, isn't Nigel Farage also a disgrace, and should also resign?
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
My dad wrote me a letter weeks before he died when I was four. “Mummy will give you all my kisses.”
It wasn’t until I became a dad myself that I thought how it must feel to say goodbye to your young children.
Photo of Starmer speaking Starmer signals closer alignment with EU's single market to ease harm caused by Brexit Starmer attacks Farage over 'botched' Brexit The Labour leader has outlined the party's ambition for closer cooperation with Europe
"He said if we left the EU there would be less red tape for trading into Europe - try telling that to any business that is trading into Europe. "He said if we left the EU regular migration would go down - it quadrupled under the Boris wave. So I wouldn't listen too much to what Nigel Farage has to say about this." Sir Keir described the previous government's Brexit deal as "botched" and highlighted Labour's efforts to negotiate new arrangements, including on food and agriculture, which he said "lead to lower prices in our supermarkets".
Not sure ‘botched’ Brexit is the way to go. Particularly as Farage agrees, blames the Tories and threatens to make it even worse.
At some point you need to tell the truth. It’s not botched. It’s exactly what you get when you prioritise prejudice over pragmatism.
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This latest piece of corrupt fuckery from Reform was tucked away on pages 1 & 4 of the Sunday Times. So, while media rightly rages about the murky Epstein network, it stays wrongly quiet on the murky money networks that are trashing our democracies right now. Do we wait until the fraud is in No10?
"Four hours after his arrest, he was taken to a hospital emergency room in Edina with swelling and bruising around his right eye and bleeding. A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain..."
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ChatGPT is more likely to give you news from GB News, Al Jazeera, or Marie Claire than the BBC.
Our new report asks where do AI tools get their news from? How biased are they? And how transparent are they about commercial relationships with publishers?
Read more here: www.ippr.org/articles/ais...
@newsagents.bsky.social he’s got a point why is their no media interest in this?
REFORM - leading in the polls - charges prospective candidates £125 to apply to run as an MP - before selecting a GB News host who is a colleague of the party leader and one of his MPs to run instead.
You'd honestly think this was newsworthy.
But apparently not.
Applications will close at 5PM on Sunday 25th January Gorton and Denton Candidate: Application Form Welcome to the Reform UK Gorton and Denton Candidate Application Form. Before you start, please ensure you have the following ready: • Headshot picture CV • Working links for any social media accounts held • Scan of passport • National Insurance number • Proof of address (e.g., utility bill, driving licence) Application Fee: £125
Reform seem to have been charging people £125 to put themselves up as potential Gorton and Denton parliamentary Candidates:
Applications closed Sunday.
When did they select Goodwin?
This is a Brexit fallout that is enraging, deeply undemocratic and damaging for the whole country.
Tories, Reform and Labour have all decided that their stereotype of the brexity social conservative red wall voter is the *only* voter worth bothering with. The rest of us can go to hell.
Why TF would you ‘give Reform a go’?
Yes. They represent change. But not good change. Not the change people want.
This lot would torch everything we value and rely upon (NHS, public services, our rights, protections…)
in an absolute frenzy of corruption, prejudice and uselessness.
FFS. Please don’t.
