Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
I just signed a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...
In which, remarkably, while talking about the fiscal bind, and even after Jeremy Hunt goes on about acting in the interests of the country, no one brings up the TWO NI cuts carried out largely if not solely for narrow party political ends. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
Fear has owned the small boats story for too long and it's allowed populists to thrive. It’s time to reclaim the narrative – here's how. ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @peterthurlow.bsky.social
What losing the Human Rights Act really means for you youtu.be/MNAZZDkdmPo?...
Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!
Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
Text of tweet posted at 9.33am on 26th June (i.e. this morning) by Diane Abbott: The fight over the welfare bill is not about Morgan McSweeney or Keir Starmer. It is not even about the Labour party, even though it could be strongly affected. It is about the hundreds of thousands of people who will be pushed (deeper) into poverty.
I'd say roughly 75% of mainstream news reporting about the disability benefit cuts has been from a Westminster angle rather than the actual impact the cuts will have
It really is time to nationalise water www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06...
VIKING NORTH exhibition starting 11th July 2025 at Yorkshire Museum #york #yorkshire #medievalsky www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk/exhibition/v...
Despite damning evidence the govt clinging on to private ownership of water in England; people fleeced for 36 years.
Prospect is sewage dumping, health hazards, lack of investment, higher domestic/business costs, tax dodges, asset-stripping.
Public ownership is the only way out.
Speaking with Andrew Marr about the horrifying situation in Gaza. There is growing agreement from MPs across all parties that we must take strong action against the Israeli Government. The innocent women and children of Gaza cannot wait any longer. Action needed now.
Yorkshire Water fined £350,000, after one of its sewage pumping stations polluted a York watercourse.
YW knew pumping station was broken.
YW already has 125 criminal convictions, didn't make it vigilant.
Exec prosecutions and ending the profit motive are the only cures for criminal conduct.
Carbon capture - an excuse for maintaining business as usual - doesn’t work.
Pass it on ….. and stop burning fossil fuels.
Thames Water’s CEO defends £195,000 bonus just three months into the job.
Shameless.
The cult of bonuses is nothing to do with performance. It is for boosting profits by fleecing customers.
Nothing will change until water is nationalised and customers vote on exec pay.
“Each nasty reactionary comment by Reform followed by the reward of an electoral gain feels as if it eats away at a diverse and decent society, pulling back hard-won tolerance whilst validating the worst prejudices.”
My col. on the local election aftermath. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This insanity needs to be stopped.
Israel is barbaric and no friend of any nation. Israel must be stopped & Palestine must be defended.
As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep
The Government banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe a certain medication
This should also be banned @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social unless you have a way to justify this?
I think the suggestion that any kind of human-to-human interaction should be replaced with human-to-chatbot interaction should be scrutinized as a kind of moral rot. It’s antisocial ideology and should be treated as such
They're not even using a different URL
BBC bans Evan Davis from informing the public on heat pumps. “As the world has ‘progressed’ in the past few months” the BBC “has become concerned that anything like this - informing people about heat pumps - can be interpreted as treading on areas of pulic controversy” youtu.be/RJPKgngqoX0?...
‘The whole policy is wrong’: rebellion among Labour MPs grows over £5bn benefits cut to people with disabilities.
The policy is cruel. Tax the rich.
Fuel the rebellion. Insist on seeing your MP face to face. Tell him/her to vote against the bill.
Full monthly state pension for post-2016 UK retiree is £997.75. Only 27% receive it.
Elsewhere:
Luxembourg £5,426
Norway £1,839
Switzerland £1,657
Denmark £1,486
Sweden £1,373
Belgium £1,338
Netherlands £1,322
France £1,254
Spain £1,238
UK GDP spend on pension is less than OECD average.
Appalling
Common seals basking on a Palaeogene dyke at Kildonan.
Three Highland cows (two adults and one baby) in Glen Rosa. It is a cloudy day but the sun is shining over the scene. There are mountains in the background.
Pladda island from Kildonan at the south of the island. You can see a small amount of mist across the sand at the forefront of the image, and some large rocks are dotted around. It is a sunny day, with some small clouds off to the left.
Cir Mhor mountain at sunrise. It is glowing a deep copper colour.
The Isle of Arran has officially been announced as a UNESCO Global Geopark! 🎉
UNESCO’s Global Geoparks are areas with internationally important landscapes & bring together other aspects of heritage such as archaeology, history, culture and biodiversity.
www.bgs.ac.uk/news/isle-of...
The background is blue, but green predominates with the open olive stone & leaves. Flowers are of white & yellow.
👀 #Selby Abbey #Yorkshire
“The Gethsemane Window” (2024)
#HelenWhittaker
Beneath olive trees, is an opened olive with the cross of sacrifice within. Winter jasmine & three flowering lilies signal the coming of spring.
#StainedGlassSunday
The main reason UK electricity prices are so high isn’t net zero but the fact that gas sets the price 98% of the time.
