New UK #SPS alignment covers EU laws on chemicals in food contact materials (packaging, processing equipment) as well as #pesticides & biocides
Industrial chemicals remain unaligned, despite UK falling way behind the EU in protection from harmful #chemicals like #PFAS:
chemtrust.org/is-the-tide-...
Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.
⚠️ REVEALED: Trump's Plan For Iran - a #BrokenNews EXCLUSIVE:
youtu.be/ku6N3vZL-mo
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
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Geordie Heat - Mister Sting's Missing Vest #10YearsOfMince
The competence issue matters because what is at stake here is not, as many commentators claim and, no doubt, some political activists and voters hope, that Labour need to respond to the by-election defeat with a ‘lurch to the left’. Setting an immigration policy which is fair, rational, and consonant with economic and demographic needs is not, in itself, ‘left-wing’. Operating an efficient and humane asylum process is not, in itself, ‘left-wing’. Making a clear distinction between immigration and asylum policies is not, in itself, ‘left-wing’. To think otherwise is to cede the idea that these are somehow ‘extreme’ propositions and that the policies of virtually zero immigration, mass deportation, and the near-total rejection of asylum seekers advocated by Reform and others are the ‘norm’ or ‘moderate’.
As @chrisgrey.bsky.social says, rejecting Mahmood's plans would not be a "lurch to the left" but simply about restoring a basic level of (economic, political and administrative) competence.
chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/03/real...
Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.
I think he should wait for VAR
🚨BREAKING🚨
Farage and his pound shop fascists are coming to Leeds on the evening of 24th March for a rally at the Leeds First Direct Arena.
Leeds for Europe are official supporters of the SUTR counter protest.
Watch this space for more details and make sure you are there!
The climb down begins.
1/3 I'm writing a book about Nigel Farage for Headline.
Some of his pals are blanking me.
Is it because after I reported on the killing of a Polish man in Essex in 2016, he said that I had caused him "more misery than any other in 25 years in politics"?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
A chilling crime by Pete Hegseth and the US Navy. Iranian warship IRIS Dena was unarmed and taking part in an int’l exercise with countries including the United States when she was sunk off Sri Lanka by a torpedo fired by a US nuclear submarine, killing at least 87 Iranian sailors.
Outrageous to suggest that the Greens benefit from Farage's salience, or that they have a shared strategic interest in carving up the centre
"The figures show this: a child born this morning in Britain can expect to be in good health only until they are 61. The last 20 years of their life will be blighted by illness"
#Austerity
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WTAF?
THEY FINALLY DID IT! Sheldon Whitehouse officially called out the connections between Trump, Epstein, and Russia on the Senate floor.
Here is the PM talking to us after yesterday's COBRA meeting and before the press conference on the Middle East.
So good to have a sensible, intelligent, grown up PM during this crisis, after years of terrible PMs.
The thought of any other current party leader dealing with this really scares me.
Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Crucial and powerful essay by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social. Lest we forget.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
Today in Budapest, Hungarian authorities took seven Ukrainian citizens hostage. The reasons are still unknown, as well as their current well-being, or the possibility of contacting them. These seven Ukrainians are employees of state-owned Oschadbank, who were operating two bank cars transiting between Austria and Ukraine and carrying cash as part of regular services between state banks. In fact, we are talking about Hungary taking hostages and stealing money. If this is the “force” announced earlier today by Mr Orban, then this is a force of a criminal gang. This is state terrorism and racketeering. We have already sent an official note demanding an immediate release of our citizens. We will also address the European Union with the request to provide a clear qualification of Hungary’s unlawful actions, hostage-taking, and robbery. Statement by Oschadbank:
Orbán is kidnapping Ukrainian bank employees to manufacture a conflict and save his electoral campaign. 7 Ukrainians were grabbed in Budapest, Hungary, while transiting cash between Austria & Ukraine; condition & whereabouts unknown. Kyiv demands immediate release.
www.oschadbank.ua/news/osadban...
JHC
U.S. forces likely bombed an Iranian elementary school on Feb. 28 during an operation targeting a nearby military base, a New York Times analysis suggests. It is the deadliest known episode of civilian casualties since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran — and no side has yet taken responsibility.
BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
She's a right daft fuck.
youtube.com/watch?v=pcpl...
Cate Bros.
70s soul, American-a, a bit of funk and a great guitar solo.
#1975
Nevererdovem.
Marvellous.
