Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea. Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us.
Colin Chatburn
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Scotland, the hills, the SNP, walking and audiobooks. Hoped for, a return to the EU and no tories or reform. Any DM, instant block
Oh My God Shut The Fuck Up About"Antisemitism" “Antisemitism” watchdog groups are flipping the fuck out about hip hop artist Macklemore saying “Free Palestine” while opening for Ed Sheeran. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/oh-my-god-...
Oh My God Shut The Fuck Up About "Antisemitism"
Video reading by Tim Foley:
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🇬🇧 uk Government officially covers up records relating to the sleazy / fraudulent / criminal conduct of Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘best friend’, HRH Prince Andy Windsor 👑 🇬🇧 Perfidious Albion will alway protect the vile behaviour of its vile ‘elites’ 🇬🇧 🏴 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺
Breaking: Witkoff and Kushner fly out. The missiles fly in. Two dead in Kyiv. Seven wounded. Before the plane even cleared Ukrainian airspace. That’s not diplomacy. That’s a photo op with a body count.
This is Reform UK - the Party that claims to want to “Protect Our Women”. #NigelFarage stood at the podium looking on - and laughed. #Fascism #r4today
Nigel Farage’s pile of financing scandals. Unexplained £5m from Thailand. Gifts from convicted fraudster. Willingness to circumvent laws on political donations Threats to judges, civil servants, journalists, parliament, anyone who disagrees. archive.ph/eiR9R
Nigel Farage’s pile of financing scandals
Undercover report raises new questions over funding of Reform UK
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In light of these new allegations about illegal funding, it is my opinion that Nigel Farage should step down as MP for Clacton. He should then stand again in the by-election and let the people of Clacton decide if he’s guilty or not of breaking electoral law. 😉
Iceland has a population about the size of Coventry and has been independent since the 1940s. The referendum actually is about restarting accession negotiations. They've been on hiatus since 2013 after a change of government.
Raibeart #YES 🏴 🇪🇺@raibeart.bsky.social · 2w agoIceland a sovereign independent country with only 400K people is having a referendum whether to discuss joining EU. Iceland can have a referendum on anything. Scotland: has no power to hold referenda, no power to decide. Instead we allow people 600mi away to control our lives. End London rule.
More than 250 academics and lawyers have written to Andy Burnham urging him to end military cooperation with Israel and de-proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. "The UK Home Office and its judicial system have chosen to punish activists who oppose war crimes.."
I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’
Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti
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Mark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"
UK household energy bills to rise to average of £1,729 a year. Profiteering is rife. Rise will wipe out the promised £45 VAT cut. Will increase poverty. 120,000 people a year die in fuel poverty, sacrificed to appease corporations. Can't ease cost of living crisis without ending profiteering.
British energy bills forecast to hit three-year high this winter
Expected quarterly price cap rise of 4% likely to wipe out benefits of Andy Burnham’s VAT cut on electricity bills
theguardian.com
"Civilisation"? We seem to have got it all wrong, and now it's too late.
Since the Russia aggression in Ukraine. The Tories allowed complete price gouging. Plus the way pricing is structured. It screws the customer
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · last mo.UK household energy debt hits record £4.79bn. Energy companies making record profits, pushing people into hardship. Poor infrastructure: Solar farms turned off in heatwave, wind turbines turned off during high winds due to lack of good electricity transmission and storage. Govts allow looting.
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
What about Prime Ministers having to declare their wealth At the start of their job. Then again at the end of their time in No 10. Then its clear for the country to see how corrupt they have been
Burnham hinting at tax rises for the working class. But nothing about wealth tax. Nothing about cracked down on the £60BILLION in unpaid tax. Burnham Is even less use the Starmer
Alarm at NHS England as patient records put under control of US private equity firm TPG via a takeover. Business model is profiteering, not care for patients. Regulatory/Govt silence on expansion of private equity. Public money fuelling PE growth.
Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm
Doctors and MPs urge more scrutiny of £300m deal for company behind system used by most GPs in England
theguardian.com
We have to ignore the noice from the far-right Brexit mob. Its glaringly obvious our future is being part of the EU
Bremain in Spain@bremaininspain.com · last mo.Gibraltar, like Northern Ireland, has been left inside the bloc the UK left Boris Johnson argued this solution would give Northern Ireland “best of both worlds”. So, wouldn’t it be good for the rest of the UK too? Today, we can ask: if it’s good for the Gibraltarians, why not for all UK citizens?
Research findings suggest that existing large data centres have a remarkable impact of raising the temperature in the surrounding area by several degrees C with the effect reaching for more than 5km #Scotland #DataCentres #AI #Health #Noise #Infrasound #Environment #Community greens.scot/datacentres
Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland
Stop hyper-scale data centres in Scotland -
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this is such a class on what happens when you attempt to debate fascists
Jonathan Harris@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 2mo agoHe's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.