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Take just 2 mins to email your MP. Give them the facts about the Thames Water creditors' deal and urge them to write to Environment Secretary Angela Eagle. https://weownit.org.uk/angela-eagle-stop-creditors
Write to your MP: reject the creditors' last-ditch attempt to keep Thames Water privatised
Write to your MP: reject the creditors' last-ditch attempt to keep Thames Water privatised
weownit.org.uk
'Solar power supplied an unprecedented 14.4% of all electricity generated in the UK last month, surpassing its previous monthly high of 12.4% set in May. On 12 July solar accounted 18.8% of all power generated, coming close to the record of 19.5% set on 24 May.' www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Solar powers highest share of UK electricity ever after record July sunshine
Solar power supplied 14.4 per cent of all electricity generated in Britain last month
independent.co.uk
Fact is Wales has now become a target… Campaigners urge people to join a national Stop the War Coalition and CND demonstration at RAF Fairford on 15/08, calling for closure of US military bases Write your MP take action to stop Wales being drawn into America’s wars nation.cymru/news/bomb-sh...
Bomb ship mystery: US military vessel docks in Newport as questions grow over Wales' role in Iran conflict
Nation Cymru staff Anti-war campaigners have raised concerns over reports that a US military ammunition supply ship, the MV Sagamore, docked in Newport, south Wales, on Friday 24 July 2026. According ...
nation.cymru
Kherson. Russia deliberately attacked a man selling goods at a market. He tried to hide, but the Russian FPV drone followed him. The National Police posted that he survived but was injured. Russian human safari in Kherson never stops.
If I were a police officer in the United States, I'd be concerned that the American government did not have my back. I'd also be concerned about just how far the government would go if I arrested individual/s who support Trump. America is headed toward a very dark cloud.
'The world has reached the 3-terawatt threshold of solar power, with the first terawatt taking 10 years to deploy and the next two terawatts taking less than five years. No one really noticed. In just a few years, the 3-terawatt milestone will seem almost insignificant.' archive.is/202608030441...
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity? @eastangliabylines.co.uk
As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
eastangliabylines.co.uk
70% of Americans don't want energy-guzzling AI data centers being built in their communities, including 63% of Republicans. Trump's response? "You can't fight it, you have to go with it." Reminder that Trump owns millions of dollars worth of stock in Big Tech corporations pushing data centers.
There are a great multitude of factors beyond our control that impact our decisions. That chronic stress leads to so many bad outcomes makes clear how important it is to reduce chronic financial stress in order to improve outcomes. Ending poverty and creating real security with a UBI floor is a must
Turtles All the Way Down: The Biological Case for Universal Basic Income
If our decisions are shaped by forces we never chose, then punishing people for those decisions and withholding the resources that would improve them is our true moral failure.
scottsantens.substack.com
Big banks and energy giants have announced another wave of eye-watering profits over the past week, fuelled by the ongoing Middle East war.
How Andy Burnham could raise huge amount with tax raid on banks and oil giants
mirror.co.uk
Aye we see it at the petrol pumps, supermarket checkouts and energy metres, when will people open their eyes, the 1% billionaire elites and ruling classes only protect and feed their own lust for wealth.
My son graduated from university this summer. He is a Scottish graduate who went to a Scottish university. As such he didn't pay any tuition fees. As he commuted from home, he has no debt from living in Edinburgh. A graduate with no debt. Just like his dad and mum were.
Between 2010 and 2024, only 500 more prison places were made available and 23 prisons were shut down. How dare the Tories and their media start with their bullshit faux outrage?!
So much for.... ...🎶"All things bright & beautiful, All creatures, great & small...🎵 Until it comes to 💷 money 💶, then those hallowed words mean "f*ck all
Simon Cox@simonfrcox.bsky.social · 2d agoChurch of England rejects proposal to rewild 30% of its land by 2030 claiming that will reduce capital value. Ugh. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
🌍🔥🥵🌍🔥🥵🌍🔥🥵🌍🔥🥵 I’ve responded to the government’s consultation by saying NO to Heathrow’s climate-wrecking 🌍🔥🥵 3rd runway. Will you join me and tell the government you oppose expansion too? @friends-earth.bsky.social action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/say-n... 🌍🔥🥵🌍🔥🥵🌍🔥🥵🌍🔥🥵
Stop Heathrow's climate-wrecking third runway
Take action We're in a climate crisis, with out-of-control wildfires in the UK, France and Spain and an ongoing battle to clean up the air in our cities. So why is Andy Burnham's government backing pl...
action.friendsoftheearth.uk
Decades on, survivors of the Fayed trafficking network are still seeking justice. Alongside exclusive interviews with Anti-Slavery International, campaigning journalist Meirion Jones and former Chief Prosecutor Nazir Afzal, hear those voices in our latest Bylines Gazette.
Gazette - Bylines Network
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🤬🤬 It's happened again! 🤬🤬 BP just announced staggering profits. Oil and gas companies shouldn't profit from an energy crisis. Will you sign this petition calling on governments to put in place PERMANENT TAXES on oil and gas companies? act.350.org/sign/treaty-...
Sign the petition: The global tax treaty that can make polluters pay
Every time oil and gas prices spike, from war, shortage, or plain market panic, big oil and gas companies cash in. We pay more at the pump and on our energy bills. They pay almost nothing extra in tax...
act.350.org
RFK Jr’s on-air tantrum on CNN yesterday was embarrassing, but it was part of a bigger picture: The Republican crusade to rewrite the recent past has reached a fever pitch three months before the midterms. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
RFK Jr. joins the Republican campaign to rewrite the recent past ahead of the midterms
As one observer recently noted, “The GOP campaign this fall will depend entirely on misremembering recent history.”
ms.now
BBC News: Reform UK's Richard Tice under investigation from the parliamentary commissioner for standards Sky News: Reform UK's Nigel Farage under investigation from the parliamentary commissioner for standards BBCQT: Reform UK's Muhammad Zia Yusuf rejected by Reform UK to stand in by-elections
There's water for data centres, just not people. bsky.app/profile/gill...
Gill Tate@gillyhx.bsky.social · 5d agoJust listened to the 3rd in the excellent @carolinelucas.bsky.social podcast series for TRIP. We can't let the government choose data centres over water for drinking and agriculture. We need food and water more than we need AI 🤬 open.spotify.com/episode/13xT...
The PM says he wants public control of water, but water companies are still spilling sewage and hiking up bills. Add your name to make sure Burnham keeps his word. water-rip-off.goodlawproject.org/s/AvlgZH
Stop the water industry rip-off
The PM says he wants public control of water, but water companies are still spilling sewage and hiking up our bills. Add your name.
water-rip-off.goodlawproject.org
Democrats look ahead to the 2026 elections as both parties prepare for a major political battle. #Democrats #Midterms #USPolitics
The Democrats have one last chance to halt the erosion of US democracy – and it’s less than 100 days away | Timothy Garton Ash
American democrats need a Hungarian-style landslide to overwhelm Trump’s attempts to rig November’s midterm elections, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
theguardian.com
CNN: Measles in the US is at 35-year high, the 2nd record-breaking year in a row. 93% of these cases are among unvaccinated. This is happening on your watch. For years, you denied the efficacy of vaccines. Do you accept some responsibility for this outbreak? RFK: Absolutely not.
