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Doughy hobbit Baker, joker, convenor (of GPEW Food & Agriculture PWG)
Firefox literally just doing this right now by announcing this shit...
Firefox@firefox.com · 2d agoWe believe an open web starts with choice. That includes AI models. We’re excited to be partnering with Mistral to bring open-source AI to Firefox Smart Window beta and expand access to France, with French-language support.
Ah yes, more poverty... that will stop the crime!!
Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 4h ago🚨 NEW: The Government is considering cutting benefits for the parents of children who commit crimes
🎶 i made a lot of mistakes 🎶 as i barrel through a group of pedestrians
Companies pay employer national insurance (ENI) on director pay. Partners in limited liability partnerships (LLPs) share profit, instead of salary. LLPs don't pay ENI on that. £150k ENI for every £1m of profit shared is avoided. Big four law firms alone avoided paying £4bn. Must end this perk.
Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
I really wonder what the story is of Tom Watson's total moral collapse. Is it really just the money and some narcissistic contrarianism? He used to champion digital rights as <the> key Labour ally for @openrightsgroup.org Then he turned betting industry lobbyist, then crackpot theorist, now this.
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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What if every city stopped advertising pollution? From fast fashion to high-carbon products, advertising shapes what we see, what we normalise, and ultimately the choices we’re encouraged to make. Bristol has already taken action, becoming the first council to restrict fast-fashion advertising.
The Ed Sheeran thing really does demonstrate that this isn't just an obsession of a fringe group of lefty weirdos. Supporting Palestinians against Israeli genocide is a really normie position. The problem is support for Israel remains an absolutely immovable condition for the *elite*.
The cost of living crisis isn't over. Conflict, climate breakdown, and corporate greed will keep putting upwards pressure on prices. And central banks will keep putting downwards pressure on wages. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/trumps-war...
Trump’s war keeps escalating. Prices keep rising.
The cost of living crisis isn’t over; plus the economics of tech CEO’s apocalyptic warnings; and why executive pay keeps climbing.
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Yet the monetary policy framework Europe built to fight inflation is not only ill-suited to containing these shocks, but it is also actively suppressing the transition to renewable energy that would end them.
Fuck, they're on to us... Fuck fuckkk Everyone stay calm, if we all stare into the mixer at the same time they might not notice us.
@cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social · 4d agoThe big 3 money laundering sectors are: Baking & financial Property Law & accountancy But let's go after the brown barbers instead
Pleased to see my union @bfawu.bsky.social @sarahwoolley1.bsky.social sharing a platform with @greenparty.org.uk again.
Green Party Trade Union Group@greenpartytu.bsky.social · 6d agoIf you're at #TUC26, join our fringe meeting Monday with @rachelmillward.bsky.social (Green Party Deputy Leader), @sarahwoolley1.bsky.social (Bakers' Union General Secretary) and Meg De Meo (Brighton Greens + Unite activist) @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social @greensorganise.bsky.social
As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...
Luke Turner@luketurner.com · 6mo agoI can now reveal that crypto billionaire Ben Delo—pardoned by Trump after a conviction for anti-money-laundering violations—privately funded the failed libel action brought against me by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel Miller to the tune of at least £300,000.
Things like capping donations isn’t difficult to put through and any progressive govt should be doing this
David Lammy here admitting he hasn't kept up to date with his constituents for 27 years and has utterly taken their votes for granted.
Dara O'Reilly@daraor.bsky.social · last wk.It's hard to read this as anything other than complaining bitterly about having to do one's job.
I try to avoid posting doom and gloom but this is terrifying and we are not ready for what 2027 is going to bring
Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · last wk.One more totally fucking nuts graph for today, care of a request by @leonsimons.com. Not only is the current standard deviation for the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature above 4SD over the 1982-2011 mean for the first time on record, but no previous year even reached 3SD.
Thank you @zahira.bsky.social @globalgreens.bsky.social for a very thoughtful and interesting presentation on anti-Palestinian racism.
Given what has happened to the RNLI, this is when wider civil society should speak in solidarity about the far-right and political parties attacking charities delivering vital services for vulnerable people. The voluntary sector is part of our social fabric, it needs protecting.
For a sign of how absurd this is, *Theodor Herzl* did not observe dietary laws particularly closely, did not keep Shabbat, and was not in any way religious!
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · last wk.Ed Miliband’s parents survived the Holocaust, Ed Miliband is Jewish - that is immutable Questioning his Jewishness like this tells you all you need to know about people like this, and what their values are - and what they truly think about Jewish people that don’t behave how they want them to
(teenage mutant ninja turtles voice) Danny Tommo's Fascist Blackshorts
TensegrityFan🐝🍯@tensegrityfan.bsky.social · last wk.It’s Danny Tommo’s Blackshorts!!
The logic of this from the Chief Rabbi seems to be: there is nothing that the Natanyahu Govt could do that would merit sanctions, as it would "feed into" a "hostile discourse" about Israel. And it dangerously conflates all Jews with the actions of Likud. Dire on so many levels.
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · last wk.This is an overtly political statement unbecoming for a chief rabbi that conflates Jews and Israel and does not represent the views of me or people like me I could say more, but it’s almost Rosh Hashanah and I don’t want to start the new year badly - and, frankly, its awfulness speaks for itself
Labour still hasn't learnt that appeasing fascists never works.
Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · last wk.It's hard to see how this isn't the outcome the far right wanted and achieved by their actions at the weekend. That feeling will be reinforced by the government "clarifying" condemnation by accepting bogus "legitimate concerns" arguments against providing safety. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Miliband says the UK wants a continued good relationship with ‘Green-line Israel’, but such an entity doesn’t exist and the Israeli gvt opposes it coming into existence. Eventually the UK will have to sanction the actual regime which claims all the territory between the river and the sea.
As a fellow trans woman, Kat is one of our hardest workers in the party, and a notable figure in the movement which pulled the Green Party back from transphobia. While others wrote it off as a lost cause, she made real change. I trust her analysis, and her forthrightedness, and you should too.
Kat Bristow@kathrynbristow.uk · last wk.I don't think that Stats for Lefties was suspended for being trans. I say this as someone that was suspended by the same Green Party body as Eleanora, in my case it was for being trans back in 2021 when the party was in a very different place than it is today. www.opendemocracy.net/en/trans-uk-...
Incredible work here—a hollow statement that changes absolutely nothing, yet will manage to anger everyone in the process. Truly, these are The Adults, and I am so glad they are back in the room.
The dark irony of people pearl clutching about the ethnic cleaning statements is if you actually spoke to the average hill top settler they would tell you: yes, we are ethnically cleansing - that is exactly what we are doing
