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NEW 🚨 Apple are challenging the UK Government's secret data access that could create a 'backdoor' to our encrypted information. Liberty and Privacy International are also challenging these secret orders, known as 'Technical Capability Notices' (TCNs). www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...
Liberty responds to Apple’s new legal challenge against UK Government’s secret access orders - Liberty
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BREAKING: Apple are back alongside ourselves and Liberty - in challenging the UK government's regime of secret TCNs. www.ft.com/content/2cc9...
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Absolutely astonishing Samantha Jones is the top health official and she is DIRECTLY benefiting from NHS and local authority ££££ That is WRONG - she must resign, this is called corruption @chpithinktank.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/ea8c...
Companies linked to top health official and husband received £2bn in public contracts
Samantha Jones or spouse held financial interests in G Square Capital private-equity business
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This is what climate failure looks like. Nature, homes and livelihoods are being destroyed. The Government must act now.
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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As an aside, if any other professionals were as incompetent as certain journalists, they'd be sacked and disbarred. But in the rightwing press, gross incompetence appears to be a qualification. After all, without its bullshitters for hire, how else would capital deny, deflect and distract?
Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · yesterdayBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Our democracy is not representative, relevant or realistic. Can it survive that? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08...
Our democracy is not representative, relevant or realistic. Can it survive that?
I spent quite a lot of time yesterday wondering what it would take to really transform the current UK political agenda. The antics of those few politicians who appear to be still at work in the UK col...
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Much of what is said about economics is little better than gaslighting.... I used AI tools when writing this post, including a spell checker. I also used 50 years of experience writing about these issues. The drawing was the smallest part of all that, and I had no budget to do it any other way.
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With Karim Khan's dismissal, the elimination of the war crimes court is near-complete
Millions of people around the world will now find themselves even more exposed to the criminal actions of predatory states. Unlike Khan's accuser, they are unlikely to ever get their day in court
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See 2026 on right? It’s the hottest the El Niño subsurface has ever been measured. If we are being honest, we have to do serious research into how excess heat due to climate change (90% stored in Ocean) likely fuels stronger El Nino’s. To no one’s surprise, stored heat is coming back to haunt us!
Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 2d agoAnother El Niño Record! Watch as heat back ups at the end. The heat building below the surface, which fuels El Niño, is higher than ever measured. This shows the heat just below the Trop Pacific sfc, moving from the W.Pacific Warm Pool where it’s stored, to the E. Pacific Sfc where El Niño forms 1/
⚡️ "We are ready for every substantive format. Putin is not ready. And that is precisely the problem." When Moscow refuses peace, global leaders in Washington, Beijing, and Europe must force them to face reality, President Zelenskyy says.
Hundreds march in Berlin, Germany, in solidarity with Palestine, demanding an end to the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip.
The Wash Act. 1823. It really was just a Tax, on making Scotch Whisky. It means, Scotch Whisky has been Taxed to fuck, by England, for over two CENTURIES. It's a MUCH bigger theft than North Sea Oil. Miles bigger. It's depressing that nobody knows this, about 25% of UK Food and Drink Exports.
"Exclusive: Huge majority of Brits back an end to foreign billionaire control of our media" mediasovereignty.org/exclusive-hu...
Repeated requests for an independence referendum are clearly not enough. The SNP and Scottish Greens asked for our votes on pro-independence manifestos. So now the question must be asked: Do they have a clear plan and strategy to turn that mandate into progress towards independence? 𝗬𝗘𝗦 𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗢?
@hpm1.bsky.social · 3d agowww.thenational.scot/politics/264... @johnswinney.bsky.social #YouYesYet for real?
Repeated requests for an independence referendum are clearly not enough. The SNP and Scottish Greens asked for our votes on pro-independence manifestos. So now the question must be asked: Do they have a clear plan and strategy to turn that mandate into progress towards independence? 𝗬𝗘𝗦 𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗢?
