The science is crystal clear - there can be no new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. Andy Burnham must stop Rosebank, stop Jackdaw and make polluters pay for the destruction they are causing.
Jo Carter,
@jo-jo64.bsky.social
They, Them Still trying to accept senior citizen status. Still struggling Still trying to understand my gender fluidity. Love the beauty of our world. Love everything we share it with. Love smiles. Trying to live my best life by the river.
We wrote a letter to feminists about the ethical responsibility to speak up for trans people now. 💪💖🌈 The letter tells the story of humanist Henriette Bie Lorentzen, who said, "True humanism is a fighting humanism … we must remain vigilant and always speak out against injustice." Please share it.
Letter to feminists: True humanism is a fighting humanism … we must remain vigilant and always speak out against injustice - Inclusive Feminism
An open letter to feminists about the ethical responsibility to speak out against attacks on trans people.
en.inkluderendefeminisme.no
My statement on the harmful EHRC guidance coming in to force today 🏳️⚧️
I mean his colleague was proud to have destroyed healthcare for trans kids in the UK using the same "legitimate questions" angle
Emily Maitlis claims her BBC investigation led to shutdown of England’s only under-16 gender clinic
The Tavistock Clinic, which treated under-16s experiencing gender dysphoria, was closed last year following the Cass Review.
attitude.co.uk
A pleasure to help put this campaign together with the Good Night Out Campaign 🏳️⚧️ With the EHRC Code about to roll out, please put these posters up in your venues and help us spread the message: Pee in Peace 💖 #PeeInPeace #GoodNightOut #TransRights #TransInclusion
It's about time that greed was recognised as a mental illness and millionaires who don't want to be taxed more had their assets seized for their own good ... "Gary Lineker among 120 millionaires urging Andy Burnham to make them pay more tax" leftfootforward.org/2026/07/gary...
Gary Lineker among 120 millionaires urging Andy Burnham to make them pay more tax
In a letter, the group of Patriotic Millionaires told Andy Burnham 'Tax us, we’re proud to pay'
leftfootforward.org
Growth is the wrong objective. The purpose of government is not simply to maximise GDP. It is to: improve wellbeing, reduce insecurity, tackle inequality, fight climate chane restore the environment and enable people to live lives to their full potential
What has the BBC done for us? Promoted far right politicians on BBC News & Question Time spewing lies about migration and criminality inciting hundreds of racist & religious hate attacks While giving us Strictly Come Dancing 1/4
Any Burnham says he will stick to "the existing fiscal rules". Rules which neutered the state & delivered Potholed roads PFI infrastructure Huge NHS queues Privatisations Poverty Deindustrialisation Lower healthy life expectancy Low investment in productive assets and low productivity Must change.
Andy Burnham can’t transform the country while sticking to the current fiscal rules
Sticking to the 2024 election manifesto and fiscal rules will make it harder for him to deliver the headline promises and the change that he has paraded.
leftfootforward.org
The official government response to London Trans Prides message to Andy Burnham from the end of various articles: A Government spokesperson said: ‘The Government is committed to protecting the rights, dignity and safety of all LGBT+ people. 🧵 (me- this is simply insulting)
I'm convinced that Zack is winning people over, to a simple straightforward message of real hope for a fairer future. And I'm afraid Andy Burnham is doing nothing to make 'his' Labour party appear more worthy of trust than Keir Starmer's. Still too much kowtowing to big money. @greenparty.org.uk 👍
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2w agoThanks WOMAD - that was so uplifting today! Amazing to see so many people in the tent - and a huge overflow too. People want rent controls, wealth taxes and action to tackle the climate crisis. Hope 💚
Wealth inequality in the UK is surging and the super-rich continue to get richer. All the while people across the UK can’t afford the basics. Life can be so much better if we tax the super-rich fairly, so everyone can thrive. taxjustice.uk/campaign/tax...
Taxing Wealth - Tax Justice UK
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A bit overwhelmed this morning with my words quoted in the Metro, Standard, Mirror, Independent and even in Australia, but crickets, i’m told from the Times, Telegraph, Guardian and Daily Mail. I always ruminate about how I might have said it better, because the message is too important to mess up.
Transparent Action@transparentaction.bsky.social · 2w agoToday London Trans Pride was full of celebration, defiance, joy, tears, pride and protest. 150K trans+ people, allies, parents, partners, & children saying “ENOUGH” at the cruelty & blatant discrimination being targeted at trans+ people in the UK - much of it from our current government!
Stop Sex Matters spreading transphobic hate goodlaw.social/8968d9 Remember Helen Joyce gave her vile ‘every trans person is a problem in a sane world and their numbers should be reduced’ speech, less than 24 hours before Alice died by suicide. Email for Alice 💗
Stop Sex Matters spreading transphobic hate
The anti-trans pressure group Sex Matters are running a campaign of hate, spewing abuse online and in the media – and putting trans people in danger. Sex Matters say they work to “protect everybody’s ...
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MP's are renting their houses out then getting you to pay the rent on their 2nd house. The Government should seize every penny they earned to pay for their ridiculous expenses. This is fraud.
No - Farage wants a General Election so he can wriggle out of the mess his lies have put him in. The British people couldn’t care less if there is an election or not.
Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼♂️😉@paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 2w ago“Britain needs Reform, like I need severe haemorrhoids”❗️ End of 🤷🏼♂️
Thames Water, the poster child of predatory capitalism announces hosepipe ban. TW loses 200bn litres annually to leaks. Dumps tons of sewage in rivers. Paid dividends, neglected investment. No new reservoirs since 1989. Massive hikes in customer bills. Numerous criminal convictions.
Thames Water announces hosepipe ban for 10.1m customers
The water company said the three heatwaves contributed to the ban.
bbc.co.uk
In June 2026 median gross pay of a payrolled employee was £31,584. £26,260 after income tax and NIC. A single person needs to earn £30,500 a year to reach a minimum standard of living. A couple with 2 children needs £74,000. 25.3m Britons, including,7.7m children live below minimum standard.
Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, UK - Office for National Statistics
Monthly estimates of payrolled employees and their pay from HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) data. This is a joint release between HMRC and the Offic...
ons.gov.uk
This morning on Radio Cornwall, Dr Heather Smith, a senior lecturer in water governance at Cranfield University claims that there are no benefits to water nationalisation? Another view: Dr Smith made no mention of profits for shareholders . . . weownit.org.uk/public-owner...
Water
Let's bring our water into public ownership.
weownit.org.uk
The UK will not have enough water for future datacentres. England faces 5bn litre a day shortfall for public water supplies. A trillion litres of water a year lost to leaks. Widespread hosepipe bans. No national grid for water. Poor infrastructure. No national plan.
Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says
Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’
theguardian.com
Israel is never going to end its Genocide of Palestinians unless it is made to end it. This has probably always been the case it’s just more obvious now.
South East Water, majority owned from Australia and Canada, imposes hosepipe ban. SEW loses 104m litres of water daily to leaky pipes. Dumps sewage in rivers. Customer bills hiked. Paid dividends, neglected, investment. No new reservoirs since 1989.
Hosepipe ban extended to Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire
South East Water says customers in Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire will face a ban.
bbc.co.uk
Press Coverage | 5 martyrs, including 3 children, after the Zionist entity's occupation drone targeted a house near Al-Samer junction in the center of Gaza City. 🔗 *Telegram : t.me/Stand4Palestine* 🔗 *Instagram : instagram.com/stand4palestineaus* 🔗 *Facebook : fb.com/stand4palestineaus*
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Photo by Mark Richards 📸 I hugged a lovely fellow trans woman after a bigot verbally abused her and others at Saturday's trans rights demo in Inverness.
No Rachel, you are not leaving the UK economy stronger, healthier. No Keir, you are not leaving Britain in a better state than you found it. Together, you did enormous harm to Britain's social fabric & ethos. Good night! www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Reeves and Lammy exit cabinet as Andy Burnham reshuffles top team – UK politics live
Earlier the new PM said he wants to put ‘the right values and the right standards at the heart of government’
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Wealth tax on UK’s super-rich could raise £10bn a year, Andy Burnham told. A 2% minimum tax on households with more than £100m wealth would affect fewer than 1,000 UK households. Richest 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Wealth tax on UK’s super-rich could raise £10bn a year, Andy Burnham told
New PM urged to introduce a 2% minimum charge on households with more than £100m in wealth
theguardian.com
Not every immigrant to Europe is a Kylian Mbappe or Bukayo Saka but the vast majority contribute to society - doctors, cleaners, carers, nurses, teachers etc. A truth that I wish more politicians would acknowledge.