Just driven through a light shower but had wipers on and everything. #petrichor
Mark Venner
@mark16.bsky.social
Green Party member, Arsenal AND Orient fan. Pro-EU.
This week in Andy Burnham’s Britain 🇬🇧🤐 Over 150 UK citizens, mainly pensioners including the daughter of Holocaust survivors, were arrested under terrorism laws for: •Clapping •Sitting down •Reading poetry •Holding a microphone All could face up to 14 years in prison! 😤 #BurnhamsBritain 🇬🇧🤐
Or, Ref*rm lose ANOTHER election. BBC News - Labour's Bev Craig elected Greater Manchester mayor www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Labour's Bev Craig elected new mayor of Greater Manchester
Labour's Bev Craig secures nearly double the number of votes won by Reform UK's Sian Astley.
bbc.co.uk
It's not about nuclear capability... It never was.
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 6d agoShell’s quarterly profits up from $4.3bn to $9.8bn, jump in price of oil/gas due to wars . Customer bills hiked, industries crippled, economies damaged, planet burns from fossil fuels pollution, corporations profit from catastrophies. Another $3bn share buyback. Must levy 100% windfall tax.
You know that Fourth Lord Rothermere bloke? The billionaire who inherited the fortune the Third Lord Rothermere inherited from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere? Well, it turns out he's against inheritance tax.
£18.5 billion - the cost of free social care for everyone paid through taxation £30-50 billion - annual lost tax revenue from reduced trade with the EU because of Brexit Rejoin the EU to fund social care 🇪🇺🇬🇧 😃
This shit is not inevitable, it could be made illegal tomorrow if our governments weren't in the pocket of Big Pervert.
Unofficial CTV News Mirror@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · last wk.AI devices that see, listen and record: Are we ready for the post-smartphone world?
Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press. Journalists asked to write anti regulation articles after the Grenfell fire. Anything not for sale to super rich and corporations - political parties, press, think-tanks ... Who checks corruption?
Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press
Exclusive: Guardian investigation of CT Group uncovers practice that appears to seek hidden influence over public opinion
theguardian.com
Someone on here described him as Minister for Palantir relations and it was perfect.
James Walker@jameslwalker.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨EXCLUSIVE: Newly appointed Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has taken tens of thousands of pounds from donors with links to arms firms and controversial US tech firm Palantir, The National can reveal👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2640176...
Ooh I know this one. It's by BANNING THE PERVERT GLASSES
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoMeta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?
I would pay a monthly subscription fee for this kind of thing, give me the Meta glasses force field pls
Please Andy Burnham, Don't waste £264 billion on Unproven Carbon Capture technology. Invest a fraction of that money on planting street trees for shade, restoring wetlands, peat and bog, preserving ancient woodlands, adapting the UK to hot weather - all Proven Carbon Capture devices!
🌴@jewelthin.bsky.social · 3w agoHere's a way to save the economy £11billion a year
Left: Jacob Rees-Mogg criticises Andy Burnham, "The hope he changes stuff is not enough, you need substance, you need to explain explain what you're going to do" Right: Boris Johnson, "We didn't have a plan for what to do next, because we didn't think it was our job to have a plan"
Very sad to hear about the arrest of Andrew Tate. He has been charged with rape, human trafficking, controlling prostitution and actual bodily harm. I once described him as "an important voice for young men", which tells you all you need to know about my moral compass.
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
x.com
"Reform UK platformed and celebrated a woman who publicly called for hotels full of asylum seekers to be set on fire. Yet the moment Nigel Farage is on the receiving end of hostile language, we're suddenly told words matter after all." via Truth Against Hate
No longer a joke candidate, Count Binface offers a manifesto that delivers far more for Clacton than Farage ever has.
Just to recap: Calling Nigel Farage “an unflushable poo” = dehumanising hate speech. Calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire = guest of honour at party conference. Bless those non-racist free speech warriors.
Daily Mail@dailymail.co.uk · 3w agoReform's Lee Anderson demands public apology from LBC host James O'Brien over 'distressing' and 'dehumanising' attacks on leader Nigel Farage trib.al/X7mJFBt
If Farage lays a wreath and there are no TV cameras there to see him, would he bother laying the wreath at all?
Johnson, Gove and Hancock, with many others, should pay for this somehow. They need to appear in civil AND criminal courts. BBC News - PPE failures left NHS staff poorly protected and wasted £10bn, Covid inquiry finds www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PPE failures left NHS staff poorly protected and wasted billions, Covid inquiry finds
Healthcare staff were unable to properly protect themselves, or those in their care, from dangerous infections, says the latest inquiry report.
bbc.co.uk
Oh fuck off. Funding for everything is inadequate!! Schools, NHS, public transport, infrastructure investment, public sector pay, road maintenance, mental health provision, social care etc etc It’s all bloody inadequate thanks, in large part, to YOUR Brexit costing the country £100bn a year.
Farage refused taxpayer-funded security because it was ‘inadequate’
Reform UK decided to continue providing its own protection for Nigel Farage, rather than ‘gamble with his life’, a spokesperson said
independent.co.uk
This is beyond telling. Not only does Farage check whether all media are ready for him to lay the wreath. He also rubs his hands when he's done. Whoever released the full footage - thank you. It shows everyone who he really is.
Morning all, someone has done it at last 😹😹
Must be terrible when there's a violent mob surrounding you, eh Nigel?
