Thames Water has ripped us off for far too long. Sky high bills. Water shortages. Polluted rivers. Sewage in the sea. No more hesitation, no half measures - we need water in public hands now.

Laura Phillips@lauraphillips.bsky.social · 14h ago

‘Andy Burnham has shelved plans to put Thames Water into administration amid concerns about the cost and the legal risk involved, The Times has been told’1/

The ramping up of violence, which has long been seen, has to be a wake up call to UK and others that the dehumanisation of people seeking safety must end. People need to rebuild their lives without the threat of violent assaults against them by state authorities. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

French police accused of rising use of violence to stop Channel crossings

NGO criticises ‘human cost’ of UK-funded crackdown on attempts to set off from French beaches in small boats

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Andy Burnham cannot capitulate to Thames Water's US hedge fund creditors

🙄 Well, that pledge didn't last long... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Burnham backtracks on spending housing fund only on building social homes

About 40% of £10bn from Affordable Homes Programme will now go on types of housing such as sheltered and shared ownership

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Our local MP, Miatta Fahnbulleh, faces a choice: protect the planet and the people of Peckham or prioritise the profits of polluters. Help her make the right one. Tell her: No New Oil & Gas. Sign the petition 📝 www.southwarkgreenparty.org.uk/nonewoilandgas

This is such an early catastrophic failure of leadership from Andy Burnham. It makes it very clear that ultimately he isn't serving people in this country (or nature), he is serving private equity and the interests of the super rich. This is why we currently live in Rip Off Britain.

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 14h ago

Andy Burnham’s slippery approach to council housing (he isn’t shifting social housing spending to council after all) raises questions over what other campaign promises he will water down almost immediately (Thames Water feels like another) www.ft.com/content/ab1a...

❗️The climate damage from developing the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields could wipe out their economic benefits many times over, according to new analysis. The evidence is clear: we must #StopRosebank oil field. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows

Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK

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The football season is back in full swing! ⚽️ 🏟️ And we've got a starting line-up with no right wing problems! 💚

Well, there we have it. No ending rough sleeping in the UK then that's for sure.

Luke Piper@lukepiper.bsky.social · yesterday

In their policy they are expressly maintaining the status quo. www.gov.uk/government/p...

On the Arday is a ‘plagiarist/a fraud’. Just done a survey of the small percentage of questioned attribution around two of his 33 peer reviewed papers: over 99% remains intact and unchallenged. How can anyone be called a plagiarist or fraud in that basis?

A member of Parliament has said, those who travel to Russia to fight against Ukraine will faced serious consequences. But you can travel to Gaza and murder innocent women and children, fly back to England without so much as a debrief, and go back to work as a nursery school teacher or doctor.

“Don’t try and disguise your hatred as protecting young women" 👏🔥

Imagine a man driven to kill himself because the British media destroyed his reputation based on lies. And then imagine that, even after his death, that same media carry on tormenting his family with the same soul destroying lies. Incredible, isn’t it. But here we are

I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Today we remember the millions who were trafficked, tortured and enslaved. And we honour those who brought that system down. On this day in 1791, the enslaved people of Haiti rose up and lit the fire that would end an empire of bondage. Power concedes nothing without a demand.

There is currently an open-top bus of Arsenal fans riding through Brooklyn, celebrating either a 3-0 win over newly-promoted Coventry or a Premier League title that was secured 3 months ago.

The Telegraph are determined to make this a right vs left debate. It isn't. It's about who should own our press: a few billionaires, or a genuinely diverse range of organisations - including plenty who disagree with me? Actual media pluralism & a free press.

Brighton residents clearly oppose these toxic chemicals being spread on our streets, so why does it continue? Brighton and Hove Council should listen and reinstate the previous ban. www.theargus.co.uk/news/2646164...

Community groups opting out of controversial weedkiller use trebles

The number of community groups opting out of glyphosate weedkiller treatments in Brighton and Hove has more than trebled since last year

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Full nationalisation of water companies must be at the top of the government’s agenda to prevent catastrophic water shortages in the years ahead. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK government ‘irresponsible’ for not publishing emergency drought plans

Campaigners demand greater transparency into water companies’ plans not made public due to ‘security reasons’

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The Midlands is BURNING due to wildfires and still Burnham will not officially declare a #ClimateEmergency Our homes are literally burning down: how much more deadly does it need to get before Labour take meaningful action? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s due to climate’: the people of Stourbridge on the town’s wildfires

Thursday has been described by residents as ‘horrendous’, ‘distressing’ and ‘one of the scariest days of my life’

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The British press are trying to kill disabled people just like they killed Jason Arday

Zack Polanski has accused a national newspaper of antisemitism for an article that claimed many British Jews see him as a 'traitor to his origins'

Zack Polanski condemns 'antisemitic' story over 'traitor to Jewish origins' claim

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Two thirds of articles about the wildfires didn't mention climate change. Once again parts of our media are failing at the most basic part of their job - reporting the truth. uk.themedialeader.com/two-thirds-o...

Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven't mentioned climate change

Analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit adds to concerns that national newspapers are failing to link this summer's extreme weather to climate change and the net-zero policies necessary to mitigate its drastic effects.

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Zack Polanski demands "wildfire tax" on oil companies, as BP profits soar past £4bn www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/zac...

Zack Polanski demands 'wildfire tax' on oil companies, as BP profits soar past £4bn

Green Party leader Zack Polanski is of the view that, if we're all going to burn on this planet, those doing the damage should pay for it.

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Yes! Let’s keep drilling for more oil, creating wars to control resources, to create more opportunities to drill for oil. Because the 30+ temperatures we have experienced in GB for week, isn’t hot enough!

The same climate experts whose model overestimated the potential of geological carbon storage have repeatedly underestimated solar power — one of the energy technologies that would allow more oil to remain in the ground. ➡️ Read our full story w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social: https://propub.li/4gdTCBc

Cambridge leadership allowing the entity to be made a node in a transnational far right project that is working to strip non-white, non-cishet male, non-“Christian” people of their right to exist in the UK itself or in the civic space. The reputation you are working to defend is damaged by this.

The British Media Vs. Plagiarism

Weird. I thought the compassion and humanity displayed by Zack Polanski when condemning genocide embodied Jewish values. In standing in solidarity with the victims in Gaza he, and many other Jewish folk, are merely displaying the kindness and care for others required as a tenet of their faith.

The Economist@economist.com · last wk.

These days many British Jews see Zack Polanski as a traitor to his origins, not a disciple of Jewish ideas. Our profile explores how he has embraced the anti-Israel fervour that has swept the new left