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One other reason ‘over the counter’ flea treatments should be banned is they don’t work #R4today

Calls to ban ‘toxic’ pet flea treatments that harm UK wildlife and environment

Over-the-counter treatments for cats and dogs contain chemicals that are banned in pesticides and pollute waterways

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Presumably, as long as the autonomous drone software is programmed to differentiate between military & civilian, it would be safer than human operators? Said it before but there would be 100,000 Palestinians alive today if the IDF had been replaced by drones #R4today

Top 8 oil Companies amassed profits over $90bn in just 3 months thanks to soaring fuel & energy prices When are we going to wise up & tax the these companies & their environmentally destructive product out of existence? #R4today

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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Paul Murphy @paulmurphy.bsky.social · 12h ago

Early release of the two involved in PC Harper’s killing are serving time for manslaughter, not murder #R4Today Not sure therefore how the new life sentence for killing emergency personnel would have applied to these two anyway

I’m assuming Badenoch pictured in police uniform is intended to be satirical? Prison overcrowding AND a shortage of police resources being consequences of 14years of Tory stewardship of public services #R4today

Zoë @bogglekittenz.bsky.social · yesterday

Very upsetting to hear a former prison governor on #wato describing the plight of 1000s (!) of IPP prisoners languishing in jail for years on end for relatively minor crimes. Why not release them instead of more violent offenders who haven't yet completed rehabilitation programmes?

Good #wato interview with a former prison governor on the early release It highlights what an absolute mess our prison, probation & social services are in … & it all seems to be down to lack of funding

“Should we prepare for a world without chips” The BBC does the climate crisis !! #wato

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · yesterday

Nick Robinson keeps referring to the PC Harper “killers”. They were actually convicted of manslaughter & at 18yo classified as young offenders I’m not saying they shouldn’t be punished. But manslaughter is not murder & is treated very differently by our criminal justice system #R4today

BP to sell US biogas business as profits soar ft.trib.al/MHEiXM3

BP to sell US biogas business as profits soar

Chief executive says UK oil major has had several approaches for its North Sea assets

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Northern & proud 👊@gazlancs.bsky.social · yesterday

In the navy you can sail the seven seas!! 😝😝

BP selling off N.Sea assets should be seen in broader context of company also abandoning commitment to renewables & scrapping climate reporting, etc BP under new chief is chasing short term profits. That’s it! #R4today

BP board suffers triple climate rebellion from shareholders

More than 50% of voters at first AGM under new leadership oppose plans to scrap climate reporting

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Genuinely sympathise with victims families over early release of violent offenders. & not criticising but .. Why is is early release putting victims & public at greater risk than if serving a full sentence? There is no evidence to suggest rehabilitation correlates to sentence length #R4today

The growing racial abuse experienced by NHS staff: From “Black people frighten me” to “Coming over here & taking our jobs” Can’t ignore this is a direct consequence of the ‘stop the boats’ & being “driven mad” by “black faces on TV” hateful rhetoric peddled by politicians on the Right #R4today

NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients

Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff

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Farage admits intention to return as Reform UK leader months before 24election & accepting £5m ‘gift’ #R4today

Farage admission over timing of Reform leadership talks raises fresh doubts over £5m gift

Nigel Farage admits he discussed returning as Reform leader months before election, appearing to undermine previous claims

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d ago

This might be hard to get your head around: Bonehead … sorry, ‘Bonehill-Paine’, a convicted antisemitist & man behind Ai generated smear social media account is an executive member of the Tories Crewkerne Yokel … sorry Yeovil’ branch is allowed to stand as a Tory councillor ??!! #R4today

Man behind satirical Crewkerne Gazette AI videos was jailed in UK for hate crimes

Joshua Bonehill-Paine revealed as owner of X account known for videos depicting politicians such as Keir Starmer

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FT Exclusive: How has the Big Tech company assembled one of the largest funding models in history to sell AI chips? ft.trib.al/X2cMIvf

Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 2y ago

Some "have your cake and eat your cake" stuff here from Kemi Badenoch. She wants to be able to criticise the employer NI increase, but equally, not commit to reversing it if she were in power.

Badenoch refuses to commit to reversing employers' national insurance rise in budget

During the Q&A after her speech Kemi Badenoch would not commit to reversing the rise in employers’ national insurance in the budget.

Asked if she would give such a commitment, Badenoch said that, if a tax increase is not raising money, the Tories would reverse it. “One of the things that we’re going to have to do is rewire everything,” she said. But she said she would not “comment on every bit of micro-policy” now.

However, she did say the fact so many firms are complaining about the tax, and saying that it will make employing people on low wages unaffordable, meant that the government should “look again” at the plan. And that would be something the Tories would look at when they started work on their policy platform, she said.

Badenoch said at the CBI:

"Where we can see that a change that has been brought in in the budget ... will not raise any money, we will change that. What I’m not going to do is comment on every bit of micro-policy. There will be different budgets, there will be new things that occur, the system may change.

What I am starting with is principles, we believe that employer’s national insurance, while necessary to help us fund public services, is a tax on jobs.

The fact that so many organisations – especially those that have people who are on the lowest wages – are saying that this is becoming unaffordable means that we should look again, and that’s one of the first things that we’re going to be doing when we start our policy platform."

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d ago

The question in my mind is how out of touch with reality does someone need to be to buy such things during a climate emergency? How many Telegraph editorials add up to a downpayment on one of these contraptions? Or is it a giant Up-Yours to other people and the rest of the living world?

Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 2d ago

Surely a manual license is more popular because it’s more flexible? Not much cop in the world of electric vehicles #Wato

Hmmmm… Will RichardTice now be calling a by-election in his constituency so he can fight against a bin? 🤔

And now Amol is postulating new drilling licenses will bring down gas & energy prices when all the evidence suggests otherwise Someday #R4today will stop regurgitating everything they read in the Telegraph/Spectator

Love #R4today to have asked the ReformUK mouthpiece why they believe the Navy is required? When BorderForce, which is under direct ministerial HO control & already has coastal patrol boats, is apparently unable to stop the people smugglers?