Rob Massam 🔸
@rmassam.bsky.social
Former Export Sales now retired. LibDems supporter actively engaged in UK issues and challenges. #FBPE Tactical voter in 2024; actively campaigning for return to EU located in the UK of course
Meet the Press: “Is a vote for a Republican candidate a vote for the Trump agenda?" Senator Tim Scott: "There's no doubt that President Trump has said himself that the midterm election is about him…His agenda, without any question, is on the ballot."
The protests need to continue to reverse the Public Order Bill forced through by Johnson & Patel. This is not Labours fault, it’s ours for not protecting our rights. www.bond.org.uk/press-releas...
Boris Johnson forces through anti-protest curbs in Queen’s Speech – Bond, the UK network of NGOs, reacts | Bond
In the Queen’s Speech today (10 May), Boris Johnson’s government forced through new police powers to prevent disruptive yet peaceful protests as one of
bond.org.uk
Being arrested by cunts like the met and going to prison are two different things entirely. I got arrested by the met in Brixton during the 1973 trouserpress riots but only received community service lift fondling weekend retreats. BTW the Scottish police don't arrest PA protesters, just the met.
England is on the wrong side of history. With genocide, racism, misogyny, climate collapse and how it treats neighbouring countries. I don't believe in karma, but drought is a great levelling device on a warming planet.
Peaceful protest leads to terrorism charges speaks for itself, it's truly insane. How many arrests have we seen during the same timespan with regards to those using intimidation, anonymity, and organised aggression relating to race and immigration? (I'm genuinely curious). Human solidarity, nah...
Soon be time for 're-education' camps? Looks like Labour is in power for a short time and they'll wreck as much as they can.
Protest, protected by international human rights laws, gives ordinary citizens the opportunity to speak truth to power. The right to protest is under attack in the United Kingdom, and attacked or denied elsewhere. www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-d...
Protest is an invaluable way to speak truth to power.
Our right to protest is under attack, threatened by those in power who are scared of the change people can bring.
amnesty.org
One of those arrested today is 94 year old human rights lawyer Margaret Owen OBE, who was also arrested last month outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. Stand against the Trumpian ban: www.wedonotcomply.org
Lift The Ban - Defend Our Juries
Following intensive lobbying by representatives of the Israeli government and the arms industry such as Lord Walney, dishonestly presented to the public as ‘independent advisers’, domestic direct action group Palestine Action have been branded as a ‘terrorist organisation’, for trying to stop crimes against humanity and for exposing the British government’s complicity in genocide.
wedonotcomply.org
This is obscene. They arrested 94 yo Margaret Owen again and they have now arrested over 4,000 Brits. This is a Starmer policy that Burnham is maintaining.
Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: OVER 4,000 TOTAL TERRORISM ARRESTS AS 94 YEAR OLD MARGARET OWEN ARRESTED AGAIN Today's arrests outside the US Embassy in London bring the total number of arrests under the Terrorism Act in the UK for defying the ban on Palestine Action to over 4,000.
Do you think one day children will be taught in schools about Project 2025 in the same way they learn now about Mein Kampf?
I honestly don't know how there is a politics that hears the question "slight inconvenience to motorists for short sections of the road or double the serious injuries of one type of road user" and goes "yeah we'll take the serious injuries". road.cc/news/serious...
Serious cyclist injuries down 50% and overall road casualties continue to fall since 20mph limit introduced in Wales
The number of serious collisions involving cyclists and pedestrians continues to fall in Wales, three years on from the introduction of a ‘default’ 20mph speed limit on most roads.In September 2023, a...
road.cc
Apparently, there's no money for American families, but an endless ATM for billionaire PEDOs & his illegal war in Iran. Working families foot the bill. Billionaires get the breaks. And the bombs keep dropping. What a FKING racket. Rinse & repeat. 🤬🖕🇨🇦
Feels like this clip of Trump saying 🇺🇸 can’t fund daycare or health care because we have to only pay for (pointless) wars — and states should raise their taxes instead — is getting memory-holed👇🏽🤔 @TheDemocrats
BREAKING: Mike Johnson is reportedly worried that, if Democrats release all the Epstein Files in January, the only thing history will remember him for as America's 56th Speaker of the House is protecting pedophile billionaires from justice for three years.
So gas indirectly affects forward prices, through underdelivery risk. Because future trades are done months ahead of real time, this effect is entirely independent of how much renewable generation is available on a given day. And nothing to do with the day ahead price.
Traders set their futures prices by hedging for under delivery. If a seller underdelivers, they are exposed to the imbalance price. Imbalance prices in short markets are determined by the marginal upwardly flexible plant which is usually gas fired.
Yes, gas price increases arr the biggest driver of UK electricity bills. But I do wish people would stop blathering about "setting the power price". There is no single power price in the UK. Over 70% of electricity in UK is traded in the futures markets.
Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · yesterdayGas, not renewables, is the biggest driver of UK electricity bills. Pricier gas explains nearly 90% of the rise in household bills since 2020. Gas plants still set the power price most of the time. Cutting gas is the surest way to cut bills. janrosenow.substack.com/p/realism-ne...
trump and Netanyahu trying their best to use war to save themselves and their fellow oligarchs. They don’t give a crap about the innocent people they harm.
Trump aide accidentally revives president's sex abuse verdict as his attack backfires - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/steven-cheun...
Trump aide accidentally revives president's sex abuse verdict as his attack backfires
White House communications director Steven Cheung tried to discredit a New York Times reporter over the weekend by resurfacing old misconduct allegations against him. Critics quickly turned the attack...
rawstory.com
“Some of the firms have scrubbed their websites of their storied histories working on voting rights cases. At one firm that made a deal with Trump, several lawyers are quietly volunteering to help voting rights causes, hoping that their bosses do not find out.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/31/u...
Geoffrey Howe's famous resignation statement sparked the 1990 Conservative leadership contest that ended Thatcher’s premiership @politics.co.uk's History Hub traces the events that led to Thatcher’s downfall as prime minister 👉 politics.co.uk/history/
Josh Self@josh.politics.co.uk · yesterday#Onthisday 1990. Geoffrey Howe resigns from Thatcher cabinet over Europe www.politics.co.uk/history/geof...
@bbcstever.bsky.social: “There are political repressions taking place. Now they’ve reached us.” Journalist and Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov tells me how the Russian authorities have “strangled” Russia’s most prominent independent newspaper. Novaya Gazeta is closing down. #ReadingRussia
video.twimg.com
