Spewing hate makes money. It doesn't make you loved or respected, and nor does it add to the sum of human happiness. But it can make you hard cash and you can pop the kids through private school and drive an expensive car and live in a nice house. And frankly fuck anyone who is so shallow.

@tvpworld.bsky.social @garrykasparov.bsky.social Russian “empire is dying,” says Kasparov #UkraineWar #Russia #RussiaIsLosing very slowly... www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDDs... 8/3/26

Russian “empire is dying,” says Kasparov

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Tory councillors, know the cost of all, the value of nought. Utterly #unfittogovern Source: Bournemouth Echo share.google/gY6GP2ANoSGy...

New cycle lane added 16 cyclists on the route per day each costing £14

A CYCLE lane along Wimborne Road at Ferndown added 16 cyclists on the route per day, each costing £14, Dorset councillors have been told.

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Ask Yourself Bunky… Why No Legal Response To THIS?!?!👇🏽

And another one.

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New: A business that made a six-figure donation to Reform UK received interest-free loans of £67m from unnamed “related companies” in the months before, raising questions about the possible origin of the funds. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

These handles at his age are not normal 🤯 (via aj_lovetoball/IG) #NBA

Crumbling infrastructure & lack of water jeopardising govt plans for new homes. Privatisation of England's water prioritised shareholder returns. No new reservoirs, desalination plants, or national grid of water. Companies don't do national planning. Yet govts intoxicated with privatisation

‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk

Council leaders say crumbling infrastructure and lack of water are jeopardising government’s plans for new homes

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Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

Laughable. Nobody calls ev1 they disagree with "Far-Right". I call people far-right because their fantasy policy wishlist is almost indistinguishable from the National Front manifestos of the 80s. I'm not diverting away from anything. I'm saying it plainly. There is no 'debate' to any of it.

I can’t believe that Reform UK turned out to be financed by a bunch of money laundering fronts for Russia. It’s just so unexpected.

From populists on the right, but also from establishment figures desperate to bury their responsibility, there's an ongoing push to bury the harms of COVID. Long COVID alone costs 7M life-years (QALYs) and on the order of a trillion dollars a year in the OECD. www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issue...

And it doesn’t stop… Reform given six-figure donation by firm that received £67m loans from unnamed sources observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform given six-figure donation by firm that received £6...

Nigel Farage’s party is facing questions about the lack of transparency over £100,000 in funds donated by a management consultancy

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Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

My localised take on the heatwaves and the UK attribution study. " the death rate (per million population) was similar in the Midlands. With this region less frequently exposed to extreme heat, it suggests residents there are more vulnerable to the impacts.”"

Central Bylines@centralbylines.co.uk · 6d ago

The summer heatwave of 1976 broke temperature records but this year's heatwaves show that human-induced global warming is to blame | Simon Ferrigno

He's at -32 now, down 10 points in two weeks. And the number actually worrying Reform isn't how many people dislike him, it's how many used to like him and don't anymore.

OTD in 1990, Conservative MP Ian Gow was killed by an IRA car bomb at his constituency home just outside Eastbourne. If you want to know quite what an important role he played in Margaret Thatcher's first term as PM, read on....

Eyes and ears, and potentially so much more: the role of parliamentary private secretary to the prime minister—a case study

Abstract. Both advocates and critics of the ‘presidentialization’ thesis agree that the British Prime Minister’s power depends on the effective use of the

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Share if you agree that the Open University should work to improve public knowledge - not undermine it by funding misinformation and hate. actionstorm.org/petitions/op...

The richest 0.0005% of people in the UK own 25% of everything. An increase from 5% just 20 years ago. These billionaires pay almost no tax. This is the Welfare that is unaffordable.

Another effect of the normalization of right-wing threats and violence. WHY are Twitter, Musk, etc allowed to push threatening, racist, violence-provoking propaganda? The lack of official response normalizes it. The govt still posts there as if it's OK! www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

UK journalists ‘self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’

Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’

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I regret to inform you that we have reached the “Broadmoor is a holiday camp” stage of right-wing discourse.

How about politicians, Nigel? Do you think that MPs and party leaders who consort with and promote rapists and paedophiles should also be jailed ... meme via The Raging Left

New data suggests 75 per cent of bets on Clacton election back Binface

New data suggests 75 per cent of bets on Clacton election back Binface

Clacton by-election punters are overwhelmingly backing Count Binface to cause a shock upset, despite Reform UK remaining clear favourites.

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A very good point as usual from @jamesbowes01.bsky.social The main objective of Mahmood's proposals was always to kick out care workers (as she has more or less said). That was always an economically, politically and morally bankrupt policy. Without it, the whole package falls apart.

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Andy Burnham has said that reforming the care system is a priority for him. He's long called for a National Care Service. Here's why we need one - and why delivering on that promise might be the test of his premiership. (Pls subscribe - it's free) open.substack.com/pub/nicolake...

Who cares? Hopefully Burnham does

On the National Care Service and why we desperately need it

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The EU has fined Chinese online retail giant AliExpress €550 million for failing to prevent illegal and harmful products being sold to European consumers on its platform. It's a good example of how the Digital Services Act is now being used. www.politico.eu/article/eu-h...

EU hits China’s Alibaba with €550M record fine over illegal products

“There were a lot of counterfeit products, unsafe toys and dangerous cosmetics” on AliExpress, Europe’s tech chief says.

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The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.

🇺🇦 Syrskyi: During June, unmanned aviation complexes performed more than 437 thousand combat missions. More than 200 thousand verified enemy targets were hit. In June, almost 28 thousand Russian occupiers were hit with the help of unmanned systems. 1/3

Govt says England water companies flouting environmental rules face fines of up to £500,000. It is propaganda. Why a cap? Fines are proposed, maybe deferred/waived. Some sewage dumping permitted. Company licence to operate not cancelled for illegal conduct No fines on execs for illegal conduct.

New penalties introduced in crackdown on water companies

Half a million-pound financial penalties introduced in latest crackdown on polluting water companies

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