Badenoch's two biggest flaws are that she's nowhere near as smart as she thinks she is and is incapable of admitting error. Both well illustrated by this fiasco.

Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 8h ago

Joshua Bonehill-Paine steps back from being a Conservative council candidate following backlash

People are fed up with privatised water companies letting us down and ripping us off. We deserve a real conversation about public ownership. Can you help build pressure by asking your MP to attend this crucial debate on water ownership? actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

Ask your MP to attend the water debate

People are fed up with privatised water companies letting us down and ripping us off. We deserve a real conversation about public ownership. Can you help build pressure by asking your MP to attend th...

actionnetwork.org

This is pure extraction of wealth from one group of people to another We urgently need: Windfall tax on oil giants Windfall tax on banks Both are creaming money off us during a cost of living crisis Even Thatcher had the balls to tax the banks Will you @andyburnham?

Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage

Live small. Downsize now, while you can!* * Applies at all times, to all ages

Today over 3500 GPs will have qualified to join the workforce There is a huge problem, there aren’t enough jobs, the DHSC & NHSE are failing to fix GP employment They have cut GP practice funding by 20% in 10yrs @andyburnham.bsky.social @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social your issue to fix now

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

theguardian.com

👉NEW -- UK charities face inquiry over Israeli settlement funding by Martin Williams Charity Commission announcement follows Declassified’s investigation into donations to illegal settlers www.declassifieduk.org/uk-charities...

UK charities face inquiry over Israeli settlement funding

Charity Commission announcement follows Declassified’s investigation into donations to illegal settlers

declassifieduk.org

That Joshua Bonehill-Paine is a suitable Tory candidate but Grant Shapps and Gavin Barwell have been excluded is quite a good indicator of how many seats the Tories will realistically regain at the next election.

So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.

The same people who have been telling us "we can't stop climate change, instead we must adapt" have been hammering our capacity to adapt, through their promotion of austerity. What they're really saying is "keep burning fossil fuels for the sake of our donors". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone. The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties. ...summer was an immaterial treasure and joy that belonged to all of us."

My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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Dear people of Clacton, considering the poverty in your area, considering Nigel Farage has done absolutely fuck all to help you, considering you have better alternatives to change your town, if 73% of you choose for more of the same with a proven liar, you deserve all you get. Washes hands...

Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 2d ago

Clacton By-Election Voting Intention: ➡️ RFM: 73% (+27) 🗑️ CBF: 20% (New) 🟥 REC: 2% (New) ⚫ Others: 5% (-49) Via @survation.bsky.social, 16-24 Jul. Changes w/ GE2024.

Oh and in case you are wondering what happened to the State run Children's Homes, Margaret Thatcher had them shutdown and sold the children like they were State Assets to Private Providers and forced Councils to recognise the deals.

£324,233 the average amount Councils have to pay for every one of the more than 50,000 children in private care. £80,000 the amount of profit they take per child which is never spent on anything. This con is one of the reasons Council have no money.

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

They are radicalising people into extremism.

AMAZING MOMENT A woman came back still wearing a custody tshirt having been released for a terrorism arrest. While being arrested for declaring support for Palestine Action a second time, another woman came back to do the same. The opposition to this ban cannot be contained.

Campaigners against Genocide jailed while real criminals are released early. Welcome to Andy Burnham’s Starmer continuation UK. #VoteGreen

What I really want to hear Burnham say is that awful, evil politicians have been fearmongering and weaponising the whole issue of immigration, in a way that causes everyone harm. He doesn’t even need to mention that Starmer was one of them.

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

vox.com

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

theguardian.com

Uefa pushing for the letters of support for Infantino to be withdrawn Vote of no confidence expected www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

Gianni Infantino’s demise isn’t enough – Fifa must fundamentally change

Infantino’s fall after his scandalous World Cup sell-off plan is being compared to that of Margaret Thatcher, writes Miguel Delaney, but football needs to think much bigger than just getting rid of on...

independent.co.uk

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

WHY IS EVERY FUCKING GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD NOT HELPING THESE PEOPLE? WHY ARE WE LETTING ISRAEL DO THIS?????????????? FOR FUCK SAKE! @andyburnham.bsky.social

UEFA is planning to trigger a No Confidence vote in Gianni Infantino if he doesn't resign. It's time for corrupt Infantino to go, and he needs to be properly investigated too.

It's looking like Gianni Infantino could get the boot from FIFA and be the first ever FIFA President to be fired. Too corrupt for FIFA, is something he will never live down.

Gianni Infantino has been forced to cancel his plan to sell football. He must now be replaced and be investigated for corruption.

Gianni infantino abandons plans to sell World Cup to private equity and Kushner/Trump family after massive pushback. The plan would have increased his pay packet from £4.5m to £47m. Such people can't protect the game or supporters. Sack the FIFA board.

Infantino abandons plans to sell World Cup profits to private equity following massive pushback

FIFA President Gianni Infantino is abandoning his divisive plan to sell World Cup profits to private equity after receiving pushback from all corners of the soccer world

independent.co.uk