Looking out to sea.
@wildwildwind.bsky.social
Not sure anymore! But, Green don't cut the ice - laudable as they are! If you have a cat or cartoon/animation as an avatar - it's unlikely you'll be taken seriously!
"None of England’s fire and rescue services are thought to have direct access to firefighting aircraft." It's outrageous. Make the fossil fuel companies pay. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Fossil fuel producers should pay for wildfire helicopters, Zack Polanski says
Next week is the anniversary of the start of the Langdale Moor Fire in North Yorkshire, the largest wildfire in the country last year.
yorkshirepost.co.uk
El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
Or to join Reform, like the rest of the Tory looney right.
Zack Polanksi, "We need to look at the £2.7 billion in tax breaks that is given to fossil fuel companies, that should go into jobs in renewables, in nature, in care"
Trump is rolling out yet another key plank of Project 2025: privatizing airport security. History has shown us time and again this makes both workers and passengers less safe. Everything is for sale under Trump.
TSA Privatization Returns Airport Security to a Dangerous Past - The American Prospect
The Trump administration wants airport screening to revert to the way it was before 9/11, when private security companie
prospect.org
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election. Convictions for assaulting police officer, burglary of a police station, malicious communications, anti-semitism, racially aggravated harassment, harrasing MPs. Tories chasing Reform vote.
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
theguardian.com
I hope your day starts this serenely: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
‘Trump doesn’t know how to get out’ of Middle East war says former adviser www.channel4.com/news?post_ty...
Channel 4 News
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These signs should be on every hiking trail in Oregon and across the US .
How the hell have journalists allowed Farage and Yusuf to pretend that their Royal Navy idea is a ‘humanitarian’ mission if ‘innocent’ immigrants are taken back to France, but a full-scale war-like ‘invasion’ of ‘illegals’ if coming our way? I mean, seriously. Please don’t be this hopeless…
And 25% of voters would put these ridiculous moneyed fools in charge of the govt and treasury, would they? How many investigations into Reform’s dodgy finances are there now? I’ve lost count. And no, it’s not an ‘establishment’ plot. It’s just what happens when corruption/incompetence meets scrutiny
Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · 3d agoBREAKING: Parliamentary standards commissioner is now investigating Reform UK’s Deputy Leader Richard Tice (as well as its paused investigation into Nigel Farage). Tice is being investigated for allegedly failing to declare a financial interest.
So Farage and Tice I'm so surprised. But don't forget also: Robert Jenrick who is under a formal Met Police investigation regarding an alleged illegal donation....
AstraZeneca in talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on $400bn (£300bn) merger. Concentration of economic power. Bigger ability to hold people/govts to ransom. AstraZeneca CEO already threatened to withhold drugs from NHS unless it paid more. Govt capitulated. Promised UK investment didn't materialise.
AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on $400bn merger
Tie-up would be one of the biggest-ever pharmaceutical deals and create the world’s fourth-largest drugmaker
theguardian.com
The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK. Funded by foreign billionaires and convicted fraudsters. Unexplained gifts, donations and loans routed through opaque structures. What was promised in return? Police and parliamentary inquiries.
The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK
Nigel Farage’s £5m gift, the Cottrell family’s links and donations, and Richard Tice’s business dealings form part of an increasingly clear nexus of relationships
theguardian.com
@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social new figures showed the Treasury has made almost £2bn from George Osborne's Help to Buy scheme, The Times has reported. Do you think some of that should be paid in compensation to those miss-sold govmt-backed shared-equity leasehold flats?
Fifa scraps proposal to sell off stakes in World Cup after widespread backlash
Fifa scraps proposal to sell off stakes in World Cup after widespread backlash
* Gianni Infantino issues statement on controversial plan * ‘This proposal will not proceed,’ confirms Fifa president Fifa president Gianni Infantino has said world football’s governing body has scrapped plans to sell a stake in the World Cup to private investors after widespread backlash. “Having listened carefully to all the views, it has become clear that the project has created divisions of a nature that, regardless of the level of support, are no longer in the interest of the objective set out in the first place,” Infantino said. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
Breaking News: Prosecutors are dropping charges against an Olympian accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, saying damage was due to “botched” renovations.
Charges to Be Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool
President Trump had repeatedly accused vandals of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. On Friday, federal prosecutors acknowledged it was “the result of flawed installation.”
nyti.ms
Labour wins decisive victory in Greater Manchester mayoral byelection
Labour wins decisive victory in Greater Manchester mayoral byelection
Bev Craig, the city council leader, succeeds Andy Burnham as mayor, reversing Reform gains in May local elections Labour has stormed to a decisive victory in the Greater Manchester mayoral byelection, seizing back areas that recently fell to Reform UK and the Greens. Labour’s Bev Craig, the Manchester city council leader, will now succeed Andy Burnham and hold one of the most powerful political positions outside Westminster. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers
‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers
Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable
theguardian.com
The Addison Act, which marked the birth of modern council housing in the UK, received Royal Assent 107 yrs ago today. Last year, we delivered the highest number of council homes in over 30 yrs. Under @andyburnham.bsky.social we're going to go further to deliver a new era of council housebuilding.
International pressure rises against Fifa President Gianni Infantino’s World Cup plan www.channel4.com/news/interna...
International pressure rises against Fifa President Gianni Infantino’s World Cup plan
Gianni Infantino, the boss of world football's governing body Fifa, is coming under increasing pressure after the North American and Asian confederations both joined UEFA's revolt against his plan to ...
channel4.com
Jenrick jumps at another opportunity to make a fool of himself. And Reform sinks further into unserious, unprincipled unelectable territory. A corrupt clownshow, desperate to peddle anger rather than hope. @mrjohncrace.bsky.social sighs deeply at their inanity. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
So. They pay- they get a service. We pay, we don’t get a service. We shouldn’t pay.
Them and us - as lawns die to brown dirt patches, private schools and golf courses keep theirs a lush green thanks to exemptions bit.ly/4w4uovg
‘It’s alright for them’: private schools and golf courses stay green despite England’s hosepipe bans
As parks turn brown and paddling pools go unfilled, exemptions mean sports pitches can stay lush – even in school holidays
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Reform council to rip apart ancient 12 hectre forest www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s irreplaceable’: Fury over Reform plans to expand quarry in ancient Kent woodland
Forty hectares of Oaken Wood could be razed after it was identified as potential site of expansion by Reform-run council
theguardian.com
"Reform were always using this as a political football for their own cynical purposes to distract from questions about their own dodgy donations.”
Greens say Reform used Polanski guillotine repost to ‘distract from dodgy donations’
The Greens have accused Reform UK of using the controversy as a "political football for their own cynical purposes."
thelondoneconomic.com
