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Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Historically, one interesting aspect of how incoming fascist governments have consolidated their position is the extent to which their predecessors have helpfully laid the table for them.

Dieselgate pollution killed 16,000 people in UK, study estimates Experts decry lack of UK government action and warn a further 6,000 early deaths could occur

Corporations killing us for profit.

Excess pollution emitted as a result of the Dieselgate scandal killed 16,000 people in the UK. Vehicle pollution tests were rigged.

124,000 early deaths in UK+EU. Economic damage of €760bn (£637bn). Rise in asthma.

Anyone prosecuted for manslaughter?

Nice and blunt, and also absolutely true.

NPR published a story 5 days ago about three high ranking Trump officials with clear ties to Hitler-admiring antisemites and it barely made a ripple. These are the kind of stories that used to end political careers. Now the subjects of the stories just hold up a middle finger and keep plowing ahead.

Turns out yet again that the dirty hippies were exactly correct and the Sensible politics understanders were wildly wrong once more. And yet it seems like none of the latter group have ever been wrong about anything at any point. What are we to make of it?

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

❓How do you get Steve Reed the Environment Secretary to listen to your concerns about the private water industry?

❗⚽Meet him on his home turf.⚽❗

Lois is inviting Steve Reed to the football - fat cat water bosses can do it, so why shouldn't she?

#Loisatthepalace

Do you notice how this is *exactly* what all those protestors said was happening, and that this was not explained to the public, who were instead hit with a year of screaming all-channels terror about threatening, violent thugs on the rampage because of their racist extremism?

Trump just claimed ‘Hamas is taking all of the food that they’re sending into Gaza’ — an egregious lie, as no food or aid has entered Gaza in over two months. He is barefaced lying to every US citizen about starving millions of people to death. If this is your guy, you are scum.

The top 5 reasons people didn't vote Labour.

Immigration isn't any of them.

1/12
Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today

It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town

However it’s a bit odd

By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously 🧵🧵

If “influencing” means unpaid oversharing then I’m a social media influencer.

Attending a conference where researchers in my field (studying online misinformation and manipulation) are commiserating over all of our canceled grants, all in service of this: so this man and his regime of propagandists and conspiracy theorists can dictate (un)reality without challenge.

They created a war footing against plant based foods.

I think the key thing to note here is: who automatically gets a hearing? What type of person can basically walk onto BBC News aged 22 because they have something they want to say, if they decide to do that? And who doesn’t get this, and instead gets quite startling levels of hostility.

I wish more people understood this:

PM: I'll only sign US tariffs deal if it suits UK The UK hopes to limit the impact of President Trump's tariffs in an economic agreement with the US.

Starmer: I'll only sign US tariffs deal if it suits UK.

It will be a terrible deal. NHS will vanish. Expensive branded drugs instead of generic drugs. Hormone injected beef, chlorinated chicken, becoming the 51st state.

Far better to join the EU.

Blackrock has just bought 3 British Freeports, Felixstowe, Thamesport, and Harwich for $22 billion in a deal via Hong Kong pushed by Donald Trump.
Did you hear about this in the MSM?

We're not children begging for pocket money from mummies and daddies.

We're members of a society demanding the government hold up their end of the social contract.

End billionaires. Tax wealth. Take care of eachother.

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

It is costing you £20bn a year NOT to nationalise the water companies, and it is going to go up nearly 10% EVERY YEAR.

All that money is stolen out of the UK to foreign tax havens.

This is the cost that you cannot afford.

Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’

Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Imagine my shock.

There is no evidence to support today’s benefits cuts As The Guardian notes in an email news alert this morning: Keir Starmer will unveil drastic cuts to disability benefits on Tuesday, despite deep opposition from Labour MPs and poverty campaigners, and...

The government is going to slash benefits for some of the most vulnerable people today - and no impact assessment is going to be published to explain why or what the reason is. I hope someone challenges this by judicial review. I'll chip in towards the costs. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...

Excellent hippo action here

I said a while back that some people in the Labour Party had got addicted to the rush of doing shocking things and making breaks with the socialist past. Looks like they're at the "shooting up into your eyeballs in a toilet" stage.

Disabled people are not a burden. They are our neighbours and friends — and they deserve to live fulfilling lives just like anyone else.

A statement from the Independent Alliance on cuts to welfare.

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...

This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...