Drax power plant to go on earning ‘over £1m a day’ from burning wood pellets Analysts say Britain’s biggest power plant in line to earn £458.6m a year under new government subsidy contract

Corporate Welfare
Drax receives subsidies for burning wood to produce electricity. £869m last year. £458.6m a year for 2027-2031. UK Govt not taken equity stake.

In 2024, paid £97m dividend, £300m share buyback

Drax electricity is the most expensive. It is the biggest single UK carbon emitter.

'Five ways to bring rail fares down with public ownership' - LabourList This Labour government cannot afford to be unambitious about our railway and risk the flagship policy of public ownership.

Great British Railways legislation out today! 🎉🚄

Here are 5 ways the government can use public ownership to bring down our extortionate rail fares 🔽

labourlist.org/2025/08/publ...

‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache.

But silence on its own role in economic crisis.
Short-termism and lack of investment
Endless financial scandals
Pushed for privatization.
Urged deal wage/benefit cuts
Opposes redistribution of income and wealth
Unchecked fat-cattery

Why the banking industry is not a paragon of free markets, efficiency, or honesty Despite making record profits and paying record returns to shareholders it resents paying taxes.

State support for UK banks

Bailouts: Govts found £1162bn (£133bn cash+£1,029bn guarantees) in 2008
£895bn QE
State is the lender of last resort
£85k bank deposit safety guarantee
PFI profits
£22bn a year interest on reserves deposited with Bank of England

Who else gets this level of state support?

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...

The United Kingdom remains a steadfast supporter of the International Court of Justice: UK statement at the UN General Assembly Statement by Sally Langrish, UK Legal Adviser at the UN General Assembly Report of the International Court of Justice

Yesterday the UK told the UN it remains a "steadfast supporter" of the ICJ.

In fact the UK has refused to respond to the ICJ's opinion, delivered 15 months ago, calling on states to stop aiding Israel’s illegal occupation.

www.gov.uk/government/s...

Donald Trump has cancelled the $35 a month Insulin cap.

Prices are expected to almost instantly go back to $1500 a month.

Insulin costs $2 to make.

Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison

🔴Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel

Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s advisor pushed for contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison

Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit.

British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit.

Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit.

It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.

UK defence chiefs made 12 trips to Israel during Gaza war Arms control expert calls the scale of visits “a moral failing of massive proportions”.

👉NEW -- UK defence chiefs made 12 trips to Israel during Gaza war

by @iainoverton.bsky.social

Arms control expert calls the scale of visits “a moral failing of massive proportions”.
www.declassifieduk.org/uk-defence-c...

Abstain when you are in power.

What kind of a joke is this?

Images of creative Dutch biking infrastructure

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'

We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.

Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.

Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky

Ask your MP to help stop companies suing over climate action A fossil fuel firm is suing the UK for halting a controversial coal mine, using a secretive corporate court. We’ve been calling on the government to scrap these Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS...

The UK is being sued for stopping a coal mine. Ask your MP to help stop the fossil fuel industry’s secret weapon: act.globaljustice.org.uk/stop-fossil-...

Watch Jared Kushner's face when idiot Witkoff blurts out that they have been working on the plan for Gaza for 2 years.

They scream the quiet parts out loud these days, because they believe they are untouchable.

Rail station car parking: it seems that either Network Rail, or the regulator, has rules against reducing private car parking spaces at rail stations. In Oxford, we have a half-empty car park on prime real estate. We'd like to use it for other things. See below campaign. (1/2)

archive.ph/RKXqW

Greens policies hold grave dangers and must be taken seriously.

Another day. Another clutching of pearls hit piece.

Today courtesy of the Times. I'm not sure if the Daily Mail or the Express are on the rota tomorrow?

You know what to do:

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Nigel Farage wants to get rid of the NHS and replace it with US Insurance which would be 4x more expensive and worse in every way.

Except for the £600bn a year profit for him and his mates.

Campaigners outside Thames Water HQ demanding they say no to Thames Water’s proposal to be allowed to dump sewage for the next 15 years.

“Head of OFWAT hear us say, Thames Water NO way!”

OFWAT is considering allowing Thames Water to break the rules and dump sewage in our rivers and seas for the next 15 years.

We are outside OFWAT HQ to demand they say NO!

From European Powel, seems Labour & Blackrock are now managing the UK, Blackrock are not a Political Party, so this means, UK is Sold to the Highest Bidders. t.co/vb3b8peVth

In 2 days Ofwat, the water regulator, will decide if they will approve Thames Water's plan to:
💩set their own rules on performance
💩operate outside the law for 15 years
💩cut back on agreed investment levels
🤑protect investor profits

The goal of good infrastructure is freedom from fear. At 6 months pregnant, my wife can ride because this physically separated path eliminates the threat of motorists.

​This is what women in advocacy fight for, not just paint, but genuinely safe, forgiving spaces that enable true mobility choice.

Israel murdered 44 people in Gaza today because one of Israel's bulldozers hit unexploded ordinance and blew up.

So they blamed Hamas and used it as an excuse to go on a killing spree.

Now they say they will go back to the Ceasefire.

War Criminals committing War Crimes.

The two Israelis killed today were killed when their bulldozer hit an unexploded bomb, which had been dropped by Israel.

The only side that killed, 44 people today, was Israel.

Please RT to get the message out, over all of the lies.

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

Labour on form I see. 2.7 million people sign a petition saying "do not introduce digital ID" and the first words of their response are "We will introduce digital ID within this Parliament". Labour aren't listening. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Make polluters pay for poisoning our children 10 years ago it was revealed that many diesel cars were being fitted with illegal technology that means they emit levels of toxic gases (NOx) exceeding testing and legal limits. These emissions poison...

10 years on from the Dieselgate scandal, justice still hasn’t been served in the UK. While other countries made carmakers pay, ours let them off the hook. Sign the petition now and demand accountability now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ma...

There is a myth that rich people can't be taxed.

But let me make it very clear.

ALL their money comes from you, mostly in bills you are forced to pay.

The Government can slow or stop that completely at any time it likes.

Montréal goes Dutch! 😍

The design of their new instersections improve pedestrian and cyclist safety through a configuration that includes protective islands between cyclists and vehicles.

📸 Patrick Murphy (Oh the Urbanity!)

Watch the full video: buff.ly/ZPRffbr

People say to me you always blame billionaires for everything.

Who owns the Housing?
Who owns the Energy?
Who owns the Supermarkets?
Who owns the Healthcare?
Who owns the fucking Government?

They are responsible for everything.