Ellie Mae O'Hagan

Good question

Happy FISCAL EVENT eve

have the humility to know that your bizarre dislike of trans people has nothing to do with women's rights. You do not know what is best for women and it is patronising to think you do. Listening to a small group of women whose views differ from the majority of women does not excuse you

*leaps in* also, stop talking on behalf of women. I support trans rights and welcome trans women in women only spaces. You're not talking on behalf of women, you're talking on behalf of a small group of people who have made their obsession with trans people everyone else's problem

2. People who only use electric heating tend to have lower incomes.

3. Many people who have only electric heating pay the highest taxes on energy, which is regressive and hardly appropriate in a cost of living crisis!

Why do we want levies to be removed from electricity instead of cutting VAT from bills? Several reasons:

1. Cheap electricity is the key to incentivising people to use clean energy - from electric vehicles to heat pumps. Currently Britain has the highest electricity prices in Europe.

Rachel Reeves decides against cutting VAT on energy bills in Budget Chancellor expected to continue with support package for households, including easing of electricity costs

Curious story in the FT this afternoon. E3G has been arguing for some time that the Chancellor should cut electricity levies not VAT. We won't call this a win until we know what Rachel Reeves decides to cut instead of VAT - that's unclear right now www.ft.com/content/82f0...

"We need to transition to clean energy or society will collapse and this simple fact cannot be wished away"

Time series of annual-average mean temperature anomalies in Iran.

Tehran is on the brink of a severe water crisis.

Multiple factors have left the city unprepared for the current drought, including population growth, mismanagement, and sanctions, but a rapidly warming climate is only adding to their problems.

abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

wow that's fantastic, congratulations

yes I think so but it came back alarmingly quickly

Losing weight is hard and people who need to lose weight should have whatever help they can get. But I think we need to be honest that these drugs are widespread amongst certain people who don't need them and that is having a social and health consequences.

The sudden rise in ultra-thin celebrities coupled with aggressive pushing of weight loss drugs seems very dangerous. When I was 31 I lost 2 stone in 6 months due to illness and it can have an addictive quality. People were constantly telling me how fabulous I looked even though I was very ill.

I agree with Jameela Jamil that there has been a sharp increase in female celebrities looking skeletal, presumably because they had easy access to GLP-1s when they were already at a healthy weight.

Most people I know who have had success with GLP-1s use them as a catalyst to start broader lifestyle changes. Some cannot exercise and need help to lose weight first. So I think it's ok for their effects to be temporary. HOWEVER we need a conversation about the aggressive advertising of these drugs

he lost a knuckle during an altercation with the national front

My dad moved from Dublin to London as a teen. He met a bunch of Caribbean kids who introduced him to reggae and really spicy curries. And that's how I grew up with You Can Get it if You Really Want played to me on repeat in the car as a kid. My dad would laugh when I sang along. RIP Jimmy Cliff

Rachel Reeves warned against Budget decision that could cost 'decimate jobs' 300 businesses and organisations, including Bosch, Mitsubishi, EDF, the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, and Citizen's Advice raised concerns about the future of the industry

Plans to cut the warm homes budget will be really damaging to the economy www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Very good

Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer

I just need to tell you all that I went for a run and during a lull I started singing Craig David to motivate myself, only to realise a man was sitting in his car with the window open. He waved 💀

A House of Dynamite is a superb film, absolutely terrifying, unsparing and brilliantly acted. Bigelow deserves a best director nomination for it

The flood-prone Worcestershire town being abandoned by insurers One more deluge could bankrupt Tenbury Wells yet its application for flood defence funding has been rejected

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I like that one too, I always - perhaps controversially - preferred Louis MacNiece

Interesting choice of poem by TfL. This may be my favourite Auden though

Carbon emissions aside, I think what I also want to highlight here is that the scale of job losses associated with these proposals is truly shocking. Apprenticeships gone. Thousands of businesses going bust. A government truly motivated by growth simply would not do this.

you can reform how it's funded but you can't scrap the scheme i.e. halt funding and start again as supply chains and businesses that rely on the scheme will be scrapped

you can't just scrap a scheme that funds thousands of jobs and is responsible for lots of supply chains. It will collapse the industry, and then you'd have to start again. Much worse

the problem for the UK is the world has not given up. Much of the world is forging ahead with clean energy - we are digging our own grave

yes you would wouldn't you