First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
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Wow. Josh Simons has resigned as govt minister
Follows weeks of reporting by Democracy for Sale and others about how he paid PR firm to smear journalists investigating Labour Together
Huge thanks to all our supporters. Couldn’t have done it without you
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By refusing to condemn the illegal attacks on Iran, Trump's British lapdog makes it clear that he supports a world where anything goes, where might is right, and wherein fascists and warmongers can do whatever they want
Sickening, but no surprise
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The tragic awfulness of this government is that it has extended a factional war against the left of the Labour Party into a war against almost all the good things we might have expected of it. It cannot respond to the crisis it faces, because its hatred of the Labour left is definitional.
28.02.2026 17:25 — 👍 1022 🔁 189 💬 30 📌 8
Facile, desultory, puerile and banal. Or, as the BBC and Laura Kuenssberg would have it: 'In Depth'.
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Cover of The Lancet, 28 February 2026 issue. The quote: “The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.”
On the cover of The Lancet:
Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure”
Read the latest issue: spkl.io/63327Aa31W
‘Challenging right wing narratives’, you say?
26.02.2026 16:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If there was ever an example of the redundant nature of this so-called ‘Union of equals’, it is Scotland's energy sector.
It’s Scotland’s energy. Let’s make it work for Scotland as an independent nation.
Opaque shell companies in British Overseas Territories used for $8bn trade to bust sanctions against Russia.
BVI, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar are key nodes, as in illicit financial flows.
Banks, accountants, lawyers involved.
UK govts pretend not to know.
Re-peopling the glens with woodland crofts rather than subsidy fuelled hill sheep or ecocidal grouse shooting.
Eco-village with crofts and affordable homes planned at loch www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Again, #Bodø/Glimt show #Celtic fans what they could have had: a well-run club with a coherent strategy, punching above their weight in Europe, unshackled by an old, unimaginative, complacent and hopelessly conservative executive. #SackTheBoard
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We can’t accept demands to tactically vote for Labour when Labour alone have the power to change the voting system and end tactical voting for good -and they still choose not to.
That’s not a tactical choice, it’s extortion!
Hundreds of Londoners can breathe easier tonight after a company controlled by billionaire landlord Asif Aziz halts plan for one of the largest mass evictions in the UK capital’s history.
24.02.2026 12:23 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Yorkshire Water fined £733,333 for dumping sewage in a Chesterfield country park stream.
Events go back to 2018-2019. Why 8 year wait?
Company has 125+ criminal convictions.
No exec ever fined/prosecuted.
Fines announced in 2024 were later waived. The same likely again
Just when I thought #Scotland might have a soupçon of a scintilla of a glimmer of a chance against #Ireland in three weeks' time...😅
#6Nations #SixNations #M6N #ENGvIRE
🚨 Cabinet Office investigating Labour Together and Josh Simons over campaign to smear journalists
But...ministers overseeing inquiry have received £150,000+ from Labour think tank
Experts and MPs demand 'full independent investigation'
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g... 🧵
Tony Gilroy’s recent interview sheds light on a crucial irony: creating art about fascism while facing censorship. Disney’s request to avoid the term highlights a disturbing trend—corporate interests stifling vital conversations.
21.02.2026 08:24 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 2
Hannah Fry on our accelerating relationship with AI: ‘So far, society has been based on exchanging labour for money. Our tax system is based on taxing income, not wealth. I think those two things are going to have to change.’
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
‘FIFA video’…
19.02.2026 17:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 NEW | Counting energy from the perspective of the consumer, rather than the supplier, can help us better understand the dramatic changes sweeping the energy sector today 🔎🌪️⚡️
With this new framework, Ember unpacks 4 key battles for the future of energy 🧵 1/7 👇
Toby Young, Matthew Elliott, Daniel Moylan, Claire Fox, Daniel Hannan, Michael Gove, Therese Coffey (a Brexit convert), Paul Goodman, John Moynihan, Ruth Lea, Stewart Jackson, Michael Hintze, Charles Moore, David Frost, Theo Agnew; & now John Redwood.
Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.
This ruling shows that proscribing Palestine Action was a grave misuse of terrorism laws.
Labour must accept its mistake, drop its appeal and stop wasting taxpayers' money suppressing civil liberties.
Degrading counter-terror powers is a genuine threat to national security.
Researchers have discovered a little RNA molecule - small enough to potentially form spontaneously, yet sophisticated enough to begin to copy itself - that could explain how life on Earth began over four billion years ago, Science Director @rogerhighfield.bsky.social reports: https://bit.ly/3ZvPS6s
12.02.2026 19:30 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 5The US fascists’ obsession with Hungary is so strange. It’s as if the Nazis had decided to ignore Japan an Italy and prioritise their relations with Thailand.
14.02.2026 09:45 — 👍 29 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0
This diagram is in Polish, but fairly easy to understand.
The upper section is U.S. assistance for Ukraine during the Biden and Trump admin
The lower is russian drone and missile attacks during the same time frame
Tell me more about how Trump's negotiations are working.
When a peer makes headlines for the wrong reasons, there's virtually nothing the public can do about it. This is a democratic scandal. buff.ly/GNXnFru
14.02.2026 08:31 — 👍 21 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 3
MISLEADING: A new academic paper by @qmul.bsky.social has attracted significant media attention by claiming that EVs & heat pumps deliver no proven carbon savings in UK ahead of 2030 clean power target - and should therefore be postponed.
Here is why this paper should never have been published.🧵
‘Jim Ratcliffe has moved to Monaco to save £4 billion worth of tax in this country one might question whether he is the patriot we need to comment on this issue'
Home Office minister Jake Richards speaks to #BBCBreakfast Ratcliffe claimed UK had been "colonised by immigrants"
Ratcliffe is where populism leads. To multimillionaires spouting ignorant racist horseshit that divides us but unites the far right in their cynical bid to exploit prejudice for power. Ratcliffe will just shrug from his tax haven home. He doesn’t care. Farage laps it up. Everyone else loses.
12.02.2026 08:47 — 👍 910 🔁 276 💬 31 📌 7
Equinor pulling back CCS spending until market improves Norwegian company is a CCS pioneer but markets are developing slower than expected Equinor chief executive Anders Opedal. Equinor chief executive Anders Opedal. Photo: NTB/SCANPIX Russell Searancke Norway Correspondent Oslo Carbon Capture Published 9 February 2026, 13:02 Norwegian energy giant Equinor is pulling back on its investments in carbon capture and storage projects while costs remain high and markets are not developing as expected. The company has been a leader in CCS in recent years, steering the Northern Lights project to a successful start up, and is a co-investor in the UK’s first planned CCS project — Northern Endurance. Equinor also developed the world’s first offshore CCS project at the Sleipner field in the 1990s. It was not long ago the company was optimistic about its CCS prospects, but chief executive Anders Opedal said in the company’s latest earnings that CCS markets “are developing at a slower pace than anticipated” and the company will not be making new investments until it sees “a better market than we see today”. “We will be positioned to invest as markets develop, customers are in place and returns are robust.” He indicated the “licensing, or support regimes, and applications for capturing CO2” had slowed despite improvements in the framework and laws around CO2 transport and storage. “Three, four years ago, customers called us to buy natural gas and also asked for potential hydrogen and transportation and storage of CO2. Today, they continue to buy natural gas, but they have postponed their own targets for reducing emissions beyond 2030.” He added that “when everyone had a 2030 target, [there was) much more focus from customers to have this market up and running very fast”. “Now with different targets beyond 2030 to collect enough CO2 to have long-term contracts we have found it very difficult.” Equinor revealed its capital expenditure in 2026 and 2027 will be reduced by $4 billion, most of which is allocated to its low carbon solutions and power projects. Low carbon solutions is dominated by CCS, hydrogen and ammonia.
Equinor pulling back CCS spending until market improves Norwegian company is a CCS pioneer but markets are developing slower than expected Equinor chief executive Anders Opedal. Equinor chief executive Anders Opedal. Photo: NTB/SCANPIX Russell Searancke Norway Correspondent Oslo Carbon Capture Published 9 February 2026, 13:02 Norwegian energy giant Equinor is pulling back on its investments in carbon capture and storage projects while costs remain high and markets are not developing as expected. The company has been a leader in CCS in recent years, steering the Northern Lights project to a successful start up, and is a co-investor in the UK’s first planned CCS project — Northern Endurance. Equinor also developed the world’s first offshore CCS project at the Sleipner field in the 1990s. It was not long ago the company was optimistic about its CCS prospects, but chief executive Anders Opedal said in the company’s latest earnings that CCS markets “are developing at a slower pace than anticipated” and the company will not be making new investments until it sees “a better market than we see today”. “We will be positioned to invest as markets develop, customers are in place and returns are robust.” He indicated the “licensing, or support regimes, and applications for capturing CO2” had slowed despite improvements in the framework and laws around CO2 transport and storage. “Three, four years ago, customers called us to buy natural gas and also asked for potential hydrogen and transportation and storage of CO2. Today, they continue to buy natural gas, but they have postponed their own targets for reducing emissions beyond 2030.” He added that “when everyone had a 2030 target, [there was) much more focus from customers to have this market up and running very fast”. “Now with different targets beyond 2030 to collect enough CO2 to have long-term contracts we have found it very difficult.” Equinor revealed its capital expenditure in 2026 and 2027 will be reduced by $4 billion, most of which is allocated to its low carbon solutions and power projects. Low carbon solutions is dominated by CCS, hydrogen and ammonia.
Equinor pulling back CCS spending until market improves Norwegian company is a CCS pioneer but markets are developing slower than expected Equinor chief executive Anders Opedal. Equinor chief executive Anders Opedal. Photo: NTB/SCANPIX Russell Searancke Norway Correspondent Oslo Carbon Capture Published 9 February 2026, 13:02 Norwegian energy giant Equinor is pulling back on its investments in carbon capture and storage projects while costs remain high and markets are not developing as expected. The company has been a leader in CCS in recent years, steering the Northern Lights project to a successful start up, and is a co-investor in the UK’s first planned CCS project — Northern Endurance. Equinor also developed the world’s first offshore CCS project at the Sleipner field in the 1990s. It was not long ago the company was optimistic about its CCS prospects, but chief executive Anders Opedal said in the company’s latest earnings that CCS markets “are developing at a slower pace than anticipated” and the company will not be making new investments until it sees “a better market than we see today”. “We will be positioned to invest as markets develop, customers are in place and returns are robust.” He indicated the “licensing, or support regimes, and applications for capturing CO2” had slowed despite improvements in the framework and laws around CO2 transport and storage. “Three, four years ago, customers called us to buy natural gas and also asked for potential hydrogen and transportation and storage of CO2. Today, they continue to buy natural gas, but they have postponed their own targets for reducing emissions beyond 2030.” He added that “when everyone had a 2030 target, [there was) much more focus from customers to have this market up and running very fast”. “Now with different targets beyond 2030 to collect enough CO2 to have long-term contracts we have found it very difficult.” Equinor revealed its capital expenditure in 2026 and 2027 will be reduced by $4 billion, most of which is allocated to its low carbon solutions and power projects. Low carbon solutions is dominated by CCS, hydrogen and ammonia.
Fossil companies dropping CCS ambitions aligns with my theory. If the "targets" fend off scrutiny and regulation, why keep them when there's no longer any threat of scrutiny or regulation?
Equinor were *never* planning to recapture their toxic waste. We already knew this :)
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