Local fishermen say, following burning of the X-Press Pearl cargo ship, laden with a cargo of chemicals & plastics, fish numbers fell & livelihoods were endangered.
Our report for the BBC World Service with @pulitzercenter.bsky.social journalist, Saroj Pathirana:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
01.07.2025 17:18 β π 53 π 32 π¬ 1 π 0
Can we have our water companies back: Thames Water & Southern Water from Canadian & Ontario [Teacher] Pension funds? π
These companies are not "investing": they dump unprocessed sewage in our rivers and seas, it's a π© show, literally.
16.02.2025 06:25 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Banks, Health, trains...broadband ππ
12.04.2025 12:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Donβt stop at Scunthorpe steel β nationalise water, mail, all of rail and energy.
Bring them all into public ownership.
12.04.2025 10:06 β π 1814 π 442 π¬ 72 π 23
Israel has murdered over 1,500 Palestinians in Gaza since it broke the ceasefire last month.
Hind Khoudary reports that most of those killed have been women and children.
11.04.2025 15:22 β π 31 π 30 π¬ 2 π 2
Israel launches attacks across Syria.
π΄ LIVE updates: aje.io/hrq44j
03.04.2025 15:12 β π 105 π 77 π¬ 10 π 10
"At some point you've got to ask, what does the Labour Party stand for?"
Well said Taj Ali.
17.03.2025 13:59 β π 106 π 33 π¬ 3 π 1
Caroline Lucas, "A hard choice for Starmer would be a wealth tax"
"Why are the poorest people paying for increase in defence spending?"
@carolinelucas.bsky.social #Newsnight
26.02.2025 10:51 β π 945 π 298 π¬ 48 π 14
Yup. What's the rule? Buy nothing. Easy. Duvet day with SocMe.
26.02.2025 15:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Impersonation! π€¨
That's Feathers McGraw!
26.02.2025 15:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
'Photograph of an ancient street and old houses, York' Sir Benjamin Stone, 1908 The street I'm question is Petergate. One of York's most historic streets it roughly follows the path of the old Roman via principalis. Archaeological excavations have indicated that for several
25.02.2025 15:52 β π 73 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0
Badenoch & Realism are not two words that belong in the same sentence.
26.02.2025 15:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Would solve so many problems.. If Elon's wealth were split up amongst all US Americans that's Β£1,000,000 each. Nice.
26.02.2025 13:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
You first.
25.02.2025 20:53 β π 111579 π 14133 π¬ 5602 π 1137
It's Economic.
Es ist Wirtschaftlich.
26.02.2025 13:00 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
They won't even notice it. But the TAs, care workers, farm workers, supermarket workers will.
26.02.2025 12:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A tax of 2% above β¬100,000,000 will generate β¬25,000,000,000.
π π π
25.02.2025 18:31 β π 263 π 92 π¬ 8 π 3
Tesla falling
Tesla isnβt going to survive. Sales are down nearly 50% in Europe. Keep the boycott going.
Your protests are working. #3E #endoligarchy #boycotttesla
25.02.2025 18:30 β π 16920 π 3726 π¬ 708 π 352
British Govt so needs a lesson in economics also. They sqwauk "growth, growth", have forgotten that this takes Investment, in Green new deal for jobs & training.
26.02.2025 08:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
When in fact, it should hurt the unnecessary Middle-men π #BigPharma
26.02.2025 08:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Carole Cadwalladr dropped by Tortoise ahead of Observer take-over
Long-serving Observer writer Carole Cadwalladr has been told by Tortoise Media that her contract his being ended.
Star Observer writer @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
has had her contract ended by @tortoisemedia.bsky.social
ahead of take-over of the title on 20 April. NUJ expresses "serious concern" that her exit follows her making public criticism of deal.
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
25.02.2025 17:16 β π 273 π 118 π¬ 21 π 23
They could try in the Chancellor's office.
26.02.2025 07:53 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
25.02.2025 15:48 β π 23 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Cutting foreign aid instead of taxing the rich is choosing to take food from the starving, whilst allowing the elite to dine.
We are one planet, one race, one family. Cutting foreign aid is an act of self harm.
Leave the needy alone. Tax the rich.
26.02.2025 07:33 β π 117 π 39 π¬ 1 π 3
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26.02.2025 07:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Sea levels are rising. What about a Clipper service? π€ππ
26.02.2025 07:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Unless the UK aligns its free zones with EU regulations, it cannot rejoin the European Union.
Now do you understand why Starmer says 'There will be no rejoining the EU in my lifetime"?
26.02.2025 07:17 β π 28 π 12 π¬ 1 π 0
Most unequal economy in G7.
We can fix that. Tax.the.Rich
26.02.2025 06:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Power to the people: the people would set the agenda for water companies: what Cumbria needs is different from Manchester is different from south coast. Water chiefs would be [Senior] civil servants who do what the People want. Thw Private, for profit model is dead, in the water. π
25.02.2025 15:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
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