Steve Dawe

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The choice is stark: either we pretend the state must balance its books, or we face up to the truth that it has far greater responsibilities and capacities than our economic and political establishment acknowledges and start using them for the common good. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08...

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

Undisguised cold-blooded murder

Free-speech is a concept totally alien to the war criminals who lead this rogue state

They MUST be made to pay or international law is worthless

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Highway engineers should be obliged to walk as part of their job. If it's 100% of three days a week for 3 months, a streamlined and knowledgeable group of people might emerge from the process.

Excellent letter do read and share:

Record warm seas help to bring extraordinary species to UK waters The UK's seas have had their warmest first seven months of the year on average since records began.

The UK really is in hot water: Record warmth in UK seas this year: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK seas are experiencing higher sea level increases than the global average: noc.ac.uk/news/uk-sea-...

Overheated homes: why UK housing is dangerously unprepared for impact of climate crisis Building rules have been focused on keeping warm in winter and saving on energy bills, not cooling down

Overheated homes: why UK housing is dangerously unprepared for impact of climate crisis www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Five days out the next 7 in Oxford, England, are forecast to be 30 degrees C or more. I know how we will cope here. I have no idea how people in the least well built parts of Oxford will manage, especially the very elderly or others with limited mobility.

And it's not even working. Conservative poll figures repeatedly put the party below Reform and Labour. They are so low a future general election could include a permanent collapse in the Tory vote.

The painful lesson Reeves needs to learn is that unearned income = rentier income has no moral get out of tax claim. All wealth should be taxed on the same basis as 'work'. That means property taxes based on current valuations, directors paing NICs on dividends & overseas earnings being taxed in UK.

Public consultation on radioactive waste left at nuclear site The Environment Agency seeks public opinion on the decommissioning of the Winfrith nuclear site.

Low level is an averaging term that doesn't preclude 'hot spots'. As one Chair of NRPB said ' there is no such thing as a safe dose of radiation'
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EHRC needs fundamental changes. It declined to investigate Conservative Party islamophobia; Reform UK too? ; EHRC and Labour have created new problems for the trans community and have stoically ignored criticisms. It would be useful if Amnesty & Human Rights Watch investigated this organisation.

A devastating blow to one of Earth’s most iconic ecosystems🌏

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered its worst coral decline on record, with mass bleaching driven by extreme ocean heat.

Scientists warn the reef is nearing a tipping point.

Read the full story in BBC👇
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Climate-fuelled El Niño events are devastating butterflies, beetles and other tropical insects The research suggests the life-support system underpinning the tropics is at serious risk in a warmer world.

Insects hit hard by El Niño powered by #ClimateChange 🌍

#BiodiversityLoss #Entomology #Invertebrates #TropicalEcology

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All Hail the Humble Speed Hump These simple, cheap traffic-calming devices are both effective and wildly popular with (most) residents. Here’s why more cities are going all-in on speed humps.

"They’re cheap & they work. Installations cost much less than a road redesign, & they can systematically reduce car speeds in a way that traffic enforcement or lowered speed limits can’t. Indeed, the speed hump’s affordability, popularity & effectiveness make it unique among street safety tactics.”

And this is in Wuppertal, not a car-centric dystopia!

Just a tad concerning. A mad rush to increase mitigation and adaptation measures is no doubt imminent from hitherto Climate complacent Govts. Oh......

Good point.

Loch polluted by radioactive waste from nuclear bomb plant Loch Long on the Clyde has been contaminated by radioactive waste from the UK’s nuclear bomb store, official files reveal.

Loch Long on the Clyde contaminated by radioactive waste from the UK’s #nuclear bomb store where old water pipes have repeatedly burst and caused floods, files released after a six-year secrecy battle reveal.
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Very bad news. No doubt our ever promise making Govt will stop this without delay? If only...

Emphasises need to improve mitigation results and recognize the acceleration of the global Climate Emergency is going to make Adaptation measures harder. How high do we build coastal and estuary defences? Food supply futures require realistic appraisal.

UK weather: Fourth summer heatwave with 34C forecast in coming days Storm Floris brought wind and rain at the start of this week but fortunes are set to change with sunshine and heat in the forecast.

The heat is bad enough without this extra detail:

“Pollen levels are also expected to rise to high across England during this hot spell.”

Labour adding to the authoritarianism of the British State. Little wonder that this and other follies have given them incredibly low polling for their Party and Starmer too.

People need homes. We don't need private landlords; we could have exclusively social landlords under new rules, including rent controls and guaranteed inspections which local councils should be funded to perform. See my article on this topic in WEST ENGLAND BYLINES.

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate science scepticism disappearing from UK newspapers Scepticism of policies to address climate change increasing in opinion pieces and editorials, analysis finds.

A decade ago, UK opinion pages were full of climate denial.

Now, the science is settled, but attacks have moved to net zero policies.

From “climate isn’t real” to “climate action is too hard,” the goalposts have moved.

The obstruction continues.

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