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Environmentalist becomes first juror to swear oath on river water Paul Powlesland, the co-founder of Lawyers for Nature, says he considers the River Roding to be sacred

I must have missed this but love it. #rivers #sacred www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A gif of Met police arresting a blind man in a wheelchair in Parliament square

Shame on Starmer and Cooper for putting our police in this position

Hey kids, this is NOT normal.

International community must reverse cuts to Rohingya humanitarian aid, study says The international community must reverse cuts to humanitarian aid for the Rohingya and work with Dhaka authorities to improve conditions in refugee camps, a new study says. The work is published in th...

The plight of the Rohingya - a #HumanRights crisis that demands far more attention

#AidCuts
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Fact Check: Kent County Council found 2 million pound fraud before Reform took control More than 2 million pounds ($2.7 million) of fraud and waste uncovered at a British council in 2024 has been falsely claimed online to have been found after the populist Reform UK party took control of the authority in 2025.

ReformUK didn't find fraud at Kent County Council. It was already in the public domain before they took over.
They're liars.
#ReformLiars
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Trump: "We are taking Gaza"
Reporter: "under what authority?"
Trump: "under American authority"

Breathtaking arrogance & criminal behaviour, even for the greatest terrorist/criminal nation on earth #IsraeliNazis #PalestinianHolocaust #auspol

UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house Marianne Sorrell, a retired teacher from Somerset, says she is ‘very traumatised’ after arrest at Cardiff rally

UK police arrested and held an 80 year old woman for 27 hours after she attended a Palestine Action rally and then searched her home and removed "a Palestine flag, books on Palestine, material related to Extinction Rebellion and the climate crisis."

Reform UK’s Councillor Mackenzie Ritson on Rossendale Borough Council has had a bit of a Facebook meltdown, claiming ‘the establishment are trying to silence me’.

The truth? He got an email from the council reminding him of the Council code of conduct saying:

You can’t make shit up in the chamber.

When I give money to the poor they applaud my charity, but when I ask why they are poor, I upset those in power.
#justsaying

‘Clickbait and Chaos’ — 100 days of Reform UK Running Kent County Council Saturday marks 100 days since Reform UK won 57 of the 81 seats at Kent County Council. The Greens' local leader looks at how it's going so far

‘Clickbait and Chaos’ — 100 days of Reform UK Running Kent County Council

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New all-electric town in Kent strikes deal to supply power back to the grid Otterpool Park’s 8,500 homes will run on solar power and batteries – with enough renewable energy to help keep lights on elsewhere One of Britain’s first all-electric towns to be built with almost no reliance on fossil fuels could soon help to power the grid with renewable energy. The developers of a new garden town in Kent have struck a deal with a leading energy infrastructure company to design and operate a “smart” energy grid, which could mean its 8,500 households act as a virtual power plant for the rest of the country. Continue reading...

New all-electric town in Kent strikes deal to supply power back to the grid

The reason given for water privatisation
was to attract vital investment
for infrastructure & fix leaks

Instead £billions disappeared
into offshore accounts
We were conned
and the liars should pay

Public ownership with zero compensation
Bill the greedy bast*rds
for plugging leaks & reservoirs

How does anyone take this idiot seriously?

How many nukes are there?
Every point of this map represents one of the 12,000+ nuclear warheads in the world today- 1 ever 200 miles or so across the land surface of the Earth. Each could annihilate a city.
#HiroshimaDay #NoMoreHiroshimas | Visualise it with this prezi prezi.com/view/e7do1HT...

7 Nobel Prize-winning economists are demanding a wealth tax in France.

Their proposed solution is simple: a 2% minimum tax on fortunes over €100 million to ensure the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share.

The world's leading economic experts agree. It's time for a #wealthtax.

Parlour Ballads Jon Boden · Album · 2024 · 11 songs

#NowPlaying Jon Boden and The Remnant Kings, Parlour Ballads, 2024. #BroadstairsFolkWeek
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Almost A Sunset Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman · Album · 2023 · 11 songs

#NowPlaying The beautiful singing and gentle accompaniment of Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman, Almost A Sunset, 2023.
Looking forward to seeing them next week at Broadstairs Folk Week. #Music #Live #BroadstairsFolkWeek
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And it is the "wrong" one. Shades of London Bridge!

Are you his Mum?

The worst ever so-called comedy on the television. Probably. #bbc
#justsaying

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.

If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT.

If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.

She would prefer to stay in the ground.

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos The woman, aged about 50, was buried in a Siberian ice cave and discovered millennia later.

@geoblogs.bsky.social Is this inspiration for your (next?) tattoo matching Otzi, The Ice Man?

I now like June most but August was always the best month of the year (former teacher).

Finding beetles etc.

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Great idea!

Please employ journalists

Reform's Elon Musk-Style 'DOLGE' Team Accused of Making 'False and Misleading' Claims About Flagship Council A Reform report into spending at Kent County Council was based largely on dubious claims made by the party's own former chairman

Reform's Elon Musk-Style 'DOLGE' Team Accused of Making 'False and Misleading' Claims About Flagship Council

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