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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

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Trump and Musk show why Starmer needs to cap political donations Cleaning up politics is free and popular - so why is Labour so reluctant to act?

Capping political donations is free, popular and the right thing to do to protect British democracy from Elon Musk and his fellow travellers.

So why won't Keir Starmer act?

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/trump-and-...

Rishi sunak has uploaded a glossy new campaign video - you may need to sit down

Jeez. I’ve just seen Rishi Sunak’s new campaign video. Watch in disbelief & please tell me no one is actually falling for this boll****
https://youtu.be/7XJviu62rNY?si=qelg4FCcL4sAqyCk

Yes! - this! It’s our tax money. I want the fraudsters and profiteers found and brought to justice promptly and I want our money back to fund our public services.

This is heartening. I hope Labour will continue to neuter the Tories by promising to undo more of their abhorrent policies.

World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days The BBC finds that there have been a record number of days in 2023 that breached the 1.5C temperature limit.

On about a third of days in 2023, the average global temperature was at least 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...

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