@andybrown1951.bsky.social
North Yorkshire Councillor for Aire Valley. Green Party. Columnist for Yorkshire Post. Write for Yorkshire bylines. Former Head of Young People's Learning for Yorkshire and the Humber
Had to doublecheck the date on this
07.03.2026 16:00 — 👍 9863 🔁 2881 💬 333 📌 212
My latest piece on nature for @yorkshirepost.co.uk www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
07.03.2026 15:44 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Yorkshire’s ‘Dirty Business’: The scandal flowing through our rivers | Yorkshire’s water pollution is the third worst in the UK. Who is responsible – and what can be done about it? | Kirsty Tucker
06.03.2026 12:28 — 👍 26 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 1
216,000 now😉
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06.03.2026 17:15 — 👍 56 🔁 22 💬 5 📌 0
Ensuring #FoodSecurity - surely a crucial government responsibility on which Westminster has been failing for decades
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🇬🇧 50 UK families have more wealth than 34 million of us COMBINED. 🙃
Extreme wealth concentration is the crisis. Everything else is just a useful distraction for the billionaires bleeding us dry.
Drill baby drill means burn baby burn
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Britain needs to start producing more of its food instead of relying on just in time supply lines in a world of war and climate chaos
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I wonder how many of those people who are losing their jobs and can't afford their fuel bills are still singing the praises of Donald Trump?
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Trump's bad war starts to hit voters in their pockets
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Qatar says world wide recession coming
The coming economic crisis from this war looks like it will be bigger and last longer than I feared.
This might go down as one of the biggest disasters the world has ever seen, and I may be understating that argument.
Labour just announced energy price cap dropped.
Oil just spiked, completely undoing that.
Given 50% of UK energy is from renewables, now is the time to renationalise and drop the dumbass marginal price system that makes green energy needlessly as expensive as gas.
BP’s new CEO to take home £11.7m this year, more than double her predecessor.
Daily pay > annual median pay of UK employee.
CEO pay at one company is a benchmark for another. Others will want more.
Govts, BOE, CBI and other neoliberals talk about wage inflation, but silence on fat-cattery.
The core question is whether the energy system in the 2030s and 2040s still requires additional #nuclear megaprojects built on decade long timelines when wind, solar, and storage technologies continue expanding on much shorter deployment cycles.
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Price of Brent crude goes over 90$ a barrel. Didn't Trump promise to cut the price of fuel. Will be interesting to see how his fans react when his friends in fossil fuel industry ram up the prices to profiteer from his ill thought out illegal war.
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I'm dismayed by rumours govt may scrap the windfall tax on oil and gas giants
With energy bills still driving cost of living pressures, it's senseless to cut taxes for highly profitable polluters, who already receive £2.7bn per year in tax breaks
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Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
#DirtyBusiness
05.03.2026 22:17 — 👍 32 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 0
"BREAKING: 3 of the 4 largest Gulf economies — Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait — are reportedly discussing withdrawing from U.S. and other international investments as the economic toll from the escalating war with Iran grows, according to the Financial Times."
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A lone battle: Why is Pedro Sánchez the only European leader to take on Trump?
06.03.2026 07:32 — 👍 502 🔁 148 💬 49 📌 35
Terrible idea, we need Dark Skies at night
These satellites would adversely affect the much needed circadian rhythm of humans, animals and plant life on Earth
... and with Israel using AI guided missiles
to attack Iran, just like they did in Gaza,
it could be more like another genocide
than just an another illegal war
meme via Human Reform Politics
Lead mine in Cononley North Yorkshire built by Cornish tin miners
05.03.2026 14:20 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Gas prices have already gone up 25% this week in my area and this is just week one of how many? People are already struggling and will suffer more as costs continue to climb. The direct and indirect human cost of this illegal and immoral action will be immense.
05.03.2026 12:25 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Military realists recognising that it is impossible always to defend targets successfully against low flying cheap drones.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Brace yourselves. Trump's war is about to hit you in the pocket. As usual what he does is the exact opposite of what he promises. An end to foreign adventures and lower prices in the shops was the promise. Huge unfocused war accompanied by price hikes is the reality.
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it is very rare for a nation to rise up and get rid of its bad leaders when the bad leaders of another country and bombing its cities. Trump can bring destruction but not construction
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