Andy Brown

Gas 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.

US may not have capacity to take down full barrage of Iranian drones, officials warn Chair of joint chiefs of staff and others in classified meeting said Iran is trying to get US to spend its munitions

Military realists recognising that it is impossible always to defend targets successfully against low flying cheap drones.
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Will petrol and diesel prices go up because of the Iran war? If oil prices remain high for some time, the knock-on effects could affect the costs of fuel and food

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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Iranians describe life under US-Israeli strikes: 'Every day feels like a month' Iranians are coping with daily strikes, internet blackouts, and security crackdowns - all while trying to stay in touch with loved ones.

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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Khamenei’s fall, Iran’s future: why Pahlavi still blocks real change US-Israeli attacks disrupt Iran’s religious leadership regime, but what Iranians really need is democracy not a return to monarchy

Khamenei’s fall, Iran’s future: why Pahlavi still blocks real change | US-Israeli attacks disrupt Iran’s religious leadership regime, but what Iranians really need is democracy not a return to monarchy | Laila Jazayeri

Rachel, Zack and Mothin

There's nothing the establishment is more scared of them a calm, kind, thoughtful gardener who happens to be a Muslim man in politics.

We'll stand together. Solidarity Mothin.

Big money has bought British politics

75% of Reform’s money has come from three rich white men

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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

How far the price of oil and gas rises now depends entirely on how long Trump's war lasts. Meanwhile the wind turbines are still turning, solar roofs are powering some homes and batteries are storing the energy from both.

Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

Our environment cannot withstand the frivolous excessive consumption habits of the ultra rich. We need to control them but currently they have far too much control over us.
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Human's are causing the Earth's sixth mass extinction. 83% of wild mammals have already been pushed past the brink.

If nature goes, its taking us with it. No time to wait.

#ActOnClimate #biodiversity #natureneedshalf #biodiversity

To be fair to the religious zealots who believe he is paving the way for the rapture, if Donald Trump carries on launching reckless invasions he is quite capable of ushering in the end of everything!

Trump led US citizens to believe that the law of the land in UK is Sharia law. That is entirely wrong

Curiously working class people prefer to vote for a local plumber than a parachuted in millionaire from a party of washed up former Conservatives

Just heard Donald Trump tell the world that the UK has sharia law courts. A total lie from a rambling confused old man who is busy wrecking the world economy

Gas and oil prices soar and shares tumble as crucial shipping lane threatened Markets react as the conflict in the Middle East intensifies and concerns grow over how long it will last.

The economic consequences of Donald Trump are not proving to be very impressive
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Green MP Ellie Chowns on the elections bill last night: "It is really quite extraordinary that the Thailand-based crypto investor Christopher Harborne has been allowed to donate £9 million to Reform UK. I notice that its Members are still not here" (2/3rds of the way into the debate)

We need the government to decouple electricity prices from the the marginal price of gas generation, which usually sets the price we pay. It's madness that our prices shoot up when we're adding more cheap renewables, but the price is set by the international market price of gas.

Oil price rises further after new Iran threat to Gulf shipping Iranian official threatens to

Oil and gas prices soar as supplies become vulnerable. Meanwhile the wind turbines keep turning, the solar panels keep working and the batteries keep on storing cheap off peak power.
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By 49% to 28%, Britons are opposed to the US military action against Iran

Net support by 2024 vote
Reform: +33
Con: +14
Lab: -45
Lib Dem: -49
Green: -59

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Turns out lowering bills, protecting the NHS and rebuilding our public services is really popular.

This is just the beginning - people are seeing through the attacks and demanding something better.

And we're making hope normal again - together.

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Greens overtake Labour in sensational poll The Greens have polled higher than Labour in the latest poll by YouGov, which puts them only two points off Reform UK and five ahead of the governing party.

The Greens have polled higher than Labour in the latest poll by YouGov, which puts them only two points off Reform UK and five ahead of the governing party

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"Antarctica is changing so rapidly that we are struggling to keep up"

Good lord. What an abject failure the Blue Labour strategy has been.

Reform are in denial about why they lost by 12% in Gorton & Denton (60% white, 80% UK-born) after losing by 11% in Caerphilly (98% white, 98% UK-born) to Plaid Cyrmu

Both seats unusual in seeing more people vote than at last Welsh Senedd/last GE: more voters turned out to stop Reform than supoort

Plumber, Plasterer, Parliamentarian! 💚

Nigel Farage's Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party's election defeats on "cheating" by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found

Every time Nigel Farage's parties have lost an election he has blamed it on "cheating" by ethnic minorities and every time he receives huge amounts of media attention for doing so.

The only problem? No evidence of cheating is ever found
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‘The plane flew and started spraying’: Israel accused of poisoning Syrian farmland with chemicals Villagers report dying fields, damaged livestock and fears for their livelihoods

Simply evil
‘The plane flew and started spraying’: Israel accused of poisoning Syrian farmland with chemicals
Villagers report dying fields, damaged livestock and fears for their livelihoods

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Hannah in a green jacket and pink top, with Carla Denyer MP to her right and Ellie Chowns MP on the left. All v colourful.

Hannah Spencer being sworn in as a Green Party MP this afternoon, after winning the Gorton & Denton by-election last week. Photo: House of Commons