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There will be no transition without high-carbon skills My new Energy Jobs Bill would harness the expertise of those working in oil and gas to support the shift to clean power

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Much of the UK is devastated he's got this far, TBH

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

"The Veruca Salt of British Politics" - that's splendid. Take a bow.

yup, that one
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So you are allowed to print it but they are not allowed to hold a printed copy? That's nuts.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

YouTube video by KrisBlueNZ NTNON: Constable Savage

"Savage, you're a bigot! It's officers like you that give the police a bad name."
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🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

History when I was taught it in school was terribly boring. I enjoy a good history documentary these days though; they make the effort to bring the stories alive, go on location, re-enact and dramatise it. They also choose topics more relevant to our times, like the rise and fall of Hitler.

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

Given Kemi Badenoch has supposedly renounced Trussonomics, there’s an awful lot of multi-billion pound tax giveaways, predicated on *extremely* optimistic cuts and savings.

Almost as if she knows she’s never going to have to try to actually deliver any of this.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

As a victim of the public school system I have to say you've got a point.

#IStandWithGreta. #IsraelHasLostItsWay

What has the ECHR ever done for us?

Quite a lot actually, and we wrote it too.

Left: Kemi Badenoch says the attack on the Synagogue "was not just an attack on British Jews, it was an attack on all of us"

Right: Kemi Badenoch did not mention the mosque set alight

Isn't an attack on a mosque "not just an attack on British Muslims, it was an attack on all of us" - as well?

says they are in the alt text

Farage and Tice with Super rich Reform party donors… and a table piled with Roubles. The party of ‘the man in the street’ with your best interests at heart. Oh yeah.

Kemi who?

Did someone say dreamies?

We finally know why Byline Times were quiet - they were putting the whole story together:
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‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

Don't do it! It's a trap!

PS. I've been happily married for 15 years now, sometimes people really do get lucky.

perplexity just did the maths for me - 100kg of water costs 25p and just using an electric winch would cost 0.42p (assuming 100% efficiency) so yes - definitely - do it with a winch.