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Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars, report finds Analysis of 800,000 European cars found real-world pollution from plug-in hybrids nearly five times greater than lab tests

“Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars, report finds

Analysis of 800,000 European cars found real-world pollution from plug-in hybrids nearly five times greater than lab tests”

Consumers being duped
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac...

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

Child famine has reached the highest level in Gaza, with tens of thousands of kids affected – new study By August,15.8% of children aged under five were suffering from acute malnutrition.

"More than 54,000 children aged under five in Gaza are suffering acute malnutrition, including more than 12,800 who are severely malnourished, according to a study published in The Lancet on Wednesday."
theconversation.com/child-famine...

Farage's top aide in furious BBC Question Time clash over Russian bribe MEP Reform UK's Zia Yusuf clashed with Green Party leader Zack Polanski on BBC Question Time over the conviction of ex-Reform Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who took Russian bribes

Patriots don't peddle for Putin.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism

So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?

YouTube video by LBC 'A classroom of kids is massacred everyday': Zack Polanski on Gaza

We must all keep speaking out.

Thanks for all the kind words for this pretty combatative interview.

The truth is simple. Let's just all keep telling the truth.

youtu.be/goTgeKyJNaQ?...

I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine.

And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide.

Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.

What has the ECHR ever done for us?

Labour Has Only Itself to Blame for the UK’s New Left-Wing Party Starmer’s rightward turn and austerity agenda fracture Labour, as Corbyn and Sultana rally disillusioned voters behind a new left alternative.

Our Co-Chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social said of Streeting's focus on private health sector spending:

“That switch towards the private sector is a real death blow to the NHS if it carries on."

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010

We hear a lot about privatisation, but rarely are the numbers laid out so starkly: £193bn paid to shareholders and private equity firms, a £250 premium for every citizen. Only Russia, Hungary and the Czech Republic have shed public wealth faster than Britain www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010

Since privatisation in the 1980s, we the public have paid *almost £200bn* to shareholders

Your household has paid £250 extra a year since 2010 for this ideology

Excellent new study from @cmmonwealth.bsky.social 👇

Time to take back OUR public assets 💧💡🚌🚄📮

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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1/11 Why is Elon Musk pushing for civil war in the US and Europe?

This thread breaks down how Musk is using his platform, wealth, and influence to amplify far-right movements, incite political violence, and undermine democracy—across continents

Peter Mandelson admits to continuing relationships Epstein after he was convicted - how on earth can he stay on as ambassador?

UK's top bishop says Nigel Farage's deportation plan 'isn't the British way' The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, told The Mirror it has long been the British way to meet those asking for help with 'compassion and understanding' as he said Nigel Farage's plans are 'beneat...

Archbishop condemns Farage's deportation plan.

Farage previously said Christianity "should be recognised by Government at all levels".

Any evidence of that in his policies?

Christianity was founded by a brown man, a refugee.
St. George was a Turkish man who never visited England.

Well,the racists and Far Right won’t like that 😂

Well,the racists and Far Right won’t like that 😂

Ireland's Higgins calls for UN military force in Gaza | The Jerusalem Post According to Higgins, the UN General Assembly should establish “a force to be put together to guarantee humanitarian access" even if the Security Council vetoes the initiative.

The great Michael D., Ireland's humanist President, hit the nail on the head: A UN Peace Keeping and Peace Enforcing Task Force is the only way Israel's genocide of Palestinians can end. www.jpost.com/internationa...

UK close to giving Israel's Elbit £2bn contract to train British soldiers Elbit, which was the primary target of Palestine Action's activism, is close to winning a contract that would allow it to train 60,000 troops per year, according to Private Eye

UK close to giving Israel's Elbit £2bn contract to train British soldiers - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-close-giving-israels-largest-arms-company-ps2bn-contract-train-troops

‘Nothing is the same’: Windrush victim allowed to return to UK after 28 years George Lee was stuck in Poland and received little help from UK officials even after the scandal broke in 2018

Another Windrush case. Meanwhile, our politicians act as if it never happened and try to outbid one another in deportation nastiness

African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size Member states back Correct the Map campaign that urges governments and organisations to use more accurate map

“African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size Member states back Correct the Map campaign that urges governments and organisations to use more accurate map

“African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This is ridiculous. The Prime Minister should be hammering Farage with the fact that all this is the consequence of the Brexit he championed

Mohamed Salah critique l’UEFA dont l’hommage à Suleiman Al-Obeid, le « Pelé palestinien », ne mentionne pas les circonstances de sa mort à Gaza Le joueur palestinien a été tué mercredi « à la suite de tirs par l’occupation israélienne ayant visé des personnes qui attendaient de l’aide humanitaire dans le sud de la bande de Gaza », avait annon...

“Mohamed Salah critique l’UEFA dont l’hommage à Suleiman Al-Obeid, le « Pelé palestinien », ne mentionne pas les circonstances de sa mort à Gaza”
www.lemonde.fr/football/art...

I spent all of today covering a far right protest and it was horrible. Not my first rodeo of course, but I’m so worried about the fact that we are not understanding the normalisation of hate that Peter describes here and how gleeful the far right is about that normalisation

Mohamed Salah critique l’UEFA dont l’hommage à Suleiman Al-Obeid, le « Pelé palestinien », ne mentionne pas les circonstances de sa mort à Gaza Le joueur palestinien a été tué mercredi « à la suite de tirs par l’occupation israélienne ayant visé des personnes qui attendaient de l’aide humanitaire dans le sud de la bande de Gaza », avait annon...

“Mohamed Salah critique l’UEFA dont l’hommage à Suleiman Al-Obeid, le « Pelé palestinien », ne mentionne pas les circonstances de sa mort à Gaza”
www.lemonde.fr/football/art...

As peaceful protestors are arrested for holding placards, starving Palestinians are being shot in the street.

This will go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history.

No amount of suppression can hide the truth: our government is complicit in genocide.