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Good job for the tobacco industry Vapes have taken hold. Itll take 30 years before they have to invent something else.

2021 Tory Govt cancelled/postponed 247 local elections.
Silence.
2025 30 local councils who requested delays due to boundary changes.
Labour's fault (majority Tory Councils)
Reform claim responsiblity for change.
Reform just cost tax payers £63m quid.
Who was in the Tories in '21?
Most of Reform

@mrjamesob.bsky.social '21 Tory Govt cancelled/postponed 247 local elects.
Silence.
'25 30 local councils who requested delays (boundary chgs)
Labour's fault (maj Tory Councils)
Reform claim responsiblity for chg.
Reform just cost tax payers £63m quid.
Who was in the Tories in '21?
Most of Reform

What a bunch of ignorant bigots

27 is too young to retire ;0)

Gail introduced me to the beauty of Brutalism, I’m now a member of the Barbican. I love her phone cases, notebooks/journals and cushions all fabulous design and great quality.

UK energy industry profits surge past £125bn since 2020 The Energy Industry Profits Tracker reveals £125bn in profits during the energy crisis, as the Chancellor mulls axing the energy profits levy

Energy giants generated over £125bn profits on their UK operations since 2020.

Some of the highest prices in the world.

Destroying industry fuelling inflation creating poverty.

120,000 people a year die in fuel poverty,

Govts appease corporations. None curbs profiteering.

When Sir Jim Ratcliffe Plays the Colonised As someone raised in a country shaped by British colonial rule, I know what domination looks like. Migration under UK law isn’t it.

Speaking as an immigrant out of Monaco, Sir Jim Ratcliffe told us this week that Britain has been “colonised”.

Except that Britain still writes its own laws, controls its own borders and governs its own migration system.

Almost as though he doesn’t have the foggiest what he’s talking about.

Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...

I never really sign stuff. But this was different. It's not about trying to facilitate or block a particular party's route to power. It's about an electoral system that's unsuited to the political realities we face today and risks giving us government after government with no convincing mandate.

'I kayaked Greenland’s ‘pristine’ waters. What I found was terrifying' One scientist is on a mission to reveal the far-reaching spread of microplastics after kayaking around a remote glacier in Greenland.

One scientist is on a mission to reveal the far-reaching spread of microplastics after kayaking around a remote glacier in Greenland.

The EU is working on a blanket ban of ‘forever chemicals’. Why isn't Britain? | Pippa Neill I met people living with dangerous levels of Pfas, including in their food. The government is failing them, says environmental journalist Pippa Neill

via @theguardian.com

Bank bosses get huge pay rises in sign top City salaries back to pre-crash highs Nat West CEO’s £6.6m pay package for 2025 is largest for group since disgraced Fred Goodwin’s £7.7m in 2006

Bank CEOs get huge pay rises, salaries back to pre-crash highs.

NatWest CEO pay up from £4.9m to £6.6m.

Lloyds Bank CEO, up 20% to £7.4m.

Govt abolished cap on on bankers' bonus, regulation weakened, licence to be reckless.

Bankruptcy risk for banks abolished because people always fund bailouts.

One of the richest countries in the world with more millionaires than at any point previously

If Jim Ratcliffe wore 10 real £40,000 Rolex's on each arm, and they all got stolen, and he went into London every single day.

It would take him 5,000 days, 13.7 years, and 100,000 Rolex's to pay back the £4bn he has dodged in taxes.

Tesco makes nearly £4bn profit.

Nearly 50% of its workforce are on Universal Credit, receiving about £600m a year.

Why isn't Tesco paying?

Urgent message.

Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Look at those stats, you couldn’t have a more one sided game than this🍀

Stop a Canadian corporation harvesting huge forests of seaweed from the west coast There should be a public consultation on this plan opening soon but lets gather signatures to demonstrate the fact that up and down the west coast, thousands of people don't want our seaweed rights gi...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/st... @uplift.ie

A 13 second summary of what the last 10 years was all about:

@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social : "I can confirm to the house, under my leadership Mandelson had no role, no influence & no part to play"

Keir Starmer: "I kicked my former leader out of my party"

CELTIC: Schmeichel, Araujo, Trusty, Scales, Saracchi, McGregor, Engels, Nygren, Maeda, Cvancara, Tounekti.

Subs: Sinisalo, Adamu, McCowan, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Hatate, Arthur, Forrest, Donovan, Tierney

If the roof is being blown off its a 14 year old wind that hasnt done it yet. And tbe govt are doing good things. Im as dissatisfied as most with a lack of radical change. Clamping down on the capitalist/corporate takeover. Foreign policy being just 2.

This labour govt have applied a lot of good initiatives which if listed to most people they’d heartily approve of. But all they get forced to their feeds is “resign “ , “failing”, etc

Seen on Twitter. Couldn’t find her account here. But worthy of a read.

The trend in H.E is less. Fewer overseas students and more “commuter” students who live at home.

And when the student-housing market collapses; what then. Any such development must have a secondary use built-in to its construction for that inevitability

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy The finance curse: how Britain was hollowed out

The finance curse: how Britain was hollowed out youtu.be/nKRq5UcsRCQ?...

focusing on the technology, or seeking to ban these glasses, is the equivalent of putting a plaster over a gaping wound.

We have created a culture where every step, every moment, every action, has to be captured in image and uploaded to various sites. Many are monetising this. /1