"Far from protecting Europeans during wartime, these nuclear weapons would contribute to turning Europe into a radioactive wasteland."
Great work from Nukewatch UK on tracking the delivery of US nukes to RAF Lakenheath. Starmer must come clean on this!
www.declassifieduk.org/the-inside-s...
Labour are worse than the Tories. Absolutely malevolent. Tax the rich you fucking demons and leave the poor and the old in peace
Alan Ferrier
@alanferrier
Via the @FT
"Scotland — which has its own state-owned water company — massively outperformed its neighbours, with water standards similar to much of Scandinavia."
ft.com/content/5c1a33
"The truly unnerving thing about the fall of Rome (yes, I’m going there again, sorry) was that most Romans probably didn’t notice it had happened."
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NEW: Labour have repeatedly refused to say how much public cash they've spent to keep an English oil refinery open – just months after letting Grangemouth shut down.
And they wonder why Scotland should never trust them!!!
www.thenational.scot/news/2531651...
When Rachel Reeves backs trickledown economics and deregulation of financial sector she is all of the below:
Using discredited ideology.
Ignoring economic evidence.
Scared of the City.
Desperate.
A Tory.
Reeves should know well that all evidence says trickle down is a myth. Deregulating capitalism makes the rich even richer. Nonsense from a so-called called Labour Chancellor.
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
REVEALED: David Lammy placed the former UK president of the world’s biggest fossil fuel advertiser on the board of the foreign office after she gave him a £5000 donation: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/lammy-appo...
Strange to read Palantir argue that we should ignore its dangerous politics, and the implications for our privacy, and focus on its competence in a world in which, as @petergeoghegan.bsky.social has exposed, its product is also rubbish. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
NEW: Labour have "ditched" plans to explore zonal pricing - which would have meant cheaper bills for energy-rich Scotland.
Octopus have pushed for the policy - and their CEO is not happy.
"Soaring costs, locked in for years to come, more on the way"
www.thenational.scot/news/2530043...
“Huge swathes” of severely disabled people will be hit by Universal Credit cuts, contrary to government claims they will be protected.
My exclusive in today’s Guardian ahead of the vote: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Labour’s Freeport fakery: how Starmer’s plan doubles down on neoliberalism’s corporate carve-up
David Powell's final article in his series on Freeports for the Canary shows what we can all do to oppose these corporate power grabs
www.thecanary.co/explainer/20...
Scottish people miss out on the benefits of having one of Europe's highest renewable potentials and the UK as a whole loses out on billions because the UK Labour Party is dedicated to pandering to Reform.
This should be on a leaflet to every home in Scotland.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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🇺🇳 BREAKING: The UN is demanding answers from the UK over welfare reforms.
The Universal Credit Bill risks breaching disabled people’s rights—again.
No impact assessment. Cuts called “regression.” Demonising disabled claimants.
Deadline for U.K to respond: 11 Aug
#BinUCBill
LET YOUR MPs KNOW PLS
#BinUCBill
From Taking The PIP
We need everyone to write to their MP ahead of the 3rd reading of the Universal Credit bill
There is a link here for you to use to generate a letter to your MP
takingthepip.co.uk/write-to-you...
The top 5 happiest countries in the world are all relatively small, independent, northern European states.
The UK is 23rd.
data.worldhappiness.report/table?_gl=1*....
Again, this isn’t under some bloodcurdling media onslaught. This is just them, being themselves. Doing the best they can.
The entire UK political/media narrative on welfare is that it is "burgeoning", "a burden" & "unsustainable". But how high is it compared to others? UK welfare at 10.8% of GDP in 2023 (including pensions). Finland spends 25.7% of GDP; France 23.8%: both double the UK.
Core to McSweeneyism is the belief that ‘The Voter is never wrong’. Yet for a man so intent on listening to the public, McSweeney in fact seems to have selective hearing.
Angus Satow on Morgan McSweeney's manicured rise to power and his current fall from grace as Labour wunderkind.
The typical pensioner and typical child’s household income were once very similar, but have diverged.
In cash terms, the equivalised household income gap between pensioners and children has grown from roughly zero in the early 2000s to over £5,000 by 2023-24 and potentially over £7,000 by 2029-30.
ALT
The UK's new trade strategy says it will continue inserting controversial corporate courts into its trade deals.
Sign the petition: Call time on corporate courts.
act.globaljustice.org.uk/petition-cal...
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'A major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed direction for the first time in recorded history, in what climatologists are calling a “catastrophic” tipping point in the global climate system.'
www.intellinews.com/southern-oce...
NEW: Tony Blair's staff took part in a BCG project for the redevelopment of Gaza along the lines of the 'Trump Riviera' plan www.ft.com/content/0b1b...
