After COP30, what now? It’s actually good news It’s the shape of story across all ages and human cultures. You’re in a hole. Then you get out

Prof Jules Pretty says we’re still in the hole – but this generation will feel the climb. As costs fall and green growth expands, the arc of the story bends toward better health, lower bills and new jobs.

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Donald Trump is taking money away from our hospitals & GP surgeries, and Nigel Farage is cheering him on.

We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.

Can somebody please just leak the Epstein files in their entirety already?

👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽

Music to my ears. ~AA

“A death rate five times higher than the East Asian states that took rapid action to suppress and control the virus. Three times more deaths than in the Blitz. The bereaved families need accountability. They won’t get any from the medical establishment.”

Just 10k signatures needed now

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.

And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

Brexit 'an act of pure economic sabotage and vandalism' FIVE years since Brexit and a British Chancellor has finally called out Brexit for what it is.

Letter: "New polling by Best for Britain shows three in five Brits now see Brexit as a failure with seven in 10 of these voters blaming Nigel Farage. His silence on the subject speaks volumes." ~AA

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Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

Please sign this petition for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics.

I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.

Sign and share.

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I share this with respect for the many excellent journalists at the BBC.

And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5

WTAF?
Orwell is spinning in his grave. I think he wanted his works to be satire and warning, not prediction.

This is Zelenskyy's "if necessary for years, if necessary alone" moment.

A chapter in history that will be remembered both for the shame of Washington's betrayal, and for the dignity, bravery, defiance and resolve of the Ukrainian people in the face of it all.

Top 4 headlines on GBLordHawHawNews news at 5 o’clock just now – a man called Martin Daubney presenting – no mention of Ukraine, no mention of Nathan Gill … just continuous anti-government, anti-BBC, anti-immigrant propaganda. Russian propaganda anyone? @GBNEWS @MartinDaubney

NEW: Important thread from @thenerve.news.

See key WhatsApp evidence & videos from Nathan Gill hearing now sentenced to 10 & half years in prison
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10

UK Covid-19 Inquiry says govt response to the pandemic in March 2020 was "too little, too late"

Imposing lockdown a week earlier could have saved 23,000 lives in England

In 2016 govt knew the NHS couldn't cope with a flu epidemic but had no plan.

What did austerity do?

The #NathanGill bribery case is one of the clearest documented instances where money, messaging and political access intersect in a way that can be traced from a European politician back to figures in Medvedchuk’s and Medvedev’s circles - and thus to Putin

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ED DAVEY QUOTE GRAPHIC. TEXT: A traitor was at the very top of Reform UK, aiding and abetting a foreign adversary. Nigel Farage and his party are a danger to national security. Nigel Farage himself was previously paid to be on Putin’s TV channel, Russia Today, and said he was the world leader he admires the most. We must all ask - where do his loyalties really lie? We need a full investigation into Russian interference in our politics.

Nathan Gill has been sentenced to 10.5 years for endangering national security and taking Russian bribes.

Nigel Farage and Reform are a danger to national security, the Liberal Democrats will continue to hold them to account and defend our democracy.

BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent.

The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.

Road sign for 'Skirmish Paintball'

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour Exclusive: Charlie Maynard accuses the utility of ‘retaliation’ over his push for government to gain control of company

😡This is digusting. Thames Water caught red-handed trying to silence debate about their state-sanctioned rip off – trying to punish the one MP who had the bravery to take them to court. @charliemaynard.bsky.social

In what was a very punchy piece of reporting, @arusbridger.bsky.social & @prospectmagazine.co.uk named the man they believe actually owns it: Paul Singer, a notorious vulture capitalist & owner of Elliott Management. Aka Robbie Gibb’s overlord
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Private care providers in three English regions make £250m in three years More than third of profits analysed went to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens, research finds

Private companies operating care services in just three regions of England made £250m profits in 3 years,

£87.7m of profits went to care providers owned by private equity controlled from tax havens.

Profits mean money buys less. Higher taxes for less service.

Say NO to privatisation.

Thousands of NHS staff to be made redundant after funding agreed The government says the jobs will go in order to slash "unnecessary bureaucracy" and ensure taxpayers' money is being "spent wisely".

18,000 NHS admin staff, managers to be made redundant.

Treasury gives £1bn to cover redundancy cost, rest from the NHS budget.

Which NHS services will be cut or privatised? No assessment of social cost.

Part of the Streeting plan to appease corporations, become the next Labour leader.

If you read @chrischirp.bsky.social & @martinmckee.bsky.social report on vulnerability of UK institutions to capture by anti democratic forces & politisation are you won't be surprised .. What is surprising is the UKGov's inaction & neglect to make them more resilient.. www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

Revealed: Thousands of elderly people evicted from care homes every year Thousands of elderly and vulnerable people have received eviction notices from their care homes in the last year, the Big Issue has found.

7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’.

Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"

Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.

Ofwat says off-shore payments to Yorkshire Water boss do not flout bonus ban Campaigners have slammed Ofwat after the water regulator found that the undisclosed off-shore payment of £660,000 to Yorkshire Water boss Nicola Shaw did not flout the Government’s bonus ban rule.

Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.

Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.

Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.

Let customers vote on exec pay.
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The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey

“Not only was Gibb director of communications for Theresa May & editorial adviser at GB News before being appointed by #LiarJohnson. He has also been accused of interfering with editorial decisions in a way that is totally unacceptable for a member of the board.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As a palliative care specialist, I’ve witnessed the human tragedy of our end-of-life care crisis | Rachel Clarke While the government debates assisted dying, palliative care is an afterthought. And many more people face death without the care and support they need, says Rachel Clarke

"We would never tolerate a government that chose to defund 70% of neonatal services, gambling that charities would fill the gap. Yet this is exactly the situation for end-of-life care."

Please read my piece on the travesty of NHS palliative care underfunding 🙏

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How the government captured the BBC A right-wing cabal, largely unaccountable, is waging war on the principles that made our public broadcaster great. It must not succeed

Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...