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Force DVLA to Consider More Than Cost for Field Vision Test Provider The current DVLA-Specsavers contract is not fair and reasonable due to the lack of any other criteria being used for the contract decision. On the information provided in the FOI Request, patients are...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fo...

Lib Dem Leader Meets BBC Boss To Complain About Level Of Reform Coverage Exclusive: Ed Davey has met with BBC boss Tim Davie to complain about the broadcaster’s coverage, which the Liberal Democrats claim is weighted too...

Ed Davey: "BBC’s Farage obsession is a joke. Reform has 4 MPs, Lib Dems have 72 - yet get sidelined. This isn’t journalism, it’s free PR. If the Beeb’s chasing shock value over vote count, just admit it and drop the "balanced" act."

Nice analysis of how Farage works, from @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social. Farage turns up, fans some flames, chucks in a lit cigarette, then leaves blaming others for the fire.

Nigel Farage called out by BBC reporter for 'racist lies' about Scottish Labour leader Nigel Farage has been called out for false claims he made about Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar during a speech.

It’s what he did in Scotland earlier in the year. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nig...

The right wing press shouting at bands to get arrested, bands not being shown/being taken down by the BBC. Meanwhile Rod Stewart will be shown and hailed as national treasure while vocally backing a racist intent on destroying the best things about the UK. We all know why.

This is why I posted my comment this morning.
Look at this utterly disgraceful headline. The tatty reform scumbag liars, racist and homophobes came THIRD in this by election.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just want to add my voice to the increasing wave of disquiet that any uninteresting change in one minority extremist party 'reform' gets headline coverage by BBC news who don't even have an account on here because they think it might be 'too left leaning.'
For pities sake. I'll post this on Threads

Nigel Farage was screaming to scrap furlough because it was a waste of money, while he had already claimed £120,000 for himself.

He is a fraud every word is a lie

Another way electric cars clean the air: study says brake dust reduced by 83% A new study is out which quantifies just how much EVs help not just in cutting harmful exhaust emissions, but also cutting other types of pollution that come from personal vehicles. But of course, public transport, biking and walking are even better. more…

Another way electric cars clean the air: study says brake dust reduced by 83%

YouTube video by Russell England "Brexit five years on - It has been a disaster" GB News interview with fisherman Andy Dixon

GB News : "Brexit is a good thing?"

Brexit Fisherman : "It's been a disaster"

"But exports?"

"Red tape is 100 fold, our main market is the EU"

"But EU fisherman?"

"They didn't come here"

"But charge more?"

"They can buy in the EU"

"How would you vote?"

"I'd vote for Remain in a heart beat"

Having shot us in the foot in 2016 The Brexit Newspapers are today attempting to shoot a bullet through the same fucking hole.
Their hope is that the incurious and gullible haven’t noticed how hard it’s been to walk…

In operating theatres at UCLH this morning, with our wonderful theatre teams. Many people from many places, all of them helping us deliver the care. Couldn’t do it without them.

New Frontiers Podcast Episode · 16 Sunsets · S1 E4 · 56m

It’s important to push back boundaries & in many ways this week’s #BlueOrigin flight did that. But if you want to know about the first American women in space & the story of NASA’s remarkable 1978 astronaut class, have a listen to this episode of #16Sunsets podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

Please @bbcradio4.bsky.social don’t parrot Tory rhetoric about their plan to set the country on “a new path” to tackle #climate change. That’s not what they’re doing. Badenoch is trashing the science & setting the country on a course to be poorer and more prone to climate disaster

A tweet from Krystal Ball (@krystalball) discussing Mexico's initiative to provide free glasses, dental assistance, and metabolic management for elementary school children, contrasting it with U.S. government actions to cut funding for local school food programs and plans to eliminate the Department of Education. The tweet includes a post from Samuel (@resisres), featuring a photo of Mexican schoolchildren wearing glasses, with an inset image of Mexico's president announcing the initiative.

Why do we, the most powerful nation on Earth, act like the most weak and shortsighted?

📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872

🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London
🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn
🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power
📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84%

www.carbonbrief.org/...
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The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing.

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

No one seemed to object when Churchill turned up at the White House in the clothes he fought the war in.

Graph: the UK's net-zero costs are falling

The cost of reaching net zero in the UK by 2050 is now predicted to be just 0.2% of GDP (about £4 billion per year).

Spread this far and wide. It reveals Reform and the Conservatives' opposition to net zero for being 'too expensive' as just plain wrong.

Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...

Add your name

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Profits at any cost BP and Shell’s profits in 2024 more than double the amount of UK’s climate finance commitments.

Shell and BP’s profits in 2024 are £26.2 billion.
In contrast, the UK has committed to spending £11.6 billion on international climate finance between April 2021 and April 2025.

Balance seems wrong
@greenjennyjones.bsky.social

ttps://theecologist.org/2025/feb/25/profits-any-cost

Sign the Petition Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News

I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate

Cash-grabs. Debt. Infrastructure neglect. Exorbitant bills. Record pollution.
This is the devastation that privatised water has left in its wake.
82% of us support public ownership of water. Yet, Steve Reed, in his plan for reform, has already ruled it out.
The government must listen to the public.🧵

At long last, the wait is over.
The all-important #OnlyConnect THIRD PLACE PLAYOFF is tonight at 8pm on BBCTwo.

Petition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible I believe joining the EU would boost the economy, increase global influence, improve collaboration and provide stability & freedom. I believe that Brexit hasn't brought any tangible benefit and there ...

This Petition just needs 5,000 signatures to get over the 100k needed for consideration for a Parliamentary debate

By almost every economic and financial measure Brexit has been disastrous for the UK - lets start the conversation

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Labour takes the fight to Reform — with migrant deportation videos The government is deporting migrants in numbers not seen since 2017 but cannot shift public opinion — and discontent is brewing over the Chagos Islands and benefit cuts

Is this real?? Sckening - serving up people’s suffering to appease the populist Right. When will Labour learn you can’t out-Reform Reform? Instead, offer a far bolder agenda of green investment in local
communities, public services in public hands, wealth taxes on super-rich, & a bit of hope FFS

It’s time for climate populism As politics turns against net zero, we need to mobilise a genuine mass movement against ecological catastrophe.

Climate action globally is under threat. It’s hugely urgent to seize initiative from rightwing populists. We need to change tactics: start by building climate resilience in local communities where people can feel tangible benefits – we’re calling it climate popularism. @rupertread.bsky.social & me🧵