Paul Espley

The government’s Carbon Budget Delivery Plan released today, seemingly has no consideration of the 100+ AI data centres that Big Tech wants up and running during the plan’s implementation.

#AI #datacentres #CarbonBudget #Climatechange

Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve asked the Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky&

Should stamp duty be scrapped in the UK? Conservative party says property tax deters people from moving house and stifles productivity

Leunig, a former gov adviser, said scrapping it — while it would boost growth and productivity — would be “a very, very big tax cut for rich people”. One effect would be to boost house prices, making the main beneficiaries the existing owners of expensive properties in the south-east of England.

Tell Keir Starmer to make the fracking ban permanent Nigel Farage's Reform party has declared it wants to “drill baby drill” if it wins the next general election. There’s a temporary pause on fracking in England, but it’s not even written into law. So i...

Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law. Join me and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent.
@friends_earth 👇
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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).

Excellent analysis of how the BBC is failing to report on Farage and Reform without bias #@sjwrenlewis.bsky.social #BBCToday
#bbcnews @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @bbcnews.https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/farage-and-bbc.html

PR v FPTP!

🇬🇧 | Projected result of this week's @FindoutnowUK poll — under PR
(Via @joshhousden.bsky.social

➡️ RFM: 34% | 227 (+131)
🔴 LAB: 16% | 110 (-124)
🟦 CON: 16% | 104 (-52)
🔶 LDM: 13% | 87 (+6)
💚 GRN: 12% | 78 (+35)
🟡 SNP: 3% | 18 (+1)
🔲 PLC: 1% | 8 (+3)

+/- vs. GE2024 [PR]

A teacher on a £40k salary pays more tax than someone who makes the same from selling shares.

Why is income from shares taxed less than income from work?

act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4610

Electoral reform is urgent – or an extreme party could win a majority in Parliament The APPG for Fair Elections first called on the government to establish a ‘National Commission on Electoral Reform’ last November, in the wake of t...

"With a record 60% of the public in favour of changing how we elect Parliament, Labour must take action. Our APPG – the largest all-party group – urges the Government to establish a National Commission on Electoral Reform without delay."

📢 APPG for Fair Elections Chair, @alexsobel.co.uk

Get ready to elect a pro-PR Deputy Leader — Labour For A New Democracy We need to use this Deputy Leadership Election to push for action on the voting system

🚨 This is a crisis for Labour, but the real crisis is the one engulfing our politics

The Deputy Leadership Election is a chance to push for action on the voting system that is destroying trust in politics & threatens to hand a majority to the far right

Find out more 👇

The Media's Worthlessness - Lawyers, Guns & Money I maintain that the focus of people here and on Bluesky about the New York Times is misplaced. The media has never been good. It’s owned by billionaires, the one group in this country that operates ac...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/the-...

Yes the USA wants Europe to be controlled by plutocrats. No thankyou.

Billionaires have broken Britain. #MakeThemPay to fix it.

On Saturday 20 September, thousands of us will take to the streets to demand the government:

✅ Tax the super-rich
✅ Protect workers, not billionaires
✅ Make polluters pay

Spread the word today!

An accurate observation by Robert Jenrick in March 2023. Negotiate on routes for returns. If could expand the principle and the deal to the *certainty* of return, not the 5-10% risk of returns, for those outside the scheme then controlled & capped route should help to smash smugglet business model

I have some questions about the decision to wed themselves not just to "anti-ULEZ" but to "the guys who blow up ULEZ cameras"

📢 No More First Past the Post Elections! The 2025 Local Election results confirm what so many of us already know: the current voting system is broken. With 5 parties polling strongly, First Past the Post is delivering chaos and turning elec...

🚨 No More First Past the Post Elections.

5 parties polling strongly, chaotic results, millions left unrepresented.

We need Proportional Representation — NOW.
✍️ Sign the petition:

actionnetwork.org/petitions/20...

ACT NOW, CHANGE FOREVER On 9th July, thousands people from every corner of the UK will come to Westminster to tell our MPs: this is a moment for leadership that protects what matters most — our health, our nature, our commun...

I'm joining thousands in Westminster on 9 July to meet my MP and stand for a fairer, healthier, safer future. 🌱💚 Join me! www.theclimatecoalition.org/act-now-chan... @theCCoalition #ActNowChangeForever

The vote share needed to win a majority in Parliament is getting lower and lower.

Whether it's Labour, the Tories or Reform: full control of our laws, our public services and foreign policy should never be in the hands of someone most people don't support.

We need #PRnow.

The solutions shaping Central Asia’s unexpected green revolution As climate pressures mount, Eco Expo Central Asia highlighted a shift from pledges to partnerships, with countries across the region aligning on green action.

Via Euronews: From pipelines to pistachios: Shared climate solutions take root at Eco Expo Central Asia
www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

My thoughts also. Managerial hierarchical not used to a workers cooperative.

🚀 Public support for electoral reform is the highest it's been since records began

💥 60% now want to change to a fair, proportional voting system... including a majority of supporters of every party

🌹 Chair of @appgfairelections.bsky.social, Labour MP @alexsobel.co.uk, welcomes the news

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Big Oil: over 1,000 lobby meetings with MEPs in under a year Just as far-right forces crack down on civil society dealing with the climate, a new study reveals that lobbyists from the top fossil-fuel industry organisations had over 1,000 MEP meetings within less than a year.

Just as far-right forces crack down on civil society dealing with the climate, a new study reveals that lobbyists from the top fossil-fuel industry organisations had over 1,000 MEP meetings within less than a year.

Rachel Reeves Has Quietly Ended the Thatcherite Consensus and Opened the Door to the UK Becoming a Nordic-Style Economy The Chancellor's Spending Review was far more radical and transformative than anyone has yet realised, argues Josiah Mortimer

🔴Rachel Reeves Has Quietly Ended the Thatcherite Consensus and Opened the Door to the UK Becoming a Nordic-Style Economy

The Chancellor’s Spending Review was far more radical and transformative than anyone has yet realised, argues Josiah Mortimer

bylinetimes.com/2025/06/13/r...

Thirty years of challenging the public borrowing rules - Red Brick John Perry and Steve Hilditch look back at past debates about how housing financing should fit within the Government's fiscal rules.

“At one time it was hard to find anyone on either government or opposition benches willing to speak up for council housing, now it is widely perceived as key to solving the UK’s housing crisis.”

redbrickblog.co.uk/2025/06/thir...

'Google’s Illegal Monopoly and How US Court Decision Comes at a Critical Time for UK and EU Policymakers'

A landmark antitrust decision against Google in the US will have profound iImplications for the digital economy in the UK and beyond, writes Stephen Kinsella and Tim Cowen

What the British Press Didn't Tell You About Keir Starmer's Brexit Deal Ignore the Daily Mail. Starmer's EU reset is actually really good news for most British people, the Director of the Independent Commission on UK-EU relations tells the Byline Supplement

🔴What the British Press Didn't Tell You About Keir Starmer's Brexit Deal

Ignore the Daily Mail. Starmer's EU reset is really good news for most British people, the Director of the Independent Commission on UK-EU relations tells the Byline Supplement
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/what-the-b...

🚨 "So no, look, we are firmly in favour of First Past the Post", says Reform UK's Chairman

⏰ Labour needs to wake up: First Past the Post is now Nigel Farage's "friend"

💣 Why risk a far fight majority government on less than 30% of the vote?

Why are private companies being allowed to turn the NHS into a cash cow? 🚨🚨🚨

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

We've been telling you this George since trans people started being censored from their news coverage and having hit pieces made in direct collaboration with conversion therapists and hate groups but you have repeatedly ignored that because of your GC friends.