🚨 Experts warn Select Committee that First Past risks an election that is "simply indefensible".
Speaking to the Housing, Communities & Local Government Committee, Professors Toby James, Maria Sobolewska and Alan Renwick say government should now be looking seriously at electoral reform.
We really need to rid our country of Palantir, totally and utterly.
The government needs to act on this immediately.
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New report just out from @investigate-europe.eu: Microsoft and DigitalEurope (a tech lobby group) decided they don't EVER want anyone knowing the energy consumption of individual data centres
So they lobbied successfully to get their own wording copy-pasted into regulations in the EU.
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A big fat cesspit of grift and corruption covered with a thin veneer of concern for 'the people'
The reality of the new fascism as represented by Reform and by Trump
Musk summoned by French prosecutors
'If Musk fails to appear prosecutors will have several options, including initiating a legal investigation and seeking an international arrest warrant'
Good to see French law enforcement getting serious about the oligarch criminals
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THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10
Do we really believe he would launch a war in the Middle East and kill thousands of people just to enrich his family?
I can't encompass this level of depravity in my mind
Inside the trading is illegal but I mean things like the polymarkets and short selling which are currently legal
Insider trading by Trump friends and family has been obvious for a while
Bigger question is whether Trump is deliberately causing volatility to enable this grift
All this gambling should be made illegal
No way you can argue it's efficient allocation of capital
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Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.
Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.
Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.
Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
Neil Kinnock thinks a majority of Labour MPs probably support PR now
Over to you Keir Starmer . . .
This is why Russia is still fighting, why the war continues and why people are dying: Because Trump and Vance encouraged Putin to believe he could win
Trump's behaviour causes market volatility from which the financial gamblers can profit
While the rest of us have to pay the higher prices caused by economic turmoil
Poorer US voters who brought Trump to power have shot us all in the foot
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I also missed this. My apologies. Follow Adam!
Vance tells Pope to stick to morality and keep out of policy
Because killing children has nothing to do with morality
Graphic with logos of Stop the War and CND. No War on iran. U.S. out of British bases. Stop Trump's deadly wars. Saturday 25 April. 12 noon. RAF Fairford. Horcott Road GL7 4AH.
Join CND, Stop the War, and Fairford Action in opposing the use of British bases by the US to attack Iran.
📆 25 April, 12 noon
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Read more about US bases in Britain - which includes RAF Fairford and RAF Lakenheath - in this Guardian explainer:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
There’s 8.2 billion people on this planet. There are only 450 million people who have the freedoms and benefits of being in the EU. Brits don’t due to Brexit
Blame Farage who sold it, or Boris Johnson for lying through his teeth when he told you nothing would change. www.lbc.co.uk/article/pass...
Reform is a party of the wealthy by the wealthy and for the wealthy
More evidence today
Spread the word
Hi Robin. I'm fine
The bill enables the government to give EU laws force in the UK without our MPs voting on them
As EU members we would have MEPs amending those laws and voting on them
Putin's point man in the EU has been pushed out
This is good news for Europe and for democracy
Let's hope voters in other countries reject Putin stooges
Including Nigel Farage
The economic consequences of not being aligned with EU laws have been devastating
But following laws we have not played a part in making is undemocratic
The solution is obviously to become EU members again
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Obviously it's completely unseemly that they're hoping to bribe Hungarians to vote for Orban. But it's also just bizarre - Orban does nothing for America, but he does a lot for Russia. Why is this Trump's priority? (It's okay, you don't need to answer.)
'typical SUV exerts around five times more force on the road than typical passenger car'
As well as trashing our roads, they are a climate disaster and more dangerous for other road users
Time to introduce a special licence for people who actually need them?
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We're just playing beggar thy neighbour until we bring onshore the vast amount of wealth that is currently offshore
Denmark didn’t “transition” its grid—it replaced it.
~15% → 92% renewable electricity in 25 years.
Wind did the heavy lifting. Solar is scaling. Interconnection balanced. Flexibility solved variability.
Wind built it. Solar is scaling. Fossil lost it.
This IS system replacement. ⚡#Bettrification
Crises blamed by Starmer for our troubles:
'financial crash, austerity, Brexit, Covid, the Ukraine war and Liz Truss'
One is clearly a national mistake that we can reverse
We should start negotiating to rejoin the EU immediately
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Spanish PM Pedro calls for the IMMEDIATE ARREST of Netanyahu
He said: "Netanyahu launched the worst possible unjustified attack against Lebanon. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. He is a criminal that must be arrested immediately.” #cdnpoli
