🔴 Britain’s Solar Revolution Is Here and We Should Be Shouting It From the Rooftops
Ed Miliband is helping to turn the country into a nation of ‘solar zealots’ and I'm enthusiastically along for the ride. Thankfully I'm not alone.
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While the media bubble obsess over he-says-she-says, very sound, positive, policy-making pushed to the margins if reported at all...
A local tattoo artist posted a video on Instagram of him asking two blokes in hi-vis not to put up an England flag on the lamp post outside his shop. Consequence: a flood of bad Google reviews including the predictable “paedo” allegations (“he touched my daughter” etc). Truly the shittiest people.
BBC News - Reform UK will tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says
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This is going down a dangerous path
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Good. It’s easy to forget that climate change denial & shilling for fossil fuel companies provided a template for Tufton Street, Brexit & pretty much every egregious example of persuading populations to vote against their own interests. The story of Don Pearlman should be taught in kindergartens…
Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...
"Labour’s great green energy plan could be a legacy as vital as the NHS".
I agree. More power to Ed Miliband's elbow. Sod the haters in the rightwing press. They hate him because he's winning.
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Around 300k leave workforce each year in UK due to ill health. Poor mental health and musculoskeletal problems are main causes. Yet it is these conditions that have longest NHS waiting lists and would also benefit most from public health and prevention. It’s a no brainer
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We desperately need some good news, this is genuinely exciting.
Labour’s great green energy plan could be a legacy as vital as the NHS
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I checked this too.
*20 seconds* of Reform logo display.
*No other* party logo displayed.
In local election purdah.
This is not normal. At all.
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
Devastated to learn that Giles died at the weekend. He leaves shoes impossible to fill. One of life’s warriors, dedicated to righting wrongs in an area of law so full of wrongs that his enormous brain and energy was constantly put to use. Thoughts with his family, loved ones and friends. xxx
Awful news about Giles Peaker, @nearlylegal.co.uk, a brilliant legal blogger and a real pioneer.
A great figure in using the internet for the public understanding of law.
It is possible to think that this whole undignified Mandelson vetting debacle does not reflect well on the PM at all, while also thinking that another leadership contest is literally the last thing anybody needs right now.
“If you invite more cars, you get more cars. If you make more streets better for cars you get more traffic...If you invite people to walk more and use public spaces more, you get more life in the city. You get what you invite.” - Jan Gehl
Richard Tice deputy leader of Reform ran four shell companies which did not pay any tax on profits between 2020 and 2022.
He's now offering to "put things right".
Go on then Richard - resign.
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Chart showing Tisza 141 seats (out of 199) Fidesz 52 Our Homeland 6
Feels like the election was about three months ago, but the final results for Hungary are in and Magyar’s party did even better than predicted, with 141 seats, a comfortable two-thirds+ majority and the ability to change the constitution as a result.
Mohammed Ali killed one person and injured several others while speeding at 90mph in a 30mph zone.
He’s been jailed for 7 years. Once released, he’ll be able to drive 4.5 years later.
What would you need to do to get a lifetime driving ban?
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What should have happened: the REIT paid no tax but the Tice companies holding shares in the REIT paid £98k tax on the dividends they received. What actually happened: none of the companies paid any tax.
Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions
A 🧵 with the evidence:
Germany just activated its largest ever solar installation — one farm, 1.5 million homes, zero carbon. The #CottbusSolarPark covers 3,500 hectares and produces 2.1 tw-hours annually, replacing two coal plants that operated on this same land until 2022. #SolarPower #ActOnClimate #Renewables
Read the article to restore your faith in everything. This is why I love the UK, specifically London, specifically Finchley.
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Wildlife
What a great initiative 💚 Hopefully other Councils will follow.
Rotherham Council replaced 8 miles of mowed grass with wildflowers.
They saved £25,000 in mowing costs a year and bees, butterflies, and birds showed up almost immediately.
We should be learning from other countries...
When the numbers were going up, the Channel boat crossings dominated BBC news & much of the media daily. They have fallen 34% in the first three months of this year, but you wouldn’t know it from the media coverage.
A plausible explanation given the stated claims, if those claims are correct.
Senior Tory MP claims knife crime went up by 72% in London.
In fact offences fell by 11% in the year to September 2025.
The Covid 19 vaccine roll out was an extraordinary feat which may have saved upwards of 475,000 lives.
In the face of a deadly virus dedicated professionals worked hard to make it happen and millions did the right thing and took the jabs.
That's to be celebrated.
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