5 things we learned from Sir Olly Robbins giving evidence on Peter Mandelson’s appointment Pressure is piling on the prime minister over the Mandelson scandal ahead of the local elections

The sacked head of the foreign office gave bombshell evidence to MPs today

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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%
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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:

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Peter Mandelson failed his Government security vetting.

Starmer appointed him as ambassador to the US anyway.

No more buck passing, no more mysteriously vanishing mobile phones, we need the truth.

Starmer must go.

And here's the other one

Then there’s the deeply divisive use of a bell to consider …

Perfection in simplicity.

If evolution could bring forward a machine , it would be this.

We pledge 150,000 new social homes a year. Importantly this includes ’buy the supply’ where appropriate homes are brought back into the social sector.

Local authorities and housing associations need the certainty of long-term financial stability in funding to transform housing.

This article correctly describes the situation of empty homes - one million across all tenures.
At the same time the number of people living in temporary accommodation continues to rise, including 172,000 children - a national tragedy.

Utrecht to start construction on largest car-free neighborhood in the country next week Construction of a new neighborhood is set to begin in Utrecht next week. The neighborhood, called Merwede, is scheduled to be the largest car-free district in the Netherlands, with 6,000 homes. The ar...

In case you missed it, Utrecht, Netherlands has begun building the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood.

12K people
6K homes
1.8K social rental homes
1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes
21.5K bike parking spaces
250 shared cars
2 parcel hubs
Parking structures on the edge.

Despicable.

A question for Labour members and activists, is this the policy that makes you decide to cut your losses and join the Green Party?

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Uk green jobs surge nearly 28% over the past decade data reveals- EDIE

Total green jobs ads number of singular ads 272178 uk total up 9.2% from 2023

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📈Jobs surge in the Green economy

📋 PwC highlights Green economy is growing at pace.

👷‍♂️ONS confirms that there’s been a 28% surge in Green jobs over the decade

📉Cutting bills
✅Energy security
💷Well paying jobs

Let’s end rip off Britain and build a fairer future for all!

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New Darlington Reform councillor gets battered by Greens in anti-trans motion Reform's Walker and conservative Dulston failed to push transphobic motion as Darlington council backs inclusive safety for all women

“Gender is a symphony, not a harmony. It is complex, it is lived, and it is diverse. To suggest that protecting the rights of women must come at the expense of the dignity of transgender people is a false choice.”

#TransRights

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New Darlington Reform councillor gets battered by Greens in anti-trans motion Reform's Walker and conservative Dulston failed to push transphobic motion as Darlington council backs inclusive safety for all women

@matthewsnedker.bsky.social “Gender is a symphony, not a harmony. It is complex, it is lived, and it is diverse. To suggest that protecting the rights of women must come at the expense of the dignity of transgender people is a false choice.”

#TransRights

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A photo of the sign outside Darlington Borough Council. It's a blue background with a white logo.

A photo of Matthew Snedker and Melissa Harker. Matthew on the left with a "pro-trans pro-trains" t-shirt on.

I am getting ready to observe the Darlington Council meeting where the transphobic motion is being heard.

Updates to come.

Canary on Instagram: "@matthewsnedker of @darlingtongreens explains why Reform and the Tories' push to roll back trans, intersex, and non-binary people's rights is so dangerous. You know what to do on... 168 likes, 6 comments - thecanaryuk on March 26, 2026: "@matthewsnedker of @darlingtongreens explains why Reform and the Tories' push to roll back trans, intersex, and non-binary people's rights is so...

Tonight I held the line against a ReformUK

We regard any framing that presents the rights of women, transgender, bisexual and non-binary are in inherently in conflict

Protecting women & protecting transgender people are both essential and compatible obligations

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Despite having no viable plan or the consent of the Commons, the UK Government has once again allowed Trump to drag Britain further into his illegal war in the Middle East.

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person in hi-viz jacket standing in front of a roof full of solar photo voltaic panels.

Person in the plant room of an energy efficient leisure centre

We can't afford another fossil fuel energy crisis!
Only a few people who benefit from slowing down energy efficiency and investment in renewables - the big fossil fuel companies.
If you want a future that is as affordable as it is sustainable - join.greenparty.org.uk

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For several months, people have been wondering why Reform hasn't declared any crypto donations, despite Nigel Farage saying they'd received some

Now @theobserveruk.bsky.social can reveal why...

NEW: This new report, from BBC, is the best takedown of the insanity of Trump you will see anywhere.

Calm, coherent and repeating only Trump’s own words. Devastating.

Brilliant work once again from Roz Atkins.

(🎥 BBC News)

I agree.
My preference is for fewer cars, not newer cars.

I don’t think the decarbonisation of urban travel is either or…
More walking / cycling
More bus / tram / tube
And switch the remaining car trips from fossil to electric.

Yes, it needs debate.
I want to see a fair transition to a sustainable energy system.
At present, having off-road parking offers very cheap charging.
This (generally) favours the richer over the poorer.
A publicly owned charging network offers the option of narrowing the spark gap.

Even better if local residents get a discounted rate to help level the cost of charging with respect to home charging.

‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state secrets. Report by Charlie Young and Carole Cadwalladr

‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn #Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security #digitalsovereignty

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When you built cities for cars, everybody looses.

When you build cities for people, everybody (including drives) thrives.

The question isn’t whether the economy will grow.

The real test is whether it feeds people, houses people, and protects the stability of our fragile planet.

#Economy #Wellbeing

The Green Party's Mothin Ali on the importance of community spaces and how the Green Party has a plan to invest £5 billion to revive them #C4News

"People are angry, our country is divided. And I get it"

"One of the main reasons is the loss of our country's social infrastructure"

My global decarbonisation pathway, built on www.climatewedges.com It deploys 20 wedges to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.

An infographic showing the 36 strategies that can deliver at least a wedge of mitigation. It explains the scale of deployment each one needs, across the electricity, industry, buildings, transport, and land use sectors.

There is no single “correct” path to decarbonise.
There are six trillion.

Our new paper in Science puts 36 climate solutions into one common unit, so you can build your own pathways.

Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
App: climatewedges.com

What would your pathway look like?

The Representation of the People Bill contains some useful measures, but it must go further – put proportional representation on the statute books, shut loopholes that let dark money in, and modernise media platform oversights to stop misinformation and disinformation.

Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.

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