Spain approves a plan to ease its housing crisis Spain's government has approved a major plan to tackle the country's housing crisis. Rising rental and housing costs have priced many Spaniards out of the market, despite a recent economic boom.

Spain approves a plan to ease its housing crisis #EUNews

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A disgraceful reality of our era is the lack of anger and condemnation towards Moscow for the enormous massacres of Ukrainian civilians it perpetrated especially in Mariupol. Nobody knows the death toll, but it is clearly in the tens of thousands. And the criminal state is destroying the evidence.

The Home Secretary is equal parts obnoxious and hypocritical

You murdered a Garmin 😱😂

Miliband to unveil move to delink UK gas and electricity prices Energy secretary’s push comes as Iran war threatens Labour pledge to cut heating bills

Miliband to unveil move to delink UK gas and electricity prices ft.trib.al/zI9c1JF

UK shifts older wind and solar farms to fixed-price deals to reduce price shocks Move marks government’s most radical attempt to weaken impact of soaring wholesale gas prices on electricity costs

We welcome the governments plan to move older renewables contracts, which make up a third of onto fixed price contracts, indeed the Liberal Democrats called for this to be done over a year ago now. I await further details of the rest of the plans.

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Another female member of Trump’s cabinet is forced to quit.

Her male colleagues seem to be guilty of similar misdemeanours but, hey, boys will be boys.

Ooh 👀

You can lead the Daily Telegraph to an NHS story, but you can't make them report it accurately.

And she can't sell it for £750k so it seems she didn't drop the price enough!

Exactly, you can always sell a home (unless it has cladding problems), if you lower the price enough.

I sold my (single girl) flat in 2016 right after Brexit vote. I got £25k less than the identical flat above me had sold for in 2015.

I needed to sell to buy a new bigger place with my partner.

Did you switch from smoking to vaping? How long have you been switched? Has your health improved?

[I was an MEP when the EU tobacco directive 1st included vaping]

#UkrainianView
Remember the year that America sided with Nazis to sponsor the imperial conquest.

Challenges, advances and future directions in nutritional epidemiology

A new era for nutritional epidemiology: researchers outline blueprint for precision and sustainable diets

Paper
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News
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God almighty

And yet, despite Jay Bhattacharya being RFK Jr’s closest ally in dismantling science & public health, I feel sure Stanford’s right wing Hoover Institution will welcome Jay back with open arms😢

Some hope in world of gloom.

Watching Arsenal v Man City yesterday on TV with other families (all Arsenal fans 😢) inc #football mad 7yo "I play 5x a week" who wants to be footballer. Her sister said "no chance; it's so hard to make it".

No-one questioned that football is a sport for girls/women 👍

Enhancing a plant-based diet can reduce the risk of multimorbidity in older adults - BMC Geriatrics BMC Geriatrics - Multimorbidity has become widespread among older adults, and it is influenced by diet. However, research has yet to systematically explore the association of the overall...

Healthy plant-based diets were linked to lower multimorbidity (i.e. at least two chronic diseases within an individual), in a study of 7,500 older adults. These findings provide empirical support for public policy-making to increase the intake of healthy plant-based foods: doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Reform had a six month period last year when their polling average didn't drop below 30%. It hasn't hit 30% once this year.

Dan Schulman is the new CEO of Verizon and he is predicting 20 to 30% unemployment within the next 2 to 5 years due to AI.

Not a typo. He thinks 1/3 of people currently employed will lose their jobs by 2030.

And at same time market savvy people are talking about AI bubble bursting because co's are massively overvalued, aren't bringing in the kind of revenue expected/promised, relying instead on raising funds, which will surely dry up soon...

30% unemployment + AI bubble bursting doesn't add up!

I don’t think we’ve ever had a technology (automated loom, steam engine, printing press, cars, airplanes, radio) that have put 1/3 of the population out of work within 5 years. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Collective groupthink from CEOs does not meet the burden of proof

A comic of a group of dinosaurs gathered around a chart as a meteor hurtles toward them. Above, the caption reads, "On an earnings call 66 million years ago..." The chart depics the S&P 500 climbing rapidly. The dinosaur is saying, "No need to panic, the meteor may impact earth but not the SpaceX IPO."

With genuine apologies to the original artist.

Horrible 😡😢.

I left X in 2024 in part due to disgusting antisemitic pile-ons in response to me defending the right to asylum (my Jewish Grandma found safety here). Incident was reported to CST, who were really helpful, but considered by X to be just fine 😲 Antisemitism green light 😡😡

Spat at, threatened and kidnapped: British Jews tell of rising antisemitism British Jews have described to BBC Panorama how they are experiencing a rise in antisemitism.

In 2025, there were 10 antisemitic acts a day reported to the Community Safety Trust.
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Interesting given that their voter base is surely in large part protectionist?

Haven't they rallied against centre and centre right politicians who have tried to enact such policies?

Is this "Me Speech" rather than Free Speech? The former being a green light for people to be racist, sexist, homophobic, ableist etc without anyone being allowed to complain about their bigotry?

New university free speech complaints system to come into force this year Universities could face fines of £500,000 or 2% of their income if they are found to have failed to protect free speech.

Unfortunately, the Labour government does not only empower authoritarian and populist narratives in the area of immigration. With a new system to guarantee "free speech" at universities, they legitimize a favorite talking point and gateway drug of the far right.

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That toy desk still makes me laugh

FIFA needs to be reformed from the top.
It needs to go back to basics, to start from scratch: to be based on the love of football on not the love of money.

Not sure how to go about that.
Any ideas?

Oh but MAGAts will love this.
"We must care for our own before we try to fix the world" yet they voted for a government for the rich, by the rich, who despise the poor.