Finally we the official legend for the various elements in this magnificent Trump icon

Mahmood’s migration changes will deliver fraction of claimed savings, data suggests Exclusive: Analysis of government figures indicates public finances will gain £600m not £10bn if migrants’ access to benefits is reduced

Mahmood’s migration changes will deliver fraction of claimed savings, data suggests

Analysis of government figures indicates public finances will gain £600m not £10bn if migrants’ access to benefits is reduced
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Farage under increasing pressure to sack Tice over allegations he failed to pay tax Reform’s business spokesperson Richard Tice is facing questions over his tax affairs, but claims the allegations are a ‘smear’

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is coming under increasing pressure to sack his deputy leader Richard Tice amid fury over his tax affairs. Awkward as Tice jointly owns Reform UK with Farage.
Reform is a party of multi-millionaire tax avoiders.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather

A single line in this piece just made my day:

“The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.”

Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump warns Iran ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’ as strikes deadline looms Striking such infrastructure targets would almost certainly violate the Geneva Convention

Donald Trump has warned that Iran’s millennia-old “civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again”.
It's hard to state how inappropriate, illegal and insane this is.
In just over a year, Trump's made the US a rogue state.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Resident doctors were the stand out losers in the public sector on pay cuts before 2024

So it stands to reason that they would need to have higher pay awards to return to baseline pay levels

Best not look at MP pay @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military.

The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him.

Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

Can we have this for Manadon @plymouthcc.bsky.social ?

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

‘Her head was broken’: parents at Iranian school bombed by US describe their worst day Hours before the world learned that a US missile had hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school, parents were already searching the rubble for their sons and daughters. In this exclusive report, four families descr...

This is a very hard read (the photos alone are heartbreaking) but such important journalism: four parents of the Iran school bombing victims speak about the worst day of their lives. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Pharmacy research: driving safer outcomes in substance misuse As chief scientist of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), I witness daily how pharmacy professionals combine expertise in medicines, strong research capability and front line care. In the complex…

Here, #AmiraGuirguis emphasises that research offers a crucial opportunity in shaping healthcare policy and practice, particularly in the developing landscape of substance misuse

#ukpharmacy #substancemisuse

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Chart of last 24 hours of electricity generation. Green line high above everything is wind power at 23GW, yellow solar line has a curved bump rising for the middle of the day to 8GW. Other lines below these show nuclear at 4GW and gas and transfers far below

It’s windy and sunny 🌞

Right now renewables are producing 71% of UK electricity.

Fossil fuels only 6%.

grid.iamkate.com

The Prime Minister’s plan to offer rapid routes to settlement for those earning six-figure salaries whilst punishing and making lower-paid workers wait up to 15 years appears to be based on the notion that care workers are “low-skilled” because they are low-paid - its an absolute disgrace.

This is utter garbage. I believe in net zero. We need to get there. But renewables are not competitive. That's why they are subsidised. Fossil fuel markets are highly competitive. It shouldn't be hard to hold these two thoughts at the same time.

You might have formed the impression that Paul Johnson, former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, knows what he's talking about. The media treats him like the voice of God. But here he is - and not for the first time - talking out of his hat. Let's break it down in a short thread. 🧵

Do settled migrants really get 'immediate access' to social housing? Shabana Mahmood claimed settled migrants would "receive immediate access to social housing" if Labour didn't step in. Is it true?

Fact-checking Mahmood's deliberately misleading claims about migrants and social housing.

www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

UK religious leaders urge Mahmood to ‘slow down and rethink’ refugee plans Cutting period of protection from five years to 30 months is a risk to social cohesion, say bishops, rabbis and imam

UK religious leaders urge Mahmood to ‘slow down and rethink’ refugee plans

Cutting period of protection from five years to 30 months is a risk to social cohesion, say bishops, rabbis and imam

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Public drug use will spike when consumption sites close, advocates warn | CBC News Public drug use is set to spike in Ottawa, representatives from the city's two last supervised drug consumption sites are warning after the province cut their funding and told them to end their servic...

I’m alive because I was brought back to life at a supervised consumption site.

Without them:
No recovery.
No kids.
No life.

The drug supply today is even more toxic.

Closing these sites doesn’t stop drug use,
it stops people from surviving it.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Homelessness isn't just a housing issue, it's a childhood isssue as well."

Lee Ball from @salvationarmyuk.bsky.social stressing the importance of building protective pathways as early as possible
to a packed room at Pathways from Homelessness 2026.

The Science of Psychedelics with Dr Sam Gandy Join us for an in-depth examination of traditional + modern psychedelics, including their benefits for mental health. Followed by Q+A.

The Science of Psychedelics with Dr Sam Gandy

The Quad Theatre, Plymouth

Tuesday Apr 14 7pm to 9:30pm

I really value being able to see the reality of our energy situation- green transition winning!

This is a huge risk for people who need to collect daily.

Blossom in the @pathwayuk.bsky.social garden ☺️ @projectgivingback.bsky.social

Photovoltaic Plants with Battery Cheaper than Conventional Power Plants - Fraunhofer ISE The newest edition of the study by the Fraunhofer ISE on the electricity generation costs of various power plants shows that photovoltaic systems now produce electricity much more cheaply than either ...

Everything has changed ... except the claims of the fossil fuel lobbyists who infest politics and the media.
www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-med...

It is extremely difficult to construct a practical case against this position. Net Zero is now as much about patriotism as it is about climate change.

📢 FINAL CALL for Pathways from Homelessness on 18 & 19 March!

We are close to in-person capacity, so don’t delay in booking.
You can also attend online, giving full access to the conference live stream and to the on demand video box set after the event 👇
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I'd rather not!

GPs could prescribe naloxone for patients to hold at home?

⚠️ We have launched 2 new drug checking services in London - in @hackneycouncil.bsky.social & @camdencouncil.bsky.social. Read our statement below & check out our website for more info:
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Scary story- almost certainly unrelated to vaping- and not in Plymouth- in the US. Vapes remain way safer than smoking tobacco. Weird persistent fearmongering!

From mandatory ID cards to arresting pensioners for holding up cardboard signs to cosy deals with US tech spy firms:

It's good to see lawyers pushing back on their increasingly authoritarian Govenrment.

We must protect jury trials.