🚨 NEW: Inside Big Oil's campaign to push Labour to drill the North Sea
Oil & gas lobbyists have met UK and Scottish ministers more than once a week since Labour took office
MPs have asked questions in Parliament after meeting lobbyists, and more 🧵
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-h...
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically.
rdcu.be/dbFbB
Restoring measles-free status in the UK
Funding primary care sufficiently
Supporting community care via school nurses, midwives, & GPs
Robustly and consistently countering anti-vaccine lies
These are all needed to get us back to where we need to be
www.bmj.com/content/393/...
📝 The Transaction
Who will hold the threads of a community in 5 years?
A companion piece to What You Can’t Measure (link below, read first)
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Analysis: Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-rec...
Some of the world's largest businesses urging governments to back the electrification of economies as quickly as is feasibly possible. This is so self-evidently true that it remains utterly mad that it is somehow still up for debate. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526980...
This year @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social imposed a new GP contract
Provided an extra £1.50 to uncap the number of calls or requests per day & stand by the phone or computer
And if the job isn’t completed within 24hours the GP will be sanctioned
Job specifications below - can’t see a problem🤷🏻♂️
Report: privatisation of the NHS from Keep Our NHS Public
Hearing now how every transfer of resources from NHS into private sector reduces the capacity of public sector. 30 per cent is now more realistic figure for privatisation of the NHS - 5 big cataract surgery firms making 32% return on investment, £169m profit
Research now backs up that if you let X (formerly Twitter) algorithms determine what you read, your views will shift to the right theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-...
Australia added a nuke-equivalent of wind & solar every year for 8 years— accelerating. 6 replaced coal, 2 met new demand. Grid batteries now add a nuke-equivalent every ~22 months, delivering more overnight power than nuclear & charging on cheap solar. Prices are back at 2017 levels, trending down.
This!
We have so many rooftops.
So much better to cover current infrastructure with solar than to clog up our agricultural land.
Mid Suffolk’s leader explains why rooftop solar should come before rural land – and how the councils are delivering it. Report by Andy Mellen
eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/loc...
Even after the mansion tax is applied, the owner of a £5m home in Westminster will pay proportionately less in property tax than the owner of a £210k Band B property in Sunderland.
This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
Disappointed not to see reference to the shortage of midwives, and the challenging ratios of births to midwives. Years of stringing cuts have their effects on all aspects of health.
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
We have been living with unnecessary infections in hospitals for years. Ffp3 respirators work. They do outside too! No need to keep catching covid and risking #Longcovid. www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...
Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.
About that "skills shortage"?
"Employers’ annual spending on training for each member of staff has fallen by 28% in real terms since 2005, to £1,530, a level less than half the EU average."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Excerpt from article that reads "BBC insiders rejected any suggestion Reform was not being scrutinised, pointing to editorial guidelines requiring editors to take account of past and current electoral support. They added it was clear from all news outlets that Reform was “setting the political weather”."
Reform is setting the "political weather" because the BBC is giving it a platform for setting the "political weather".🤷
BBC under pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage
- featured in more News at Ten bulletins than Lib Dems over six months
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...
