Free Electricity. Like, at no cost. For everyone. Now. Let's talk about affordability, abundance, and Australia--and why thanks to Trump we can't have nice things

Now Australia has so much solar that they're *giving away electricity*, with three free hours of unlimited energy every day. Stick your dishwasher, clothes-dryer and EV charger on a timer, invest in a battery or two, and fill your boots:

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Balkonkraftwerk: Germany's Free Solar Program YouTube video by Happy Eco News

More than a million German renters are generating their own clean electricity — not with rooftop solar, but with two panels plugged into a regular wall outlet on their balcony. No electrician. No permits. No landlord permission required.
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Our NHS is not for sale.

But when MPs accept large donations from figures associated with private healthcare, the public has a right to ask how that might shape future policy.

Don't stay in the dark. Find out if your local representative is accepting donations: link in our bio.

Farage is a pint-supping hero but Rayner is a vape-puffing villain. This is why — The i Paper The prospect of Angela Rayner becoming the Labour Party’s first woman prime minister is irresistible to much of the British media as it drools at the headlines in store.

Misogyny, classism or a mixture of both?
How Farage and Tice get an easy ride, but Angela Rayner is treated with contempt by the media.

🚨KEIR STARMER IS SPEARHEADING ONE OF THE MOST SHOCKING ATTACKS ON CIVIL LIBERTIES IN MODERN TIMES YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

More than 3,200 lawyers including 300 top barristers and retired judges have called on the Prime Minister to drop his plan to restrict the right to trial by jury
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Britain's 50 richest families hold more wealth than 50% of the population!

75% of the British public support a wealth tax..

..And yet Labour, Reform and the Tories don't!

#Labour 🔥🌹
#Reform 🤡
#Tories 🤮
#localelections2026 ❌️
#UseYourVote 🗳
#GreenParty ❌️
#YourParty ❌️
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We should be learning from other countries...

YOU BROUGHT A HOME NEXT TO TRAFALGAR SQUARE. THAT IS NOT A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBOURHOOD. HEAVEN HAS BEEN THERE SINCE 1979

astonishing levels of Nimby

This ‘link’ has profound impact on our whole economy - you can read our report here: www.datocms-assets.com/166710/17694...

World’s largest offshore wind farm is getting plugged in Hornsea 3 – a vast, offshore, wind farm project – has reached Norfolk, as renewables cut costs and reduce reliance on gas

£1bn saved in March from wind and solar.

Now the world’s largest wind farm has begun connecting to the UK.

So why exactly is net zero meant to be a problem?

eastangliabylines.co.uk/energy/world...

The far right of politics is stoking hate when we need freedom from fear YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

The far right of politics is stoking hate when we need freedom from fear youtu.be/UxbcWmlRruQ?... What can we do about it?

Media coverage of violence against women reaches ‘dismal’ low, report finds Analysis finds stories citing terms of misogynistic abuse fell to 1.3% of global online news in 2025 Media coverage of violence against women and girls and misogynistic harassment is at a “pitiful” low, despite a proliferation of high-profile cases of men abusing women and children, and a rise in AI-assisted violence against women and girls, new research shows. An analysis of 1.14bn online stories published worldwide between 2017 and 2025 found that the proportion of articles that include terms relating to misogynistic abuse dropped to a “dismal” 1.3% of all global online news in 2025, the lowest level in that period. Coverage peaked at 2.2% in 2018, the height of the #MeToo movement. In Africa, where multiple conflicts have involved extreme levels of sexual violence, coverage sank to a nine-year low of 1.18% in 2024. Continue reading...

Media coverage of violence against women reaches ‘dismal’ low, report finds

More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project Exclusive: Experts say scheme will help repair damaged marine ecosystems while sequestering large amounts of carbon More than 15m juvenile oysters are to be released into the North Sea in one of the biggest rewilding projects in UK waters. The scheme, which will use a unique rearing process, hopes to re-establish a huge oyster bed around Orkney that experts say will create a “trophic cascade” of climate and ecological benefits. Continue reading...

More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project

Moment Nigel Farage henchmen manhandle disabled OAP in parking row Henchmen working for the divisive Reform leader were seen on camera manhandling a retired engineer who was trying to park in a disabled spot to drop off his wife in Shetland

Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use.

Lovely People.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Brutal assessment. Hard to argue with.

Starmer treats the British public with absolute contempt again! ⤵️

No 10 has claimed that neither Starmer or ex-Foreign secretary David Lammy knew until earlier this week that Mandelson had failed the security vetting process! 😤

#petermandelson
#EpsteinFiles ⤵️
#localelections2026 ❌️
#StarmerOut ✅️

Could new voting trials drag UK elections into modern life? For the first time in over a century, how – and when – we vote in the UK may finally change

UK elections still run on a one-day model set in 1872.

We say voting is accessible - But only if you’re free on a Thursday

A few areas are about to test something very different

And it could quietly change more than just when people vote

The gang of four: how a cabal of property moguls is laying waste to the Tees Valley In a series of articles, I’m going to describe the activities of the Gang of Four, and their incessant drive for wealth accumulation. How this drive is translated into an unending search for the next ...

In a series of articles, I’m going to describe the activities of the Gang of Four, and their drive for wealth accumulation

northeastbylines.co.uk/business/the...

EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Br...

Thanks 2 those who picked up my findings + uncovered lots more twists + turns @bylinetimes.bsky.social @ollyhaynes.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @josiahmortimer.bsky.social @writesbright.bsky.social @petergeoghegan.bsky.social @desmog.com. Mainstream media, hbu? bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/e...

📣 BREAKING: Lord Neil Kinnock calls for Proportional Representation!

The former Labour leader joins a growing number of voices pushing for voting system change.

A consensus is building: FPTP must go.

Watch a clip from his interview with @emmaburnell.bsky.social for LabourList and the Fabians👇

Claims and ideas which happen to favour the ruling class don't dominate public life by accident. They're paid for by oligarchs and corporations then promoted by media outlets other oligarchs and corporations own. Once they've been drummed into our ears enough, they're internalised as "common sense".

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There are 22 key risks from #ClimateChange

But we have the solutions & tools 🔍⚖️ to take #ClimateAction

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graph: IPCC

Why was Rishi Sunak allowed to do this?!

Screenshot of POLITICO London Playbook email, showing Palantir sponsorship

Oh, FGS -

@politico.com is taking sponsorship money from Palantir - running their ads through news updates.

That's absolutely the *last* thing we need in our politics, Palantir going straight for the political-media environment at a time when we need massive scrutiny of their contracts in the UK.

There's a simple means of telling whether someone can be trusted: when they get something wrong, do they admit it?
A consistent feature of Trump and the Maga crowd, of Farage, Truss, Johnson, Le Pen, Weidel and their counterparts around the world is that they do not admit to getting things wrong.

I wish there was.

Streeting has taken the most in donations from private health firms of any MP.

It’s a conflict of interest big enough to be seen from space.

It’s extremely worrying that Starmer is happy with this.

Can only think Labour does not want a publicly funded, publicly delivered NHS.

Richard Tice tax row is 'minor administrative error', party claims A property company owned by the Reform UK deputy leader failed to pay £91,000 in tax on dividends, according to the Sunday Times.

Odd how the minor administrative errors always seem to produce the same results.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?

These people call themselves patriots. Almost invariably, they turn out to be stooges of foreign powers. goodlawproject.org/orbans-pay-c...

Sky hill bills.

Rising rents.

And more energy spikes coming down the track.

We should be investing in renewable energy to lower our bills - and end Rip Off Britain.

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