Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves”
It’s so obvious, it hurts.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...
Thames Water infrastructure average age is 79 yrs. 40% of assets are 100+ yrs old.
Water industry average is 56 years.
At current rate, it will take 700+ yrs to renew assets.
Since 1989 industry neglected investment, £88bn+ dividends paid, customers fleeced.
Privatisation isn't the answer.
Really interesting discussion between @richardjmurphy.bsky.social and John Christensen on the conflict between extreme capitalism and democracy. Well worth a watch.
youtu.be/WYY7cQz2aZQ?...
Here it is, all broken down and detailed. Almost 2 MILLION QUID income, on top of his parliamentary salary. And that's what he officially declares.
If you really believe that #Farage is on the side of working people... Well, let's just say you're a tad gullible! 🤮
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Extraordinary that nowhere in an article on resilience did PM find space to include the growing threat posed to UK security by the dramatic decline in the health of nature around the world - especially since his own intelligence chiefs have recently spelt it out for him in no uncertain terms 👇
Heat pump orders up 2x in a month. Solar panel inquiries up 250%. EV leases up 85%.
The Iran crisis has made energy security feel personal.
I understand why: I have solar panels, a heat pump & EV on a flexible tariff. When gas prices spike, my bills barely move.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Interesting read (from 2022), considering current availability issues of fertiliser from the Middle East...
Fossils, Fertilizers, and False Solutions: Agrochemicals Are Propping up the Fossil Economy - Center for International Environmental Law share.google/z9qYj5MquOoM...
YouGov shows people’s top local concerns are housing, services and the cost of living. Yet tabloids keep steering the conversation toward crime, migration and “culture war” rows. It’s worth noticing who sets the agenda, and whose problems get sidelined.
Local elections decide who keeps your streets safe, your roads maintained, your bins collected, your parks open, your libraries running and your most vulnerable neighbours supported. If you want a say in how your community works, this is the vote that counts.
Who do you trust to do this properly?
Revealed: #Reform UK Crypto Partner's Ties to Pro-Trump Big Tech and Kemi Badenoch – Byline Times share.google/RdQBWEYjZNtm...
I think we have filled all the gaps ☺️
No one likes to be told what to think.
Yet that's exactly what is popping through our letterboxes.
May local elections are for councils with local responsibilities.
Peter Thurlow warns how not to be fooled.
EXPOSED: How Viktor #Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around #Reform UK – Byline Times share.google/5bZgPg1gUKux...
Mid-afternoon today, 16 April, it is exactly 280 years since the slaughter on Culloden Moor. We should have one minute of silence for the Highlands and Islands.
It's important people understand the importance of taxes and how they benefit society, rather than being labelled as something evil and something that should be avoided.
The following video is well worth a watch to help improve awareness: youtu.be/FlqoKplKNz4?...
People really need to better understand the importance and benefit of paying taxes - and it's not to enable the government to spend.
This video by @richardjmurphy.bsky.social explains what taxes actually give us...
youtu.be/FlqoKplKNz4?...
Your regular reminder 👇
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive.
#PhDsky
"Magyar wasn't engaging in a policy debate... His framing was Viktor Orbán and Fidesz are a criminal organization and we need to dismantle this... he connected the impact of the criminal organization to these rural Hungarians' experience."
@ambpressman.bsky.social on how Magyar beat Orbán.
No different to Trump's Republicans and other wannabe criminal organisations such as Farage's Reform in the UK.
They're not working for the people. They're criminals actively seeking to enrich and empower themselves at everyone else's expense.
When Labour next tell you there is no money left and that's why they can't help people to heat their homes, show them this.
Ministers are exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. I've signed the open letter to Wes Streeting calling on him to get Palantir out of the NHS. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/we...
NEW Hungary’s new PM has described Viktor Orbán’s funding of propaganda bodies as criminal and vowed to investigate.
Bad news for ultraconservatives in the UK!
Alice McCool's deep dive into Orban, his propaganda college MCC – and its links to the British right ⏬
www.thenerve.news/p/viktor-orb...
Could MattGPT face scrutiny under the UK’s ‘proceeds of crime’ law? The British right is awash with money from Orban thinktanks…which Hungary’s new PM says was stolen.
Brilliant deep dive into Orban’s vast UK network by @McCoolingtons
for @thenerve_news. 👏
Yes is winning on 58%
Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.
Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
"EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK"
[Farage & Goodwin part of the #EpsteinFiles funding network]
via Byline Times
bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/e...
“We allow at least 100,000 trawlers to scrape the ocean floor, w/out even knowing what they are catching. It is important that governments… exclude bottom trawling from large swathes of the ocean, particularly from so-called marine protected areas.”
Sign: action.greenpeace.org.uk/ban-destruct...
