Drax has agreed to pay £25m after Ofgem found inaccurate data on wood pellet sourcing at its North Yorkshire biomass plant. The case highlights concerns about biomass as a renewable energy source and the substantial subsidies it receives. theguardian.com/business/artic…

Will never not be weird how little pick up the stories on record-breaking temperatures now get. We've just totally normalised one of the most abnormal things to happen in the history of human civilisation. businessgreen.com/news/4355692/t…

Baroness Charlotte Owen’s report card : “in short, it’s been a busy year. Charlotte turns up a lot, says little and votes reasonably often. To break all that down a little: in the first three months of 2024, Charlotte claimed an average in attendance fees of £5,309 a month,

Tonight, more than 750,000 Israelis, are on the streets of israel calling for the immediate release of all hostages and the immediate impeachment of @Netanyahu and his messianic corrupted government. This is the largest protest in the history of Israel. #BringThemHome #EndTheWar

Liz Truss thinks we should put the retirement age up to 80. Repost if she should work in a lettuce farm until she is 80.

"Pensioner sued for not paying water bills to polluting firm in sea sewage protest Chris Stanley, 81, is refusing to pay Southern Water after the company was fined a record £90m for dumping sewage." And there it is. The paradox, the insanity and obscenity of the sewage scandal.

Streeting says Labour wants to use the spare capacity in the private healthcare sector He knows theres no spare capacity - its taken from the NHS. What Lab should do is build NHS capacity, not divert tax payers cash to the private sector to deliberately undermine the NHS further

The Grenfell Inquiry report explicitly stated that the Coalition govt’s attack on red tape meant “even matters affecting the safety of life were ignored, delayed or disregarded”. David Cameron's attempt to claim otherwise is politics at its very worst. theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

“In the first three months of 2024, Charlotte claimed an average in attendance fees of £5,309 a month…” She was gifted this job for life, at age 29. Answerable to no-one, no real duties, unsackable. She just needs to turn up to get our taxpayer money. prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/67789…

Two years ago Queen Elizabeth II passed away, may she rest in peace 🙏 Yet in recent weeks both Good Morning Britain and Newsnight gave the disgraced former chancellor whose mini budget trashed the economy, and who sat at the Queen's funeral laughing, a platform If Kwarteng had

I'm no expert on CCS but if this study saying its realistic potential is way overstated its v important to take into account. Perhaps the IPCC authors on this are enthusiasts. Perhaps its hard to estimate. But not sensible to gamble on an untested tech lets cut emissions!

Jacob Rees-Mogg has hundreds of millions in Tax Havens on which he pays no tax. But he has 6 children going to Private Schools, the VAT will be some of the only tax that he pays. There are many, many people like this, particularly at the most expensive schools.

2024: Daniel Bruce, "We've analysed more than 5,000 contracts.. Multiple corruption red flags in £15 billion worth of contracts.. That's almost £1 in every £3 of what the Conservative gov spent in it's covid response.. A system beset with system weaknesses, political choices that

£15 billion. theguardian.com/politics/artic…

When ‘cheap’ is the sole determinant of our food system. No questions asked. theguardian.com/global-develop…

By removing a single gene from 25,000 genes in a wild species of banana and inserting it into the chromosome of the popular Cavendish banana, scientists have created a genetically modified strain which is resistant to the devastating Panama TR4 disease. theguardian.com/australia-news…

NEWS Covid contracts of £15bn had 3 or more CORRUPTION ‘red flags’ ▫️£4.1 BILLION went to those politically connected to Tory party Plus £30.7 BILLION in high value contracts LACKED COMPETITION👀 Corruption? You tell me Follow ⁦Transparency International UK⁩ theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Please join us in calling for Ed Miliband to put an end the UK government's financing of burning trees for electricity. It's a disaster for our climate, for Nature and for health... funded by subsidies meant for genuinely sustainable alternatives.

The Green Party has said they would rejoin the EU and get rid of Brexit ASAP. RT if it is time for Brexit to go.

Increasingly clear that Rishi Sunak consciously chose not to act on the prisons crisis — and that his decision to call a July election was, in part, to avoid implementing early release measures himself You get the sense that Starmer's anger on this point is very genuine