There is absolutely no excuse for NOT doing this. The owners would barely notice. theguardian.com/environment/20…

WHAT THE MEDIA DON'T TELL YOU We're heading for 5°C or 6°C of heating over land, meaning goodbye to your local forest. We've known this since the 1980s. "The media are not doing their job properly" says leading climate scientist Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣.

Modigliana, Italy. Last year this area saw flooding and it was said to be a 1 in 500 year event. This year the flooding returns, with the potential to be worse. Our climate is shifting.

I posted this yesterday but repeating as it's so awful. £4 million donation tied with arms sales, oil & gas and private healthcare. And the cynicism of labour accepting it in the one week where they wouldn't have to declare it until after the election. opendemocracy.net/en/labour-give…

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Pensioners should not need the Winter Fuel Allowance in the first place. Maybe the real issue is that UK pensioners have the lowest state pension in the developed world. What does this tell us about the 6th richest economy in the world? #bbcqt

Despite Americans paying double, the US health system ranks last compared with peer nations. Millions have no health insurance. Financiers, not doctors, decide healthcare. Bloated prices, profiteering & neglect. Neoliberals want to inflict that on us. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s…

Rinse and repeat across all 74 Special Economic Zones and 12 Freeports, secondary legislation means zero Parliamentary or public scrutiny on the private sector. This was the plan all along, deregulated SEZs carve-out entire regions of a country with their own private laws

When someone says we need to change the NHS to an insurance system, show them this. Also, if you underfund a service it won't work as effectively. The way to fix the NHS is to fund it properly Dr Chaand Nagpaul, "Many of our European nations provide a more accessible service...

Oil & gas-linked groups to sponsor a FIFTH of climate events: Labour Conference "Deputy leader of The Green Party Zack Polanski, called the findings "deeply concerning", adding that there should be “a firewall between MPs and the oil and gas lobby.” 👇🏼 globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/f…

The Labour party has barred me from its 2024 conference while allowing BAE Systems to sponsor events there. BAE Systems supplies components for Israel's F-35 jets which are being used to annihilate Gaza - all with Labour's approval. declassifieduk.org/labour-bars-in…

The BBC runs a report on Israeli soldiers pushing Palestinian bodies off the roof of a building & the presenter then remarks that the footage is an example of the many fronts Israel is fighting on No, its an example of the IDF committing war crimes.

In January 2025 Energy Prices are expected to go up at least another 3% in the UK. In France they will drop 10%, due to falling energy costs even though their bills are already 40% lower than ours. We are being ripped off.

An Israeli sniper shot a child in the head in her own home. But you wouldn't know that from this BBC News (World) headline.

Farrukh

Private equity is asset stripping taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/09/2… The reality is that private equity is not the best of capitalism, as it would like to pretend. Back in the 1970s it was described as what it really is. The description commonly used then for those undertaking this activity

Laura Kuenssberg is paid £325,000 - £329,999. Retweet if you think she is overpaid.

It’s hard to imagine a more shameful indictment of our sewage crisis than what I witnessed on the River Avon this afternoon. A flock of swans & ducks feeding & cavorting in a plume of raw sewage, just a few hundred metres from the centre of the genteel City of Bath. This huge

Water companies paid £85bn in dividends since 1989. Borrowed £65bn+ No new reservoirs. Sewage in rivers. Their shares worthless; debt junk. Govt won't let them go bust, buy at low price . Will restructure & reprivatise; pass cost to customers/taxpayers. leftfootforward.org/2024/09/we-are…

Your reminder that Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘party of protest’ received 3,169,202 more votes than this lot 👏🏼