“Labour must grab the microphone from Reform UK and stand up for true British values” @lucympowell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What?! After 20 years of lobbying for dubious oil states & rampant tech bros, Tony Blair? AND Chilcott inquiry: The process for deciding Iraq war was legal was “perfunctory... precise grounds on which it was made remains unclear”. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

He was never that. You need to understand what he is and how far back that goes.

Resolution Foundation tells UK govt to cut national insurance, increase income tax. This will hike taxes on pensioners. 2m live in poverty. 110,000 a year die in fuel poverty. Why not tax dividends and capital gains at the same rates as wages, investment income surcharge, wealth taxes?

Boring can be brilliant. In Pueblo, Colorado, they're planning to replace a coal plant with one of largest clean energy hubs in US. At its core: a thermal battery. These batteries can provide round-the-clock heat, slashing emissions, creating jobs, and improving public health.

This is a disgrace they need to fire the person at the BBC who is charge of the News, they are clearly biased.

Worth a read www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

Oh look – it is the beginning of what @georgemonbiot.bsky.social calls an onanocracy – including one guy suing another for $15bn for pointing out he’s a pervert, but all friends in power really.

An NHS doctor who was working at St. Thomas' hospital, which is on the route where the far right marched:

This is how blatantly the #BBC and other news favours Reform. This is appalling and unbalanced and needs addressing NOW. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

📢 THIS 🔽 cannot be repeated enough. It's what none of our political class seem prepared to admit. Until they do admit it, there is little prospect of effective action being taken to fix it.

It melts my head that X is still used for official Government communications, and, catching up on today's news and the fact we have a foreign billionaire inciting violence on our streets, it's clearer than ever that this should end. I raised this in Parliament last week 👇

UK govt infatuation with nuclear power continues. Plans for Small Modular Reactors in places around UK No SMR has ever been built in the West. Those that have been tried have faced the familiar issues of escalating costs and delays A 🧵about this nuclear agreement www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Eurovision should stand for peace, joy and shared humanity — not complicity in genocide. The BBC must withdraw from coverage if Israel is allowed to participate. Full statement 👉 bit.ly/eurovisionBBC

Protesting against genocide is not terrorism.

Israel admit they have killed or injured more than 200,000 Palestinians since 9 October 2023, or over 10% of Gaza's entire population. In UK terms that would be like killing or injuring 6,800,000 people. And still Labour insist they can't see why it's genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Make politics what you do, not have done to you: join.greenparty.org.uk

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

If you want an informed explanation of what the messages on the bullet casings used by Tyler Robinson actually mean to the extreme far right internet edge-lord culture that he was embedded in, please watch this excellent video from @roterote.bsky.social. #r4today vm.tiktok.com/ZNdboB7vo/

Have signed this joint statement, together with Green Party leaders from across the UK calling on the BBC to withdraw from Eurovision if Israel is allowed to participate. The BBC can not be complicit in any whitewashing of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

The public is being misled. Not just by Reform & the Tories, but by our government too. Small boat arrivals make up 5% of immigrants arriving but take up 100% of the debate. Thanks, Zack, for speaking the truth. It's something sorely lacking in any discussions about migration.

Sickening. Starmer has nothing to say when I confront him about the Israeli companies parading "battle-tested" weapons at the #DSEI2025 Arms Fair in London - in other words, weapons that have been used to kill men, women and children in Gaza #StopDSEI

Exciting clean energy breakthrough if you missed it: Finland launches world's largest sand battery in Pornainen! 13m tall, stores 100 MWh of renewable power as heat in sand at 450°C for weeks. Heats homes/offices/schools, cuts CO2 by 70% vs old woodchip plant. www.independent.co.uk/tech/sand-ba...

Arrest him. Stop the genocide.

Despite the ominous strategic rhetoric, the formidable nuclear weapons lobby, and massive budgets, more bombs will not make us safe from sudden attack, writes @joecirin.bsky.social. Read more in "The dangerous new Washington consensus for more nuclear weapons."

Exhibit A 🤨

The BBC are constantly fawning over Farage's every move despite Reform only having four MPs. Our national broadcaster should reflect the whole country, not just one man’s ego.

That's why we've launched a campaign to balance the BBC: www.libdems.org.uk/bbc

"energy scenarios underestimated the potential of the less exciting but proven solutions – things like energy efficiency, public transport, home insulation – while being too optimistic about... technologies like fossil fuel with carbon capture &storage...” Dr Gaurav Gharde @tyndallcentre.bsky.social

As @greenparty.org.uk has always said, the #BadgerCull is unscientific, unjustified, inhumane and disastrous for the #Biodiversity on these battered islands protectthewild.substack.com/p/over-23000...

However, Mr Polanski ruled out working with Sir Keir Starmer’s current government. “While they’re still arming a genocide, cutting disability payments, and the two-child benefit cap, I wouldn’t dream of working with them,” he said. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Journalists questioning Nigel Farage should be pointing out Brexit has been a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings. How hard can this be? youtu.be/cKXFjbxSBBI?...

UK should stop investing in carbon capture for power, government adviser says. #CCS “a gift to the oil and gas industry, and carry on the fiction that somehow enormous amounts of public money should enable them to keep doing it”. www.ft.com/content/5595...

Then re-nationalise the criminally incompetent water companies. Claw back the billions of £s stolen via VIP Lane, test&trace etc. and leave Nan's bank account alone. De-link the price of gas from the price of electricity, now that renewables are cheaper. Hire the job seeking Dr.s FFS! et f* cetra!

Three simple things your MP should do from @99organisation.bsky.social‬ 99-percent.org/three-things...

My article about US spytech firm Palantir taking over key UK digital infrastructure is free to read on Substack Please consider subscribing/donating ko-fi.com/europeanpowell I am a volunteer raising awareness about free zones, which Thiel's AI empire is fused with open.substack.com/pub/european...

New interview with Greta Thunberg in Barcelona yesterday by Middle East Eye. The climate activist and arguably the leading humanitarian voice of our age is about to set sail along with dozens of ships from dozens of nations to bring urgent food and medical aid to millions of people in Gaza

“Having lived many years in the UK I got used to British standards in life; when back in Europe I realised that you can expect so much more”

There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life

From taxing private jets to closing offshore loopholes, and more. Here's how we could make our economy fairer and raise £60 billion to revitalise key services to deliver first class healthcare, education and more. taxjustice.uk/blog/how-to-...

Former head of EDF says the EPR nuclear reactor - the one EDF is building at Hinkley & Sizewell - is “phenomenally complex”, “almost unbuildable” Here's how costs of Sizewell compares with other reliable low carbon power Why did UK govt go ahead with this boondoggle? www.ft.com/content/ee89...

There is so much that a Labour government could and should do for the benefit of all: people & planet. Not as currently for big finance & short-termism. This article summarises workable measures that should be part of a massive Uk policy course correction. theecologist.org/2025/aug/21/...

The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”

‪'Not primarily about the safety of children'... The real authoritarian and anti democratic objectives of the Online 'Safety' Act legislation.

The thing about 'act as if your house is on fire' is that you can get out of your house It's more like our boat's on fire. Or indeed our spaceship

Another Category A event - the most serious and the second in the space of two years - which carries an "actual or high potential for radioactive release to the environment," at Faslane. I'm sure @BBCScotlandNews and @jackiebmsp will be all over this. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2538811...

Former UK ambassador Craig Murray publishes the document that proves British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has been lying about the grounds for proscribing Palestine Action: www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...