How much does an illegal war in the middle east cost?

Green leader Zack Polanski gave a landmark speech on education reform to the National Education Union’s annual conference. He drew a standing ovation with his wide-ranging ambitions for massive increases in education spending funded by a wealth tax.

Polanski said polls indicate the party could win "five, six, maybe even more Senedd members, depending on which poll you believe". Greens say they could be 'kingmakers' after Senedd election www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Yet the Prime Minister is falling into the habit of pressing on with these muddled lines of attack, even as the Greens’ poll numbers continue to tick upwards." Maybe instead of trying cheap, failed attacks the government could tackle inequality instead? www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

April fools... but the only joke is Labour refusing to nationalise water to protect our rivers and lower our bills

Another triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kent residents can invest from as little as £100 in local solar projects, cutting energy bills across community buildings | Kent Community Energy

The Daily Mail ‘newspaper’ with yet another clear example of right-wing treachery… …Anti-patriotic, at this time of national crisis… It shows who’s side they are on, and it’s not ours…

This is an extraordinary front page for a British newspaper to run. Donald Trump’s delinquency, derangement & imperilling of international security is somehow a stick with which to beat our own Prime Minister, who has negotiated the current horror show rather well. It is actually sickening.

📌 ICYMI — Voters in Reform Seats Don’t Like Nigel Farage’s Plan to Rip Up Workers’ Rights Even voters in Nigel Farage's own constituency support the new workers rights that he has committed to tear up, a major new poll suggests

The Green Party are on the cusp of being the leading political party in the polls. Felt pretty emotional to get this reception from thousands of educators and support staff. Hope is here. It's all of us. And the tide is turning - let's do this! 💚 Join.greenparty.org.uk

Do read the full document linked here. These ghouls are increasingly Trumpian in their contempt for the truth…

Here's what Keir Starmer doesn't want you to know about the war on Iran:

Tory and Reform messaging about squeezing out "every last drop" of North Sea oil exposes its own fatal flaw. It makes clear that fossil fuels are inherently finite & will run out (likely soon for the North Sea). We don't talk about using up "every last photon" of the Sun - because it's plentiful.

🟨 Print Edition — Farage’s Staggering Side Hustles Nigel Farage has spent more than 1,113 hours – or 140 working days – on his various other jobs since being elected to Parliament in July 2024.

Hungary has the highest solar share of any country in the world - 27% of all electricity from solar in 2025, up from just 2% in 2018. In August 2024, solar hit 37% of monthly generation. The country now has >8 GW of installed capacity - a target supposed to be reached by 2030, hit 6yrs early.

The Philippines is massively speeding-up solar deployment projects www.pv-magazine.com/2026/03/31/p...

“… ‘feeling uncomfortable’ is not reasonable grounds for excluding people…” podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Drip, drip, drip…. 1-New investigation has reportedly backed up evidence given by #EpsteinSurvivor www.thedailybeast.com/new-evidence... 2-Epstein's Missing Computers open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn... 3-Were Documents Shredded at the Prison Where Epstein Died? open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

Googles 'reform freepost address' so this latest round of rubbish leaflets can be returned to sender...

Variations on "OMG the end of air travel" comments here, as if the concept of powered flight is welded to one option, the consumption of specialised fossil fuel. Technological leaps are demand/profit driven. Look at the recent, rapid evolution of battery tech, from moribund 'big lead acid thing'.

Some Americans seem a bit confused about this but no you can't unilaterally declare peace

Good story, but too awkward for a paper south of the border — even those hostile to Starmer — to lead on since it gets into a complex set of allegiances and financial obligations.

Europe is the shield against imperialism. The US is gone.

British Steel on track to be fully nationalised within weeks. Since privatisation steel companies have received subsidies; govts didn't take equity stake. Water and energy are also vital. Need to be nationalised to promote investment, end profiteering, reduce business and household costs.

"Dear people of the UK, when you go to vote on May 7th, just before you write the X in the box, count to 10 and think about what's happening in America. A quick recap below:" via The Daily Scar at Facebook

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I like that Solar just got so good it beat nuclear power to death for most sane applications.

Not Farage Oil Since 2019, Spain has doubled its wind and solar capacity, adding over 40 GW - more than any other EU country except Germany, whose power market is twice the size of Spain’s. www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/s...

We are horrified . It’s barbaric. Labour is done . You cannot support Labour Friends of Ethnic Cleansing if you have a heart and a soul … it’s inhumane

This is Apartheid. It's morally disgusting - and comes at the same time as Israel is committing an ongoing genocide. To see the Labour Government defend Israel repeatedly will horrify the British public - it cannot go on like this.

Exactly!!! #Iran #Epstein

Reports in Iran: 'The former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, citing Article 8 of the Rome Statute (International Criminal Court), warned the UK leader that allowing the US to use the Diego Garcia military base to attack Iran constitutes an "act of aggression."'

Farage keeps saying "renewable energy 'won't work', but it already is ... Britain is presently generating 71% of electricity from renewables & is even exporting some to boot" Our bills are so expensive is because "energy prices are set by the expensive rip off fossil fuel gas price" via Tim Longson

Two young boys were locked up inside ICE's notorious detention center in Texas. Then Ms. Rachel shared their stories.

Last year, Trump signed executive orders to fast-track AI data center construction and weaken state-level AI regulations. Now a new AI industry group says it will spend $100M+ on the midterms to push Trump's AI agenda. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction. Be warned.

Ooh, someone's rattled.

“…then, suddenly, it turned out that Hitler was not respectable after all…”

About 80% of global energy still comes from fossil fuels, leaving economies vulnerable But in 2025, wind & solar for the first time supplied more EU power than fossil fuels Spain & Portugal already meet much of their demand with renewables – decentralised, resilient power systems can reduce risks

The truth of it.

Wine-Throated Hummingbird a bumblebee-sized hummingbird in Central America 📷: Luis Burbano #birds

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

Out door knocking in Harehills, people are so tired of the same old politics, racist reform and genocidal Labour! we need hope in out communities and we need change! it's time to vote Green!

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When Donald Trump ran, his two biggest campaign promises were not to start new wars and to bring down prices. So what does he do? He starts a new war that drives up prices. Such breathtaking deceit and incompetence.

We could put a solid dent in our national debt if we put Traitor Trump's impeachment trial on Pay-Per-View.