We are living in one of the stupidest times in history.

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract. The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

Big pharma war on the UK Cancer drug lenalidomide had profit mark-up of 23,000%. Hydrocortisone tablets prices up by 10,000% Price of phenytoin sodium up by 2,300% - 2,600%. They are holding govt to ransom, want the NHS to pay more, fueling higher taxes, inflation. Must curb corporate power.

Big Doughnutty News. Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thames Water lenders submit rescue plan to stave off collapse- may write off a third of the £20bn debt. It can't solve the crisis: It is a monopoly No competition No substitute service Owners want profit Customers will be fleeced Public ownership is the only viable option.

Yes. That was always there. But ownership of British press was big factor & its outsize impact on the BBC. Other outlets did some great work but the lawsuit stopped all reporting dead. And it’s why the correct response to a SLAPP is a) protect your journalist & b) keep going.

I repeat, and will keep repeating, the question: why is anyone listening to this lobbyist for tech billionaires and dodgy oil regimes? He's been that far longer than PM www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat" Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Asbestos, mould, rotten seagulls and cells flooding with excrement are among the problems experienced in crumbling courts in England and Wales. Backlog of 76,957 Crown Court cases, 310,304 Magistrate Court cases. Country destroyed by austerity, rich get richer.

Donny, you are out of your element.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Please, for God's sake, put aside petty differences and practice some solidarity. We desperately need coherent and effective alternatives.

A patch of wild native rainforest in Glenbeg, Beara, looks okay from across the lake. But it's dying because of sheep, with zero ground flora or regenerating trees. The farmer should be offered double his farm payments to take the sheep out, but chances are he'd actually get nothing. It's insane.

UK could raise £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries. Why do so many people want giant SUVs? They damage roads, create more pollution, cause more serious injuries and take up bigger parking spaces. UK buyers pay 20 times less tax than in other European countries. Tax them.

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

Far right organisers in this country consistently side with foreign billionaires over our democratic institutions. They are not patriots. They are quislings.

The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality. We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.

Remember BHS. Paid £1.3bn dividend by borrowing £1bn, £1.2bn went to CEO's wife. Assets sweated. Company collapsed, £571m hole in pension schemes. PwC audit partner spent TWO hours on audit. No reform of corporate governance, audits. Rentier economy has deepened. Looting is a political choice.

If Peter Mandelson is too awful to be an ambassador, why should he still be a lord? Or is the bar lower? #BinMandy

Working class communities have a long history of anti racist solidarity. Billionaires poison everything. Sucking up wealth, hollowing out communities, spreading poverty, division and hatred. It’s time to tax the rich and repair our society. inews.co.uk/news/racism-...

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rentier economy. 61% of England local authority budgets spent on social care, mostly privatised. Adult social care providers profit margin up to 42%. Children's care homes, 23%. Money buys less. Front line services suffer. Political paralysis: No major party plans to end to privatisation.

1. Out of curiosity, I went through the feeds of some habitual tuna tormentors. I found they’re big on: - fox hunting - Reform UK - antagonism to asylum seekers. In other words, the same few antisocial (psychopathic?) men, turning up in all the bad places. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 🧵

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.

Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

Hong Kong billionaire, owner of Northumbrian Water, touted as Thames Water bidder. He won't provide necessary infrastructure investment. Any private owner would want profit, main cause of the crisis. Profits go abroad, misery stays home. Public ownership is the only way ahead. archive.ph/NCYXf

Big pharma picking our pockets. Advanz, the sole supplier of liothyronine tablets (thyroid drug) in the UK, hiked price from £20 to £248 per box – an increase of over 1,110%. Corporations devour everything, have no ethics. Must return to Labour's 2019 manifesto - govt to produce generic drugs.

This is a great idea. People should also visit factory farms and slaughterhouses to see where their meat comes from.

94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet. The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.

The most powerful force in American politics today is antiestablishment rage at a system that’s rigged against most people. Democrats should ignore the carping of corporate and Wall Street Democrats and embrace Mamdani and other young progressives as the future of the party.

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Millions of litres of oil seeping into UK soil from ageing electricity cables from the 1950s-1970s. 3m litres of oil spilt in southern England from cables owned by the UK Power Networks. Privatised utilities chasing profits/dividends, neglect investment, fleeced customers. Regulators let them.

The new draft contains just *one* mention of plastic production, and that’s only in the preamble. That’s ludicrous. We can’t recycle our way out of the #plastics crisis - the talks need to go on until a way can be found to agree wording on limits to production

Magnificent blog by @davidallengreen.bsky.social as always: davidallengreen.com/2025/07/cons... This screenshot he included sums it up…

They’re not reducing pollution – they’re redefining it. The Environment Agency’s own rules mean most sewage dumps don’t count. This isn’t regulation. It’s cover up. 💩

Sorry to burden you with another jaw-dropping scandal. But what the government intends to do to chemicals regulation in the UK is chilling. Its consultation was slipped out so quietly that most of us missed it. When I read it, I saw why. This week's column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨BREAKING🚨 ICJ ruling that a healthy environment is a human right could be a real turning point in setting out governments’ legal responsibility to tackle #climate crisis 👇

Lauren Boebert has been pushing to erase protections for gray wolves. PLEASE sign this petition to Congress to help try to stop this cruel carnage! environmental-action.org/take-action/...

Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge

When the habitability of the planet & billions of lives are at risk because it doesn’t make sense under the existing economic system to save these things, you come up with a different fucking economic system. #Degrowth

Water privatisation has been a complete & utter failure. It is absurd that the government's report into the water industry didn't even consider public ownership. That's not a report. That's a political broadcast for the private sector. Put water back into public hands, now.

Brilliant investigation into the ways the water companies are outwitting government - bring water into public ownership now👇

How do you ensure a nation fails to cope with drought? Privatise its water system. Almost everyone wants our water renationalised. Almost everyone, that is, except the government. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

0.1% of Dartmoor in good ecological condition. And each Dartmoor ewe loses its owner £16.90 – the ecological and economic craziness of the current sheep grazing regime well explained by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social. Time to change how this amazing place is managed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tax the rich – do it now. Start with me.

At @fightingdirty.bsky.social, we sued over this issue, and lost on the grounds that the Environment Agency couldn't be in breach because the government had issued no direction. An absurdity, which means that poisons continue to be spread on farmland every day. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...