www.ons.gov.uk/news/news/on... If you don't measure things you can't have meaningful government policy to change them.

Govt publishes England water companies' league of sewage dumping and pollution . Worst since 2011. 9 companies collectively received 19 out of possible 36 stars. Thames Water the lowest rating of 1. Seven firms score only 2. No fines on execs. No exec prosecuted. Dividends paid. Customers fleeced

Government No 10 communications on this have also been inappropriate bsky.app/profile/sund...

We don't have to push children into poverty. We don't have to make life harder for the sick and disabled. We don't have to aid and abet genocide. For too long, people have been denied a real political choice. Not anymore. Join us at yourparty.uk

The government has quietly published 12 research reports, nearly all related to disability employment, disability poverty and the benefits system, all on the same day, just 8 days after MPs voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts to disability benefits. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-q...

1. New data shows employers investing 36% less in training per employee than in 2005 in real terms. This is both a cause and consequence of low economic growth & policy instability. It comes alongside a £1bn (20%) real terms cut in Government investment in adult skills in England compared to 2010.

Brownfacing a box of raisins and mocking my surname. Exactly what you’d expect from a right-wing hack who is the daughter of an aristocrat and ex-Tory MP.

2023: Forde told @aljazeera.com “Anti-black racism and Islamophobia is not taken as seriously as antisemitism within the Labour Party…” 🔗 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I am mixed race Indian/Anglo-Irish. I have experienced racism from those who know my heritage and racists with special "paki radar". I have no doubt that had my skin been darker my experience of racism would have been worse. I cannot fathom why it would be controversial to make this point.

Reeves to say cuts to City red tape will bring trickle-down benefits to households. Don't do it. Most post-2008 regs repealed. Regulators now requiredd to promote growth of City. Capital requirements diluted. Will end in tears. Boost manufacturing. Redistribute wealth to rebuild economy.

CCTV appeal after man hurled racist abuse at family outside Wirral mosque

"This Bill will, even now, strip £2 billion from future claimants of Universal Credit health payments. Around 750,000 people stand to lose an average of £3k a year. And we know ¾ of those are living in material deprivation." - @left-foot-forward.bsky.social leftfootforward.org/2025/07/the-...

We have lost all contact with our UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, communications have been cut off. This morning, for the first time in months, we did not receive their morning messages to say, "good morning" and "we are fine/alive". We anxiously await to hear from our colleagues.

Spending on benefits Surprisingly the UK spends less on pensions, incapacity, unemployment and social care than peers nations

Rushdi Abualouf reports that following its attack on the European hospital in Gaza, Israel is now preventing people from rescuing survivors.

We know the only real fix for the climate crisis is to cut emissions. But in the Arctic, scientists are also trialling three surprising ways that might buy us time. Read what they’re doing – and why.

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening. That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk. Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

This is bullshit. You can say there are costs, you can even claim the costs outweigh the benefits. But to say that immigration has caused incalculable damage is not just hugely offensive to millions of people and their families, but simply empirically demonstrably wrong

The claim by Yvette Cooper that there is a link between immigration and higher levels of inactivity (related to sickness and disability) has absolutely no basis in evidence or data. Just retrofitting the evidence to the policy...

Just 13% of homes built in England and Wales in 2024 had heat pumps installed (58% had gas boilers). New homes are by far the easiest part of the home heating puzzle to solve; regulations that prevent the installation of high-carbon heating in new homes should be a Government priority.

Latest ONS social trends data has some shocking stats on the experience of single parents of cost of living increases, including: > Around 1 in 5 (20%) adults living alone with at least one dependent child had run out of food in the last two weeks Available here: www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

Interesting article www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Pleased to see that this report, which I co-authored with Think, has been endorsed by the AOC, city-region Mayors, sector bodies like the CITB, and the BCC. Let's hope ministers listen to the call to replace our market-led skills system with a local plan-led one. www.aoc.co.uk/news-campaig...

So, it turns out the 'change' people voted for in July of last year was to increase the number in poverty by a quarter of a million (on the Government's own figures).

Since Israel broke the ceasefire last Tuesday they've murdered 730 Palestinians.

UK Civil Service told to slash running costs by 15%, £2bn. What would that be - cuts in airport safety, minimum wage inspections, health and safety, child welfare, flood defences, river cleanliness, benefit assessment? Policy on the hoof pays no attention to human cost.

Letter to the Chancellor in advance of the Spring Statement, from @mazzucatom.bsky.social @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social @dgbailey.bsky.social me & others. www.ft.com/content/4b0d...

I believe the public - not CEOs & hedge funds - should have the final say on our water. My Water Bill would put public ownership back on the table through Citizens’ Assemblies. The debate is only in a week. Will you make sure your MP shows up? actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

If there are no personal downsides of refusing to buy American goods and services, then why not take the political upsides of doing so? MAPA - Make America Poor Again

Kemi Badenoch giving a speech in 2022 on the “opportunity, growth and revitalised communities” offered by “the clean energy revolution”, which she says is the “future-proofing force that will help us create a better tomorrow”

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

@matthewpatrick.bsky.social this is awful there are so many people on the Wirral that require free dental services. This can't be allowed to happen we already have such poor health outcomes and funding issues on the Wirral. #NHS

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49% of Britons support introducing proportional representation, with just 26% backing first past the post PR: 49% FPTP: 26% By party voted for in 2024 Green: 72% PR vs 15% FPTP Reform UK: 67% vs 20% Lib Dem: 61% vs 20% Labour: 53% vs 27% Conservative: 39% vs 42% yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Class actions like this need to happen for corrupt privatised utilities across the board. They behave like organised crime rackets and they should be sued into bankruptcy. If corrupt governments wont obey the demands of their constituents then the people must take actions into their own hands.

On the left, a Tweet from Toby Young showing empty ICU beds in England in 2020 On the right, an article showing an empty hospital ward in Sri Lanka in 2012 The Tories have made this Covid conspiracy nutcase a lawmaker in the House of Lords

I've seen a lot of American Democrats on here blaming non-voters for Trump's election. Maybe a bit of humility and self-reflection is in order from those people. If they had had a more compelling political programme, they would have won.

Interesting article.

Positive changes to the benefits system, support for people to be able to work (if able) are welcome. Let's make the case for these. Hardline political rhetoric that stigmatises claimants entitled to support isn't harmless. It toxifies society. Let's not. www.bigissue.com/news/social-... #DWP #Work

Great to see everyone on here agreeing it's not an echo chamber.

Time for free school meals for all children - because proper healthy food is one of the most crucial ingredients for a good education. Discussing that and much more on @jeremyandstormon5.bsky.social from 9.15am (Wednesday) 🙏

Shocking news. 36% of UK children are living in poverty according to the latest Social Metrics Commission research (I am one of the Commissioners) www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

These massacres are intended partly to enforce Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing, and partly just for the sake of killing. Israel's apologists no longer even pretending this is anything other than nihilistic mass slaughter. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

New research from the IFS showing the closure of youth centres during the 2010s was shortsighted. For every £1 saved, the costs to affected users, crime victims and public spending in the police and the criminal justice system amount to £2.85 ifs.org.uk/publications...

NEW: Israeli authorities have caused massive, deliberate forced displacement of Palestinian civilians in Gaza since October 2023 and are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Governments should adopt targeted sanctions and other measures, and halt weapons sales to Israel.

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