Perhaps we should rename Straits of Hormuz as Blockage of Trump and gaz prices over 5 dollars as price of Trump

@elliechowns.bsky.social responds to proposed expansion of Israeli military control in Gaza.

The front page of today's edition of the Manchester Evening News - EXCLUSIVE: Carol Vorderman dubs Reform's Makerfield by-election candidate a 'little coward' as she sends letter to thousands of female voters in the constituency

Why are we continuing to use expensive fossilised technology when modern renewables are so much cheaper? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Markets seem to believe Donald Trump & ignore evidence. Oil and gas prices are going to be high for months even if a deal is struck tomorrow. A boastful liar says he is going to get a great deal that makes the Straits safe and secure and keeps failing. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

If Trump is so very good at negotiating the best deal ever how come he keeps announcing he's fixed things with Iran and then doesn't come up with the goods. Anyone remember his utter failure to secure a deal with North Korea? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There are huge energy demands when we move from using humans to answer questions and replace them with chat bots that can't deal with complexity and give wrong answers with every bit as much confidence as right ones. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Why are we continuing to use expensive fossilised technology when modern renewables are so much cheaper? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Collective punishment of an entire race of people and land theft are both illegal in international law but common practice for the current Israeli government. Netanyahu's attempts to stay out of jail for corruption have come at a high price. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think we need to transform the production, delivery, sale and use of our entire food eco systems. We need to favour and support in-country growth/production wherever possible and we need to bring that produce back to our highstreets. We are held in a vice like grip by big retail without this.

So much produce is packaged for families. Runner beans are imported from Kenya. Can't get local produce in Ipswich unless you can drive out of town to a farm shop. Especially annoying for apples which all too often come from New Zealand or South Africa.

Will be fascinating to see whether Burnham's commitment to pr survives if he becomes leader. Starmer got in by speaking bravely about need to get back into eu. Then he turned bland Blairite overnight

Far too much food is imported via just in time delivery mechanisms that are incredibly vulnerable. We badly need a return to more seasonal food and farmers supported to grow locally and sustainably. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump campaigned on a promise of bringing down the cost of living by pulling the States out of costly wars with no clear aim. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dropping bombs is a very strange way to negotiate a peace deal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The land grab in Lebanon continues. As it does in the West Bank. There is no meaningful ceasefire. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hardly surprising that a man who cares nothing about the planet if it puts profits up for his company for a few years turns out to be aggressive and selfish www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The key to energy security is not to focus on production but on evening out and managing consumption. Much cheaper and quicker to put a battery in every home and use off peak power than to build new power stations.

There's an exceptionalist belief that the UK's immune to the worst political extremes. In reality, we were lucky not to get a fascist government in the 1930s. Now that the world's richest man supports our most extreme political party, we need more than luck. We need to get the money out of politics.

UK smashes May temperature record by an entire 2 degrees C. This is not remotely normal & is just the start of already baked in chaotic change as a result of CO2 levels. Yet the ultra rich fossil companies want us to drill baby drill every last drop of profit for them. news.sky.com/story/heatwa...

Trump's best ever peace deal isn't going well. His claim to be putting an end to expensive foreign wars is shot full of even more holes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You Want More Mayor Mamdani, ok........

Would you prefer: 1. Migration down to zero? OR: 2. Functioning public services, a growing economy, pensions being contributed to, taxes being paid, universities staying afloat, care homes staffed and the NHS not collapsing into a smoking crater? One or the other - you can’t have both.

In an unstable world relying on cheap food arriving for just in time delivery is not a wise strategy. More local seasonal food please and start now on helping Britain's farmers to produce more of what we eat www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Curiously if the government deliberately turns away foreign students wanting to bring good money into the UK our Universities suffer financially as do the businesses in our towns and cities www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Life is much harder for young people these days than it used to be with sky high housing costs and eyewatering tuition fee repayments. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...

While all eyes are on Farage, we're overlooking something even worse: the building of the very tight and truly vile operation that is Restore Britain. This excellent essay/report by Simon Pearson should wake us up to the threat - and to what exactly it is. simonpearson1.substack.com/p/tory-30

So Trump claims to have succeeded but will end up with a worse situation than he inherited after great loss of life and huge financial costs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rare case of one of our rich rulers honestly stating what they think about the rest of us. You are lower value human capital to them www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There is only one reason for this sentence, the judge cared more about the impact on the lives of young boys than on the young girl. Outrageous. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In a multiparty system, first past the post no longer works After a drubbing in local elections, Labour must make bold policy changes and implementing electoral reform is a top priority By Andy Brown

The chilling reality of US politics is that Trump's multi billionaire friends have decided to make the mid term elections an irrelevance whilst they plan how to cheat their way to the next Presidency. Democracy is a nuisance for them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reform's media circus ruins event to celebrate achievements of people with learning difficulties. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Remember folks that when you've paid a fortune for your crypto you are then the proud owner of some computer code.

There are powerful, well-connected, well-funded people in this country, today, who are deliberately, strategically, using the idea of a woman being made "uncomfortable" by the presence of a trans person to plot the removal of that woman's right to abortion, contraception, and divorce.

There is a strong case to organise progressive alliances between @greenparty.org.uk @libdems.org.uk and progressive nationalists. Starmer is making it impossible for other parties to cooperate with Labour. Burnham needs to come out strongly for some form of PR to change that.

6.1 million people across the UK are living in fuel poverty. Meanwhile BP are doubling their profits during the energy crisis. Pleased to see the Mayor agree with my call to keep the energy cap in place. We have to lower people's bills.

Syngenta covering itself in shame by selling bee killing pesticides www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Clearly Trump listens very carefully to the last dictator he speaks to. What exactly is he getting back from China? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Instructing the King of Canada to be polite to Donald Trump in the hope that he would become reasonable was never going to work. Now his ultra rich friends have fostered an independence movement designed to punish Canada www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Amazing people are working hard to restore Britain's rivers to health. Horrible people are pocketing profits from pouring sewage into them for hour after hour. They promised private enterprise would invest. The monopoly water companies just exploited everyone. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If anyone is in any doubt about which are the most horrible regimes on the planet just look at the list of those who think it is fine to drill baby drill for their own profit and burn baby burn the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Getting closer to completely undemocratic states whilst refusing to articulate the benefits from re-joining the main group of nations standing up for democracy. Not impressive www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So much for Reform cutting wasteful expenditure!

Piracy on the high seas, land theft, collective punishment, apartheid style laws. This Israeli government has a lot to answer for. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK tourist receives bill from hospital in New York for £192k AND insurance refuses to pay because she was drunk! This is what Reform & Farage want for the UK!! THIS is what private healthcare LOOKS like!! 💰 Accident/illness=bankruptcy. Why don't people realise!? #Labour

Farage, Harborne, £5 million and Reform UK’s cryptocurrency bill Within a year of receiving £5mn from a crypto billionaire, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK published a draft crypto bill | Anthony Robinson @anthonybylines.bsky.social

We are in stuck in an affordability crisis with people struggling to pay for food and heating. But MPs think it's funny to drink at a discount on the taxpayer and vote on crucial issues. It's wrong. #DontDrinkandVote