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Switzerland mandated in 2023 that all new buildings exceeding 300 square metres of roof area must install solar panels covering a minimum percentage of that surface — the most aggressive building-integrated solar mandate in continental Europe #ActOnClimate #SolarPower #Renewables

Inside the scam compounds in Myanmar, where thousands of trafficked people from around the world are beaten and tortured into trying to steal your money. My report - with thanks to 13 brave African victims who escaped and talked to me to expose the depravity www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Parliament may be more representative under PR, but the government may not be, but may be dominated by mad extremists as in Sweden and Israel. Be careful what you wish for. francescrook.substack.com/p/pr-can-lea...

"Fourteen Years in Prison for Quoting Hamas? New Law Could Criminalise Journalists" Starmer is rushing legislation through parliament that experts say threatens free speech, reports Paul Holden for Zeteo UK. Read/share/subscribe:

All MPs' outside earnings by party: The Conservatives come out top at 66% of total earnings from second jobs, while Reform (with just eight MPs) account for 20%, and Labour (with 400+) just 7%. But taking into account their size, Reform has by far the highest outside earnings per MP of any party.

Researchers at two Russell Group universities published scientific research funded by an "anonymous donation". But the money really came from an industry group with a clear conflict of interest 🥸 After 10 months of "investigation", Wiley has done... nothing. No retraction, no EOC, no correction.

📈Today, 2 July 2026, 69 out of the 532 Crown courtrooms in England & Wales will not be sitting. That's 13% of them. #courtstats #CS02072026 http://courtstats.co.uk

Europe pushes them out, we open the door.

But before politicians ask taxpayers for more, they should find out why so much tax already owed is vanishing.

Across all taxes, small businesses fail to pay between £30 billion and £48 billion of tax. These figures are massive. Enough to fund significant tax cuts or additional expenditure

What if Andy Burnham could raise £15bn – without a tax rise? There's one catch. He'd need to solve the UK’s biggest and least-discussed tax problem. Almost half of all small business corporation tax isn't being paid - and nobody knows why. Thread:

Blatant lobbying, not for the sake of our country, but for the fossil fuel industry, in which almost all the ultrarich - including, in all likelihood, the proprietors of these newspapers - are heavily invested. These people are not and never will be your friends. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

This incident with Clarence Thomas is not going away. Congressman Johnny Olszewski is calling for 18 year term limits for SCOTUS.

We don’t have a government. We have a crime family posing as one.

So many lessons learned.

Vicious racist immigration policies trying to out run Reform by being more extreme then them, encourages racism

I see that Nick Robinson is interviewing himself again this morning, with Luke Pollard managing the occasional word in between. It's hard to see the point of an interview when the person nominally being interviewed can never finish a sentence.

Summary of the Home Office Impact Assessment for Asylum Bill is hilarious (if it weren't so depressing). HO analysts say "basically no evidence to suggest *any* of these policies will work *even on their own terms*" (but will probably cost money). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a43e1...

‘I did nothing wrong’: Sweden’s migration regime hardens, upending lives https://aje.news/0l3kwr

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

Utterly ridiculous that the long-awaited Defence Investment Plan published today reveals more funding will be spent on the nuclear programme than every other bit of kit and technology for the armed forces. We cannot keep sinking huge sums into weapons which must never be used.

She’s deranged

MAJOR BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, ruling that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are U.S. citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment.

‘A woman had come out onto her balcony to shout at a group of noisy children when a missile struck and threw her several metres through the air. She survived. Several others were killed, including the children.’ Zain Samir reports from Lebanon. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sack Shabana Mahmood

Great way to disincentivise refugees from working and integrating. Also, we refuse to let them support themselves, force them to live in taxpayer funded accommodation for years and then force them to pay back some of the cost? Morally indefensible. How is this different from the far right?

Mahmood should just move to Reform and be done with it. Burnham needs to make sure she's not in charge of so much as a paper clip under his premiership.

It's a weekday, it's after 10pm, so Shabana Mahmood is doing her thing *yet again*. Yet another incredibly punitive policy aimed at people recognised as legitimate refugees, in the service of some political game I honestly can't work out. What's she actually trying to accomplish here?

The obvious set up for Number 10 in Manchester is for Angela Rayner to run it as deputy prime minister. She has a track record of success. A dream team.

Apparently my article on the disproportionate influence of the Swedish far right because of proportional representation has been translated and is now available in Swedish francescrook.substack.com/p/pr-can-lea...

One of the most annoying features of the tabloids is the way they report their own opinions as news. So "We have decided to attack Bridget Phillipson as a class-warrior" becomes "Bridget Phillipson is in the centre of a new 'class-war' row". They're partisan attack dogs,pretending to be newspapers

The greatest benefit from higher education is an educated mind.

Burnham’s north gets council homes, meanwhile we in north London get high rise private speculator homes

She wanted to be in this war and argued that the only reason Keir Starmer didn't want to is that he was in hoc to British Muslims. Not a serious person.

Years ago I chaired a hustings for the Labour leadership (Burnham didn’t take part cos his wife wasn’t well). We’d agreed strict timings with each team. Ed Balls was charming when I stopped him mid flow. David Miliband was furious and refused to shake my hand at the end.

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

‘More than 11,000 trains have circulated over the solar panels…installation “perfectly stable and safe during their passage”…railway solar plant produced >16,000 kWh of electricity since May 20, 2025…100 meters of solar panels…initial trial phase in Buttes amounts to CHF585,000 ($704,600)’

The Albanians won't tolerate it. Massive ‘Flamingo’ protests in Tirana against environmentally destructive tourism development plan linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal. New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve.news. 🔗 below 1/

If any other president posted that an entire country “will no longer exist” if they don’t comply, the outrage would be deafening.

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

Patriotic Millionaires urge wealthy Britons to pay more tax Patriotic Millionaires UK are targeting affluent London homes with postcards urging the wealthy to back higher taxes

The lack of quality of Reform MPs evident here. Seems like a pretty violent thug. Second extract is from the Mail.

Times argues that Labour sticking to its plans fro remigration and deportation is the only way to stave off Farage - because that's worked so well so far. There is no appeasing these people, and no point in trying and the sooner govt realises that the better. www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

The sums involved in the MPs expenses scandal were chicken feed compared to the Farage £5m. HIs reaction - mind your own business - suggests he may not be cut out for this democracy thing app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73952/...

This is the new talking point from Reform supporters over on X. In other news, Nigel Farage has yet to hold a single in-person MP surgery in his constituency in the almost two years since he was elected