A new report reveals the Norfolk Broads has some of the worst sewage-hit rivers in Britain | Owen Sennitt, Local Democracy Reporter

Thatcher’s toxic legacy lives on

Pro-Palestine protests in Torino, Italy

'The main reason for [Trump's official state visit] is that the US owns so much of Britain already.' There are big risks in giving American tech ever more control over our communications, businesses and government systems.

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

We can invite Israeli military to visit Britain one minute… then recognise the state of Palestine the next?? Really?? www.declassifieduk.org/israeli-air-...

Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

UK: Combining efforts – 200 years of trade unions in the UK blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

And more LNG won't help. "Of the 20 major fossil-fuel producer countries profiled in the production gap report, Canada's planned increase to oil production for 2030, compared to 2023 levels, ranks behind only Saudi Arabia, Brazil, the United States and Nigeria." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

David Harvey (@davidharvey.org) recuerda toda una vida de encuentros, intelectuales y reales, con el enigmático Piero Sraffa Tras las huellas de Sraffa ➡️ newleftreview.es/issues/152/a...

Inequality in access to open space in London, CPRELondon free webinar Thursday 1230-1345 cpre-london.eventcube.io/events/87581...

🧠 Does UK R&D need a “strategic brain”? Join us for a seminar featuring Sarah Chaytor (UCL), responding to Stian Westlake (ESRC) on evidence & analytics in UKRI. 📅 30 Sept | 17:00 📍 30 Guilford Street London WC1N 1EH 🎟️ https://www.shorturl.at/psSgc

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

Tired of hearing 'we need immigrants to staff the NHS & care homes' - as if we're a servant class. Newsflash: immigrants do a variety of work, pay taxes, buy homes, raise families. Britain doesn't 'need us to serve'. We're here to live. Like you.

So I actually learnt some interesting stuff about data centre energy demand last night (anecdotal but well sourced)… - Data centre demand does vary over time, but the “always on” issue means they have a not-trivial baseload need (low confidence) - New grid connections AND grid reliability…

🌨️Europe can’t rely on private tech giants for public services. EPSU is calling for worker-owned & public clouds, full implementation of the AI Act, and workers’ say in digitalisation. Read more in Euractiv’s coverage of our letter to the Commission: dlvr.it/TNDnhl

Israel has admitted it attacked the #SumudFlotilla. substack.com/@storysstori...

Mohamad Safa 🇺🇳 You can buy Elon Musk and X, you can buy Facebook and Instagram, you can buy TikTok and Google, you can buy journalists and television stations, and you can buy politicians. But you can't buy people. And the people are demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza.

In a corporate owned care home, charging £1,800 a week. Residents face neglect/cruelty. Left in urine-soaked clothes, wet bedsheets, calls for help ignored, not showered for weeks, excrement in corridors, staff shortages. Cruelty is the norm when profits come before people.

Important to get people from Barking council, BRL and so on to take part. also deputy mayors for housing and planning GLA

Unit investigating £1.9bn of Covid loan fraud recovered only £7m. Tories handed out money through VIP lanes, without any checks, competitive tenders: employee support given without staff NationaI Insurance numbers; loans to newly formed companies. archive.ph/54e7y

'Capitalism is bankrupt and has reached the end of its road, and must be replaced by the building of revolutionary parties in every country to complete the victory of the world socialist revolution. This is the only way forward!'

📢 New data out today: The UK’s co-operative and mutual economy is a £179bn force for change. 10,000+ businesses. 1.5 million jobs. Find out why our movement is doing business better - and share far and wide: www.uk.coop/news/record-... #CoopEconomy #Coops

👉NEW -- Parliament blocks Declassified, citing our Gaza ‘standpoint’ by Martin Williams MPs condemn ‘sinister move’ to deny access to Declassified reporters. www.declassifieduk.org/parliament-b...

Delighted to be invited by @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social and @peaceandjustice.bsky.social to speak at Grassroots for Gaza last night. It is so important to be able to come together in grassroots venues like the Shacklewell Arms. Together we are strong and unified we will win.

I spoke about the experiences of inspiring Hackney residents like Brenda & Nora - speaking truth to power and making personal sacrifices to call out the failings & complicity of Hackney Council & the government.

Allen Jones and David Hockney at the memorial evening for Derek Boshier at the Royal Academy last night. Very much missed. One former student spoke about Boshier's advice to him: "Don't try to be interesting, be interested."

There was a memorial event for the Derek Boshier at the RA last night. He died last year & was a really interesting guy, who'd have loved the new V&A Bowie Centre - having worked with him, including the Lodger album cover. I interviewed him back in 2022: website-gazelli.artlogic.net/usr/library/...

It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.

You do not need much proof Commission President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu herself /the European Commission is executing a corporate agenda But That really is not what people want. They want health care, social housing public transport, schools, decent jobs and fair taxation @epsu.bsky.social

Our student know what is right and just. ✊

The story of social housing decline in England. A collapse in new builds, exacerbated by loss of stock through right to buy. And now, increasingly, stock rationalisation and disposal.

That’s a keeper, think it may replace the Graph of Doom @simplicitly.bsky.social @stevehilditch.bsky.social Source #JohnHillsLSE eprints.lse.ac.uk/5568/1/Ends_...

Today was a significant day in my mother's developing understanding of the academic career, as she was genuinely surprised that I still need to visit the archives now that I have a job. "Young people usually go to Bucharest to do things much more hanky-panky," grandpa added. 🗃️

Thanks to its capture of media the incoming Cameron government was able to convince people the govt was spending too much. Result? A housing slump blamed on planning.

Amazing there has been a net positive period this century. The much maligned Brown govt was doing the right thing and acting counter cyclically. 1/2

I took paracetamol in both my pregnancies for minor joint troubles. I had a better pregnancy experience because I wasn't in pain. Neither of my kids is autistic. The high-quality studies and reviews confirm there is NO evidence that paracetamol taken by the mother causes autism in the child. 🧪

This, it seems, is what the BBC had in mind when it drew up plans in March to alter “story selection” to win over Reform voters.

This is going in tomorrow’s lecture to new students at UCL. Thanks @resfoundation.bsky.social

Businessman Richard Allen exposed a Channel Islands export-import VAT scam used by major retailers, saving taxpayers billions. Despite his detailed evidence, HMRC suppressed it, letting the illegal tax evasion continue for six more years. 🧵1/3

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

"I’m free today because of this advocacy,” Soliman said. “Don’t underestimate your voice."

12 confirmed cases of Measles in my state (Australia). Guessing recently returned from the US. Thanks RFK! 🤬

wait you can just do this? would cost eleventy billion dollars in the US

This a nice crisp page from the EasyRead version of Towards a new London Plan. Probably not written by AI.

Dealin' with the Devil!

The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money 10.15pm, ITV1 Lots of people did very well out of Covid. Many connected to the Conservative party. A story of greed, in which established PPE providers were sidelined while unknown companies got rich.An essential record of a national scandal