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Sell your cars in Monaco Jimbo. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

The case for government intervention is clear - but the best action would be prevention not cure. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202....

Labour should not be moving the goal posts on immigration rules - for the 1.7m people who have literally earned their 'earned settlement status’. It’s wrong. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Seems a shame to reduce this vital support for poorer nations, fighting the climate crisis - and of course to backtrack on our COP promises. www.edie.net/uk-halves-gr....

It’s been this way for a while - the case for green energy, not just solar - has been economic not environmental. For some years now we’ve been saying it’s not about ice caps and polar bears, it’s about energy bills, jobs and economic growth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Trump opens his mouth and out comes Guff. Immigration is down 80% here since it’s Tory peak and for every one windmill we have the USA has 7..! Our North Sea is all but empty, less than 10% left - that isn’t gonna change anything. www.notion.so/Wind-turbine...

Fake news from DESNZ

Reform is full of people like this - and while it boasts of ’the toughest vetting process’ - it doesn't appear to have one at all. bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour should act on this, properly enforce licence conditions, squeeze these foreign owned entities until the pips squeak - they're polluting our country and enriching themselves - in the worst example of what privatisation has to offer. We don’t have to accept this status quo. buff.ly/7I8Qwwo

If the council didn’t have all of that money, I’d be interested to help, but I haven’t been asked. The campaigners say it can be done for £100,000 in time for this summer, which I think is the most important thing. stroudtimes.com/making-a-spl...

There’s a complete lack of loyalty. I think Keir Starmer should stay. I think there shouldn't be a leadership contest. And I back Keir Starmer to finish the job that he started, deliver the manifesto that he got elected on. Yes, things have been tough. Yes, he's made mistakes. buff.ly/blYVhcX

I just don’t think there should be a leadership challenge. Keir Starmer has a massive mandate given to him by the British people at the general election. I don’t think anybody in the Cabinet has a right to try to overturn that. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d0332ac...

Fake news is big business and it's distorting our politics - it doesn't matter who leads Labour if people see these posts and believe them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is Farage the only person in Britain that gained from Brexit - he might be. This secret £5m bung, which was first claimed as security money - is now described as a reward for Brexit, the economic Tsunami that stripped £150 billion from our economy and cost all us over £2k every single year since.

The worst thing Labour could do right now, there’s no reason to panic over some adverse polling less than two years into a ten year project - and some of what we’re seeing is more opportunism than panic - but if there is to be a leadership contest my first choice for the job would be Keir.

This is news, the Indy today……One ‘country’ with two populations and two very different legal systems. It’s an arrangement most people would call unjust (or Apartheid). What most people don’t know is that Britain designed and built it. www.independent.co.uk/voices/nakba...

We acted illegally at the very start of this in the formation of Israel and Palestine. We committed war crimes as well. We were the original sin. The government should recognise the historic wrong. metro.co.uk/2026/05/15/p...

It wouldn't be my first crazy idea....:) www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

An incredible finding - never mind the roast dinner - our fruit and veg is polluted with over 100 pesticides. Industrial farming is out of control, we know these chemicals are toxic, that’s why they are used - but they are toxic not just to insects, but to humans too. buff.ly/6iTzUvC

This is a good move from Ed. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Great to see Angie exonerated today, lot of right wing inspired fuss over what turned out to be nothing. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

While McDonalds have long been the poster child for unhealthy fast food, it’s a bit of a surprise to see this. buff.ly/gmcwUaB

Pointing out that “juries have the right to give their verdict according to their convictions” has become a crime? Or would have if the judge in this case had his way. www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

This.....:)

No surprises here, Zuckerberg has form when it comes to breaching the privacy of his customers (the Facebook data scandal) - this is a step further, enabling his customers to breach the privacy of everyone else. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lovely story of hope and resilience in the World's most bombed and destroyed place. buff.ly/vmzq0EI

To anyone considering a leadership challenge I say - put the country first, not your own interests or those you might claim are the interests of the party. Keir Starmer has a massive democratic mandate from the public, nobody has the right to seek to depose him, nobody. buff.ly/cI7lfBP

Odd story - Goldman Sachs warns Starmer risks pushing borrowing costs up (by hanging on) - while borrowing costs actually fall, because Starmer refuses to quit. www.babelfish.news

So Farage is complaining that his secret £5m donation was only disclosed due to hacking - implying he never intended to disclose it all - it took illegality to expose his own wrong doing. Not sure that’s much to crow about. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

It’s incredible to me that we allow a nation committing Genocide, whose leaders talk openly of Ethnic Cleansing, whose army routinely targets and murders children, aid workers and journalists - are allowed to take part in something like Eurovision. www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/isra...

There’s a clear disconnect, a double standard even in advertising rulings recently. In Salmon for example, the need to label the fish as from a farm has been dropped, on the dubious basis that most Salmon now is farmed so people don’t need to be told that. www.ft.com/content/e238...

If only Ed Miliband and Rachael Reeves had actually ‘broken the link’ - our energy bills would be lower now - I’ve shown them both how ’the link’ added £43 billion to our energy bills in 2023. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

This headline might give you the wrong impression, right wing commentators may leap to the wring conclusion - this is not a failure of modelling the climate crisis, it’s the success of renewable energy, pulling down the worst case temperature rise - by a whole degree. buff.ly/gjCN8AX

Ironic perhaps that developers of AI data centres didn’t use AI to calculate their carbon footprint - and so underestimated it by a factor of five (recent application for Google). www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Big Whoop. A handful of extremists will face sanctions they probably won't even notice. Meanwhile the illegal occupation, the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza goes un punished - the EU still trades with Israel and still sells them weapons to facilitate their crimes. buff.ly/4Fqf6DI

The BBC have been cowed, by successive Tory governments threats of de funding and relentless right wing media attacks. The fuss made over this film is the perfect example. It was censored by pro Israeli voices. We need our BBC back. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05...

Bob is not the Villian - this attempt to cancel Shindig is about cancelling artists that speak out for Palestine and cancelling the festivals that host them. We should not allow it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Popped to Sussex at the weekend to see our Beaver Clan. It was awesome. They like carrots, who knew..:). This is a bit of temp support by the way, while they find their ‘feet’.

A very good thing to do, this ban should extend to digital participation - recall Musk’s video contribution last year urging right wingers to fight or die…we don't need that, we should ban his digital presence on this march. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Half a million homes worth of gas a year, flared (burnt) or just released into the air - where it does great climate harm. www.edie.net/uk-wastes-30...

Here we go again, global anxiety (not actual supply and demand issues) drives oil prices through the roof and energy company profits travel with - cue the bleating about windfall taxes needing to be better, higher - whatever. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why is Reform’s 'vetting policy’ only applied after elections and even then only by independent scrutiny, not the party itself….the idea that they have a vetting policy at all is laughable. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Funny old world. Press complaints org says it’s OK to call the Genocide in Gaza - a Genocide. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05...

Reform have peaked? That’s the picture behind the news, obsessed with Labour’s losses and a leadership contest.

By contrast - Catherine West’s words are surely too much too soon. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Reform are the Brexit party, under a different name. The proof is in this data from pollster John Curtice. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Tea, Coffee and Chocolate - they’re all in the firing line of the climate crisis. Not to mention Food..:) news.sky.com/story/troubl...