To those in the UK, and around the world, who want to delay the urgent action needed to tackle the climate crisis or who deny it even exists... ...Ed has a message for you: "You may be well funded....but you are loosing. The world is uniting to fight the climate crisis and you will lose!"

Good. Epic waste of time and money.

Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Absolutely. And tbh without the endless right wing media screaming disinformation about Net Zero, I bet support for it would be MUCH higher.

Animal testing to be phased out faster Working towards another manifesto promise, the Labour government will today reveal its strategy to phase out animal testing more quickly. It will include dates for gradual bans and support researchers to use alternative methods, along with additional funding.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society. Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇 renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...

However often I get hacked off with Labour, it just takes reading something like this to make me remember how utterly, utterly horrible and dreadful the Tories were (and continued to be for YEARS because the voters looked at this kind of shit and thought "yeah, more of the same" the fuckers).

This is genuinely good news.

I literally had no idea about some of these - particularly number 5!

A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset. This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI. Except... it's bollocks.

NEW ANNOUNCEMENT - a new national forest has been announced today as part of the Oxford-Cambridge corridor. This new forest will see millions of trees planted in the years ahead as part of a wider commitment to allocate over £1 billion this parliament to support to the forestry sector.

Which one is more English?

New entry on the Standards and Financial Interests investigations list. Nigel Farage under Rule 5, Members' conduct www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-an...

In Great Britain, there are about 1.7 billion passenger rail journeys each year without serious incident (about 150 million a month). It's worth keeping perspective as news media discuss banning knives on trains or installing scanners at stations. dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/u...

Water company shareholders have pocketed over £85 billion of our money. 💸 So why are rivers being pumped with pollution, homes routinely filled with waste and farmland contaminated with raw sewage? Because the system’s designed to make a few people rich—not deliver a decent, affordable service.

Interestingly, this Labour government has put a couple of highly-qualified non-politicians in charge of major govt departments (Lord Timson as Prisons Minister and Lord Hermer as Attorney General). Bet Farage isn't thinking abut people like them....

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the generation that warned their children "don't believe everything you read on the internet" did not heed their own advice.

A perfect 10 of #LabourAchievements. Busy #FixingBritain In just the last four days announcements covering veterans, military homes, people in work up and big savings on electricity costs for business. 👏👏👏#FixingBritain every week by hard work and good government

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This week, the government announced that menopause will now be included in free NHS Health Checks — helping millions more women get the care, advice, and support they deserve.

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Maternity and paternity pay must improve. Parents shouldn’t have to choose between bonding with their baby and paying the bills. They shouldn't be ground down by poverty or rushed back to work. Properly supporting families with their first steps is an investment in our future.

Another major defence contract for the UK from a NATO ally. This time with Türkiye buying 20 Typhoon jets - the biggest fighter jet deal in a generation, worth up to £8bn &supporting thousands of jobs across the UK. It follows a major contract win with Norway for firgates &other smaller projects.

Starmer on Sarah Pochin’s comments: "It’s shocking racism and it’s the sort of thing that’ll tear our country apart. And tells you everything about Reform. Nigel Farage either doesn’t consider it racist which I think is shocking in itself or he does and shows absolutely no leadership.” Farage says:

I wish to god someone would show this to the CPRE

This you, Fred? 👀 BetFred may claim to have only made £500,000 in profits last year... but they had revenue of over £1 billion, and the owners' personal wealth grew by £500m. They can find the money for the gambling tax.

Some good news/ Home Office evaluation of the Refugee Transitions Outcomes Fund - pilot schemes to help employment, housing and integration for newly recognised refugees. Substantially improved employment outcomes & had positive fiscal impacts. www.gov.uk/government/p...

"National renewal: moving forward together." You are either for this & want to see our government succeed in repairing public services, investing in businesses and jobs &making a real positive impact in people's lives. Or you are against it and on the side of the Tories & Reform. Which are you?

Let's take this in: "Funding cuts from 2010 to 2019 were so severe that they left gaps that could not be filled even by five years of above-inflation increases, leaving local authorities increasingly reliant on emergency funding+capable of providing only legally mandated services, the report shows.”

Labour’s top 10 for this week includes funding for children’s hospices, flood measures and sanctioning of large Russian oil/gas businesses.

🚨 😾 VICTORIAN EMERGENCY CAT TRICYCLE 😾 🚨 Pop a card in the London post in 1896, & a chauffeur driven tricycle would collect your pet for care & cure, providing a smooth springed ride to the Hampstead infirmary More Cycling World Illustrated gems digitised at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...

Interesting point. Makes me realise why I find Polanski somehow unconvincing, when I like so much of what he says.

List of wealth taxes already introduced by Labour.

That's Nigel "Twelve Jobs, Four Homes and a Chauffeur driven BMW" Farage to you !

Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax? The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

A pub in London Fields is trying to put up a timber canopy over its outside seating. The planning process so far has taken FIVE YEARS. That’s longer than it took to build the entire Hoover Dam. capx.co/nimby-watch-...

Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom Rally was sponsored by a convicted fraudster allegedly behind cryptocurrency ‘rug pulls’ The far-right rally was bankrolled by convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

Donald Trump addresses the UN General Assembly.

The British Labour government has: Recognised Palestine Normalised relations & lifted sanctions on Syria Secured the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah While I still have my criticisms, these are things they should be praised for, & I remain proud to have voted for this government.

Watching the flag rise above the newly renamed Embassy of the State of Palestine alongside Ambassador Zomlot today has filled me with hope, but this is just the start. We must always stand up for freedom and human rights.

Reform's ‘plan’ to revoke the legal status of millions of UK residents is morally abhorrent & economic madness The public believe in fairness & mutual respect, not this cruel Trumpian policy that would leave us all poorer. We are not America - we must resist this dangerous turn in British politics.

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.

ICE denies using excessive force in Broadview, Illinois. Never mind the videos…

This should be telling everyone to follow and read @bylinetimes