Business has paid a lot to support decarbonisation and sustainability. Invested tens of billions. Most of it under Tory-led governments. And now the party is saying it was all a waste, and pointless? Just not serious people.

I think this language of "crying racism" is generating "legitimate concerns" about tone at a time of a visible surge in real world racism, not just online racism, and big attempts to shift the boundaries on who is English, on how far remigration goes into settled migrants and UK-born minorities

Why is Starmer becoming more confident criticising Brexit? Because quietly, without any great drama, a consensus has been reached. It's a disaster inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

The idea for a Hyperloop, for example, would be really easy to just spout bullshit about…

Environmental policy works - voluntary measures and ‘educating consumers’ don’t #AirPollution

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

People often claim it's a mistake to call far-right figures racist. But it's extremely telling how much they hate being called racist. Farage doesn't welcome it. He is afraid of it. And he has benefited from people's reticence about using it to describe his policies.

On Monday, @eea.europa.eu highlighted the worrying trends on water pollution. With the Living Rivers Europe NGO coalition, we call for a bolstered implementation of the Water Framework Directive - instead of unravelling in the environmental omnibus; read our letter to @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu 👇

He held firm in the face of all those protests against ULEZ + here we are. On days of higher nitrogen dioxide levels, hospital admissions with breathing difficulties, heart disease + stroke go up. Lower levels are associated with fewer heart and breathing conditions. Clean air saves lives.

well then stop using his website my good man!!!!!!! you can't hang out on someone's lawn all day every day then complain that he happens to also be on the lawn!

Environmental policy works - voluntary measures and ‘educating consumers’ don’t #AirPollution

Matthew Goodwin continues to harden and radicalise his own views, year on year.

This is the judgment on the PPE/Medpro claim. A cracking £122m win for the Government Legal Service And is wonderful to see the government bringing a claim in contract against a shoddy supplier. This does not happen often, and it should happen far more. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

When my niece was in primary school in Lewisham, living nr the South Circular, she + many children in her class had inhalers. Their GP said they were having to prescribe inhalers to ever more children - well above the national average. The reality of air pollution is children struggling to breathe.

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

'You'll never need to work again': Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC. Brilliant and chilling piece by @joetidy.bsky.social - who is not, I can confirm, now living on a beach in the Bahamas! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Believers in the "med bed" theory think a miracle technology exists that can heal any disease, reverse aging, and regrow limbs. Explainer: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Important to remember it is possible to mobilise coalitions against the radical/far right.

Preliminary results from the Moldovan electoral commission show the Russian stooges having done poorly. If these results continue, this is incredibly good news. pv.cec.md/preliminare

"Generally, fascists and extremists are trying to undermine institutions of truth, facts and education because that is what’s standing in their way – an informed citizenry" www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

“I relentlessly petitioned bosses at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), where I worked at the time, who initially found the idea “a little eccentric” but eventually gave in and let me work on it” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Its wrong & un-British to strip from people the promise that this was their permanent home Is it racist too? Farage is now exempting 4m European nationals with settled status, 9/10 white, but threatening half a million non-Europeans, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Africa in a similar ethical position

“Landmark study” where openai comes to understand what we’ve been telling them about their own software for three years. (I’m sure many have been saying it for longer.)

“I wish the media would stop talking about this as an unprecedented movement. There’s nothing unprecedented about it. Anyone who has even the slightest knowledge of 20th-century history should know that.”

Mad that the NYT is having to produce videos on basics such as "yes, climate change is happening" and "yes, renewables have become much cheaper" But here we are. This is very nicely and clearly done by @sominisengupta.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/video/climat...

Hell, fuck it: Give the UK ID Card project to the 🇫🇷 Agence Nationale des Titres Sécurisés (ANTS), IDEMIA, and La Poste while you're at it We'll do a better job and have been running ID card systems for decades while you brits have been crying about the illuminati coming to steal your jaffa cakes

In case, like me, you were wondering about the “Fabian thing”

And the bribes Gill has admitted to? 6th Dec 2018 to 18th Jul 2019 6th Dec 2018 - the same day he followed Farage out of UKIP He joined the Brexit Party with Farage in February 2019 and remained a Brexit party MEP until we left the EU. In March 2021 he became Reform UK’s leader in Wales 10/14

Sheer hypocrisy from Kennedy as he derails UN declaration on non communicable chronic diseases eg diabetes , lung disease, autoimmunity instead making accusations about abortion and gender that have nothing to do with declaration.

Could have been more ambitious on alignment with that reset agenda last year and achieved better growth numbers. But then that's this government's hokey cokey, one step to the right, one step to the left.

NEW: The Heritage Foundation is pushing a terrorism designation based on "transgender ideology" on the claim that "50% of major (non-gang) school shootings since 2015" involve a transgender shooter or trans-related motive. @dell.bsky.social and me on why that's false: www.wired.com/story/herita...

This is the point of the new EO: it is to make people think twice before they provide their honest evaluation of the Trump regime. You called them fascist? Well, you must be antifa. You call them authoritarian? You are inciting terrorism.

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

We are so humiliatingly deep into tinpot dictatorship territory. The government has just brokered the coerced sale of a major media platform to an ally of the president, who is openly boasting about converting it into (even more of) a partisan propaganda outlet.

Good. Enforce laws. Hold blatant racists to account. The culture of impunity for the most vile ugly bigots that Musk has encouraged on Twitter is toxic and needs challenging

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

“Take back control” update

Former Brexit Party MEP admits accepting bribes to shill for Russia Nathan Gill admitted eight counts of bribery between 2018 and 2019. He said he was tasked to make specific statements in return for money.

This is a good point. I had to buy a passport in order to apply for a blue badge (which I haven't yet got round to)

Maybe...try making some EVs people want to buy?

In Belgium, another union, the ID card is known as the eID,. Just use that name instead of the idiotic, naff and divisive 'BritCard'. Boring names for humdrum, useful things, please.

This is what Ice is doing in front of the cameras, imagine what they’re doing when no one is filming

I received an email from Octopus today saying they're hiking their time-of-use tariff rates, in part, because consumers were too good at shifting their use to cheap periods, so they were losing money. This tells you how powerful price signals are in driving efficient use of the power system.

We just won our lawsuit against the DHS after a judge ruled the department can't hold life-saving disaster relief funds hostage to advance its anti-immigration efforts. The federal government cannot prioritize its cruel immigration agenda over Americans' safety.

Kind of amazing how UK news media still remains obsessed with the structurally limited impact in economic terms of small boats even as this potentially terminal havoc works its way through key UK industrial supply chains on.ft.com/3Ihb8YF

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

Hillary Clinton: "In dealing with Trump, there is no larger strategy. There is no overarching goal. It's also personal with President Trump. It's all about how he feels about someone, what he wakes up in the morning thinking, who's the last person who talked to him. Everybody has figured that out."

Ah, he has seen what regulatory lawyers look like: with their seven heads and ten horns, and upon their horns ten crowns, and upon their heads the word ”compliance”.

This is because Reform relies on building a coalition of disordered counterpublics reacting against distrusted institutions, and the anti-vax community is part of that, so he knows he needs to keep is vague to avoid upsetting them.