Drilling for more oil & gas in the North Sea won't lower bills, it won't make us more energy independent and it won't insulate us from price shocks. A Labour backslide on this would be a huge betrayal. Double down on renewables. Insulate every home. Lower bills, permanently.

A huge betrayal. Won't lower bills. Won't give us more energy security. Won't insulate from price shocks. And sends a clear message to the world that we are backing new oil and gas drilling. www.lbc.co.uk/article/ed-m...

It's time to see past our differences and remember what connects us. When we realise where our strength lies - in each other - that's when change happens. A powerful message from @mothinali.bsky.social: youtu.be/VPsR1hfTaAA

Next week’s disability benefit cuts will make people destitute. Families face eviction, lack of food and heating, lose access to the vital care. Govt could cut corporate welfare, collect taxes dodged, tax the rich, but vulnerable are easy target. In a wealthy country misery is a political choice.

Here's what Keir Starmer doesn't want you to know about the war on Iran:

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This story has gone from John Le Carre to Carry On in the Navy ... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Govt to relax planning rules for intensive factory farms; despite local opposition, concerns about water pollution, air quality. My local council refused planning permission for the 7th McDonald's restaurant in town, near a school. Govt allowed it without visiting the site. Backlash long overdue.

“Bit by bit, every little helps. If we keep this up, year on year, we will be over the next valley, then over the next valley." Lovely piece in the Guardian this weekend about the heroic work to restore Dartmoor's peatlands. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fair play from the Mail. I said what I said.

British Steel on track to be fully nationalised within weeks. Since privatisation steel companies have received subsidies; govts didn't take equity stake. Water and energy are also vital. Need to be nationalised to promote investment, end profiteering, reduce business and household costs.

This government can't be trusted to end the housing crisis because its ministers are bought and paid for by the developers, landlords and corporate interests who profit from it.

My colleague Maria is in the Guardian today explaining why more drilling for oil and gas won't help our energy security. Renewables good! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

GB household energy bills could increase by £290 a year to £1,929 this summer. Govt can help: Abolish VAT on domestic fuel. Transfer green kevies to general taxation. Decouple price of electricity produced from gas from the rest. End profiteering, nationalise energy.

If you voted Labour this is what you voted for

A cruel penalty’: disabled people face lower benefit payments if conditions not deemed lifelong. A backbench revolt fought off previous govt attempt to cut disability benefits. Same needed again. No attempt to cut corporate welfare - auto, steel, Internet, energy, shipbuilding receive subsidies.

Another triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

China billionaire owner of Northumbrian Water wants to bid for Thames Water. NW has 50+ criminal convictions, dumps sewage in rivers, fleeces customers. 90% of England's water is foreign owned. More of the same can't solve problems. Must end privatisation. Must nationalise.

This is all too real. These days, satire is just news but in teaser format.

“We always prefer to settle things through negotiation and diplomacy.” The front of these people.

Dartmoor has been deliberately set ablaze tonight. An apocalyptic photo of swaling (moorland burning) that I’ve been sent, of the moor alight at Corndon Down, Spitchwick Common. All burning is meant to end on Dartmoor today, 31st March - and many birds will already be nesting this early spring. 😢

I'm getting pushback from people here saying that illegal waste dumping (and the failure to stop it) is just an English problem. Sorry, but much as you might wish to believe it, it's not true. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scot...

Lads, people understand that “guy who is under extreme scrutiny for misconduct, accidentally misplaces incriminating evidence” is automatically suspect. They don’t think Morgan was burgled by the Loch Ness Monster.

Neither the headline nor the blurb does this story justice.

I think it's enormously clarifying that this has happened - I thought Starmer's Mad King excesses were mostly down to McSweeney pulling strings in the background, but this confirms what a paranoid authoritarian he actually is. Lol, lmao etc

The Erling Haaland of political own goals strikes again

What a disgraceful and patronising way to treat healthcare staff working hours on end to look after us all. These training posts are vital for the future of our NHS. To use them as bargaining chips is appalling. Time to end privatisation and fund the NHS properly instead.

"They're our future" @zackpolanski.bsky.social addresses the National Education Union - calling for a renewed approach to an underfunded, broken schooling system that fails to put young people’s futures first.

The narrative that Starmer has stood up to Trump over British involvement in the war in Iran is completely false. We must dispel this dangerous lie. UK bases are once again being used as the staging ground for an illegal war in the Middle East.

Israel has passed the death penalty solely for Palestinians, enforced through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. Israeli Minister Ben Gvir popped champagne. The Israeli government is raising a toast to genocidal apartheid. The UK government is arming and funding it.

Yes thank God we didn't panic and replace our Prime Minister during the last World War. Chamberlain did a bang-up job of leading the country right until the end.

what is important to understand here is that Morgan was one of Their Guys and the media are perplexed at the fact the public don't trust their word on him and actively hate him/them so they lean on "well the public are obviously wrong and irrational because why else would they think this"

The Green Party are on the cusp of being the leading political party in the polls. Felt pretty emotional to get this reception from thousands of educators and support staff. Hope is here. It's all of us. And the tide is turning - let's do this! 💚 Join.greenparty.org.uk

NEW VIDEO: Starmtroopers are MAD at Lewis Goodall for reporting that the government is hated WATCH HERE: youtu.be/vtJCCyHY3XM

Countries banning all teenagers from social media because "their brains aren't developed enough to handle it", meanwhile nobody's talking about the percentage of retirement-aged adults who have irreversibly cooked their fucking brains on Facebook since 2020.

Just Eat, Autotrader, funeral firm Dignity, reviews site Feefo and fresh pasta chain Pasta Evangelists, investigated in fake reviews probe. Anything capitalists won't do to exploit people? All scams planned by execs, curse of performance related pay.

I interviewed @ngeorge00.bsky.social about Israel's ongoing attack on Lebanon, the history of Israeli violations of Lebanese territory, and the deliberate fostering of sectarian violence in the country:

"SOMETHING LIKE THAT"

so what you’re saying is that immigrants haves failed to respect a nation’s laws & don’t integrate into the culture

One in five UK hospitality businesses fear collapse as costs surge. Many restaurants, pubs, hotels are owned by private equity extracting profits, dividends, high exec pay; and dodging taxes. Govt can help by curbing profiteering by landlords, energy/water companies and other sectors.

"This is fixable. We just haven’t got people who care enough about other people to make the changes." Such a wonderful interview with Hannah Spencer. Really captures both my brilliant friend and colleague. 👇🏼 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Labour are looking at an apocalypse in May. One Labour minister said ‘there were “no safe seats” for Labour, adding that they feared it was going to be a “bloodbath”.’’ Make sure you vote to make this happen.

Yet another position that's almost identical to the policy promoted by English fascists in the 1930s. There seems to be a kind of ideological homing instinct at work. Before long, the entire package will be back in place. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And that is without the climate and health damages caused by gas: An Oxford analysis found that maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, could save households up to £441 a year. www.euronews.com/2026/03/27/e...

It is starting to look like the Labour Party doesn't even have the organic capacity to replace Starmer as leader - this being the obvious precondition for any kind of revival. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

London has England’s highest levels of child poverty. 38% of children in London live in relative poverty, compared with 29% in England as a whole. High housing costs. Social housing scarce. Tories destroyed it. Low incomes, unchecked profiteering condemn millions to hardships.

Ever wonder why most of the media provide wall-to-wall coverage of everything the far right does or says, while ignoring far bigger rallies and events and far more interesting discussions elsewhere on the political spectrum? There's no mystery. It's because they want the far right to triumph.

[DOUBLE INDEMNITY] Barbara Stanwyck's Phyllis Dietrichson—a platinum blonde who wears tight white sweaters, an anklet, and sleazy-kinky shoes—is perhaps the best acted and the most fixating of all the slutty, cold-blooded femmes fatales of film-noir genre.

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