There's wealth in the NE. It's just distributed more unequally than anywhere in the country bar London. One thing we don't talk about enough is the way the landlords enclosed the land then stole the coal / mineral wealth underneath it too. www.resilience.org/stories/2022...

I gave up worrying about the concept of weeds and pests in gardens years ago when I realised they weren’t the problem they were made out to be. Problems? Pff. Throw those thoughts away. Gone! Poof! www.wildway.info/p/lean-into-...

“It’s the British class system with a climate-crisis spin: the more someone requires air conditioning to survive heatwaves, the less likely they are to be able to afford it.” My col. in today’s paper. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nobody should.

‘The impact was hardest for households on lower incomes. Anyone who was on social welfare during these years paid an extra €209 between 2021 and 2023, the equivalent of a week’s income, to service this data centre price effect.’

"More than 20 medics have been killed during whats meant to be a truce. The Lebanese health ministry says they're being deliberately killed" Alex Crawford reports on the paramedics in Lebanon.

Trump: "Oman will behave just like everyone else, or we'll have to blow them up"

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

Workhouses never went away, they just became a policy instead of a place

💥 This is Tyre in South Lebanon today. Israel is leveling entire civilian neighborhoods in one of the most intense bombardments yet. One of humanity’s oldest cities is being systematically wiped out. And not a peep from the complicit international community @sarahabdallah.bsky.social

How many times have you heard, "We could solve all of our problems by just going all-in on nuclear like France?" Meanwhile, "Previous hot summers have halted French nuclear reactors as the temperatures of the river water cooling them rose." Expensive and doesn't work when it's hot? Great!!

Been looking forward to this encyclical for YEARS (Leo going equally strong on work largely done under Francis). By all accounts it does not disappoint. FYI if you're not religious; more recent encyclicals like this and Laudato Si on climate are deeply researched with <real> experts. Worth a read.

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

GIFT LINK. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"It’s harrowing to see the immiseration of the entire population...particularly the vulnerable." People in Cuba are starving and dying as a result of the U.S. blockade and push for regime change. Members of Congress must speak out to demand an end to Trump's blockade and military threats.

"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world." Mary Wollstonecraft

Israel’s Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir ATTACKS A FEMALE ACTIVIST and says: “WELCOME TO HELL. The summer camp is over.” Activists from the GLOBAL SUMOOD FLOTILLA are being ZIP-TIED and ABUSED while being forced to listen to ISRAEL’s national anthem.

With conscription to the armed forces a major issue again in Europe and beyond, this collection of statements from conscientious objectors is extremely timely. It's produced by the Quaker Council for European Affairs (@qcea.bsky.social). Read or download it here free: www.qcea.org/wp-content/u...

A disturbing account of the use of lies to spread hate and division by the Reform candidate in the Makerfield by election He is clearly not a suitable person to play any role in public life

When will Badenoch understand that we don’t own the oil fields in the North Sea. Plus oil we do get, goes on the internatial market, it’s not automatically ours There is still oil drilling happening but it is not an endless supply so renewable energy such as wind & solar is the way forward #PMQs

🎯 Brexit is not the cause of all our problems. Austerity has been far more corrosive, but of much less interest to the media, perhaps because those most affected are the poorest people.

So much respect for this exceptional leader! Mamdani disputes Reagan claiming the 9 scariest words are “I’m from the government & I’m here to help,” saying: “9 more terrifying words are actually 'I worked all day, and can't feed my family.' Share everywhere! #uspoli substack.com/@rawstory/no...

My friend was a pensions expert for KPMG. He said if you think social care is bad now wait over the next 20-30 years for an avalanche of destitute pensioners all having to live in the private rental market, all with no assets.

A leading 'Raise the Colours' flag activist, who claims to be fighting to "protect our women" from migrants, has pled guilty to assaulting a woman bylinetimes.com/2026/05/18/f...

Yes. It’s true. Britain’s 18,000 Quakers are the secret masterminds of woke. We’ve been planning it since George Fox. Soon, we will force the world to eat rainbow flags and queue for a single, national, unisex toilet.

Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. www.ft.com/content/88ce...

Wonderful to hear Andy Burnham calling for strong public control of water and energy. But let’s be clear, we need water and energy in PUBLIC OWNERSHIP - not just public control. The services we rely on to live must be owned and controlled by us.

Three and a quarter million people on UC are in employment, and the tax-payer is required to top-up their poverty wages from low-pay employers. Ending that moral disgrace would be the obvious place to start.

Very odd that the one chart included in this article directly contradicts the article's fundamental premise (that current/future welfare spending is "unaffordable")

their stunned reaction proves how utterly disconnected from reality they are. they’re talking about something that’s literally destroying the job market and they’re surprised by the boos! turns out “hey kids wanna walk into this buzz saw” isn’t terribly persuasive messaging

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

🧵Nuclear power in a warzone- what could possibly go wrong?

This small glass flask once stood in the tomb of a Roman soldier in Colchester. It belonged to Marcus Favonius Facilis, a centurion of the Twentieth Legion stationed here nearly 2,000 years ago. His tomb was destroyed during Boudica’s revolt in AD 60/1, so objects like this survive almost by chance.

Jaime's message is plain and simple - Join Usdaw Today ✅ Are you a young retail worker? Want to be protected and supported at work? Join Usdaw via link in bio 🔗

🚨 BREAKING: half of people in the UK have lost access to community spaces - with families in the most deprived areas losing them fastest. Parks, libraries, leisure centres are essential for our mental and physical health. We all need places to connect. Especially when life is tough.

🚨 Right now, Tommy Robinson is in London claiming to speak for us. It’s the ultimate distraction from the very real problems we face. But we know the truth: migrants aren’t the problem, far-right billionaires are. ✊ Share this post to make it clear: Tommy Robinson does not speak for us.

Record number of UK people turning to crowdfunding to cover rent and household bills. Average real wage hardly changed since 2008. Millions rely on food banks. Healthy life expectancy shrinking. Record number of billionaires. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

For #AMillionActsofHope we are celebrating #HopeOnTheHighStreet 🎉 Our Communications and Events Coordinator, Annie, shares why she finds hope in her local library 📚 Tell us where you find hope on your high street, to celebrate places of kindness and connection in your community 💚

📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.16) 🔽 The UK is very unequal – and that’s why we’re divided, angry, and failing as a nation… #UnfairUK Source: Prof. Danny Dorling Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Inequality Crisis www.dannydorling.org/books/peakin...

"the dramatic cost declines in batteries have now made 'firm renewables' — solar or wind paired with batteries — cheaper than fossil fuels in many parts of the world." This is game changing.

Librarians Love Leo! ❤️

Reading this and thinking of the taxi driver in Torquay last weekend enthusiastically telling me he’d watched a video of Nigel Farage speaking up on Question Time to champion the needs of those who earn just £15,000 a year. He’d later discovered it was AI, but “I was impressed anyway”

All the car parks to the supermarkets and hyper markets in this area are done. Plus quite a few much smaller parking areas. All new agricultural buildings have solar panel roofs as well.

Turns out, if you stop tearing up the seabed, wildlife thrives: ten years after banning bottom trawl fishing, there are 3 times the number of sea creatures + double the number of species in the South Arran MPA, Scotland, than there were before the ban 👏🦪🐟 share.google/2M5WqP3CXwSH...

I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.

Wes Streeting had a once in a lifetime chance to reinstate the NHS as a FULLY PUBLIC SERVICE He squandered it, continuing with privatisation £1.6 billion was wasted on profits in the last 2 years according to @chpithinktank.bsky.social - enough to pay for 9,178 doctors or 19,428 nurses

How much of the money that should go into NHS services in your area but instead goes to private shareholders? @chpithinktank.bsky.social have crunched the numbers (and it’s a lot) www.nhsprofitmap.org.uk