Peer suspended from House of Lords was allegedly paid $1m in ‘corrupt’ deal

The cost of using AI is plummeting as models and hardware become more efficient. This may lead to a wider range of occupations being targeted

John Swinney has said he has no confidence in the Labour UK Government fulfilling its promise to protect devolution

Christopher Harborne—a crypto investor known in Thailand as Chakrit Sakunkrit—handed Reform UK £9m on 1 Aug. Harborne owns a reported 12% stake in Tether Holdings Ltd, which operates the $185bn stablecoin USD₮. In a wholly unrelated development, Reform leader Nigel Farage keeps talking up crypto.

Reform in Scotland have pushed islamophobia during a by-election, advocated concentration camps for asylum seekers, and now a blatantly racist attack on Glasgow's schoolchildren. Everyone who believes in equality, human rights and democracy must recognise this threat for what it is: fascism.

Global race to secure critical minerals for weapons threatens climate, warns report #Climate

Guide Dogs Charity calls for zero tolerance Recommendations aim to help taxi drivers understand the law when it comes to allowing guide dogs or other service dogs in their car @centralbylines.co.uk

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

In the 1960s more than 40% of the money you spent went straight back to Government, everything spent on Water, Oil, Gas, Coal, Electricity, Social Housing, Telecoms, Steel, Ships... Now it's less than 5%, the rest all goes to billionaires Tax Havens That's why there is no money

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Women in low-income areas in Kenya face unsafe abortions due to USAID cuts

Some might say, hacking billboards is noble work. 😉

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Russian propaganda in full force for the Witkoff visit: Putin is claiming to have captured Ukrainian cities that he doesn't control, and having himself photographed in military uniform kyivindependent.com/putin-claims...

In 1968 Finland banned for profit education, the few private schools that exist in Finland have to reinvest any profit they make or pay it back to parents. It has been in the Top 3 in education for the last 20 years. There should be no profit in education or healthcare.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

There are three things Rachel Reeves should bear in mind tomorrow: obscene wealth doesn't 'trickle down', tax cuts don't 'pay for themselves' and the private sector isn't 'more efficient'

Labour has announced a crackdown on benefit fraud. Just like the Tories in 1992. And Labour in 1997. And the coalition in 2013. And the Tories in 2023. And Labour last year. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Cutting benefits doesn't 'incentivise work'. But it does penalise and humiliate people on benefits, and that's the real point.

The only meaningful definition of 'making working pay' is increasing the minimum wage. Cutting benefits is just cutting benefits.

Why isn't non-dom status reclassified as a benefit? Then we could start cracking down on the real big league benefit scroungers.

On the ferry, crossing the Firth of Clyde after a fantastic short break on Arran. We stayed in a brilliant vegan B&B - Stonewater House in Lamlash. Saw otters, red squirrels, eider, mergansers, many shore birds and woodland birds. A stunning place. share.google/AWcMAxYmL56h...

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On Saturday, in the United Kingdom, Father Christmas was arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding up a banner opposing genocide! 🚨🎅 #StarmersBritain 🇬🇧👁🤐🇵🇸 #KeirStarmer #ShabanaMahmood #YvetteCooper #Labour 🔥🌹 #EnoughIsEnough ⛔️ #SaveOurDemocracy ❤️ #RightToProtest ✅️ #LiftTheBan ⬅️ #bbclaurak

Avich Falls, Dallavich #Argyll #Scotland #LochAwe damianshields.photoshelter.com/p/2026-calendar

There you go. Parliament will now consider debate on calls for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy

Together with other members of the BRICS group of countries, China’s central bank is building a digital payment system with the goal of recruiting enough countries to chip away at the dollar’s dominance. Officials promise progress in 2026

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

He really does.

UK energy bill payers to hand £2bn a year in subsidies to EDF, owned by the French govt, for building two nuclear power stations. That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances. Dividends won't be taxed in the UK. All because UK govts oppose public ownership

The economic case for the Union has been 'torn apart', Stephen Flynn has said, predicting that the UK is set for 'another lost decade'

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

A top UN counter-terrorism expert has compared Labour's UK to Putin's Russia over the 'abuse of law' banning Palestine Action ⬇️

The UK's top Jewish body has intervened after Scotland-Palestine flags appeared in Glasgow and Edinburgh ⬇️

Asylum seekers have been attacked with eggs and threatened in Perth city centre amid a rise in racist incidents

A Scot detained in India for eight years has been moved to a 'prison so dangerous UK courts won't let people be extradited there'

"#Ecocide shifts the burden from vulnerable communities to decision-makers" Kate Mackintosh makes the #humanrights case for #ecocidelaw in a new guest blog. Full piece here: www.stopecocide.eart...#Ecocide#humanrights#ecocidelaw#StopEcocide UCLA Promise Europe

Scottish Palestine activists accused of 'terrorism' are being offered £100 fines instead of a trial ... 'It feels like the Scottish criminal justice system is exploring imaginative ways to avoid handing some of us terrorist convictions', one said ⬇️ www.thenational.scot/news/2565626...

“Just three companies – DMG Media, News UK and Reach – control 90% of UK national newspaper circulation, a 20% increase in market concentration since 2014. Newsquest and National World – control 51% of the UK’s 882 local newspapers and local news websites” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rachel Reeves’ 2025 Budget has already collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. In this video, I explain why tax rises on ordinary people, baseless growth forecasts, and a refusal to tax wealth fairly mean this Budget will fail. youtu.be/xvdFsOT6WPk?...

The good, the bad and the ugly of the Budget: The bad: the Budget contained no significant tax reforms, and almost nothing in the way of pro-growth measures. The capital allowance change will reduce business investment - it's positively anti-growth.

Budget 2025. Household energy bills could be cut by £154, green levies shifted to general taxation. No abolition of VAT on domestic fuel. No curbs on energy company profiteering/dividends. No change in the Ofgem pricing formula, which gives us one of the most expensive electricity in the world.

You're complicit in genocide and the attacks on migrants. A devastating message to Labour MPs from @zackpolanski.bsky.social

World top soils store 45% more carbon than previously thought, making them a better sequester of carbon but also a bigger threat is soil degradation is allowed to continue earth.org/soil-is-bigg...

A partnership for the NHS, run by Tony Blair’s son alongside Palantir. What could possibly go wrong?! 🚨🚨🚨 Here’s the link to read my latest piece… jujuliagrace.substack.com

'We're going to make excuses for Trump until we have our own destruction.' Phillips O'Brien and @mrjamesob.bsky.social discuss how pro-Trump sectors of the media are failing to recognise the 'pantomime of him protecting Putin'.

AI offers huge potential for tackling global crises, but its rapid growth also carries major environmental costs. Ahead of #UNEA7, where leaders will discuss emerging issues like AI, explore how we can balance its benefits with its planetary footprint: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

It is very hard to overstate the evil of the fossil fuel industry. When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.