The Tory Party has gone mad..

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

Walked across Manchester city centre twice today. Unlike previous years, you really wouldn't know the Tory conference was on. Few extra cops, didn't spot any weird adverts or protests. (I wasn't right by the Midland, but was by Oxford Rd). Liverpool last week was full of 'conference types'.

When the PSNI were over arresting peaceful protesters in London, loyalist terror groups with 12,500+ members threatened terror attacks for using this island's native tongue. No COBRA meetings, no British reporting, nothing.

The Kent Reform group have been surprised to find that their intuitions & messages about profligate and pointless spending which could be painlessly cut were an imaginary projection bsky.app/profile/jame...

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Sorry I keep talking about this but I’m genuinely alarmed by the growing narrative that poverty is a cause of racism. First it’s super insulting of people on low incomes. Second it normalises & excuses racist takes. And third it deters real action on racism by shifting the whole focus to economics.

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists." The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

This week, the Society's President Lucy Noakes wrote in response to Bridget Phillipson's Labour conference speech - and its implications for history and the humanities in UK higher education bit.ly/3KBX7Fw #Skystorians

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Why is it called "bleeding" a radiator? It should be called "burping", really. Like getting rid of trapped wind.

In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

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Seriously, if someone values high pay per hour with only a few years training, job security for 30+ years, the potential to travel at will, and the feeling you’re contributing to a better world, training as an electrician isn’t a bad strategy.

Rather than doing all the good things quietly and all the shitty things loudly, maybe Labour should shout about the good things it's doing and stop doing the shitty things altogether instead. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

My partner described me being in small spaces doing air tightness taping as my 'happy place'. He might be right - feels nice to achieve something tangible. In this case was sorting out some of the holes in the mini loft above our bathroom. (That wallpaper is not visible normally).

The white cloud here is water vapor condensing out of the air as the (invisible) pressurized methane in the pipeline expands and cools. Methane leaks (and intentional venting) happen all the time. They make natural gas far worse for climate than it appears when looking only at CO2 from combustion.

Another Sunday after a small amount of light rain, another poo warning that means I can't go for a swim as originally planned. At least I know, thanks to the Surfers Against Sewage app: www.sas.org.uk/updates/real...

Labour is pitching the New Towns announcement today as a return to the "transformative post-war housing boom under Clement Attlee". Actually it looks much more like housing policy under Blair, or even Thatcher and Boris Johnson (thread)

Regret to inform I’ve logged into NextDoor again this morning

Extremely this. Looking forward to learning at what age digital ID starts, and third party access for folks who lack capacity to manage their digital ID themselves.

Also, something that TBI - an organisation uncommonly full of young men - don't seem to get is that for a lot of people digital disintermediation is a actually a PITA for people with too much to do. Every new thing on your phone is something else to log into. It's the state giving work to citizens.

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If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

“The only drawback is how you guarantee parking outside your house”. Have ministers an answer to this entirely predictable - and predicted - problem as they “power up an EV revolution and supercharge our infrastructure “ to quote from the PN? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So my act of defiance against the cranks today was to get an MMR jab. I am so old I didn't get it as a kid - just the single measles jab, and that doesn't last forever. (And there is an outbreak at the mo in Liverpool). If you were born between 1970-1990 in the UK this might apply to you too.

For far right authoritarians, the ultimate mother is a dead one who has sacrificed her life for her family. In death, she can be perfect. No needs, no personality. The beatific ideal of womanhood. Your very own Jane Seymour www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is so deeply unserious. Throughout the entire 14 years of the Conservative government oil and gas licenses were routinely issued and for much of the period there was a policy of maximising extraction. Production still fell, the economy flatlined, and energy security got worse.

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Climate activists often debate whether they should get involved in larger movements for justice, or whether it’s better to just “stay in their lane” of climate. The opposition to climate action is not having that debate.

Liverpool Almanac what’s on guide for the end of September. This is a curated guide with a few things to do that might not be on your radar open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...

Seeking people on Merseyside to help with 2 fruit picks - Thursday 25th Sept - Stockbridge Village, Knowsley for apples & pears to support local food bank. Friday 26th Sept, 11.30am John Lennon’s apples. Both an hour or so. Travel expenses & snacks! Please share & DM if you can help. Ta! #gleaning

I know many people feel disconnected from elite politics. The lingo is alienating and designed to hide meaning. But these puff pieces never ask why this disconnect means you automatically have to go to a racist rally organised by a serial criminal. Apparently that’s just a natural effect

Nick Robinson doesn't understand the difference between generation and grid constraints. Radio 4's Today programme is just dumb.

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Not having a go at this, as the rise of racism and the far right around east Liverpool is a huge problem….but the opposition in Knowsley is the Green Party, and their rise in one of the most deprived bits of the country is a genuinely untold story. Work needs doing in this!

BREAKING: A Hillsborough Law will be laid before Parliament on Tuesday after decades of tireless campaigning by the families of the 97 Liverpool fans who died at the 1989 stadium disaster A huge and historic moment

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I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

Liverpool to Manchester railway, world's first inter-city passenger service. opened on this day 1830. Tragedy struck when politician William Huskisson stepped down on to the parallel track and was hit by a locomotive. Taken to nearest place on the line, Eccles, but died later that day.

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STOP APPEASING FASCISTS. Just sums up everything wrong with this government's approach at the moment, encouraging division rather than finding ways to bring the vast majority together.

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Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

Annie Kenney was born on this day 1879.

📣 This is why women from all walks of life are speaking out. We know scapegoating when we see it - and we will not stay silent. 🚫 We see rhetoric of ‘protecting women’ being used time and again to target minorities, and we won’t stand by and let marginalised people be attacked in our name.

Of course the other big effect of slash and burn deregulation is to make anyone who invested in good business practices feel like an idiot as they get out competed by lower cost cowboy operators

Poll of over 7,000 people reveals strong support for clean energy, nature restoration, and climate action. A large majority made up of people who think they are in a small minority, thanks to relentless misinformation online and in the mainstream media.