It's very important to US healthcare companies to undermine the NHS and to privitise its functions as fast as possible, because its very existence shows that socialised healthcare is possible. Do not trust politicians who are taking private healthcare money!!

This scenario is in the back of my mind the entire time. We need the whole of society to start preparing for this, but it looks increasingly likely that we'll not only fail to prepare, but take a huge step backwards under a Reform government.

meet a (liberal) american outside the us & they'll immediately tell you they don't like trump—they get he makes the country look bad do brits get that people wouldn't even do a layover here? that we're in a tier with hungary & russia?

Trump: I am setting up the Trump Corruption Fund. It's going to be the most corrupt fund ever. No politician before me has set up something so corrupt. I will give away money to people who support me, they'll get incredibly rich on public money. A single 800 y/o Republican: I am mildly perturbed

Essential episode of Gary's Economics: @garyseconomics.bsky.social talks to @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, an economist who has made taxing wealth part of the national conversation in France. Let's build that same momentum in the UK and the rest of the world. pca.st/episode/74fc...

The prepared version seems remarkably cheap??

I am so fucking sick of the "Jeez, are these the best people you can come up with??" era of politicians.

A Democrat with even 50% of Mandami's charisma and a decent proportion of his values, who openly hated everything about Trump, would be able to turn America around in a single term. She's out there somewhere, you just need to look.

Andy Burnham now U-turning so fast that he's going to be way too dizzy to find his way to Parliament.

I mean… he's right, isn't he? We *still* need a proper left wing government here in the UK to start the healing process from Thatcher.

❤️ @amnestyuk.bsky.social www.amnesty.org.uk/knowledge-hu...

Politicians hate activists.

This is absolutely appalling. Society surely expects a proportionate punishment for such callous, awful crimes. There should be a much more robust system for overriding the decisions of our of touch judges. Those girls deserve better.

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Iain Dale is an arsehole whose ability to understand things is directly related to what it's convenient for him to understand. Why pretend otherwise? 🤷🏻‍♂️

I reckon if Angela Raynor made a solid bid for the left of Labour vote she could win the leadership. I don't really know what her personal politics are all about, but I think she's pretty savvy. I've no reason to think it'd happen, though..!

I would have expected the Labour government to write off the point of view of someone who wrote this extremist drivel, but instead they've allowed this to become the basis of legal guidance.

Looks like a start of mini heatwave in UK ☀️ Things that can help keep buildings comfortable: 🐑 good levels of insulation 🌬️ good airtightness 😎 effective external shading (blinds, overhangs, pergolas) and lastly ❄️ Air Con- it's not a dirty word, same way as 'Central heating' isn't #passivhaus

Huh, so this came from the top? I think maybe it's time for realpolitik Greens to stop imagining a coalition with these people.

Okay and just to piggyback on this, as a person with both chronic and occasionally acute disabilities, one of which got me a radar key from the NHS- you can just buy them online for a tenner. You should not need to be doing this, I hate that you are put in this position, but if you need one, lmk.

We mustn't forget that a long-standing right-wing POV on just about everything is that any sort of complexity in any area is bad. Things should be simple. "Red tape", rules, procedures, they're all bad. Where they have a point and where they don't… is complicated.

This is how you make a population afraid of something. The media have done the same thing with immigrants. Humans are tuned to be more wary of things presented as dangerous that they hear about more often… it's a great metric in the wild, but mass media totally screws it up.

The updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations has been laid before Parliament. The guidance tells organisations how they should approach trans inclusion. Here’s what that means.

It's actually shocking to read this from a sitting MP. Giving instructions on how to discriminate against a minority on a public forum is a new low. Just appalling.

EHRC Code: 1. The point of the Equality Act was to prevent discrimination. So if you were discriminated against, you had (in most cases) a route to make a complaint, the law to back you up and a route to make inequality expensive enough that most companies complied (to some extent).

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

So much stuff is happening at the moment that just ... doesn't need to happen. Stuff that makes people feel busy and officious and important and is just a total waste of everyone's time.

Gah! He sounds like a good guy. I hope he's OK.

We probably need someone in charge to correct this ridiculous misconception rather than buying into it.

One reason I hate death penalty cases is that capital punishment is incredibly stupid and irrational. It's cruel, expensive, and serves no deterrent effect. It's rarely imposed, except against a tiny minority of unlucky defendants—and in those cases, racism almost always plays a role. Just end it.

This is why it is the height of strategic naivety to listen to calls from Labourites that the Greens should or even could work with Labour to stop Reform or a Tory-Reform coalition: Labour will always side with the right to lock out the left even if it eventually paves the way for a fash govt

Lol. Lib Dems, still *the* harmless protest vote party. Keep enjoying those water slides, Ed!

Guys you don't have to go full Machiavelli to realise that quitting a fight at the first opportunity might not be the best way to help someone else to win. And if they gradually turn out to be a less convincing potential ally than you might have hoped, you haven't thrown your chance.

As a teacher, I recommend books. As a parent I see my children encouraged to use any and every online tool including unsafe ones like LLM or the abusive Duolingo. I can’t remember the last time a teacher recommended that I buy a book or physical item for revision. It is sad

Urrgh… it's such a reflex for this crowd to opt for authoritarian measures. There are active, well-funded campaigns against renewables, amplified by our dreadful press - but the antidote is information, consensus-building and a toolbox for responding to fallacious objections.

Sounds fantastic 😊

Today in "Labour would rather lose than shift even slightly left"

Every news source that isn't saying this is lying, either explicitly or by omission.

The Trump administration realised that the Judgement Fund could effectively issue blank cheques (or checks, I guess) with no oversight. What would I know, but this sure looks like a quite incredible level of corruption. www.youtube.com/shorts/96MSp...

So the more progressive people stopped being members? 🤷🏻‍♂️

"AI" may be terrible fit creators in many ways, but the way people are breaking these tools is ingenious 🙃

Why is this guy allowed to cosplay as a journalist when he's so incredibly compromised? It's not like he's good at it.

Obviously we should design out the need for heating or cooling to a decent degree, but we need to dispense with this weird idea that air conditioning is some sort of… what, moral failing? Slippery slope?

Building a straw pavilion in the UK with Uni Westminster architecture students, architectscan.org and bluesky friends. 🧵Day 1: Stone Age

Somehow, everyone here in London keeps telling me how backward the UK is, and I can’t deny it. Everything here is already dominated by massive emission construction, a fossil petrochem+metal-clad house burns down, and suddenly biobased construction will be banned. Spot the mistake.

Guys, you absolutely *must* vote for the Leopards Eating People's Faces party, because otherwise the Leopards Eating Your Entire Head party might get in instead! I am a wise pragmatist.

Nice! I bet you could make that Turkish coffee in it, too. But seriously, though, great technology.

cooked him like groceries

For anyone hoping to rejoin the EU, good news - someone who knows somebody who works with someone at Downing Street says they haven't ruled out the possibility of one day forming a committee to consider the possibility of holding a meeting about maybe considering rejoining before 2055 🤞🏻