“We can learn a huge amount in the UK from what Ukraine is doing. They are building decarbonised infrastructure across the country because solar and wind and batteries are much harder to target than large scale power stations" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My life at the moment. #UTA

@arseblog.com Is Jonathan Like quoting from the pod now?

Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised. RT if you know it has to be.

Thames Water infrastructure average age is 79 yrs. 40% of assets are 100+ yrs old. Water industry average is 56 years. At current rate, it will take 700+ yrs to renew assets. Since 1989 industry neglected investment, £88bn+ dividends paid, customers fleeced. Privatisation isn't the answer.

Zohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.” America’s Mayor can’t miss.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Here in Spain, we are approving and advancing a process to regularise half a million immigrants. “And I want to say to the Right and the Far Right who oppose this: Spain is the daughter of migration and will not become the mother of xenophobia.”

We're making hope normal again right across England and Wales. 20 days today - help end Rip Off Britain. Vote Green. www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

New for @playthegame-org.bsky.social: an in-depth four-part report on the Western enablers, some of them household names, without whom illegal Asian bookmakers so loved of European football clubs could not function: data collection agencies, licence providers, marketing and advertising agencies.

Conservative MP Esther McVey claimed last week that knife crime in London “is up 72% in a year”. That figure’s not correct, according to police statistics on knife-enabled crime, and we’ve not found any data to support it.

Jack Rankin, Conservative MP for Windsor, calls for special administration of Thames Water 👇 "Water privatisation has clearly been a failure...Profit cannot be privatised while risk is socialised" 💯 and in line with the 70% of CONSERVATIVE voters who want publicly owned water

Cheers @dominos-pizza.bsky.social I guess.

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than: Tesla Southwest Disney Live Nation HP United PayPal CVS Health Palantir Citigroup PG&E 3M That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax. It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

Private firms got £12bn NHS contracts. Private equity, offshore tax haven firms big winners. Donations to Ministers pay dividends. £1.6bn profit in 2 yrs. Enough to pay for 9,178 doctors or 19,428 nurses Health service “taken for a ride”. Say NO to privatisation. Must expand NHS capacity

Tactical voting could help ensure #Reform do not succeed in May - whilst I do not support any particular party, I would ask people to consider tactical voting. We do not want the Temu Trump Party running anything in the UK. Say NO to Nazis

Alexa play the sound of silence.

Farage is not your friend. #UKPolitics

Time to tax them out of existence.

How about opening the fuckin’ Epstein files you crazy bastard?

Nothing makes me want Africa to win a world cup like Shakira's This Time For Africa. It actually makes me forget that Africa is a continent not a country with a football association.

Love to see this: A new poll conducted in Hungary has shown that JD Vance's visit to Budapest caused Putin puppet Viktor Orbán's party to LOSE 3% of its support. ⬇️

Dear international friends, Do not travel to the United States this summer for the World Cup. It isn't safe for us, and it's absolutely not safe for you. Sincerely, An American citizen

Clean, safe, cheap, renewable energy that you don't have to fight deadly wars or destroy the environment to get. Good for wildlife, too, when done properly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

Man City didn't win a single away leg when they won the Champions League. Away games in this competition are generally really hard, they're about not losing. Arsenal started a bit ropey tonight but it's been fine since, good response after a difficult couple of games.

Lovely stuff

Our final ball is dog shit.

Probably not the most important thing but I don't like how our shorts look like they've been put on too high a wash with too dark a blue thing.

I bloody love him youtube.com/shorts/RpRIw...

For no particular reason...

SNL UK is absolutely putting its American counterpart to shame dear lord

The DHSC's failure to agree reasonable terms with doctors has cost the NHS more than £3bn in 3 years. Fixed it for you, Times.

Go home Arsenal Direct. You are drunk.

168 pairs of shoes,arranged in a heart on the steps of Cedaredge Community United Methodist Church.They represent the children of Minab, Iran. 168 schoolchildren & staff were killed on February 28th when a US missile struck their school. The girls had removed their shoes at the door that morning.

On @arseblog.com duty this morning as Andrew heads to Lisbon. Odegaard and Saka have shared the pitch for an hour or more in just six Premier League games this season. I really hope we see them both start against Sporting tomorrow night: p1r.es/41Oy7jL

Still Talking about Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump #releasethefiles #prosecutealltheperpetrators #listentothevictims open.substack.com/pub/ellieleo...

Palantir, the controversial U.S. company working with ICE and the Israeli military, has access to our private data via NHS databases. We need the Government to trigger the break clause on their contract NOW. 🚨Can you sign and share?

The UK can afford State Pensions. Properly funded Universal Healthcare. No University fees. Government run Energy, Water and Housing. What it can't afford is the billionaires blocking all of these things. YOU choose which you want. I'm picking NO billionaires.

Happy Easter.

😂😂😂

So much whiplash here. An intentionally over-inflated pipeline of data centre projects will never all end being built But if we still end up with a massive volume of new data centre capacity and associated fossil fuel expansion, that looks 'smaller' than the was-always-bullshit pipeline

Restoring mangroves alongside dikes creates a powerful defense against sea level rise. Research shows these benefits help lower-income areas. As climate change intensifies, the value of this combined "green-gray" strategy only grows. cgeib.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.

In Belgium, employees receive compensation for every kilometre they ride, with some cyclists earning up to €810 per year. And why not? Biking saves public money for everyone. “All employees in Belgium who cycle to work are entitled to a bicycle allowance of €0.28 per kilometre of their commute.”

92% of seagrass meadows have been lost They store carbon, shelter wildlife, protect our coastline from storms, & provide vital nurseries for young fish including cod, whose numbers are critically low Around the UK, people are working to restore them: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

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...

Good piece from my colleague @mhdilmn.bsky.social

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

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.

The USA can and should be stripped of the World Cup and the Olympics it is not a safe country.