Simon Oliver 🌍🔥❌

@Redd_Advertiser is it "Try not to go to the loo as it will only end up in the river"

Severn Trent issues advice to customers ahead of Storm Darragh ift.tt/cgGkyv9

"I should just point out that this will only be Nigel Farage's 38th appearance on Question Time" #BBCQT

'Imagine if that were a Labour problem, or even a Tory problem. But because it’s Farage, this level of moral bankruptcy is almost expected.' James O’Brien reacts to Nigel Farage’s response when quizzed over Reform MP James McMurdock’s assault conviction.

The evidence that Nigel Farage is basically just a conman conning the thick and gullible keeps piling up in clear view. Supporters of his will turn a blind eye thinking he's the only one who talks the talk on immigration when it's all just a cover for him to make £££ #FarageRiots

@APPGhumanists 'A clear transparent legal framework for end of life choice is better for everyone.' Terminally ill's people's lives and choices 'are as important as everybody else's,' says Kim.

‘Protect the climate for whom?’: Palestinians highlight #Gaza at #COP29 - Advocates and officials argue that consequences of Israeli siege are inextricably linked to tackling the climate crisis By @dharnanoor theguardian.com/environment/20…

#cop29 - The proposed text on climate finance makes no mention of inflation. This makes a massive difference to the scale of finance being discussed... @dharnanoor and @pgreenfielduk explain 👇 #block-67419c328f087ff7bcc43d9a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/environment/li…

@markpack Yes but... theguardian.com/commentisfree/… "It should offend all farmers with mud on their boots that multimillionaire landowners who are helping to make farming less affordable for genuine farmers are claiming to represent us."

It is not credible that Farage knew nothing about Russian interference in UK elections by 2018. Why did he never mention it? His close ally Isabel Oakeshott was concerned that Banks could be working as an “agent of influence for the Russian state” 6/6

Since Nigel Farage has just sided with Russia again, and said “the idea Ukraine is going to win, frankly, is for the birds,” it’s time to re-ask those five questions he’s never asked about his support for Vladimir Putin 1/5 bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/the…

We have been granted permission to intervene in a legal appeal that will set a precedent for how government ministers take account of environmental issues when developing policy. Read the press release: green-alliance.org.uk/press-release/…

Read the thread. An anti-Muslim far right Christian ‘crusader’ as Sec of Defense

Today, I questioned the Prime Minister on his plan if Donald Trump abandons our brave Ukrainian allies. If the US won't support Ukraine in its fight against Putin's war machine, the UK and Europe must – and we should use frozen Russian assets to do it.

Some commentators saying Starmer sounded patronising to Badenoch at #PMQs. It's hard not to sound a little patronising if the questions are useless and incoherent.

Using up the carbon budget for 1.5°C

Lib Dems plan to force vote on replacing Lords with elected upper chamber dlvr.it/TG6NS3

Today the climate meeting #COP29 starts in Baku. During Cop, the picture of Azerbaijan reported by the media will be a whitewashed and greenwashed version that the regime is desperate to portray. But make no mistake – it is a repressive state accused of ethnic cleansing.

Europeans need to be frank: The "free world" will be led by a convicted felon & demagogue who doesn’t share our values but wants to destroy them. Liberal democracy is in peril. Is Europe prepared? No. Can it be & will we see real 🇪🇺 leadership we desperately need ? Hopefully!

Tory lies just keep coming. Almost every statement 'modern' right-wingers make is a self-serving and deliberate falsehood. Repeat until they give up trying to correct you.

IMPORTANT PLS SHARE. It's rumoured the English £9,250 tuition fee cap may be raised this pm for the 1st time in 8yrs, as University's finances are strained. As student finance misunderstandings abound, I've bashed out a few notes to help... 1. Higher tuition fees WON'T change what most pay each year. For most, they're paid for you by the student loans company and you repay afterwards only if you earn over the threshold. The amount you repay each year (9% over the threshold) solely depends on what you earn not on what you borrow. 2. Increasing tuition fees will only see those who clear the loan in full over the 40yrs pay more. That is generally mid-high to higher earning university leavers only, so the cost of increasing them will generally be born by the more affluent. Most lower and middle earning university leavers will simply pay 9% extra tax above the threshold for 40yrs (and higher tuition fees won't change that) 3. The rise is tuition fees is likely to be trivial compared to the changes the last govt made for 2023 starters. 2023 starters had their repayment thresholds dropped to £25,000 (from £27,295/yr) and had the time they had to keep repaying for (unless cleared) extended to 40years from 30years. So these higher annual repayments for longer, increased by over 50% the amount many graduates will eventually have to pay back for going to university. Yet they were almost stealth changes because people can't intuitively feel the seismic impact. Changing tuition fees is a more obvious rise, but in reality has far less of an impact on the amount most will repay (though combined with the 2023 changes it does certainly up the cost). 4. The biggest practical problem for students isnt tution fees (even if raised) its the fact maintenace loans aren't big enough. English maintenance loans have not kept pace with inflation. I'd urge the govt to couple the tuition fee loans with bigger living loans - if not it is a real risk to social mobility, with those from the poorest backgrounds likely to be worse affected. I could write more, but will stop here, hopefully this gives an idea the issues are less straightforward than many feel.