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Here you go. The last dying kicks of this corrupted, authoritarian government. This is being done under the State Threats Bill that Mahmood and allies like Luke Akehurst pushed through Parliament in the last month. This is going to have wild, unpredictable effects. Practically what it will mean is that it will be almost impossible for media outlets to work with on- the-ground journalists to report on Iran, Gaza or Lebanon. But I fear this will also be turned on the movement protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza. Don't believe me? Just days ago NGO Monitor produced a wild-eyed report, endorsed by Lord Walney and Michael Gove, that paints the huge public protests in the UK against Israel's genocide as the work of an international campaign linked to nefarious foreign actors. The report urged the IRGC to be proscribed. Proscribing the IRGC is one of the most consistent and powerful demands of the Board of Deputies and other pro-Israel organisations. Deeply chilling, authoritarian, irresponsible stuff. Mahmood and the Labour Together project have waged a vicious war on our democracy and basic civil liberties.

The fishing industry, which thinks only of how many fish can be extracted *now* without any care whatsoever as to the future health of our fisheries, somehow has our politicians and officials in a vice-like grip. The cowardice of the latter is breathtaking.

A generation betrayed by a politics, a media & a society lacking the conscience, the courage & the imagination to end an economic system that necessitates the burning of their futures, their hopes & their dreams. The most shameful betrayal in the history of our species.

Couldn’t have said it better….

Good evening @campbellclaret. You said during the @MishalHusain show that my book, the Rise of Political Lying, is "so debunked and so discredited" (17.24 onwards). Can you point to the evidence which supports your assertion. Thank you, Peter.

If a large company is making billions in profits, whilst its workers are claiming Universal Credit, then the government needs to legislate to force the company to cover the cost of UC. We should NOT be subsidising the company's profits!

Apart from Brexit, one of the most catastrophic, self harming decisions ever taken in the UK was by Dr Beeching when he closed 30% of the railway networks lines and 50% of the stations in the 1960's. How we could use that capacity now, getting cars and trucks off of the road.

73 million birds gone. England's dawn chorus silenced. Our national inheritance squandered. Our daily lives impoverished. This is where "greed is good" leads. Time to face the truth: A society endlessly exponentially consuming more and more isn't just a con; it's a death cult.

The UK government had over 500 meetings with fossil fuel lobbyists in their first year in power. Every flame of this monstrous wildfire in Wales is a political choice.

You can’t afford a coal-fired power station. You can’t afford a nuclear plant. You can’t afford a gas turbine. But you can afford a few solar panels and a battery. That’s why they’re rattled.

This article is full of errors, @BBC It’s POVERTY that’s the problem. The better off are doing fine, thank you very much. I’ve no idea why you would write such an article? Is using FACTS too difficult. What’s the motive? Is BBC Board trying to push for #NHS privatisation?

I raised again this week in the debate about the illegal & brutal expansion of Israeli settlements on the West Bank the cases of the disappearance by Israeli forces of Dr Mazen Al Rantisi & the continued imprisonment of Dr Husam Abu Sadiya, whose life we fear is now at risk.

“I saw a stray dog with a toddler’s arm” “I would see mothers scrape up tiny pieces of their children” Two women have told a court how they felt compelled to join Palestine Action after watching “a live-streamed genocide” of Israeli attacks in Gaza. declassifieduk.org/a-stray-dog-wi…

Sunlight is free. That’s why your X feed is full of anti-renewables posts by jobless social media grifters, ex-Covid ‘truthers’ who want to remain relevant, comment pieces by fake ‘energy consultants’, foreign bots, and fossil fuel lobbyists

Burnham talks as if the genocide in Gaza is in the past, but it's happening NOW. Britain is arming Israel NOW. This UN report is from two weeks ago. Burnham must commit to fully ending UK complicity NOW.

Ireland is building a battery that contains no lithium. No cobalt. No rare-earth metals. Instead, it stores energy using carbon dioxide. The project is designed to hold 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, making it one of Europe’s largest long-duration energy storage systems. But unlike conventional batteries, it doesn’t rely on chemical reactions. It relies on physics. When wind and solar farms produce more electricity than the grid needs, that extra energy is used to compress carbon dioxide into a liquid. The process releases heat, which is captured and stored. Later, when electricity demand rises, the stored heat turns the liquid CO₂ back into a gas. As the gas expands, it spins a turbine and generates electricity. Then the cycle begins again. The carbon dioxide never leaves the system. It stays sealed inside, circulating in a continuous closed loop. That is what makes the technology so different. There is no lithium. No cobalt. No dependence on critical mineral supply chains. Instead, the system is built mainly from steel, water, and carbon dioxide. It is also designed to last. Developers say the facility can deliver electricity for up to ten hours on a full charge and continue operating for more than 25 years without the gradual loss of storage capacity that affects many conventional batteries. As more countries shift toward wind and solar power, one challenge continues to grow. What happens when the wind stops blowing or the sun goes down? Projects like this are trying to answer that question. Not by replacing renewable energy. But by finding new ways to store it until it is needed. Sleazy anti-net-zero Farage, Tice, and Reform UK will be furious.

Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal @patrick_kidd

BREAKING: Israel is burning olive trees and civilian homes in Houla, South Lebanon. Centuries-old olive groves. No justification. Just pure terror. This is not a “ceasefire.” This is the deliberate destruction of a people’s land, history, and future.

1. There’s no evidence he is a Hamas terrorist 2. There’s no evidence he’s a Hamas colonel 3. Even if both of the above were true, which they are not, that’s still not justification for holding a human being for 18 months without charge and torturing him in detention. FFS.

Once again, the Board of Deputies conflates Jews with Israel, a clear example of antisemitism according to the IHRA definition the Board itself promotes. It claims Hamas "launched the conflict" in October 2023, even though Israel has been illegally and belligerently occupying Gaza since 1967 – 20 years before Hamas was even born. And the Board insists that Burnham urgently meet with it – presumably to be reminded that he will face Corbyn's fate of a relentless, manufactured smear campaign unless he guarantees, like Starmer, to support Israel, and its genocide, at all costs.