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Make Drax wait for its next subsidy deal. An FCA investigation is serious | Nils Pratley
Make Drax wait for its next subsidy deal. An FCA investigation is serious | Nils Pratley
Ministers should find out what the regulator says before signing away a further £1.8bn of public money
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Make Drax wait for its next subsidy deal. An FCA investigation is serious | Nils Pratley
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Latest Drax inquiry will raise fresh questions about its billions in subsidies
Latest Drax inquiry will raise fresh questions about its billions in subsidies
FCA will look at allegation the biomass power station misled investors, and Whitehall, about its wood sourcing
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Latest Drax inquiry will raise fresh questions about its billions in subsidies
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FCA opens investigation into Drax accounts on.ft.com/41umbEe
FCA opens investigation into Drax accounts
Probe follows allegations made by former top lobbyist
on.ft.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
FCA opens investigation into Drax accounts on.ft.com/41umbEe
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BREAKING: UK markets regulators have opened an investigation into Drax over the sustainability of its sourcing of wood for biomass pellets from 2022-24
This is potentially a much more serious investigation than ones conducted previously by MPs or by the energy regulator
www.ft.com/content/368c...
This is potentially a much more serious investigation than ones conducted previously by MPs or by the energy regulator
www.ft.com/content/368c...
FCA opens UK investigation into Drax accounts
Probe follows allegations made by former top lobbyist
www.ft.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
BREAKING: UK markets regulators have opened an investigation into Drax over the sustainability of its sourcing of wood for biomass pellets from 2022-24
This is potentially a much more serious investigation than ones conducted previously by MPs or by the energy regulator
www.ft.com/content/368c...
This is potentially a much more serious investigation than ones conducted previously by MPs or by the energy regulator
www.ft.com/content/368c...
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Minister apologises to generation of UK children exposed to toxic online content
Minister apologises to generation of UK children exposed to toxic online content
As new measures to protect young people online come into force, Peter Kyle says politicians were too slow to act
The technology secretary has apologised to a generation of children who have been let down by governments failing to keep them safe from toxic online content.
Peter Kyle said the length of time it had taken to bring in laws to keep children safe online had “sold a whole generation of children downstream” and that politicians must find a way to act more swiftly in the face of rapid technological changes. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Minister apologises to generation of UK children exposed to toxic online content
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UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work
UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work
Exclusive: Changes to workers’ rights bill will prohibit the silencing of staff who suffer harassment or discrimination
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Labour has delivered where Tory ministers did not on NDA rules
Bosses in the UK will be banned from using non-disclosure agreements to silence employees who have suffered harassment and discrimination in the workplace as part of the government’s overhaul of workers’ rights.
Ministers will on Monday night table amendments to the government’s employment rights bill to prohibit the widespread practice of using legally enforceable NDAs to conceal unacceptable behaviour at work. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work
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Thousands of UK government laptops, phones and tablets have been lost or stolen
Thousands of UK government laptops, phones and tablets have been lost or stolen
Exclusive: ‘Systemic risk’ to cybersecurity after devices worth more than £1m a year are taken or lost
Thousands of UK government laptops, phones and tablets worth more than £1m have been either lost or stolen, freedom of information disclosures have revealed, triggering warnings of a “systemic risk” to the nation’s cybersecurity.
The Department for Work and Pensions recorded 240 missing laptops and 125 missing phones in 2024; while in the first five months of this year the Ministry of Defence recorded 103 missing laptops and 387 missing phones. The Cabinet Office, which coordinates government activity, lost or had stolen 66 laptops and 124 phones in 2024. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Thousands of UK government laptops, phones and tablets have been lost or stolen
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Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince
Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince
The evidence against the Drax power station is damning, yet the government wants to continue its massive public funding, says campaigner Dale Vince
www.theguardian.com
June 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince
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If we have any pretentions to a net-zero transition in the UK E have to stop subsiding Drax. - Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince
The evidence against the Drax power station is damning, yet the government wants to continue its massive public funding, says campaigner Dale Vince
www.theguardian.com
June 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If we have any pretentions to a net-zero transition in the UK E have to stop subsiding Drax. - Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Para 81!
The Divisional Court's judgment in the AI citations cases about whether to open contempt proceedings should be read by all lawyers. Counsel on this occasion was very lucky to escape contempt proceedings by the skin of her teeth.
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
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June 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Para 81!
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Greenpeace condemns Equinor-funded computer game aimed at UK schoolchildren
The game shows fossil fuels as part of a clean future energy mix, while players who start the game with a heavy reliance on renewable energy often fail to reach the mid-century milestone.
The game shows fossil fuels as part of a clean future energy mix, while players who start the game with a heavy reliance on renewable energy often fail to reach the mid-century milestone.
Greenpeace condemns Equinor-funded computer game aimed at UK schoolchildren
School children in the UK have been playing EnergyTown which is funded by the Norwegian oil major.
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June 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Greenpeace condemns Equinor-funded computer game aimed at UK schoolchildren
The game shows fossil fuels as part of a clean future energy mix, while players who start the game with a heavy reliance on renewable energy often fail to reach the mid-century milestone.
The game shows fossil fuels as part of a clean future energy mix, while players who start the game with a heavy reliance on renewable energy often fail to reach the mid-century milestone.
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Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says
Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says
Speaking at book festival in east Sussex, former supreme court president says reaction to judgment ‘very binary’
The supreme court’s ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex “has been misinterpreted”, Lady Hale has said.
Speaking at the Charleston literary festival in east Sussex, the first female president of the supreme court said the last thing she wants now that she has retired “is to undermine the court and its authority by being critical of its decisions”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Court ruling on legal definition of a woman ‘misinterpreted’, Lady Hale says
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"I will never forget the small boy I saw standing on a pile of rubble, using his small hands to move concrete. I wondered what he was looking for, only to be shocked when he said: ‘My mum.’"
Our incredible colleague, Shaima, on what she saw in Gaza:
Our incredible colleague, Shaima, on what she saw in Gaza:
I saw a child in Gaza digging through rubble – the reason broke my heart
I will never forget what I witnessed.
metro.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"I will never forget the small boy I saw standing on a pile of rubble, using his small hands to move concrete. I wondered what he was looking for, only to be shocked when he said: ‘My mum.’"
Our incredible colleague, Shaima, on what she saw in Gaza:
Our incredible colleague, Shaima, on what she saw in Gaza:
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Tropical forests destroyed at fastest recorded rate last year www.bbc.com/news/article...
Fires cause record loss of tropical forests in climate threat
Tropical forests provide a buffer against climate change, but disappeared faster than ever recorded last year.
www.bbc.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Tropical forests destroyed at fastest recorded rate last year www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I do not understand how Kuenssberg seriously can say noone voted for rejoining a Customs Union, when clearly noone voted for leaving it at the time.
Calum Miller (LibDem), "Businesses in the area I represent tell me the red tape post Brexit have been hugely damaging to their links to the EU"
Laura Kuenssberg, "Customs Union, people didn't vote for that"
Calum Miller, "Just by cutting red take the UK could get £25 billion"
Laura Kuenssberg, "Customs Union, people didn't vote for that"
Calum Miller, "Just by cutting red take the UK could get £25 billion"
May 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I do not understand how Kuenssberg seriously can say noone voted for rejoining a Customs Union, when clearly noone voted for leaving it at the time.
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extraordinary that Thames Water executives are getting *new* bonuses, this time as a result of the £3bn rescue loan from the spring - which loads the company with interest rates of nearly 10%
via me and Gill Plimmer
www.ft.com/content/1f6d...
via me and Gill Plimmer
www.ft.com/content/1f6d...
Thames Water executives to receive bonuses from £3bn emergency loan
Utility’s chair tells MPs that retention payments are needed to prevent rivals ‘picking off’ staff
www.ft.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
extraordinary that Thames Water executives are getting *new* bonuses, this time as a result of the £3bn rescue loan from the spring - which loads the company with interest rates of nearly 10%
via me and Gill Plimmer
www.ft.com/content/1f6d...
via me and Gill Plimmer
www.ft.com/content/1f6d...
I am aware of at least one English person who lives in France but doesn’t speak French.
May 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I am aware of at least one English person who lives in France but doesn’t speak French.
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US President Donald Trump said that he would announce a "major trade deal" later today with a "big, and highly respected country"
Trump set to announce 'major trade deal'
US President Donald Trump said that he would announce a "major trade deal" later today with a "big, and highly respected country".
www.rte.ie
May 8, 2025 at 5:54 AM
US President Donald Trump said that he would announce a "major trade deal" later today with a "big, and highly respected country"
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An influential committee of MPs have found that the Biomass companies have been marking their own home work – who knew..:) They should have gone further and called for an end to tree burning. We need to keep trees in the ground…:)
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May 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
An influential committee of MPs have found that the Biomass companies have been marking their own home work – who knew..:) They should have gone further and called for an end to tree burning. We need to keep trees in the ground…:)
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‘It’s pretty bad’: Bank of England top official on the lack of female economics students
‘It’s pretty bad’: Bank of England top official on the lack of female economics students
Deputy governor Clare Lombardelli calls for more women and people from poorer backgrounds to take key subject
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
‘It’s pretty bad’: Bank of England top official on the lack of female economics students
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Committee of UK MPs says Drax's biomass burning plant:
* shouldn't 'mark its own homework' on biomass sustainability
* may not be value for the subsidies it will get
* & govt must do more to establish "that biomass is not a white elephant”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
* shouldn't 'mark its own homework' on biomass sustainability
* may not be value for the subsidies it will get
* & govt must do more to establish "that biomass is not a white elephant”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
MPs question value of billions in subsidies granted to Drax power plant
Spending watchdog warns £6.5bn in funding may not offer value for public money amid ongoing sustainability concerns
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Committee of UK MPs says Drax's biomass burning plant:
* shouldn't 'mark its own homework' on biomass sustainability
* may not be value for the subsidies it will get
* & govt must do more to establish "that biomass is not a white elephant”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
* shouldn't 'mark its own homework' on biomass sustainability
* may not be value for the subsidies it will get
* & govt must do more to establish "that biomass is not a white elephant”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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French workers encouraged to arrive late in protest over pension age rise from 62 to 64.
UK state pension age to rise from 66 to 67, lower pension than in France.
Rich retire whenever they want. Work till drop for the rest. LL
Britons need French lessons on resistance and protest.
UK state pension age to rise from 66 to 67, lower pension than in France.
Rich retire whenever they want. Work till drop for the rest. LL
Britons need French lessons on resistance and protest.
Disgruntled French workers encouraged to arrive late in protest over pension age rise
Artists created an AI ‘minister of latecomers’, who encourages people to compensate for years lost, and a tool calculating exactly how late to turn up
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:39 AM
French workers encouraged to arrive late in protest over pension age rise from 62 to 64.
UK state pension age to rise from 66 to 67, lower pension than in France.
Rich retire whenever they want. Work till drop for the rest. LL
Britons need French lessons on resistance and protest.
UK state pension age to rise from 66 to 67, lower pension than in France.
Rich retire whenever they want. Work till drop for the rest. LL
Britons need French lessons on resistance and protest.
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Thames Water is the poster-child of predatory capitalism.
Its road to ruin began with private equity. Current shareholders want to sell to another private equity group. More problems inevitable.
How will the govt protect people?
Watch the Minister's reply.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mosP...
Its road to ruin began with private equity. Current shareholders want to sell to another private equity group. More problems inevitable.
How will the govt protect people?
Watch the Minister's reply.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mosP...
House of Lords Thames Water 28 April 2025
YouTube video by Prem Sikka
www.youtube.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Thames Water is the poster-child of predatory capitalism.
Its road to ruin began with private equity. Current shareholders want to sell to another private equity group. More problems inevitable.
How will the govt protect people?
Watch the Minister's reply.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mosP...
Its road to ruin began with private equity. Current shareholders want to sell to another private equity group. More problems inevitable.
How will the govt protect people?
Watch the Minister's reply.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mosP...
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Officials in the UK are warning that biomass #polluters like Drax are misrepresenting the "sustainability" of their plants. Make no mistake, burning our #forests for fuel will never be sustainable.
Biomass power firms could be ‘marking own homework on sustainability’
Companies that burn wood pellets for energy - such as Drax in North Yorkshire - may be “marking their own homework on sustainability”, an influential cross-party committee has warned.
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April 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Officials in the UK are warning that biomass #polluters like Drax are misrepresenting the "sustainability" of their plants. Make no mistake, burning our #forests for fuel will never be sustainable.
