Malcolm Powers
@malcpowers.bsky.social
Labour MP staffer, Parish Cllr, Cycling, Music, Hockey, Environment, Books
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What Pat Cummins is doing for climate adaptation and mitigation in Australia - protect something people love in their normallives, help them do it differently (loads of solar) - is an incredibly replicable model for climate advocates everywhere
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Cummins lobbies PM for $100m fund to help clubs manage climate change costs
Australia's men's Test cricket captain has lobbied Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to contribute to a $100m fund to help sporting clubs withstand the effects of climate change.
www.abc.net.au
September 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
What Pat Cummins is doing for climate adaptation and mitigation in Australia - protect something people love in their normallives, help them do it differently (loads of solar) - is an incredibly replicable model for climate advocates everywhere
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
If i were the Lib Dems I would definitely be talking to Adrian Ramsey and Ellie Chowns.
September 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
If i were the Lib Dems I would definitely be talking to Adrian Ramsey and Ellie Chowns.
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Already certain Green converts are basically saying "ditch the seats we won in Herefordshire and Suffolk - they're full of the wrong kind of voters". But, to state the bleeding obvious, that's not going to be popular with activists - and MPs - there.
September 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Already certain Green converts are basically saying "ditch the seats we won in Herefordshire and Suffolk - they're full of the wrong kind of voters". But, to state the bleeding obvious, that's not going to be popular with activists - and MPs - there.
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Zack Polanski here opposing building on the green belt, and supporting watering down the Planning Bill.
Left populism looks weirdly like the status quo!
Left populism looks weirdly like the status quo!
September 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Zack Polanski here opposing building on the green belt, and supporting watering down the Planning Bill.
Left populism looks weirdly like the status quo!
Left populism looks weirdly like the status quo!
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I suspect the answer might be no, and this will be further good news for the Lib Dems...
September 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I suspect the answer might be no, and this will be further good news for the Lib Dems...
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'Will the new Green leadership be able to reach an agreement with the Corbyn/Sultana party?' you ask, as if the far-left have a reputation for anything other than factionalism and ideological rifts.
September 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
'Will the new Green leadership be able to reach an agreement with the Corbyn/Sultana party?' you ask, as if the far-left have a reputation for anything other than factionalism and ideological rifts.
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waka wake
September 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
waka wake
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Sky, ITV and the BBC have spent the last few weeks empowering these racist turds with poor to bad faith reporting of tiny demos organised by far right groups as huge events of national importance, while offering no push back to relentless lies told by Farage and others. The TV newsrooms own it.
Sickening footage from Nuneaton tonight, where a Sky News interview with a local businessman was disrupted by racists hurling abuse.
Another local said, "Warwickshire Council Council has gone to Reform... It's given certain people a licence to be aggressive and racist."
Another local said, "Warwickshire Council Council has gone to Reform... It's given certain people a licence to be aggressive and racist."
September 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Sky, ITV and the BBC have spent the last few weeks empowering these racist turds with poor to bad faith reporting of tiny demos organised by far right groups as huge events of national importance, while offering no push back to relentless lies told by Farage and others. The TV newsrooms own it.
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Innovation makes useful things smaller and smaller. Overconsumption makes things bigger and bigger (and more dangerous with bigger costs & consequences). Bigger vehicles and larger homes for fewer people is not progress. HT @fietsprofessor for graphic
September 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Innovation makes useful things smaller and smaller. Overconsumption makes things bigger and bigger (and more dangerous with bigger costs & consequences). Bigger vehicles and larger homes for fewer people is not progress. HT @fietsprofessor for graphic
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'Europe is at war with Russia' is a deeply weird thing that you can find out just by reading the information that governments put on their website and if you read a quality newspaper, but *actual politicians* don't really talk about:
Ursula von der Leyen’s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS interference
Officials suspect jamming operation forced jet carrying European Commission president to land in Bulgaria using paper maps
www.ft.com
September 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
'Europe is at war with Russia' is a deeply weird thing that you can find out just by reading the information that governments put on their website and if you read a quality newspaper, but *actual politicians* don't really talk about:
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Isn’t this tantamount to an act of aggression?
September 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Isn’t this tantamount to an act of aggression?
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"UK council tax is based on 1991 property valuations, grouped into eight price bands and paid by tenants. It is probably the world’s most unfair property tax: the poorest pay the highest tax as a percentage of property value and the richest the least."
Britain needs a wealth tax on property
Targeting expensive houses and non-residential land would leave the vast majority of homeowners and farmers untouched
www.ft.com
September 1, 2025 at 5:54 AM
"UK council tax is based on 1991 property valuations, grouped into eight price bands and paid by tenants. It is probably the world’s most unfair property tax: the poorest pay the highest tax as a percentage of property value and the richest the least."
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This is spot on, and not just with regard to legal reporting. We increasingly live in a world of binary and deeply simplistic thinking. Which means that everything is slowly turned into a us-versus-them question. It is disastrous for reasoned debate.
Part (but not all) of the problem is the tyranny of simplicity: media, and the transmission of information in general, often require simple summaries. Some summaries achieve brevity through easy untruths.
August 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is spot on, and not just with regard to legal reporting. We increasingly live in a world of binary and deeply simplistic thinking. Which means that everything is slowly turned into a us-versus-them question. It is disastrous for reasoned debate.
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Racist abuse arrest after flags painted on homes
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Racist abuse arrest after flags painted on homes in Basildon
A man is arrested after
www.bbc.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Racist abuse arrest after flags painted on homes
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Racist hate crimes in Northern Ireland have reached record levels, new police figures show
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
Racism ‘out of control’ in Northern Ireland as hate crimes reach record levels
Amnesty International says 2024/25 has been a ‘year of hate and fear’ as number of incidents spiked significantly
www.irishtimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Racist hate crimes in Northern Ireland have reached record levels, new police figures show
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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Last year saw 15,191 suspensions for racist behaviour, around 80 every single school day.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Kids as young as four sent home for 'racist' school behaviour in record numbers
Suspensions for racism rose from 7,403 in 2021 to 15,191 last year. Figures are “unacceptable”, say Government officials, who are working to tackle the problem with teachers
www.mirror.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Last year saw 15,191 suspensions for racist behaviour, around 80 every single school day.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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"It is not fair to make life more expensive and unpleasant for people who operate" SUVs
I'd say it'd be a step in the right direction.
I'd say it'd be a step in the right direction.
Calls to charge SUV drivers more for parking amid 'carspreading'
Campaigners want higher parking charges for SUVs, which they say are driving up emissions, congestion and road danger. But not everyone is on board.
news.sky.com
August 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"It is not fair to make life more expensive and unpleasant for people who operate" SUVs
I'd say it'd be a step in the right direction.
I'd say it'd be a step in the right direction.
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Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters
Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Scottish Scout group 'mistaken for refugees' suffer racist abuse
www.thenational.scot/news/2538267...
www.thenational.scot/news/2538267...
Police probe after Scottish Scout group 'mistaken for refugees' suffer racist abuse
A GROUP of Scouts suffered racist abuse after being mistaken for asylum seekers ...
www.thenational.scot
August 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Scottish Scout group 'mistaken for refugees' suffer racist abuse
www.thenational.scot/news/2538267...
www.thenational.scot/news/2538267...
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Racist couple ask British NHS nurse if she 'came here on a rubber boat' in furious dog-walk attack
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Racist couple ask British nurse if she 'came here on a rubber boat'
The couple demanded to know if the nurse, who has worked for the NHS for 12 years, 'came here on a rubber boat' and hurled water at her her during the assault at a park in Halifax on Thursday.
www.dailymail.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Racist couple ask British NHS nurse if she 'came here on a rubber boat' in furious dog-walk attack
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Germany and Italy say they export lots of goods to Kyrgyzstan (black), but Kyrgyz import data (blue) show little arriving from either. Kyrgyzstan is just what it says on the invoice. This stuff obviously goes to Russia. Poland & Lithuania stopped this racket. Why won't Germany and Italy do the same?
August 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Germany and Italy say they export lots of goods to Kyrgyzstan (black), but Kyrgyz import data (blue) show little arriving from either. Kyrgyzstan is just what it says on the invoice. This stuff obviously goes to Russia. Poland & Lithuania stopped this racket. Why won't Germany and Italy do the same?
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Of course
A Tory MP is hiring a "red tape researcher" to fight "sclerotic regulations" obstructing "wealth creation".
Two clicks away from that ad, on his website, he boasts about his repeated objection to building houses on a field in his constituency.
Two clicks away from that ad, on his website, he boasts about his repeated objection to building houses on a field in his constituency.
August 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Of course