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The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33%
Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
March 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33%
Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
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We must close loopholes that would allow foreign billionaires like Elon Musk to bankroll UK political parties
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/07/g...
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/07/g...
Needs Musk: Minister Pledges Crackdown on 'Dark Money' in British Politics
Keir Starmer's Government looks set to close loopholes that would allow foreign billionaires like Elon Musk to bankroll UK political parties
bylinetimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
We must close loopholes that would allow foreign billionaires like Elon Musk to bankroll UK political parties
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/07/g...
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/07/g...
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In 2018, Steve Bannon and Michael Wolff watched as Trump...
"believed Putin over his own intelligence agencies. Bannon turned to Wolff: “[Putin] has something on Trump, what is it?”
Bannon didn’t know and neither did Wolff."
"believed Putin over his own intelligence agencies. Bannon turned to Wolff: “[Putin] has something on Trump, what is it?”
Bannon didn’t know and neither did Wolff."
Is Donald Trump a Russian agent?
Donald Trump’s unshakeable admiration for Vladimir Putin continues to raise eyebrows. Does Putin have a hold over Trump?
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
March 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
In 2018, Steve Bannon and Michael Wolff watched as Trump...
"believed Putin over his own intelligence agencies. Bannon turned to Wolff: “[Putin] has something on Trump, what is it?”
Bannon didn’t know and neither did Wolff."
"believed Putin over his own intelligence agencies. Bannon turned to Wolff: “[Putin] has something on Trump, what is it?”
Bannon didn’t know and neither did Wolff."
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“With electrification so central to net-zero & delivering 60% of emissions cuts by 2040, top CCC recommendation is to make electricity prices cheaper
(Weirdly, most news coverage focused on low-carbon choices eg diet, despite the much greater role for other solutions)”
Yes!
(Weirdly, most news coverage focused on low-carbon choices eg diet, despite the much greater role for other solutions)”
Yes!
NEW: Official advisers CCC say UK shld cut emissions 87% by 2040
⚖️Net cost of net-zero 73% less than thought
💷Total cost to 2050 = £108bn (~£4bn/yr, 0.2% GDP)
🏡🚗H’hold energy/fuel bills to fall £1,400
🔌Electrification is key
THREAD + charts
www.carbonbrief.org/...
1/10
⚖️Net cost of net-zero 73% less than thought
💷Total cost to 2050 = £108bn (~£4bn/yr, 0.2% GDP)
🏡🚗H’hold energy/fuel bills to fall £1,400
🔌Electrification is key
THREAD + charts
www.carbonbrief.org/...
1/10
February 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
“With electrification so central to net-zero & delivering 60% of emissions cuts by 2040, top CCC recommendation is to make electricity prices cheaper
(Weirdly, most news coverage focused on low-carbon choices eg diet, despite the much greater role for other solutions)”
Yes!
(Weirdly, most news coverage focused on low-carbon choices eg diet, despite the much greater role for other solutions)”
Yes!
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New York Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi:
"If we reward Putin now, what do you think the people in Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Estonia, Poland are gonna say? If he [Putin] goes through Ukraine, he's going straight into Poland.
"If we reward Putin now, what do you think the people in Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Estonia, Poland are gonna say? If he [Putin] goes through Ukraine, he's going straight into Poland.
February 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
New York Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi:
"If we reward Putin now, what do you think the people in Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Estonia, Poland are gonna say? If he [Putin] goes through Ukraine, he's going straight into Poland.
"If we reward Putin now, what do you think the people in Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Estonia, Poland are gonna say? If he [Putin] goes through Ukraine, he's going straight into Poland.
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Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead.
Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth.
Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth.
Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead
Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
February 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead.
Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth.
Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth.
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If Brexit had never happened…
…we’d be much wealthier, with more investment in public services, better trade - and with our parliament & govt having spent the last decade doing far more productive things.
🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺
…we’d be much wealthier, with more investment in public services, better trade - and with our parliament & govt having spent the last decade doing far more productive things.
🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺
February 16, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If Brexit had never happened…
…we’d be much wealthier, with more investment in public services, better trade - and with our parliament & govt having spent the last decade doing far more productive things.
🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺
…we’d be much wealthier, with more investment in public services, better trade - and with our parliament & govt having spent the last decade doing far more productive things.
🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Sounds like a plan
February 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Sounds like a plan
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In other news the OBR report the government keeps quoting from says Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...
'We've got to move on': Rachel Reeves rejects calls to negotiate UK-EU customs union - Politics.co.uk
Ministers have rejected calls for the UK to move closer to the EU in order to boost economic growth, insisting that Brexit has brought “opportunities” and some benefits for the British economy. Speaki...
www.politics.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
In other news the OBR report the government keeps quoting from says Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...
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OTD in 2022 one of my parody embassies reminded us that suggestions Russia would invade Ukraine were fakes spread by USA.
Seeing as we didn't invade you can believe our promises now about stopping the invasion.
Seeing as we didn't invade you can believe our promises now about stopping the invasion.
January 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
OTD in 2022 one of my parody embassies reminded us that suggestions Russia would invade Ukraine were fakes spread by USA.
Seeing as we didn't invade you can believe our promises now about stopping the invasion.
Seeing as we didn't invade you can believe our promises now about stopping the invasion.
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“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and profit”
President Joe Biden
President Joe Biden
January 16, 2025 at 6:05 AM
“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and profit”
President Joe Biden
President Joe Biden
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Good. Draw a line. And then advance from there.
- Overhaul Ofsted. Make it do its job or replace it
- Rebalance the BBC and replace the most obvious Tory political figures/editorial appointments
- Start strengthening public institutions that can help cut through disinformation
Fight damn it.
- Overhaul Ofsted. Make it do its job or replace it
- Rebalance the BBC and replace the most obvious Tory political figures/editorial appointments
- Start strengthening public institutions that can help cut through disinformation
Fight damn it.
January 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Good. Draw a line. And then advance from there.
- Overhaul Ofsted. Make it do its job or replace it
- Rebalance the BBC and replace the most obvious Tory political figures/editorial appointments
- Start strengthening public institutions that can help cut through disinformation
Fight damn it.
- Overhaul Ofsted. Make it do its job or replace it
- Rebalance the BBC and replace the most obvious Tory political figures/editorial appointments
- Start strengthening public institutions that can help cut through disinformation
Fight damn it.
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Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏
January 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏
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That’s all in the first two days of 2025!Labour must wake up to what’s happening here. All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations before its too late
Elon Musk has called for far-right agitator Tommy Robinson to be released from prison, suggested the US should exert economic pressure on the UK to get him out, said Jess Phillips should be jailed and said there should be fresh elections to oust Labour
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Elon Musk Calls for Fresh UK Elections in Latest Starmer Attack
Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk called for fresh UK elections in the latest sign of how Donald Trump’s incoming US administration could be a thorn in the side of Keir Starmer’s government.
www.bloomberg.com
January 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
That’s all in the first two days of 2025!Labour must wake up to what’s happening here. All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations before its too late
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Germans need to take this very seriously.
Musk has 2 months to sway the German election for Putin and he's shown he can do it. If it's not taken seriously now it's over.
Musk has 2 months to sway the German election for Putin and he's shown he can do it. If it's not taken seriously now it's over.
The most pro-Russian political party in Europe now has the support of Elon Musk. A party that that is constantly having its members arrested for espionage in favor of Russia AND China.
Musk needs to be in prison.
Musk needs to be in prison.
December 20, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Germans need to take this very seriously.
Musk has 2 months to sway the German election for Putin and he's shown he can do it. If it's not taken seriously now it's over.
Musk has 2 months to sway the German election for Putin and he's shown he can do it. If it's not taken seriously now it's over.
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Make no mistake: russia bombing the downtown of the capital city with 4 million residents is considered routine. Ukraine conducting deep strikes against russian military bases is labeled as escalation. Future historians will feel secondhand embarrassment when studying this era.
December 20, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Make no mistake: russia bombing the downtown of the capital city with 4 million residents is considered routine. Ukraine conducting deep strikes against russian military bases is labeled as escalation. Future historians will feel secondhand embarrassment when studying this era.
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Sound about right.
December 19, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Sound about right.
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Elon Musk is becoming a one-man rogue state – it’s time we reined him in | Alexander Hurst
Elon Musk is becoming a one-man rogue state – it’s time we reined him in | Alexander Hurst
He has bankrolled elections, stoked riots and ignored laws. We mustn’t make the mistake of playing nice with the world’s richest bully
Elon Musk is, more or less, a rogue state. His intentions are self-serving and nefarious, and his nation-state level…
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2024 at 7:24 AM
Elon Musk is becoming a one-man rogue state – it’s time we reined him in | Alexander Hurst
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All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations
eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/fig...
eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/fig...
Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy
Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 19, 2024 at 6:33 PM
All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations
eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/fig...
eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/fig...
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The media’s dangerous embrace of Farage: a critical look at BBC’s Question Time
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
The media’s dangerous embrace of Farage: a critical look at BBC’s Question Time
The BBC’s platforming of Nigel Farage on Question Time promotes divisive and misleading rhetoric, distorting the debate on immigration
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 13, 2024 at 2:45 PM
The media’s dangerous embrace of Farage: a critical look at BBC’s Question Time
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...
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Yes.
If we weren't at such a weird moment in history, the collapse of Assad's regime would be widely understood as a huge success for the Biden administration, which pursued sanctions on Russia and Iran as well as Syria, armed Ukraine and thus weakened Russia, and supported Syrian democrats and activists
December 13, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Yes.
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‘We’re getting poorer’ says Nigel Farage
In other news the Brexit he championed is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts
youtu.be/jvo1JM6xZqQ?...
In other news the Brexit he championed is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts
youtu.be/jvo1JM6xZqQ?...
The Bank of England governor says Brexit has undermined the UK economy. Hold onto your seats..
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
December 13, 2024 at 7:24 AM
‘We’re getting poorer’ says Nigel Farage
In other news the Brexit he championed is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts
youtu.be/jvo1JM6xZqQ?...
In other news the Brexit he championed is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts
youtu.be/jvo1JM6xZqQ?...
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“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?”
@josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
@josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
bylinetimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 8:19 AM
“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?”
@josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
@josiah.writes.news
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
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The fact that the FBI informant who claimed President Biden took millions in bribes from Burisma has admitted today in federal court that he made the whole thing up AND that he met with Russian intelligence to get more lies....
Just proves Russia collusion was a hoax.
Just proves Russia collusion was a hoax.
December 13, 2024 at 3:23 PM
The fact that the FBI informant who claimed President Biden took millions in bribes from Burisma has admitted today in federal court that he made the whole thing up AND that he met with Russian intelligence to get more lies....
Just proves Russia collusion was a hoax.
Just proves Russia collusion was a hoax.