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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 8h

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, it's still early June 2016.

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 1h

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet 😷

Tl;dr: Get your Covid booster jab soon.
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England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 2h

Of course, Farage has used Britain's Brexit-ruined economy to further his political aspirations among his constituency of those with a perpetual grievance

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 21h

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 2h

Well this will be all over the BBC for the next 24 hours, I feel sure

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 2h

"Industries used to justify CCUS (e.g., steel, cement) spent just 1/24 as much on CCUS lobbying as did the fossil-fuel sector.

"Half of all CCUS lobbying expenditures came from 15 entities, each with direct financial ties to fossil fuel production."

Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 2h

"Since 2005, fossil-fuel interests have spent $954M lobbying the US government on CCUS, yielding major legislative wins.

"Groups tied to fossil-fuel use or sales made 89 % of CCUS lobbying expenditures between 2005 to 2024.

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 2h

Tl;dr: Fossil fuel interests have lobbied hugely for Carbon Capture, Use & Storage (CCUS), a fantasy technology that has never worked at scale

(Tracing sources of funds used to lobby the US government about carbon capture, use, and storage - ScienceDirect) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tracing sources of funds used to lobby the US government about carbon capture, use, and storage

Analysis of U.S. federal lobbying disclosures from 2005 through 2024 identifies the fossil fuel sector as the primary force behind a multipronged $954…

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 8h

Why does this tax exile 'foreigner' think our government should discuss policy with him? He should feck off back to Monaco. Made his choice based on his own interest, to avoid tax. Anything he has to say will be only in his own interests, again.

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Miliband refused to discuss North Sea with me, says Ratcliffe

Ineos owner urges policymakers to reform net zero taxes or risk ‘irreversible decline’

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

Nothing says "I want independent judges" like threatening to sack any judge who disagrees with you, while holding up a judge's wig like a puppet

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 21h

"It has nothing to offer, but a haunted terror at the sight of Farage and an unrequited love-song at the sight of Trump."

Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 21h

"It is hollow. It has no ideas and those it does have are undermined by the very policies it puts forward. It has no principles and those it retains are made into a mockery by the statements it allows to go unchallenged.

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 21h

"This is the underlying issue, the substrata underneath Badenoch and Jenrick. It’s not just that they are pathetic and empty and cowardly and immoral and petty and useless and inept. It’s actually somehow worse than that. It is that the entire British conservative project is dying.

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 21h

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick - by Ian Dunt iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick

We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.

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Chevron @lachevron.bsky.social · 1d

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𝔇𝔢𝔫𝔫𝔦𝔰 𝔅𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔱 @bsky.pickpear.com · 2d

By way of a reminder folks...

You voted for Cameron
Everything got worse

You voted for Johnson
Everything got worse

You voted for brexit
Everything got worse

You voted for Truss
Everything got worse

If you vote for Farage

You have no idea how bad your life will become.

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Anton Spisak @antonspisak.bsky.social · 1d

Weak goods exports have weighed on the UK’s post-pandemic growth more than any other factor – including weak investment.

And yet, this fact is almost entirely absent from Britain’s political debate about growth.

Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · 1d

@antonspisak.bsky.social of the @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social, a think-tank, observes that, after Brexit took effect at the end of 2020, Britain’s goods exports have grown less than those of any other economy in the G7 club of rich countries.

A dangerous post-Brexit world

Britain risks being an unwitting victim of EU-US trade wars

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Chris @oakymoron.bsky.social · 1d

Farage must be the only one that is stunned then

There needs to be a proper independent investigation into Russian money in UK politics

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Politics latest: Farage 'stunned' at guilty plea of former Reform leader in Wales for Russia-linked bribes

Nigel Farage has said he is "stunned" that a former Reform UK leader in Wales pleaded guilty to taking Russia-linked bribes. Meanwhile, the Plaid Cymru leader is delivering his major party conference ...

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 1d

We have a golden opportunity to attract that talent here and help kick-start the British economy. It’s an opportunity we seem intent on ignoring.”

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Trump’s migrant obsession offers Starmer a rare win – but Farage has scared him off

We have a golden opportunity to kick-start the British economy

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 1d

“Anti-immigrant hysteria has driven America into the abyss. It is now actively discouraging the next generation of skilled workers, doctors, entrepreneurs and inventors from moving to its shores.

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 1d

“Reform have just 5 [now 4] MPs but clocked up 353,660 [media] mentions, which means 70,732 mentions per MP, the highest of any party. Against their 14.3% vote share in 2024, they stand at 24,731 per point – again inflated.”
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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 1d

It's time central government gave councils the power to ban the scourge of pavement parking!

Five years of waiting: Pavement parking is a problem for everyone - Walk Wheel Cycle Trust
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Five years of waiting: Pavement parking is a problem for everyone

It's time for the government to act and give councils in England the power to enforce against pavement parking.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not the teachers that are convincing kids that you’re racist, Nige, it’s your actions, words and policies.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 1d

Urgent: Sign the petition!

Change the ‘grey belt’ definition in the National Planning Policy Framework - Petitions
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Petition: Change the ‘grey belt’ definition in the National Planning Policy Framework

We want an urgent change to the ‘grey belt’ definition in the NPPF. We think the grey belt glossary definition [which] could result in the loss of our countryside forever - vital for health and wellbe...

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 2d

When I see nearly 20% of Greens opposed to closer ties with the EU you really have to wonder about the direction of their party

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