Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Gareth0108

Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1h

Politicians really shouldn't be allowed to present 'current affairs' or news programmes (what really is the difference these days?). It's obvious, and the public agrees.

GB News viewers more likely to wrongly believe net migration to UK rising, study finds

Research also finds majority of people are against letting politicians front current affairs programmes

www.theguardian.com

4 17 67

Reposted by Gareth0108

DeSmog @desmog.com · 4h

🔴 NEW - How a ‘Pro-Climate’ Charity Channelled Cash to a Koch-Funded Think Tank

Opaque funds are masking donations to political causes.

📝 @mc00.bsky.social

How a ‘Pro-Climate’ Charity Channelled Cash to a Koch-Funded Think Tank

A UK charity that portrays itself as a climate leader facilitated a £830,000 donation to the Mercatus Center, a conservative think tank heavily funded by U.S. oil billionaire Charles Koch, DeSmog can ...

www.desmog.com

17 19

Reposted by Gareth0108

Callum Parrish @callumparrish.bsky.social · 4h

In initial comments at #PMQs, very good to see Keir Starmer clearly and comprehensively outline why the baseless claims against the Government on the China spying case are just that; baseless.

It took place under the Tories, and therefore the case had to judge on the previous Government's advice.

1 9 48

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 1h

Does it make you smile(y)

1

Reposted by Gareth0108

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

Legalise *and* regulate drugs.

This morning on @jeremyvine.bsky.social:

youtu.be/kBjqQAFdBRQ?...

Should we legalise all drugs? feat. Zack Polanski & Carole Malone | Jeremy Vine

YouTube video by Jeremy, Storm & Vanessa On 5

youtu.be

120 110 510

Reposted by Gareth0108

Paul @warne567.bsky.social · 8h

Here we go again with the ‘only high earners work hard’ BS. Straight from Tory Press Office this one.

Something smells very off with this whole piece. Most of those cited were born around/after when Thatcher resigned, so have no personal experience of her.

3 21

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 3h

#Trump

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 4h

This , u til we acknowledge that lawson and lamont are the architects of our decline no forward movement can happen and the ppl who profited most from that own most the media inc this one

Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 6h

You know what's a big factor in the perpetuation of the #doomloop? Journalists who are determined to prevent any prospect of an sober and coherent public discussion of fiscal policy and public finances.

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride claims UK in 'tax doom loop' and Reeves to blame
In his Sky News interview with the chancellor, Sam Coates put it to her that the UK was in a “doom loop” where the government needed to come back every year with higher taxes to fill a black hole in the public finances. Rachel Reeves replied: “Nobody wants that cycle to end more than I do, Sam.”

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 4h

Chasing farage has been very unpalatable for left leaning people like me and when I saw the greens labouresqe manifesto while miliband was faffing about with those silly stones a while back I started looking closer

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 4h

It's too little too late they've already ceeded that ground

1

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 19h

or after getting electrocuted his insurance would cover and ambulance or a hearse (gawd bless our NHS)

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 21h

Hwæt!? 😉

2

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 22h

government by tabloid headline

1 2

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 23h

The fates have spoken

1

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 23h

Have you tried changing your name to bob wade?

Reposted by Gareth0108

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

www.monbiot.com

34 200 680

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 23h

Iain M Banks culture series are some of the best espionage novels ever written

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

1

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 1d

Just have a cheese and marmite toastie and stop faffing about

Reposted by Gareth0108

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2d

This goes even higher up. Forget Medvedchuk. Forget Medvedev

According to former Brexit Party MEP and defected Reform MP Rupert Lowe, the individuals at Gill's meetings claimed to be "close to Putin"

12 210 330

Reposted by Gareth0108

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

I’m seeing pieces and posts today about how useful digital ID could be in navigating bureaucracy etc. Yes. It would. That, however, is *not* how the government tried to sell it to us. Instead, they portrayed it as a tool to stop illegal working and curb illegal immigration. 1/4

20 71 250

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 1d

It's the manufacturing robot redundancies all over again but this time it's going to hit white collar workers and traditional professions like law are right in the firing line

1

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 1d

that’s a great description almost all the jobs in our service economy,Royal mail could not survive to send the important stuff without junk mail & unless clerks are adding junk to spreadsheets no one will read more than once our entire fake system collapses that’s why people are scared of AI

1 3

Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 2d

Deeply depressing to read the usual suspects in economic reporting writing the usual guff based on the idea that lawson and Greenspan are unassailable yea PJ the economist I'm looking at you

Economics is not a force of nature other ideas may work much better

Reposted by Gareth0108

Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 2d

It was Tory ministers who allowed these people get where they did. If I were Badenoch I'd shut the feck up.

BBC News - Badenoch demands PM address 'unanswered' China spy case questions
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Badenoch demands PM address 'unanswered' China spy case questions

In a letter to Starmer, the Tory leader claimed his government's account of the collapsed case had "changed repeatedly".

www.bbc.com

1 2 4