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You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires?
This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.
They’re for everyone.
This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.
They’re for everyone.
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires?
This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.
They’re for everyone.
This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.
They’re for everyone.
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Pleasure to meet constituents and campaigners to discuss the climate crisis. This isn't getting the attention it needs, and the Government must not endanger net zero through approving Heathrow expansion, and needs to put a stop to plans to pump recycled sewage into our river.
July 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Pleasure to meet constituents and campaigners to discuss the climate crisis. This isn't getting the attention it needs, and the Government must not endanger net zero through approving Heathrow expansion, and needs to put a stop to plans to pump recycled sewage into our river.
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The ugly and potentially damaging #ThamesWater DRA scheme for #Teddington is now open for consultation. Thanks to SOLAR for suggestions on how to respond: saveourlandsandriver.org.uk/how-to-respo...
How to RESPOND TO the consultation - Save Our Lands & River from Thames Water
In late 2023, approximately 2,300 people objected to Thames Water’s original plans, forcing them to change their proposal. If 1,000s of people register their objection via the consultation, we have ...
saveourlandsandriver.org.uk
July 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The ugly and potentially damaging #ThamesWater DRA scheme for #Teddington is now open for consultation. Thanks to SOLAR for suggestions on how to respond: saveourlandsandriver.org.uk/how-to-respo...
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WTF? If this Government can’t even agree to this smallest of initiatives, which has no cost to them & absolutely no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesn’t come close …
Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
WTF? If this Government can’t even agree to this smallest of initiatives, which has no cost to them & absolutely no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesn’t come close …
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April 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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‘The compost pile stands in productive contrast to a domestic order founded on the concealment of waste. We so rarely have to deal with our own shit.’
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social makes compost: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social makes compost: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fraser MacDonald · On Compost
I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’...
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April 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
‘The compost pile stands in productive contrast to a domestic order founded on the concealment of waste. We so rarely have to deal with our own shit.’
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social makes compost: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social makes compost: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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“The Conservative leader saying she wants to do all she can to protect the natural world is entirely meaningless when it comes in the same breath as claiming net zero by 2050 is impossible, without a shred of evidence.” - Mike Childs, Friends of the Earth. www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/art...
Tory green group rejects Badenoch´s claim that net zero by 2050 is...
The Conservative Party leader is expected to say that her party will `confront the real problems´.
www.dailymail.co.uk
March 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
“The Conservative leader saying she wants to do all she can to protect the natural world is entirely meaningless when it comes in the same breath as claiming net zero by 2050 is impossible, without a shred of evidence.” - Mike Childs, Friends of the Earth. www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/art...
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Thames Water was responsible for almost 300,000 hours of raw sewage pouring into waterways in 2024, with the company admitting it left its sewage treatment works to crumble as a result of underinvestment.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water data reveals raw sewage discharges in rivers rose 50% in 2024
Exclusive: Almost 300,000 hours of raw effluent poured into waterways, figures show, up from 196,000 in 2023
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Thames Water was responsible for almost 300,000 hours of raw sewage pouring into waterways in 2024, with the company admitting it left its sewage treatment works to crumble as a result of underinvestment.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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“With the escalating impacts of climate breakdown accelerating globally as countries like the US turn their back on decisive climate action, it couldn’t be more crucial for the Government to get its revised plan right" - Anna Roguski, Friends of the Earth. www.standard.co.uk/news/environ...
More than half of public ‘back low-income households receiving net zero grants’
Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to ensure a just transition that benefits people across the country.
www.standard.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“With the escalating impacts of climate breakdown accelerating globally as countries like the US turn their back on decisive climate action, it couldn’t be more crucial for the Government to get its revised plan right" - Anna Roguski, Friends of the Earth. www.standard.co.uk/news/environ...
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Starting something without a proper plan is a recipe for disaster. Especially when it comes to combatting the climate crisis. That's why we’ve joined forces with @chrisgpackham.bsky.social, Drag Race UK star Crystal and Dylan Bachelet to help demand a #BigClimatePlan that delivers a brighter future.
March 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Starting something without a proper plan is a recipe for disaster. Especially when it comes to combatting the climate crisis. That's why we’ve joined forces with @chrisgpackham.bsky.social, Drag Race UK star Crystal and Dylan Bachelet to help demand a #BigClimatePlan that delivers a brighter future.
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Useful app from our friends at @cleanairlondon.bsky.social especially for those with #asthma, although #airpollution affects us all.
🚨Our #CleanAirCities app reveals #AirPollution at your current location📍 for the last hour, 24 hours and year and next 24 hours📈. Free to download in the Android tinyurl.com/CAICandroid and Apple tinyurl.com/CAICapple stores. Tap 🛎️ in 'Home' for daily or alert forecast notifications⏰
March 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Useful app from our friends at @cleanairlondon.bsky.social especially for those with #asthma, although #airpollution affects us all.
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‘In only five years, a third runway at Heathrow would cancel out emissions savings from the government’s vaunted (and already off-track) plans to decarbonise the electricity grid.’
New on the blog from Rebekah Diski: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
New on the blog from Rebekah Diski: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
Rebekah Diski | Number One Mission
The government’s support for Heathrow expansion is in keeping with the robotic incantations of economic growth that...
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January 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
‘In only five years, a third runway at Heathrow would cancel out emissions savings from the government’s vaunted (and already off-track) plans to decarbonise the electricity grid.’
New on the blog from Rebekah Diski: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
New on the blog from Rebekah Diski: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
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The economic case for airport expansion is threadbare. Our research in Rebekah Diski's piece for @londonreview.bsky.social 👇
January 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The economic case for airport expansion is threadbare. Our research in Rebekah Diski's piece for @londonreview.bsky.social 👇
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I remain opposed to a new runway at Heathrow airport because of the severe impact it will have on noise, air pollution and meeting our climate change targets.
January 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Hard to believe how little regard for #scientific or #economic reality there seems to be in #government. #Don'tGrowHeathrow
January 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Hard to believe how little regard for #scientific or #economic reality there seems to be in #government. #Don'tGrowHeathrow
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Scepticism in Whitehall that Heathrow plan can be reconciled with climate targets
Scepticism in Whitehall that Heathrow plan can be reconciled with climate targets
Emission targets could derail project as campaigners say net zero commitment cannot be met if expansion happens
Rachel Reeves caused a furious backlash as she insisted a third runway at Heathrow was “set up for success”, despite scepticism in Whitehall…
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Scepticism in Whitehall that Heathrow plan can be reconciled with climate targets
