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Life is precious. Love nature. Hate ecocide. Believe all are equal even if our circumstances are not. Seek the value of things, not just their cost. Look for substance, not just style.

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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
What the @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenjennyjones.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social et al are saying
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 02/09/2025
Draw the line. Join the Green Party today ⤵️ join.greenparty.org.uk?utm_source=s...
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds
Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
CEO-to-worker pay gap surges to 632 to 1 at US’s lowest-paying large firms. Starbucks CEO collected $95.8m, 6,666 times as much as the company’s $14,674 median pay. Workers rely on food banks and charity for survival whilst company engaged in union busting.
theguardian.com
CEO-to-worker pay gap surges to 632 to 1 at US’s lowest-paying large firms, study shows
At 100 firms in S&P 500 with lowest median pay, executives’ comp increased by average of nearly 35% over five years
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Hong Kong billionaire, owner of Northumbrian Water, touted as Thames Water bidder. He won't provide necessary infrastructure investment. Any private owner would want profit, main cause of the crisis. Profits go abroad, misery stays home. Public ownership is the only way ahead. archive.ph/NCYXf
telegraph.co.uk
Chinese suitor ‘would cut billions from Thames Water investment’
CK Infrastructure touted as likely buyer if debt-laden water company is nationalised
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
US Senate Report Shows Private Equity 'Devastates' healthcare. Squeezes the life out of hospitals and doctor's offices, High debt, staff cuts, asset-stripping, profiteering, low quality care PE expanding in UK, owns hospitals, GP surgeries, care homes; cataract, hip/knee replacement surgeries.
commondreams.org
New Senate Report Details How Private Equity 'Devastates' Hospital Systems | Common Dreams
US Senator Chris Murphy exposes how private equity firms destroyed hospitals in his home state.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Naziification of the UK. Reform UK would: Leave ECHR (join Russia and Belarus). Repeal the UK Human Rights Act. Disapply the 1951 Refugee convention. UN Convention Against Torture. the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention. Cancel the Good Friday Agreement. No one will be safe.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Trump said: “a lot of people are saying ‘maybe we’d like a dictator", claims he isn’t one. Since the election he has probably made more laws than Congress; thinks he is King, will rule forever Sent soldiers into US cities, wants to annexe other countries. A dictator did that in the 1930s.
independent.co.uk
Trump says he is not a dictator but insists many people think the US could use one
President criticized Democratic-led cities of being ungrateful for his administration deploying federal law enforcement to help curtail crime
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
UK electricity/gas infrastructure companies have spent £490m a year less than budgeted on maintaining system reliability and preventing failures. Gas privatised in 1986, electricity in 1990. Assets sweated. Electricity/Gas distribution companies have the highest profit margins in the UK.
common-wealth.org
Profiting Amid the Energy Crisis: The Distribution Networks at the Heart of the UK's Gas and Electricity System
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Whilst this complicit, complacent government & ‘regulator’ do nothing but side with the sinner against the sinned against. What a complete sellout Starmer & his government are.
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Another betrayal of voters, ‘working people’, the struggling, the non corporates & pretty much the 99% by our LINO government.
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Since #Brexit, UK now has lower standards in politics and politicians (apologies to the exceptions to this seemingly ever apparent rule).
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Of course if they challenged & capped the charges extorted by/profiteering by utilities companies esp Gas & Water, rail & air operators & reversed employers NI hike life would become generally a lot more affordable for SME businesses & normal people, we might get some economic activity across the UK
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
If there’s a good, sensible, public spirited, cost-effective & kind way. And there’s its opposite, what way do you think they’ll choose 🤔?
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Now we need the same response to oil, gas & plastics industries to save our planet from the ever worsening climate catastrophe & plastic pervasiveness.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Contrast two #Scotland wind projects: Beinn an Tuirc, owned by Scottish Power Renewables, returns about £2,500 per megawatt to the community whilst Tilley, a single turbine owned by the Tiree Community Development Trust, returns over £263,000 per megawatt. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
heraldscotland.com
Scotland - 'the Saudi Arabia of renewables'? - not yet
The Scottish Government must reform their approach to the development of offshore wind if there is to be any meaningful and last economic footprint…
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
If only European & UK leaders would rally to the planet & all of us affected by climate devastation in the way that they rally against Putin.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
It’s a complex mix e.g. big business/ private equity interests, toothless, inadequate or complicit regulators, escalating property, rent, fuel, utility, food & produce bills, rates & employers NI, infrastructure issues. Poor government. End result: affordability crisis for pubs & punters alike.
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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Feargal Sharkey accuses Environment Agency of illegally draining River Lea www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Feargal Sharkey accuses Environment Agency of illegally draining River Lea
Fishing club chaired by singer threatens court action over abstraction it says is putting rare trout population at risk
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
👆💯 Any day now, oil giant Equinor is expected to reapply to develop Rosebank: the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK. Now it’s up to this government to make the right call and reject Rosebank. 👉 Join the #StopRosebank Day of Action, Sat 6th Sep. Link in bio.
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Zero Hour: the campaign for climate and nature @zero-hour.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🥦 UK farmers face devastating crop losses, with broccoli yields down 50% due to heatwaves and climate extremes. 🚨 The climate crisis is a food security crisis. We need urgent, updated laws to protect farming and food production. 🐝 Join the campaign for the Climate and Nature Bill 👉 zerohour.uk
bbc.co.uk
Herefordshire farmer sees broccoli harvest hit by heatwave and lack of water
The British Growers Association warns that supplies of broccoli are 'tight' thanks to the heatwave.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Successive UK govts have expected the City of London to revive the economy. This faith is misplaced. In 2024, £25.3bn new shares issued on the London Stock Exchange £92.1bn paid in dividends £57.1bn paid in share buybacks. Companies sweat assets, leads to low productivity. Yet no govt reforms.
leftfootforward.org
Our state has become a guarantor of corporate profits
Equitable distribution of income and wealth would go a long way towards stimulating domestic demand and investment...
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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Sometimes there’s nearly as much plastic as seaweed … 😢 insideclimatenews.org/news/1508202...
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I’m not sure @greenparty.org.uk or indeed normal people looking at the global climate picture juxtapositioned with Rachel Reeves and Steve Reeds announcements to date will be convinced this Govt IS doing all it can to protect our environment, build in resilience or mitigate harm.
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
But let’s all rush to invest in water greedy AI datacenters!
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Putting the company first (as ever) and pretending it’s customer centric.
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This chancellor is killing more than just bats and newts with her rigid, tone deaf, blinkered approach.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Great piece by @johnharris1969.bsky.social Working temperature legislation is absolutely essential as summer heat is ever more supercharged Failure will lead to many deaths and a massive drop in productivity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
As summers of extreme heat become more common, the UK must protect its workers | John Harris
There’s been fury in Spain over the tragic death of a street cleaner. It’s not hard to imagine something similar playing out in the UK, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Latest from me: on the bafflingly overlooked issue of work and rising heat www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
As summers of extreme heat become more common, the UK must protect its workers | John Harris
There’s been fury in Spain over the tragic death of a street cleaner. It’s not hard to imagine something similar playing out in the UK, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Everyone with even the slightest interest in the #climate should read the State of the Climate report 2024 It provides the most comprehensive global analysis of climate breakdown and its manifold impacts www.ametsoc.org/ams/publicat...
ametsoc.org
State of the Climate
An international, peer-reviewed publication released each summer, the State of the Climate is the authoritative annual summary of the global climate published as a supplement to the Bulletin of the Am...
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Fingers crossed 🤞. Not holding breath.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Temperatures and carbon emissions continue to rise The Center for Carbon Management in Energy's director, Uni of Houston: “If all we do is keep inviting politicians to fancy hotels around the world to talk, we’re not going to get anywhere" insideclimatenews.org/news/1408202... More & more & more:
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 18/08/2025
#OtD 8 Aug 1845 UK Parliament passed an enclosure act taking away public land and appointing officials who could enclose more land without approval from MPs – one of 5,000 such acts passed. This dispossession created the working class stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1076...
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Also bad for the environment - across the globe - too.
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
And insurance bills. And food bills. And water bills. As the planet struggles in the wake of untrammelled capitalism and capitulation.
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
An unholy fusion of greed and stupidity.
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
How do they plan to be profitable when they’ve killed us all?
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
They stop treaties everywhere because their right to destroy the planet for profit is more important than anything else. Despicable.
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
A win for the politics of hope over hate 💚
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
And ignore the facts that white men are rapists and paedophiles too. Many protected by being part of the establishment no less. Dishonest Bob is so desperate to be leader he says literally anything to capture attention. It’s a stage he can’t or won’t choose a better way to achieve it.
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
If people stopped regarding hateful propaganda as truth it might help. And if vested interests stopped owning mainstream media.
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Because we have an ecologically illiterate, economically desperate government in hock/ thrall to vested interests?
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
It’s a global ‘murder suicide’. The planet & people being murdered by vested interests engaged in an accelerating suicide pact. All in the name of so-called growth.
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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Israel killing all the journalists is just like the mafia killing all the eye witnesses Ricky Hale and Council Estate Media www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-kil...
councilestatemedia.uk
Israel killing all the journalists is just like the mafia killing all the eye witnesses
Yesterday Israel murdered prominent Palestinian journalist Anas Al Sharif along with his entire Al Jazeera crew: correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and...
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
What @premnsikka.bsky.social says 👇 Come on @theguardian.com - get your correspondents to do their job properly!
theguardian.com
Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardian
Latest US news, world news, sports, business, opinion, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 07/08/2025
🌍 Policy gap on climate action UN Environment Assembly attendees thought only 37% of people would give 1% of income to fight climate change. The real figure? 69%. The public is more ready than they think. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43... #ClimateAction 🧪 #SciComm
nature.com
United Nations Environment Assembly attendees underestimate public willingness to contribute to climate action - Communications Earth & Environment
Policy officials often believe that only a minority of the public is willing to contribute to addressing climate change, but climate actions have broader public support, according to an analysis that ...
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
They have to think about their extremely rich donors and the tax breaks and subsidies they need in order to afford their next mansion/ yacht/ honour…🤔
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iipu2.bsky.social @iipu2.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
A gross of unwise, capitulating men.
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