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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14h
Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
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The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan
Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14h
Corporate Welfare Tory tax break for banks cost UK public purse £6bn In 2023 Tory govt cut the bank surcharge from 8% to 3%. Current govt hasn't reversed it. Record profits, exec pay, dividends at banks Reversing the surcharge would raise billions.
theguardian.com
Tory tax break for banks has cost UK public purse £6bn, says TUC
Exclusive: Chancellor urged to reverse Jeremy Hunt’s tax surcharge cuts to claw back billions in lost revenue
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
UK water companies made £340m by pouring billions of litres of industrial/commercial wastewater into sewage treatment works. Treatment works are not designed to remove most chemicals, leaving pollutants to pass into rivers, seas and farmland. Investment neglected. Practices are mostly unregulated.
theguardian.com
Revealed: the ‘black box’ wastewater trade that rakes in millions for UK utility companies
Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants
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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Illustration from today’s @theguardian.com to accompany piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the government’s Prepare campaign, which gives the public advice on how to avoid disasters whilst policies that lead us closer to crisis are given the green light www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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London Mining Network @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Radio programme explores the work of Theonila Roka Matbob advocating for communities affected by the Panguna copper mine in Bougainville, which was owned by Rio Tinto. The mine generated enormous profits & caused severe environmental degradation, triggering civil war. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
bbc.co.uk
Outlook - 'For us land is everything, it is life' - BBC Sounds
How Theonila Matbob took on a mining giant that contaminated her land on Bougainville
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"How do we remove the billionaire class from power? I don’t know. But I do know that there are a lot more of us than them." climatehuman.substack.com/p/were-in-de...
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We’re In Deep Shit, But Not Because of El Niño
The real danger is steadily escalating planetary heat. The only way forward is to end billionaires.
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Nathaniel Stinnett @nathanielstinnett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think @chasecain.bsky.social is one of our most talented climate voices, so I was THRILLED to have this super-fun conversation with him. 🏀 What does Michael Jordan have to do with behavioral science? 🏦 Why is the Monopoly Man laughing at us? Watch & find out! youtu.be/4I3iAX9GmzQ?...
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How Big Oil Convinced 11 Million Climate Voters to Stay Home
YouTube video by Chase Cain
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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
***I have issues*** with private sector-commissioned reports about Cambridge being accepted without critical scrutiny cambridgetownowl.com/2026/10/06/w...
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What does good growth look like?
Bidwells hosted an afternoon event on the Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor at The Clayton Hotel on Station Road in Cambridge. But before I start… The joys of longterm chronic illnesses means …
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Talking to Politico at the Labour party conference, Narayan said he had used “AI-generated synthetic focus groups provided by a private company… to test public opinion on AI and other issues”.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Who or what is behind the direction of the government’s AI policy? According to minister for artificial intelligence Kanishka Narayan it’s, er, AI!
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Extinction Rebellion London Actions MoM (Movement of Movements) @xrlondonactions.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
‼️GREAT NEWS ‼️ Drax AI Data Centre Scrapped Last year, Drax announced a bid to build an AI Growth Zone, powered by burning trees, in partnership with the North Yorkshire Combined Authority and the University of York. Over the last year SBT has been fighting to stop this bid from going ahead.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hats off to the Eye (as ever), for flagging the Conservative hypocrisy over our conference ban
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pyroisbob.bsky.social @pyroisbob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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The Trump Administration’s Critical Minerals Agenda Comes for America’s ‘Forgotten Wildlife Corridor’ - Inside Climate News
Under the banner of “Dig, Baby, Dig,” the Trump administration is supercharging an already powerful mining industry. What will happen to vulnerable plants and animals?
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 05/10/2026
🔥 NEW 🔥 They looked like messages from Bay Area residents worried about the cost of new climate rules on heat pumps. But dozens were sent by a company that uses AI. Now we’ve found Chevron gave $150,000 to the group behind the campaign. Read Desmog's latest buff.ly/ad2K6dw
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Chevron Gave $150K to Bay Area Group Accused of Using AI to Fight Heat Pump Rule
The group claimed victory after regulators recommended delaying landmark rules that would eventually phase out gas water heaters in 2.8 million homes.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 05/10/2026
The USDA, which oversees the U.S. Forest Service, initially gave the public only 30 days to comment on the plan. They were forced after public pressure to allow 15 additional days, until October 6. Opponents are aiming to mobilize 1 million public comments during this short period.
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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today’s high temps the 24.2C at Heathrow is +6.7C above recent 30-year average for October 5th. The July average max is 23.9C!
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Tomorrow Is the Last Day to Submit a Comment to Defend 45 Million Acres of Our Forests
They're calling it fire prevention. Their own report says otherwise. Here's the two-minute way to speak up before 9:59 p.m. Utah time on Tuesday, 10/6.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
DHS reportedly collected data about anti-ICE protestors in Maine, uploading their photos and license plate numbers into a database. That database was built by Palantir — which may be the most dangerous corporation in America. Watch.
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The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Elon Musk used X to suspend the UK British Consulate’s account in Jerusalem after it called out the systemic abuse of thousands of Palestinians who were detained without trial. youtu.be/G6dRdO1I9WA
youtu.be
Ex-Diplomat Reveals Who Is Quietly Replacing Governments
YouTube video by Dr Myriam François
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 06/10/2026
Darlington Northern Link Road: a campaign takes ROOT (Part Three: The road to nowhere) northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...
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Darlington Northern Link Road: a campaign takes ROOT (Part Three: The road to nowhere)
Concluding the meeting between Jonathan Spruce, Director of Infrastructure at the Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) and a group of residents concerned about the consultation process for the propos...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Shadow chancellor vows to cut tax in every Tory budget As always, it would be tax cuts for the rich. No mention of corporate welfare, equitable distribution of income/wealth. We haven't recovered from previous Tory follies. NHS queues, potholed road, crumbling schools. What will they cut next?
bbc.co.uk
Shadow chancellor vows to cut at least one tax in every Tory budget
Shadow ministers unveiled a series of policies on day two of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
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Extinction Rebellion Global @xrglobal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Local officials in Boulder, Colorado are suing Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil in state court to force the companies to share a portion of the costs that the climate crisis has imposed on taxpayers. #MakePollutersPay www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US supreme court hears big oil’s bid to block climate damage lawsuits
How the court will lean is unclear amid Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil’s attempt to stop lawsuits at state level
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Prof Andrew Stirling, who has advised govt on #nuclear power and #energy policy, said the motion was “completely irrational. All authoritative sources agree that #climate action is much faster, affordable and impactful with combined #renewables and storage.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power
Party in England and Wales ditches commitment to phase out nuclear in major shift in its energy policy
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
[A parody of MR ROGERS’ NEIGHBOURHOOD, in which the kindly Mr Rogers takes us to see local things in his town.]
 
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MR ROGERS’ NEIGHBOURHOOD

MR ROGERS:

Hi there

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Today, I’d like to take you to visit some of my neighbours… 

[He puts his coat on to leave his house]  

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At a wonderful local event,
 
[We see the cute toy-town diorama of his village famous from the TV show. The camera pulls out…]

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The Data Center protest.

[The camera has pulled out further and now we see a huge DATA CENTER at the edge  of town]. 

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MR ROGERS [joining a crowd protesting outside the Data Center]:

The Data Center is an enormous, windowless, endlessly humming building outside of our town

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…Which has tripled energy prices, drank all the water, and created four jobs.

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[to camera, as if kindly explaining to the viewing children]:

Four jobs! Golly!

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LADY PROTESTOR [probably NAOMI KLEIN, holding a sign]:

In a way, the Data Center is kind of a vivid metaphor for a future we feel locked out of!

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MR ROGERS [to camera again]:

A metaphor.

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That’s something that lets us clarify our feelings about something else. 

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LADY PROTESTOR:
How do you feel, Mr Rogers?

MR ROGERS:
I feel like bringing down the government!

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MR ROGERS [now holding a sign and protesting]:

It’s good to have neighbors.

[ends]
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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Poor Tory legacy www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires
FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Overcrowding in UK A&E depts and treating patients in corridors linked to hundreds of deaths. Neoliberals urge cuts in public spending, silence on human consequences. Delayed care leads to premature deaths People sacrificed to gods of fiscal policies.
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Overcrowding in A&E linked to 'hundreds of deaths a week', study finds
A review of more than 19,000 adult patients found that for every 10% increase in emergency department occupancy, the chance of dying in the following 28 days increased by 1%.
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bad news. Nuclear power is slow, dirty, vastly expensive, cannot run safely during heatwaves. Furthermore, as the likelihood of societal collapse grows, it is simply an unacceptable gamble: Do we really want more nuclear power stations ready to melt down / be bombed / be robbed??
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Remember 30x30? The global target to effectively conserve at least 30% of the Earth's land, freshwater, and oceans by 2030 We’re slightly over 3 yrs away from 2030 & by the Government’s calculation, England is only at 7.1% for land Feeling this is another conservation target that will be missed
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 05/10/2026
The woodland creation targets are going to be missed in 2026 just like they were in 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, ... Government so far only tinkering around the edges with no meaningful reform in sight. Lots of AI data centers though.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Tory party goes full-on climate denier and nature hater Pure lunacy www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Decommissioning #nuclear reactors too expensive ? Don't worry, just switch from a private liability to a public liability. Problem solved ... www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/hin...
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Hinkley Point B becomes second AGR plant transferred for decommissioning
Ownership of the Hinkley Point B nuclear power station in Somerset, England - which was permanently shut down four years ago - has transferred from EDF Energy to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger was officially approved this past week. Corporate concentration means more power for CEOs — and less freedom for everyone else. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.
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The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)
From your grocery bill to your paycheck, monopolies are making you less financially secure and ultimately less free. For
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️
Rachel Carson photo credit: Science History Images / Alamy
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Emily Shepherd 💚 @emi.ly · 27/09/2026
So gross that @labouruk.bsky.social are planning to authorise drilling after the election. They know the electorate don't want it. They know it's wrong. They know it won't lower our bills. But they'll to do it anyway. Because we don't matter to them. Profits do. Vote Green 💚
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wish fulfillment hits well-informed climate folk who'd rather obsess over a 25k-lb demonstrator that flew for 27 mins with zero passengers. The actual 2031 commercial model requires a gas-burning range extender just to hit 500 miles. It's unicorns all the way down. 🦄
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Around 80% of global aviation emissions come from flights over 1,500 km, where batteries are fundamentally physically impossible. Swapping a twin-aisle long-haul jet to electric means carrying a battery 30 times heavier than the aircraft itself. It doesn't scale.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jet fuel: 12,000 Wh/kg. Modern batteries: ~300 Wh/kg. Even with motor efficiency, jet fuel holds 20x the power per kg. Worse: planes rely on getting lighter as they burn fuel. Electric planes spend energy hauling dead battery weight all the way to landing. It's a physics wall.
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 27/09/2026
Widely thought of as the "founder of the internet," Vint Cerf discusses the ideals behind the original internet—including the emphasis on the net being an open, neutral, level playing field—and how to re-install a sense of trust to today's new AI-dominated version.
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“The internet is a giant copying machine”: Interview with Vint Cerf
Widely thought of as the “founder of the internet,” Vint Cerf talks about how to re-install a sense of trust to this new AI-dominated version, and the ideals behind the original internet—including…
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is in response to several "what the hell are you on about?" replies to a post today. But these are just the latest examples of a widespread determination not to know.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bank of England (BOE) governor says soaring energy prices could trigger interest rate rise. BOE will deplete business/household incomes by hiking costs. Force people to hand wealth to banks, boost their profits How about curbing profiteering, supply-chain problems, taxing those with surplus cash?
lbc.co.uk
Bailey's warning: Bank of England governor says soaring energy prices could trigger interest rate rise | LBC
The Bank has predicted that inflation will increase to around 3.7 per cent in the fourth quarter of this year and 4.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2027.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump and Republicans are terrified of policies that curb their own wealth and power, and the wealth and power of the oligarchs that bankroll them. That's why they're amping up the fearmongering about "socialism."
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 27/09/2026
September has been warmer than average for most so far and temperatures are set to rise once again through the next few days🌡️ Unseasonal warmth will be driven northwards on Tuesday and Wednesday with highs potentially reaching the mid to high 20s Celsius in eastern England📈
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is no such thing as taxpayers’ money youtu.be/4AyhV70BDwE?... Anyone who claims the government spends taxpayers' money is talking total nonsense. The problem is that almost all our politicians do.
youtu.be
There is no such thing as taxpayers’ money
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund. Banks making £50bn profits a year receive subsidies, long ended by the EU. UK Treasury will payout over £150bn over a five-year period from 2023 to 2028. No justification for handling billions to banks. End bank subsidies, help people.
babelfish.news
Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund
The Bank of England has paid commercial banks £100bn in interest on reserves in three years. The EU stopped doing it in 2023 – Dale Vince says Britain must too.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
London investment bankers, lawyers, accountants make £1.2bn from takeover frenzy. Everything for sale in slicing/dicing, asset stripping bazaars. Anyone focused on the long term? UK has been at/near the bottom of the OECD league for investment in productive assets for 30 yrs.
theguardian.com
London’s investment bankers and lawyers make more than £1bn in takeover frenzy
Bumper fees paid in the year’s mergers and acquisitions spark anger over high City pay during cost of living crisis
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Labour are planning to extract more oil and gas from the North Sea despite the thousands of deaths from excess heat this summer. We cannot allow them to win in Holborn & St Pancras and think that they can get away with this. Vote Green. For our communities and our planet.
Labour are planning to extract more oil and gas from the North Sea despite the thousands of deaths from excess heat this summer.

We cannot allow them to win in Holborn & St Pancras and think that they can get away with this.

Vote Green. For our communities and our planet.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
UK Chancellor can easily increase income tax personal allowance by £3,000 a year. It will boost basic rate taxpayers by £600 a year. Millions will be helped. Benefit to higher rate taxpayers can be clawed back. The cost of £30bn can be met by ending bank subsidies, £100bn over the last 3 years.
leftfootforward.org
This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!
Microsoft want to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.
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Jane Doe @noticingclimate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AUSTRALIA: Keeping fossil fuels in the ground? 👎 Climate responsibility? 👎 Human rights? 👎 Truth telling: @kevinclimate.bsky.social + @dancalverley.bsky.social 💚 Landmark case: earthjustice.org/hardtruthscase #hardtruthscase
earthjustice.org
Hard Truths: The Australian Coal and Gas Exports Case
We are 10 Australians who argue the Australian Government is failing to meet its obligations under international human rights law.
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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
JP Morgan Are Destroying The Planet‼️
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