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IDF soldiers themselves are more aware than anyone of the vile reality of what Israel is doing in Gaza. Read what they describe seeing:
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As wildfires destroy LA and UK floods devastate homes, the wealthiest 1% already used up their share of the carbon budget in the first ten days of 2025.
Someone in the poorest 50% would take three years to produce the same pollution.
Inequality is driving the climate crisis.
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It barely featured in the campaign, but it looks like the world’s most powerful economy is about to elect a climate denying authoritarian who hates clean technology. The chances of global temperatures spiralling out of control just increased substantially.
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There's a useful bit of context here for those like me who have recently discovered Iowa, which is that its restrictive new abortion rules came into force in the summer
Iowa pollster @jaselzer gives BBC News some insight into her surprising poll showing Kamala Harris LEADING Donald Trump in the reliably red state
Women voters, abortion rights, independent voters and third party candidates are all playing a major role.
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the £3 billion annual cost of extending the 5p fuel duty cut is roughly equivalent to the annual fare take of every bus in England — £3.1 billion in 2023. so you could nearly make every bus free for the same cost gov.uk/government/statistica…
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Reposting the below for the sake of our Foreign Secretary, @DavidLammy...
...who just ventured that genocide requires "millions" of deaths, therefore any concerns of ongoing genocide in Gaza (where an estimated 200,000 have died so far) “undermines the seriousness” of the term.
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Ominous to hear the boss of Eli Lilly talking deregulation in @BBCr4today
Now that we are a small market outside the EU he is looking for a better offer
That means attacks on our protections for nature and people
This is what lies behind today’s ‘investment summit’
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Manchester residents still living in unsafe homes seven years on from Grenfell disaster
itv.com/news/granada/2024-09…
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Brendan was in the middle of a 12-hour shift, as a carer, when his car was torched by thugs.
#BBCBreakfast
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One said, 'I'm just doing an hour before I go to work.'
Hundreds turned out at 8am to help clean up Linthorpe Road and streets in central Middlesbrough.
After yesterday's violence and destruction, today's community action shows our city at its best.
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Spare me the big boohoo about the cost of immigration when you're out there on the streets burning down libraries and police stations and flooding the courts and costing the tax payers more money than any immigrant you've ever met.
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Our Year In Industry students spent 12 months working on a range of projects with @LeeMargetts @nvidiaomniverse and The Digital Cancer Centre @MCRCnews. Find out how they got on. research-it.manchester.ac.uk…
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Just 4% of Keir Starmer's Cabinet went to private school compared to 63% in Rishi Sunak's government. 93% were educated at a comprehensive school.
A massive change from all previous UK governments
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“I understand that a strong woman standing up to you is met with such reticence,” replies Jess Phillips to a group of men intimidating after her win.
Jess then tells of how a young woman delivering leaflets yesterday was filmed and screamed at by an older man, who then slashed her tyres.
Huge respect to Jess.
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Eight years ago today, on 16 June 2016, Jo Cox was tragically murdered while on her way to a constituency surgery in Batley and Spen.
In the days that followed, the global wave of grief and solidarity demonstrated that her values were widely shared.
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ALT Photo of Jo Cox MP.
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What did @WelshLabour's *default* (not blanket) 20mph speed limit achieve?
20% drop in claims.
With @UKLabour's commitment to tackling car insurance costs, I really hope @LouHaigh recognises how significant a cost saving this could make.
FYI @NHSuk
esuregroup.com/media/muqdfws…
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For those thinking climate change is 'manageable'
Summer temperatures now regularly far above the norm & a heatwave has enveloped north India
"we need more water but supply is decreasing. We are suffering badly and heat is making it impossible to live”
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