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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · Feb 26

NEW: Official advisers CCC say UK shld cut emissions 87% by 2040

⚖️Net cost of net-zero 73% less than thought
💷Total cost to 2050 = £108bn (~£4bn/yr, 0.2% GDP)
🏡🚗H’hold energy/fuel bills to fall £1,400
🔌Electrification is key

THREAD + charts

www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · Feb 26

Read the full list of forces: www.amnesty.org.uk/predictive-p...

Stop Automated Racism

Amnesty International UK found out that 3/4 of police forces across the UK are using technology to try to “predict crime”, but it is having racist and discriminatory impacts. Almost no one knows about...

www.amnesty.org.uk

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Maja Mielke @maja-mielke.bsky.social · Feb 26

Beaks & Bones newsletter alert! In my new post, I write about young #puffins that strand on beaches at night because they are attracted to artificial coastal lights during their maiden flight. 🪶🧪

You can read the full article here:
beaksandbones.substack.com/p/puffin-fle...

Young Puffins strand on beaches at night

Artificial light at night misleads young puffins on their maiden flight.

beaksandbones.substack.com

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · Feb 26

In its refusal to acknowledge Israeli genocide
the supposedly "fair & impartial" BBC News
is breaking the BBC's own charter every day

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Lesley Em @lesleyem.bsky.social · Feb 26

#SOSNHS 💙 #SOSNHS
💙 #SaveNHSDentists 💙
#KeepOurNHSPublic

Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · Feb 25

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Can someone in the NHS enlighten me?

Wes Streeting to axe thousands of jobs at NHS England after ousting of chief executive

NHS staff fear power grab by health department as health secretary looks to shrink body due to ‘duplication’ of roles

www.theguardian.com

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Lesley Em @lesleyem.bsky.social · Feb 26

WTA... !?

Dawn B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · Feb 26

Have your breakfast first x

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 26

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

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Dawn B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · Feb 26

Have your breakfast first x

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 26

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · Feb 26

Via Give A Shift About Nature

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Lesley Em @lesleyem.bsky.social · Feb 26

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Fallible. @eds53.bsky.social · Feb 26

Unless we unite!

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · Feb 26

🎯

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die. - Jean Paul Sartre

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tommyboy0690.bsky.social @tommyboy0690.bsky.social · Feb 26

Donald Trump is hitting record lows www.palmerreport.com/analysis/don...

Donald Trump is hitting record lows

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www.palmerreport.com

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Lesley Em @lesleyem.bsky.social · Feb 26

Absolutely right M 👏

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NaqviMA @naqvima.bsky.social · Feb 25

Afternoon dear Lesley🙏🌹
He is a nasty unprincipled war mongering self indulgent self gorging shameless lying fealty yes sir no sir bend my knee for you sir house boy - basically and idiot.
Yup agreed 👇
#TaxTheRich
#NoMoreAusterity
#AusterityKills
#StopArmingIsraelNOW
#StandUpToRacism #RejoinEU

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Eileen @eileenm20102722.bsky.social · Feb 25

Well said Lesley
#CallItWhatItIsGenocide
#ArrestNetanyahu
#SaveTheChildren🕊🕊
#StandUpToRacism
#StandUptoFacism

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Lesley Em @lesleyem.bsky.social · Feb 26

Hiya Eileen, I hope you're well.

#HaveTheToriesReallyGone?
#ChildPovertyIsAPoliticalChoice
#TaxTheRich
#AusterityKills
#FeedKidsNotMPs
#HouseTheHomeless
#DisabiltyRights
#KeepOurNHSPublic
#SOSNHS 💙 #SOSNHS
#SaveNHSDentists
#JoinAUnion

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Eileen @eileenm20102722.bsky.social · Feb 26

Morning Lesley 💯%🎯

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NaqviMA @naqvima.bsky.social · Feb 24

Morning Everyone🙏✊
Not a good News👇
@ofgem will raise Energy Price Cap by 5-7% despite the fact that energy prices to Consumers been falling right across Europe.
This a 3rd straight price hike during 1st 8 months of Lab govt totalling 22%
Didn’t Lab promise price freeze & cut energy cost by £300?🤬

Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · Feb 24

ENERGY PRICE CAP RISE OF LIKELY 5-7% TO BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW

The boss of regulator Ofgem will be joining me at 8pm on my ITV show tomorrow live - don't miss it. If you've QUESTIONS to suggest for him or me on energy bills, just post by reply.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Feb 24

South West Water dumps sewage over 1,000 times in three days; 16,538 times since the start of 2025.

Predatory practices boost corporate profits, dividends and exec pay.

Companies fleece customers, don't deliver investment.

Nothing will change without ending profit motive.

Nationalise.

Sewage dumped into water over 1,000 times in three days

They've been reported during half term

www.cornwalllive.com

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Lesley Em @lesleyem.bsky.social · Feb 25

#HaveTheToriesReallyGone?
#ChildPovertyIsAPoliticalChoice
#TaxTheRich
#AusterityKills
#FeedKidsNotMPs
#HouseTheHomeless
#DisabiltyRights
#KeepOurNHSPublic
#SOSNHS 💙 #SOSNHS
#SaveNHSDentists
#JoinAUnion

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Feb 24

Labour’s 1.5m homes will be dominated by private equity firms charging huge rents.

Profiteering, high debt, substandard service, tax dodges are private equity norm.

Let councils, not-for-profit organizations build homes.

Don't deregulate. Build homes, not slums.

Labour's 1.5m homes will be dominated by private equity firms charging huge rents

Rachel Reeves seems intent on diverting more resources away from public housing and towards private investment via Build to Rent

www.thecanary.co

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Feb 24

Labour’s 1.5m homes will be dominated by private equity firms charging huge rents.

Profiteering, high debt, substandard service, tax dodges are private equity norm.

Let councils, not-for-profit organizations build homes.

Don't deregulate. Build homes, not slums.

Labour's 1.5m homes will be dominated by private equity firms charging huge rents

Rachel Reeves seems intent on diverting more resources away from public housing and towards private investment via Build to Rent

www.thecanary.co

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Feb 24

School breakfast clubs in England will be used to justify keeping the two-child benefits cap.

Breakfast clubs welcome, won't end child poverty

Children need decent housing, food, clothes, shoes, more

End two-child benefit cap, redistribute.

1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined

School breakfast clubs in England ‘will be used to justify keeping the two-child benefits cap’

As the education secretary announces the first primary schools to offer free breakfasts, Labour MPs question the commitment to fighting poverty

www.theguardian.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Feb 24

Waspi women threaten legal action over pensions row.

The Ombudsman's report found injustice and maladministration over govt failure to inform 1950s born women of pension age changes.

Recommended apology & compensation.

UK Govt gave apology, refused compensation.

Waspi women threaten legal action after pension payouts rejected

It comes after the government rejected compensation for women hit by changes to the state pension age.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Feb 24

British Gas is Britain’s worst energy supplier for customer service.

Customer exploitation is normalized.

Regulators/Govt serve corporations, don't protect people.

50% of the Ofgem board must be elected by customers. Let customers vote on exec pay.

British Gas is named worst energy supplier for customer service

Company says energy sector survey findings are at odds with satisfaction data from other bodies

www.theguardian.com

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ChrisJ @chris17jn.bsky.social · Feb 24

Morning M. Ofgem appears to be toothless and price cap appears to be meaningless .. meanwhile profits continue to rise..

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Jerry Foley 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 @foleyjerry.bsky.social · Feb 24

Good Morning M

BBC & other Western MSM have failed the Palestinian People, & to inform the Public of the atrocities committed! Even during this fragile ceasefire, Palestinian Children, Women & Men, are being killed daily in Gaza, & in the #IllegallyOccupiedWestBank!
#FreePalestine
#ToriesGone234

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