Andy Brown
@andybrown1951.bsky.social
North Yorkshire Councillor for Aire Valley. Green Party. Columnist for Yorkshire Post. Write for Yorkshire bylines. Former Head of Young People's Learning for Yorkshire and the Humber
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❌ "Brexit has made touring the EU almost impossible and grassroots venues are continuing to close."
"Does she recognise that without meaningful action, we risk creating a music industry where only the privileged and rich can afford to build a career?"
"Does she recognise that without meaningful action, we risk creating a music industry where only the privileged and rich can afford to build a career?"
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
❌ "Brexit has made touring the EU almost impossible and grassroots venues are continuing to close."
"Does she recognise that without meaningful action, we risk creating a music industry where only the privileged and rich can afford to build a career?"
"Does she recognise that without meaningful action, we risk creating a music industry where only the privileged and rich can afford to build a career?"
This is the budget where Labour's leaders consciously dumped green policies that they wrongly think are holding up growth. We don't need new drilling for oil if we cut bills by putting a battery in every home to use cheap plentiful overnight power.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Ed Miliband confirms crackdown on North Sea exploration – but new drilling will continue
Strategy paper released with budget allows new oil and gas projects to move ahead if they are linked to existing fields
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
This is the budget where Labour's leaders consciously dumped green policies that they wrongly think are holding up growth. We don't need new drilling for oil if we cut bills by putting a battery in every home to use cheap plentiful overnight power.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Further evidence that microplastics are everywhere. Including in your brain and your reproductive organs. Even protected sites are riddled with it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Plastic nurdles found at 84% of UK sites of special scientific interest
Environmental charity Fidra says 168 of 195 SSSIs it surveyed are contaminated with tiny pellets
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Further evidence that microplastics are everywhere. Including in your brain and your reproductive organs. Even protected sites are riddled with it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
To be clear the Labour party just took £20bn out of the education budget in a lightly understood transfer of the hole in special needs funding to the education department without the funding.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Warning of £20bn timebomb as Reeves switches Send funding in England to education department
Councils welcome move but OBR says it is a significant fiscal risk and could lead to 4.9% real fall in spending per pupil
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
To be clear the Labour party just took £20bn out of the education budget in a lightly understood transfer of the hole in special needs funding to the education department without the funding.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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No doubt fuelled by fossil-fuel lobbyists. The Labour Party have been bought out by big oil and a their green promises are worth nought. #labour #starmer #budget
Drilling for oil and gas, taxing electric vehicles, no taxes on bitcoin purchases, billions on nuclear, pennies on genuine green initiatives like a battery in every home. What a dreadful budget. What a narrow mindset
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Budget 2025 summary: Key points from Rachel Reeves’s speech
Rachel Reeves is delivering her second Budget since Labour’s return to power – here’s what you need to know.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?
At least someone has grasped that there is an enemy of every decent value their country stands for sitting in the White House. What exactly did flattery and grandiose state visits win Starmer? Bullies respect strength not flattery.
Carney: We know that this decades-long process of our ever-closer economic relationship between Canada and the US has ended. And as a consequence of that, many of our strengths have become our vulnerabilities, particularly in those industries that are most tightly integrated with the US….
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
At least someone has grasped that there is an enemy of every decent value their country stands for sitting in the White House. What exactly did flattery and grandiose state visits win Starmer? Bullies respect strength not flattery.
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I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
Build baby build is a moronic slogan that gives developers the opportunity to ride roughshod over local communities whilst ignoring local need and opportunities to build on brownfield sites in cities and town centres
www.edie.net/labours-buil...
www.edie.net/labours-buil...
Labour’s ‘build, baby, build’ approach pushing UK nature to the brink, NGOs warn - edie
The Labour-led UK Government is undermining its manifesto commitments to improve nature with bullish plans to unlock new homes and infrastructure by weakening environmental regulations.
www.edie.net
November 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Build baby build is a moronic slogan that gives developers the opportunity to ride roughshod over local communities whilst ignoring local need and opportunities to build on brownfield sites in cities and town centres
www.edie.net/labours-buil...
www.edie.net/labours-buil...
Drilling for oil and gas, taxing electric vehicles, no taxes on bitcoin purchases, billions on nuclear, pennies on genuine green initiatives like a battery in every home. What a dreadful budget. What a narrow mindset
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Budget 2025 summary: Key points from Rachel Reeves’s speech
Rachel Reeves is delivering her second Budget since Labour’s return to power – here’s what you need to know.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Drilling for oil and gas, taxing electric vehicles, no taxes on bitcoin purchases, billions on nuclear, pennies on genuine green initiatives like a battery in every home. What a dreadful budget. What a narrow mindset
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Farage is refusing any investigation into links between Reform UK and Russia.
Gosh, I wonder why? It's a mystery.
www.thenational.scot/news/2564728...
Gosh, I wonder why? It's a mystery.
www.thenational.scot/news/2564728...
Nigel Farage rules out any investigation into Reform UK links with Russia
REFORM UK leader Nigel Farage said he will not investigate any Russian links within his party, stating that he is “not a police force” ...
www.thenational.scot
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Farage is refusing any investigation into links between Reform UK and Russia.
Gosh, I wonder why? It's a mystery.
www.thenational.scot/news/2564728...
Gosh, I wonder why? It's a mystery.
www.thenational.scot/news/2564728...
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Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?
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Absolutely agree with this
Contrary to the headlines every attempt to subsidise house buyers simply puts up the price and rewards existing owners. Cutting ISA allowance will have zero impact on interest rates. Time to borrow and build or repair council homes in our crumbling inner cities.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Reeves’s plan to cut cash Isa limit could raise mortgage rates, say finance bosses
Building societies fear consumers will be put off from saving if chancellor’s budget announces a 40% reduction
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Absolutely agree with this
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Bingo. Between an ignorant/apathetic electorate and corrupt governance, it will be a miracle if we(humanity) survive what's coming. It's not just heat/other weather issues, it's pollution of the land AND oceans. With plastics, chemicals, etc.
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Bingo. Between an ignorant/apathetic electorate and corrupt governance, it will be a miracle if we(humanity) survive what's coming. It's not just heat/other weather issues, it's pollution of the land AND oceans. With plastics, chemicals, etc.
Exactly how dumb do they think we are?
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Exactly how dumb do they think we are?
Contrary to the headlines every attempt to subsidise house buyers simply puts up the price and rewards existing owners. Cutting ISA allowance will have zero impact on interest rates. Time to borrow and build or repair council homes in our crumbling inner cities.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Reeves’s plan to cut cash Isa limit could raise mortgage rates, say finance bosses
Building societies fear consumers will be put off from saving if chancellor’s budget announces a 40% reduction
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Contrary to the headlines every attempt to subsidise house buyers simply puts up the price and rewards existing owners. Cutting ISA allowance will have zero impact on interest rates. Time to borrow and build or repair council homes in our crumbling inner cities.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Another 22 dead in Gaza as a direct result of Netanyahu's aggressive collective punishment. This feels like a short pause not a path to peace
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Israeli strikes across Gaza kill 22 Palestinians, Hamas-run health ministry and civil defence say
Israel says it struck targets in Gaza after an
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November 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Another 22 dead in Gaza as a direct result of Netanyahu's aggressive collective punishment. This feels like a short pause not a path to peace
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The only mystery about heat waves is why so little is being done to try and prevent them getting worse for another 30 years.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mysterious 'warm blob' breaks records in the North Pacific Ocean
Temperatures have surged across a large area of the north Pacific - and scientists don't know exactly why.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The only mystery about heat waves is why so little is being done to try and prevent them getting worse for another 30 years.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In any reasonable peace deal the people who live in an area should be able to choose for themselves which state they wish to belong to. A date for national self determination elections is needed not big powers deciding over their heads
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ukraine-Russia war: Ukraine calls for Trump-Zelensky meeting in US this week
It comes as US and Russian officials are set to hold talks in Abu Dhabi.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
In any reasonable peace deal the people who live in an area should be able to choose for themselves which state they wish to belong to. A date for national self determination elections is needed not big powers deciding over their heads
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thanks to these ice cores scientists know as a matter of fact that climate change isn't normal or a tiny little side issue. It is an existential crisis that gets worse each year whilst the fossil fuel companies and states get richer.
Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Thanks to these ice cores scientists know as a matter of fact that climate change isn't normal or a tiny little side issue. It is an existential crisis that gets worse each year whilst the fossil fuel companies and states get richer.
Where exactly did Aaron Banks get all the money that he donated to the Brexit campaign? Putin has always known that Britain and the EU are a strong force together. Britain is now so weak that Starmer is scared stiff of annoying Donald Trump
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Where exactly did Aaron Banks get all the money that he donated to the Brexit campaign? Putin has always known that Britain and the EU are a strong force together. Britain is now so weak that Starmer is scared stiff of annoying Donald Trump
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UK's far right Reform is currently polling around 30%, similar to Germany's far right AfD. But in Germany proportional representation means they are out of government.
In the UK, should the election be held today, Reform would have a blow out majority in the Commons.
In the UK, should the election be held today, Reform would have a blow out majority in the Commons.
How can any responsible government look at a poll average that predicts a massive majority for an unpopular Reform government and not take serious moves to introduce proportional representation? Act now before it is too late.
Nowcast Update - Green's vote share surpasses Lib Dems, as Labour hits new low.
RFM: 350 (+345), 30.2% (50 Maj.)
LAB: 87 (-324), 18.8%
LDM: 75 (+3), 13.0%
SNP: 44 (+35), 2.7%
CON: 38 (-83), 17.6%
GRN: 23 (+19), 13.5%
PLC: 7 (+3), 1.1%
Oth: 7 (+2), 3.1%
electionmaps.uk/nowcast
RFM: 350 (+345), 30.2% (50 Maj.)
LAB: 87 (-324), 18.8%
LDM: 75 (+3), 13.0%
SNP: 44 (+35), 2.7%
CON: 38 (-83), 17.6%
GRN: 23 (+19), 13.5%
PLC: 7 (+3), 1.1%
Oth: 7 (+2), 3.1%
electionmaps.uk/nowcast
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
UK's far right Reform is currently polling around 30%, similar to Germany's far right AfD. But in Germany proportional representation means they are out of government.
In the UK, should the election be held today, Reform would have a blow out majority in the Commons.
In the UK, should the election be held today, Reform would have a blow out majority in the Commons.
Reposted by Andy Brown
UK's far right Reform is currently polling around 30%, similar to Germany's far right AfD. But in Germany proportional representation means they are out of government.
In the UK, should the election be held today, Reform would have a blow out majority in the Commons.
In the UK, should the election be held today, Reform would have a blow out majority in the Commons.
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
UK's far right Reform is currently polling around 30%, similar to Germany's far right AfD. But in Germany proportional representation means they are out of government.
In the UK, should the election be held today, Reform would have a blow out majority in the Commons.
In the UK, should the election be held today, Reform would have a blow out majority in the Commons.
If Trump accepted opportunities for easy sex when he did business in Russia then Putin will have blackmail photos
Trump is behaving precisely as he would if he were a Russian asset
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4a54a02...
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4a54a02...
Trump is behaving precisely as he would if he were a Russian asset
This ‘peace plan’ is not only a tragedy for Ukraine, but an immediate crisis for Britain
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
If Trump accepted opportunities for easy sex when he did business in Russia then Putin will have blackmail photos