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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 2h

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nature groups rebuke Reeves for ‘cynical’ 11th-hour planning bill changes

Chancellor accused of removing environmental protections to win short-term growth and save her budget

www.theguardian.com

Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 1d

No government has the right to ban protest against it.

A photo of a march for Palestine in London. The photo shows a large crowd of people walking peacefully towards Parliament

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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 1d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds

Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says FIDH

www.theguardian.com

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

UK energy efficiency sector in crisis: New NAO report finds a staggering 98% failure rate for external wall insulation installed since 2022 under ECO scheme.

It's a tragedy for the households suffering from poor installs and a massive setback for public confidence in the insulation industry.

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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 1d

Israel kept people hostage for 24 years and barely fed them. And when they were eventually forced to release them, they released them into Gaza while their family is stuck in the West Bank with no way of travelling between the two. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 2d

Yep..🤦

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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 3d

And investment doesn't just mean infrastructure but also investing in people and communities, something that our chancellor has forgotten.

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Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 3d

I don't know why people are surprised about this. Visit any emerging economy and you'll see high speed rail and better internet than the UK. The Tories severely underinvested in the UK (similar to the CDU/Coalition in Germany). And Labour refuses to change the rules, tax wealth and invest more

Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 3d

🇵🇱 My @thetimes column: Poland’s economic miracle

12 out of 17 Polish regions are now richer than West Wales. It has faster internet, cheaper electricity and more high speed rail than Britain

When it comes to regional development it’s the UK, not Poland, that needs to catch up

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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 5d

Such an excellent piece of data storytelling, mixing maps, charts and infographics. Nothing too flashy but well thought out

Revisual Labs @revisual.co · 5d

🔗 Take a closer look at the map here: dtm.iom.int/data-stories...
🔗 Visit our website revisual.co/work

#dataviz #maps

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Matt Zeitlin @zeitlin.bsky.social · 5d

The case for renewables I hear all the time is something like "Ignore emissions, we can do this faster than gas" and that may be true about combined-cycle power plants, but it may be much less true with using cheap turbines behind the meter heatmap.news/energy/natur...

Data Centers Have Solved Their Speed-to-Power Problem — With Natural Gas

“Old economy” companies like Caterpillar and Williams are cashing in by selling smaller, less-efficient turbines to impatient developers.

heatmap.news

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 5d

NEW DATA | For the first time ever, wind and solar produced more than 50% of the UK's electricity ☀️🍃🇬🇧

🏆 In September, wind and solar generation reached a share of 50.4%

Both wind and solar generation also reached new absolute output records for the month of September:
Wind: 7.7 TWh
Solar: 1.7 TWh

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 6d

“A beef tomato doesn’t contain any beef … Ladies’ fingers are not made of actual ladies’ fingers. Let’s trust consumers and stop this hotdog populism,” says Austrian MEP Anna Stürgkh

Ditto Shepherds pie

Feel free to add your own below 👇

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Veggie burgers’ could be off the menu as MEPs vote to ban plant-based food terms

Vote is victory for MEPs who want to strengthen position of farmers in food supply chain

www.theguardian.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 7d

European Parliament votes to ban terms like ‘burger’ and ‘sausage’ for plant-based products

- Green MEP Anna Strolenberg: “The meat lobby is trying to weaken its innovative food competitors"

www.greenqueen.com.hk/eu-parliamen...

EU Parliament Backs 'Veggie Burger' Labelling Ban on Plant-Based Meat

The EU Parliament today voted in favour of a ban on meat-like designations on plant-based meat product labels, paving the way for trilogue negotiations.

www.greenqueen.com.hk

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Kimberley Crofts 🍉 @ktcita.bsky.social · 7d

Just putting this out into the world. Come March next year I’ll be looking for #PostDoc research assistant work in Sydney (or remote). Please keep me in mind and send any ideas my way. Looking for projects in one or any of #EnergyTransitions #Decarbonisation #EnvironmentalPlanning #HumanGeography

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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 7d

Break up Ticketmaster. Make ticket reselling at higher prices illegal. It's not difficult. Let's not pretend that artists are suddenly making bank from these absurd prices.

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The best gig I ever saw cost £4. Spiralling concert prices are a cultural disaster | John Harris

Tickets for big tours have vastly outstripped inflation, while smaller artists and venues struggle. The magic is in danger of being snuffed out entirely, says Guardian columnist John Harris

www.theguardian.com

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 7d

We must be patriotically proud to be British but not to learn about or contribute to any of the culture that pride might be based on

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 7d

Utterly shameful and entirely preventable. Each one is evidence of war crimes that Netanyahu, Starmer and Lammy are guilty of

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Durand D'souza🍃 @dldx.org · 8d

Had so many bad experiences with bus drivers in London, both as a passenger and as a cyclist. But buses in London are privatised so the blame should be on private franchises and a lack of regulatory oversight.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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filmnathan @filmnathan.bsky.social · 9d

While being arrested for holding a placard, one protester recites a poem by 9-year-old Fatema Saidam who was killed, along with her entire family, by an Israeli airstrike on October 17, 2023.

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