Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 26m

Something in the Bible about one repentant sinner being worth more than those already righteous? Also applies to Brexit buyer’s remorse.

2

Reposted by Jalata

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2h

Climate Change Committee warns we aren’t doing enough to stem/plan for global warming.

Meanwhile, in response to proposed solar farm,Tice says they “will do all [they] can to stop investors and developers; nothing is off the table”
Reform: a constant whining drag on progress, prosperity and sanity.

UK must prepare for 2C of global warming by 2050, climate advisors warn
CLIMATE GLOBAL WARMING WEATHER
• Wednesday 15 October 2025 at 6:53am
Martin Stew
Science Correspondent
Credit: i-Stock
The UK must prepare for a 2C rise in global temperatures by 2050, according to new analysis from the Climate Change Committee (CCC), commissioned by the government.
The report forecasts that risks from heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires could double over the next 25 years, with some peak river flows increasing by as much as 40%.
itv.com

The Times:

Reform vow to fight 'crazy Miliband over solar farm

Miliband has approved plans for Britain's biggest solar farm, prompting Reform UK to say it would fight to reverse the decision.
The Tillbridge Solar project, in Lin-colnshire, would cover an area equivalent to about 2,000 football pitches.
Farage's party said the scheme would destroy valuable agricultural land, but Labour said it was needed to meet green energy targets and reduce dependency on energy from abroad.
Tillbridge Solar is the tenth large solar project Miliband has approved since taking office. Half of them are in Lin-colnshire, prompting opposition from local Reform and Conservative MPs.
Tillbridge Solar aims to generate electricity for 300,000 homes and the scheme would cover about 1,400 hectares of mainly agricultural land
Michael Shanks, the energy minister, said: "Solar is one of the cheapest and quickest power sources we can build. It is crucial in our mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower, giving us energy security, good jobs and growth across the country."

A report by the Planning Inspectorate said that the project would lead to the loss of about 1,200 hectares of farm-land, including 11l hectares of the highest grade land, and acknowledged the cumulative impact of other solar arrays in Lincolnshire. However, it concluded that this would not be nationally "significant" , with solar taking over less
than 1% of UK farmland.
It added that the biodiversity would benefit from the end of intensive farming on the land and that crop planting
"could be restored should it be needed in the future" for food security.
In a blunt warning to companies behind the schemes, Richard Tice, Reform UK's deputy leader and the MP for nearby Boston & Skegness, said: "We will do all we can to stop investors and developers; nothing is off the table."

21 69 250

Reposted by Jalata

East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 4h

Cryptocurrency is sold as radical innovation and financial liberation. In reality, it’s an old familiar story: fraud | Prof Richard Murphy

Cryptocurrency: lawlessness disguised as liberty

Cryptocurrency is sold as radical innovation and financial liberation. In reality, it’s an old familiar story: fraud

eastangliabylines.co.uk

4 22 40

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 11h

Shit in rivers and the sea.

1 1 2

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 14h

Of course spam, rather like pheasants, needs to be hung to develop a deeper, richer flavour.

1 1

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 18h

Or the curriculum hasn’t evolved that much since the mid seventies 😁

1

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 18h

Not forgetting Chaucer and TS Eliot - at least in my day!

2 1

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 22h

Recently thought of those awful announcements which seemed to come up on the Home Service around teatime on Sunday.

“Would Mr H, thought to be in the Edinburgh area, please contact Guy’s Hospital, where his mother, Mrs H, is gravely ill.” @simongosden.bsky.social

1

Reposted by Jalata

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 23h

Hello @theguardian.com - any chance you could remove the banner from my face?

12 28 180

Reposted by Jalata

Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 1d

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

61 450 880

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 23h

Somehow I got on the wrong side of history … feckwit.

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 23h

Some of us have been talking about it since 2016 but there we are.

1

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 23h

Do try not to break the spine though.

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 1d

Haha, I can remember my own and my two best friends 4 digit phone numbers from the Sixties. And I wonder what these young people would make of a “party line.”

Reposted by Jalata

Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social · 1d

Why an urgent path to net zero is not a socialist conspiracy…. number 3456328…
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

5 57 120

Reposted by Jalata

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

48 450 1K

Reposted by Jalata

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

75 900 2.1K

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 1d

Regarding moss: people need to know that “sphagnum” is an anagram of “hung spam.”

2 1 14

Reposted by Jalata

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

78 560 1.2K

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 1d

Our friend has informed us that she used to drink lager with 4 cocktail cherries in it. 😳 And there was me thinking blackcurrant was exotic.

1

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 1d

Two older ladies we know, one once a Lib Dem Councillor, both gone down a rabid conspiracist route. Agreeing “not to talk about politics” isn’t enough. We try very gentle pushbacks (which once led to a ferocious argument about Brexit while on the M23!)

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 1d

Best wishes for your recovery!

2

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 2d

Finishing Jaffa Road by German author Daniel Speck. It follows Piccola Sicilia, which has a Jewish perspective and is a poignant family saga detailing the constant displacement and persecution of the Palestinian people since 1948.

Book cover, Jaffa Road by Daniel Speck. Shows man carrying heavy load walking with small child

1 6

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a very ghastly green this autumn, what Shakespeare described as “the mantle of the standing pond.”

2

Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 2d

Alas yes. Our elderly friend is now a fully paid up YouTube conspiracy theorist. And Reform supporter.