In world first, EU strikes deal to impose carbon border taxes on imports of polluting goods
This is big and will accelerate decarbonization: industries everywhere will need to be powered with green electrons to export competitively to the EU
reuters.com/markets/carbon #climate
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Thousands of nurses strike tomorrow for the first time in a generation
Soak that in. That’s the people who keep us safe. That’s the people who bring us into the world. That’s the people we clapped
RT if you stand with them and not that shower of corrupt bastards In Westminster
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Apple is not “considering”,they are being compelled by law to support third party browser engines under the 🇪🇺EU’s Digital Markets Act.
Apple should end its blatant anti-competitive behavior worldwide,not just in the EU.
If not will fight in each jurisdiction.
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Apple Considering Dropping Requirement for iPhone and iPad Web Browsers to Use Safari’s WebKit Engine macrumors.com/2022/12/14/app by @rsgnl
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Brutal , but her criticism of 's Bill of Rights is fully justified, for simple fact that Bill is just that: Raab's (and Daily Mail's) Bill. Leading members of judiciary categorically reject it, and so do academics.
No case to answer for charges vs HRA.
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"We're ready to go. The Bill of Rights is ready to go". @DominicRaab adamant to take Bill of Rights Bill to 2nd reading.
@HumanRightsCtte @joannaccherry #ECHR @coe @echrnews
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👨👨👧👦43% of families will be unable to afford a decent standard of living by the next general election.
👩👧👦Lone parents and working families where somebody has a disability will be hit particularly hard.
Our new analysis covered on last night's .
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Scotland: temperatures dropping to as low as -17C°
UK Government: "Just turn the heating down!"
This one-size-fits-all union doesn't work for Scotland.
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EXC: Big advertising campaign to get households to turn down boilers and radiators to launch this weekend.
Bus posters. Gov advice website. TV + radio ads after Xmas. Push to be dubbed ‘It All Adds Up’.
Costs £20m…but likely to make it back in savings.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/
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Investing in #FossilFuels is becoming less & less attractive, from a financial point of view AND a moral/ethical standpoint. Good that is the first global bank to end new investments - decades late, but welcome. Time for others to follow suit. And fast!
#ClimateEmergency
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BREAKING @HSBC just announced that they’re going to stop lending money to any new oil and gas projects. This is huge. And it’s only happening due to pressure from thousands of people across the climate movement and beyond. Here’s why it’s important
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Flamingo Land's second attempt to devastate Loch Lomond's world famous natural environment is just as much kd a shambles as the first
#SaveLochLomond
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My parents had well below average salaries in Denmark yet not once in my entire childhood was it cold in our home. I have genuinely never felt cold inside before moving to the UK for uni. In Britain even rich people's houses are cold, it's mad! twitter.com/poltheoryother
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Incredible what presenting yourself as a bit racist with no interest in rejoining the EU can do for the fortunes of a party in England.
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Westminster Voting Intention (MRP):
LAB: 48% (+3)
CON: 28% (-5)
LDM: 11% (+1)
RFM: 4% (+1)
GRN: 3% (-1)
Seat Projection:
LAB: 482 (+280)
CON: 69 (-296)
SNP: 55 (+7)
LDM: 21 (+10)
PLC: 4 (=)
GRN: 1 (=)
Via @Savanta_UK, 2-5 Dec.
Vote Changes w/ 15-16 Sep & Seats with GE2019.
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“Through the launch of the new cycle storage fund, we’ll expand safe storage infrastructure across the country and make it easier for people to choose cycling." - 🚴🚴♂️🚴♀️
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NEWS: A new £2m fund will provide safe #cyclestorage for residents across Scotland, to help more people travel by bike and reduce #transportpoverty. @transcotland joined us at @QueensCrossHA to see the difference it makes. Read more: orlo.uk/8hQAS
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Clearing pavements & cycle paths of snow, ice, & leaves and gritting is essential. People (myself included) experience life-changing injuries & implications *avoidably* from slippery pavements & cycle paths. Why investing in safe walking & cycling isn’t a top priority baffles me.
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My @thecourieruk column on my main source of rage at this time of year - ungritted pavements! and how unfair it is that non-drivers need to risk serious injury to walk anywhere! It’s the year of our lord 2022 we shouldn’t have ice rink pavements! thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/397
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With the right support Scotland can lead Europe and create thousands of well-paid jobs that would benefit people and the planet. 💚🌍
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2/2 Because I knew before I saw the data that this would happen.
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Cabinet Office has found that 42% of people with no photo ID are unlikely to apply for one: “This would suggest that close to half of those without photo ID would not seek to apply for the voter card,” it admitted.
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If not free, folk who can't afford it won't pay to vote.
If not mandatory, then your freedom to abstain from carrying ID conflicts with your right to vote.
If not universal, holders or non-holders may be stigmatised.
But why do I demand automatic issue? 1/2
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Reminder: Unless acceptable ID is universal, mandatory, issued automatically and is free of charge, Voter ID laws are Voter Suppression. twitter.com/paulwaugh/stat…
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The new Cumbrian coalmine is supposed to produce coal for the steel industry. But it turns out even the steel industry doesn't want it.
Coal provided work in the area for decades - but today, people in Cumbria deserve jobs in the industries of the future.
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“An insular backwater whose inhabitants are drowning in a tide of nostalgia, racism and bad food”. The food's not that bad these days is it?
If one quote defined post-Brexit Britain.
#NewYorkTimes
#BrexitHasFailed
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The #twitterfiles told us little new, though were a good reminder of the correlation between right-wing post-truth demagogues and violations of ToS, and potential foreign manipulation
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Tory Tim Loughton still flogging the ‘tax the ultra wealthy and they’ll run away’ guff. The super rich don’t pay tax - that’s why there’s trillions in offshore accounts. #politicslive
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Genuine question to any right-leaning followers: after 12 years of Conservative governments, what is better in UK? (If your answer is "we're out of EU", what has improved because of that?). I can think of one thing: marriage equality.
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I don't understand how my own party can talk about divisive nationalism from Celtic countries in the UK and then pull a stunt like this.
Celebrate yes, call England "Our" team and you alienate members and voters in other UK countries.
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Britain has no history of voter fraud and little evidence of any serious unidentified issue. But the Tories do want to make it as hard for young people and those on low incomes to vote so let’s call this fascism in action, because that’s what it is
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Maybe should check her stats. All 4 NHSs struggling since #COVID19 but Scotland still best performance against 4hr target & lowest child poverty due to #ScottishChildPayment & #BestStartGrants
Would be lower still without UK #Tory #Austerity! #BenefitFreeze #2ChildLimit
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Licences to kill foxes issued despite experts' objections
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NHS pays massive sums to fill gaps in staffing but won’t meet nurses demands for more bit.ly/3FKIHhJ One reason these locum doctors are needed is the way the NHS pension is worked out leaving NHS doctors with huge tax bills for working extra hours
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It's good to see Full Support Healthcare - which won £2.5bn of contracts - getting some attention. But there are many more questions to be answered about its accounts which don't seem to show any of the profits we know the owners are spending.
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There are so few places in which we can wild camp legally in this country. Now this landowner and hedge fund manager wants to shut one of the last of them down. These grasping plutocrats will take everything if we let them.
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Wreath making yesterday. Willow and foraged decorations, from the Community Garden #Fife #PlasticFree
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The earth has already warmed by more than 1°C. We can still limit temperature rise to 1.5°C & avoid the worst climate impacts. But we need more ambition and action now.
There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #cop15
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*Breaking news* the first protesters to be tried by a jury have all been acquitted of public nuisance, despite the trial judge refusing mention of climate change or fuel poverty. Remember: if you are on a jury, you have an absolute right to acquit for any reason!
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As a campaigner for greater consumer protection and eradicating rip-offs in the financial services sector since 2009, Hunt and Sunak's light touch regulation will lead to lower consumer protection, and higher instability instead of a robust sector for the economy as a whole.
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Pentagon gives Ukraine green light for drone strikes inside Russia | News | The Times
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⚡️Russia detains 10,000 men of conscription age in Moscow.
Men were grabbed "right on the street and even at work," Russia's independent human rights group Memorial said on Dec. 9. The police took off their identification badges and did not identify themselves, the report read.
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I feel very uncomfortable with the government using the military to cover for striking workers.
Strikes are a political problem and the military is apolitical.
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"I think almost every parent would consider someone who is idling a car outside their child’s school to be an incredibly antisocial person to have around." - Chris Whitty,
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"We are closing Londongrad." Excellent, not a moment too soon (as long as we distinguish between corrupt kleptocrats + Russians trying to escape Putin's tyranny), but a key challenge will be going after *all* dirty money. A big task, but I am feeling more optimistic than for ages
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Cowardice and corruption are eviscerating an entire generation of Russians telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202
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⚡️Dutch prosecutors won't ask Russia to extradite its proxies convicted for downing MH17.
A spokeswoman for the Dutch Public Prosecution Office said that the Netherlands won't ask Russia for their extradition because the Russian authorities "will definitely not agree" to do so.
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This is totally untrue.
The government scuppered a deal by inserting last-minute clauses into the offer from the RDG and then insisted that there should be no further negotiation.
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“What we have seen is when a deal is offered, the RMT have come back and in response it’s a eight-day strike, not negotiations”
Tory MP and ex RMT-member Chris Loder tells #Newsnight the RMT has pushed the government to “protect people’s livelihoods”
bbc.in/2Ps915G
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