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[LindyB @LindyB555]

Waiting for me

[Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden]

“People voted for Brexit.”

Some people did.

Millions voted against it. Millions more were never allowed to vote.

Stop pretending Brexit was something the whole country chose.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I’m tired of people mocking those who care about the planet. Clean air matters. Healthy forests matter. Thriving oceans matter. Wildlife matters. Biodiversity matters. Wanting a livable planet for future generations shouldn’t be controversial.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Let your flowers die - screw the bees that were visiting them - we need that water so creepy boomers can make ai images of a white woman crying in a tube carriage full of bearded men👍🫠

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Two contrasting visions of humanity in a single image. Does empathy weaken a civilization, or is it the only thing keeping it civilized?

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Burnham should take the £49bn budget for Heathrow expansion & put it all into fixing & improving our rail services instead. #r4today

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Water is for people, not AI slop factories.

[Josh Glancy @joshglancy]

The great pollster Lyndon Crosby on how polling has warped our politics

[LindyB @LindyB555]

@arealmofwonder Such a beautiful consolatory poem … and “But trailing clouds of glory do we come/From God who is our home”.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

The opening of a famous poem by William Wordsworth, which oft can resonate when one is not feeling altogether chipper. (But, as he says further on...

We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be.)

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

💧Hosepipe bans for us.

💧Water guzzling for the data centres.

Data centres consume roughly 30 million litres of water daily in the UK. A figure that will significantly rise with the rapid expansion plans for AI data centres.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

In February 2025, as shadow justice secretary, Jenrick referred to Keir Starmer as "Quisling Keir" in a social media post. Vidkun Quisling was Norway's wartime collaborator with the Nazis. This was widely read as drawing a direct parallel between Starmer and a Nazi collaborator.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

'I can't afford to turn the oven on': 7.4m households struggling to buy essentials.

Result of low income; high water, energy, housing costs, profiteering, frozen income tax personal allowance.

1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
https://t.co/y3OzIV5rOk

[Ian L Richardson @ianrich15813274]

We won't make much economic & social progress in the UK unless we address our totally dysfunctional politics. Seven PMs in 10 years is clear evidence our system no longer works. We have to be bold, bring in proportional representation & coalition governments that represent more opinions, that have to cooperate & can build long term policy solutions. This isn't working, it's a vicious circle of failure.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Thames Water, the poster child of predatory capitalism announces hosepipe ban.

TW loses 200bn litres annually to leaks.
Dumps tons of sewage in rivers.
Paid dividends, neglected investment.
No new reservoirs since 1989.
Massive hikes in customer bills.
https://t.co/8Lkv8r4QC3

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I DO NOT want self-driving cars.
I DO NOT want humanoid robots.
I DO NOT want Al in every app I use.

I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want a habitable planet.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

The reason the world is upset with Israel is because of the 700,000+ innocent Palestinians they’ve murdered.

It’s not because they’re Jewish. Hope that helps.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

“While we cannot end the genocide on our own, we can decide if our silence will become another weapon.”

Simple moral clarity in stark contrast to the cowardice of so many.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Lol. He is beyond parody at this point.

Also, "historically accurate"? It's a work of fiction featuring imaginary Greek gods.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Energy prices are expected to go up again in October, more than the VAT cut.

In France Energy prices are 60% of the UK.

Because they are nationalised and it is sold at cost, not with vast profits added onto it.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The EU has banned the destruction of unsold clothing by companies in the EU.

Currently £140 million of new clothes are sent to landfills every year in the UK instead of being given away.

It needs to be banned in the UK too.