My Labour MP, James Naish, has just sent me this report on a round table he held recently with local trans people in Rushcliffe. Well done to him for at least listening. ( I contacted him earlier this year about the erosion of trans rights.) #Trans #Transgender #Rushcliffe #Nottinghamshire 📄.pdf
"One Syrian refugee said: “I never heard of any asylum seeker hiding a sim card in their mouth. When we crossed the Channel the smugglers told us to delete everything from our phones. “People with cheap phones just threw them in the sea while people who had decent phones left them with friends in northern France and asked them to mail them via DHL if they reached the UK safely" Another nasty bid for racist votes by Mahmood. #AsylumSeekers #Refugees #SmallBoats
the Guardian
Children reaching UK by small boat face sim card mouth searches
Home Office accused of putting criminality before dignity with rule seeking intelligence on people-smugglers
“I am a marathon runner. I’ve run 126 marathons in my life. Do I train and say it’s difficult, so I’ll do a half marathon instead? No.” Michael Loscheller, CEO Polestar #EVs #PetrolCars #Germany ‘The Chinese will not pause’: Volvo and Polestar bosses urge EU to stick to 2035 petrol car ban | Automotive industry | The Guardian
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‘The Chinese will not pause’: Volvo and Polestar bosses urge EU to stick to 2035 petrol car ban
Exclusive: Swedish carmakers push to retain target as Germany lobbies to help its own industry by softening cutoff date
"History shows that racism never disappeared from public life. Rather, it assumed different shapes, some of which are harder to discern than others" Good from Lars Cornelisson on the long history of racism in the UK. #Racism #UKPolitics
The Conversation
Racism never went away – it simply changed shape
When the language of racism lost scientific legitimacy, it changed shape and began targeting cultures instead.
Woke up this morning to a large crack in Mr Copper's catflap. Luckily Petsafe stocks a spare which I've ordered. I now have to fit it when it arrives. Any tips? #Catflap #Cackhanded
"Whiteness and Westernness are such fragile ideas that they break down rapidly when subjected to the historian’s gaze. They are a fragile reed on which to base the politics of 350 million diverse Americans, all of them ultimately descended from Black people" Juan Cole This also applies to white nation-state in the UK. #WhiteSupremacy #Nationalism #History #Racism Sorry, White Nationalists, Europeans were Black until the Rise of Rome, and Rome was Multiracial
Informed Comment
Sorry, White Nationalists, Europeans were Black until the Rise of Rome, and Rome was Multiracial
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - We live in a time when a once level-headed anti-populist politician such as J. D. Vance has increasingly adopted the...
The rare gem that is David Tennant. #Trans David Tennant Urges Transphobes To 'F*** Off And Let People Be' | HuffPost UK Entertainment
HuffPost UK
David Tennant Urges Transphobes To 'F*** Off And Let People Be' | HuffPost UK Entertainment
"People are trying to create division... and it
"The government subsidies are simply huge: a nuclear tax is being levied on hard pressed consumers. What is the government thinking of? The fossil fuel industry, which has thrown its weight behind nuclear power, is of course delighted; all these decades of new construction without any electricity to show for it gives at least another decade or two of unabated burning gas" Paul Brown on his life as an environment writer. #Environment #Nuclear #Climate
the Guardian
‘I have watched politicians failing yet and yet again’: lessons from a life as an environment writer
Paul Brown looks back at his career reporting on the climate crisis, failed summit and nuclear power – and how to do it well
Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK. #Water #Drought #ClimateEmergency #Rivers Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown | Water | The Guardian
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Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications