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It won't be enough. The wealthiest farmers will still whinge. And farmers are STILL getting a better IHT deal than the rest of the population. #IHT #Farmers #UKPolitics Inheritance tax for farmers to kick in at £2.5m in government U-turn – UK politics live

Inheritance tax for farmers to kick in at £2.5m in government U-turn – UK politics live

Previous policy would have led to inheritance tax being levied on farms valued at over £1m

Fascinating on how researchers from Nottingham Trent University used old organ-tuning records in English churches to map a warming climate. #PipeOrgans #Nottingham #NTU #GlobalHeating

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Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate

Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions

Trump is once again eyeing up Greenland. Its mineral resources are extensive, especially those used in EVs and steel. And if the US takes over, its ban on oil and gas will crumble too. (The techbros bought him for a reason. Follow the money). #Trump #Greenland #EVs #USPolitics Factbox: Greenland's rich but largely untapped mineral resources - MINING.COM https://www.mining.com/web/factbox-greenlands-rich-but-largely-untapped-mineral-resources/

Join the Green Party. We have a coherent plan. #TaxTheRich #UKPolitics #JoinTheGreenParty Starmer has no coherent social mobility plan, says top government adviser | Social mobility | The Guardian

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Starmer has no coherent social mobility plan, says top government adviser

Exclusive: Warning from Social Mobility Commission chair comes after UK report found ‘entrenched disadvantages’

The government has ordered a review into foreign interference in our UK politics. Guess which foreign country won't be investigated?

A good news story in difficult times. #Muslims #Jews #Himmah #Nottingham ‘We’ve got more in common than what divides us’: a Muslim-Jewish kitchen in Nottingham counters hate and hunger | Society | The Guardian

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‘We’ve got more in common than what divides us’: a Muslim-Jewish kitchen in Nottingham counters hate and hunger

As antisemitism and Islamophobia rise, a community centre brings people together over shared meals, offering an antidote to food poverty, social is...

I swear I'll stop watching #Strictly if Alan Carr, Alison Hammond or Holly Willoughby get the gig. #Strictly Strictly Come Dancing’s new hosts: who is in the running? | Strictly Come Dancing | The Guardian

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Strictly Come Dancing’s new hosts: who is in the running?

As two beloved presenters stand down, speculation is rife over who may take up the ‘very sparkly baton’

"Globalise the intifada” isn’t a call for harming Jews, though western establishments would love you to think it is. It’s a call for showing solidarity with Palestinians before it is too late for them, and for us. It is about throwing sand in the cogs of a machinery of oppression before it grows too powerful to be confronted" Jonathan Cook #GlobalisTheIntifada #Palestine #Oligarchy Western elites fear a 'globalised intifada' because they are its targets, not Jews

Western elites fear a 'globalised intifada' because they are its targets, not Jews

While western publics are being demonised as racists, the technology and strategies used today against Palestinians will become the walls of tomorr...

"Feel-good news to chase away those winter blues. Here are 13 reasons to celebrate!" From the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). #RSPB #Birds #Wildlife #Nature #Biodiversity Wins for wildlife in 2025

Wins for wildlife in 2025

Feel-good news to chase away those winter blues.

"The settlers are trying to provoke the local people into protecting themselves, but if they do the army and police will storm the community and arrest everyone,” said one of the Israeli volunteers, Amir Pansky, a retired Israeli army major" #Israel #Settlers The volunteers putting their bodies between Israel settlers and a Palestinian village | Palestine | The Guardian

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The volunteers putting their bodies between Israel settlers and a Palestinian village

In the Jordan valley, teenage settlers drive herds of goats into a Palestinian community in a bid to force families out – volunteers are trying t...