The usual from Emma - spot on. Many thanks for cheering up a gloomy Sunday!
jesus CHRIST.
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Heating oil prices in the UK have trebled in a week. 2 million homes, no price cap protection, no warning.
Heat pumps + solar are multiple times more efficient, don’t require an oil tank and oil deliveries and are an insurance against such frightening price spikes.
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BREAKING: Second Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉
Liam Shrivastava has been elected Mayor of Lewisham – huge congratulations!
Superb again Emma. Many thanks - keep up the good work
Thank you again Emma!
Too right.
An amazing, amazing piece by the always fantastic John Lanchester in the London Review of Books, consistently the most interesting, boggling, baffling and brilliant paper out there.
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This thread by Emma Monk hits the nail on the head.
The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...
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Today we have a double debunk:
1. A debunk of the idea that 67 dog breeds are being banned in Britain
2. A debunk of what the usual suspects are saying online (because they are so tediously predictable!🙄)
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Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?
How likely does that sound? 🤷♀️
Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'
Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...
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Oh boy! What a headline...
Ask yourself:
"What am I being asked to believe?"
"Who am I being told to blame?"
Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on.
Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵
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VC B'ham Uni fails to spot over half a century of open access at @openuniversity.bsky.social. Claims students without A levels 'are not really capable of graduating'. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘Far beyond the powers of national authorities to control. That is a truly astonishing state of affairs. The fact is that a great deal is being done to combat it. It’s just that none of it works.’
John Lanchester on money laundering.
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If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property...
Adam Tickell, of University of Birmingham, says money is loaned to people who ‘are not really capable of graduating’
OK, the Gorton and Denton by-election, I have some thoughts!
Let's take a look at some of the FACTS and burst a few of the more ridiculous takes doing the rounds
But first up, can we acknowledge just what bad losers Reform are?!🤣
Right, let's get started...
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