The energy price cap should, taking raw material costs and general inflation into account, now be about £1,400 a year, but is actually going to be £1,690. The difference is exploitative profit being extracted from us by energy companies.
Friday, February 23rd, 2024Much fuss is being made this morning about the fact that the UK energy price cap is being reduced by approximately 12% to £1,690 per
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We really do need to wake up to the fact that theocratic fascism is threatening us all
Friday, February 23rd, 2024I tried to summarise what follows and then decided to share it as it was written by Heather Cox Richardson because nothing I could say
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What is wrong with wanting a better world for those who are suffering?
Friday, February 23rd, 2024I am sickened by the reaction to events in parliament this week. I am appalled that those who want a ceasefire so that a civilian
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We desperately need a Green New Deal and our power elites would rather ignore that fact
Friday, February 23rd, 2024As the Guardian’s morning comment newsletter says in its introduction this morning: Houses in the UK are some of the oldest and least energy efficient
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Liz Truss gets (almost) everything wrong
Friday, February 23rd, 2024I was amused in slightly odd ways by a report in The Guardian yesterday that suggested: Liz Truss was among the headline speakers at this
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2024Every Doctor – which campaigns on NHS issues and most of whose many members work in that organisation, put the following out this morning. You
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Starmer is high in the pantheon of charlatans who have sought high office in this country
Thursday, February 22nd, 2024The true story of what was behind yesterday’s debacle in parliament is made clear in an article in The Guardian: The reality is that Starmer
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After the debacle of last night, Labour look like grubby power-grabbers intent on achieving their personal goal of office irrespective of who or what is harmed as a consequence
Thursday, February 22nd, 2024Let me summarise what I think happened in the House of Commons yesterday. The SNP tabled an opposition day debate calling for a permanent ceasefire
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How long will it be before Labour does a U-turn on its promised reform of workers' rights?
Thursday, February 22nd, 2024One of the few remaining vaguely radical policies to which labour is supposedly committed is the reform of worker’s rights. This is from the front
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