There are arguments for and against assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.

Cost – regardless of whether it’s a bit cheaper or a bit more expensive – should not be one of them, Wes.

What the hell is this headline?

The claim has always been that the planned green energy investments and state-owned company ‘Great British Energy’ will save ‘up to’ £300 (compared to 2023 prices) by 2030.

This BBC article from May 2024, before Labour were even in government, confirms this.

There’s nothing to “admit” – nothing is being pushed back or watered down. The timeframe has always been 2030.

The £300 estimate actually comes from a non-Labour-affiliated right wing think tank that uses less ambitious modeling than what labour actually wants to put in place. So assuming that goes well, it could be better than £300, or the £300 could be achieved even sooner than 2030, but Labour haven’t made any promises about that.

Honestly, sometimes it feels like the supposedly left-wing outlets such as The Morning Star would prefer to have the Tories or Reform in charge than have a Labour government that’s not headed by Corbyn.

Yup. I’m living in a new build right now and broadly enjoy it, but in some ways I’m shocked it’s not more forward-thinking.

No solar panels, gas boiler, radiators on the walls, no heat pump. I keep thinking why the hell was a house built in 2019 not built with this stuff in mind.

Homebuilders need to be told, they won’t do it by themselves unless it’s cheaper.

Ngl a 90s PC beige steam deck would be amazing to run emudeck on

I tried this but even permanent marker kept rubbing off

Yes, that’s certainly how it appears, but in order to stay that way, we need constant pressure.

We’ve seen a fair amount of places go backwards in terms of rhetoric surrounding climate change. The US in particular was more accepting of the reality of climate change 20 years ago than they are now. We need to be vigilant and make sure climate denialism cannot take root here.

Unfortunately, some conservatives and all of Reform seem to be trending in that direction.

Idk where you live, but a number of countries give you a 14 day cool-off period where you can return purchases for any reason.

Nice to hear. Feels like all I’ve heard recently is politicians (UK and elsewhere) advocating scrapping climate pledges

The visit will have a symbolic element with Starmer becoming the first UK leader to attend France’s national commemoration event since Winston Churchill in 1944.

I’m actually very shocked nobody has done this since then. It’s not like our armed forces weren’t also there

There’s nothing to suggest he does.

Powell worked on the Good Friday Agreement as well as a handful of other things, so presumably Starmer wants him for his experience.

The thing about him negotiating release for Pinochet has no backing.

All the article states is that Powell had meetings with the chief of press for President Frei’s government… the government that indicted and arrested Pinochet.

This article Guardian article, on top of just being an allegation in a book, doesn’t accuse Powell of doing what Skwawkbox says he did.

Literally all it says is that the press chief of the 1999 Chilean government (i.e. 10 years and two governments after Pinochet stepped down) had meetings with Powell. That’s it.

Frei and his government, by the way, was anti-Pinochet. During his presidency, he indicted and arrested Pinochet.

I don’t know how you could read that and think it’s a confirmation that Powell negotiated release for Pinochet.

Stop spreading misinformation.

This article Guardian article, on top of just being an allegation in a book, doesn’t accuse Powell of doing what Skwawkbox says he did.

Literally all it says is that the press chief of the 1999 Chilean government (i.e. 10 years and 2 governments after Pinochet stepped down) had meetings with Powell. That’s it. Seems normal to me. I imagine the UK government would be chatting to Chile if they arrested David Cameron tomorrow.

Frei and his government, by the way, was anti-Pinochet. During his presidency, he indicted and arrested Pinochet.

I don’t know how you could read that and think it’s a confirmation that Powell negotiated release for Pinochet.

Leave the west and go where? Outside the western world is objectively worse and far less tolerant.

And for what it’s worth, this article is a straight up lie. There isn’t a link between Powell and Pinochet that I have been able to find.

If it makes you feel any better, the Pinochet link seems to be an outright fabrication by Skwawkbox. At least I’ve been unable to find anything so far.

He was indeed an ex-blair adviser though. Involved in the HK handover and the Good Friday Agreement.

Is this straight up misinformation? I’ve been through 6 articles now and I can’t find any other source on this outside of Skwawkbox.

All I can find is stuff about him being a major person behind the Good Friday Agreement and HK + Chagos Islands handovers.

Even the Telegraph and fucking GB News – both of which try to paint Labour/Starmer in the worst light possible – don’t say anything about Pinochet. Where does this alleged link come from?

Looking into it, Skwawkbox has been caught lying multiple times, predominantly about the Grenfell Fire. They’ve also lost a libel case against one Labour MP and breached reporting standards about another. They, and I’m really not joking here, describe themselves as a non-traditional publication aimed at “aunties and uncles on Facebook”.

If anybody has any other sources please correct me on this.

As much as I’d love to munch some popcorn and see Lammy double down on calling Trump out for being a fascist dickhead, that obviously wouldn’t be in the interest of the UK and would probably be an unwise thing for the Foreign Secretary of all ministers to do.

Damaging the prospects of the UK just to get a sick twitter burn in against a pussy-grabbing wannabe despot is not a rational and pragmatic course of action, even if it would be very funny/morally correct.

Unfortunately, Trump did win an election and we do have to put up with him/navigate around him for the next four years.

I do hope, though, that the Republicans becoming more and more unhinged prompts us to be a bit less US-reliant, and to seek partnerships with other countries, and to make our own country a bit more self-reliant.

The amount of people claiming it went up massively thanks to the news surrounding WFA.

Unfortunately I fear they could force councils to sell for less than market value again, then sit back and relax as the media fellate them for being so kind to the poorer people in society (whilst completely ignoring the wider societal problems that causes)

Based.

People won’t like it, but this is absolutely the right decision for the country.

Either don’t sell them, or sell them for full market value and put any profit into a fund to build more council houses.