Environmental Scientist (DipHE) | Pragmatic energy policy | North Sea realism & net zero trade-offs | Data over dogma

Stockton-on-Tees
Joined March 2011
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Getting Zumbad 😂😂😂
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STUDENT LOAN NEWS: The Treasury Committee of MPs has put out its report into student loans. Here's my view:- I’ve long condemned the Chancellor’s planned freeze of the student loan repayment threshold next April as immoral and a breach of natural justice. So today is an important moment, as the cross-party Treasury Committee of MPs echoes this language in calling out a “moral obligation” for this to be reversed. Changing terms for future students is a political choice, but that’s not what is planned next year. Freezing the threshold on existing Plan 2 loans effectively increases the amount those with those loans must repay each year. It is a retrospective, one-sided contractual change that would not be allowed in almost any other circumstance or sector. Worse, those hit often signed these contracts while just 18, with little or no explanation of what they were getting into. This has to stop, and never be allowed again. That’s why one of the Committee’s most important proposals is that the Government should effectively be bound by the same Consumer Duty for student loans as a commercial lender, backed by proper fairness rules. Though it is only taking about student loan promotions, I think it should be for all student loan behaviour. I have been pushing for this for over a decade. In 2016 we even got Wes Streeting, then a new MP, to propose FCA regulation of student loans and place restrictions on negative changes as a parliamentary amendment. It was rejected. Had that protection been in place, it could have stopped successive governments tinkering with the system, resulting in a horrific degradation of the original terms. I hope this report, feeding into a new administration, means there is now a realistic chance of stopping the planned freeze and any future freezes. Yet let’s be clear: that alone will not fix the Plan 2 student loan crisis - it’ll just stop it getting even worse. The report is titled "Student loans: broken and unfair?". There is no need for the question mark. The repayment threshold should be many thousands of pounds higher, interest should be reduced, maintenance thresholds need uprating, and the whole system, including the way it is communicated, needs a fundamental reset. Here is the report: committees.parliament.uk/com… Here is the MSE submission to the report: committees.parliament.uk/wri…
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Keir Starmer could have ended child poverty, homelessness and the grotesque levels of inequality in this country. Instead, he abandoned those in need, destroyed our civil liberties and facilitated genocide in Gaza. That is how this Prime Minister will be remembered - and that is the legacy of moral and political bankruptcy he leaves behind. The crises in our society are not going away. Neither are we - and we will keep fighting for a more equal, peaceful and dignified society for all.
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𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he? And somehow that is the whole point I have watched him for most of my life First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need Then as something bigger The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture James May the patient one Richard Hammond the brave one And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was He owned it, apologized and carried on No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback He just kept being himself and let the work speak The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed The format was never the magic The men were You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view No editing it into a success story No pretending the numbers work when they do not His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care He showed that too Most people would have cut it And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care And then there is the part nobody warned me about Men who raise animals for meat and still love them Who name them, worry about them, sit with them Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them And feel the full weight of sending them off He does not hide that He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard That is not weakness That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product That is the whole secret There is no act There never was And that is exactly why we keep watching Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!
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A Soldier tells his truth about serving in Afghanistan. I don’t know how I would reconcile this, tragic, I imagine he had all the power in the world to stop it, but he was simply paralysed by the system.
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Elon and all engineers create wealth 🚀✈️🌉🏗️🏢💰
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🇬🇧 Is the UK political system about to break? Is this the beginning of a political shift nobody saw coming? A 4-month-old party just mobilized 1,000+ volunteers for a single by-election. Restore Britain. Never heard of them? Neither had most people in January. Here's what's happening: - Labour leads at 45% - Reform at 40% - Restore Britain at 8% and splitting the right-wing vote - June 18 could decide which direction the UK goes In 4 months, Restore Britain went from zero to 1,000 volunteers on the streets. When mainstream parties fail people - new ones don't ask permission. They just show up. #TheShift #WorldChangingThings
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A third of UK mosques have been caught marrying under age girls. A West Yorkshire Imam said "Under Sharia law it's legal". In Birmingham an Imam brushed off "Kaffirs, it doesn't matter, it's legal under Sharia law".
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Why keep throwing billions at imported oil & gas when we could slash costs with North Sea production & reinvest the savings straight into renewables? Policy change now—no more wasted cash! @Keir_Starmer @Conservatives @Ed_Miliband @ClaireCoutinho @RupertLowe10 @FinancialTimes
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Why keep throwing billions at imported oil & gas when we could slash costs with North Sea production & reinvest the savings straight into renewables? Policy change now—no more wasted cash! @Keir_Starmer @Conservatives @Ed_Miliband @ClaireCoutinho @RupertLowe10 @FinancialTimes
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THE FRAZZLEDRIP BREAKDOWN. In this video we will break down the red face on Ellen and Jay-Z's hoodie, what it is and the story behind it. The origins and history of elite child sacrifice related to Baal and Moloch. The Anthony Weiner laptop from hell, which involves a controversial folder in that laptop named "Life Insurance," and the story behind the 9 NYPD cops who were a part of the Weiner/Clinton investigation, who all ended up "suic*ded." Buckle up. First, we'll start with Jean-Michel Basquiat. He was a Brooklyn-born, influential African-American artist who rose to fame in the 1980s New York underground scene. His work, known for its gestural marks and primitive style, is considered a groundbreaking contribution to the Neo-Expressionism movement. He considered himself a magician with ties to Haitian Voodoo, Dark Magick ritualistic practices, and summoning, and worshiping spirits. A lot of his artwork has many layers of meaning and resembles ancient carvings of human sacrifice, especially the "skulls" and his "crown," which also resemble power, individualism, wealth, etc. What is the Frazzledrip/Frazzled.rip conspiracy, and how does it relate to the "red face" of Basquiat’s artwork? Anthony Weiner was caught and arrested for crimes against a minor. Anthony's wife at the time was Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's right-hand woman while she was Secretary of State under Obama. Allegedly, when the NYPD Special Victims Bureau went through Anthony's laptop, they found over 600,000 Clinton emails of state secrets and SAP covert operations and projects and a bunch of evidence pertaining not just to the Clintons, but their foundation, Podesta, Huma, Weiner, Epstein, Haiti, and tons of other elite and government officials. Some of the files they found involved PERJURY, PAY to PLAY through the CLINTON FOUNDATION, CHILD EXPLOTATION, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, MONEY LAUNDERING, SEX CRIMES AGAINST MINORS, and other felony crimes. They also found evidence and GPS data of traveling to the Bahamas, the U.S. Virgin Islands and you guessed it, Little St. James, Epstein's island. Hillary allegedly traveled to Epstein's island 6x while Bill Clinton, now verified through the Epstein documents have traveled to the island more than 25x. But the worst thing they found was a file named "LIFE INSURANCE," and it contained a video said to be once circulating on the dark web, along with Diddy's freak off videos, which could be purchased for large amounts of money that allegedly showed Hillary and Huma skinning a girl's face off, and torturing her to extract blood, aka, Adrenochrome. Adrenochrome, which is just "Adrenalized blood," is a designer drug and common in Satanic rituals. Hillary and Huma were allegedly creating a literal "snuff film," while also performing a Satanic ritual with chanting and other practices for worship and self satisfaction that only they could tell you. There are many Satanic blood ritualistic ceremonies and sacrifices. Where this ties together is what they did to the girl, by allegedly cutting her face off and wearing it on their own, the red face on Ellen and Jay-Z’s sweatshirt allegedly resembles and mocks what they did to the girl's face. There are also many T.V. shows and movies that mock this as well. Allegedly 12 different cops who saw the contents of this video said it was so bad that many had to go and throw up. This is when they told the FBI, they wanted to prosecute Hillary and others, and if the FBI didn't move forward with timely indictments, the NYPD would go public with the story. After these threats to the FBI and about Hillary is when these NYPD officers, all in a very short period of time, and all associated with the case, started to mysteriously die by "suic*de." After the FBI took the laptop and the NYPD cops started to be unalived, the FBI coincidentally lost the "WEINER LAPTOP," and the case and laptop were never heard of or seen again. What's important here is that JAMES COMEY was the director of the FBI at the time and is known for covering up for the elites involved with child trafficking and abuse. His daughter was also the one in charge of the Jeffery Epstein suicide security tapes that was also magically lost/erased. Do you notice a pattern? Some other odd but important details is that Anthony Weiner was storing all this information on the laptop but on an email/website on a server shared with a dog grooming service and a Western Canadian Bicycle shop. FEC records showed Weiner paid $92,000 of congressional campaign funds to Anne Lewis Strategies LLC to manage his email and website. What this means is that this LLC company or anyone who could of hacked it could of accessed all this information, the videos, and all the top secret and SAP files Hillary was stealing. On Nov 3, 2016, Bret Baier stated that their was a 99% chance that Hillary's server in her bathroom was hacked by not 1, but 5 different intelligent agencies from 5 different countries. FBI Dir. at the time, James Comey confirmed to Congress that foreign governments had access to Clinton's server. Lastly one of the most compelling alleged NYPD officers who was "suic*ded," Deputy Chief Steven Silks was heavily involved in the sex crimes investigation of former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner. Chief Silks PERSONALLY OVERSAW the evidence-gathering from the laptop computer seized from Weiner where all this damning evidence was found. That laptop was alleged to have contained numerous emails from Hillary Clinton during her time as Secretary of State under Obama, and numerous files in a folder named, "Life Insurance," which reportedly contained extraordinary details about child sex rings operated by-and for use of-high ranking government officials nationwide. So Silks saw it all. Ultimately that laptop had to be turned over by the NYPD to the FBI once the 600,000 emails and other info was found about state secrets and the other horrific videos, which then the FBI claimed that they allegedly "lost it." NYPD top brass said they made copies of the hard drive because they were suspicious of the FBI, and wanted to make sure the evidence was preserved, and justice was served. One high ranking NYPD official, at the time the laptop was seized told media outlets he was sickened by what was on that computer, and if the feds did not pursue the necessary investigations, he would reveal what the laptop contained. It is now believed that Deputy Chief Silks was that official. No one to this day has either confirmed or denied these allegations. Did Chief Silks make copies? If he did, where are they, and was he the only one? Or do the right people already have them? Were all the NYPD cops all victims of suic*de? Probably not. There are way to many coincidences and information that we now know today, especially when it comes to Epstein, that has now been confirmed along with so many details pertaining to this information. Don't forget, this happened in 2016-2019. My honest opinion. It was a cover up, and these cops were murdered. What do you believe really happened?
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It is an honour to be re-elected as the MP for Islington North. Our victory is a glimpse of a different future, which puts the interests of the many over those of the few. And it is a warning to the new government: that hope for a better world can never be extinguished.
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More than 34,000 people have been killed in Gaza. Instead of ending arms to Israel, governments around the world are trying to silence voices for peace. They cannot hide their role in genocide — and we will keep speaking up for the people of Palestine.
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Replying to @jeremycorbyn
@jeremycorbyn @carolvorders Please help😢 What does Labour or anybody in power with a heart propose to do about Torries plans for PIP? Sending disabled and housebound people like me vouchers! Without that pitiful extra money I couldn't survive, as a disabled single Dad I'm scared
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Can someone @jeremycorbyn @johnmcdonnellMP @carolvorders @labour actually reply and help me please. This is going through in the next 8 weeks and people like me are on our knees!!!!!!!!!!!
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@jeremycorbyn @carolvorders Please help😢 What does Labour or anybody in power with a heart propose to do about Torries plans for PIP? Sending disabled and housebound people like me vouchers! Without that pitiful extra money I couldn't survive, as a disabled single Dad I'm scared
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When Brian Benson was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, he had to be hospitalized and his 6-year-old labrador dog Magnus refused to leave his side during the hospital stay
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Read why Jessica’s tragic case is a wake-up call for the primary care system.

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