Jenny Jones: Sewage and the Conservatives’ lack of clear blue water
Daily maps of the sewage dumping, along with graphic pictures of murky coastal waters have illustrated the scale of it (400,000 incidents in the last year alone).
Climate Change
‘Lukewarmer propaganda’: Climate change deniers’ ‘rebrand’ sparks concern
Claims that a prominent climate change denial group has rebranded as Net Zero Watch has incited concern and warnings over group’s objectives and dubious climate science messages.
Green Party commits to £50 billion a year in international aid and climate finance
The decision from the Green Party comes in the run up to the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, where finance from richer countries to lower-income countries will be a discussed by world leaders.
Jeremy Corbyn: We need radical change to fix our destructive political and economic system before it’s too late
‘Our crises of climate, inequality, the Covid 19 pandemic and democracy are all linked, and all require radical solutions that put people and planet before the interests of the multinational profiteers’
Why government grants to replace gas boilers with heat pumps don’t go far enough
Although up to 25 million UK homes have gas boilers, the grants will fund just 90,000 pumps over three years
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 2, October 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
Why the inclusion of climate and nature priorities in the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill is a sign of progress
‘The Skills and Post-16 Education Bill was slightly unusual in that it started its life in the House of Lords.’
Why we need publicly-owned buses in Scotland
‘From 2007 to 2019, annual bus passenger journeys in Scotland plummeted by 121 million’
#Lab21: Rachel Reeves sets out ambitious proposals in first conference speech as shadow chancellor
Reeves outlined some bold promises for sweeping change, including becoming Britain’s ‘first green chancellor.’
What the TUC Congress showed about climate change and trade unions
‘It is vital that trade unions can have these debates and arrive at a position that works for workers in the long-term.’