'Stoke-on-Trent was awarded £56 million in 2021 to help with levelling up.. It's now 2024 and all that I have seen is a multi-storey car park flattened and another one has been built.

When will we see some levelling up in Stoke-on-Trent?' #BBCQT #Stoke

“We’ve given Boris a chance, he lied. We gave Liz a chance, she trashed the economy.

Now we’ve got an unelected Prime minister. We just want a General Election. And we want it now, please.”

#bbcqt #GeneralElectionNow

'Will Natalie Elphicke be an asset to the Labour Party or a liability?'

Lisa Nandy, 'It's a very welcome thing she's chosen to come across and join our benches and to vote with us to protect people from the worst of this Tory havoc'
#BBCQT

Needed more urgently than ever - the peace and unity celebrated on #EuropeDay2024 sussexbylines.co.uk/world/europe/m…

May 9th is Europe Day, a celebration of peace and unity
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May 9th, the day the Schuman Declaration was signed in 1950

Which created the European Coal and Steel Community, leading us to the European Union

#EuropeDay

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Happy Birthday to two great cultural treasures - #AlanBennett on his 90th birthday, and Europe on #EuropeDay2024

Universities are perfectly capable of handling student protest without being hauled into Number 10 Downing Street for a dressing down from the Prime Minister. They know the rules and how to walk the tightrope on the right to protest. It is just performative politics at its worst.

I wrote a piece about protecting institutions from polarisation. I didn’t write the headline - I believe no-one wins in the culture wars. Greater public involvement, with people from all walks of life, is the way to protect institutions for the future. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

May 9th is Europe Day, a celebration of peace and unity
#Europe Day
#Europe sussexbylines.co.uk/world/europe/m…

May 9th is Europe Day, a celebration of peace and unity
#Europe Day
#Europe sussexbylines.co.uk/world/europe/m…

On #EuropeDay , we honour Robert Schuman's vision of a united, peaceful, and thriving Europe.

We celebrate the people who built our Union.

And those who keep building it every day.

This day belongs to all Europeans—the dreamers and the builders.

Together, we are stronger.

May 9th is Europe Day, a celebration of peace and unity | Hilary Lawson

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Who benefits from Freeports and Special Enterprise Zones?

Tom Serpell via Sussex Bylines
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If you haven’t seen it yet:

The MP for Dover, Natalie Elphicke, tried to join the protest over the P&O sackings yesterday, but was swiftly called out by the crowd for having voted against Labour’s attempt to put a stop to fire & rehire practices.

7/ Ralph Fiennes: Suffolk coast is under siege by National Grid

“Yes, yes, yes to green power, a million times over, but it needs to be implemented with an environmentally enlightened vision…it can be done”.

SuffolkEnergyActionSolutions🍃💚🍃 #Pylons #ClimateChange #NetZero
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We've been inundated by requests* for an electricity pylon thread, and here it is

*This is a lie, we just fancied doing one just because we could, this is what the free press looks like!

A pylon thread 🧵

#Pylons #ClimateChange #NetZero

Happy Birthday, Ode to Joy.

- this video never gets old. ❤️🇪🇺