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Thoughts of the day 27 May 2025

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Experienced climbers scale a rock face near the historic Dumbarton castle in Glasgow, releasing a banner that reads “Climate on a Cliff Edge.” One activist, dressed as a globe, symbolically looms near the edge, while another plays the bagpipes on the shores below. | Photo courtesy of Extinction Rebellion and Mark Richards
Experienced climbers scale a rock face near the historic Dumbarton castle in Glasgow, releasing a banner that reads “Climate on a Cliff Edge.” One activist, dressed as a globe, symbolically looms near the edge, while another plays the bagpipes on the shores below. | Photo courtesy of Extinction Rebellion and Mark Richards

So BP representing the fossil fuels industry and the filthy rich has given the climate, biodiversity and all humanity an unambiguous big two fingers. They’re saying fekk you, our profits come before anything, we continue to destroy the climate and all else. Despite the UK government saying no new licences in the North Sea we don’t know where they’re at with licence decisions pending for Rosebank and Jackdaw and government support for airport expansions at Gatwick and Heathrow. If they were serious about climate there would be no hesitation in refusing all these projects. Then there’s the big orange slug that Starmer is reporting to today. The planet can’t afford any of this. Capitalist scum have already fekked the climate, it’s going to get destroyed at a far greater rate now and these absolute bstards are pulling out all the stops.

Neo-Fascist Climate Science Denier Donald Trump says Burn, Baby, Burn.
Neo-Fascist Climate Science Denier Donald Trump says Burn, Baby, Burn.
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Credible child poverty strategy must see two-child limit axed, says Resolution Foundation think tank

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/credible-child-poverty-strategy-must-see-two-child-limit-axed-says

A preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks

SCRAPPING the two-child benefit cap is essential for any credible poverty strategy, a think tank has said.

The Resolution Foundation projected that a three-child limit on benefits could cut child poverty by 320,000 by the end of this parliament.

Labour has been under pressure, including from within the party, to abolish the policy amid record highs rates of child poverty.

The government’s child poverty taskforce is due to present a strategy in spring.

Before the next general election, child poverty will hit a record high of 4.6 million on current forecasts, according to the Resolution Foundation.

The two-child limit was first announced in 2015 by the Conservatives and came into effect in 2017.

It restricts child tax credit and universal credit to the first two children in most households.

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Article continues at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/credible-child-poverty-strategy-must-see-two-child-limit-axed-says

Keir Starmer says pensioners can freeze to death and poor children can starve and be condemned to failure and misery all their lives.
Keir Starmer says pensioners can freeze to death and poor children can starve and be condemned to failure and misery all their lives.

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Wes Streeting, Lucy Letby

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Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said that “waging a campaign” on behalf of Lucy Letby is “not the right thing to do”. He’s wrong – it’s important to challenge possible or probable unfair trials and convictions as has happened innumerable times in the past. Streeting would say that wouldn’t he? Otherwise there is a recognition that many babies died because of substandard care by the NHS.

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