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Almost unbelievably, the government has introduced no new laws in the wake of the #CambridgeAnalytica/Brexit scandal. So guess what? It's still going on. My column: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I argue that this astonishing failure is symptomatic of a much wider problem:
.@carolecadwalla, @AdamRamsay, @PeterKGeoghegan, @Channel4News: It makes me furious that your brilliant work on this issue has not led to a change in the laws governing our politics. The responses I got from the government were pathetic beyond belief.
.@UKLabour: you should be all over this like a rash.
Comments on the article are now open: do weigh in. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
If you want to take back control, if you don't want your life to be governed by remote and faceless elites, and if you want popular and parliamentary sovereignty to count for something, you should be concerned about #DarkMoney: my comment below the line
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This might be the most depressing thing I have seen this year. Jane Goodall in an advertisement for British Airways, promoting flying.
Why do people find it so hard to make the connection between what we do, and the destruction of the living world we love? @JaneGoodallInst?
Why do even highly intelligent people find it so hard to see the big picture?
Flying > #ClimateBreakdown > threatens to destroy everything Jane Goodall loves.
How much does she have to avert her eyes to, to appear in this ad?
For those of you seeking to justify this: no, there is simply no excuse for appearing in an advertisement for one of the activities pushing us fastest towards environmental catastrophe. Especially if you're supposed to be an environmentalist!
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More sound sense from the wonderful @GretaThunberg. There's more reason in this 16-year-old than in the combined weight of the world's governments.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
You can hear her whole, short speech here. Everything you need to know - and everything that politicians and the media will not say - in 9 calm minutes.
How come a 16-year-old gets all this, but the adults who claim to lead us do not?
Sorry, I mean here: welt.de/politik/video1…
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Against the renationalisation of public utilities
Against a 50p top rate of income tax
Against abolishing tuition fees
The #IndependentGroup looks like Conservatism minus Brexit
newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
Chris Leslie + Chuka Umunna were partly responsible for Miliband’s defeat in 2015. Leslie promised to sustain Tory spending cuts for “decades ahead”. His Zero-Based Review threatened to extend them to the NHS. Labour would complete Osborne’s programme “to eradicate the deficit”.
Chuka Umunna announced Labour will be “radical in reforming our economy” in support of “a determinedly pro-business agenda”. They more or less eliminated the difference between Labour and the Tories on economic matters. I wrote about them both in 2014: monbiot.com/2014/06/10/the…
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Jon Worth
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I have long maintained that a second referendum on #Brexit is the only way out of the UK's current conundrum.

But a few aspects of this have been nagging at me.

Now having been put on the spot by @edaross I am going to explore this a bit more in a thread.

1/17
First, if a #PeoplesVote is to happen, it requires an extension of the #Article50 negotiation period - because it would take a good 20 weeks to organise such a referendum, as @ConUnit_UCL argue convincingly here:
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2/17
At the time of writing we are 123 days, or just over 18 weeks away from exit day 29.3.2019

If Commons has its "Meaningful Vote" (that failing might be the starting gun for a referendum process) on 10 December that is 104 days, less than 15 weeks from exit day. Too tight.

3/17
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Chloé Farand
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1. Some background on this major story which broke yesterday: The Taxpayers' Alliance admitted that 9 "linked" organisations coordinated to vilify @shahmiruk These groups are operating from an office at 55 Tufton Street, around the corner from Westminster.
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@phoenix_de @guyverhofstadt Die Bürgerrechte der @The3Million sowie @BritishInEurope finden trotz allem zu wenig Gewichtung! Die EU hat nur dann eine Zukunft, wenn sie sich weniger von Lobbygruppen&mächtigen Wirtschaftsunternehmen leiten lässt&ein Bürgerparlament installiert,das mit entscheidet&konrolliert!
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1. So @AndyWigmore of Leave.EU tweets investigative journalist @CaroleCadwalla to let her know she’s been "tagged” in a tweet from Russia’s embassy in the UK. Let’s have a quick look at the background & semiotics of this… <THREAD>
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Maria Ana Cataluna
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Dear @theresa_may,
Yesterday you wrote me a letter about my rights as an EU citizens in the UK.
I reply back in good faith.
(And may I call you Theresa? You called me Maria Ana!)
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2. Sadly, much damage has been done. The fact that citizens’ rights were included in the negotiations was enough reason for some to leave.
Discussed in @ScotParl by @willie_rennie (only 2mins listen): bit.ly/2jABfhI
Our @YoungAcademySco Report: bit.ly/2BwXsRX
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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tony nog
@tony_nog
1) strong message here for remaining #Brexit supporters

You were lied to, you are led by chancers, get a grip
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
2) Yes, ok, Remain ran a terrible campaign & Cameron was an arrogant fool.
Yes #Brexit sounded easy & even exciting
But, enough's enough
3) whatever happened in the campaigns, this is the reality.
There is no £350 M, #Brexit will cost far more than our membership
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