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Heating Homes 🪶 We Need Electrification And Universal Retrofit

People And Nature ☭ Heat pumps and insulation are the keys to decarbonising home heating in a socially just way, Tom Ackers argues in this edited excerpt from his new pamphlet. In a linked article here, he surveys fuel poverty and the UK’s broken, inadequate mechanisms for monitoring it.□ The whole pamphlet, Remaking Home Heating in the UK, is published today on People & Nature, and

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Seven Hundred And Eighty Seven

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousPalestinian Boys Allege Sexual Assault, Torture by Israeli Jailers'Stop the Genocide': Thousands of Israelis Rally Against War and

Is The TUV The New Protestant Unionist Party?

Dr John Coulter ✍Is history about to repeat itself in Unionism, or are some of us commentators just getting our knickers in a twist because one opinion poll has Jim Allister’s Traditional Unionist Voice as the third largest party in Northern Ireland, ahead of the UUP and Alliance? I suppose we could quote the popular secular proverb, one swallow does not make a summer. Skeptics of

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Seven Hundred And Eighty Six

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousThe wartime experience of Ukraine's anarchist Solidarity Collectives“Ukraine is a left-wing, anti-authoritarian project”Now we

A Morning Thought @ 2824

A Morning Thought @ 2823

There Was Love In Gaza

Gearóid Ó Loinsigh ☭ writing in Substack on 22-August-2025.Photo Internet. Khalad Nabhan with his granddaughterbefore her murder (Soul of my Soul)In 1939 the German Nazis took control of Warsaw and in 1940 set up the Ghetto where they locked in 300,000 Jews and later in 1942, they began to take them to places like Treblinka to murder them. In 1943 the Jews rose up. Marek Edelman was the

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Seven Hundred And Eighty Five

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousThe empathy of the Czech right: Let the schoolgirls earn money for sanitary pads themselvesInside Bristol’s far right protestUN

The Elephant In The Room For Zara Sultana’s “Your Party”

Labour Heartlands ☭ Written by Paul Knaggs.Nothing exemplifies progressive liberalism better than that on the debate on Trans rights.“Not Negotiable” – The Feminist Red Line Sultana’s New Party Can’t IgnoreZara Sultana’s recent interview with New Left Review was, in many ways, inspiring. Her call for a genuinely member-led party, one that rejects top-down control, cronyism, and internal

Hit Kids And Convert Them

Friendly Atheist ★ Jack Brewer's plan to fix public schools? Let teachers hit kids and convert them.In a disturbing tirade on Fox last week, Jack Brewer, an ordained minister and former NFL player who once co-chaired a “Black Voices For Trump” group in 2020, argued that children needed to be physically abused and converted in their schools in order to make up for the lack of Jesus.He was