... the sale means that E.ON Next, which already supplies 5.6 million households, will hold 25% of the household energy market – or 13.45m gas and electricity accounts – and become Great Britain’s second-largest energy supplier

The supplier’s hold on the market is narrowly behind Octopus Energy, which holds a 26% share or 14.3m accounts, and ahead of legacy energy incumbent British Gas, which was once the top supplier but today serves about 23% of the market or 12.5m accounts.

It also deals a blow to the decade-long efforts to dismantle the dominance of what were the “Big Six” energy suppliers to increase competition and lower energy prices.

What are our anti-trust regulators doing? Between this and the TalkTalk thing, the oligopolies keep getting worse.

In a system described as “oppressive and dystopian” by a whistleblower, Co-op Legal Services is using AI models to record, analyse and award a percentage score for interactions between agents and customers seeking advice about probate, wills and estates.

The Co-op, which operates supermarkets, undertakers, insurance and legal services companies, said it did not recognise the criticism and said its probate advisers were highly engaged. It said it supported colleagues with AI, which is a “key aspect of our quality assurance processes” and helps ensure “our clients consistently receive empathetic expert guidance”.

Reminds me if the Donald Trump stuff where he tried to justify his invasion on a blue town based on it being saturated with riots etc.

“It’s well beyond anything ever tried under Jeremy Corbyn. The ultimate irony is the one closest to their policy is Ben Gvir who also wants one unified state rather than two states,” he added.

That's a rather silly comparison.

Leading barrister Adam Wagner KC has also said there is a strong risk the motion, passed at the Greens’ annual conference this weekend, contravenes the Equality Act 2010.

Parties taking political stances are exempt from this sort of viewpoint discrimination. That's the whole point of a political party. This is false.

Meanwhile, there have been growing calls for political parties to refuse to enter into any kind of coalition arrangement with the Greens, after senior Labour figures told The Independent on Monday that Andy Burnham should rule out any collaboration.

I think that the world may not be ready to hear "Zionism is Racism", even if it is true. This comes at a rather bad time with the coming byelection, with a media frenzy mischaracterizing all of this likely to cause the Greens to lose votes.

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The changes will apply to more than 325,000 people living in temporary accommodation or supported housing. Under the new system, these residents will no longer see their benefit income hit a “cliff edge” when taking on extra hours at work or longer shifts.

This will now instead match universal credit rules, ending a system that the government says was leaving people “trapped people on benefits”. The mechanism sees benefit entitlement reduced by 55p for every £1 a claimant earns, until it reaches zero.

Prime minister Andy Burnham said: “People should never have to choose between keeping a roof over their head or being able to work. But the system has been rigged against some of the very people trying their hardest to get on, particularly young people starting out, who are being left worse off for earning more.

This actually seems to be a good change?!

I spoke to someone who has been in temporary accommodation for a long time, and they told me that before, disabled people and single mothers would be punished for working the little, as they would lose access to help. They would actively be punished for working.

With this, those people could work more flexibly without fear.

The motion, adopted at conference, removes a “blanket opposition to nuclear fission” and instead commits the Green party of England and Wales to assessing nuclear projects alongside other low-carbon technologies.

Its electricity generation policy still prioritises offshore wind, onshore wind and rooftop solar as the primary sources of electricity, but allows elected representatives to support new nuclear reactors on a case-by-case basis.

This was one or the few areas I didn't align with the Green Party before, as I believe that a bit of nuclear is kind of necessary to help round out less consistent energy sources as things stand. I think this is a reasonable stance.

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap election for 29 November, just days after rightwing parties blocked his minority government’s emergency measures on housing amid widespread protests

The conservative People’s Party is very pleased with the announcement.

“At last,” they say on their X, with a slick election video – set to the EU’s anthem “Ode to Joy” – to go along with it.

In a fierce address, Sánchez framed the election as choice between “regressing” under a “far-right coalition” or “keeping moving forward” with his progressive administration

This could go very badly for Spain. I really hope they will succeed where others have failed.