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Britain could slash environmental and safety standards 'a very long way' after Brexit, Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg says

Britain could slash environmental and and safety regulations on imported products after it leaves the EU, a Tory MP has suggested. Jacob Rees-Mogg said regulations that were “good enough for India” could be good enough for the UK – arguing that the UK could go “a very long way” to rolling back high EU standards. The idea, floated at a hearing of the Treasury Select Committee, was immediately rejected by an economist, who said such a move would likely cause “quite considerable” difficulties.

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Iceland Is Drilling a 3-Mile Hole to Tap Magma Power

The project could increase the output of geothermal wells by a factor of 10.

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Owen Jones talks to Ha-Joon Chang: 'austerity is based on lies' – video interview

International bestselling economist, Ha-Joon Chang, tells the Guardian’s Owen Jones that there is no need for the Conservative party’s austerity programme

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HELP END the persecution & destruction on grouse moors! Please SIGN and SHARE UK petition to GAIN #JusticeForAnnie: http://thndr.me/kqZfe6

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#JusticeForAnnie - End Game

I just supported #JusticeForAnnie - End Game on @ThunderclapIt // @Team4Nature300

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(Martin Rowson on the truck attack in Nice – cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian)

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Colin Murray quits TalkSport after takeover by Sun owner

Liverpool-supporting presenter says News Corp’s acquisition of station makes his position ‘unsustainable’

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Brexit causes resurgence in pro-EU leanings across continent

Establishment parties in Germany and the Netherlands enjoy surprising gains while the far-right suffers in the polls

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Iain Duncan Smith backtracks on leave side's £350m NHS claim

Tory Brexit campaigner says he never made EU referendum pledge that appeared on official battlebus

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Nigel Farage says Britain heading for recession 'regardless of Brexit'

The Leave campaigner says ‘increased global opportunities’ await outside the single market

So a recession will be nothing to do with him then. Glad that’s clear.

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Martin Rowson on the Brexit vote – cartoon

During the campaign the very worst impulses were given free rein and voice – Britain is now not greater but smaller, weaker and more vulnerable

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Fox cubs filmed 'being put into hounds' kennels' - BBC News

Footage is passed to the BBC which appears to show fox cubs being put into the kennels of hunting hounds allegedly to train the dogs to kill.

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5 countries dump more plastic into the oceans than the rest of the world combined

Today, on World Oceans Day, our planet’s seas are choking on junk: Soda bottles, plastic bags and tons of cigarette butts. Distant spots in the ocean — called garbage gyres — have become vortexes where humanity’s trash bobs atop the water for miles on end. 

Worse yet, the filth floating on the surface accounts for only 5 percent of all the plastic trash dumped into the sea. The other 95 percent is submerged beneath, where it strangles underwater creatures and wrecks the aquatic ecosystem.

It turns out that five countries are the leading contributors to this crisis …

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Nigel Farage attacked for Ukip poster showing queue of refugees

Ukip leader claims few people who came to Europe last year would qualify as ‘genuine’ refugees