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Australia and Turkey, co-hosts of this year’s COP31 climate summit, are facing scrutiny over plans to expand their coal industries. In southeast Turkey, communities living near one of the country’s biggest coal mines say mining and burning Lignite is damaging their health and depleting vital water supplies. So why are the countries hosting the world’s biggest climate talks still investing in one of the dirtiest fossil fuels?

For the many UK politicians @UKLabour and journalists @BBC who don't know anything about UK trade, here are the highlights: 1. The UK is now predominantly a service exporter. 57% of UK exports are services, which are not affected by EU 'red tape'. 2. UK goods exports have dropped from almost 70% of our total exports in 1997 to just 43% in 2025. This trend began long before Brexit and is tied to Net Zero mandates, high UK energy prices, and EV mandates. 3. Machinery and transport goods, such as cars and aircraft parts, are 42% of all UK goods exports. This is by far the UK's largest export sector, although it is also falling. It was 50% of UK exports in 2000. But if the UK joins the EU's CBAM, companies in this sector will see their imported material costs rise, making their exports even less competitive. 4. Chemicals are the UK's second-largest export sector. They account for 19% of UK goods exports, but this share is shrinking due to UK and EU energy costs and Net Zero regulations. These will increase if the UK joins the EU ETS. 5. Miscellaneous Manufactures account for 11% of UK goods exports. This is still the UK's third-largest export sector, even though it includes many goods the UK no longer makes because of our high Carbon taxes, which will increase if the UK signs up to the EU's even higher ETS on November 20th. 6. Fuels account for 9% of UK exports. This is still the UK's 4th largest goods export sector, even though the current and previous governments are/were trying to destroy it with bans on new exploration and ultra-high taxes. 7. Material Manufactures account for 8% of UK goods exports. This sector includes iron, steel, aluminium, ceramics, and glass manufacturing - industries that have gone, or are going, out of business in the UK because of high UK energy costs, which will rise if the UK joins the EU ETS. 8. These five sectors make up almost 90% of UK exports. The other 5 industry sectors are insignificant. But the government and our journalists think the UK is New Zealand and that the only goods we export are food and live animals to the EU. We don't! UK food and live animal exports to the EU were just 1.3% of the UK's total exports. 9. The government is about to sacrifice all of the export industries listed above to slightly reduce the IMPORT costs of a handful of Supermarkets, at least two of which are privately owned German companies. These savings will not be passed on to UK shoppers because the government has also increased wages again, and supermarket energy costs will increase if we join the EU's ETS. 10. UK exports of food and live animals will not increase because we are paying farmers to not produce them, this has nothing to do with EU red tape. Instead we are paying farmers to plant trees and wildflowers or plaster their farmland with solar panels. (54% of UK electricity is coming from gas today, 12% from solar and 3% from wind.) 11. Write to your MP and tell him to #StoptheReset. If you don't stop this, don't complain when all of our goods export industries have closed because of EU higher carbon taxes, EU higher carbon import tariffs, and the cost of complying with the EU's new packaging and process regulations.

The finale of the brilliant historical sitcom Blackadder left many of us in tears. It remains just as powerful today, and so it should. Lest we forget.

Class in Britain is changing. The Telegraph has identified six new groups that reflect the reality of modern life. Find out where you fit in.

Trump has deployed US nuclear weapons at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. There has been no parliamentary scrutiny or debate about this deployment, which would make Britain a target in any nuclear conflict involving the US. Kick out Trump's nukes! Shut down US bases!

Andy Burnham is open to increasing financial assistance for Commonwealth countries to help atone for Britain’s role in the slave trade 🔗 telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…

PM Andy Burnham plans debt reset for Commonwealth nations as slavery apology talks begin bbc.in/4z18Wc2