JuneSim63 💚

Retired researcher living in Nottinghamshire, England. Hull native.

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2026-06-16 12:01:36 UTC

Excellent from Double Down News on the disgraceful sentences that the Filton Four received and the subsequent upholding of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
#PalestineAction #UKPolitics #ElbitSystems #FiltonFour
https://youtu.be/CyaI81XIuVg?si=JOIRm2P0xq4BumBy

2026-05-26 12:07:47 UTC

"Don’t vote in anger, vote in hope” - Greens select Sarah Wakefield as candidate in Makerfield byelection - Green Party
https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/26/dont-vote-in-anger-vote-in-hope-greens-select-sarah-wakefield-as-candidate-in-makerfield-byelection/

2026-05-17 06:49:49 UTC

"[Smit] said he was “thrilled” to see how well the party was doing with Zack Polanski at the helm. “All our life, voting Green was a wasted vote, and it’s very interesting to see how many people in the country do share green values”
#CommunityGardens #ChelseaFlowerShow #VoteGreen
‘You could dig up a lot of asphalt’: Tim Smit’s Chelsea garden prioritises growing food | Chelsea flower show | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/17/tim-smit-eden-project-chelsea-garden-community-garden-vegetables?CMP=GTUK_email

2026-05-08 20:27:40 UTC

"The populist movement absorbs you. It eats your donors. It eats your activists. It eats your local associations. It eats your moderates first because they’re the most nutritious. Then it eats your conservatives. Then it stands there in your skin and tells everyone it was always there"
#Farage #Trump #ReformUK #UKPolitics
Rick Wilson's Warning From America: Nigel Farage Will Be Your Donald Trump, Unless You Act Now – Byline Times
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/rick-wilsons-warning-from-america-nigel-farage-will-be-your-donald-trump-unless-you-act-now/

2026-04-20 15:35:31 UTC

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https://bsky.app/profile/petergeoghegan.bsky.social/post/3mjwridjw4k2h

2026-04-20 07:13:42 UTC

A Labour education secretary is threatening to remove university status from universities that want to stop hate from spreading on campus.
#UKPolitics #Universities
https://bsky.app/profile/jolyon.goodlawproject.org/post/3mjvqfuhlm22d

2026-04-20 05:37:02 UTC

"We tend to imbue history and all its grave events with a seriousness and coherence that we struggle to apply in the present. And I think that’s because it’s hard for the human brain to encounter evil in ludicrous form, and still recognise it as such. That’s how it creeps up on you. That’s why you ask how such crimes were allowed to happen in the past"
#Trump #USPolitics
Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/20/trump-presidency-evil-absurd-frightening-ideology

2026-04-19 12:56:45 UTC

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I'm aware 8of this. I consider it wise to reserve judgement until all enquiries and due process are complete.

2026-04-19 10:01:35 UTC

"Guyang-ri serves as the national prototype for South Korea’s rapidly expanding “solar income village” programme, which aims to reach 2,500 villages by 2030. The government is aiming to create 700 this year – up sharply from roughly 150"
#Solar #SolarVillage #SouthKorea #EnergyCrisis
How South Korea plans to use the Iran crisis to spur a renewables revolution | South Korea | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/16/south-korea-solar-power-renewables-revolution?CMP=upside_email

2026-04-19 06:47:22 UTC

"Greens who were long dismissed as “idealistic” and “unrealistic” now look like hard-headed pragmatists and true patriots. They are years ahead of their rivals in demanding a transition that makes sense on every level: environmental, economic and political"
#GreenParty #VoteGreen #Trump #Renewables #UKPolitics
Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/18/fossil-fuel-trump-green-revolution-us-iran-renewable-energy

2026-04-18 12:54:36 UTC

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Like a Shah, you mean?

2026-04-17 21:38:05 UTC

"From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Starmer has followed a trajectory of career-enhancing ignorance. He knows far more than he lets on. It's the reason, after all, why he was knighted"
Jonathan Cook
Starmer's go-to excuse: 'I was in the dark'. Don't believe it. He's deeply in the loop
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/starmers-go-to-excuse-i-was-in-the

2026-04-17 06:19:42 UTC

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Richard Murphy on this subject yesterday
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=JeOo7hD3OBH6O0-L&v=89VMb7_LuOw&feature=youtu.be

2026-04-17 06:16:32 UTC

Whenever a politician says "difficult choices", hide your silver. Reeves is making the worst sort of decision here. True defence is protecting ALL your citizens from external threats, most of which are economic and climate related.
"Rachel Reeves has warned “difficult choices” are required to increase defence spending and other budgets may have to be cut, including welfare"
#Defence #Welfare #UKPolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/rachel-reeves-warns-other-budgets-may-be-cut-to-lift-defence-spending

2026-04-16 09:33:57 UTC

"Drax has claimed a total of about £8.7bn in renewable energy subsidies since 2012, despite persistent claims from campaigners and scientists that the wood pellets burned at its power plant are not sourced sustainably and may be increasing carbon emissions"
#Drax #Forests #Energy
Drax claimed record £999m in subsidies for burning trees in 2025, thinktank says | Energy industry | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/16/drax-renewable-energy-subsidies-wood-pellets?CMP=GTUK_email

2026-04-16 07:34:11 UTC

Antibiotic resistance is often associated with hospitals and the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture. Both are genuine problems, but new research suggests another potential culprit that many people haven’t considered – droughts caused by climate change.
#Antibiotics #ClimateChange #Drought #Soil
Drought could be making antibiotic resistance worse, scientists say
https://theconversation.com/drought-could-be-making-antibiotic-resistance-worse-scientists-say-280393

2026-04-15 10:20:22 UTC

"The Daily Telegraph is being acquired by a German-based media giant - and now its journalists are formally expected to support Israel.
The culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has cleared the takeover by Axel Springer SE. Its CEO, Mathias Döpfner, has written to Telegraph staff “outlining his commitment” to the paper"
#Telegraph #Israel #Journalism
At The Telegraph, support for Israel is now mandatory
https://www.owenjones.news/p/at-the-telegraph-support-for-israel

2026-04-15 09:37:50 UTC

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Nooooo. Like nails on a blackboard to a true pedant.

2026-04-15 09:24:42 UTC

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My response is that they should leave if they don't like the way we do things in the UK. Unfortunately, their options are getting fewer, as more countries get rid of their far right.

2026-04-14 15:19:17 UTC

The UK is seeking to grant ministers wide-ranging new powers to rewrite significant portions of the Online Safety Act through amendments tucked into two unrelated bills.
The changes would allow ministers to amend the act by adding as much as a third to the regulatory regime using so-called Henry VIII clauses, limiting Parliament to a simple yes-or-no vote on an unforeseeable number of new rules, rather than full debate or amendment.
#OnlineSafetyAct #UKPolitics #AI
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-online-safety-act-ai-harms-government-labour-grok-elon-musk/

2026-04-14 07:10:24 UTC

Apparently, from 10.30 this morning, Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick will be at the petrol station on Southwell Road, Gonalston, Notts, NG14 7DS for another of their stunts.
#NigelFarage #RobertJenrick #Nottinghamshire #ReformUK

2026-04-14 06:48:23 UTC

"Trump’s executive order sanctioning Albanese prohibited any American person or entity from providing her with “funds, goods or services” – a description so broad it has been compared to a “civil death”
#FrancescaAlbanese #Israel #UN #Genocide
‘My life has become a rollercoaster’: Francesca Albanese on death threats, danger and dread after accusing Israel of genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr/14/my-life-has-become-a-rollercoaster-francesca-albanese-death-threats-danger-dread-accusing-israel-genocide

2026-04-14 06:28:58 UTC

Mahmood's migration figures debunked.
"The home secretary’s claim that her proposals are necessary to save £10bn have now been thoroughly debunked by the government’s own data; in fact, care workers and their dependants strengthen the public finances for at least the first two decades after arrival"
Jonathan Portes
Mahmood’s migration changes will deliver fraction of claimed savings, data suggests | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
#Immigration #UKPolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/13/mahmood-migration-reforms-fraction-claimed-savings

2026-04-13 11:00:22 UTC

"The man had the machine, the model, the backing and the mythology - and still he got utterly annihilated.
Which is exactly what should make every other right-wing strongman sweat through their shirts today"
#Orban #Hungary #FarRight
Orban, The Strongman, Lost - And Suddenly They All Look A Bit Less Undefeatable
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/orban-the-strongman-lost-and-suddenly

2026-04-13 10:34:17 UTC

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"The thinktank found:
£2bn of the £12bn of contracts went to firms with owners based outside the UK.
£533m of that £2bn went to companies owned by people living in tax havens such as Jersey and the Cayman Islands.
Firms, especially those owned by private equity outfits, used £353m of their £12bn NHS income to pay interest on debts"
#NHS #Privatisation

2026-04-13 09:12:40 UTC

"The £1.6bn in profits made in 2023-24 and 2024-25 would have been enough to pay for 9,178 doctors or 19,428 nurses during that time, according to the Centre for Health and the Public Interest"
#NHS #Privatisation
Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years, research finds | NHS | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/13/private-companies-nhs-services-profit-chpi-research?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2026-04-12 13:59:37 UTC

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"Not only does Sykes not pay the students who assist in this enterprise, one has bought her lavish gifts. Sykes recently boasted that one of them bought her Hermès gloves, which retail for between £500 and £1,000."
Unbelievable.

2026-04-12 12:52:32 UTC

From Szabolcs Panyi on Bluesky:
"💥🇭🇺🗳️ WOW! 54.14% turnout by 1pm in Hungary’s historic election (vs 40.01% in 2022), where voters could end Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule. Massive participation, in line with independent pollsters’ predictions – who also predicted a massive opposition win. Polls close at 7pm."
https://bsky.app/profile/mstjtou.bsky.social/post/3mjcfaive5s24
#Hungary #Orbán #HungaryElection

2026-04-12 11:10:44 UTC

The Bear on top form today.
"There is something profoundly, insultingly dishonest about bombing a country, openly calling for regime change, conducting what amounts to acts of war, and then acting shocked - fucking shocked! - when that country hits back.
You don’t get to be both the aggressor and the victim. That’s not how this works"
#Trump #Iran #USPolitics
I Looked at the News and Thought: F&#k It - by The Bear
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/i-looked-at-the-news-and-thought

2026-04-12 06:24:21 UTC

Fingers crossed for Hungary today 🤞
#Hungary #HungaryElection

2026-04-11 06:20:39 UTC

"When you outsource judgment about vulnerable children to a surveillance company, you are reaching into the very core of local democratic accountability. These are decisions that should be made by trained, experienced social workers embedded in their communities – not by an algorithm built by a firm whose first clients were spy agencies.”
Clive Lewis MP
#Palantir #AI #Coventry
‘Safeguarding via algorithm’: Coventry doubles down on Palantir ties with new £750,000 contract
https://www.thenerve.news/p/coventry-council-palantir-renews-contract-children-social-services-zarah-sultana-campaign-kick-out

2026-04-10 17:19:43 UTC

WTF?
Just in time for local elections. Vote Green.
#VoteGreen #UKPolitics #Brexit
Home Office starts crackdown on EU citizens’ post-Brexit rights to live in UK | Brexit | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/10/home-office-starts-crackdown-on-eu-citizens-post-brexit-rights-to-live-in-uk

2026-04-10 14:19:50 UTC

Oh dear. Wasn't Kent County Council supposed to be Reform UK's flagship?
#GreenParty #VoteGreen2026 #ReformUK
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/116/380/836/732/613/841/original/389e08f262487d98.jpg

2026-04-10 14:16:45 UTC

"Pretending you can give material support for wars in the Middle East without any blowback at home is delusion. It puts national security and the security of people in Britain at risk, never mind that it destabilises an entire region and causes untold death and suffering to millions"
#UKPolitics #Iran #Israel #Lebanon #Trump
Starmer faces reckoning over his support for Trump's illegal war on Iran | Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/starmer-faces-reckoning-over-his-support-trumps-illegal-war-middle-east

2026-04-10 06:32:23 UTC

Consumers should “completely avoid” buying UK-caught cod, the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has said, as it warned that populations have reached a dangerous point of decline despite zero-catch recommendations.
#Cod #Fishing #MarineConservation #MCS
Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges | Fishing | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/consumers-urged-to-completely-avoid-uk-caught-cod-as-population-plunges

2026-04-09 15:20:10 UTC

Reform UK’s proposed “Deportation Command” would integrate NHS, police and financial data into a single surveillance database. Campaigners say Labour’s new data law would enable the plans.
#ReformUK #Surveillance #Data #Palantir #UKPolitics #Immigration
https://www.thenerve.news/p/reform-deportation-operation-restoring-justice-data-surveillance-palantir-uk-labour

2026-04-09 13:23:01 UTC

Ahead of Hungary’s parliamentary elections on 12 April, and elections in the UK on 7 May, DeSmog has mapped Orbán’s influence network in British politics, which is concentrated around Nigel Farage.
#Orban #Farage #Hungary #UKPolitics #ReformUK
Mapped: The Reform-Orbán Network - DeSmog
https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/08/mapped-the-reform-farage-orban-network/

2026-04-09 11:00:18 UTC

"The Catalan model is small-scale yet distinctive. It cultivates public-private-social collaborations to reduce CO₂ emissions and challenges the view of homes as financial assets over places to live"
#Housing #Barcelona
Europe needs affordable, low-carbon homes – here’s how Barcelona is reimagining its housing system
https://theconversation.com/europe-needs-affordable-low-carbon-homes-heres-how-barcelona-is-reimagining-its-housing-system-269136

2026-04-09 09:19:13 UTC

Frightening article in the New Statesman today on how AI is being (mis)used by all areas of our government by ministers & officials who don't understand the implications, including writing laws & advising on interest rates.
#AI #UKPolitics #Technology
AI's sinister takeover of British politics - New Statesman
https://archive.is/8dRJj

2026-04-09 09:03:14 UTC

"In our recent study, we found that people with long COVID had higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease – including cardiac arrhythmias, heart attack and heart failure. Importantly, the increased risks were seen in people who had never been hospitalised during their initial COVID infection"
#LongCovid #HeartDisease
Long COVID associated with higher risk of heart disease
https://theconversation.com/long-covid-associated-with-higher-risk-of-heart-disease-279883

2026-04-09 09:00:32 UTC

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Patel had to resign her first ministerial post because of her undeclared meeti gs with Israeli officials.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/priti-patel-israel-timeline-family-holiday-theresa-may-secret-meetings-cabinet-boris-johnson-sacked-a8043866.html

2026-04-09 06:26:07 UTC

"Extreme heat is already creating “non-survivable” conditions for humans in heatwaves that have killed thousands and likely many more, according to new research that warns people are more susceptible to rising temperatures than first thought"
#Heat #GlobalHeating #Heatwaves #ClimateEmrrgency
‘Non-survivable’: heatwaves are already breaching human limits, with worse to come, study finds | Climate crisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/08/extreme-weather-heatwaves-breaching-human-survival-limits-study-finds

2026-04-08 21:30:40 UTC

"..a huge swathe of the south has been occupied by an invading army that’s targeted and killed civilians (a war crime), children (a war crime), medics (a war crime), journalists (a war crime), blown up critical infrastructure including bridges (a war crime), and has seen a fifth of its population made homeless overnight (a war crime)"
#Lebanon #Israel #WarCrimes
Israel is waging war on Lebanon. Why is the world calling it a "ground operation"?
https://www.thenerve.news/p/lebanon-war-israel-iran-ground-operation-media-war-crime-carole-cadwalladr?_bhlid=ce039d1285b68e377526ee372c281777a79cbf93

2026-04-08 10:28:34 UTC

"Concerns around Gurr’s appointment are not about whether he will act for personal benefit.. Rather, experts are worried about how someone who spent a significant part of his career helping Amazon become a dominant player in retail and technology thinks the CMA should regulate dominant mega-corporations such as Amazon.
Inside ex-Amazon exec Doug Gurr’s appointment to UK competition watchdog | openDemocracy
#CMA #Competition #Amazon #Regulators
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/doug-gurr-amazon-competition-market-authority-tech-regulation-watchdog-natural-history-museum/

2026-04-08 09:29:59 UTC

"Battery storage is now cheap enough in India that solar power can meet 90% of the country’s power demand at lower lifetime costs than current average purchase rates in most states, a new study has found, a finding that could potentially point to a future buffer against global energy shocks"
#India #Solar #Energy
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/solar-energy-cheap-battery-storage-can-meet-90-of-india-s-power-demand-at-affordable-costs-ember-report-101775504852427.html

2026-04-08 06:58:16 UTC

Great headline which says it all.
#Orban #Hungary #HungaryElection #FarRight
JD Vance accuses EU of ‘interference’ as he visits Hungary to help Orbán win election | Hungary | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/07/jd-vance-eu-interference-hungary-election-viktor-orban

2026-04-08 06:11:18 UTC

"The President has threatened a genocide against the Iranian people, and is continuing to leverage that threat. We cannot risk the world nor the wellbeing of our nation any longer.”
Alessandria Ocasio-Cortez, calling for Trump’s removal after the sham 'ceasefire' announcement.
#Trump #Iran #Genocide
‘Desperately searching for any sort of exit ramp’: US political leaders react as Trump announces ceasefire | Donald Trump | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/07/trump-ceasefire-iran-us-political

2026-04-07 09:13:15 UTC

Excellent video from Declassified on the bombers and fighter jets taking off from UK airbases to bomb Iran in Trump’s illegal war.
#Trump #IranWar #USPolitics #UKPolitics #RAFFairford
Starmer’s Iran war cover-up exposed - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LO9J4cqN7L0&pp=iggCQAE%3D

2026-04-07 08:56:12 UTC

The UK avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 thanks to record electricity generation from wind and solar.
Wind generation hit a new record for the month of March on the island of Great Britain, up 38% year-on-year, while solar nearly matched the output of last year’s exceptionally sunny spring.
Reform UK is so out of touch.
#Wind #Solar #EnergyCrisis
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-record-wind-and-solar-saved-uk-from-gas-imports-worth-1bn-in-march-2026/

2026-04-06 12:12:47 UTC

Well worth a read. Shows the tangled Web of far right influence from Orban's Hungary, much with Russian oil funding, on the UK far right.
#UKPolitics Hungary #Orban #FarRight #ReformUK
What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits?r=1iqf2&triedRedirect=true

2026-04-06 06:31:42 UTC

Ignore the cuts to the disabled, our demonisation of trans people, our support of genocide and illegal wars, our bungs from private health, techbros and housebuilders, our contempt for the natural world, we're on your side, honest...
#LabourParty #UKPolitics
Workers, pensioners and children: all better off. Ignore the critics – we really are standing up for working people | Keir Starmer | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/05/labour-workers-pensioners-children-all-better-off-working-people-keir-starmer

2026-04-05 11:06:02 UTC

"Our skies get quieter every summer: from 1995 to 2023, the UK swift population declined by 68%. “It is a pretty consistent decline,” says the RSPB’s migratory birds programme manager, Dr Guy Anderson, “and it’s pretty consistent wherever you look in the UK.”
#Swifts #Birds #Wildlife #Environment
The reasons are murky, but‘Swifts spark joy!’ Why these beautiful birds need our help – and 10 ways to give it | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/02/swifts-spark-joy-why-these-beautiful-birds-need-our-help-and-10-ways-to-give-it?&CMP=upside_email

2026-04-05 07:45:04 UTC

Opening major new fields in the North Sea would make almost no difference to the UK’s reliance on gas imports.
The Jackdaw field, one of the largest unexploited gasfields in the North Sea, would displace only 2% of the UK’s current imports of gas, which would leave the UK still almost entirely dependent on supplies from Norway and a few other sources.
#JackdawField #NorthSeaGas #Gas #EnergyCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/04/new-north-sea-drilling-jackdaw-rosebank-uk-gas-imports

2026-04-05 06:41:09 UTC

"The government has asked its new employment rights watchdog to reduce the regulatory burden on business,.. a request that worker advocates said risks turning the agency into “a dead duck”.
Of course it has. This is the self-declared government of business.
#FairWorkAgenct #FWA #UKPolitics
Fair Work Agency’s priorities criticised days before its launch | Regulators | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/05/fair-work-agency-criticised-launch-dead-duck-employment-rights?CMP=GTUK_email

2026-04-04 12:41:17 UTC

"Communal laundries are one of Sweden’s environmental success stories. They began as part of the post-war million homes project, when modern apartment blocks were equipped with shared tvättstugor (laundry rooms) instead of individual residents having to buy their own machines"
#Environment #Sweden #EnergyCrisis
How Sweden’s communal laundries shield renters from rising energy bills
https://theconversation.com/how-swedens-communal-laundries-shield-renters-from-rising-energy-bills-279415

2026-04-03 10:03:27 UTC

Very disappointed in Ed Miliband today.
"War tends to telescope our attention towards only the conflict and its immediate consequences. Those are important, but we can’t lose sight of the bigger picture. When the pressure is growing to row back on green policies and turn away from serious climate action, it is vital that the government holds its nerve and leaves North Sea oil and gas in the ground"
Prof Bill McGuire
#NorthSeaOil #UKPolitics #ClimateEmergency
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/03/drill-oil-north-sea-further-exploitation-climate-emergency

2026-04-02 15:58:44 UTC

"His name is ‘Fossi’. He’s depicted as a swirl of grey smoke. And he’s liable to lose his temper whenever his classmates blame him for the climate crisis.
Fossi is the protagonist of Our Hidden Powers: The Big Switch, a children’s book launched last week by Swedish clean energy operator Baseload Capital"
Disgraceful.
#FossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #Children #Books
https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/01/meet-the-combustible-cartoon-character-who-wants-to-make-kids-feel-sorry-for-fossil-fuels/

2026-04-02 07:16:03 UTC

"One of Britain’s biggest housebuilders has said it will stop buying new land and hiring new staff, as it grapples with the impact of the Iran war on the property market"
Canaries...coalmines..
#Housing #Housebuilders #Property #IranWar
Housebuilder Berkeley to halt buying new land and hiring staff | Berkeley | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/01/housebuilder-berkeley-to-halt-buying-new-land-and-hiring-staff

2026-04-02 06:45:51 UTC

"Once you control for poverty, diversity is associated with higher volunteering and charitable giving. The crisis of solidarity is a crisis of resources, not cultural difference"
#Society #Cohesion #Poverty #Community #UKPolitics
What the government’s plan for social cohesion gets wrong about community division
https://theconversation.com/what-the-governments-plan-for-social-cohesion-gets-wrong-about-community-division-278702

2026-04-01 18:17:34 UTC

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They start on April 13th. My local pharmacy is already taking booko.

2026-04-01 10:42:39 UTC

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My partner's best friend was a researcher at Cranford in the seventies. He did his masters on harnessing wave energy. It's been a long time c9ming.

2026-04-01 06:54:48 UTC

"The big fear is that future collisions will cause a domino effect where Earth’s orbit becomes cluttered with tiny, high-speed bits of metal. That could create a near-impenetrable layer of debris that would make space launches so dangerous it would essentially trap humans on Earth"
Like that's not a good thing?
#Satellites #Space
‘This feels fragile’: how a satellite-smashing chain reaction could spiral out of control | Space | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/ng-interactive/2026/mar/31/this-feels-fragile-how-a-satellite-smashing-chain-reaction-could-spiral-out-of-control

2026-04-01 06:47:55 UTC

"Across 90 of the most-studied sites, we estimate that tidal turbines could generate around 110 terawatt-hours of electricity each year – roughly equivalent to the annual electricity demand of Portugal"
#TidalEnergy #EnergyCrisis #UnderwaterTurbines
Underwater turbines are gaining government support – our research maps their global potential
https://theconversation.com/underwater-turbines-are-gaining-government-support-our-research-maps-their-global-potential-279509

2026-03-31 06:31:39 UTC

"..around 40 to 50 times more energy goes into producing, transporting and selling food than can be recovered from recycling it. To drastically cut food-related emissions we need to get serious about reducing food waste, not just recycling it"
#Recycling #FoodWaste #ClimateEmergency #Food
As that new food caddy lands, here’s how to reduce waste – not just recycle it
https://theconversation.com/as-that-new-food-caddy-lands-heres-how-to-reduce-waste-not-just-recycle-it-277674

2026-03-30 11:46:24 UTC

"When considering whether to launch an illegal war on Iran, Trump should have noted Israel’s complete failure to destroy Hamas after pounding this small territory - the size of the US city of Detroit - from the air for two years.
That failure was all the starker given that Washington had provided Israel with an endless supply of munitions."
Jonathan Cook's latest..
Israel is making sure Trump can't find an off-ramp in Iran | Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-making-sure-trump-cannot-find-ramp-iran

2026-03-30 09:39:13 UTC

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How long does it take to commission and build a nuclear reactor? We haven't the time to wait.

2026-03-30 09:26:38 UTC

"I have followed every protocol. I haven’t committed any crime. I have diligently done what the government said to be on the 10-year route. And now, because my son has a disability, the government is saying you can’t have the right to stay, because you claimed benefits, you must wait another 10 years"
#Immigration #Refugees #AsylumSeekers #UKPolitics
How Labour’s immigration plans shatter lives | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-immigration-leave-to-remain-shabana-mahmood-heart-broken-testimonials/

2026-03-30 07:49:11 UTC

Good, sympathetic interview with the newest Green MP, Hannah Spencer from the Starmer friendly Guardian. Something is changing...
#GreenParty #UKPolitics #HannahSpencer
‘Wow, people were so angry at Labour!’ Green MP Hannah Spencer on politics, plumbing, smears and snobbery | Hannah Spencer | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/30/wow-people-were-so-angry-at-labour-green-mp-hannah-spencer-on-politics-plumbing-smears-and-snobbery

2026-03-30 07:45:57 UTC

Yes she's correct, but a closer reading shows her insistence that investment in new nuclear is the way forward.
No Rachel, it isn't. It takes many years and is far more expensive than investing in solar, hydro, wind and battery storage, and is by no means 'clean'.
#Renewables #CleanEnergy #UKPolitics
Rachel Reeves to tell G7 accelerating shift to clean energy is best defence against energy price shocks | Renewable energy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/29/rachel-reeves-to-tell-g7-accelerating-shift-to-clean-energy-is-best-defence-against-energy-price-shocks?CMP=GTUK_email

2026-03-30 07:13:37 UTC

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"Those who seek high political office who cannot discriminate between what is right and wrong, and who are unable to properly identify threats, do not have a role to play in public life. Keir Starmer and his cabinet are clearly in this position. Their failure to oppose Trump and his fascism, and to call out its consequences, is perhaps the greatest failure on their record to date"
Spot on, and an excellent article.
#UKPolitics #USPolitics #Trump #Hegseth #Fascism

2026-03-29 14:17:43 UTC

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Indeed. One wonders if this is deliberately eugenics.

2026-03-29 13:08:16 UTC

"Hundreds of thousands of disabled people will have their benefit almost halved if the government assesses their condition might one day improve. Charities warn the move could cause large-scale hardship, including “destitution.”
Frances Ryan
Dreadful, punitive policy from this Labour government. "We will keep beating you until your condition
improves"
#Disability #Benefits #Eugenics #UKPolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/29/disabled-benefit-claimants-face-lower-payments-if-conditions-not-deemed-lifelong-charities-say?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

2026-03-29 06:49:02 UTC

"The degradation of peatland by human intervention has left about 15% of the world’s peatlands drained, releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, from the carbon stored within peat soils. CO2 emissions from drained and burned peatlands equate to 10% of all annual fossil fuel emissions"
#Peat #PeatBogs #Dartmoor
‘The start of the healing process’: the vital work to restore Britain’s peatlands | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/28/britain-peatlands-restore-dartmoor-bog-carbon-store

2026-03-28 09:18:28 UTC

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I think k they also lack empathy, so even if they were aware of how most of us live, they wouldn't care.

2026-03-28 08:55:22 UTC

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Simple, but this government is in the pockets of the techbros, so no, they won't.

2026-03-28 08:39:06 UTC

"Meet Matt Brittin: ex-Googler and, if reports are to be believed, the BBC’s next director general. An executive search yielded an apparent shortlist of four women – who between them had decades of experience in broadcasting, news, and public service journalism – and one man, who didn’t"
#BBC #Google #Journalism #Entertainment #UKPolitics #AI
Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?
https://www.thenerve.news/p/matt-brittin-google-bbc-director-general-ai-death-journalism-guardian-anna-bateson

2026-03-28 08:23:03 UTC

"Britain’s national grid, already under pressure over soaring demand, is facing a new challenge: AI data centres have been given government authority to jump the queue for scarce power connections, ahead of housing development"
#Housing #AI #NationalGrid #UKPolitics #Energy
The UK tech energy grab: how AI data centres are delaying the building of new homes
https://www.thenerve.news/p/ai-data-centres-electricity-grid-housing-new-homes-energy-delay

2026-03-27 19:08:32 UTC

"The behaviors that we're seeing — in supporting the mom, in supporting the newborn — reflect a complex cooperative society that can't just be explained by 'Oh, you're related,'" Gero said. "There's something richer there — in which they live in a society where the expectation is 'I will help you so you will help me.'"
#Whales #Birth #MarineScience
Witnessing a sperm whale birth, scientists find a remarkable amount of teamwork : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/27/nx-s1-5762978/sperm-whale-birth-cooperation-coordination-marine-mammals-science

2026-03-27 08:19:55 UTC

Very good, wide-ranging Bloomberg interview with Green Party leader Zack Polanski
https://youtu.be/STXgaWdfWKs?si=_rznVQ24RJ7dtYS7
#GreenParty #ZackPolanski #UKPolitics

2026-03-26 07:50:01 UTC

"The situation has been quite difficult for some time, but what we’re seeing today is just an actual regional health crisis unfolding in real time in multiple parts of this region,” Balkhy told the Guardian. “It’s not just about lives being lost. It’s about a collapse of access [to healthcare] in many, many dimensions way above and beyond what we would have imagined.”
#WHO #Healthcare #MiddleEast #Israel #US #IranWar #Gaza #Lebanon #Iran
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/26/who-warns-of-health-crisis-unfolding-in-real-time-across-middle-east?CMP=GTUK_email

2026-03-26 07:10:28 UTC

"The U.S. is the world’s largest exporter of liquid natural gas (LNG), and oil and gas companies and their trade groups have spent years lobbying to weaken the EU’s methane law in the name of energy security concerns. Now, attacks on gas infrastructure in the Middle East and spiking energy shortages in Europe add urgency to the industry’s push"
#Methane #Oil #LNG ##IranWar
As War on Iran Continues, a European Climate Law Could Be at Risk - DeSmog
https://www.desmog.com/2026/03/25/as-war-on-iran-continues-a-european-climate-law-could-be-at-risk/

2026-03-24 11:34:20 UTC

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It boils my pee, to be crude. There are several new estates being built near me, all with gas infrastructure and gas boilers. Yes, they have the minimum number of solar panels the builders can get away with under my Tory council rules, but it's lip serv8ce.

2026-03-24 07:11:43 UTC

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"The delay in bringing in the FHS, which was expected to come into force next year, is also likely to mean hundreds of thousands of new homes will be built with gas heating, despite soaring costs caused by the Iran war.
Last year, data from the MCS Foundation, a charity that certifies low-carbon installations, showed only 4,000 new-build homes were equipped with low-carbon electric heat pumps, out of about 140,000 homes"
#FHS #Housing #UKPolitics

2026-03-24 07:10:47 UTC

"It is outrageous that people will be buying homes that are expensively heated with gas when we have perfectly good technology – heat pumps – that can be installed instead.
Another two years of this really should not be happening. We are in a war, and a most severe energy crisis, and it would be perfectly easy to ensure all new homes have heat pumps now.”
Prof Jan Rosenow
Yet again Labour has caved to the housebuilding lobby.
#FHS #Housing #UKPolitics
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/24/ministers-delay-new-rules-for-low-carbon-housing-in-england

2026-03-23 07:35:24 UTC

"Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, warned that financial entities linked to funding the US military could be considered “legitimate targets,” in remarks posted on social media.
“US treasury bonds are soaked in Iranians’ blood… Purchase them, and you purchase a strike on your HQ and assets"
#Iran #Finance #iranwar
'We monitor your portfolios': Iran issues 'final notice' to financial backers of US military | Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/we-monitor-your-portfolios-iran-issues-final-notice-financial-backers-us

2026-03-23 06:43:10 UTC

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"Everyday bond traders were responding in the only way they knew how to the Bank of England’s threat - and it is a grave threat. Namely that in face of this global crisis, the Bank will deepen Britain’s economic crisis by raising the cost of new bonds - in other words the cost of borrowing"
Ann Pettifor

2026-03-23 06:37:10 UTC

"I am here to state emphatically that bond market traders are not the problem, and they are not the threat. .. Instead let us salute the bond markets for warning the British public of the real threat posed to the British economy by the enormously powerful and unaccountable neoliberals governing the Bank of England"
Ann Pettifor
#BankOfEngland #BondMarkets #UKPolitics
Blame the Bank of England for Bond Market Turmoil
https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/blame-the-bank-of-england-for-bond

2026-03-23 06:30:42 UTC

"This crisis, as things stand now, is two oil crises and one gas crisis put all together"
Fatih Birol, Head of the International Energy Authority
But no call for increasing renewable energy production just more of the same.
#Iran #Oil #Gas #IranWar
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/23/iran-war-energy-crisis-1970s-oil-shocks-fatih-birol-iea

2026-03-22 22:28:50 UTC

"The United States is purchasing, with Chinese currency, oil from the country it is currently bombing?! The same oil that funds the missiles that just shot down an F-35 for the first time. The same missiles that are redecorating allied oil infrastructure"
#Trump #Iran #IranWar
March, 19-21: God is a comedian - by No1
https://no01.substack.com/p/march-19-21-god-is-a-comedian

2026-03-22 16:10:08 UTC

"The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has awarded Palantir a contract to investigate the watchdog’s internal intelligence data in an effort to help it tackle financial crime, which includes investigating fraud, money laundering and insider trading."
What could possibly go wrong?
#Palantir #FCA #UKPolitics
Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data | Palantir | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/22/palantir-extends-reach-into-british-state-as-it-gets-access-to-sensitive-fca-data?CMP=bsky_gu

2026-03-22 13:21:57 UTC

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My late husband, when he saw them coming down the street, used to strip off, answer the door stark naked and, with a suggestive leer, invite them in.

2026-03-22 08:00:58 UTC

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Poor little sausage. Be careful and keep an eye on her. My boy, Mr Copper, developed diabetes after a course of steroids for ear problems. Luckily he's now in remission.

2026-03-22 07:58:42 UTC

Good news
"Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, has been cleared of all wrongdoing by a panel of judges appointed to review the findings of a United Nations investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him"
I suppose they'll use antisemitism against him again, after this attempt failed.
#ICC #KarimKhan
Exclusive: Judges clear ICC’s Karim Khan over sexual misconduct claims | Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/judges-clear-icc-prosecutor-karim-khan-sexual-misconduct

2026-03-22 07:42:25 UTC

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"Councils and mayors need to be the commissioners for all new schemes, with building firms as contractors. If the Dutch can do it, then so can the UK.
Trump is going to be around for several more years and greater self-sufficiency is going to be paramount. It is clear that if housebuilding is left to the private sector, we will be denied the homes, amenities, workspaces and landscapes we deserve"
Philip Inman in today's Guardian.
#Housing #Building #Trump #Iran #UKPolitics

2026-03-22 07:39:36 UTC

"In many ways, Britain’s economy is principally a property market with a sideline in other services and manufacturing. The financial services sector is underpinned by property wealth & makes its money from loans tied to homes, offices and factories. Buying and selling property is a national pastime"
#Trump #Iran #Building #UKPolitics
Trump’s economic shocks are derailing Britain’s building plans | Phillip Inman | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/21/trumps-economic-shocks-are-derailing-britains-building-plans

2026-03-22 07:17:50 UTC

Opened the blinds to the sight of a sparrowhawk stripping feathers from a freshly killed starling. He saw me and flew off with it. I now have a perfect outline in blood on the drive, and a few dark feathers, the proof of a murder.
#Sparrowhawk #Birds

2026-03-21 09:32:44 UTC

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I can't like this poem enough.

2026-03-20 09:38:23 UTC

Unusually fair article on Green Party leader Zack Polanski from the BBC. Is something afoot?
#XackPolanski #GreenParty #UKPolitics
Zack Polanksi: I want to hold balance of power at next general election - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg05xrgkg6o

2026-03-20 09:26:34 UTC

"Tolerating and celebrating the benefits of long grass in public green space” is vital, Fox says. Lobby for long grass in public spaces in your area – parks, school grounds, graveyards, road verges and more. And explain to haters why it is important: “It’s because our butterflies are declining drastically, and that’s a place that’s helping us turn around butterfly population.”
#Butterflies #Grass #Biodiversity
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/19/stop-mowing-the-lawn-five-more-ways-to-save-gatekeeper-butterflies-britain

2026-03-20 07:50:23 UTC

"..perhaps the most damaging thing about those videos in the end isn’t the money, so much as the sense of seeing how the sausage gets made. Nigel Farage’s genius has always been his ability to sound as if he’s just saying what he authentically thinks, whether you like it or not. But what we see here are performances, where he who pays the piper literally calls the tune: a politician essentially prostituting himself"
#Farage #Cameo #UKPolitics #FarRight
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/19/famed-authenticity-farages-cameo-scandal-reveals-him-performer