Reform’s climate policies would cost more than 60,000 jobs and wipe £92 billion off the UK economy. Our research referenced in today's @DeSmog.com report 1/2
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Reform’s climate policies would cost more than 60,000 jobs and wipe £92 billion off the UK economy. Our research referenced in today's @DeSmog.com report 1/2
All these Tories lining up to condemn Rayner 🤣 They all defended Hunt’s tax dodge. They all ignored Zahawi threatening a tax journalist. They all ignored Sunak’s non-dom wife and US green card. Absolute chancers. Pathetic.
'The Conservative party, whose leader Kemi Badenoch has repeatedly pledged to fight for “free speech”, has banned Byline Times from attending her party’s annual conference' bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
This is absolutely superb from @raskin.house.gov 👏
Farage dodged parliament, went to the US, slagged off the UK, lied to Congress, grifted for donations and hoped to persuade the US to punish us for the Online Safety Act. And got his arse handed back to him. You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.
We’ve been banned from Reform Party events for two years now. Why does Nigel Farage lie to Congress about this? @bylinetimes.bsky.social @josiah.writes.news
"Tesla bulls often argue #Tesla is operating an unrivaled data flywheel, in which the millions of Teslas are gathering real-world driving data." "The Dojo shutdown is evidence that Tesla cannot process this data as uniquely and efficiently as once claimed." seekingalpha.com/article/4818...
The graph shows what happened when the polio vaccine became available. Deaths and illness stopped. People begged to get it when it became available. Reversing this is what Florida just announced it intends to do.
The #Epstein victims' press conference is totally compelling from start to finish That Trump would arrange to disrupt it with a military flyover is utterly shameful, and says everything about this disgusting man's abject complicity in the Epstein scandal www.youtube.com/live/MrqFU26...
100%👍. Farage is like the slimiest used-car or life-insurance salesman you've ever met, but with a large dose of proto-fascism thrown in 🤮🤮
Absolutely fascinating long interview of Dave Gilmour by Rick Beato - techniqe, effects, composing, soloing, arrangements, recording, studios, equipment ... 👏 youtu.be/OT_KFCidz_s?...
Oh jeez 😨
This is unconscionable -- an action that will explicitly kill and injure thousands of children (and adults) and contribute to explosive disease outbreaks across the country. [And I wonder what's going thru the head of this guy, in the back right of this picture.]
2018 Vanity Fair article about Nigel Farage being in the Mueller report about illegal Russian influence on the 2016 Presidential election "As the special counsel scrutinizes WikiLeaks, might the Bad Boys of Brexit be the missing link between Trumpworld and Russia?" www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11...
![s/s of p55 of the Mueller report with lots of redacted black space marked [Harm to Ongoing Matter] and [Grand Jury] According to Malloch, Corsi asked him to put Corsi in touch with Assange, whom Corsi wished to interview. Malloch recalled that Corsi also suggested that individuals in the](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreiatq6fkat7vggleaafkn2ycxwr5sedlv6lzxwkz7suqf77zd45j3e@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".
So the lectern photo is genuine - it was taken at St George's Day celebration earlier this year. This is what Starmer said standing there. Seems spot on to me. He should say it again.
Really? 🤷♂️ www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Except Keir Starmer is not afraid to call out Farage 🤷♂️ www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Answer - Keir Starmer is not afraid www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
During PMQs today, Starmer launched a blistering attack on the Ref UK leader for missing the return to Parliament - and said he believes he has flown to DC to "badmouth" Britain and "to lobby the Americans to impose sanctions on this country". www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
👍 The UK inflation is currently 3.8%, so billionaire bond-holders would still basically be breaking even, even with a 2% wealth tax. The least they owe the country TBH.
This ☝️
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
Trump made no sense whatsoever 🤪, but the toadys behind him were apparently loving every ramble and lie 🤮 Summary by @meidastouch.com youtu.be/ZiLfLPD_AZ8?...
"Farage ... built a career on telling Britons to resist foreign interference, yet now sells his services to foreign audiences. He once shouted about Britain being 'shackled to Brussels,' yet now takes comfort in being shackled to Trumpist America." 👏
Lunatics Take Over Asylum! The new Private Eye is out now.
Reform UK are yelling “drill, baby, drill” 🙄 But fracking is reckless & won’t even cut bills. Time to end this nonsense. Tell Ed Miliband: BAN FRACKING permanently. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ke...
2 months after taking office www.gov.uk/government/n...
“What we build today will be what we use tomorrow.” My interview with the Guardian on the future of fossil fuels, #cop30 the @fossiltreaty.bsky.social and more. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The US military will conduct a flyover of the White House and wider DC at 11am tomorrow (Wednesday). Epstein’s victims will be holding a press conference on Capitol Hill around the same time.
In what way is he aiding Israel?
We live in hope
Instead of dissapearing down a Corbynite rabbit-hole, the Green Party should be assertively addressing the global polycrisis. bsky.app/profile/anni...
Looks like really valuable work. Any conclusions about high-latitudes?
Due to our global failure to control GHG emissions, in a few decades Europe could be facing the inevitability of an AMOC shutdown. It would be good to hear what the new Green Party leader has to say about that. bsky.app/profile/rahm...
What do you suggest? Outside Israel, only Trump has the power to change anything; and he seems to be going gung-ho for ethnic cleansing, genocide ... and presumably still a real-estate deal 🤮 bsky.app/profile/chad...
But is it in Zack's DNA?
"[The IAGS] calls on Israel to 'immediately cease all acts that constitute genocide, war crimes & crimes against humanity .., inc. deliberate attacks against civilians ...; starvation; deprivation of humanitarian aid ...; and forced displacement of the population' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Nice that the "natural world" gets a little mention at the end.
A reminder that it is not illegal to claim asylum in the UK, no matter how you arrived here.
Am I the only one who misses Caroline Lucas? She should have been the leader of the Green Party 🤦♂️ Not remotely convinced by Zack Polanski.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
Your climate-changed future is here. mainichi.jp/english/arti...
📢 @chrisgpackham.bsky.social: “This may be the last Government that has a chance to address our climate and biodiversity crisis. The Climate and Nature Bill is a robust, science-led, people-powered plan that ensures we can properly address the emergency we face.” 🐝 zerohour.uk #CANBill
Sickening. Evil is as evil does. It appears Trump still wants his Gaza real estate deal 🤮
Good 👍
Liverpool apparently 🤷♂️ sports.yahoo.com/article/morg...
As long as they aren't selling Rogers 😟
Unless I am mistaken, "better" is literally the opposite of "worse", and they typically do have quite a lot to do with each other. Feel free to come back with a list of the things you think have got worse, and why you believe Labour is to blame for them.
Funding terror then
It's a short list of things that have got better in the last 12 months, under a Labour government. Hope that helps 🙏
12 months: Ending doctors strikes Greater NHS funding Huge investment in green energy Ending rail strikes Nationalised rail services Massive investment in social housing Ending no-fault evictions Ending zero-hour contracts No new oil & gas licenses Investment in crumbling schools & hospitals
In 2010, with LibDem backing, George Osborne slashed investment, the opposite of what you should do in the face of a recession. 14 years of the Tories have left us with a run down country with decaying infrastructure. Rachel Reeves is prioritising and enabling investment www.bbc.com/news/article...
No, of course not, but by giving Farage as few credible/valid controversies to exploit as possible. If he has to rely on making shit up, he's on much weaker ground.
Nope. What we are seeing is Labour trying to leave Farage as few open goals as possible in 2029.
I think this would be a good idea and am sure it can be justified.
Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from. I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR." It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
Yup www.lbc.co.uk/article/nige...
Comparing 2015 pre-Brexshit Labour politics to now is pretty pointless. In 2025, with Trump in the White House, and the far right making gains all over Europe, sponsored by Putin & Musk, Labour are in a dogfight to keep the far-right out of power in this country. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
I voted Labour in 2024 to get the corrupt Tories out of power, and I will vote Labour again in 2029 to keep proto-fascist ReformUK out of power. Labour is the only party which can win the next general election, which is also committed to closer cooperation with the EU, and remaining in the ECHR.
The routine criminality of the openly fascist Steve Laws, whose agenda is to deport all migrants and all ethnic minorities from Britain. And who is now openly backed by the radicalised X site owner Elon Musk who openly champions extreme fascists While regulators & government just carry on using X
Leaving fewer open goals for ReformUK in 2029.
Thanks to the Guardian for covering our efforts. Read more here: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Follow us, support the mission, and help keep climate truth alive.
Brexit - the gateway drug to a dangerous obsession with immigration - next come deportation schemes, #Farageriots, increasing authoritarianism, overt racism from politicians and media, cruelty as policy, leaving the ECHR… On and on. Relentless, ruinous failure. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
…about setting up a conference post invasion. And while wining and dining Johnson and owning two papers in the UK, here is Lebedev at a conference with the former gangland boss (the ‘Goblin’) in his Crimean hotel complex in 2017. That we have Lord Lebedev supervising our laws is such a scandal
How can this plan for ethnic cleansing a nation be given any credence by commentators?
Thanks. The scope of the stuff I've seen from the EHRC appears to be just the Equality Act, and covering mainly toilets and sports participation. Am I reading this wrong, or is there something else? www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...
Sorry, didn't mean to come across as curt. Thanks, I wasn't aware of this, I thought the Supreme Court judgement was meant to be quite limited in scope.
Which part of the state told you this, and in what form?
Trump administration now openly pushing Putin strategic talking points.
Why the Trump/MAGA/GOP assault on facts? Because facts contradict every ideological policy they're trying to impose. Yes, #climate change is real. #Vaccines are effective and safe. It's the #guns. Trump economics is destroying jobs and the economy. Facts are powerful weapons against fascism.
Here is a reminder that already last year 44 experts directed a powerful warning to policy makers about the risk of #AMOC shutdown. What more can we do to get heard? It’s like the saying that every disaster movie starts with scientists warning and being ignored.
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Real patriotism is wanting your country to be better. Real patriotism is wanting every single person who lives in it to have a stake in its success. Real patriotism is wanting the best for everyone in it. To have the best healthcare, education and life chances. I don’t need a flag outside my door
Sure, but Russia will make a lot less money from selling crude than refined products.
And pay for imports with what? The Russian economy depends on income from exporting oil products. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
This SINGLE WEEK of Spanish wildfire emissions surpassed ANNUAL total carbon emissions of each of the 100 lowest emitting countries in the world‼️ Carbon sinks are turning into sources We can’t expect nature to clean up our mess.
Most-viewed Guardian articles last night. Editors shouldn’t think that the public doesn’t want to know more about climate change. Or about ocean science 🌊! Read the article about our paper: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Somewhat depressing to hear formerly-respectable Tory grandee Malcolm Rifkind falling down the far-right rabbit hole on #bbctoday, in advocating withdrawl from the ECHR; despite being hilariously incapable of presenting any tangible evidence to support his argument 🤮 www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics...
The billionaire press barons must be having a right laugh… Here we are distracted & arguing over asylum seekers (0.2% of the population) Meanwhile, billionaires (just 0.0002% of the population) hoard more wealth than half the UK Immigration isn’t draining us Inequality is.
Even more worrying: the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable appears to be when deep convection in the northern Atlantic stops. This tends to happen in the next few decades in these models, see two examples. Despite the models not even including Greenland ice loss!
I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵
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"Recent data has shown that 2025 has become Europe's worst recorded year of wildfires with more than one million hectares burned" That's an area larger than Cyprus Oil, gas and coal companies have profited from this destruction – but ordinary people are the ones made to pay
About time
Hello? If the financial stability of the AI industry rests entirely on stealing the work of writers, artists, and others, it deserves to be financially ruined.
"an 'overwhelming majority' of respondents said that #Bluesky has a 'vibrant and healthy online science community,' while Twitter no longer does" "in 2025 thus far, Bluesky has driven 'a hundred times as many page views' ... as Twitter."
A "quality paper" ... owned by Rupert Murdoch 🤦♂️
So good 👏
This year’s Notting Hill Carnival again captured the very best of London. A city where we believe that our diversity is a strength to be celebrated, not a weakness. A London without Carnival is unthinkable.
fancy forty-five minutes of impeccable sketch comedy? here you go: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
"Given the limited information HMRC currently hold on wealth, a wealth tax would be difficult to deliver any time soon. A better way to raise money from wealth would be to reform Capital Gains Tax ... and raise over £13bn annually" - Andy Summers www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
"richest 4% set to emit 13 times more carbon from their domestic travel than the poorest 14% by 2035 up from 10 times today" "When international travel was included, the richest were expected to emit 22 times more than the poorest – up from 20 times today." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Asked directly if the Tories would set up a returns agreement with the Taliban-run country, Kevin Hollinrake told Times Radio: 'Well, potentially, yes.'" 🤮 www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Or the shipping strikes, or entanglement in fishing gear🤷♂️ "For right whales, if you take out neonatal mortality, every documented mortality in the last 25 years of a right whale has been at the hands of some human cause—ship strike or entanglement" www.scientificamerican.com/article/whal...
We know the solution to the small boats: rejoin the EU and give asylum seekers a safe, legal route into the UK. Farage has been banging on about this for years - he's got nothing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"The Prime Minister disagrees with Nigel Farage that Britain is on the precipice of civil disorder." "Starmer’s spokesman was asked whether he agreed with [Farage] ... He said: 'No, and I think what the PM is focused on is dealing with the concerns people have'." uk.news.yahoo.com/keir-starmer...
Reform Voters, the gene pool is shallow
Global sea level is measured by satellite with precision since 1993. A new study compares the data with IPCC projections from the same time. Both the overall rise and its acceleration (the rate of rise has doubled since) are very close to the data. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
