Not sure why this isn’t the dominant topic of national conversation rn: “Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers

Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable

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“It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone. The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties.” Yes. 😢🙏 @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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This is very good set of answers to commonly asked questions about climate & nature harm. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘The obsession with endless growth can only end in tears’: your questions on extreme weather this summer answered

From Europe’s deadly heat to floods in Asia, it’s been a terrifying summer. Environment writers Jonathan Watts and Ajit Niranjan answered Reddit users’ questions about their work – and their sources o...

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“…as individuals, and as a society, we don’t like to think about death, & we certainly don’t like to think about our own premature deaths. Intelligent people don’t deny climate change but they do implicitly deny the fact & manner of their own mortality.” open.substack.com/pub/boiledfr...

The moral argument against Rosebank is unnecessary and perhaps dangerous

It can distract from appeals to self-interest, which ought to be enough

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Spain has the right idea..... www.lbc.co.uk/.../spanish-... I will continue to push the Government for the same outcome in the UK. #libdems #libdemssouthwest #workingforyou

‘Palantir’s market capitalisation has risen to $320 billion, 150 times earnings. The 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵 has speculated that “Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time.”’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social on Palantir’s NHS contract. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Grief for the harms our financial system is inflicting on all of us, heartachingly shared. Thank you @healthxr.bsky.social @scientistsforxr.earth healthforxr.com/30th-july-20...

Just showing what a mess this government has made of the UK’s Terrorism laws. Terrorism offences have reason by over 1000% More than 1,850 hearings were listed in Westminster court on Thursday and yet the government (and the Met) insist in continuing with pointless arrests

Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · 3d ago

AMAZING MOMENT A woman came back still wearing a custody tshirt having been released for a terrorism arrest. While being arrested for declaring support for Palestine Action a second time, another woman came back to do the same. The opposition to this ban cannot be contained.

I imagine there’s no need to explain why Andrew sat giggling through hundreds of grannies and crusties getting arrested for this, and yet he’s enraged when exactly the same thing is done to a CBE who went to Eton and Oxford. The latter is not in the class that should be fucked with, with impunity.

Uk politicians work for Israel.

Individual & systemic change are 2 sides of same coin. “…We suggest that social change arises from individuals’ agency within their roles in societal systems, and that this agency should be actively leveraged to achieve meaningful climate change mitigation.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Leveraging agency for climate change mitigation - Nature Climate Change

Climate debates often frame individual behaviour and systems change as distinct pathways to action. We suggest that social change arises from individuals’ agency within their roles in societal systems...

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The open letter to the Prime Minister from the NEB experts, published in the Financial Times, is now on our website for easier sharing. www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...

National Emergency Briefing

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from nine leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions.

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If the PM wants to be pragmatic, good: deal with the problems (climate change, energy, the economy) in a reasonable & logical way, cos obviously that means he must follow the evidence. It shows we must keep fossil fuels in the ground. See @nebriefing.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling

Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns

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novaramedia.com/2026/07/30/w...

Wrongful Arrests at Palestine Action Demo, Campaigners Say

The Metropolitan police have arrested people at a Palestine Action protest who did not break the law by showing or stating support for the proscribed group, campaigners say. Clare Hymer and Steven Met...

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Open letter to the Prime Minister on new North Sea drilling 📢 Prof. Kevin Anderson & other Tyndall Centre scientists at the University of Manchester have urged Andy Burnham to rule out further development of the Rosebank/Jackdaw fields: buff.ly/aGbyTqM

In 1966, a British scientist warned Shell that burning fossil fuels was likely causing climate change. Shell's response? Keep it secret—then fund climate denial instead. Read DeSmog's new investigation here: buff.ly/WoS1Cav

The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms

“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of…

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Please read & act on this letter @andyburnham.bsky.social. Citizens deserve to know the truth & to be actively involved in tackling the threats. Our health & survival depend on it. Shared action in response to known threats can bring national & international unity. www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...

National Emergency Briefing

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“Stop this slide into authoritarianism before it’s too late.” 💯

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5d ago

Just sitting on the pavement and clapping is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement & clapping. Andy Burnham can stop this. But he isn't. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com

Setting up a podium for people to read poems is now terrorism. Andy Burnham can stop this. He isn't.

Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Badenoch doesn't seem to understand that it was the Climate Change Act that gave us the policy architecture to innovate, build markets and competition that made wind one of the cheapest form of power in the world! Something the UK should be very proud of and building on not tearing up.

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 5d ago

The Daily Telegraph ends its rollercoaster week of comment pieces about climate change with one by Kemi Badenoch, leader of the opposition Conservatives. Note how, yet again, she doesn't explain how she will "replace" the Climate Change Act. Just vibes about "markets, innovation and competition"

“…the solutions are equally clear: all countries must move faster from fossil fuels to renewables and protect people from worsening climate impacts, from wildfires, to megastorms and floods, to droughts hitting food production.”

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 5d ago

‘Extremely scary findings’ show #climatecrisis is supercharging Europe’s wildfire weather - Latest study says global heating has made hot, dry and windy conditions in Spain at least 20 times more likely @wwattribution.bsky.social Story by me www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘Extremely scary findings’ show #climatecrisis is supercharging Europe’s wildfire weather - Latest study says global heating has made hot, dry and windy conditions in Spain at least 20 times more likely @wwattribution.bsky.social Story by me www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

‘Extremely scary findings’ show climate crisis is supercharging Europe’s wildfire weather

Latest study says global heating has made hot, dry and windy conditions in Spain at least 20 times more likely

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Political policing and political prisoners - Starmer's legacy which Burnham must reverse if he is to win back trust in government.

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 6d ago

📌 ICYMI — Andy Burnham Faces ‘First Test’ Over Palestine Action Ban This Week — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Defend Our Juries is urging supporters to escalate from simple placard offences to charges carrying up to 14 years in prison, in a direct challenge to Andy Burnham's new Government

At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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"An act of parliament passed in April enables the police to shut down any protest they deem to have a 'cumulative' impact on the community. The only protests that have ever succeeded are those with a cumulative impact. Protest is acceptable as long as it’s useless."

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d ago

At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So the protests are about 1) Drawing attention to the on-going genocide and the UK government's complicity in it (e.g. bsky.app/profile/saul...) and 2) The fast rise in authoritarian measures: bsky.app/profile/anni...

Annie Leymarie@annieleymarie.bsky.social · 5d ago

"An act of parliament passed in April enables the police to shut down any protest they deem to have a 'cumulative' impact on the community. The only protests that have ever succeeded are those with a cumulative impact. Protest is acceptable as long as it’s useless."

Citizens need the truth. It empowers us. phttps://www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-to-pm?fbclid=IwdGRzaATYotxjbGNrBNiiz2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHrcd9sxqC_g7llIGe7NCPOUrqKN1Nbjw0P7yacLMof5ItWZyHP3XaoyxQLIH_aem_h9MV-Z6S5Xt9DVM8V61Swg&sfnsn=scwspwa

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it's the "just lie back and enjoy it" of climate denial