"For many of the nations represented by leaders here it is literally a threat to their very existence. Which is why the world must act" - Anthony Albanese, head of petrostate govt that issued their 37th fossil fuel new/extension project approval on 3 Sep 2026

Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS@euanritchie.bsky.social · 4d ago

The cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy are staggering. This feels like cigarette producers touring oncology wards www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

Interesting: “Raise the Colours” are citing the European Convention on Human Rights in defence of their flag-raising campaign👇 🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via www.bbc.com The ECHR protects us all.

Raise the Colours' members in court for Birmingham injunction evidence

Birmingham City Council is seeking an injunction to stop the Raise The Colours group's activities.

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Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.

9 years after Grenfell fire killed 72 people, Police pass files to the Crown Prosecution Service for possible charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies. How many will be prosecuted? Years of litigation will follow. Justice delayed is justice denied.

Met Police submits Grenfell Tower fire investigation files to CPS

The force is seeking charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies over the 2017 tower block fire.

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And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian library

🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”

Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.

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This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

Swathes of UK economy are owned by foreign investors. No tax is deducted from billions paid to them in dividends. USA, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden have a dividend withholding tax for foreign investors. UK could do the same, generate billions. Why are super-rich privileged?

Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...

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"I want nothing in return for my £36m. It's a philanthropic gift to the country!" Also...

RNLI have closed (temporarily) the Portsmouth station because of these violent ‘men’. Patriot Platform needs to be proscribed now

RNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests

RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore

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Why is the answer to employers wanting more work ready graduates always that universities should provide more workplace training, rather than employers providing more training in the workplace?

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “The word "remigration" is nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color.”

If you’re not Jewish you won’t understand how simultaneously hurtful and enraging this is I can only imagine how hard it must be for Ed Miliband, the son of literal Holocaust survivors - whatever you think of him, he does not deserve this

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 4w ago

Justin Webb is doing the ‘you’re not a *proper* Jew, are you?’ thing to Ed Miliband on the Today programme right now.

Israeli ministers keep telling everyone their brutal plans – so why doesn’t the world take them seriously? | Nesrine Malik

Israeli ministers keep telling everyone their brutal plans – so why doesn’t the world take them seriously? | Nesrine Malik

Schemes to forcibly remove Palestinians from Gaza are not being promoted by fringe voices. But the international community continues to avert its eyes, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Also, as a Jewish person, I’m quite frankly burnt out by the Israeli govt’s shameless and relentless conflation of Jews and Israel Yes, there are legions of antisemites who will always try and disguise their antisemitism as criticism of Israel - they are awful What’s also true, is the…

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · last mo.

Even if the principle of human rights is not enough to convince you that Israel’s human rights abuses of Palestinians is reprehensible and illegal, I do not understand why anyone who wants Israel to succeed would think its govt’s rapid, unchecked descent into extremism is good for it as a state

“Don’t tell me that you remember Sept. 11, 2001. I remember Sept. 11, 2001. But I heard her say she was there that day. I was there that day. I don’t remember seeing Hillary Clinton there.” - Rudy Giuliani

Ben Delo, the crypto billionaire who funded Holocaust-revisionist neo-Nazi "bullies" in the High Court against their Jewish target (me), has just given Reform another £4 million. This is the scary state of UK politics. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Luke Turner@luketurner.com · 6mo ago

I can now reveal that crypto billionaire Ben Delo—pardoned by Trump after a conviction for anti-money-laundering violations—privately funded the failed libel action brought against me by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel Miller to the tune of at least £300,000.

As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴

A very good point. In the Telegraph piece, he says the price was €1,400. Who supplied that cash?

Gary Boyle@gazboyle.bsky.social · last mo.

Did he pay a smuggler to provide passage across the channel, who funded that payment? Is reform providing funds to people smugglers?

Did he pay a smuggler to provide passage across the channel, who funded that payment? Is reform providing funds to people smugglers?

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Under Trump, hundreds of America’s wild horses are being sold for as little as $25 and being sent to slaughter, report says

Animal advocates are voicing concern over wild horse treatment after the New York Times reported that several hundred were being sold to slaughter since Donald Trump took office.

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A “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. Not compatible with Net Zero. What devolution/democracy? Local councils bypassed, people ignored by Ministers chasing growth. Datacentres produce few long-term jobs, guzzle energy.

Proposed London datacentre ‘incompatible’ with net zero with 1m-tonne carbon footprint

Exclusive: Planning documents show annual emissions from North Ockendon project would be equivalent to 8,480 flights to New York

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Foreign students don’t get UK student loans. Stupidest party in the world with the most gullible followers.

I love how this contradicts with the argument for the deportations - that migrants were stealing jobs from everyone else. Now the claim is that the jobs were created by migrants just as they are now gone with them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Bessent on the latest bad jobs report: "After the deportations that we've seen and the closing of the border, we don't need to produce as many jobs"

"Aberdeen Science Centre has renewed its sponsorship deal with Norwegian oil giant Equinor for another year, following a UK summer of consecutive record-breaking heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires..." Wither integrity and self-respect❓ Ellen Ormesher, @desmog.com

Equinor Extends Deal to Fund Children’s Science Education in Aberdeen as North Sea Drilling Decision Looms

Critics say that as the climate crisis worsens, Aberdeen Science Centre is sending the wrong message by partnering with the Norwegian oil major.

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Well that was £250k and a load of police and council workers time well spent. All back to where we were All that and Farage showed his character by not even turning up to thank those staff, police or even acknowledge the other campaigns who gave him someone to run against in this pointless contest

Standards watchdog resumes investigation into Nigel Farage over financial gifts

Reform UK leader’s return to Clacton restarts inquiry into £5m gift from cyrpto-billionaire and support from fraudster

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