My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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In China, robots which are also solar panels, clean the other solar panels. Original post

Layla Moran says Reform UK are raising small boats again to distract from the Clacton by election where Nigel Farage is facing a Bin

Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?

We’re not even at the peak of El Niño yet, but the wildfires across Europe and the floods in South Asia are already devastating. Will we ever see real and urgent climate action from our world leaders?

This is looking increasingly like payment for services rendered ....... and that in turn makes it taxable. Dan Niedle elsewhere calculates the potential tax bill as £3m. Time for HMRC to get seriously involved I'd say. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage admission over timing of Reform leadership talks raises fresh doubts over £5m gift

Nigel Farage admits he discussed returning as Reform leader months before election, appearing to undermine previous claims

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When you provide the infrastructure that gives people safe, efficient options outside of the car, people will use it.

We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.

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And why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?

Our world is a tinderbox as we approach 1.5C above preindustrial temps. We’re locked in for at least 2C, & on track for 4C in our children’s ‘lifetimes’. Tumbleweeds as we wait for governments, the media & the public to provide a proportionate response to this information.

Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels

The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK. Funded by foreign billionaires and convicted fraudsters. Unexplained gifts, donations and loans routed through opaque structures. What was promised in return? Police and parliamentary inquiries.

The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK

Nigel Farage’s £5m gift, the Cottrell family’s links and donations, and Richard Tice’s business dealings form part of an increasingly clear nexus of relationships

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The IMF says we pay $5T/year to subsidize fossil fuels — that's $13M per MINUTE to destroy our future. Meanwhile solar & wind fight for scraps. We don't have a funding problem. We have a priority problem.

RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.

New: A business that made a six-figure donation to Reform UK received interest-free loans of £67m from unnamed “related companies” in the months before, raising questions about the possible origin of the funds. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform given six-figure donation by firm that received £6...

Nigel Farage’s party is facing questions about the lack of transparency over £100,000 in funds donated by a management consultancy

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Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

2026 is the wake-up year. The current political & social issues will start to be viewed through a filter of climate collapse. We will need to be exceptionally bold & brave to start re-prioritising energy, infrastructure and food as a matter of urgency.

Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops. Food insecurity and higher prices would follow. Poor hit the hardest. Despite warnings, no plan for water shortages. Need reservoirs, water storage, better water management. Companies can't do national planning.

‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops

Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing

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"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

Navalny, in prison: “I don’t for a second regret it… the only thing we should fear is we’ll surrender our homeland to be plundered by a gang of liars, thieves & hypocrites. That we will surrender without a fight, voluntarily, our own future and the future of our children.”

Call it what it is: ENVIRONMENTAL TERRORISM. Because without bees + insects: ❌ No pollination = No food ❌ No food = No mankind ❌ Our food systems are already vulnerable

We could have had this 10 years ago and avoided the disaster of Brexit if the media had done its job right. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

The 2nd sentence of this snippet of UEFA’s response to FIFA (the whole of which is fantastic) reminds me of Thatcher & everything she sold off - resulting in high utility & rail prices, dirty rivers & water shortages and a huge welfare bill as we pay market rent instead of using houses we owned.

My entire life I’ve never called it the FIFA World Cup. I’ve always called it the World Cup. Fans don’t give a shit about FIFA. If national teams showed up for a World Cup tournament not held by FIFA we would all watch it. World Cup is the brand. FIFA is nothing.

France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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Water is life, not a luxury. When greed controls nature, rivers run dry, forests disappear, wildlife dies, and families are left with nothing. Profit should never come before people or the planet. The choices we make today will decide who has a future tomorrow.

Rapid River Flow in Mountain Landscape

ALT: Rapid River Flow in Mountain Landscape

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While fires rage in large parts of Europe incl UK, farmers face crop failure and livestock loss, every RefUK or Tory politician on the news must be challenged on their "let's do away with costly net zero nonsense" stance, side-by-side with live images of the cost of inaction. Expose the charlatans.

What a star. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NHS consultant, 86, retires from Rotherham Hospital after 60 years

Dr Bijoy Mondal says he "fell in love" with the NHS after moving to the UK from Bangladesh.

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Food growers & farmers are increasingly experiencing climate breakdown harvests That means higher prices - and more food insecurity. Politicians have been quiet on this growing crisis - but silence isn't good enough when our food supply is at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More than half of England officially in drought - Environment Agency

The drought declarations follow an exceptionally hot and dry period, which has hit rivers, crops and nature.

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I'd support a complete boycott of anything to do with FIFA under Infantino's leadership. He's completely bought into the toxic US obsession with money over everything else and will kill the game for personal gain. Time to show him that football isn't his to sell.