If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future. The @theguardian.com just published an amazing piece about my book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy." Coming August 18! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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Zack Polanski, "If we decarbonise by 2050, that would cost less than a single (fossil-fuel) energy shock" "We've now had two energy shocks in just a few years" "We cannot keep waiting, we cannot keep hoping for magic technologies - it already exists, what is lacking is the political will"

Thank you for highlighting this Feminist Greens! National body - shouldn't this be your primary message today too? @greenparty.org.uk .

Feminist Greens (GPEW)@feministgreens.bsky.social · 7h ago

The controversial new EHRC Code of Practice comes into force today. Feminist Greens remain firmly opposed to this discriminatory guidance that will further marginalise trans, non-binary, and intersex people, as well as harming all women and girls. Read our full statement:

This morning I was joined by a firefighter, a medic, a former soldier and Chris Packham to call on the government to act now. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Zack Polanski demands fossil fuel giants pay for firefighting helicopters

The Green Party leader says the companies are ‘profiting from fuelling these infernos’

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Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with hosts Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster to tackle one of the most fiercely debated issues of our era: gender identity and transgender rights.

Neil deGrasse Tyson BRUTALLY DESTROYS Right Wing Hosts With Facts They Cannot Argue Against

YouTube video by Progressive Perspective

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The banks pay £5bn a year less tax than in 2022 because of Rishi Sunak's bank tax cut which has never been reversed.

Popping on to Bluesky to say thanks to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for his comments today on #LBC re the UK’s shameful trans apartheid laws 💚🏳️‍⚧️. Inevitably it’s triggered the plethora of anti trans people fronts disguised as “women’s rights” groups that suddenly sprouted in the UK from 2017.

After yesterday's infographic, this seemed the next obvious one to write. I used AI tools when writing this post, including a spell checker. I also used 50 years of experience writing about these issues. The drawing was the smallest part of all that, and I had no budget to do it any other way.

It has always puzzled my why corporations are allowed to avoid taxes by moving profits to low tax regimes. If this change is agreed it will make it much more fair and realistic. taxjustice.net/press/countr...

Countries to gain $500bn more tax a year under UN ‘pay-where-you-play’ plan - Tax Justice Network

UN tax convention commitment to scrap 100-year-old corporate tax approach will unleash new economic era without increasing taxes, experts say Countries can collect US$500 billion more in corporate tax...

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Hugely important letter to PM Andy Burnham from @kevinclimate.bsky.social Rapidly shrinking global carbon budgets were ignored when Govt set the recent Seventh Carbon Budget - now a key ground in #CarbonReckoning legal case www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... (see below) @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law

Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research@tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 5d ago

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

Multinational corporations dodge $500bn tax by shifting profits to low/no tax jurisdictions. Stifle social development. Need a simple change - must pay tax where they actually create profit, instead of where they pretend to on paper. UK can collect extra $16.9bn a yr. Must check corporate abuse.

Countries to gain $500bn more tax a year under UN ‘pay-where-you-play’ plan - Tax Justice Network

UN tax convention commitment to scrap 100-year-old corporate tax approach will unleash new economic era without increasing taxes, experts say Countries can collect US$500 billion more in corporate tax...

taxjustice.net

#FactoryFarming, on sea and land: many reasons to stop it. #AMR is a big one. What could go wrong, tossing antibiotics at scale into the sea?😟 phys.org/news/2026-08...

Antibiotic-resistant seafood bacterium found in Vietnam fish farming waters near popular island destination

A bacterium linked to seafood-related illness and capable of resisting multiple antibiotics has been detected in fish-farming waters near Cat Ba Island, Vietnam, according to a new study highlighting ...

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Got 20 minutes? [Video: StarTalk's YouTube Channel] www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYiU...

America’s Scientists Are Disappearing

YouTube video by StarTalk

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Red sky at night Europe’s alight Red sky in the morning Global boiling

Private Eye Magazine@privateeyenews.bsky.social · 11h ago

New old sayings about the weather The new Private Eye is out now.

I guess when inequality is so bad that the 1% have literally ALL the money, THEN "trickle down" is the only option. "ushering in a range of tax incentives ... to bring in undeclared assets held overseas" theprint.in/world/turkey...

Turkey seeks to capitalise on strategic location to attract the rich from London & Dubai

Ankara recently announced it’s ushering in a range of tax incentives for monied expats and investors abroad.

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PSA: Please see Kushner/Saudi's purchase of Electronic Arts through this lens: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Far-right extremists using games platforms to radicalise teenagers, report warns

Parents advised to be vigilant over summer holidays to risk of offenders using in-game live chats to target their children

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www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a... It is not unusual for one mafia to join forces with another mafia, and this is an example; the Trump/Kushner mafia liases with the Saudi Royal mafia. PS: nepotism in Saudi Arabia is a way of life, and the Trumps are catching up.

Nuclear climate casualty. My interview, key Australia Broadcast Corporation (ABC) www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Drying rivers in Europe force shut down of nuclear reactors - ABC listen

The drying up waterways have exposed a critical energy problem.

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22,000 signatures so far for our petition against the corrupt UK media. Please sign at petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... and then share the hell out of it.

Petition: Ban foreign media ownership, enact a social media levy & new regulatory reform

Pass law to ban foreign & offshore ownership of UK media, enact a social-media levy to distribute media ownership across society & fund independent, local & cooperative-owned media. We believe democra...

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WILL BURNHAM'S DEVOLUTION WORK?

Where is international law?! aje.news/2t1eap

Israel approves $37m to seize more than 70 occupied West Bank sites

The allocated funding seeks to accelerate Israel's control of historical landmarks across the occupied West Bank.

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US buys yen to stop Japan from wrecking America’s bond market www.thecanary.co/global/world...

US buys yen to stop Japan from wrecking America's bond market

Investors in Japan collectively own about $1 trillion in US Treasuries - no wonder the US had to intervene to save itself

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I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

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Amazing how the desperate need to deflect from investigations into your murky donations and undeclared ‘gifts’ can change your mind on Naval tactics.

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11h ago

Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage

Burnham wants to give English councils more financial power, but can they do the required accounting? And are there auditors to check? That's unproven, as yet. Burnham needs to address those issues before handing over money. youtu.be/la8UA6cCUrc?...

Burnham wants to give English councils more financial power, but can they do the accounting?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite £247m revenue, £25.3m profit. Doesn't pay much anywhere, effective global tax rate is 1.4% Shifts profits through intragroup transactions, enjoys tax breaks. UK Govt rewarding it with public contracts, enriching execs & shareholders.

Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts

Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss

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I saw someone walking a strange dog in the distance. It took me longer than it should to realise they were wheeling a grey Henry the Hoover.

Major oil firms make $93bn profits in just 3 months amid war and climate crisis. They shift profits, dodge taxes, fuel poverty and inflation. They don't bear the social cost of their business. Forever holding people/govts to ransom. Polluters must pay. Need windfall tax now.

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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Animal dewormer and a drug used to treat scabies are being sold and promoted as unproven cancer treatments. Amazon withdrew drugs after being exposed. Others still selling. Profiteering from vulnerable people. Yet neoliberals oppose regulation.

Undercover reporter offered fenbendazole and ivermectin as cancer treatment

A terminally ill man was offered the drugs by a stair lift salesman claiming they could shrink tumours.

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SIS scored 251 points in the research and was commended for its expertise in recruiting high-level informants and penetrating the ruling elites in Russia, China, Iran and Turkey, according to the review by 60 professionals from 25 countries. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

MI6 is top European foreign intelligence service, peer review finds

UK’s Secret Intelligence Service praised for playing long game and having ‘a taste for dirty tricks’

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