Dominic Hinde
@dominicmhinde.bsky.social
Sociologist, writer, Northern Europe journalist. 'Drifting North' out now in hardback. 'Journalism in the Anthropocene' in paperback.
What is hard for outsiders to fathom is why a Liberal party would rather form a government with the far right than Social Democrats and the other liberal party, and maybe the greens.
Dominic Hinde@dominicmhinde.bsky.social · yesterdayStory of Swedish politics continues. The far right not actually that popular but Moderates and Liberals give them a chance of power in order to keep the (nominal) left out.
The problem with the ’Sweden has lurched right!’ narrative is that it is true, but also subtle and has happened over two decades, and is also reliant on very particular parliamentary maths.
Dominic Hinde@dominicmhinde.bsky.social · yesterdayStory of Swedish politics continues. The far right not actually that popular but Moderates and Liberals give them a chance of power in order to keep the (nominal) left out.
Story of Swedish politics continues. The far right not actually that popular but Moderates and Liberals give them a chance of power in order to keep the (nominal) left out.
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Crypto billionaire gives Farage's Reform UK record £36 million donation
News of the mega-donation to Reform – around $49 million, the largest gift in British political history – comes just days after police confirmed they had widened a criminal investigation into allegati...
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Trees are more supportive and reliable friends than most people
One of my indemonstrable theories of why elites are disinvesting from the future (science, education/workforce development, infrastructure) is that they know all too well there’s no future to invest in. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full
Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis
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Summer 2026 is provisionally the UK’s warmest summer on record with the season’s mean temperature made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change. Here, we delve into the numbers 🧵
“How can you show proximate causation in injury?” With new statistical models, we can now calculate changes to extreme events based on historical emissions, & thereby infer a carbon major's contribution to the increasing risk of injurious events like extreme heat & rainfall “Every ton matters”
It just got way easier to sue fossil fuel companies over climate change
For years, industry has argued you can't prove which company caused which disaster. A new study says otherwise.
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Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 11mo agoBREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"
Our editor @nikisethsmith.bsky.social talks to Stewart Lee about comedy, cruelty and how humour could help us beat the far right, and @dominicmhinde.bsky.social reports from Mamdani’s New York on the struggle to protect immigrants from Trump’s brutish ICE officers. newhumanist.org.uk/2026/08/20/h...
"Die Rekordtemperaturen der letzten Wochen, die Bilder der verdorrten Felder und der Waldbrände quer durch Europa stehen in einem seltsamen Kontrast zum Phlegma der Politik." Appell von @oliverscheiber.eu für mehr Klugheit bei der Klimapolitik - mit Berücksichtigung der sozialen Gerechtigkeit.
Die Klimakatastrophe braucht auch Antworten auf die soziale Frage
Die Schere zwischen wohlhabenden und weniger wohlhabenden Menschen droht weiter auseinanderzugehen. Die Klimaveränderungen schaffen neue soziale Probleme
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Creative & performing arts subjects received £16.8 million SPG 2024-25; £12.9 million in 2025-26; £ O million in 2026-27. The University of Creative Arts will thus lose half of its government funding this year; Art University Bournmouth 40.7%, Norwich U of Arts 40.4% and Leeds Arts U 30.3%. 1/2
Arts institutions hit hard as OfS details teaching grant cuts
University for the Creative Arts loses more than half of its funding after support for creative subjects reduced to zero
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Ulrich Beck: *slaps roof of industrial modernity* this bad boy can fit so much fucking risk in it
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Frida Hylander: ”Klimatkrisen gnager i mig, ett ständigt sår”
KLIMATKÄNSLOR:: Trots semester och fina upplevelser med familj och vänner går det inte att glömma klimatkrisen. Den är som ett sår som aldrig slutar vara, skriver veckans krönikör Frida Hylander.
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250.000 Einwohner wurden allein in Frankreich bereits evakuiert. Eine VIERTELMILLION. Das ist so, als würde ganz Linz und dann noch Bregenz dazu vor Flammen fliehen müssen. Unpackbar. Und wir sind erst bei 1,5 Grad…
Jag håller med. Det är verkligen skrämmande att se de här enorma bränderna närma sig vackra städer som Bordeaux och Madrid! 😔 Starka röster infångade av Ekots utsända Karin Arbsjö www.sverigesradio.se/play/artikel...
Scotland has fire season now. I can’t emphasise enough just how much more severe this will become in the next few decades.
The worst heat wave on record for Europe resulted in over 2,700 excess deaths in England and Wales and cost the whole of the UK $1.5 billion My story via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Heat Wave in June Cost the UK Economy $1.5 Billion
Scorching temperatures exposed shortcomings in Britain’s homes, workplaces and public transport.
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The John Maddox Prize is open to researchers who have shown courage and integrity in standing up for sound science and evidence-based policy in the public interest. Nominations due August 2. @senseaboutsci.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
Sense about Science@senseaboutsci.bsky.social · 3mo agoDo you or someone you know work tirelessly to stand up for science? Then enter your nominations now for the 2026 John Maddox Prize, supported by @royalsociety.org Enter or nominate 👇 johnmaddoxprize.awardstage.com#!/p0
Stories about people and communities doing things for climate and the environment are important not because these efforts are enough by themselves, but because they signal to likeminded people that there are others like them.
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Buy tickets – "Scotland Made Climate Change - Can it Now Solve it? How the Story of One Country is the Story of the World." – Shilling Brewing Company
"Scotland Made Climate Change - Can it Now Solve it? How the Story of One Country is the Story of the World." – Shilling Brewing Company, Sun 23 Aug 2026 - "Scotland Made Climate Change - Can it Now S...
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