That Joshua Bonehill-Paine is a suitable Tory candidate but Grant Shapps and Gavin Barwell have been excluded is quite a good indicator of how many seats the Tories will realistically regain at the next election.
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Co-founder of The Centre for Creative Conversation creativeconversation.org, Co-author of 'The Talking Revolution', Green Party ADRC, @samaritans.bsky.social, Woodland Trust.
'Whereas many senior officers were preoccupied with the more futuristic scenarios and opportunities, the younger cohort in their discussion frequently came back to ... the idea of war as a human endeavour, whatever the role of technology.' heywoodquarterly.com/the-future-o...
The future of warfare - Heywood Quarterly
Sir Rich Knighton, Chief of the Defence Staff, on defence and the next-generation battlefields.
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Remember: nuclear power IS intermittent. Probably, as climate breakdown deepens, worse so than wind - and solar. Pass it on…
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · last mo."For days, officials across France have scrambled to cope with the searing heat, shutting down three nuclear reactors after the surrounding cooling waters became too hot..." So much for nuclear as a climate solution.....
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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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
UoH's History department is (was?) consistently top performing in terms of research and teaching. Doing everything that a higher education department is supposed to do. And yet that isn't enough.
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d agoSo it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
"We have to recognise that water security is a critical part of our food security and food security is our national security" Farmer's union head says. "other countries that we rely on to produce food, their climates are changing as well." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Prolonged drought could cause shortage of some foods, farmers' union head says
NFU president Tom Bradshaw calls on the government to take action to prevent extreme weather affecting the UK's food supply.
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People are just not ready for the consequences of climate change.
Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn
Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue
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Crumbling infrastructure & lack of water jeopardising govt plans for new homes. Privatisation of England's water prioritised shareholder returns. No new reservoirs, desalination plants, or national grid of water. Companies don't do national planning. Yet govts intoxicated with privatisation
‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk
Council leaders say crumbling infrastructure and lack of water are jeopardising government’s plans for new homes
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‘And who really knows how the UK monetary policy transmission mechanism works in sufficient detail to make a call as to whether counterfactually lower short rates might have boosted the UK economy, and with it tax receipts — the proceeds of which may swamp any additional gilt interest costs?’ 🤷🏼♂️
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The banks are getting free money from the public purse. No wonder their profits are soaring. open.substack.com/pub/frapacio...
The Multi-Billion Pound Budget Scandal (you've never heard of)
The public purse is doling out billions in free money to the commercial banks every year, at the expense of our roads, schools, justice system – you name it.
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When Spoonerisms go badly wrong (IYKYK). www.easterneye.biz/salman-rushd...
Salman Rushdie Attack Verdict: Hadi Matar Found Guilty of Terrorism Charges
Hadi Matar, already serving 25 years for attempted murder, now faces a possible life sentence after a jury found him guilty on all federal terrorism counts
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@frapacioli.bsky.social · 7d agoAll UK government spending is paid for using newly created money. Taxation withdraws money that the government has put into the system. The challenge is not finding the money: it’s finding the real resources to buy to achieve desired aims without creating inflation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
All UK government spending is paid for using newly created money. Taxation withdraws money that the government has put into the system. The challenge is not finding the money: it’s finding the real resources to buy to achieve desired aims without creating inflation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kemi Badenoch tells PM not to raise taxes to fund social care
In a letter to the PM, the Conservative leader offers to work with him on adult social care reform.
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I wonder how much Heath gets paid and, at source, by whom.
Peak Goodhart: literally the first citation in this is to Matt Goodwin's discredited "Great Replacement" fantasy. If you're trying to push your sanitised "non-racist" preference/ethnonationalism, perhaps don't start by linking to a far-right racist grifter? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...
Wow - the average global sea surface temperature outside of the polar regions is currently tied for the all-time absolute hottest on record (in the NOAA/OISST dataset). The record was in 2024. More graphics like this at www.climatecentral.org/climate-brie... 🌊
Your 'doom quote' for today: "we are fast approaching the stage when climate change will be playing the tune for us while we stand by and watch helplessly, with our reductions in CO2 emissions having no effect in the face of, say, runaway emissions of methane." e360.yale.edu/features/as_...
The Global Impacts of Rapidly Disappearing Arctic Sea Ice
The top of the world is turning from white to blue in summer as the ice that has long covered the north polar seas melts away. This monumental change is triggering a cascade of effects that will ampli...
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When I heard "Andy Burnham is holding cross-party talks today about..." for a moment I thought it was going to be about THE HEATWAVES AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta AI signed the petition following a major autonomous AI hacking scandal.
The people building AI now want governments to slow down the AI race
Employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta AI signed the petition following a major autonomous AI hacking scandal.
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Fiscal Rules Are For Sensible Fools open.substack.com/pub/frapacio...
Fiscal Rules Are for Sensible Fools
Fiscal rules are political theatre. They’re announced as financial disciplines, evidence that the grown-ups are in charge – but gamed when inconvenient and abandoned when reality intrudes.
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Dear @andyburnham.bsky.social The worsening climate & nature crisis lies behind just about every other challenge. Its solutions also happen to be great for jobs and prosperity. Delivering a Covid-style televised briefing will unlock the wartime-scale action needed. #NationalEmergencyBriefing
National Emergency Briefing@nebriefing.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe’re calling on government to stage a prime-time televised emergency briefing on the climate & nature crisis. Introduced by the Prime Minister to signal utmost seriousness, and delivered by independent experts. It’s time for a moonshot-scale mission to protect the public & improve lives. #PEBUK
I have a new piece in @newscientist.com Unfortunately there is a paywall, but it will appear in my #CoolEarth substack newsletter in due course www.newscientist.com/article/2581...
Earth is heating up faster than at any time in its history | New Scientist
To understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the disturbing uniqueness of our situation, says Bill McGuire
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Ah, I had thought that the Tories were jumping on poor journalism from the Times re immigration - in fact the party was the *original source* of the false claims, which the paper neglected to check or clearly attribute. Incompetent, unprofessional, dubious, and xenophobic behaviour all round.
Gareth Davies@garethtbij.bsky.social · last wk.False reports about migrant care workers came from Conservative party 'research' The Times was forced to issue a correction after claiming 12 workers from Cameroon brought 180 dependants to UK
Fiscal Rules Are For Sensible Fools open.substack.com/pub/frapacio...
Fiscal Rules Are for Sensible Fools
Fiscal rules are political theatre. They’re announced as financial disciplines, evidence that the grown-ups are in charge – but gamed when inconvenient and abandoned when reality intrudes.
open.substack.com
Wildfires are tearing across the continent and here in the UK as well. This is what climate breakdown looks like. It's time our governments stopped fuelling the crisis and started tackling it.
