For many years, this hawthorn grew alone in an open landscape. Now a young species-rich rainforest ecosystem is building all around. Nature loss isn't inevitable: it *can* be reversed, through rewilding.

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

1/ 🧵 A private company almost nobody has heard of just built a $1.27 billion surveillance empire across Mexico, and it is now wiring that camera and license plate data straight into Texas under a quiet border deal. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

"The government, as currency issuer, is the only real lender of last resort, and it can always act." This matters because panic and austerity are policy choices, not inevitabilities. #MMT

Israel blocks ambulances in the West Bank again. Shoots Palestinians, then seals off medical access so they bleed out and die. Deliberate. Sadistic. State policy. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱♾️

Private equity firms made up 50% of the largest US corporate bankruptcies with $1bn+ in liabilities Jobs, communities destroyed for short term profit PE has devoured UK high street; controls vets, supermarkets, care homes, pubs, housing, restaurants. Shadow banking wreaks havoc, govts do nothing.

Private equity continues disproportionate role in 2026 bankruptcies

Since 2024, PESP has tracked and analyzed corporate bankruptcies, identifying the disproportionate role that private equity-owned firms have played in bankruptcy filings. This trend continued in the…

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Traditional economics says governments are limited by money. Trump's war suggests otherwise. The problem isn't dollars. It's missiles, factories, skilled workers & supply chains. Money can organise resources. It cannot create them. Prof Richard Murphy explains

Traditional economics is wrong: Donald Trump has proved it

Conventional economics says that governments can only do what they can pay for. Trump’s war proves its not true

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NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...

Liddle to be celebrated

An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.

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BBC Scotland is running a propaganda campaign pushing the idea that Scotland's cities - in particular Glasgow - need English style elected mayors. This is despite the Labour policy being comprehensively rejected in the Holyrood election. The colonial propaganda started in June.👇

Will climate change make your home uninsurable? youtu.be/NTwNuoQ6Ss0?... The risk is real, and the government scheme on this is inadequate. So what will happen to houses threatened by fire, flood and more?

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

I was struck by a piece on Radio 4 the other day, asking whether Burnham would be more "pragmatic" - meaning "positive" - about drilling in the North Sea. It was simply taken for granted that drilling was the "pragmatic" option, while opposing it was dogmatic or ideological.

James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wrote about the deafening silence on our summer of climate impacts from Labour, the Lib Dems, the Greens, business leaders, and even some campaign groups. The dominant climate discourse from the past week has been from those who want to ditch net zero targets and trash decarbonisation policies.

How come Farage is allowed to hold a press conference, which was broadcast on the BBC?

Nightmare charging our new non-Tesla EV at two West Midlands motorway services. We need: More chargers. More fast chargers. More reliable chargers. Card payment not multiple dodgy apps. More control on what operators are charging. Government action on all this to support greater EV adoption.

Sure, but it was never a question of whether she was right or wrong. All the MPs and the press knew very well she was correct, because they see it all the time. The point was that some insolent upstart tree-hugger had no business running her big yapping mouth, where the public can hear. The end.

We are witnessing irreversible loss. Act now: Support reforestation, demand policy enforcement, consume responsibly, and amplify voices from the field. Our children's documentaries shouldn't be elegies. Protect forests = protect our future. What will you do today? #EnvironmentalSustainability

Since 1970, over 20% of the Amazon has been cleared — an area ~3x the size of the UK. In 2025, Brazil lost millions of hectares of natural forest, releasing 1.2 Gt of CO₂. Every tree felled weakens our fight against climate change and extreme weather. The field tells the truth.

1/3 Strip away the theatre and Reform UK is a billionaire-backed project to dismantle the public realm, shred regulatory protections and hand what remains of state power to capital. It’s plain to see – just follow the money.

Once again for those that haven’t worked it out Poverty is a political choice

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d ago

Stick to spending limits, PM and chancellor tell ministers in joint memo. Cue for real cuts; continuation of potholed roads, housing crisis, NHS queues, unfit schools, privatisations? Real change not possible whilst neoliberalism remains the opium of the political class.

Curse of Private Equity Our nurseries were bought by private equity firms – fees are up, food is frozen. Usual PE practices. Build local monopolies, high debt and prices, profiteering, worst services, high exec pay, shareholder returns. Parents/Children abused. Govts do nothing. archive.ph/Yk4Eh

Our nurseries were bought by private equity firms - fees are up and food is frozen

Nurseries are spending millions on their investors – at parents' expense, analysis shows

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Burnham’s Labour Friends of Israel-packed team and donors prove it’s just business as usual for Britain's new Prime Minister, @rachaelswindon.bsky.social argues

Burnham's actions since becoming PM scream 'business as usual'

Burnham’s Labour Friends of Israel-packed team and donors prove it’s just business as usual for Britain's new Prime Minister

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AstraZeneca in talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on $400bn (£300bn) merger. Concentration of economic power. Bigger ability to hold people/govts to ransom. AstraZeneca CEO already threatened to withhold drugs from NHS unless it paid more. Govt capitulated. Promised UK investment didn't materialise.

AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on $400bn merger

Tie-up would be one of the biggest-ever pharmaceutical deals and create the world’s fourth-largest drugmaker

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Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss. #Scottishindependence ASAP ✊️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

also a sharp deceleration in the amount of headlines about climate change

Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming

Global warming appears to have shifted into a faster gear. After removing the effects of El Niño, volcanic eruptions, and solar cycles, researchers found that the planet has warmed at roughly 0.35°C p...

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These people were victims of online disinformation; told Spain had opened its borders, and they could go work there. Once they were told it wasn't true, they returned. A gift to the far right & we must find out who was behind what is a form of hybrid warfare, meant to destabilise Spain and the EU.

Im not sure " climate change" is the right term It feels more like environmental collapse

There is no news from a government that’s in office but on holiday during a crisis www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08... Where is Burnham's government as the climate crisis hits home?

There is no news from a government that’s in office but on holiday during a crisis

It is August, and it is not true to say there is no news, but there is certainly less of it bering rwported. Donald Trump claims that his war is on hold at present, although no one should be taken in....

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Very disappointing from the new Prime Minister, very much sounding like the previous PM. These are among the world’s most vulnerable and desparate people. They need safe routes and humanity from responsible politicians, not grandstanding. This isn’t doing politics differently.

Andy Burnham’s social care plan protects wealth, not those in need youtu.be/_bEyVo6-alM?... Why is Andy Burnham presuming that younger people with some of the highest overall tax rates should pay to protect those with wealth? This issue needs to be named - or he'll embed injustice.

Andy Burnham’s social care plan protects wealth, not those in need

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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