What happens when Nigel Farage swears on a Bible is hardly surprising.
Happy 45th Anniversary to An American Werewolf in London! youtu.be/_YlZB1aToM0
They Always Say You Turn Into Your Parents
YouTube video by Jason Read - Guitar Lessons
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29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!
True story. Somehow got away with it by buying ice creams for everyone in the office
The Jase@thejase.bsky.social · last mo.Found these from when I worked at The Ministry of Fun and booked my mate @iainb.bsky.social for a @jimmoir1.bsky.social and @bobmort.bsky.social PR stunt. He faked illness to take the day off work, only for his boss to see these pics the next day.
🧵Right-leaning newspapers are trying to blame Europe's raging wildfires on everything EXCEPT fossil fuels 1. The Wall Street Journal Frontpage story: "Greece fights wildfires as Europe crisis spreads" WSJ editorial: "How green policies fuel fires in Europe"
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.
🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?
Gift article from the FT: "Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite" Large language models elevate expert consensus and moderate views, in sharp contrast to social platforms giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz
The facts suggest two interpretive frameworks for Iran: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the U.S. Join my live conversation with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social, 12:00pm ET, snyder.substack.com
There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.
Trump: "I haven't been able to find any windfarms in China." Reality: China has far more windfarms than any other country on Earth
I see Tommy Robinson has been bravely out on the streets of war torn London putting the Christ back in Christmas. For all the little kiddies too afraid to go, here's a proper patriotic nativity.
I've signed. Have you? Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
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Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times *EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025* Receipts in thread.
Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 10mo agoNot everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
Let's just say that calling North Sea gas "four times cleaner" than LNG imports is roughly equivalent to trying to persuade yourself, while dieting, that a slice of cake served with half-fat cream is twice as healthy as a slice with full-fat topping. It. Makes. No. Sense.
This is a fight for life’: climate expert @doctorvive.bsky.social on #tippingpoints, doomerism and using wealth as a shield Interview by Jonathan Watts #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther
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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
"The Holocaust has filled us all with a high sense of guilt, and so it should because we were complicit. But it also teaches us the lesson that we mustn't be complicit now when we see crimes being committed.” Helena Kennedy KC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza.
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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer - Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
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What happens when you lock up peaceful protesters and throw away the key? Escalation. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A new phase’: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest
Tougher laws said to be inspiring clandestine attacks on the ‘property and machinery’ of the fossil fuel economy
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🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
I spoke to Chris York about how disordered discourse has captured institutional power in the US and is destroying democracy youtu.be/aOi-Po5NO8k?...
How to fight back against Trump and Musk’s lies
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"If everyone follows the lead of Trump and the fossil fuel industry, what happens when temperature increases push beyond 2C and 3C of warming? What does business-as-usual and return on investment look like in a world of rolling climate disasters, collapsing food systems, and surging migration?"
James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 2y agoLots more predictable attacks on net zero this week, but as @elpinchbeck.bsky.social pointed out today ditching decarbonisation would make voters poorer. And that would be just the start of the fall out. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/44...