PontsticInsect
@keltikidea.bsky.social
Keen interest in UK, European, Canadian, Australian & US politics. 🏴
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
theguardian.com
I love physics. What I most love about it is its reductive certainty: you can have every posture you like on the physical world, but physics just does what it does, leaving fools to cover their arses somehow.
Right turn on green: is the Telegraph changing its tune on the climate?
Flurry of articles has raised eyebrows and prompted a response from Kemi Badenoch defending stance on net zero
theguardian.com
Nazis ✅ People who care about the planet ❌
Alasdair Mackenzie@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · yesterdayReminder that the Tories believe any non-British person who commits more than a minor parking or traffic offence should be automatically deported. They “believe in second chances”, apparently, but only for literal Nazis.
A murky end to the day in Pant after someone set fire to the Bryniau next to the golf club.
Let’s be clear: Robert Jenrick’s record as Immigration Minister: - Record net migration was recorded while he served as Immigration Minister. - Small boat crossings continued despite repeated government pledges to stop them.
Sorry for his kids & loved ones. But there goes an absolute twat.
Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle dies aged 66
Tributes paid across industry to provocative journalist who died after short illness
theguardian.com
Refreshing to hear such honesty. But is it just lip service, given the serious risk that her boss is going give the thumbs up to two new projects drilling for N. Sea oil?
A great one for the bingo card. “Nuclear is essential for our decarbonisation plans” they all said …
"[Byline] revealed that Cottrell entered corporate finance under a false Swiss identity, hired by the same City network that produced Reform UK’s own treasurer, Mehrtash A’zami. "Byline Times has since confirmed that this identity was stolen from a real person – Cottrell’s old school friend."
Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel
bylinetimes.com
Man who shagged his girlfriend behind his wife's back lectures the Archbishop of Canterbury on Christianity.
Ex Trump Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews: "Advisors were telling him he lost. I think Trump has always been a broken man, but losing in 2020 fair & square to Biden permanently broke his brain… He's the weakest, most thin-skinned baby of all time."
Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton
Oh, btw if I see you posting AI generated astrophotographs, landscapes or wildlife, you get blocked. I don’t enter into discussions over it. I’m so old that I’ve pretty much seen it all, and if it looks too good to be true, it always is.
@arsecannonpics.bsky.social I wonder if you've seen these before: these are at Battery Point in Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia.
Few things are more nauseating than bullies who then play victim when they are on the receiving end. #auspol
'We'll kill you': Sandilands says he received threats in Stefanovic interview
In an interview with former Nine Today presenter, Karl Stefanovic, released on YouTube, Sandilands said threatening letters had been left at his office.
abc.net.au
I got some flak on here from a Labour fanboy for highlighting the possibility that Burnham might do the stupid thing and approve NS drilling. I'm not the only one concerned by the possibility.
Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling
Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns
theguardian.com
How this gybes with @labouruk.bsky.social plans to greenlight data centres will take some explaining.
‘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
theguardian.com
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
vox.com
It's all starting to gel.....
THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 5d agoFarage, George Cottrell and Putin’s friend Abramovich: source reveals the convicted money launderer and Reform leader’s close ally worked for the now-sanctioned oligarch Report by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/george-cot...
My spam folder occasionally throws up some real crackers.....
Donald Trump and Jeanine Pirro tried to put an innocent man in jail rather than admit the contractor Trump paid $14 million to renovate the reflecting pool did a shitty job. They’d rather destroy a person’s life than admit they were wrong.
Take a careful look at this map. As these places begin to hit their adaptation physical limits, 100s of millions of people are going to be on the move. We are utterly unprepared.
“New accounts for the business of Farage’s partner, Laure Ferrari - who supposedly paid cash for the £885,000 home - show no signs of money-making” if Farage paid for any of it he would have been liable for extra rate stamp duty ~£44k #FarageBung www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
Mystery deepens over Farage's Clacton house
New accounts for the business of his partner, Laure Ferrari - who supposedly paid cash for the £885,000 home - show no signs of money-making
thenewworld.co.uk
