It can’t be that hard to shift to electricity generated by renewables. But we make it much harder by: Taxing electricity too highly Charging too much for train journeys Charging to much for public car charging Charging too much for electricity Not insisting every new home has renewables built in.

Now that Sangita Myska is coming clean - I wonder if she will get an apology from @mrjamesob.bsky.social Probably not, because he never admits when he's wrong.

Grenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders $31m more than to fire victims/survivors. 72 Britons died in fire due to faulty cladding. US shareholders sued for inadequate disclosures about cladding, received $74m compensation. Victims of fire, their families received $43m. No one prosecuted.

Grenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders £23m more in compensation than to fire victims

Report’s author said findings highlighted ‘near-total failure’ to hold corporations accountable over the disaster that killed 72 people

theguardian.com

This. A thousand per cent this.

For anyone thinking that Starmer was not a quite right leaning politician... I give you

The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterday

Revealed: Toby Young free speech group crowdfunded over £60,000 for legal case fought by pro-bono lawyer

There are things I admire about some forms of Christianity: the belief in the fundamental equality; and humanity of everyone; the suspicion of material goods commercial society; kindness and compassion. What a pity that no avowedly Christian politician believes in any of them.

UK govt to pay KPMG and EY up to £456mn to train civil servants. Continuation of policy started by Thatcher; opened the door to privatisation, PFI, outsourcing, deregulation, consultancy cult. Firms mired in scandals get govt contracts, inside access to ministers, policy makers. archive.ph/hTdhS

UK government to pay KPMG and EY up to £456mn to train civil servants

Deal marks largest contract awarded to Big Four firms in at least a decade

ft.com

This is hilarious.... after years & years of Climate change denial the exact same person now says: just deal with it.... can't stop it anymore. The gall these chancers have.

Hey I get it... you want to call us an Islamic State. But this makes no sense as Pakistan already has Nuclear Weapons as well.... so he's only showing his total ingnorance here.

Including water purifying for all the water it intends to use....

Avel Guénin--Carlut@fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · last wk.

AI company should be legally mandated to build *everything* to work on renewables only. Everything. Oh, solar energy is intermittent? Then build wind turbine and batteries as well, and sell the surplus to the market.

Still can't believe Andy Burnham's cabinet is pushing through a datacentre like this in the heart of London (at the Old Truman Brewery). What could possibly go wrong.... oh - hosepipe ban you say? Oh and something like that slurps up like 3.500 homes worth of water each day. Cool, cool.....

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 5d ago

Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built

Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels

Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues

Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified

independent.co.uk

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is getting ridiculous now! 💩 service 💩 in the water 💩 everywhere. Nationalise the water industry now. Fine the companies, sue the directors. Private monopolies cashing in on a basic human need.

Water bills set to rise for many after firms permitted extra funding

Ofwat has given provisional approval for 13 water companies to charge customers more to pay for investments.

bbc.co.uk

When you're smashing the Establishment in the morning and doing Henley Regatta in the afternoon

HA! This app is so full of weak kneed, thin skinned snowflakes. On either side of the isle. It's just preposterous. Woman is annoyed by man who says AI can do something in his field (History). Without discussing, immediately nails him to a cross in an RT saying he has no knowledge of subject. 1/3

One part of American history that everybody likes to forget is that until Pearl Harbor there WERE lots of Americans who wanted to side with the Nazis. Even after the war, right-wingers like Joseph McCarthy sided with Nazi war criminals over American soldiers. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sena...

When Senator Joe McCarthy Defended Nazis

In a nearly forgotten episode, the Wisconsin firebrand sided with the Germany military in a war crimes trial, raising questions about his anti-Semitism

smithsonianmag.com

Checkmate, Nige.

Grim.... everyone is just closing their eyes and acting like it's not happening. Climate change is real and this summer we are feeling it's effects. And it will only go south from here. We need to really prepare for this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires

Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves

theguardian.com

‘We can’t afford to make the changes necessary to tackle climate change.’

Ed King@ed-king.bsky.social · last wk.

Cost of 2026 European wildfires approx $18-22bn says AccuWeather. It warns we can expect additional losses 'from disruptions to transportation, electricity service, manufacturing, agriculture, and food processing.'

Because what we need in London is less fresh water and more electricity usage, according to a government that says it wants localism and then quashes it when it goes against business interests

Inconsiderate Public Urged To Please Think Of The Data Centres Before Watering Lawns http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/05/14/inconsiderate-public-urged-to-please-think-of-the-data-centres-before-watering-lawns/

Inconsiderate Public Urged To Please Think Of The Data Centres Before Watering Lawns

IF YOU'RE planning to water your lawn or plants during the current hot spell, the government is urging citizens to be a little bit more considerate and spare a thought for the country's 82 data …

waterfordwhispersnews.com

England slowly regressing to Italy of the 80's is not what I had on my 'most expected' list. A single step away from tourists asking if they get dysenterie from drinking tap water

Gabby HC@scriblit.bsky.social · 3w ago

On Tuesday, our very, very shit private water company texted people in Whitstable (which was entirely without water for 2 days in May alongside half of Herne Bay and loads of villages) to warn them the water might run out again :D

The anti-climate lobby has been all over UK media this week, pushing stories designed to counter action. There's been almost no pushback from political leaders. Governments need to use these scenes as a teaching moment, to show what climate change means &what it costs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Devastating European wildfires in maps - and how they're being tackled

Spain and France have so far borne the burnt of this summer's wildfires, caused by a succession of heatwaves and prolonged dry spells.

bbc.co.uk

Pray do tell why we shouldn't drill for the Rosebank oil....

Am I right to think that at this point that China is doing more to combat global climate change than Europe? Not that either have a particularly wonderful story to tell. But Europe's increasingly nostalgic politics doesn't leave much space for the future.

John Cleese practicing squats in preparation for shitting all over his legacy

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.

I think there was a missed opportunity in the 00's for Christopher Walken going on SNL and constantly doing 'Heyyyyy... I'm Walken here... I'm Walken....'

Midnight Cowboy: Dustin Hoffman's 'I'm Walkin Here!'

ALT: Midnight Cowboy: Dustin Hoffman's 'I'm Walkin Here!'

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He was an Oldie, but a Goodie. RIP

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

SIGH. Oh... so Mamdami is great because he uses TikTok... not because he just introduced a wealth tax on property, or that when there was snow in NYC he paid regular Americans to help clear it? Jesus wept. These journo's just don't get it do they? It's the substance guys, not the comms.