We are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis.

Really worth a listen

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A former tabloid journalist lays out the receipts: BBC News are more or less openly campaigning for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea - under the influence of the billionaire-owned media. 🧵🛢️🍿 Part 1 of 4.

A former tabloid journalist lays out the receipts: BBC News are more or less openly campaigning for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea - under the influence of the billionaire-owned media. 🧵🛢️🍿 Part 1 of 4.

Andy Burnham will fail unless he breaks the economic rules youtu.be/XtZ1gc6_fDQ?... But will he? Or will we get more of the same?

Andy Burnham will fail unless he breaks the economic rules

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MI5’s secret counterinsurgency strategy which allowed agents to commit murder with impunity will cost British government £10m in payments to relatives killed by the IRA nutting Squad. A number of state agents were involved in the killings including Scappaticci. ereader.irishnews.com/2026/07/10/b...

The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot

The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot

There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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At last. Justice for two very brave women. We now need our society and all institutions to look again at how it can meaningfully respect and protect girls and women and listen to them when they speak up. We believe them.

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Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been found guilty of rape and 17 other sexual offences. The charges span a period between 1985 and 2008 and involve two girls. The verdict was delivered following his trial at Newry Crown Court. 📺 More on Virgin Media News at 5:30pm

You may not sympathise with the Elbit four’s methods. But you should be outraged by their treatment under the law | Geoffrey Robertson

You may not sympathise with the Elbit four’s methods. But you should be outraged by their treatment under the law | Geoffrey Robertson

The jurors who found the pro-Palestine activists guilty of criminal damage had no idea their verdict would be treated as a verdict on terrorism, says Geoffrey Robertson KC

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Launched tonight in No Alibis. Ware shows in a meticulous analysis how the NCND dogma was used to cover up the impact of MI5’s 1981 counterinsurgency strategy in which state agents were allowed to murder and we’re protected, corrupting the rule of law and the administration of justice.

When you get an emergency school closure message and have to sprint at the end of giving parliamentary evidence to find the children, you know you live in what should not be normal times. My heart in the last twenty minutes of that committee session. Wired.

The Finucane family’s barrister in his opening statement to the inquiry said his death: ‘was catastrophic for the rule of law. The undoing of law, and the traducing of democracy, came not from below, from lawless and disaffected groups, but from above - from the State, its agencies and its agents.’

The Pat Finucane inquiry opened today. It will explore the role of state agents involved in his murder. Ironically, they were drawn from the loyalist communities, the same communities who created mayhem last night. The ‘legalised lawlessness’ of the past continues to have consequences today.

Net zero is more than the only credible way to tackle climate change. It's also a boost to economic growth: high skill, highly productive, higher pay jobs, the majority (90%) small and medium Scottish businesses. @jessralston.bsky.social asks: "Can clean industies scale up faster to meet demand?"

‘Legalised lawlessness’ (Elkins, 2022) in Ireland continues. How MI5’s 1981 deadly agent strategy was secretly put beyond the rule of law. ‘UK security services helped devise act that gave amnesty over Troubles killings’ The Guardian: share.google/xBvGAo05uHgy...

UK security services helped devise act that gave amnesty over Troubles killings

Revelation that policing and state agency figures were in secret policymaking group angers victims’ groups

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The inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor in 1989, which involved paid state agents, will open on June 10. It should, at last, shed light on MI5’s agent strategy and the British state’s deadly role in the conflict. For more, see my book: Decades of Deceit: The Stalker Affair and its Legacy

My take on the UKSC's Dillon judgment - it is a combination of regressive and dubious reasoning. It radically reduces the range of cases in which Art 2 is applicable, in reasoning which flies in the face of the UK Government's promises over the provision: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/14/c...

Colin Murray: Hollowing out Northern Ireland’s Post-Brexit Rights Protections in Re Dillon [2026] UKSC 15

The Good and Faithful Servants One of the foundational assertions of judicial approaches to legislation in the UK comes from Willes J in Lee v Bude and Torrington Railway Co: We sit here as servant…

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"This first phase of the Monarch Compute Campus will be a 2.16-gigawatt natural gas-fired off-grid facility. It will rely on 864 reciprocating internal combustion engines and associated equipment. Another 120 engines six burning natural gas and the others using diesel fuel for other uses."

Point Pleasant data center: 3 buildings, nearly 1,000 natural gas, diesel engines

Developers of the proposed data center along W.Va. 62 north of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, have submitted their application for a construction permit to the West Virgnia Department of Environmental...

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Based on the specs for the Caterpillar G3615B, 864 of these machines would emit up to 9.15 MMTCO2e per year. There doesn't account for the 120 gas & diesel backup gens or the additional phases of this project. When fully developed, this data center could emit 25.55 MMTCO2e annually.

One Microsoft data center in West Virginia could raise the company's emissions 44%: report

Microsoft’s use of 1.35  gigawatts of processing power in West Virginia will be entirely powered by emissions-producing natural gas.

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That there is no deep push back or outrage over this just speaks to how profoundly NI is othered in GB politics. There are no votes in it. There's only forget and move on. share.google/PbXA5GOlxyQO...

Kemi Badenoch criticised over use of Bloody Sunday footage

The footage of soldiers on Bloody Sunday appeared in a Conservative Party video opposing reforms to the Legacy Act.

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March's persistent unseasonable heat was so intense that the continental United States registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to federal weather data. https://to.pbs.org/3Ogo4AX

The U.S. smashed heat records in March. Just wait for El Niño this summer

March’s persistent heat was unseasonably intense, and the next year or so looks to turn the dial up on global warmth even more, as some forecasts predict a brewing El Niño will reach superstrength.

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EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027. The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

Is the Empire coming home? This 2014 paper examines the relationship between neoliberalism and the increased use of incarceration in the British state, incorporating colonial experiences into the discourse. It contends that current punitive measures are not a new phenomenon but rather a…

Is the Empire coming home?

This 2014 paper examines the relationship between neoliberalism and the increased use of incarceration in the British state, incorporating colonial experiences into the discourse. It contends that current punitive measures are not a new phenomenon but rather a continuation of historical strategies rooted in colonial practices, impacting marginalized populations today.

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UK child poverty up 34% in a decade. Families can't afford the cost of food, rent, childcare, heating, essentials. 72% of poor children live in working families. Secure jobs, universal basic income/services, curbs on profiteering, free school meals would help. Must eradicate parental poverty.

Why are four million children still going hungry in the UK in 2026?

Hunger in the UK is the scourge that ceases to abate. It's time to build a road map to meaningful and lasting change.

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So much talk about Ireland (and EU) dependency on the US but so little examination of what that means in material terms. Investing in LNG does not just hasten climate disaster but deepens Ireland's (and the EU's) dependence on the US. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

LNG ‘can’t happen fast enough’, says Taoiseach as Cop30 grapples with ending fossil fuels

Martin indicates that liquefied natural gas a security imperative for Ireland

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Grok is so much worse than you think.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #ClimateCriminals #ClimateNuremberg #FollowTheMoney #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Ecocide #Genocide #Omnicide #MediaAsGenocidalCorporateFascism #AusPol #Auspol2026 #TheyKnew #FossilFuelPollution #AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

Outrage as Trump withdraws from key UN climate treaty along with dozens of international organisations

Experts decry move to leave UNFCCC as ‘embarrassing’ as president orders withdrawal from 66 international groups

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This, I believe, sums up exactly what we, & the Americans we know & love, are thinking. Why isn't Congress supporting their own people?

ICE faced ‘an act of domestic terrorism’ in Minneapolis’ and in UK over 1000 peaceful protestors arrested under terrorism law. Humpty Dumpty Madness! “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean.” See my arguments against the use of the word: What Is Terrorism? | Cato Unbound