🚨 Grassroots football league forced to delay the start of its season due to heat wave. While elite teams and Fifa promote fossil fuel interests, the climate crisis is having significant consequences for grassroots football. Here's the state of play. 🧵 1/7

Scratch of the day: local football season postponed due to ‘rock hard’ pitches

Drought and record heat have forced the Norfolk and Suffolk league to move kick-off to the end of August as the ground is deemed too dangerous to play on

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Somewhat incredibly, Tony Blair has chosen the week that the UK's temperature record for May has been smashed by more than 2C to reiterate his hot take on net-zero Job done, though, as all the UK media is now leading with him saying "drill, baby, drill" rather than the exceptionally extreme weather

Thrilled for Tony Blair that he gets to operate in a world where climate change is just not that big a problem and we can therefore keep putting off tackling it until some indeterminate point in the future. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump

In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election

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"Labour must remember and reassert what it is we are here to do: address inequality – economic and political... political equality at the ballot box is fundamental to delivering equality everywhere else in society." ✍️ @alexsobel.co.uk in @labourlist.bsky.social labourlist.org/2026/05/labo...

' After these Local Elections there can be no doubt: Labour’s future lies in electoral reform' - LabourList

First Past the Post is the biggest example of the Status Quo in UK politics.

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Actual headline: The Daily Telegraph loves Reform - especially the pro-wealthy, anti-migrant, pro-privatisation stuff.

Just heard self-centred hypocrite Nigel Farage on BBC News say that no British politician has been physically attacked more than him. An insult to the memory of Jo Cox and David Amess, both murdered.

A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol

Times: "Tony Blair urges Ed Miliband: Don’t be ideological on net zero" "Britain should produce more clean energy while accelerating domestic oil & gas production" - TBI This would be a tad more credible if the Tony Blair Institute's clients weren't despotic petro-states like UAE & Saudi Arabia.

A short piece we wrote about fantasies of oil power in the US! TLDR: Oil saturates US cultural imaginations, and US elites (& others) are deeply attached to oil. But fantasies of oil power exhibit insecurities in a context where the green transition is beginning to happen (albeit far too slowly).

The Geographical Journal@thegj.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New in The GJ: 'Petropower in law-enforcement advertising at Super Bowl LIX' by Daniel Finch-Race & @pancholewis.bsky.social This commentary examines a recruitment ad from the 2025 Super Bowl in the context of contemporary geopolitics & low-carbon energy transitions. doi.org/10.1111/geoj...

New in The GJ: 'Petropower in law-enforcement advertising at Super Bowl LIX' by Daniel Finch-Race & @pancholewis.bsky.social This commentary examines a recruitment ad from the 2025 Super Bowl in the context of contemporary geopolitics & low-carbon energy transitions. doi.org/10.1111/geoj...

The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper examines a recruitment commercial from the Super Bowl on 9 February 2025 in terms of its spectacularisation of petroleum's abiding yet volatile influence. The minute-long piece on behalf o....

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This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

It's only worth going back to the Moon if it makes us look properly again at Earth, and appreciate how beautiful, precious and fragile what we have here is. The most famous images from Apollo aren't about the Moon - they're pictures of Earth. We need to stop taking our home for granted.

This is proper verging on the climate denialism (rather than delay) end of the spectrum. Laughable that the telegraph considers itself a serious conservative voice.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

Good www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive

Solar panels that can be plugged in at home could be available to buy in supermarkets in the coming months.

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Hope springs eternal. It just might not look like you want it to. See my latest Your Brain On Climate with @pancholewis.bsky.social

You might have formed the impression that Paul Johnson, former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, knows what he's talking about. The media treats him like the voice of God. But here he is - and not for the first time - talking out of his hat. Let's break it down in a short thread. 🧵

Really enjoyed this - thanks for having me on Dave! If you listen to the episode and others on the podcast and like them, please consider chucking in a couple of quid to support Your Brain on Climate.

Dave Powell@powellds.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New episode of Your Brain on Climate js my chat with @pancholewis.bsky.social all about hope. Find out how many types of hope there are and which ones I find really annoying. www.yourbrainonclimate.com/1817605/epis...

this billionaire is literally a tax migrant in Monaco. 70% of players of the football team he owns, Manchester United, are migrants. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Starmer tells Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK ‘colonised’ by immigrants

PM calls comments by Man United co-owner, who also hit out at people on benefits, ‘offensive and wrong’

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I just signed a @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social petition - Guarantee a Fair and Open Selection for the Gorton and Denton By-election. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/gu...

Guarantee a Fair and Open Selection for the Gorton and Denton By-election

Labour can win in the Gorton and Denton by-election if we lead with our values and allow a fair, democratic and open selection for our candidate. Sign the petition below calling on the Chair of Lab...

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🌹📢 Introducing your 2026 Mainstream candidates for the NEC! Thank you to our members for participating in our ballot and voting to endorse a strong team of determined, progressive candidates for Labour's NEC. This year, let's reconnect Labour with its mainstream.

🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero 1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system 2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free 3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us" 4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous 5) That's it! 1/10

Sure London has its problems, but I’m not even rly willing to entertain that conversation since it’s in the face of such an onslaught of racist lies about the place. London is the proof that integrated, diverse communities thrive living side by side. They HATE that. #r4today

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury

🌹 The Deputy Leadership candidates on electoral reform We've contacted both of the two remaining candidates - @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social & @lucympowell.bsky.social - asking them to confirm or update their positions In the meantime, here's what we know so far... 🧵 1/3

The candidates on PR: what we know so far — Labour For A New Democracy

Deputy Leadership candidates on electoral reform: what we know so far

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Much more of this kind of message, please!

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress

Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time #Climate

Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time

Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensation

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This is a strange way to headline a story showing only 17% of people agree with Nigel Farage’s scientifically illiterate belief that climate change is nothing to worry about. Almost as if The Times has an agenda. www.thetimes.com/article/d92d...

Farage nearly as trusted as Labour on climate change, poll shows

Times research finds that the Reform UK leader seen as having the right policies on global warming by 22 per cent of voters, barely less than Starmer and Miliband

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🚨 This is a crisis for Labour, but the real crisis is the one engulfing our politics The Deputy Leadership Election is a chance to push for action on the voting system that is destroying trust in politics & threatens to hand a majority to the far right Find out more 👇

Get ready to elect a pro-PR Deputy Leader — Labour For A New Democracy

We need to use this Deputy Leadership Election to push for action on the voting system

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This is a billionaire-funded Tony Blair lobbying project being funnelled unchallenged onto the front page of a national newspaper. 1/

2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Ed Miliband would let a turbine farm destroy Brontë country. We need net zero, but at what cost? | Simon Jenkins