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Last night, Kyiv looked like this. Russia targeted the capital with 4 Zircon/Oniks missiles, 24 Iskander-M/S-400 missiles, and 115 strike UAVs including Shahed (mostly jet-powered), Gerbera, and Italmas types, as well as "Parodiya" decoy drones (98 shot down).
This is an Emergency. - 8 UK reservoirs drying up - UK cereal yields down by 50% - Food prices set to rise - Multiple cascade event: heat, fire, drought, reduced nutrient soil - over 3000 excess deaths The Green Party of England and Wales has a solution. www.youtube.com/live/bsTXZ2V...
Zack Polanski delivers an urgent message to the Prime Minister
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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“I can call [the climate crisis] out as a political leader, but you [the media] also has a role to play... the contrast between how much we hear about whatever Nigel Farage or Reform want to talk about versus how little we hear about the climate and nature crisis is pretty glaring.” Quite.
Burnham failing public over heat threats, says Green leader
Zack Polanski has accused ministers of a "dereliction of duty" in response to this summer's heatwaves.
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The impacts on climate and nature need to be at the heart of all government decision making. Andy Burnham's government must step up to the plate and show that a healthy economy and a healthy environment go hand in hand. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups
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A handy guide to the EU's Entry Exit system - a must read before you travel bestforbritain.org/faq-what-is-...
FAQ: What is the Entry/Exit System (EES)? - Best for Britain
Heading away on your summer holidays? Or visiting the Schengen area for work, or to see friends or family? You might be wondering what the new...
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This is what climate failure looks like. Nature, homes and livelihoods are being destroyed. The Government must act now.
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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
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Decades on, survivors of the Fayed trafficking network are still seeking justice. Alongside exclusive interviews with Anti-Slavery International, campaigning journalist Meirion Jones and former Chief Prosecutor Nazir Afzal, hear those voices in our latest Bylines Gazette.
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From City Hall, we're lucky enough to watch the London Cable Car glide across the Thames every day. Now it's hit an impressive milestone: 20 million journeys. You could say it's reached new heights. Whether you're commuting or exploring, it's one of the best views in London.
In a cleared plot of land between buildings flattened by airstrikes in Gaza City, row upon row of Palestinian flags were laid out neatly over the remains of dozens of people to be buried on Tuesday. u.afp.com/SH52
“Women just hate me. Idk what to do about it…What’s the point in living." The accused FSU mass shooter fantasized about brutally violent sex—a scenario ChatGPT scripted for him in detail. AI chatbots fueling violent thinking and planning among troubled people is an urgent problem, experts warn.
Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.
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Our prisons are overcrowded because the system is broken. The answer isn't endless emergency releases. It's investing in prevention, rehabilitation and giving people the support they need to rebuild their lives.
Russian war criminals hunted a vegetable seller through Kherson with an FPV drone. ㅤ He was unarmed. The drone followed him and struck. He was wounded, but survived. ㅤ This is deliberate FPV terror against civilians, filmed and treated as something to boast about. The world must see it.
Emma Chamberlain, tax barrister, visiting professor of tax at the LSE and Oxford University, co-author of the Wealth Tax Report, has a guest post with Comment is Freed -‘The right way to tax wealth’. Clear, practical thinking from someone who understands and has thought deeply about all angles.
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2d agoNew post out: There's going to be a lot of talk about wealth taxes in the run up to the budget. So we asked one of the country's leading experts to give us a ten year plan for doing it right. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
Fantastic news out of Harris this morning, where a huge swathe of the isle (as well as numerous others and hundreds of crofts) are set to come under community ownership Story: Locals win £1m to buy 27,000-acre Scottish island estate after 14-year campaign
Locals win £1m to buy 27,000-acre Scottish island estate after 14-year campaign
A HUGE Scottish estate with its own private island is set to be purchased by the local community after a £1 million grant was secured ...
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🔴 NEW 🔴 Campaigners are now demanding a parliamentary investigation into Reform MP Sarah Pochin following a donation to her office by food industry millionaires. 📝 @desmog.com & @goodlawproject.org report 👇🏻
Investigate Reform MP Over Donation, Campaigners Demand
Sarah Pochin, Reform UK MP for Runcorn and Helsby, is facing pressure over a £5,000 donation from food industry millionaires that stand to benefit from her campaigning. According to an investigation ...
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The ban on Palestine Action: justice or hypocrisy? With the proscription of Palestine Action, questions persist over arms exports to Israel, the rule of law and accusations of hypocrisy | Patrick Wright @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
The ban on Palestine Action: justice or hypocrisy?
With the proscription of Palestine Action, questions persist over arms exports to Israel, the rule of law and accusations of hypocrisy
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Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy. Datacentre prioritised over building affordable homes. Little attention to environmental issues. Govt overturning local council refusal is not devolution or democracy. Big business always wins.
Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy
Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes
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Something rather beautiful from, ok not East Anglia, but the Far East.....
Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 2d ago30,000 hours of footage, equivalent to 3 years and 7 months, were filmed to capture the blooming of 77 types of flowers, and the result is spectacular. Original post
Farmers are reporting poor yields due to lack of water & rain. Winter silage is already being used to feed animals due to dead summer grass. Agrivoltaics, where solar panels are raised so that more conventional farming can continue underneath is proving a solution with surprising benefits.
Heatwaves, farmland and solar energy
Could mediterranean style agrivoltaic systems help farmers cope with mediterranean style heatwaves, and improve energy independence?
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The same people who have been telling us "we can't stop climate change, instead we must adapt" have been hammering our capacity to adapt, through their promotion of austerity. What they're really saying is "keep burning fossil fuels for the sake of our donors". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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EU wants to wean itself off the teat of Thiel. So should the UK. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Europe wants to kick its Palantir habit
The U.S.-based data crunching firm is deeply embedded in the most sensitive European workflows, from policing to intelligence to health care. Finding alternatives won’t be easy.
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This is a disaster. They MUST fire the break clause. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... NHS England to revise Palantir platform data after staff concerns
NHS England to revise Palantir platform data after staff concerns
Changes to two most widely cited claims come as scrutiny grows over US tech company’s contract
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