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Major oil firms make $93bn profits in just 3 months amid war and climate crisis. They shift profits, dodge taxes, fuel poverty and inflation. They don't bear the social cost of their business. Forever holding people/govts to ransom. Polluters must pay. Need windfall tax now.
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
"Dear Diary The launch of our scheme to use the Royal Navy to stop small boats has gone exactly to plan. It is so patently absurd that it is all anyone can talk about, providing the perfect distraction from all our dodgy financial dealings"
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
theguardian.com
I’ve just responded to the government’s consultation by saying no to Heathrow’s climate-wrecking third runway. Will you join me and tell the government you oppose expansion too? @friends-earth.bsky.social action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/say-n...
Stop Heathrow's climate-wrecking third runway
Take action We're in a climate crisis, with out-of-control wildfires in the UK, France and Spain and an ongoing battle to clean up the air in our cities. So why is Andy Burnham's government backing pl...
action.friendsoftheearth.uk
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.
The PM says he wants public control of water, but water companies are still spilling sewage and hiking up our bills. Add your name to make sure Burnham keeps his word. water-rip-off.goodlawproject.org/s/AvlgZH
Stop the water industry rip-off
The PM says he wants public control of water, but water companies are still spilling sewage and hiking up our bills. Add your name.
water-rip-off.goodlawproject.org
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild its land. Join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Help save nature by rewilding the Church’s massive landholdings!
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Dunwich Heath is so beautiful. This fire is tragic.
Few people understand that the UK university system is in crisis, but even fewer realise that many of the people losing their jobs are amongst the best in their fields
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d agoSo it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
The more videos I make the weirder I sound? More detailed post here www.wildway.info/p/weeds-as-a... for paid subscribers
Thames Water CEO went unchallenged on the BBC on the claim that public ownership means water investment competes with health and defence. This is a myth! 99% of water investment comes from BILLS. Take 2 mins to complain to Ofcom and the BBC vist.ly/5d5xb
Ofcom and BBC, correct the record: Thames Water CEO misled the public about public ownership
Thames Water CEO lied about public ownership on the BBC. It is time Ofcom and the BBC corrected the record
vist.ly
Tell the UK Government to Ban Bottom Trawling in Protected Waters Help us kick bottom trawling out of UK marine protected areas for good by sending a message directly to the people in power. Act now to save our seas! banbottomtrawling.oceanauk.justpost.cards
Tell the UK Government to Ban Bottom Trawling in Protected Waters
Help us kick bottom trawling out of UK marine protected areas for good by sending a message directly to the people in power. Act now to save our seas!
banbottomtrawling.oceanauk.justpost.cards
Absolutely shameful piece. Even if a "Mediterranean" future were desirable - and a third of a million people are currently fleeing an inferno - what about those parts of the world being made uninhabitable? Where do their people go? Heath doesn't want them here. www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026...
Britain can’t stop climate change. Scrap net zero and embrace Mediterranean life
We’ve lost the war against global warming so let’s learn to handle hotter weather
telegraph.co.uk
🧵UK media has been duped about net-zero (again) The playbook is identical: 1️⃣ Find a big scary number 2️⃣ Speed-dial non-specialist hacks 3️⃣ Do say “serious economic damage” 4️⃣ Don’t say “we pretended gas is free” 5️⃣ That's it! Many papers still fell for it 🤷
Reupping my @prospectmagazine.co.uk piece on how Israel systematically razed Gaza. One man who grew up in Rafah, the southern Gaza city now largely destroyed, said this to me: “You can say you miss your city if it still exists. It’s gone, you know” /4 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
‘The directive was nothing left’: How Gaza’s cities were destroyed
Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction
prospectmagazine.co.uk
I used to model the prison population. It is staggering how massively counterproductive most prison sentences are. Most sentences are short sentences. Long enough to destroy the basis for a normal productive life outside (housing, job etc). Too short to do anything productive (rehab, training etc.)
A leader willing to work across party lines; tackle tough issues; level with voters; address issues affecting young (education, employment), the old and infirm; rich and poor; North and South. Am I dreaming ? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Andy Burnham wants to fix social care. It’s personal for him and for a lot of us too
Finally a grownup is in charge who speaks to voters as fellow adults. If he fixes this, he’ll achieve more than most other PMs
theguardian.com
Barclays Bank is Europe's biggest funder of fossil fuels. Pushing climate change, El nino, crop failures, hunger as profit opportunity, urging investors to speculate on price of food, fertilizer, commodities. Prices and food bills will rise. Profiting from destruction that banks financed.
Barclays spots a chance to profit from extreme weather crisis
Europe’s biggest funder of fossil fuels urges investors to see an opportunity in ‘super’ El Niño that could leave millions starving
thebureauinvestigates.com
It's noticeable, too, that there wasn't a single question on the climate, at a time when Europe is experiencing catastrophic wild-fires & record-breaking heat. It's astonishing how low down the political agenda this remains in Britain, when all the environmental indicators are signalling disaster.
AI belongs to the people. I signed the Declaration. You can sign it, too! action.eko.org/a/the-pro-hu...
action.eko.org
John Healey under pressure to raise taxes or cut UK spending as fiscal headroom shrinks. No mention of the £59bn not collected by HMRC last year Profit shifting to dodge taxes Tax anomalies - e.g. capital gains & dividends taxed at lower rates than wages. Capital welfare programs. archive.ph/glmbd
John Healey under pressure to raise taxes or cut UK spending as fiscal headroom shrinks
US-Iran war and new spending commitments threaten to cut buffer to as little as £7bn, economists estimate
ft.com
Travel platforms: Don’t advertise Tiger encounters in Thailand! actions.eko.org/a/travel-pla...
actions.eko.org
I just signed the @stoprosebank open letter Letter to the Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MP. Sign here and ask her to #StopRosebank or fail the very first test of the UK's climate leadership: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Open Letter to the Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MP
Our new Secretary of State for Energy faces the first big climate test for Andy Burnham's new government -- whether or not to approve new North Sea oil & gas developments. Sign the open letter asking ...
actionnetwork.org