Sir Basil

@sirbasil.bsky.social

Very concerned that right-wing pluto-populists are degrading our lives and our planet (🌱)

It's the Tragedy of the Commons played out on a global scale only in this case, we commoners are excluded and only billionaires get to graze their cattle The answer requires 'collective agreements' or, as the billionaires call them 'woke regulations from the blob that impinge your sovereignty'

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11h ago

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...

I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …

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

theguardian.com

Of course they'll launch another investigation. But if investigations worked, why would this keep happening? They don't worl...because cruelty in dairy is a feature and not a bug. But you can personally stop this tomorrow. And it's dead easy! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Workers at top dairy supplying Tesco and Muller punched, slapped and kicked cows

Exclusive: Staff sacked after footage of violence and cruelty revealed, including burning animal’s face with cigarette

independent.co.uk

Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?

🦞 A major win for crustaceans in Wales. The Welsh Government has declared that boiling lobsters alive is "not an acceptable method of slaughter" and is now considering legislation to protect lobsters, crabs and other decapod crustaceans from this cruel practice.

A lobster undersea surrounded by rocky textures. Text above the lobster reads "Wales set to ban boiling crustaceans alive."

"In September last year Nigel Farage was the most popular politician in the country. Today he is the least!..... His and his parties foulness was always going to be their downfall!....." via We Demand UK ps Keep exposing Reform hypocrisy, incompetence and greed - and be ready for Reform Mark 2

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1 You shall have no gods before me except Elon 2 Thou shalt covet MAGA money 3 Remember the Sabbath and use it for fomenting violence at asylum hotels 4 You shall not bear false witness against thy neighbour unless they are a different colour 5 Thou shalt not steal (mortgage fraud is OK)

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · last wk.

🔴 NEW Tommy Robinson’s Temple: The Christian Conference Uniting Preachers from the Far-Right Fringe By @mc00.bsky.social Read below. ↓