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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This is also the Ben Cullen who is due to appear in court after being accused of making indecent images of children.

The High Court also heard RTC leader Ben Cullen had threatened physical violence to a resident removing flags, boasting that he was a “violent criminal” who had served 15 years in prison. Full report in today’s Clarion: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...

The Clarion, 4 August 2026

We're doing a rain dance. You? While we wait for some sorely needed water, here is some news, not all of it cheerful. Including less than savoury details about Raise the Colours; celebrating Oxford Ci...

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One highways manager told the High Court she had been placed on medication after becoming “fearful of being followed home, tracked and exposed on social media”. Highways staff now wear unbranded PPE, work in unbranded vehicles, wear face coverings to hide their identity, and do not travel alone.

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Reform MP Robert Jenrick: “Rod Liddle said the unsayable truth years before anyone else would come close.” Rod Liddle on child abuse images: “We should not be in the business of putting people in prison for simply looking at things."

I'm delighted to hear that BP doubled their profits, making £4.2bn in just 3 months. Not that I have any vested interest in it, other than the £50,000 given to us by the wife of former senior BP executive James Hay.

I just can’t believe we’re seeing this sort of stuff from a sitting MP Just want to say to British Somalis that you are loved and I’m so, sorry this is happening.

Cunningham tried to wave away Farage’s record-low popularity by saying elections were what really mattered. Derbyshire had Reform’s recent results ready. 🤣

Of course Farage's 'policy' doesn’t work. It isn't intended to work. It's meant to cause a splash in the unthinking press (and GMB) and thereby get Doris at Number 33 Lambert Road, Peterborough to go 'Ooh at last someone is trying to do something about these awful boat crossings.' That's it.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

Former navy officer criticises Reform plan to use military to stop small boats

Former Royal Navy Officer Brands Reform's Small Boats Plan 'A Crock Of Shit' www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a-croc...

'A Crock Of Sh*t': Former Royal Navy Officer Slams Reform's Small Boats Plan

The French government has also rejected the policy.

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Let’s be clear: Robert Jenrick’s record as Immigration Minister: - Record net migration was recorded while he served as Immigration Minister. - Small boat crossings continued despite repeated government pledges to stop them.

Migrant crossings this year are down circa 43% vs 2025 BBC doesn’t mention this until the fifth paragraph of broadcasting Reform saying it’d launch "the largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two" to tackle small boat arrivals Trying to divert attention from Farage..🙄

Reform UK would use Royal Navy to stop small boats

The party's home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf says it would be the "largest military operation in the English Channel since World War Two”.

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via Truth Against Hate

Robert Fox, Royal Navy expert: "Operation Fortress shows that Reform is throwing up a smokescreen about defence and security – not a good look as we enter a new stage of threat from cyber, drone, electronic and biological warfare."

I’m a Navy expert – this is everything wrong with Reform UK’s ‘Operation Fortress’

The ridiculous plan to stop small boats by deploying bigger ones is full of holes and a sideshow from the very real issu

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"Farage called the Clacton by-election to avoid the investigations into his ‘£5 million gift’ from the crypto billionaire Harborne & other questionable ‘gifts’ ⌛️ From the timeline of events it’s clear that he broke the rules regarding gifts 👨‍⚖️ He wants Clacton voters to judge him" via Barry Howard

Is BBC News alarmed by being used by those who rode the wave of a Moroccan influx into Ceuta, by the rightists who amplified it and by those who initiated it? I don't remember your reports including an observation that simply being in Ceuta gives you no access to mainland Spain and Schengen. #WATO

Tory MP Caroline Dinenage will surely be furious when she finds out the expansion of the Haslar Immigration Detention Centre in Gosport was planned by the last Tory Govt and that the 'Crown Development' fast-track planning route was enabled by the Tories' 2023 Levelling Up and Regeneration Act...

If only the UK had massively subsidised the green economy with retraining for wind & solar and 100% home insulation instead of massively subsidising polluting but profitable oil and gas and warmongering ... meme via Neil McEvoy

Your reminder Rod Liddle not only said he couldn't have become a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" in The Spectator, but he also wrote laws banning child pornography are "absurd" in The Guardian. Abhorrent.

What really happened in #Morocco ? Staged event encouraged by us and israel to stir up trouble for #Spain who is critical of what is happening in #Gaza & #Iran A #DDN exclusive. youtu.be/S9UgNsVUwXU?...

British Journalist UNCOVERS SHOCKING Ceuta COVER-UP

YouTube video by Double Down News

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Once again Trump is doing exactly what he would be doing if Putin had grotesque photos of Trump in compromising positions.

CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterday

U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters

Daily Express editor to minion scribe: 'Oh no, Labour are helping with the cost of living by providing free bus travel for under-16s throughout August. Write a headline that makes it look bad...'

How come Farage is allowed to hold a press conference, which was broadcast on the BBC?

"If I win, I will save the voters of Clacton £350,000 from another by-election. Stick that on a bus. That's £350,000 before I've even started."

Glastonbury will return in 2027. Rod Liddle, won't

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Rod Liddle vilifies disabled people. I’m tired of the hate. We all should be | Frances Ryan

Whether it is ME patients or another target, huge swathes of the media have normalised hatred of minorities for years, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Ofc she doesn't. She has the IQ of a satsuma.

Pawel Swidlicki@pswidlicki.bsky.social · yesterday

Does she realise Dunkirk wouldn't have even been possible if French forces had surrendered as opposed to fighting a rearguard action which allowed the BEF to assemble in Dunkirk and the evacuation flotilla to be formed?

This huge iceberg was seen turning over off the coast of Greenland, near Ilulissat. TT: @@bbcnews