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.
Tim Dixon
@timthefruit.bsky.social
Apparently a " lefty,green, jobsworth cretin"! Badge of honour? Living in Scotland rather than England , thankfully.
"Hands up if you're a prancing prick who's been spouting complete bollocks about using the Royal Navy to send migrants back to France in a desperate bid to distract attention from the sleaze your party is mired in"
Almost one year ago the Scottish Government supported Green proposals to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel. The vote passed in Parliament, a historic moment. So why have Ministers not done a single thing to implement it? www.thenational.scot/news/2642085...
Israel boycott failure 'undermining Scotland solidarity with Palestine', say Greens
THE Scottish Government's failure to implement a boycott of Israel is undermining its claims of solidarity with Palestine despite ministers…
thenational.scot
Data shows you're 11% more likely to die in a crash while *driving* an SUV, largely because the false sense of indestructibility leads you to drive more recklessly around others. Antisocial behaviour is baked into the design of these monstrosities.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d agoClimate science denial in physical form. The Land Rover Defender X (yup - they've gone full Musk). Price: £103,460, plus a few kids' lives. 🧵
I refer the current grey clouds to the message I gave them some days ago
Lev Parikian@levparikian.bsky.social · 6d agoOi! Grey clouds! Drop some fucking water on us or fuck the fuck off!
If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem. Out government & its Transport Minister is part of the problem. "Green fuel production" my arse. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails
£2.2bn project will allow about 100,000 more flights a year to use Britain’s second busiest airport
theguardian.com
"Gatwick airport to open second runway" Is nobody joining the dots? We have to stop polluting our atmosphere with CO2! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails
£2.2bn project will allow about 100,000 more flights a year to use Britain’s second busiest airport
theguardian.com
I just signed a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Stop Drax, Stop Dirty Data Centres!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
Stop Drax, Stop Dirty Data Centres!
Data centres’ huge demand for energy can’t be allowed to prop up dirty polluting tree-burning power stations like Drax. We can’t sacrifice a safe climate for AI pipedreams. The business behind Drax,...
actionnetwork.org
Award winning films by Palestinians in Lochinver Village Hall Aug 7-9th supported by Eden Court. Proceeds to Medical Aid for Palestinians & Galilee Foundation. Tix on door or www.justgiving.com/page/palestinefilmfestival
One of the great photos of our time. Captured by Maximilien Lamy for AFP.
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
Seems like a lot of social injustice in my lifetime goes back to Thatcher. Every government since has worked from the same playbook, inc Blair and Starmer.
BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2w agoThe most interesting thing about Right to Buy is it should have meant Councils had loads of money to build new Council Houses But actually they stopped Because Thatcher blocked Councils from using this money to build houses and cut their budget from Government Because of their increased incomes
“‘You have a small capacity for reason, some basic tool-making skills, and the use of a few simple words.’... Yep. That’s you.”
Its not just me & Angela Rayner. If this Labour government rule out rent controls, a wealth tax, refuse to nationalise water companies, drill for oil and gas, continue to arm Israel - The country will be asking what's the point of a Labour Government? www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Zack Polanski and Angela Rayner clash as she rejects London rent controls
Housing Secretary Ms Rayner took a stronger stance on rent limits than new Prime Minister Andy Burnham
standard.co.uk
This is just a glimpse of what's to come without immediate action. It’s time to treat Scotland's wildfire risk as the national emergency it is. That means investing in prevention, early warning systems, and restoring the natural habitats that make our landscapes more resilient.
Devastating images show aftermath of wildfires that ripped through Cairngorms
Dramatic pictures of the charred landscape taken by those fighting the fire have highlighted the scale of the damage caused by the inferno.
dailyrecord.co.uk
Harvest started and then stopped round here because of risk of fire from sparks on flint from combines. Very dry. Hardly a chance of any rain, let alone decent rain, on the forecast. When it comes, there will be floods.
Helen Day@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 2w agoPoppy and Campion ‘Wild Flowers’ (1957) Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder
We are witnessing a tipping point. Boreal forests that stored carbon for 1000s of years are now CARBON EMITTERS. Heatwaves make wildfires. Wildfires make more heat. More heat makes more fires. This feedback loop is what scientists warned you about.
I’d like to make it clear for all the people following me what the sheer gravity of the news is. Without this facility we can’t ensure constant communication with spacecraft beyond Earth orbit. If this facility is off-line, the Artemis program cannot send a crew to the Moon.
Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila
Excoriating and scarily funny. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: I wanted a King of the North. Not a King of the North Sea
In the face of heat and urban wildfires, is Andy ‘Burn Them!’ Burnham really going to approve more oil drilling? So much for net zero – or voting Labour again
thenerve.news
“Okay. Here’s another little ditty we can all sing. … Of course, as always, the only words are ‘ribbit, ribbit, ribbit.’”
This is why you need a Wealth Tax.
BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2w agoThe revelation that Sunak has paid £1M in tax in the last 3 years 0.13% of his £720m wealth. While the average person has paid about £45k or 14%, 100x as much. Should open your eyes to just how much and how blatantly the rich dodge tax
She's been onto Nigel Farage and "Posh George" for years - until she was sued. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's brilliant long-read here, on her decades of following the story everyone's writing about now. She's a HERO: www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-fara...
Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...
thenerve.news
📊 New research from England found that 57% of people with laboratory-confirmed Lyme disease didn't realise they'd been bitten by a tick. Of those who did, most were bitten close to home & nearly 3 in 10 thought it happened in their own garden. Read more: lymediseaseuk.com/current-rese...
This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1
Ash@queerash.bsky.social · 2w agoElaine in this article "can't remember the last time she used her oven" but also spends £200 a month on petrol (so driving probably ~50 miles a day?) (she's also a professional old person; she was on Good Morning Britain last year, and then also at the Nov budget, and the year before lmao)
Most of the sewage spills into England's waterways in the last two years may have been illegal but gone unpunished. Tells a story about useless regulators, appeasement of capital creating health hazards, destroying marine life and biodiversity. People are treated as cash cows. Govts do nothing.
Most sewage spills in England may be illegal, new research suggests
The new analysis from a prominent water campaigner emerged after secret court documents were leaked.
bbc.co.uk
“Listen up, my Cossack brethren! We’ll ride into the valley like the wind, the thunder of our horses and the lightning of our steel striking fear in the hearts of our enemies! … And remember—stay out of Mrs. Caldwell’s garden!”
