🔥 This week's cultural hotlist, from a moving coming of age story set in Luton to Nick Hakim’s ghostly new album 🔗 full list: www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-cu...
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Nature all the way - there is a climate crisis - there will be a mass extinction event - let’s hope it’s the trillionaire and billionaires and not the rest of us… Photos of insects and some birds and plants are my own.. Based in South West of UK
Can’t you leftists understand? Mass death is good for you. Reject the woke love of life! Welcome civilisational collapse! Watch it all burn, then dance in the ashes! This, roughly speaking, is how the dismissal of climate action is now being justified. 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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Multinational corporations dodge $500bn tax by shifting profits to low/no tax jurisdictions. Stifle social development. Need a simple change - must pay tax where they actually create profit, instead of where they pretend to on paper. UK can collect extra $16.9bn a yr. Must check corporate abuse.
Countries to gain $500bn more tax a year under UN ‘pay-where-you-play’ plan - Tax Justice Network
UN tax convention commitment to scrap 100-year-old corporate tax approach will unleash new economic era without increasing taxes, experts say Countries can collect US$500 billion more in corporate tax...
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In China, robots which are also solar panels, clean the other solar panels. Original post
Fairly long read here by George Monbiot but absolutely worth it.. Do we tread on the fingers of those underneath us on the ladder once societal collapse hits the fan, or work together? Because there isn’t a theory or ideology with a one size fits all.. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
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
theguardian.com
After being rejected 4 times, Thames Water's creditors are now submitting a 5th proposal to keep the failing utility in private hands. This time, they're promising to increase public control. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. 1/2
Windfall tax on colossal bank profits could raise £19bn in 2026. Result of profiteering and govt policies. Sufficient to increase frozen personal income tax allowance by nearly £2,000. Banks paid out £25bn in bonuses in the year to March, can easily pay more tax.
Windfall tax on colossal bank profits could raise £19bn in 2026
Burnham urged to resist lobbyists and tax banks to pay for his cost of living measures
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Climate change has never been more visible than in 2026. We’ve had serious flooding in the winter, heat waves since May and drought and wildfires. Yet central government is on about immigration and fiscal rules. I’m not hearing anything about adaptations to schools and hospitals to help cope
Fun facts - $93billion is £67billion £24million is 0.036% of £67billion £250,000 is 0.00037% of £67billion
Arts, culture and music lessons should be compulsory subjects at school.
walkingpete.bsky.social@walkingpete.bsky.social · 2d agoThe new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
Private equity firms made up 50% of the largest US corporate bankruptcies with $1bn+ in liabilities Jobs, communities destroyed for short term profit PE has devoured UK high street; controls vets, supermarkets, care homes, pubs, housing, restaurants. Shadow banking wreaks havoc, govts do nothing.
Private equity continues disproportionate role in 2026 bankruptcies
Since 2024, PESP has tracked and analyzed corporate bankruptcies, identifying the disproportionate role that private equity-owned firms have played in bankruptcy filings. This trend continued in the…
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The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
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www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10... Support the Arts- please sign and share.
Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
campaignforthearts.org
𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 With the current parliamentary reshuffles going on, the HSA shooting team takes a look at the influence of shooting interests in parliament in recent times. Read more 👇 www.huntsabs.org.uk/shootings-re...
The Nigel Farage Controversies. It’s not just the £5m and Cottrell, his whole career has been scandal ridden.
The Jeep Rubicon Childkiller. Celebrate the climate emergency and mow down pedestrians with 5,000 pounds of pointless metal.
Victory! 🎉 thank you to every single one of you for getting behind this campaign! So many Gannets saved!
Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
Brazil has become the first country in the world to ban both the production and sale of foie gras. Britain banned making it nearly 20 years ago, yet still allows imports. If it is too cruel to produce here, why are we still paying others to do it?
Brazil Banned Foie Gras. Why Hasn’t Britain?
Brazil has become the first country in the world to ban both the production and sale of foie gras nationwide.
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Found a Beautiful Plume Moth on one of the tomato plants this morning - it has branches sprouting from its legs which I assume are for stability… #moths
Here we go, yet again! 🙄🤬 Our biased media platforming the #FarRight & trying to normalise them. A tip for #BBC, #SkyNews, #ITN & #GMB - why not pretend you're proper journalists & not some retarded tabloid hacks? People might actually start trusting you cowboys again. 🙄 #MediaBias #MediaReform
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3d agoThe top news at GMB at 7 O'Clock Morning. #ShutdownGMB
Too much of the British uplands is devoted to grouse shooting moors which get bone dry and very vulnerable to wildfires. They are mainly used for investment bankers to play at being 19th century country gentlemen. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...
Dry spell is a reminder of the fallacy of climate change denial - Andy Brown
It has been a relentless summer. Weeks of drought conditions have dried up fields and left the stubble of cut down wheat crops a near perfect target for any discarded cigarette to set off a dangerous ...
yorkshirepost.co.uk
Less time imitating Farage in Dover and more time addressing the fact that our food and water supplies are in crisis, please, Andy Burnham.
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d agoBBC News reporting on concerns about food security and water security We can all see the food and water crisis unfolding, why isn't our government doing everything possible to protect these two precious resources, our food and water supply?
Relish Running and Tough Mudder running events along with RHS Badminton will shortly bring thousands of participants and visitors to the Badminton Estate despite being the home to the Duke of Beaufort’s Hunt who’ll soon be killing fox cubs in their so called ‘cubbing season’… Please boycott them..
Wiltshire Hunt Saboteurs@wiltshuntsabs.bsky.social · 3d ago𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐌𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐁𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐭 Tough Mudder, Relish Running, RHS Badminton - these events are all held on ground used to illegally hunt foxes. Read our latest Substack to find out more 👇 🔗 wiltshirehuntsabs.substack.com/p/tough-mudd...
“They seek him here, they seek him there Those in Clacton seek him everywhere Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimp from Hell” …..
