Phil Cope

BBC headline utterly failing. ‘The saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos’

It’s not the rail line that “keeps causing travel chaos” its the shifting climate with more prolonged and intense rainfall and more frequent storms leading to landslips and the sea wall being washed out.

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies.

It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

Estimates of the economic costs of Brexit continue to grow. Now showing UK economy between 6 and 8 percent smaller than it would have been. That in turn means £60bn lost tax revenue every year. Think what a difference that would have made to tax & spend decisions …

It’s schemes like this that remind me that I’ve always wondered whether the towers of wind turbines could somehow be used as gravity based storage when there was too much wind. I’m sure there are technical issues, but I wonder whether anyone has given it serious engineering thought?

From Viz, three years ago: The Brexit Opportunity Detector.
Still looking.

Trump and Farage

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

Trump (and right wingers in Britain & EU) often claim that the USA economy outperforms “sclerotic” Europe.
A more comprehensive comparison gives a different perspective about the quality of life in each:

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Save this, it's perfect.

Cannot stop thinking about the people I met in Calais. They deserve so much better.

@greenparty.org.uk @calaisappeal.bsky.social

Extreme weather caused by climate change is raising food prices worldwide, study says | CNN Business Extreme weather caused by climate change is driving up the prices of basic food products worldwide and posing wider risks to society, a new study has found.

“Until we get to net-zero emissions, extreme weather will only get worse, and it’s already damaging crops and pushing up the price of food all over the world,”

edition.cnn.com/2025/07/21/b...

Is it ok to forward your email to 3 women who might be willing to?

They are objects with their own aesthetic as well as posing questions about the artists role as a selector of views dictating what the viewer does and doesn’t see.

Framing the woods no. 1. This is the first in a series of framing devices make for a local private woodland using material from that wood. It is designed as a trail for the Forest School groups that use the site.

Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks

Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years

Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks

By Nafeez Ahmed

Zack Polanski on President Trump, "It's difficult to call him anything other than a fool"

"This is sociopathic behaviour"

"He is toxic, misogynistic, racist"

"I'm not a fan of Trump"

Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself

The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

And perhaps you could explain how the items in your list itemised as 1960’s, 1970’s and 1990’s resulted in higher taxes?

Ozone depletion was halted and slowly reversed by the Montreal Protocol that banned CFC’s. Without that international agreement, it would have “happened”

The graph @davidheniguk.bsky.social posted above *is* per capita

🚨📉 Major new paper by Stanford professor Nick Bloom and coauthors.

They find Brexit has:

⬇️ Reduced UK GDP by 6-8%

⬇️ Reduced investment by 12-18%

⬇️ Reduced employment by 3-4%

⬇️ Reduced productivity by 3-4%

ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

This is my source - I was particularly interested in agricultural workers due to my family history. www.mylearning.org/stories/sche...

I understood that conscription was actually introduced during the First World War in 1916 even though voluntary enlistment did continue.

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.

@desmog.com reviewed US tax records which show Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

But the incident reveals Lomborg’s lack of diligence in research; if he was intent on lying about his environmentalist status, he could have searched for an organisation that *did* have a membership model that he could claim to have belonged to - but he couldn’t be arsed