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It is not unfair for its critics to point out that much of the paper has been said before, writes Hamish Morrison ✍️

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More on that blocked/delayed climate crisis intelligence report 👇🏾

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

Officials in Downing Street have blocked publication of a report warning that the collapse of tropical rainforests could push up food prices in British supermarkets.

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‘It proves this can be done’: Berlin the blueprint to bring goshawks to UK cities Conservationist plans release of 15 each of the apex predators sourced as chicks into Chester and London

The goshawk is thriving in bustling capitals such as Berlin, Amsterdam and Prague and the apex predator could be heading to a city near you. Uplifting one by Ajit Niranjan www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

EXC from @annaisaac.bsky.social

The finances of one of Nigel Farage’s key confidants are being examined by the UK’s tax and revenue authorities amid questions over his income from wealth and business activities, the Guardian understands.

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Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

Dr Christopher Rudge, law lecturer at the University of Sydney, says the report that Deloitte prepared for Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations contained “hallucinations” because of an initially undisclosed use of generative AI. Now the government is getting its money back.

Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for first time More than half of the EU’s electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from renewable energy

Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for first time

More than half of the EU’s electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from renewable energy.

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands. The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

A very concrete sign of the growing irrelevance of the Conservative Party: someone I know decided to go at the last minute last week, and not only were there rooms still available at the hotel nearest the venue, they weren’t even all that expensive.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Framing matters. This is a low salience issue. Opinions can shift. If defenders of ECHR don't have workable answers to issues that opponents claim it impedes (prisons, terrorism, asylum) they become more vulnerable than if they can appeal to

Thanks @pressgazette for this report on @thenerve.news first week.

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BrewDog sells Scottish ‘rewilding’ estate it bought only five years ago Latest disposal by ‘punk’ beer company follows £37m loss and closure of 10 pubs

BrewDog sells Scottish ‘rewilding’ estate it bought only five years ago; the Lost Forest is now no more 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👇🌳 #Kinrara #Cairngormsnationalpark
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BrewDog sells Scottish ‘rewilding’ estate it bought only five years ago Latest disposal by ‘punk’ beer company follows £37m loss and closure of 10 pubs

BrewDog sells Scottish ‘rewilding’ estate it bought only five years ago; the Lost Forest is now no more 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👇🌳 #Kinrara #Cairngormsnationalpark
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Gries Glacier
1919 | 2025

Over last 12 months it has lost 6 meters in thickness at the bottom and even the top has melted! 🧊🔥

Between 2000 and 2023, the glacier lost 800 m in length, and is now 3.2 km shorter than in 1880! 📈

Average thickness, now only 57 m... 😱

Via @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social

NatureScot may raise ‘more than £100m’ in private investment for conservation Investors in talks about supporting up to 15 government-backed nature restoration projects in Scotland

“Thinking that commercial investors are going to fix things is foolhardy. We need fresh thinking.”

It was great to speak to @severincarrell.bsky.social about the folly of relying on private finance to fix the nature crisis for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ed Miliband: “pessimism never won a single fucking victory” The Energy Secretary used Labour conference to argue for net zero’s future – and his own

Ed Miliband: “pessimism never won a single fucking victory”

The Energy Secretary used Labour conference to argue for net zero’s future – and his own

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Lord chancellor's swearing-in a 'constitutional first' The deputy prime minister David Lammy made history today as he was sworn in as the first black lord chancellor in court 4 of the Royal Courts of Justice. Lammy MP swore his oaths on the Bible as the l...

The deputy prime minister David Lammy made history today as he was sworn in as the first black lord chancellor.

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Energy bills: millions of Britons ‘at risk of overpaying if they fail to read meter’ Those on standard tariffs who do not have a smart meter should submit meter readings on or around 1 October, says Uswitch

Don't forget to send in your meter readings tomorrow
if you are on a standard tariff without a smart meter. If you don't your bill will be based on next week’s price cap increase. The difference for a week’s energy at October rates compared with September is +£17

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NatureScot may raise ‘more than £100m’ in private investment for conservation Investors in talks about supporting up to 15 government-backed nature restoration projects in Scotland

@naturescot.bsky.social fends off @futureeconscot.bsky.social criticisms of its private financing for nature by predicting £100m of outside funding for up to 15 woodland and peat projects 👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌳 #naturecrisis #climatecrisis
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Glasgow University accused of failing student who killed himself on graduation day Ethan Scott Brown was wrongly told he had not earned geography degree despite marks being enough for a 2:1

Glasgow University “failed” a student who killed himself on graduation day - Ethan Brown had been wrongly told he had not done well enough to earn his degree 👇@uofglasgow.bsky.social

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and the last day of the season

It's sea water

Liverpool poet Brian Patten dies at 79 His poetry often explored love and relationships and he wrote books for children including Gargling With Jelly

Brian Patten - one of the first poets I loved

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There is a moment of hesitation and then my dog dives – 24kg of fox red labrador launching into Gourock outdoor pool – to join the splashy tumult.

Dogs of all shapes, sizes and swimming ability have come to the outdoor saltwater pool on Scotland’s west coast for what has become an annual fixture 👇🐕

NatureScot may raise ‘more than £100m’ in private investment for conservation Investors in talks about supporting up to 15 government-backed nature restoration projects in Scotland

@naturescot.bsky.social fends off @futureeconscot.bsky.social criticisms of its private financing for nature by predicting £100m of outside funding for up to 15 woodland and peat projects 👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌳 #naturecrisis #climatecrisis
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British Politics' Midlife Crisis Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n