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Ella Baron on Donald Trump’s predictions for the war on Iran – cartoon The US president has delivered a vague and contradictory forecast for how long the United States will continue to fight in Iran

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Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump and Keir Starmer – cartoon The US president launched a deeply personal attack on the UK prime minister, telling reporters: ‘This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with’

No Roosevelt. More a Capone.
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‘All you need is a chair and a view’: could daily ‘dusking’ make us healthier and happier? An old Dutch ritual of going outside to watch the coming of night – or dusking – is having a revival across Europe. Fans of the practice say it’s a great way to disconnect from screens and find peace

Dusking: 'All you need is a chair and a view'.
This is something we've done for the last couple of years from a quiet spot in our garden, most often in summer when evenings are long and warm. It's peace giving and revitalising after an active day.
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A simple water shift could turn Arctic farmland into a carbon sink Deep in the Arctic north, drained peatlands—once massive carbon vaults built over thousands of years—are quietly leaking greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. But new field research from northern Norw...

A positive amongst the many scary negatives of climate change
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Under water, in denial: is Europe drowning out the climate crisis? Even as weather extremes worsen, the voices calling for the rolling back of environmental rules have grown louder and more influential

Rain intensity has ALREADY increased by more than 20% after just 1.5°C of global heating - enough to cause the extensive, long lasting winter flooding we've seen. Imagine the effects of the 3°C and more that we face as climate deniers fight to slow our green transition.
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Economics has failed on the climate crisis. This complexity scientist has a mind-blowing plan to fix that Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world

Interesting! Ab initio modelling might offer us our first ever realistic assessment of climate impacts on economic (in)stability
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All very well, but you need to listen to the indigenous people of the Pantanal, whose leaders have been urging you to cut your ties with the fossil-fuel corporations that are causing this destruction – stop taking money from BP and Adani. It's thoroughly immoral for you to be doing this.

All very well, but you need to listen to the indigenous people of the Pantanal, whose leaders have been urging you to cut your ties with the fossil-fuel corporations that are causing this destruction – stop taking money from BP and Adani. It's thoroughly immoral for you to be doing this.

Republican House bill guts laws protecting US consumers from toxic chemicals Bill limits type of science used to determine health risks and gives industry major role in chemical review process

Trump administration takes steps to gut protections against toxic chemicals in consumer products. Watch for the next step, when Trump is outraged that foreigners don't want to buy US-produced goods and the US balance of payments sags still further.
Duh 🤔
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There’s one argument Starmer could make to save his skin – but he won’t dare do it | Jonathan Freedland Among those focusing on what the PM knew about Peter Mandelson are many who themselves knew plenty and chose to ignore it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Finally, a rational analysis of the Mandelson saga and its impact on a leader seeking to act in his electorate's interests.
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A human tendency to value expertise, not just sheer power, explains how some social hierarchies form Social inequalities emerge in every human society. New research into how these hierarchies form suggests ‘prestige psychology’ – the tendency to defer to expertise – is at the root.

An illuminating insight, especially for our current dysfunctional times.
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We can reverse America’s decline | Bernie Sanders It is not good enough just to criticize Trump. We must offer a positive vision that will improve the lives of Americans

THIS 👇
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Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy
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Addressing climate change without the ‘rules-based order’ Everyone who cares about climate action must now grapple with how climate politics can function in a new world of uncertainty.

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A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before Governments have been warned about climate change for 70 years. They’re still suppressing the worst news.

The climate situation and its impact on future global stability is worse than we are told, and governments continue to fear to tell the truth.
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People have been trying to tell me for years that worrying about climate change is silly because I live in a first world country. These people have always been ignorant of the facts.

America feels like a country on the brink of an authoritarian takeover | Francine Prose This is the news we should be paying attention to. At least for the moment, everything else is a distraction

America feels like a country on the brink of an authoritarian takeover.
Francine Prose
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‘If you haven’t served, respect those who have’: Nato soldiers on Trump’s slurs For those who fought alongside US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, president’s remarks have cut deep

To paraphrase one veteran: "If you haven't served, at least have the balls to respect those who have"
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Video contradicts Trump’s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ‘gunman’ Video evidence reviewed by Guardian shows Alex Pretti, killed by agents in Minneapolis, held a phone, not a gun

Can any country in the world do any kind of "deal" with this lying and corrupt US administration? Of course not. The less we have to do with it, the better.
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

Video contradicts Trump’s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ‘gunman’ Video evidence reviewed by Guardian shows Alex Pretti, killed by agents in Minneapolis, held a phone, not a gun

Can any country in the world do any kind of "deal" with this lying and corrupt US administration? Of course not. The less we have to do with it, the better.
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One wonders how the USA can accept having such a contemptible man as its president and commander-in-chief.

So obvious from recent events that Trump knows the Arctic will melt, knows the seas will rise, knows and effectively acknowledges that climate change is real. He just doesn't care. Cities can drown, agricultural land can turn to salt: he only wants to enjoy his blood money and power until he dies.

German study finds 96% of US tariff burden borne by itself; levies also weaken industrial competitiveness: expert A new study released on Monday (local time) by a German economic research institute shows that the vast majority of tariffs imposed by the US government are ultimately borne within the US economy itse...

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Jeremy Bowen: Authoritarian regimes die gradually then suddenly, but Iran is not there yet The regime's opponents will hope for more pressure to accelerate the process, writes the BBC's international editor.

Sure, Jeremy, but under the pressures we have now from big oil, the oligarchs' social media companies and their political wings, democracies also die gradually, then suddenly.
BBC News - Bowen: Authoritarian regimes die gradually then suddenly, but Iran is not there yet
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very disappointing.

There is a code of conduct for Royal Society fellows - it's not a value judgement to say that Musk has contravened it!

see relevant bits of code and the Royal Society stated values below.

Trump's greatest achievements - to meet the short-term needs of an obsolete global industry, fossil fuels, that seeks to survive a few years longer, and to lie constantly about the flourishing global industry that's replacing it as we speak.

True, at least so far. Thank you for your comment, it's well taken.

To quote Hemingway, "bankruptcy happens gradually, then suddenly". So does moral bankruptcy at the top.