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Respect the Amazon - Greenpeace International Add your name to demand global leaders #RespectTheAmazon and protect its forests, wildlife and its people.

⚠️ The Amazon's powerful ability to regulate climate is under threat ⚠️

Illegal mining and industrial-scale agriculture are cutting and burning down vast areas of forests for a quick profit.

Add your name to demand global leaders #RespectTheAmazon act.gp/4c12sje

Sam Fender didn’t need his Mercury prize win – but he earned it with his incisive social realism Maybe they should have given the award to an album that wasn’t already a huge hit – but Fender’s blend of kitchen-sink drama and stadium choruses is expertly done

Sam Fender didn’t need his Mercury prize win – but he earned it with his incisive social realism

Ronaldo’s sudden interest in return to US is World Cup Trump card that Fifa craves | Barney Ronay Portugal star will hand Gianni Infantino the perfect publicity coup if he does play in America for the first time in more than 10 years, having already begun cosying up to Donald Trump

The greatest shit-show on earth
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‘It’s better than plastic and cheaper’: 20 sustainable swaps that worked (and saved you money) From a metal dustpan and solid shampoo to refillable deodorant and organic veg boxes, these are the eco-friendly changes readers stuck with

‘It’s better than plastic and cheaper’: 20 sustainable swaps that worked (and saved you money)

Cartoon illustrating, how traffic induces more traffic. “There is too much traffic for Billy to walk to school, so we drive him.”

As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. HT Ian Lockwood.

Spread the word.

Fuckinell got it eventually! 😆

Reclaiming Keegan: The Forgotten Great of Liverpool’s Golden Age

"At #LFC, Kevin Keegan pressed before pressing had a name, erupted where others glided, and turned Anfield from a cathedral of noise into a launchpad for superstardom."

✍️ @eddiegibbs.bsky.social

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No wonder he wanted to wake up Maggie.

We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich The national guard’s deployment in Los Angeles sets the US on a familiar authoritarian pathway. History shows the results

We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich

I have to say I am very disappointed. I’m sure he could find a job elsewhere. His statements and his book ..

Qatar bid to complete football with PSG project’s crowd-pleasing third act | Barney Ronay Whatever the result of Champions League final, PSG’s owners have positioned club as game’s next superpower

The Neymar/Messi years. All part of the same plan. How Qatar completed football www.theguardian.com/football/202...

ALLISTER HEATH Follow + Nigel Farage is on course to be PM. This is what the establishment will do to destroy him

Allister, what have you been inhaling? Nigel Farage IS the establishment. Privately educated at Dulwich College, former commodities broker. A man rich enough to argue about having an account at Coutts. Elected as an MEP in 1999, leader of UKIP, the Brexit Party, Reform Party, current MP for Clacton.

Will Hughes: ‘I don’t like the limelight … you’ve got to remember the priority is football’ The Crystal Palace midfielder tells Jonathan Liew about the hype in his early career, ‘shit’ VAR and the embarrassment of Watford’s 2019 FA Cup final

Will Hughes was once the next big thing in English football; a teenage prodigy compared with Iniesta and Wilshere. Now he’s 30, a tough-tackling midfielder and two-time Cup finalist. So I wanted to ask him: did he actually “make it”?

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Quite possibly the biggest climate story of the year (especially when we look back on this in a few years' time)

For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand...

Leaving Anfield and, well, that second-half was horrible. The most toxic and divisive
atmosphere I’ve experienced there since the days of Hicks and Gillett. You can blame Trent but I’d rather blame those who booed and made a day that was meant to be totally and utterly celebratory anything but.

We’re not all going to agree on everything and that’s fair enough. I know there’s people who won’t have a problem with it. But for me, what happened re: booing Trent, has left a bitter taste in my mouth. I didn’t like it one little bit. Never boo a player wearing the Liverpool shirt no matter what.

Didn’t like Trent being booed

The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment.
My column today.
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Government not taking climate threats seriously - watchdog The government has made little progress in preparing the UK for rising temperatures, climate watchdog the CCC says.

The UK govt admits it can’t afford to adapt high-risk areas to climate breakdown. As Joseph Tainter said, complex societies fall when the metabolic cost of maintaining complexity exceeds the return.

Environmental breakdown raises those costs leading to #collapse

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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power.
This week's column.
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Mcginley just said Rory pulled a putt into the hole! 🙄😳. Fuck sake

Big balls round from Rory that.

PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online A leaked document shows that vested interests may have been behind a “mud-slinging” PR campaign to discredit a landmark environment study, according to an investigation. The Eat-Lancet Commission study, published in 2019, set out to answer the question: how can we feed the world’s growing population without causing catastrophic climate breakdown? Continue reading...

PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows

PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online

1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes.
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Hillsborough families call for ‘all or nothing’ law as Labour expected to break pledge Report released as Labour admits it will break promise to enact law by 36th anniversary and rewrites key proposals

Hillsborough Law is important for scandals like Windrush, Post Office, Grenfell too. @inquest-org.bsky.social does brilliant work listening to people affected. Starmer must not go back on such an important promise to people who have suffered huge injustice.
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Do we need more quantitative easing? Over the last day or so, I have seen or heard discussion on whether the government might revive quantitative easing as a way of easing the pressure on the UK economy in response to the crisis that Tru...

Do we need more QE? Mo. Do we need the government to admit that QE was simply it borrowing from the Bank of England, and that it will need to do more of that to get us through the crisis heading our way? Yes, most definitely we do. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...

Currently halfway through it. Really good (and depressing 😃). A must read

It’s unfair to blame Liverpool for being the best team: that's how you win titles | Barney Ronay It has been an odd, slow bicycle race of a season, but this is hardly the fault of Arne Slot’s impressive league leaders

Liverpool: still winning it by default, via the sneaky trick of being by far the best team in the country.
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1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵

10. Capitalism's promise is that we can all aspire to private luxury. Never mind that the system is built on some people exploiting others, who must remain poor if exploitation is to succeed. Never mind that there isn’t even physical space (let alone ecological space) for universal private luxury.