Peter Lipman

Rory Challands: "[Keir Starmer] says that some people have been using Palestine solidarity demos to call for the murder of Jewish people, though he doesn't actually provide any examples of where or when this took place"

Totally agree. (I had to look up 'Chesterson's Fence' and I'm glad I did.)

Important new study by the @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social team in @nature.com finding that "the richest 20% of nations, with 15% of the global population, contribute more than 40% of annual ecological overshoot" doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Britain prepares NHS drug spending hike to stave off Trump tariffs Officials briefed the Trump administration on fresh proposals for pharma pricing earlier this week.

This is scary

We need manufacturing capacity so we can't be held to ransom says
@nickdearden.bsky.social
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Start by reversing the sale of previously publicly owned Vaccine Manufacturing + Innovation Centre www.bmj.com/content/376/...

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UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
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Indian states sign more coal power deals to meet rising demand Indian states are signing new long-term deals for coal power. This is to meet rising evening electricity demand. This comes as clean energy capacity grows. States like Uttar Pradesh and Assam are seek...

" #India plans to increase its coal power capacity by 46% from 210 GW currently to 307 GW by 2035"

##ClimateEmergency

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

no words

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

NEW: As Linda McMahon guts the Dept. of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how future kids will learn -- seeking to dismantle the public school system in favor of private and Christian schools or homeschooling.

The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act An authoritarian’s dream, the Insurrection Act is ripe for abuse — and Trump’s Cabinet is already setting up his justification to use it.

The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act theintercept.com/2025/10/07/t...

Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions - Carbon Brief A controversial way of measuring how much methane warms the planet has stirred debate in recent years – particularly around assessing the climate impact of livestock farming.

Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-the-...

One year’s worth of bread lost in UK to wrecked harvests since 2020, report finds Worsening droughts and floods have destroyed wheat for 4bn loaves of bread and forced record levels of imports

One year’s worth of bread lost in UK to wrecked harvests since 2020, report finds www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Bioregioning: the defining practice of regenerative cultures One could say that ‘bioregioning’ is our species long-term evolutionary survival pattern and hence a return to it may well be the most promising pathway our species can take through the tumultuous if ...

Bioregioning: the defining practice of regenerative cultures www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

AI vs humans: The 'singularity' keeps getting postponed AI boosters keep postponing the advent of artificial general intelligence.

AI vs humans: The ‘singularity’ keeps getting postponed www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

Yasuní: Horizons and Interstices in Social Imagination Esperanza Martínez The Yasuní struggle in Ecuador embodies a historic challenge to extractivism by crystallizing the demand to “leave oil underground” into a national referendum victory in 2023. De…

Yasuní: Horizons and Interstices in Social Imagination radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/yasuni-horiz...

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

On the one hand, medical science is beginning to get a handle on the very complex physiological basis of this disease. On the other hand, we can expect the greatest medical scandal (so far) of the 21st Century – the mass mistreatment and neglect of ME/CFS sufferers – to continue.

This commission points to where the government is heading. If the problem is “overdiagnosis” – which appears to be its foregone conclusion – then large numbers of people with horrendous conditions will be put through an even more punishing regime of tests and obstacles to qualify for benefits.

To rub salt into their wounds, these patients have watched as the man many see as their tormentor-in-chief has been garlanded with honours, including a knighthood. His latest appointment is yet another blow.

Many patients have been forced into useless and sometimes dangerous “buck up” treatments such as Graded Exercise Therapy and CBT, in some cases long after these “treatments” have been debunked. The most eminent advocate of these treatments? Professor Sir Simon Wesseley.

They desperately want to be able to work, to socialise, to experience all the other joys of life. But because the condition is so poorly understood, they have been repeatedly treated as if they were “malingerers” or “hysterics”. Which suits the government just fine.

In the firing line, as ever, are the UK’s hundreds of thousands of ME/CFS patients. As a practitioner once remarked, “the bastards don’t want to get better”. If there is one characteristic all the ME/CFS patients I’ve come across have in common, it is a desperation to get better.

Like the Tories, the Labour government is trying to drive down the number of people who qualify for disability benefits by insisting there has been an epidemic of “overdiagnosis”: a favourite theme of the BBC and the junktanks of Tufton Street. Never mind the science: what outcome do we want?

Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
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Daniel Levy making the point that the fault line in Israeli society isn't about the genocide in Gaza but centres around the govt deprioritising the return of the hostages.

$21.7 billion in US military aid has fueled Israel's war on Gaza A new report shows how American support has been essential to what many experts are now calling a genocide

$21.7 billion in US military aid has fueled Israel's war on Gaza responsiblestatecraft.org/us-aid-israe...

$21.7 billion in US military aid has fueled Israel's war on Gaza A new report shows how American support has been essential to what many experts are now calling a genocide

⚠️ In the last two years, the United States has supplied $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel.

$21.7 BILLION.

responsiblestatecraft.org/us-aid-israe...

At least 92 Palestinians killed every day in Gaza for 2 straight years; U.S. opens the door for war with Venezuela Drop Site Daily: October 7, 2025

⚡️Drop Site Daily | October 7, 2025

At least 92 Palestinians killed every day in Gaza for 2 straight years; U.S. opens the door for war with Venezuela

www.dropsitenews.com/p/two-years-...

US is violating human rights laws by backing fossil fuels, say young activists in new petition Petition says that US government’s protection of fossil fuel interests has put people in harm’s way

A new petition from youth climate activists calls out the U.S. government’s protection of fossil fuel interests, arguing to an international human rights body that these actions have put people in harm’s way and violated human rights.

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