Peter Lipman

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘A big burden for farmers’: Gulf shipping crisis threatens food price shock Iranian blockade of the strategic strait of Hormuz is hitting global fertiliser supply chain

‘A big burden for farmers’: Gulf shipping crisis threatens food price shock www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Lobbyists send legal threats to councils over anti-wood burner campaigns At least eight councils receive legal threats alleging flyers criticising wood burners are in breach of advertising codes

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries Exclusive: Schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds to protect biodiversity and oceans likely to be substantially reduced

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The inevitable outcome of the strategic communications plan of immediately forgetting why we're doing any of this and pretending to be energy affordability campaigners instead.

Climate will be back, but for now: support the real ones who haven't given up focus and fight. There are many of them ✊🏽

The feminist political project in the heart of the Middle East, Rojava, is a fierce assertion that other worlds are possible.

They have defended their right to self-determination—for all our sakes.

Journalist Matt Broomfield has spent years there. Listen now:
www.planetcritical.com/rojava-the-f...

🌍 Did you hear? The new IPBES #BizBiodiversity report confirms it: businesses that ignore biodiversity are putting their own survival at risk. It's time to rethink how companies interact with nature. 🏡

More @ Reuters: https://ow.ly/20aF50YnYG5

🧪 #BizBiodiversity Media: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media

‘We deserve to know the truth’: 11 questions about US bases in Britain From where they are exactly to the laws governing them, here’s what we need to know to hold the UK government accountable for Trump's use of British bases

While the govt approves Trump’s use of UK bases to strike Iran, it is denying the public basic information about the US military/intel presence here.

Incredibly, it says “the overall US force composition across its UK footprint is a matter for the US”. ❗️

www.declassifieduk.org/we-deserve-t...

The fact the Israeli president feels the need to stress that Israel does not dictate to the US and Israel did not drag the US into a war is telling.

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

the media-war machine was at peak performance during the first gulf war under hw bush and was firing on all cannons from 9/11 to the end of 2006. the press didnt want to hear about peacenik hippies opposing war. they wanted their war porn and bush/cheney gave it to them like the best drug dealers.

Who's watching while we shop? Coles has partnered with CIA-linked surveillance corporation Palantir. Who's watching while we shop?

If you don't know about it already I guarantee it is more wild than you expect

www.getup.org.au/campaigns/ec...

Except, this isn't a boycott. This is a mass transfer from one war loving brand to another war loving brand, enacted by a pro-AI faction of centrist effective altruists.

As revealed by my colleague @adambienkov.bsky.social last year, the BBC drew up a strategy to appeal more to Reform voters.

Might be waiting a while for them to do the same for Green voters...

Alex Norris is asked, is it acceptable that the US sank an Iranian warship in intl waters near Sri Lanka

Norris: "I'm not a commentator on these affairs"

So the UK govt doesn't have a view on a nation that hasn't declared war sinking other countries ships in intl waters.

“Oakeshott did not move to Dubai because she was persecuted in the United Kingdom, nor did she immigrate to flee censorship or imprisonment.

She moved, in her own words, for tax reasons, specifically VAT on private schooling - something that makes her, say it with me, an economic migrant.”

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This is so great. Over the last 12 years beavers have gone from something that governments wanted rid of and few of the NGOs cared about, to being recognised as a native species right across GB. Well done to all those who campaigned to get us here.

BREAKING — The UK is joining in with the US/Israeli/French campaign against independent UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese.

In response to a question from arch Israel lobbyist Luke Akehurst, it says it wants her comments on Israel to be “urgently investigated”.

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AOC: He impulsively went in on Venezuela. He impulsively went in on Iran. It led to increased global instability and every time he’s done that, it has been consistent with a spike in what is happening with the Epstein files. I think that he feels existentially tied to it.

Pro-Palestine protest organisers ‘a pack of communists’ intent on confrontation with police, Minns tells budget estimates New South Wales premier faces questions over what he told MPs who attended demonstration opposing Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s visit

"The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, has labelled pro-Palestine protest organisers “a pack of communists” as he continues to blame them for violent clashes with police last month, amid ongoing dissent among Labor MPs about the government’s response."

Surgeon Victoria Rose (who has previously worked in Gaza), explains that with the number of Palestinian healthcare workers Israel has killed and imprisoned, its vital that doctors like her can get into Gaza to work. But Israel has blocked her from going back.

"At the Nasser medical complex, 52% of their essential medicines, so thats things like antibiotics & painkillers, are at zero stock"

Surgeon Victoria Rose explains that Israel is still blocking medical supplies and equipment from entering Gaza.

Surgeon Victoria Rose (who has worked in Gaza) explains that Israel is blocking experienced healthcare workers from going back.

Global sea levels have been underestimated due to poor modelling, research suggests Analysis shows average levels are 30cm higher than thought, and up to 150cm in south-east Asia and Indo-Pacific

Global sea levels have been underestimated due to poor modelling, research suggests www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.

Who profits from an energy crisis in the wake of the war on Iran?

The 1%.

Thanks @nytimes.com @hclairebrown.bsky.social for covering our research.

Link to coverage: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/c...

Link to our article:www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ah yes, cutting funding to Muslim groups because of a social media post by the far-right Australian Jewish Association. The textbook definition of social cohesion

Second UK polling company in a day puts the Green Party at 20%+

The surge is real.