Paul Andrews

This lazy racism is in all the papers today in the West. bsky.app/profile/farh...

Trump is losing his foolish trade war. This will cost ordinary Americans greatly | Steven Greenhouse Trump’s trade war has pushed up inflation, slashed US job gains, slowed economic growth and caused the manufacturing sector to sputter

#Trump is losing his foolish trade war. This will cost ordinary Americans greatly - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "average effective tariff rate on imports into the US will be 18%, up from 2.3% last year – the highest level since Smoot-Hawley #tariffs of 1930 worsened the Great Depression."

Loch polluted by radioactive waste from nuclear bomb plant Loch Long on the Clyde has been contaminated by radioactive waste from the UK’s nuclear bomb store, official files reveal.

Loch Long on the Clyde contaminated by radioactive waste from the UK’s #nuclear bomb store where old water pipes have repeatedly burst and caused floods, files released after a six-year secrecy battle reveal.
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Post Office closures: Which London branches could be hit? The Post Office is looking at closing up to 115 directly-owned branches nationally - 32 in London.

The Post Office is franchising my local PO to a new bunch of bar stewards. The staff are being made redundant and replaced by cheaper staff. We couldn't expect anything less from this red Tory government and their BS opportunities. Capitalism really is sh1t for the 99%. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'I'm 84 and my allotment means everything. Labour are about to take it away' Allotment owners are facing heartbreak after learning their plots are among those given the green light to be sold off by the government.

Seems like some of them are very much in use. Still, if you need a car park we shouldn't let a few old crusties get in the way. uk.news.yahoo.com/allotment-si...

Serious water pollution in England up 60%, government says Last year had the highest number of pollution events by water companies ever recorded.

Chris Witty in 2022. "We have 2 stretches of river in England and Wales with bathing water status. There are over 500 in France." We are being conned and overcharged and lied to by the Labour government about the costs of renationalisation. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Serious water pollution in England up 60%, government says Last year had the highest number of pollution events by water companies ever recorded.

Chris Witty 2022. As a start, 4 have recently agreed to reduce their overflows to an average of no more than 20 discharges a year by 2025 – but we need to go much further and Ofwat and the Environment Agency will hold companies to account for this delivery. Not working! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Jeremy Corbyn attacks Angela Rayner for selling off allotments The ex-Labour leader - and keen gardener - accuses ministers of threatening a British tradition.

The Labour cabinet are truly clowns and idiots, Tories in fact. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Researchers discover mind-blowing method to extract lucrative material from common garbage: 'Its future role is pivotal' Researchers discovered a surprisingly simple way to recover silver from waste, using ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen.

Seems like a big step forward if it works commercially and at scale. www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/k...?

World Cannot Recycle Its Way Out of Plastics Crisis, Report Warns

Somehow, we the people, allow this to happen. We don't hold our politicians to account over the overuse of plastics. Supermarkets for example or the exploitatively made sweat shop garbage clothing that keeps our economies running. Corporations own our democracies. e360.yale.edu/digest/lance...

OPEC+ agrees to boost oil production in large output hike Eight OPEC+ countries meeting on Sunday agreed on a bump in oil production for September by 547,000 barrels per day.

In some ways we deserve to go extinct. www.euronews.com/business/202...?

TikTok Labubu trend exploited by criminals with dangerous fakes Labubu doll fans say real ones are increasingly hard to get because of scalpers scooping them all up.

The utter dumbness of the human monkey. It's easy to see why we could go extinct because we are so thick. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Greece wildfires: What to do if holiday affected, according to experts BBC News has spoken to a range of experts to look at where you stand with cancellations and insurance.

How terrible that some, mainly white, people might have their holidays disrupted. It's those same people who are causing the increase and severity of the fires and no association made by this crap BBC reporting. Reduce fossil fuel use, drastically reduce flying. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Male Loneliness Epidemic is largely misogynists & patriarchal men wishing women would go back to pre-1960s submissive mute subjects. Not our job to fix your loneliness. Try being a woman no one listens to or respects. This actually-existing Female Loneliness Epidemic has existed for millennia.

Climate-protecting carbon sinks of EU forests are declining Forests cover about 40% of the EU's land area. Between 1990 and 2022, they absorbed around 10% of the continent's man-made carbon emissions. However, the carbon dioxide absorption capacity of forests,...

There's still this disconnect and belief in we can grow, we can have it all and never a thought that maybe we could do something different and that economics is made up, whereas physics is not. Cut fossil fuel use immediately. phys.org/news/2025-08...?

The air we breathe in our homes and cars contains thousands of microplastics, study finds Thousands of microplastics so small they can penetrate deep into the lungs are in the air you breathe in your home and car, a new study has found.

We have to get this plastic, corporately produced, crap out of our lives. It's killing us. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Twinkle, twinkle leopard seal: Songs below the ice flow like nursery rhymes In a study published today in Scientific Reports, UNSW Sydney researchers found that the underwater songs of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) in Antarctica share structural similarities with the nursery rhymes often sung by humans to their young.

Leopard seal songs beneath Antarctic ice display structured, repetitive patterns similar to human nursery rhymes, likely aiding communication across vast underwater distances. doi.org/g9vtpw

Starmer and Reeves should consider wealth tax, says former shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds urges government not to duck ‘big decisions’ in autumn budget

'Labour should consider a wealth tax, says former shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds'

Once again, I don't care whether wealth is taxed via a new levy, or via changes to Capital Gains Tax + Inheritance Tax etc

And it's not just about raising £, but also fairness.

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UK vehicle making hits lowest level since 1953, excluding Covid Data shows a slump in car and van production as the industry trade body hopes a UK-US tariff deal will bring

It's a simple numbers game, climate change (2)+ AI (2)+ robotics (2)+ finite planet (2)= 8, meaning that 1. there will be less workers in the car industry, 2. the planet has limits, even for the British, which are being exceeded. Get over it & be prepared for change. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Endless battle' with crime gangs taking over the high street People say they're terrified of going to the shops, with reports of intimidation and open drug dealing.

Such a wonderful country to live in, not. "It's worse over there (fill in country of choice)" excuse. Still Rachel Reeves and the other red Tories say they know what they are doing, for the rich. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Delta: 25 injured by turbulence forces emergency landing The flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam made an emergency landing in Minneapolis.

This will get much worse. The more we fly, the more will die, in the air and on the ground. Welcome to the Anthropocene. Stop burning fossil fuels now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PR firm working for Shell wins COP30 media contract As calls grow to keep fossil fuel influence out of UN climate talks, campaigners say Edelman’s partnership with the oil and gas major raises an alarming conflict of interest As calls grow to keep foss...

You really, really couldn't make this stuff up, www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/30/p...

Ask your council to end the use of urban pesticides Get involved!

Let's get rid of all unnecessary pesticides which is the vast majority of them if not all. www.pan-uk.org/pesticide-fr...

Christmas food price shock looms, chancellor warned The BRC says shoppers are already staring down the prospect of food inflation at 6% by the time of the festive season and urges her to spare retailers more pain in the coming budget.

Food price hikes are only just beginning. The UK only produces 60% of the food it consumes and climate change is affecting food production around the world. I'm sure a 3rd Heathrow runway, a spaceport, AI, datacentres & robotics will make up for hunger. news.sky.com/story/budget...

Asian algae infesting southern Spanish beaches Thousands of tonnes of 'Rugulopteryx okamurae', an invasive seaweed from Southeast Asia, are accumulating on the beaches of the Strait of Gibraltar and the southern coast of Spain, constituting what l...

It's the economy stupid. And partly down to our stupidity as a species, allowing ships to transport invasive species around in ballast tanks, so we can have cheaply made garbage from far away sweatshops etc. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Brazil brings COP30 to Belem to highlight poverty and climate risks In Belem, the UN climate summit will bring global leaders face to face with the harsh realities of climate change and inequality.

The madness of COP continues. The science is already clear & COPs have outlived their usefulness. 90,000 attendees, why? How many will actually see the poverty and the environmental damage to the area and the further damage that they cause? www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...?

The world loves argan oil but Morocco’s trees are paying the price The hidden cost of argan oil's beauty boom is drought, deforestation and disappearing traditions.

Although the greedy middlemen, probably men, don't help, the exploitation of women can be laid squarely with 1st world corporate greed. The lifestyles of the women slaving away are very different to the employees of exploitative corporations. www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...?

Is wind power really a ‘con job’? Fact-checking Trump’s latest claims US President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of wind energy during a visit to Scotland, calling turbines ugly, costly, and harmful to wildlife.

Is Trump the greatest ever numptie elected? That's a yes. The current version of so called democracy in the US is a failure. It's run by corporate lobbyists and the rich. www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...?

Trump announces tariffs on India and penalty for Russian imports Ahead of Friday's new tariff package, Trump announced that a 25% tariff would be imposed on India along with another unspecified penalty for importing Russian oil and weapons despite US sanctions.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, its oil has supplied Indian & Chinese polyester manufactures supplying the sweatshops & filling shops & online retailers with exploited clothes, helping to bomb Ukraine. Shoppers are unknowingly helping Russia. www.euronews.com/business/202...?

Hotel owner pitches alternative Heathrow plan The owner of hotels at Heathrow Airport has produced an alternative proposal for the airport's expansion.

Climate change doesn't apply to the UK it seems because we are governed by greedy idiots. We must reduce fossil fuel use now. The more we fly, the more will die. www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/ho...