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Ffs. Via @desmog.com and @adambarnett.bsky.social - Glasman gave a speech to Tufton Street anti-science shills the GWPF this week calling for more fossil fuel extraction. Why is this pro-Brexit, pro-Trump, pro-Farage, anti-progress fucker anywhere near the Labour Party? Time for a countercoup.

Europe must be ready when the AI bubble bursts A market correction will give the EU the chance to offer a trust-based alternative to American tech

Definitely worth considering - what happens when the AI bubble bursts, and might Europe look a little more appealing? Because for all the current panics, actually there's still a lot of strengths here.

www.ft.com/content/0308...

The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion.

I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans.

🧵 Long thread.

Neil Mackay: Should the Tartan Army boycott the World Cup in Trump’s America? Do events in America outweigh the desire of fans to watch Scotland play? Writer at Large Neil Mackay says he won’t go to the USA as long as Donald…

Should football fans boycott the World Cup in Trump’s America?

I won’t step foot in the United States again until Trump is gone. I won’t support his regime or prop up the American economy.

Football fans need to examine their conscience

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

Former Tory MP Ben Bradley has now defected to Reform. They really are taking all the worst people from the Boris era.

Fuller version of Trump security strategy reportedly calls for "pulling Poland away from EU"

🚨🚨This is worse than we could have imagined: Full version of #Trump's national #securitystrategy reportedly calls for “pulling Poland away from #EU”. 🧵 notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...

YouTube video by Sustainable Human How the soil healed wounded soldiers - a tale from Regenesis | George Monbiot

For a glimpse of just how complex, fascinating and unexpected soil ecosystems are, have a watch of this video, and see if it doesn't blow your mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyGI...

The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...

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The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇

Offshore wind has been making waves in the British power system for 25 years, growing to become 🇬🇧’s SECOND largest source of power

Starting with two small turbines in 2000, offshore wind has grown to generate nearly a fifth of British electricity.

https://loom.ly/3fUtHXM

UK soars past wind power generation record for second time in two months - edie Great Britain’s maximum wind generation record was broken on Friday, 5 December, the National Energy System Operator (NESO) has confirmed.

A new record - on 5 December wind power produced enough electricity for 3/4 of UK homes

At 23.8GW it meant that even during winter peak demand, it was still providing nearly half the country's power needs

Still a way to go though....

www.edie.net/uk-soars-pas...

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation.

In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills.

Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors.

No end to nightmare without public ownership.

Shetland omitted from GB Energy map of UK GB Energy sparks outrage after omitting Shetland – home to major wind farms and oil hubs – from its UK onshore renewables map

“I suspect that Shetlanders will be bemused to learn that the Isle of Man is considered to be part of the UK in the eyes of GB Energy, while Shetland is not...”

60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds

60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed. Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Farage’s attack on the BBC tells us who he really is His response to allegations of racist behaviour reveals more than we could have guessed—and why the Beeb needs to protect itself

“Je suis Bernard Manning,” claims Nigel Farage. And so he is. But not quite in the way he meant. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uki...

Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion' The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms

A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".

Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

Has the Reform bandwagon stalled? Reform vote falls & lead cut from 15% to 8%. Greens surging.
Westminster Voting Intention:
REF: 30% (-5)
LAB: 22% (+2)
CON: 20% (+3)
GRN: 12% (+5)
LDEM: 12% (-1)
SNP: 2% (=)
Via BMG Research
Sample: 25-27 Nov.
Changes w/ 26-28 Aug.

Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Willow trees on Prince William’s land in Devon poisoned with herbicide Exclusive: Unknown culprit suspected of spraying glyphosate on protected trees hoped to stop peat erosion and flooding

There are some people who seem to see the recovery of ecosystems in a deforested waste as a personal affront. It's about power, and different landscapes reflect the different ways in which power is distributed - or concentrated.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.

We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.

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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations | Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges, says author and podcaster Musa Okwonga

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - my new article, if of interest please share.

How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality Cross-party coalition behind proposals hope eco-friendly scheme for million people could begin before end of decade

How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality

Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

I long for the days when pharasaic nutjobs like this were simply ridiculed into oblivion. #DunningKruger

A template for Scotland. The evolving trade graph here are instructive for those who use the old ‘How would Scotland survive if it created a hard border with rUK?’ trope.