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This is incredible. UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet
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they double bombed an elementary school for girls

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis. Troy Tassier is a professor of economics at Fordham University and the author of The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks.

"Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis!" The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, held in August 2020, was the epitome of the individual choice mindset. Of course it spread cases outward and caused infections, illness, and death. A new research paper allows us to watch the Sturgis Covid wave spread across the US.

I haven't. Thankfully though I've found a local enthusiast who wants it.

This summer, govt will set legally binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions for 2038-42 – critical for reaching net zero by 2050 🏭🌍 I’m part of the Environmental Audit Committee, which is urging the government to centre communities. 6 key takeaways from our report, published today 👇

Opinion Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won't be able to do anything else at all Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don't want extremes - they want a system that is managed and fair Shabana Mahmood is the UK home secretary

This is a hot mess of outright lies and misinformation from the Home Secretary, designed to try and persuade people that a government which is implementing some of the most hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies, in practice, for decades is progressive. 1/

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As the <checks notes> drone interceptor discourse handily demonstrates, having a highly battlefield experienced and armed to the teeth Ukrainian state as part of the EU / closely integrated into Europe is a bit of a game changer for perceptions of European military capability…

Big money has bought British politics

75% of Reform’s money has come from three rich white men

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Putin threatens to cut Russian gas to Europe unless EU reverses ban, leveraging Iran war As the U.S.-Iran war disrupts global energy markets, the Russian president is brainstorming ways to strong-arm the EU into rethinking its ban on Russian LNG and pipeline gas.

⚡️Putin threatens to cut Russian gas to Europe unless EU reverses ban, leveraging Iran war.

As the U.S.-Iran war disrupts global energy markets, the Russian president is brainstorming ways to strong-arm the EU into rethinking its ban on Russian LNG and pipeline gas.

How an underground fungal map of the world's oldest, slowest-growing rainforest trees can boost Earth's resilience The temperate rainforests of the Chilean Coast Range are home to a spectacular array of life: iridescent blue lizards, tiny wild cats called kodkods, and curly vines of waxy red bellflowers. Towering ...

Globally, mycorrhizal fungal communities move roughly a billion tons of carbon per year into Earth's soils, above all in old-growth forests.

Wild, natural ecosystems are the bedrock of a healthy planet. It's time we started recognising and acting on that.
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That was a straight block for this Nate bear chap from me. What a twat.

...they don't have to win militarily. They need to keep at it until Trump gets bored or scared of the economic harm. Or gets distracted by his next war.

Iran's strategy is to make everyone hurt and make this expensive. If we burn, you burn too. Will it work? Well, they're certainly talking to their agents outside of Iran. The new shortwave radio transmissions, a new numbers station in Farsi, that shows us that. They have a plan...

What does that mean? War is expensive. This one is costing America more than it should, because their borrowing isn't going to get easier, they won't be flooded with currency.

One expects that as oil price rises, so does the dollar (that's the whole point of Kissinger securing the deal with OPEC to price oil in dollars), funding American debt as people buy more dollars. It's barely happening.

And if that happens.... I've been surprised that so far the dollar hasn't risen all that fastb(1c Vs euro, 1p Vs £) while people are forced to buy more dollars to pay for more expensive oil ($10 rise per barrel). There is, around the world, little faith in the US economy.

Saudi cities run out of water in days if that happens. A couple of weeks at most. That and the economic pain of Hormuz being closed pulls their money away from the US.

Thinking aloud here, about Iran. At some point Iran will consider trying to hit desalinisation plants in the gulf. Their response so far seems planned, thought out. Wargamed.

NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities

McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.

Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles.

A little confused by "instead" here.

The saying isn't "fuck around, instead find out"

Exciting times on Anchor Island as we check #kakapo nests for hatching. We’re letting eggs hatch in nests to reduce management intensity. Last night I found these two newly-hatched chicks in Konini’s nest, along with a fertile egg I carried back under a lunar eclipse. #kakapo2026 #conservation

Trump’s DOJ Pulls Jaw-Dropping Number of Epstein Files Offline - NewsBreak Thousands of files relating to the Epstein case have been taken offline, according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal . The Journal found that more

THOUSANDS OF FILES RELATING TO THE EPSTEIN CASE HAVE BEEN TAKEN OFFLINE

MORE THAN 40,000 FILES WERE MISSING from documents that had been posted to the PEDO's DOJ’s website ...

INCLUDING THE DOCUMENTS THAT DETAILED ONE CHILD’S ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AGAINST PEDOrump

PEDOPHILE PROTECTORS!

Churchill? He's the guy who was married to that woman, what was she called, Magna Carta?

You might be a bit ahead of us then. Pretty things.

Two outrageously scarlet cup shaped fungi, on on a forest floor among moss, leaf litter and ivy.

We'll be hitting peak scarlet elf cup fungus for the year any day now. Yes, you can eat them if you cook them. No, they don't taste of much, leave them where the are. The're glorious, vivid looking things, aren't they?

Melania Trump, wife of Donald Trump Leads UNSC

The US showed its contempt with the world, international law, and UN by having Melania Trump, with no actual experience, lead the UN Security Council as the war of aggression against Iran continues to spiral out of control.

And here you have the advantage of being part of a huge trading block laid out very clearly. Trump is powerless here. Starmer has been browbeaten into cooperating.

...but one might expect teachers to have been ahead of the curve on this.

I was talking to an Aussie a while back, who described the nice plates his grandmother had on display. Wildlife of Australia. Kangaroos, Kukaburras... Well you can guess where this is going. Such attitudes are depressingly recent, even occasional present now.