We really need better laws around political mid information.

Under water, in denial: is Europe drowning out the climate crisis? Even as weather extremes worsen, the voices calling for the rolling back of environmental rules have grown louder and more influential

"One day things will get so bad peope will be forced into action", they used to say, but I don't hear that much anymore

I see two things in Gorton and Denton: palpable frustration and the need for wise voting to stop Reform | Polly Toynbee After speaking to locals, I still can’t predict the result, but a big, combined effort will be needed. Without a united front the left may splinter and lose, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The betting has the Greens at 1/2 and Labour at 5/1. If you actually want to keep Reform out, rather than making a rhetorical point, you can only rationally argue for Labour to step aside.

Walking around my small town in the West of Scotland, drugs paraphernalia and wraps are a frequent sight in the undergrowth surrounding the play parks. I am sure this is not unusual. We need a new approach.

They really do treat us with contempt. They think we are stupid and do not deserve transparency. Despite their evident unpopularity, they refuse to pay attention.

We've known this for a long time. The text below, from 1969, and table from the book "Food for a Future", published in 1975, confirm the huge inefficiency in land use from animal-based foods.
I've been astonished since 1970, when I went vegetarian, that all the evidence wasn't changing customs...

Extreme heat lab: enduring the climate of the future Graham Readfearn enters a simulation to investigate how heatwaves affect the human body

According to the medical journal @thelancet.com, heat extremes caused an estimated 546k deaths every year between 2012 & 2021 – a 63% rise on rates seen in the 1990s

“That's the equivalent of a fully loaded jumbo jet full of people going down once every 7hrs throughout the year” says Prof Ollie Jay

Labour minister falsely linked journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network in emails to GCHQ Exclusive: Josh Simons pressed intelligence officials to investigate reporters, in emails described as ‘McCarthyite smear’

Utterly chilling insight into how Keir Starmer's team has been operating from the beginning. As others have been pointing out for years, the Labour Party and the country have been taken for a ride. There was a coup within the party, using a host of dirty tricks.
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He still hasn't been held accountable for sexual exploitation. The state is more concerned about state secrets being leaked than the victims.
Andrew (no longer a Prince) is disposable to the Monarchy and they have decided to cast him aside to protect the Firm, having spent money paying off victims.

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales Something the Government Want You to Forget - Green Party Political Broadcast

This is person-centred politics. Kudos @zackpolanski.bsky.social.

#HopeNotHate

Renewables energy

Solar, heat pumps ‘lower cost’ path than LNG for electrification, says NZGBC A new report argues New Zealand can meet its looming energy shortfall by accelerating rooftop solar and electric hot water

Government’s plan to import LNG for electricity generation would cost households and businesses up to $8.3bn

Same volume of electricity could be delivered through a $2.5b investment in rooftop solar panels and hot water heat pumps

evsandbeyond.co.nz/solar-heat-p...

#ScottishGreens co-leader @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social MSP has called on the Scottish Government to evict US military forces from the publicly-owned Glasgow #PrestwickAirport following continued military activity and reports of breaches of Scottish jurisdiction

greens.scot/news/evict-t...

Well done medics! 🙏
Well done jury!

Surely he deserves some sympathy. If you're used to a chauffeur driven car, walking through a park and encountering a "normal hard working person" is probably a bit of a shock.

Headline from The Telegraph of an idiotic piece by Matt Ridley: CO2 is simply not a danger to human health, and it's actively good for crops.

Spoken like someone locked in a poorly ventilated room.

You'd never guess that the @bjerknes.uib.no just issued an urgent warning of the existential risks to Norway 🇳🇴 from AMOC collapse & the need for increasing the urgency of decarbonization, would you?

“Jim Ratcliffe’s comments were outrageous. They are offensive and they were deeply wrong. We do have a problem in our country, and that problem is inequality. It’s not immigration.”

Ellie Chowns on #BBCQT, rejecting attempts to blame migrants for country's problems.

For capital, the purpose of production is not primarily to meet needs or achieve social progress, much less to deliver on any ecological goals. It's to maximise/accumulate profit. It requires perpetual growth – ever increasing aggregate production, regardless of whether it is necessary or harmful.
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We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp, say Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis

If Keir Starmer is looking for another reset, he couldn't do better than
follow this advice, but he remains a puppet of capitalism.

Polanski and the @greenparty.org.uk are the only party who could bring about the transformation we need

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When you try to win a debate by misrepresenting someone's position, despite them calmly stating their actual position, then you are clearly losing the argument.

Green MP @carladenyer.bsky.social demands answers over connections between Rosebank oil field and occupation in Palestine 👇

Weeks into 2026, the UK is still experiencing relentless rain, with storms refusing to budge and the soil saturated.

This is the cost of ignoring how fast the climate is changing.

Leaders have a choice - cut oil and gas or continue to pour fuel on the fire.

In modern genocide, they make the ovens portable. 2842 lives.

"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons...capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

Labour feels so broken that I am also unsure if they could turn it around in 3 years. It's hard to know who could lead the dismantling of the toxic system and then the re build. It's the sort of fundamental shift that could more easily happen in opposition. I think my money would be on the GPEW.

Morgan McSweeney and his downfall reveal what the Starmer project always was.

A project defined by kneeling before wealth, seeking power for its own sake, ridding Labour of any principle or morality.

It is an irredeemably corrupt project which was always doomed.

Hey, Portland Knitters!!

There is a huge Knit-In on Mar 8 in DC hosted by my friend @knittingcultlady.bsky.social. I am not able to go, and would love to put together a satellite event here in PDX.

Is anything in the works already? Can folks connect me to Knitters Against Fascism?

Morgan McSweeney says he takes ‘full responsibility’ for advising Starmer to appoint Mandelson – UK politics live McSweeney, who masterminded landslide 2024 election win, resigns as PM’s chief of staff after Mandelson revelations

But Morgan McSweeney can't "take responsibility".

This is something Sir Keir has acknowledged he knew about. The judgement call was his

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Thing is, McSweeney can say: "I take full responsibility...," but he can't, can he... It wasn't his job to appoint anyone, that was Starmer...

This is just another attempt to draw a line under the scandal of appointing a man who associated with a convicted child rapist. That was Starmer's decision.

Stop oil and gas sponsorship at the Olympics The Olympics are allowing oil and gas companies to sponsor the Games – even as fossil fuels threaten the future of winter sports. Add your name and urge them to end fossil fuel sponsorship for good >>

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