Max Clare

What to do if your copy of Private Eye won't open…

From the new Private Eye, out now.

The UK Gov’s expert advisers have shown that investing to transiton from expensive gas to clean energy will save the UK nearly £40 billion every year!

Most people can’t afford the up-front investment, but the UK absolutely can.

Tackling climate change isn’t just about protecting people.

Hugely important event. As many leaders as possible should respond to invites to this.

Well done @sioldridge.bsky.social and team

Ireland, Slovenia, Iceland, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal are now all considering boycotting Eurovision unless Israel are removed.

Like if they should.
RT if Israel should be kicked out

One of my ‘bits’.

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"The Cat Read the Emails First" (2025)
acrylic painting

By Ukrainian artist Nataliya Bagatskaya - n.bagatska [IG]

#art #painting #illustration #caturday

AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research has found. The study found that when using Google’s AI tool “Gemma” to generate and summarise the same case notes, language such as “disabled”, “unable” and “complex” appeared significantly more often in descriptions of men than women. Continue reading...

AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds

I suppose if you’ve been told climate change doesn’t exist you look for other explanations. I wouldn’t put it past Trump…

Bird poo used to be imported all the way from Peru in the 1850’s. Full of nitrogen and phosphorus it’s fantastic for growing veg. A ton of it must be worth a bit

Petition: Ban cheap renewable energy from being charged at the price of expensive gas Mandate energy providers to stop charging the same price as expensive gas for much cheaper renewable energy. We think they should pass any savings on to consumers, rather than keeping them as profit.

Could we reduce energy bills at a stroke? Renewable energy is generally cheaper to produce than gas. However, units of electricity are sold at the price of the most expensive unit needed to meet demand at a particular moment in time: gas. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Useless

And here! Proper rain too. We so needed this

Tim Dowling: a rake has it in for me – and the tortoise I thought the cartoonish thwack in the face from the garden tool was a once-in-a-lifetime act of stupidity. How wrong I was

Tim Dowling: a rake has it in for me – and the tortoise

Dumpster labeled “EARTH BORING.”

alien graffiti can be pretty hurtful 😔

Meanwhile, everywhere: "Things aren't just getting worse. They are getting worse faster."

The Extreme Weather Report, Jun 26, 2025.

Billionaires’ wealth surged $6.5tn over past decade, Oxfam reports Real-terms gains of $33.9tn for world’s richest 1% ‘enough to end annual global poverty 22 times over’, charity says

Wealth of the world’s 3,000 billionaires surged by $6.5tn (£4.8tn) in real terms over the past decade.

World's richest 1% gained $33.9tn in real terms.

Billionaires pay effective tax rate of 0.3% of their wealth.

Ultra-rich are major cause of poverty, pollution, corruption.

Need wealth tax now.

Yes I often come across memes and think “I really hope that’s true”.

YouTube video by Power Power Station Official Trailer - Sheffield 2025

This is a terrific initiative and film that our MP Watch Walthamstow group is getting involved in.

Reality is Not Written by the Victors There’s an old adage that “History is written by the victors”.

A new substack that everyone interested in climate science and policy should subscribe to.

Their latest post is by Ben Santer.

open.substack.com/pub/climatec...

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

Getting off US tech

Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince The evidence against the Drax power station is damning, yet the government wants to continue its massive public funding, says campaigner Dale Vince

Tree-burning #Drax power station is UK’s largest single source of CO₂ emissions—and a major air polluter.

Yet ludicrously, UK Gov pretends its emissions are zero.

Reports on its impact on primary forests have been covered up.

Ministers are being played. Again.

Great article by @dalevince.com

Are UK Govts anti-women?

Cuts to public sector wages -workforce mostly female

Cuts to benefits -most claimants female

Carers persecuted -mostly female

Hike state pension age -most pensioners female. Women get lower state pension.

Gender pay gap.

Female PMs, Chancellors push neoliberal policies

Thank you for your courage

❌ Say no to plastic grass ❌
-creates plastic pollution
-loss of habitat
-loss of co2 sink
-inc flood risk
-inc carbon
-bad for soil, bugs, worms
Fake grass is the last thing we need in a biodiversity crisis which is why I’m calling for it to be phased out as we #messupbritain for nature 💚🐝🌻

"Its a weed!" a man exclaimed as I snapped a photo for tonight's #WildflowerHour.
"No, they're #UrbanPlants," I called back with a smile.

So, let's chalk and talk about these plants by naming them and drawing attention to urban ecosystems
#BotanicalChalkandTalk

Another visitor to the US shares their story of being detained for 12 hours, denied entry and deported because of social media posts.