Andy Brown

Can you think of any other time in British history when a political party with as massive an advantage in the HoC as Labour currently boast has squandered so much opportunity?

Try as I might, I genuinely can't.

Love the textures of this beaten up old doorway in my village in North Yorkshire

Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Massive Sea Star Die-Offs, and Suspect a Link to Global Warming  - Inside Climate News Outbreaks from ocean pathogens that can be deadly to marine life and even threaten humans are more frequent in overheated waters.

Global warming is driving marine mass mortalities in every ocean, sometimes so fast that scientists have a tough time keeping up with studying the impacts.

They don't like the facts about climate change so they are systematically trying to destroy the evidence. The floods, fires and storms will carry on getting worse regardless.

#TruthWarriors

A fair price to the public for water nationalisation | Letter Letter: The government is wrong on the cost of bringing water back into public ownership, write Prof Becky Malby, Dr Kate Bayliss, Prof Frances Cleaver and Prof Ewan McGaughey

UK govt is wrong on the cost of bringing England's water back into public ownership.

Its £100bn number has no economic/legal basis.

The cost of public ownership is "closer to zero".

Companies are bankrupt, their shareholders and lenders have already extracted billions.

Smart cities know that, as hot as they already are, they’re just going to keep getting hotter. Greening the city not only cools it down, it cleans the air, quiets the noise, improves mental health & happiness, saves public money, & more. Strand Aldwych, London. 2021 vs. 2025. Via @modacitylife.com

Shein fined €1m in Italy for misleading environmental claims about products Chinese fast fashion retailer penalised month after €40m fine from French regulator in July

#FastFashion - costing the earth: Shein fined in France and now Italy. So are they saying different things in the UK?

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Guess who the tax system is really supporting In this second article on wealth accumulation, we explain who our tax system really supports

"As the table shows, the answer is, mostly to the richest.

The people in the top decile receive 40% of all the pension relief, a third of the relief on the sale of domestic properties, and half of the ISA relief."

Part of a report by Emma Murphy.

It's genocide.

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

Despite all efforts on recycling plastic production continues to increase as microplastics cover the entire earth in a thin layer that will last for thousands of years. The focus must be on controlling production & distribution not just consumption and recyling.

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Melting glaciers on remote Australian island spark concern Glaciers on the remote Australian territory of Heard Island have lost almost a quarter of their size over the past seven decades amid rising temperatures in the sub-Antarctic region, new research show...

⛰️ Scientists from @arcsaef.bsky.social tracked changes to 29 glaciers on sub-Antarctic Heard Island between 1947 and 2019. Over that 72-year period, they found the loss of 64 square kilometres of glacier coverage — a 22 percent decline.

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UK government has ‘got the balance right’ on tax, says Rachel Reeves Chancellor responds to calls for wealth tax on millionaire households

UK govt has ‘got the balance right’ on tax, says Rachel Reeves.

Not addressed Tory legacy.

Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.

Capital gains & dividends taxed at lower rates than wages, recipients don't pay NIC

Mansions and modest homes pay same council tax

More than fifty private schools shut since Labour put VAT on fees Department for Education defends ending tax breaks for independent institutions, after parents lost a legal battle at the High Court this year — view map

The headline here should say:

"Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded".

(The increase is mentioned way down the article.)

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“a major shift in public sentiment towards the EU, with support for Remain increasing by four percentage points in just over a year.”

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Mission under way to save 'world's most beautiful' snails Researchers in Cuba and the UK are working together to reveal the biological secrets of the beautiful but endangered Polymita snail.

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The lesson Britain needs to learn from California and China - Andy Brown During the early stages of the industrial revolution, when efficient factories were starting to turn out high quality merchandise in great quantities, Britain sent a delegation to China to see whether...

No nation ever prospered by trying to shut out competition from modern technology. Trump will make America weak again if he continues to stick with fossilised technology instead of copying the part of the States that is most successful & most green. California
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The grid battery storage line looks small on this plot, but no other line grew by a larger percentage. Batteries are coming to the grid, as we speak.

Atomic power is not the future. Too slow to build, too expensive in the building and more expensive per unit generated than any other method.

Militarily unnecessary. Indiscriminate.
Disproportionate.
Deliberately cruel.

In other words, criminal.

Sizewell C is a worse scandal than HS2. Over priced vanity project. You could put a battery into 50 million building for this money and cut the need for peak power generation by a third whilst cutting bills and saving CO2. This puts up bills and leaves a huge pollution legacy.

We need more human beings.

Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm Company says extra payments relating to work for Kelda Holdings were covered by shareholders not billpayers The boss of Yorkshire Water, one of Britain’s biggest water suppliers, has received £1.3m in previously undisclosed extra pay since 2023 via an offshore parent company, the Guardian can reveal. Nicola Shaw received £660,000 from Yorkshire Water’s Jersey-registered parent company, Kelda Holdings, in the 2023-24 and the 2024-25 financial years. The size of the fees was not disclosed in the annual report of the regulated subsidiary, Yorkshire Water Services. Continue reading...

Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm

Miles & miles of maize
but 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 insect—in 2 days of 🚴‍♀️🚴in Brittany.

Maize is mainly 🐄 feed.

Linked to high pesticide use—and damaging soil erosion.

Governments must be honest about the hidden costs of meat.

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social warned about maize a decade ago 👇

Supplying aircraft parts, information from satellites and training staff who are currently shooting people in bread queues is not something anyone should tolerate. The Labour leadership is enabling ethnic cleansing against the wishes of the vast majority of its voters.

Yorkshire’s inglorious moors and the lies of the land Yorkshire’s uplands are ecological deserts, drained and burned by big landowners – it’s time to demand restoration over destruction

Yorkshire’s inglorious moors and the lies of the land

Yorkshire’s uplands are ecological deserts, drained and burned by big landowners – it’s time to demand restoration over destruction

By David Robson

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

IN ONE DROP OF BLOOD THEY FOUND 29 MICROPLASTIC PARTICLES IN HER BODY. THAT IS NOW WHAT ALMOST ALL OF US ARE CARRYING.

Yorkshire’s inglorious moors and the lies of the land Yorkshire’s uplands are ecological deserts, drained and burned by big landowners – it’s time to demand restoration over destruction

✍️ Yorkshire’s inglorious moors and the lies of the land

Yorkshire’s uplands are ecological deserts, drained and burned by big landowners – it’s time to demand restoration over destruction

By David Robson

@davidotley.bsky.social

It is horrible to witness the UK Prime Minister shame our entire nation as he tries to play nice with Trump. It won't work because sooner or later Trump will turn on him. Probably a few weeks after getting the free publicity for taking tea at Windsor Palace