Brendan

If anyone fancies a 30% discount on my book THE LIE OF THE LAND, there's a special deal on today & tomorrow: www.amazon.co.uk/Lie-Land-bes...

Alternatively, available at your local independent bookshop!

Could have told you that 25 years ago. Probably did.

Green capital - don't bank on it! Global banking climate group to stop operations after member exodus.

Global banking climate group to stop operations after member exodus.

theecologist.org/2025/oct/06/...

YouTube video by triple j AURORA covers Massive Attack 'Teardrop' for Like A Version

Massive Attack = real deal on climate. Aurora = real deal on climate. This cover = great

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPTY...

Good and bad news for Zack Polanski: the Green conference was a joy, but now hopes are stratospheric | Adam Ramsay Members loved hearing from a leader who boldly reflects their views and isn’t afraid of the rightwing press. How far can he take the party?, says journalist and Green party member Adam Ramsay

Green members at their conference this weekend were exuberant. But can @zackpolanski.bsky.social and team meet soaring expectations? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - me for @theguardian.com

Where police are paid to kill Police in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will be paid bonuses for killing suspects. Aimed at organized crime, the law will hit ethnic minorities - and eco-activists.

Police in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will be paid bonuses for killing suspects. Aimed at organized crime, the law will hit ethnic minorities - and eco-activists.

Great reporting from @monicapiccinini.bsky.social

theecologist.org/2025/oct/07/...

How does Greta Thunberg, who is 22 have more guts and intelligence than the entire American government combined?? 💙✌️🦋

Don't forget that 41 Tory MPs in the last government took Russian donations. That might account for media reticence to report on the Nathan Gill case.

Yes, you can kidnap British citizens sailing in international waters. If you’re the IDF. Just so you know.

Can you imagine if Russia attacked and seized a UK vessel in international waters & kidnapped the people on board, including UK citizens, and the only response from the UK govt was to say that's "a matter for the Russian govt".

No, me neither.

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Soda for the Hegel generation.

Contrary to Reason Steven Pinker claims to champion Enlightenment values. But his latest book is an affront to them

There are some people whom the media has decided are "leading intellectuals", regardless of the views of their academic colleagues. Invariably they are people who justify - or at the very least do not challenge - economic power. Steven Pinker is a stand-out example.
www.monbiot.com/2018/03/09/c...

The level of freedom we experience will depend on the level of courage we demonstrate

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

We cannot change the profession all at once, in one big sweep. But we can create a few spaces where things work as we would want them to. Hoping that people notice that good is possible and our micro-utopias catch on. #philsky #academicsky

I just learned about the hyrax. An animal that looks like they're just done with everyone's bullshit

greta thunberg 's flotilla was detained by israeli authorities. contact the swedish government to demand her and others in her flotilla's release. ttps://www.government.se/emails-to-the-government-and-ministries/

The real power brokers We won’t get real climate action while big polluters are overseeing government departments.

'We won’t get real climate action while big polluters are overseeing government departments.'

Another scoop from @adamramsay.bsky.social

theecologist.org/2025/oct/03/...

The catch Brendan Montague travels from Vienna to Scotland in search of the solution to overfishing – and to the tragedy of the commons

The catch
Brendan Montague from @theecologist.org travels from #Vienna to #Scotland in search of the solution to #OverFishing - and to the tragedy of the commons.

#Fishing #Salmon #SalmonFishing #SalmonFarming

Good and bad news for Zack Polanski: the Green conference was a joy, but now hopes are stratospheric | Adam Ramsay Members loved hearing from a leader who boldly reflects their views and isn’t afraid of the rightwing press. How far can he take the party?, says journalist and Green party member Adam Ramsay

The other political parties will be green with envy….

Great insider take from the @greenparty.org.uk conference floor from @adamramsay.bsky.social.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wondered how long it would take The Observer to make itself totally unacceptable to people interested in facts and political ethics.

You’re free to protest, as long as your protest is totally ineffectual.

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories...
"Change", my left foot.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The climate movement’s biggest weakness What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.

Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.

It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Graphic heart around the State of Palestine flag (in red, black, white and green). Text: the State of Palestine just ratified the Global Ocean Treaty

Our heartfelt congratulations to the State of Palestine on ratifying the Global Ocean Treaty. ⁣
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In the face of genocide, famine and suffering, this decision to stand for our shared planet and ocean is a powerful act of courage & solidarity. ⁣
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#ProtectTheOceans #StopDeepSeaMining #StopTheGenocide

The guy who is blowing up boats and getting away with it is the same guy who said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it.

He told us who he was. And people voted for him anyway.

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.