Martin Cullen

Southern Europe swelters under deadly heatwave as temperatures pass 40C Scientists warn of ‘molotov cocktail’ of climatic conditions fuelling vast wildfires across Mediterranean

I cannot describe Europe and the heatwaves this year. They started early, they kept going sooo high and sooo long, now one of the fiercest one is still roaring.
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Britain must copy China in net zero race, says Miliband’s energy tsar Chris Stark calls for UK to embrace ‘cold, hard economics’ of going green

A quote from UK Tories - what's the matter with them?

Their suggested suggested solutions will either achieve nothing, or the complete reverse

"Living standards depend on having cheap energy. That’s why we should back the North Sea & build a lot more nuclear”

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British farmers face ‘catastrophic’ harvest, warns Jeremy Clarkson Former Top Gear host says a lack of rainfall is severely affecting UK crops Daniel Woolfson Senior Business reporter Daniel Woolfson Related Topics Jeremy Clarkson, Clarkson's Farm, Farming, Inheritance tax 08 August 2025 2:58pm BST Gift this article free Jeremy Clarkson Jeremy Clarkson has become an outspoken advocate for farmers since launching TV series Clarkson’s Farm Credit: Aaron Chown/PA British farmers are facing a “catastrophic” harvest this year, Jeremy Clarkson has said. The TV star, who runs the Diddly Squat farm as well as a pub and shop in the Cotswolds, warned in a post on X that this year’s harvest had been severely affected by the weather after it “never stopped raining in 2024 and never started in 2025”. He said: “It looks like this year’s harvest will be catastrophic. That should be a worry for anyone who eats food. If a disaster on this scale had befallen any other industry, there would be a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth.” It follows warnings earlier this summer that many British farmers could be on course for one of the worst harvests on record resulting from exceedingly dry weather in the spring. The Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) predicted that production of main arable crops, wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape could be near all-time lows.

NewsTV News Jeremy Clarkson says he believed in global warming all along "It was a joke" By Alex Berry 29th April 2024

April 24, 2020 In an article for The Sun, Clarkson compared the consensus on climate change to eugenics, stating: “…today, we are told that all of science is agreed on global warming. We hear it IS happening and it IS our fault. No argument is allowed. History has taught us that this is ­dangerous. A hundred years ago, someone came up with a new idea called eugenics.”41 March 22, 2020 In an article for The Times entitled: ‘My old age is cancelled, society’s about to collapse and the greens just can’t stop smiling’, Clarkson argued that environmentalists welcomed the COVID-19 pandemic as a solution to overpopulation, stating that, “of course, we could explain to our idiotic green friends that thousands and thousands of people are dying. But let us not forget that ‘eco-ists’ have been calling for a Thanos-level cut in the world’s population for years. In 2018, their spiritual leader, Sir Attenborough, said ‘our population growth has to come to an end’. Clarkson also stated: “so, a virus that kills 10% or 20% of us? That’s something the greens would welcome. Especially if it’s essentially a cull of the old and the sick.”42 August 11, 2019 Clarkson spoke about his distaste for cyclists in London and argued that cycle lanes aren’t good for the environment. He claimed that cycle lanes will soon be thought of as a bad idea, using the example of the U-turn on diesel cars.43 March 1, 2017 In a Sun column, Clarkson called the proposed ban on diesel cars in the city centres of Paris, Madrid and Athens as “draconian”. He went on to say, “one day we will learn to ignore the messages of doom from climate ‘scientists’”.44 January 28, 2017 Clarkson criticised the London air pollution warning issued by London mayor Sadiq Khan and the subsequent media coverage, suggesting that “the air was so clear and so fresh and so beautiful that I even went for a walk”. In the same piece he claimed that Prince Charles had “loony climate-change mates running amok”.45 46 October 30, 2012…

zero sympathy for this slimeball, who is now trying to claim that his climate denial was just an act.

Doesn't matter what he 'really believed' - what matters is that he was an effective advocate for prolonging and worsening fossil fuel use. FAFO, buddy.

www.desmog.com/jeremy-clark...

'The clock is ticking': Campaigners bemoan slow progress as Geneva Global Plastics Treaty talks Green groups urge world leaders to deliver 'meaningful treaty' to end plastic pollution, as they warn crunch Geneva talks are 'not on track'

Global Plastics Treaty seems to be going as slowly/badly as widely expected. www.businessgreen.com/news/4517516...

PSNI ‘will not tolerate vigilante activity’ as online videos show group confronting people in east Belfast The PSNI has issued a warning that it “does not tolerate any type of vigilante activity” after videos appeared online showing groups of people patrolling parts of East Belfast.

There is a significant under-policing in Northern Ireland of intimidation, harassment and threat against ethnic minorities.

There were many fewer arrests and fewer prosecutions in 2024 in Northern Ireland than England, after more sustained violence

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...

Phew! At least it’s still a good one.

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog

The reckless lack of care at what should be the most secure site in Britain is utterly jaw dropping. Never mind diplomatic talk of “suboptimal” plans & “shortfalls in asset management” - this is a story of unforgivable negligence & cover-up - just shameful

BBC among media misreportimg/exaggerating scale of asylum protests

Median protest is a few dozen, below 100.

"Usually Several hundred at a time" is false.
- should say *occasionally*
< 1/10 protests have 200 people

"Sometimes thousands"
I dont think a single 2025 protest had > 2000 people yet

What makes a legal person? If invisible corporations and inanimate objects can be legal persons, so can rivers and animals

NEW

What makes a legal person?

If invisible corporations and inanimate objects can be legal persons, so can rivers and animals

By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

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This is quite beautiful. All hail Dmitry Lamonov

Israeli Forces Allegedly Bulldoze Palestinian Seed Bank

“Destroying a national seed bank is an act of erasure, intended to sever the generational ties between farmers and their land.”

Israeli forces have reportedly attacked a seed bank in the West Bank city of Hebron, destroying equipment used to reproduce heirloom seeds.

Nigel Farage under pressure to distance himself from 'racist' Ant Middleton rant Ant Middleton - who has been close with Nigel Farage and posed with him ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration in Washington - said first, second and third generation immigrants should be banned from to...

There are Labour & Cons calls for Nigel Farage to challenge+ disown the bankrupt violent convict & Mayoral hopeful Ant Middleton after his racist call to ban Rishi Sunak, Sadiq Khan & Kemi Badenoch (+ their children! & grandchildren!) from leadership or office
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Abject fucking humiliation for everyone who works at Apple. They could have merely provided a big headline of building products in the U.S., investing in manufacturing, the bullshit that would count as sufficient appeasement. But this performance? Tap dancing as they build concentration camps?

Failure to provide legal aid for these cases is a continuation of the scandal and it is well past time for the government to fix this

Christ, America. If you thought exposing yourself to the #Maga pathogen would somehow strengthen your constitution you underestimated its virulence. Now you're hallucinating with a high fever, your democratic immune system is overwhelmed, and your organs are shutting down, the brain first of all.

Great Barrier Reef suffers biggest annual drop in live coral since 1980s after devastating coral bleaching Researchers warn reef may reach tipping point where coral cannot recover fast enough between major catastrophic events

Great Barrier Reef suffers biggest annual drop in live coral since 1980s after devastating coral bleaching

- Researchers warn reef may reach tipping point where coral cannot recover enough between major events

#climatecrisis
Story by @readfearn.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Excellent cartoon in @guardian by @ellabaron.bsky.social

Timely new study on how recycling & incineration efforts fail to stop plastic pollution in India, Indonesia and the Philippines

- "Without legally binding [cuts in] virgin plastic production, the toxic burden of plastic pollution will continue"

#plasticstreaty
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Companies behind campaign to ‘end plastic waste’ produced 1,000 times more plastic than it cleaned up The Alliance to End Plastic Waste spent five years clearing up the amount of plastic its key oil and chemical members produce in two days

The oil industry's Alliance to End Plastic Waste was created to "change the conversation – away from short-term simplistic bans of plastic," documents reveal

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

A Sankey diagram shows how a total of the 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic ever produced by humanity has ended up either being totally discarded, incinerated or still in use. 31% are still in use. The remainder have been dumped or burnt.

Guess what % of plastics have been #recycled? No prizes :(

Hard to argue that we are not all interconnected when your lungs are soaked in particles and gases from inflamed forests in Canada

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "You’re a menswear writer. You don’t know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about “men’s fashion."" I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?" Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?" I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"

"stick to menswear"

My 85 year-old mother regularly wanders around the West End post theatre.

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

One striking thing about the NYer for me is that, while preserving a tone of status-quo decorum (and luxury ads), it has published some of the most radical and impactful journalism in this country's history, "Hiroshima," "Silent Spring," 1/3

THE NEW YORK TIMES Top Story: Trump Fired America's Economic Data Collector. History Shows the Perils. President Trump's reaction to Friday's weak jobs numbers has few precedents. Economists say unbiased data is essential for policymaking, and for democracy. 6 MIN READ

On climate, elites are themselves more Trumpy than not.

Trump can destroy American climate science and governance, but only when he uses his authoritarian tactics on economic data does the center descry the stakes of his disinformation.

HOLD ON / LET GO — last 48 hours to enter the urns for living raffle! www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/25/u...

This is incredible

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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