Colin Boyle

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

World map of temperature anomaly wrt 1951-1980 average. 2-4C in a broad band at mid-latitude in the northern hemisphere, 4-8C in West-Antarctica.

Oh great, the 3 warmest months of July on record globally are now 2023, 2024, and 2025.
July 2025 was 1.03°C above the 1951-1980 average, that's around 1.22°C above the preindustrial average.
The map shows an anomaly of 4 to 8°C for West-Antarctica!

Courts service accused of covering up IT bug that caused evidence to go missing Sources say judges in courts and tribunals will have made rulings when evidence was incomplete.

Courts service in England & Wales 'covered up' IT bug that caused evidence to go missing.

Software had a long history of data loss.

Executives covered up flaws.

Judges made rulings with incomplete evidence.

Another Post Office type of scandal looms.

GHF-run food distributions in Gaza are sites of orchestrated killing | MSF MSF calls for the immediate dismantling of the GHF scheme; the restoration of the UN-coordinated aid delivery mechanism; and calls on governments to suspend all financial and political support for the...

“In MSF’s nearly 54 years of operations, rarely have we seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians.”

The GHF-run food distributions in Gaza, Palestine, have become sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation”, not humanitarian aid.

www.msf.org/ghf-run-food...

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Green party must tap into ‘people’s anger’, says leadership frontrunner Zack Polanski says movement needs to widen appeal beyond urban middle classes

It's time for a basic income for farmers.

20% of the wealthiest landowners recieve 80% of the subsidies.

Meanwhile the farmers who protect our food security are often just trying to survive.

I spoke to the Financial Times 👇🏼

www.ft.com/content/b0d8...

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.

Ban asylum seekers who work illegally from gaining refugee status, Tories say The Conservatives say the UK's informal working market is acting as a "pull factor" for small boat crossings in the Channel.

Once more for those at the back. Working as an undocumented delivery drive is not a "pull factor". People are not risking their lives crossing the channel to work for Deliveroo.
Doing so is an outcome of the system once people are here.
1/2 #r4today

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You would think “don’t treat tenants badly when you are the homelessness minister for a Labour government” wouldn’t be a high bar to clear.

And I could say the same about your position.

PS Degrowth is going to happen - the decision is whether we do it in a managed fashion, or whether it will be a chaotic collapse.

Ah, so you can’t answer my question.

“Growth and rising living standards done in a more sustainable way. There are countless ways to do that.”

Go on then, show me a properly researched path that allows rich countries to keep growing, poorer countries to catch up, and is sustainable.

She absolutely does realise it.

Microsoft can no longer deny it’s directly enabling the oppression and genocide of Palestinians by Israel.

“According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.”

Note how the Online Safety Act fails entirely to deal with this. It makes life hard for small cycling forums and tortoise husbandry sites, but leaves the *real* online harm well alone.

We need to take action on this.
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Is there any point at which you would draw a line?

What’s your alternative to degrowth?

I’m campaigning for Green values.
greenparty.org.uk/about/our-co...

Doubling down on infinite growth, and ultimately collapsing global civilisation, is the real “loser bullshit”.

The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

join.greenparty.org.uk

This⬇️
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Additionally, we are accountable for our decisions.

Machines by definition cannot be held to account.

Except in my job we’re required to document the criteria, evidence inc. sources, and analysis, so should we get a decision wrong / suboptimal, the reasoning that led me to that decision.

In most LLMs, the reasoning and evidence inc. sources are obfuscated and unreliable (not necessarily wrong).

Ultra strict rules on accepting large donations - one of the reasons why I’m a Green.

The Green Vision for AI - Part 1: Hype, Hallucinations and Hyperscalers How we ended up in the AI Bubble.

It won’t.
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Gaza latest: Netanyahu 'decides on full occupation of Gaza' - with security cabinet to meet Israeli media is reporting that Benjamin Netanyahu has decided on the full occupation of Gaza and is seeking approval from his security cabinet, which is set to meet. Follow the latest on the war in G...

Netanyahu’s reported decision to fully occupy Gaza is yet another declaration of intent to commit war crimes.

This brutal plan will only deepen suffering and entrench injustice. The UK must immediately denounce this plan and take action to protect Palestinian lives and uphold international law.