Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

You can read the @opendemocracy.net investigation here - www.opendemocracy.net/exclusive-ho...

This is crazy. Peter Thiel’s spy tech Palantir is embedding itself in the British state, and makes hundreds of millions from Government contracts in health, policing and defence, but pays barely any taxes

Both the Thiel/Palantir scandal, and the Mandelson/Deripaska scandal lead back to one figure — Jeffery Epstein

"UK newspapers have already published 63 editorials this year calling for more oil and gas extraction in the North Sea... "Experts say trying to extract the last barrels of domestic oil and gas would have no impact on people’s energy bills and very little effect on energy security"

Spain's government just told its state-linked companies (phone giant Telefónica, defense firms Indra and Navantia) to avoid contracts with Palantir, the US data-analytics company, citing 'national sovereignty.' www.elperiodico.com/es/economia/...

Brilliant: Q: How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? A: Deny "poverty" a decent education by persuading "poverty" that it has no value.

“Trump’s abuse of executive power is the closest America has come in 250 years to the whims of a Hanoverian monarch.” Me on the Freedom 250 farce. as.ft.com/r/5189f515-d...

FT exclusive: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has declared his biggest single payment as an MP, receiving £270,000 from a bullion dealer, doubling his fee from 2025 ft.trib.al/8shwe6I

Andy Burnham says he will give 15% of his MP’s pay to local causes

Lolz

Heat waves are driven by weather patterns but occur on the backdrop of a rapidly warming world. Without climate change the current European heat wave would have been ~3.2 °C (5.8 °F) cooler. Heat impacts are non-linear, so this higher severity can lead to much greater suffering

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Do normies realise that the rate of global warming is speeding up? Also do they realise that the definitive proof will aways be like 10 years retrospective because of averages/how the science is done?

I disagree that we are in a "New Cold War". Rather, we are in a continuation of what we might call the Long Cold War, or the Great Anti-Sovereignty War,

Worrying but essential to read.

Many of the extreme symptoms you see in Europe, the US and the UK are due to Putin’s desperation, who is now cornered like a rat back into mobilisation, autarky and widening the war beyond Ukraine. We must all be prepared for a desperate end game

Europeans need tech sovereignty now

EXCLUSIVE: @bylinetimes.bsky.social exposes the Russian neo-Nazi network – promoted by Tommy Robinson – pushing 'White Lives Matter' propaganda to sow division and race war across the UK and Europe. Founded by a sanctioned oligarch close to Putin bylinetimes.com/2026/06/10/r...

"I've no idea whether Musk is an engineering genius, or just a savvy and lucky venture capitalist. The scientific world is divided on that question. I do know that he's a monstrous human being."  My Swamp Notes with @robertshrimsley.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/6b1d09da-4...

This has nothing to do with stopping crime. It is to do with a global far-right movement, coordinated on X, organised by some of the most powerful men in the world from Silicon Valley to the White House inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

Epstein was a Ltd Partner in Thiel’s Venture Fund. how nice.

in a nutshell shell. very good and brief round up article 👇

They lie incessantly, with impunity, without remorse, with remuneration. Just incessant hateful lies which the good get exhausted of correcting, the bad enjoy, and the unwitting believe. Till we’re drowned in this incessant tide of lies — and then it hits the hard rock of reality

Was Bannon/US keen on a Johnson PM because May’s Chequers Plan would have allowed negotiation on a replacement returns agreement equivalent to Dublin, thereby avoiding the ‘Boris wave’/ small boats issue? Was the migrant crisis engineered to give Farage something to mobilise the far-right with?

50 billion tonnes of sand are used every year, making it the world’s 2nd most used resource after water. But we are extracting it faster than nature can replenish it. A new UNEP report warns unsustainable sand extraction is threatening ecosystems and livelihoods: https://ow.ly/KqHN50Z03aV

feeling dejected about the state of the world decided to watch this about the Earth’s 4.5 billion year history, because *that’s* how much perspective I need to shake it off 😄

Extreme heat is pushing agrifood systems to the brink. A new @fao.org - WMO report finds that rising temperatures are putting crops, livestock, fisheries, forests, farmers, and workers at growing risk, as well as identifies adaptation options. Read ➡️ http://bit.ly/4cqCSGw

On the Update to Limits to Growth (by KPMG, 2020) there are 4 scenarios: 1. BAU the original business-as-usual 1972 model then from the 2020 update 2. BAU2 business-as-usual 3. CT technology-driven scenario 4. SW stabilised world scenario mahb.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...

🔴 NEW - Nigel Farage has accepted £2 million since becoming an MP @desmog.com’s analysis, published by The Guardian, shows that the Reform leader has raked in millions on top of the £5 million handed to him by Harborne

It is simultaneously true that we have avoided high-emission scenarios once considered plausible AND that even middle-of-the-road scenarios are a disaster. Change is possible, even the insufficient efforts so far have bent the curve. They are just nowhere near enough to avoid extreme harm.

There has been recent reporting about how we are no longer on track for the highest-emission IPCC scenarios. The issue with that framing is that we can reach high temperatures and very severe impacts even on lower emission pathways. 🧵

Leatherback sea turtles have laid their eggs here for over 100 million years But not much longer says India Modi Great Nicobar islands in India one most pristine ancient forest left on Earth to be concreted over with over 10 million trees to be felled time.com/7316182/modi...

Bannon and Epstein‘s communications refer to how they can support Farage and Brexit. Epstein wanted Brexit and Bannon was over here advising Johnson, Gove and Farage. bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

Consider the fact that it is the only Jewish party leader currently being targeted after an antisemitic attack. Rather than Nigel Farage, who has allegations of extreme antisemitic behaviour from over 30 people he grew up with.

Human population growth is similar to bacteria in petri dish and the results will be the same "This exponential growth is textbook for a bacterial colony in a petri dish, right before it dies from outpacing its food sources and drowning in its own waste" www.forbes.com/sites/jamesc...

Reform UK’s Basildon Leader Accused of Bullying After Filming Council Staff and Residents With Meta-Style Smart Glasses EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Sam Journet, who is leading Reform's bid to take two Essex councils, was arrested last year following multiple complaints about him filming in private areas

🔴 NEW - Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests Nigel Farage’s anti-climate party has received two thirds of its income from oil investors. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r... @desmog.com

man of the people latest www.ft.com/content/5da2...

I literally can't think of another example of a British politician (albeit not an MP at the time) personally taking a sum of cash this big from a tycoon

A reminder of where we stand. Source: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

The @nerve.news’s investigation show Palantir recruited the two most senior AI strategists from the Ministry of Defence & NHS…& won multimillion £ contracts with both, a pattern repeated across the UK govt. 2/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-r...

Bury Reform election candidate said NHS should be 'canned'

Going green. Micro v Macro

Hate to break it to you but Paul Whiteley's graphs suggest that "the public are a bit more likely to blame the government of the day for problems than the prime minister. This means that replacing the prime minister does little to change the standing of the governing party."

🚨Jan–Apr 2026: Starmer has reduced Farage’s “Brexit boats” by a massive 36%! This is Farage’s worst nightmare unfolding: no “Brexit boats,” no relevance — so he pivots to a shiny new wedge issue: the welfare budget. Source: BBC #UKNews