The devastating effects of the extreme heat this week in London: - the highest number of life threatening 999 calls for a single day -a 30% increase in cardiac arrest. Now tell me we're going too fast on net zero.

Burnham won makerfield because he united the progressive vote, the green vote. If he does not govern progressively, the vote will abandon him again. There's no chance of the labour right going elsewhere. Where would they go? First test: chancellor

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave

"according to Opec, the next quarter-century will be a golden age for global oil producers. Oil demand is set to rise strongly to reach 124.1mn barrels per day, the report projects, up from 105.1mn bpd last year" They're on a different planet.

Good to see Mayor of London Sadiq Khan calling on UK to rejoin EU:

The first thing I'm looking for from a Burnham government is a big, vocal recommitment to net zero It's time to directly challenge the right's anti-science fossil fuel agenda Picking Miliband as chancellor would be a big signal on the direction of travel www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In my naivety, I'd like the new prime minister to - Make people feel hopeful - Rejoin the EU - Tax wealth - Electrify the UK - Reform the electoral system - Nationalise dysfunctional utilities and services Is it too much?

Sooo.... we gonna talk about the symbolism of the humongous and unexpected thunderstorm that broke over London last night after a not-at-all tumultuous day in politics?

This is only the beginning. The climate crisis is here. So why are politicians and most of the media still acting as though this can wait? It can't. We can still avoid some of the worst impacts - but only if we find the courage to act. metro.co.uk/2026/06/22/g...

It seems to have become commonplace to blame net zero for Britain’s high energy bills and/or weak job market… … and I guess I’ll have to explain again why there is very little evidence of this. Britain has plenty of economic problems; net zero is not high on that list (though climate change is) 🧵

Say it loud, say it clear, repeat until PR is here!

Happy Kier Starmer resignation day!

More evidence that X should be taken offline

When the current administration finally succumbs, scrapping the costly and climate damaging Heathrow expansion - for good - should be one of the first acts for an incoming PM. This money could be much better spent on social housing

This.

"I am sick and tired of the six figure salary newspaper columnists who deny the country is broken on X while masked men go door to door in grand old cities looking for homes and people to burn." Will Lloyd in today's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Matthew Duckett from Buro Happold on changes to Building Regulation Guidance which look set to rule out timber from many buildings "technically unjustified, commercially unworkable and profoundly at odds with the government’s own ambitions." www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...

This tree has lived through the Norman conquest, the Plantagenets & Tudors, the Magna carta, the Reformation, multiple plagues, Napoleonic Wars, the Industrial Revolution, the rise and fall of the British Empire, World War 1 & 2, the UN, EU, neoliberalism, the internet & Artificial Intelligence

This story is nuts. It begins to reveal the extent of Russian interference and sabotage stirring up tension in the UK. Fake fat right groups. Arson attacks. Islamophobic graffiti. Tip of the iceberg? www.ft.com/content/dd79...

The UK needs a National Housing Service with two primary goals: - Build council housing to clear the waiting list of 1.3 million homes within a decade - retrofit every home to be fit for the future by 2050: electrify, insulate, airtight, shade.

The world's first neo-nazi trillionaire

Good on @heatmap.news for stating Raymond’s legacy so clearly. heatmap.news/daily/lee-ra...

Climate denial is what this is. Its a rot. And it is spreading from Reform, first to the tories and now to Labour.

Call me a humbug but I feel enraged that the government is putting 1.3 billion pounds into a theme park - the same week that we learn it will take over 100 years to clear the social housing waiting list at current rates of construction. Get your PRIORITIES straight

The productive woodland is set to ensure a supply of sustainable timber for "decades to come", with species to include the likes of Douglas fir, Norway spruce, and aspen. FULL STORY: www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2616581...

IKEA didn't build renewable generation to power 1.47 million homes because politicians told them to. They did it because the economics stacked up. With much of the investment already paid off, savings of over half a billion USD per year on electricity costs, the fundamentals become hard to ignore.

Why is it that people with left wing views are so often portrayed as dangerous violent radicals, whilst people with right wing views are considered to be the voice of the people? Reporting by the BBC implies the green party taking the country towards civil war: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Your periodic reminder net zero is a scientific term referring to the balance of anthropogenic emissions and carbon sinks required to stop temperatures spiralling out of control, bringing with them drastically increased risk of food insecurity, catastrophic weather, and civilisation-level disaster.

Three little pigs were wrong.

Must be so quiet inside!

In Malmo, the uncompromisingly ambitious builder-developer ETC Bygg has achieved something revolutionary. This here is a building made from straw: 12 storeys, 38 meters tall, with a fully timber structure (including core), wrapped in EcoCocon's straw panel external wall system.

It's the economy stupid. This phrase is wheeled out every time there is an election. Then we go back to work. Working hard to manage the effects of crisis. Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic; the economy steams ahead. But it's the economy, stupid: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It's the economy stupid. This phrase is wheeled out every time there is an election. Then we go back to work. Working hard to manage the effects of crisis. Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic; the economy steams ahead. But it's the economy, stupid: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It is no longer enough for a material to be capable of being produced in a climate-neutral way ‘in theory in the future’; it must be low-carbon or carbon-negative right now. THREAD

Quite simply: the UK Government should take X offline. Action, not words.

You think temperatures will start declining at 1.7??

Reform UK wants to shut this down. If it did so, it would throw a million people out of work. Why? because it is beholden to the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1% of the German straw harvest would provide material for 100,000 passivhaus homes.

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I'm as excited and hopeful as anyone about the growth of wind and solar. This is our path to a safe future. But we have to cut our use of coal, gas and oil. And that is not happening. We need to talk about demand reduction.

Lots of people are celebrating this graph. But it shows our use of fossil fuels increasing, despite gains in renewable energy. Climate change will continue to gather pace and its impacts intensify until we cut our use of fossil fuels. End fossil fuels now!

Over 60 MPs sign an amendment to create a national commission to rethink our voting system. 5 parties each get 12-25% of the votes so it is more important than ever to change the electoral system so the result is proportionate. Check if your MP signed: fairelections.org.uk/over-60-labo...

Bus services can be joyful

There's a free council-run bus service called the "hop!" in Leicester that runs every ten minutes. It's frog themed. It ribbits really loudly when it pulls up to a bus stop. Also, it's a circular route but only runs anti-clockwise so you have to ride the whole route to get back to your original stop

Somehow, everyone here in London keeps telling me how backward the UK is, and I can’t deny it. Everything here is already dominated by massive emission construction, a fossil petrochem+metal-clad house burns down, and suddenly biobased construction will be banned. Spot the mistake.

Peps going for the labour leadership isn't he

"there are alternative economic views to those that got us in this mess" Natalie Bennett For an economic model which recognises the value nature, read On Natural Capital - Partha Dasgupta

It's clear from the comments here that we need to remake the case for electoral reform within the green party. For some it seems it's more important to take down a "blairite" than it is too build a coalition in favour of PR (a system that will fundamentally alter the social contract for the better)

This map of South Tyneside tells a thousand words