Humber Bridge Moon

Fifteen of those twenty years were spent writing unsuccessful grant applications.

Humber Bridge Moon

Giveaway! I’m giving one lucky person the chance to pick one shelf of books from our Bertvent bookcase. Follow and repost by midday on Saturday 27th and I’ll pick someone at random! Which shelf will you choose? (UK only)

*wakes up, stares at cricket* Wut

My Xmas present to you all. The book cover that shows the most mistaken assumptions about the content of all time, I believe.

“Anyone”!? What about entire industries BASED ON animal exploitation? What about the billions of farmed animals that are stabbed, shot, beaten to death, gassed, and shredded alive? This new Italian law may be a step forward – but it ignores the main source of harm.

This quote will be used in The Trials. And we will ask all our children to read it in school to Never Forget.

Harsh but fair. (Source: www.ft.com/content/11a8...)

We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero theconversation.com/we-analysed-...

‘Reform UK isn’t undermined by bad apples, it’s actively harvesting them’…more brilliant writing from @bearlypolitics.co.uk… open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...

This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!! Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!

Quixotic move

The point about litigation for these terrible people isn't necessarily to win, although they obv do want that too. It's that their backers have almost limitless cash with which fuck over & drag through the courts those speaking out for trans rights disciplining activists & quashing free speech

NEW: For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it finally succeeded.

11. Maybe the solutions I propose won’t work. Maybe nothing will. But that’s not because I’m an evil bastard, or, as the film strongly suggests, because I'm “not honest”. It’s because our crises are very difficult to address, and there are no sure & easy answers. I'm doing my best. It's not enough.

10. Within the constraint of residual population growth, we need to find the best ways of reducing our impacts. This is why I propose “private sufficiency, public luxury” and a maximum wealth cap. Not to enable further growth, but to accommodate people who already do and *will* exist.

9. Incidentally, my statement that the trend of population growth has fallen massively is correct: the growth rate has dropped from 2.1% in 1963 to 1% today. But, by decontextualising my remark, Greenwashed made it look as if it were false. data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP...

8. In other words, I would have discussed the crucial issue of *demographic momentum*. Maybe I did – I can’t remember. Either I did and it didn’t make the cut, or I wasn’t asked. Could that be because it would have destroyed the entire thesis of the film? ourworldindata.org/population-m...

7. I would have explained that even while birth rates are falling very fast, there’s a lag caused by a larger current base population, due to the birthrate 60-100 years ago, plus increasing longevity. Hence a residual rise before the plunge. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

6. Had I been given such a chance, I would have pointed out that, while more people compound environmental problems, residual population growth is the result of things *that have already happened*, which we cannot now significantly change. www.monbiot.com/2025/12/15/t...

5. By interviewing your target, you create the impression that you’ve given them to chance to respond to the points you’re making. But if you haven’t – if in fact you’ve told them something completely different – well, there are various words for that, and none of them are complimentary.

4. There are 2 fundamental principles in journalism: if you are to conduct a hostile interview, first you tell the target what it’s about, then you put to them the criticisms you intend to make. Greenwashed did neither. The first I knew of its real agenda was when I started getting hate on socials.

3. During the interview, the specific criticisms the film levels were not put to me. I was asked about population, but not challenged on why she thought I was wrong. Even in the interview, I believe (it’s hard to be sure, as it was in 2022), I wasn’t told population growth was the main focus.

2. Far from it: here’s the email she sent inviting me to take part. Nothing suggesting it would in any way be an attack on my position. There was lots of further correspondence, but none of it *even mentioned the topic of the film*: population growth. Had I known, I would have prepared.

1. This short thread is about what I see as a serious breach of journalistic ethics, in the making of Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s online documentary Greenwashed. She interviewed me for the film, but neither before, during or after was I given any idea I would be its target. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU...

There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The Electoral Commission has taken the rare step of rebuking the government after 63 local authorities were invited to postpone contests from May 2026." via @bheardmedia.bsky.social www.facebook.com/bheardmedia/...

According to the Equality Trust, unelected membership of the Lords has expanded from 676 to 803 in the past 20 years – the same period that political donations above £250,000 have jumped from £7.6m to more than £47m. buff.ly/fIca6aK

This grand takedown of the biggest scumbag in the fake archaeology world is long overdue. Professor Dave included a cameo with Dr Lee Clare and myself Watch it and share it to get the truth out about that clown we call Jimmy Corsetti youtu.be/Z49AKXNiwmo?...

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

Those who compare AI with the Industrial Revolution only know about the Industrial Revolution from AI.

The Trump regime wants to dismantle a world leading climate research center. Why? Because the US has become a petrostate where the government has been captured by fossil fuel interests. They’re calling climate science “green new scam research”, in full denial of reality. 🤯

With thanks to Private Eye.

With thanks to Private Eye.

Yet more birds of prey getting depressed, killing themselves, removing their satellite tags, then disposing of their own corpses. It's hard to believe, but the statistics don't like. Either that or the shooting industry is involved. But that's a stretch of the imagination too far.

Wow @thetimes.com, that’s impressive An entire article about “freak heat” in the Dolomites causing mayhem amongst skiers without once mentioning climate change…🤷🏼‍♀️ 🧵 1/5

Tice refuses to condemn Reform UK mayoral candidate for saying David Lammy should 'go home to Caribbean'. Why should we not call Reform UK a racist party? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Please watch the wonderful GK. State of the climate art today. #ClimateCrisisClub. "The greenwashing is constant"

It’s a sad indictment of Britain’s ignorance of nature that Sycamore Gap petitions - for a tree that mattered to humans but not nature - received tens of thousands of signatures but a petition to protect entire peatland habitats is stuck at 1,500 actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

Fun fact - The Daily Mail has not favoured a party other than the Tories since its support for the British Union of Fascists - a pattern that would end with an endorsement of Reform UK.

I've revived my Blog on Substack. The first new item is "I asked for water and they gave me gasoline: Philip Larkin and Jazz". Earlier blogs include "And Did Those Feet?", about the hymn Jerusalem; an article on C.E.M. Joad the 'Radio Philosopher from the 1940s and 1950s.

Daily Mail tragedy in 3 acts 22 June 2016 (day before referendum): Pro-Leave editorial. One reason: too many immigrants from Eastern Europe. 24 June 2016: Brexit vote outcome means many Poles will decide to return home 13 December 2025: Oh no, where have the Poles gone? All the signs were there!

In attempting to oppose Reform while also sounding like Reform on Farage’s core issue - immigration - Labour risk facilitating exactly the conditions where a Reform win on a low vote share becomes possible, with Farage uniting the most anti-imm 30% while anti-Farage majority splinters