10 years ago, there was only a single 'leathceann' (windswept) birch tree in the foreground. Now, there's a full-on exploding diverse native rainforest, none of which was planted. All it took was fencing out sheep. Let's rewild the world 🌏

I'm sorry, but this is unjustified, optimistic, drivel Governments across the world are turning away from green measures and FF corporations are expanding operations Best we can hope for is a return to the Pliocene - 3C hotter and sea levels eventually up 20m www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Michael D’s finest moment: the President of Ireland calls for Israel to be excluded from the UN. Why can’t other leaders speak the truth about Gaza like this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGsZ...

A new Explainer out from @aoifemod.bsky.social and me detailing the UK's ECHR commitments under the 1998 Agreement in response to recent speculation. It is short, because there is very little to say - the UK's obligations are evident on the B/GFA's plain text: caj.org.uk/wp-content/u...

MI5 admit to spying on Belfast-based journalist’. @Irishnews.com For more on MI5’s lawlessness, cover-up and lack of accountability in Northern Ireland, see my book: Decades of Deceit. @beyondthepalebooks.com

Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:

This image distortion is what Mussolini did for his march on Rome in 1922.

Musk sharing an AI generated image of the Arc de Triomphe with loads of England and Union flags thinking it's London is peak information disorder.

Lewis Goodall, "This is Elon Musk, turning up at a far right rally, basically inciting violence in this country" "Most people in this country have no desire to go there, or look at it, or have any interest in that sort of rhetoric" "And yet, we are being pushed and pushed and pushed towards it"

"Why such massive firepower in these rockets? What's their goal? We are dying here, with nowhere to seek refuge... and the world just watches." www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

This is McCarthy era behaviour and shame on the university for losing 160 staff n students this way- the accused do not even know what the complaints were about and are not allowed to see the accusations which seems quite frankly out of the 1984 playbook

Carbon capture – the get-out-of-jail-free card that does not actually work Cutting emissions will work www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

The DUP’s support for Brexit, then hard Brexit, then Johnson (who betrayed them as he betrays everyone), and now ECHR-exit is perhaps the most obviously self-harming run of decisions that any democratic political party has ever taken.

Great to see my book with these two important analyses. How much longer will the British government continue cover-up the role of the intelligence services and their agents who operated without a legal framework and accountability throughout the conflict? Families need the truth.

Satellites have been tracking the water held in glaciers, lakes and the world’s vast underground reserves — aquifers. A extensive analysis of that data reveals water is rapidly disappearing beneath much of humanity’s feet, and large swaths of the Earth are drying out. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Total f&%kery is going on with the 3-year running average of the global sea-surface temperature as temperatures continue to trend significantly above "accelerating warming." Zen kōan: What is the sound of one planet dying?

Farage has now said very clearly he will remove judges he does not approve of and abolish UK citizens' human rights. No-one at the BBC, Sky or ITV - or inside the government - seems to think it is worth highlighting. This is exactly what sleepwalking towards autocracy looks like.

It is the moral responsibility of Irish ppl, & 100m ppl of Irish heritage, to demand the starvation of the children of Gaza, & their families, ends. This crime equals the Holocaust; to knowingly starve babes in the womb, children & adults to death. Ireland knows brutal famine. It must end:

HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)? Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts! NEW POST -->>>

The legacy of this genocide will last beyond any of our lifetimes. We’ve arrived at this point after decades of the US doing everything in its power to defend and fund the Israeli government’s policies of ethnic cleansing, land theft, and now starvation and genocide. This depravity must end.

The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine. Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.

What a privilege to be able to take a photo of Fair Head on the Antrim coast as I try to rid my mind of the daily horror images from Gaza and reflect on the total failure of the international rule of law.

UK Govt to kick off public-private partnerships in England. It is new name for Private Finance Initiative. Private sector invests £1, gets £6+ back. The state guarantees corporate profits. Nothing learnt? Govt can create money, borrow, do QE, tax the rich ... why hand free cash to corporations?

Il mondo è un posto pericoloso, non a causa di quelli che compiono azioni malvagie ma per quelli che osservano senza fare nulla.

Is this bad? It seems bad.

A new report from the American Lung Association finds that replacing 33,500 conventional, combustion-based boilers nationwide with this electric alternative could avoid 77,200 premature deaths, 33 million asthma attacks, and more than 200,000 new asthma cases by 2050.

☀️⚡ Britain’s solar power is breaking records! Solar generation in 2025 has already surpassed the total for all of 2024, thanks to a surge in new installations & plenty of sunshine. 🌞 A clear sign that renewables are playing an ever-growing role in powering the UK grid🔋

And judicial independence and the rule of law

Imagine if BBC spent as much time on the dangers of climate collapse as they do on immigration. Imagine the public response when they realise what the real danger is to our children & who is causing it. Instead of anger at refugees there’d be anger at oil companies, media bosses, politicians & BBC.

RECORD HOT NIGHTS EVERYWHERE ‼️ MINS 34.5 Ghor El Safi JORDAN HOTTEST NIGHT IN HISTORY 33.9 Eilat ISRAEL- August hottest night 31.8 Bar MONTENEGRO HOTTEST NIGHT (not 24h) EVER IN THE BALKANS 🌡️ 30.4 Larnaca CYPRUS Highest Min ever. 29.6 Alsancak TURKEY 27.1 Castellon SPAIN This is an insanity !

0ver 500 arrests under Terrorism Acts for allegedly supporting a proscribed organisation. First they came for the Irish (See my: Suspect Community, 1993). Then they came for Muslims (see Pantazis & Pemberton, 2009) Few objected. Then they came for peaceful protestors. But it may be too late.

PSNI arrest a 74-year-old woman for having an article, namely T-shirt, that indicates support for Palestine Action. (Picture: Mal McCann) PSNI clearly need more officers to deal with this heighten terrorism threat.

That is an eye watering cost. Why are not states REQUIRING companies that want energy hungry data centres to install renewables that equal their own consumption? If they can’t do it, then no data centre.

MEDITERRANEAN HISTORIC HEAT WAVE -part 1 All time record (POR over 1 century) pulverized in Al Ayoun (Layoune) right on the coast in Western Sahara with 49C (first 48C and 49C in history). This is nothing to what it's coming: A week of hell

EXCEPTIONAL EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE Another record heat wave is sweeping Europe and North Africa: Next days hundreds of records will fall in North Africa (up to 48C in Morocco and Egypt),Western,Central and Eastern Europe with up to 44C. Only Central Mediterranean will be sparred.

An area the size of Paris consumed by fire. Corbieres is (was) a beautiful part of southern France. Across Europe fires are 40% up on last year - which was very bad. And carbon emissions are *still rising*, along with global temperatures.

Excellent talk by Chris Moore at Féile an Phobail on his four-decade long investigation exposing MI5's systematic attempts to cover up the abuses by paedophiles of boys in the Belfast children’s home. His book is essential reading to understand the unaccountability of MI5.

Sure this looks bad when you put it like this, but some college kids in America waved signs that frightened me so it is complicated.

Very moving vigil for Gaza in Bangor today, organised by the Bangor Peace Movement.

This graph shows the average July global SST for each year, 1982-2025. July, 2025 ranks 3rd hottest behind (you guessed it) 2023 and 2024. The oceans absorb about 89% of the extra heat due to rising greenhouse gasses, or about 870,000 Hiroshima bombs worth of heat per day.

Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 2, 2025 ~ Arctic sweating. “Truly unprecedented heatwave still in full swing with maximum today about 32-33C... Even the Arctic regions … have seen three weeks above 25C, and may rival tomorrow their August heat records.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The real reason for the dangerous heat around the world right now. @climatechris.bsky.social breaks it down:

Yet more evidence of WM govt controlling the past in NI: closing formal routes to justice, preventing info on state collusion being shared with victims’ families, while spending extravagantly on discredited official history. Families, like Paul Thompson’s, deserve better. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

Powerful image of just one redacted document laid out on the floor during talk at Féile an Phobail, on struggle for public inquiry into murder of Sean Brown involving state agents. 6 Public Immunity Certificates have now been issued to prevent disclosure. What is being covered up by MI5?

Great discussion this monring. Exploring what a just, sustainable, rights-based new Ireland could look like. And doing that together, regardless of background.

Looking forward to this year's Féile an Phobail. Am on a dream team panel tomorrow morning with @andreemurphy.bsky.social @cjharvey1.bsky.social @revkarensethuraman.bsky.social and Catherine Pollock, chaired by Aoife Clements, about rights in a new Ireland. rb.gy/iyqeho

The propaganda never ends and, depressingly, it is working. Most Irish people have no idea of link between intensive dairying and biodiversity loss and water pollution.

More cover-up? Scappaticci’s will remains secret declares High Court Judge - an undemocratic privilege for members of the Royal Family. He naively claims that ‘nothing in the will of interest to the public’!Only how much the state paid him over many years as an agent linked to over 18 murders.