Water companies are turning our rivers into open sewers, & the Government is letting it happen. We @libdems.org.uk are fighting to end this. It's time we force water companies to report the amount of sewage they dump & create a new ownership model where they're owned by their customers.

Why? Because centrist politics is dead. Because it means making only minor adjustments to a broken, failed, neoliberal system that works for the few, while the majority suffer the costs www.politico.eu/article/euro...

#Cornwall Live: Green Party claims landslide victory as Reform fails to win 3 out of 4 local elections. Two Greens were elected to Penryn Town Council with 74.6% of all votes cast - nearly 3 times the number cast for Reform & Labour combined. www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

Will Trump TACO again, the trouble with Gilts, should Britain give up its Cyprus bases, how the EU can ditch Hungary and why Pedro Sanchez is leading Europe’s anti-Trump resistance. My latest newsletter (free to read)

Excellent and surely unarguable letter in @thetimes.com on the case for making student loan debt tax deductible. One only has to think about this for one minute to wonder why on earth this doesn’t happen already…

“A broadcaster has become the media arm of a political party, and nobody is doing anything about it.” Really good to speak to @arusbridger.bsky.social about GB News, Reform and regulatory failure on Democracy for Sale today democracyforsale.substack.com/p/gb-news-is...

"I think the climate crisis should be everyone’s No.1 priority, but you can’t tackle the climate crisis without tackling the affordability crisis & the inequality crisis. It’s the same polluters who are destroying our environment who are extracting wealth from our economy to line their own pockets."

NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why? Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia… 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Dogs and people: A love story that’s lasted 15,000, thus far. ❤️

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e... Excelente episodio @elhilopodcast.bsky.social con @minipetite.bsky.social

SPRINGSTEEN IN MINNEAPOLIS: “This is still America… and this reactionary nightmare and invasion of American cities will not stand.” 🇺🇸 (From ablackpolitical)

Just finished reading these, incredibly moved

"A month’s worth of gas from 14 years of licensing by the last government shows the complete folly of pursuing this policy. It’s barely enough gas to last from now until May Day.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

How little we understand even about the functioning of our own bodies #Microbiome www.livescience.com/health/immun...

ICYMI 👇

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e... Excelente episodio @elhilopodcast.bsky.social con @minipetite.bsky.social

A year ago today, @labourlewis.bsky.social brought his Private Members' Bill on water to Parliament.It aimed to fix our broken system by giving the public a say over who should own it.Since then, the call for public ownership has only grown.Watch his speech: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gIO...

#Privatisation #Financialisation A few profit and the rest of us - particularly the most vulnerable - pay www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Thank you University of Oxford! 🐝🌎

Feudalism - not a good idea. "They pay no capital gains or corporation tax and do not have to comply with property laws such as compulsory purchase orders." www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What we see here is Donald Trump, acting as he always does, as a global chaos generator. The further we stand away from that, the better off we will be. Well said @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👏 #bbcqt #IranWar

Dear USA.... This cartoon summarises perfectly why we Europeans do not trust a single word that comes out of Trump's mouth, or that of his coterie, and why we will not support him, in anything.

The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Washington DC

This is REALLY important!

#BigTobacco - a few profit and the rest of us pay, in so many ways www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

The cost of your flight went up because you searched for it twice. Your rideshare costs more because your phone battery is dying. This is surveillance pricing – corporations using your own data and behaviors against you. In the US Senate, I’ve got plan to ban it.

Hedgehogs are disappearing fast – in fact they are vulnerable to extinction in the UK. To raise awareness, the Hedgehog Walk is returning from 30 March to 30 April. Learn more about how walking or cycling 3 km, everyone can help hedgehogs 👇.

Never talk to me again about how expensive cycling infrastructure is. £61 million per mile for this road.

Those Westerners who hate Donald Trump seem to be happy to fight him to the last Iranian. And those who push for renewable energy seem to be happy to see the Middle East destroyed. Few people realize how dire the situation is. senecaeffect.substack.com/p/dead-man-w...

Governments controlling prices? It has long been unthinkable – but may now be inevitable | Andy Beckett

At present, politics is downstream from money.

Hoy escribo en @publico.es sobre una cosa que está pasando en Segovia, donde me lo contaron el otro día: los estragos sociales del desembarco de una universidad privada carísima. 3000 estudiantes pueden cambiarlo todo en una ciudad de 50.000 habitantes. www.publico.es/opinion/colu...

"For centuries, humanity feared overpopulation as the ultimate threat. Ugo Bardi demonstrates, with calm rigour and unsettling clarity, that the greater danger now lies in its reversal,” Balázs Stumpf-Biró, the World Adaptation Forum. ➡️ vist.ly/4vwkc

Really enjoyed this discussion with Steve and Calgary Climate Hub. Talked about why climate has dropped in public attention, and what we can do about it. Have a listen 👇 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

“It’s frustrating to have all of these public statements being made about ‘net stupid zero’ + things like that while not attending to residents’ needs when it comes to flooding" Flood hit constituents increasingly at odds with climate sceptic MPs: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW: Global Assessment of Migratory Freshwater Fishes @worldwildlife.org www.worldwildlife.org/publications... “Vital freshwater fish migrations are collapsing; hundreds of species need urgent, coordinated cross-border action” Please share!

In the U.S., out of every 10 calories grown on croplands, less than 2 of those calories (17%) are grown for food. The rest? Animal feed and biofuels. My @projectdrawdown.bsky.social colleagues and I updated country-level crop use stats to 2020 in our latest paper: drawdown.org/news/only-ha...

What is Emmanuel Grégoire, the new Paris mayor, planning for the city over his new term in office? —60,000 new social housing units —15 express bus routes —Completion of city's full bike network —Transformation of ring highway into a boulevard —1000 new pedestrian streets —300 new hectares of parks

Really enjoyed doing this interview with Steve and The Climate Lens podcast @calgaryclimatehub.ca Have a listen 👇 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

@actisandres.bsky.social @alianzaverde.bsky.social @carmenmol.bsky.social #fish #Africa

The “Galápagos of West Africa” is being pillaged by industrial fishing vessels that illegally catch tonnes of fish to convert into fishmeal & fish oil. These products "can enter the EU without documentation on their species or origin", says Oceana in Europe's Vera Coelho. https://bit.ly/3PDDYFH

@elhilopodcast.bsky.social @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social @xiyebastida.bsky.social

In this piece I argue that Mexico is putting its economy at risk by relying on US gas imports and then I make the very obvious case (which Ember lays out in detail) that Mexico is very well positioned to run its economy on solar plus storage. Replacing gas with more gas is very dumb in 2026.

La generación de 18 a 24 años cede el control de su dieta informativa a lo que decidan TikTok, Instagram y YouTube 👇 Los jóvenes abandonan definitivamente las noticias y dejan que decidan los algoritmos, un análisis de Fernando Varela

scoop: Nigel Farage has abandoned plans for a Reform UK government to part-nationalise Britain’s utilities as the party adjusts to the country’s stretched public finances, although it is still considering using “strategic stakes” to fix broken markets www.ft.com/content/be4b...

‼️ Si tu contrato de alquiler termina antes del 31 de diciembre de 2027, puedes pedir una prórroga de 2 años en las mismas condiciones. Tu casero no se puede negar. Te lo explicamos paso a paso y te dejamos el modelo para solicitarlo 👇 masmadrid.org/alquiler

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”Transport became the EU’s largest greenhouse gas emitter in 2023; it remains 93% fossil-fuel dependent. Road transport emissions fell only by 4.4% since 2005, as efficiency gains, biofuels and EV uptake were largely offset by rising mobility and freight demand.” www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/...

65% of all corn is fed to animals, another 20% or so goes into biofuels