NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45

Now more than ever, it’s important to understand how energy, climate, and environment are inextricably linked to finance and geopolitics. It’s a great time to follow some awesome journalists focused on those topics here. It’s free!

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories. I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

Labour bearing down on immigration will fix this any day now.

GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament

"According to data from Media Radar, The New York Times took in more than $20 million in advertising revenue from fossil fuel companies from Oct 2020 to Oct 2023, twice what any other outlet earned from the industry" - @amywestervelt.bsky.social, Matthew Green & @joeygrostern.bsky.social #NYT

Wow I am blown away by this new data on Australia's climate views Highest levels of outright science denial since 2009. Highest level of 'gov't is doing too much' (!!!) And more people afraid of 'self aware AI' than climate. What a nightmare set of results pca.st/episode/6577...

Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times *EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025* Receipts in thread.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

This is one of the most damning videos I’ve ever watched of Farage. He essentially admits being racist at school - only says he didn’t do it “with intent”. The quiver in his voice at the end - he knows he can’t squirm out of this one.

*Car brain* Not drivers queuing up in a new widened bike lane in Central Berlin I left a rental bike in their way to get these people to _not drive in the bike lane_ But this is someone *getting out of their car to move a parked bike so they could drive in the bike lane* Ahhh!! Schämt euch

I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.

Poetry 1 - 0 AI safety

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

the real abundance agenda is to give up

"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people" Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->

The Telegraph routinely spreads myths about a range of subjects - especially climate change. It has been forced to publish over 100 corrections this year so far. Yet it has the gall to lecture the BBC - and whip up a national panic - about journalistic standards

🔴 NEW - Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, flogged its tech to the oil industry in Brazil on the eve of the COP30 summit 📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻

🔴 NEW 🔴 Lomborg for years has argued in op-eds, lectures, and the media that there are more important global issues to prioritize than climate change, writing in April that “it is not the existential threat that some would have us believe.”

"In total, the Gates Foundation (formerly known as the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) has donated $3,519,491 to Lomborg’s think tank. The most recent tax filing on record includes a 2022 donation to the Copenhagen Consensus Center worth $1.25 million" - @rtakver.bsky.social, @desmog.com

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg By @rtakver.bsky.social @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

🔴 NEW - ‘Deluge’ of Disinformation on TikTok and YouTube Following Historic Flood Falsehoods about the flooding in Valencia last year were seen by millions on social media, new research finds. 📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social

Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time. I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.

🧵 This piece captures a core problem of the hollow democratic state: politics has become performance, optimised for visibility, not understanding.

Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com. It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South. www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...

🔴 Labour MP Graham Stringer signed an open letter drafted by a far-right group attacking the government. He's also been hanging out with Farage's anti-abortion advisors and is still a director of the UK's leading climate science denial group - run by a Tory peer. 📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social

What percentage of politicians in your country are still relying on this site as a primary means of public communication? It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.

How about we shift from centre-right dweebs dishonestly trying to reframe our intentions and towards actually being honest with people about how renewable energy only makes your bills cheaper, cuts air pollution and cuts greenhouse gases if politicians actually directly tackle corporate power

JP Morgan, comfortably in the top 3 funders of fossil fuel infrastructure on the planet and packed with some of the richest humans alive, says that all we can do is energy addition and that there's no way to transition away from fossil fuels. They push fatalism and powerlessness for a reason folks

Most of Westminster is still on X.

A machine that produces the aesthetic quality of the words of science and research with none of the human effort, accuracy, or investigation is fundamentally just automated pseudoscience So.........it makes sense the most eager adopters are the keenest liars

So much for Reform's "professionalisation" drive. They welcomed a conference sponsor whose CEO has called Farage's rhetoric "very far-right". Meanwhile, they banned accredited journalists from attending... 📝 @desmog.com story with @joeygrostern.bsky.social 👇

Is this some kind of sick twisted joke? 🤮

🔴 NEW - Reform Conference Sponsor Called Farage’s Rhetoric ‘Very Far-Right’ A media CEO who helped to stage an event with Reform’s main U.S. ally has publicly denounced the party’s leader. 📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social

It's tough to explain exactly how nutty this new report from fossil fuel industry consultant Wood Mackenzie is, but I'm going to try in a short thread. As you can guess: 1 trillion barrels of oil is...............................A LOT archive.ph/grTVe

Two graphs in today’s FT. Notice the UK’s position on both graphs.

This column by Stephen Bush in @FT is worth a read... this sentence stood out to me as deeply depressing: 'There is nowhere in the United Kingdom where large gatherings of Jewish people can now take place without some form of security.'

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone. And you're cutting... the sleeper? www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

“I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation” | My new op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... #ScienceUnderSiege

Do yourself a favour and make time to watch this 👇

Pay no attention to the 580 diesel generators that can produce enough energy for 3 million homes behind the curtain... Oh, and did I mention this data centre is part-owned by a Trump-loving billionaire who sat by Starmer at the royal banquet? My 📝 for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/09/25/c...

🔴 NEW - Colossal Diesel Capacity of Trump-Donor’s UK Data Centre It is “outrageous” that the richest companies in the world are being allowed to use fossil fuels to power AI, campaigners say. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social

This year we've been really swinging for the fences. Our latest video is our biggest one yet, nearly an hour long and involving half a dozen experts. Asking "Should lying about climate change be illegal?" and, if so, how do we make it so? youtu.be/FKtCuwfUCJg

This is actually scandalous. The Telegraph today reports that Ofgen itself attributes next week's price cap rise to wind farms. Only, it's not Ofgen saying that at all, it's a... *checks notes*... renowned "CLIMATE SCEPTIC" crank who says that. I think this is complaint-level stuff...

This is part of a massive generative slop / plagiarism operation seemingly being run by one dude operating a bunch of similarly designed websites - "Krishna Pathak" (not sure if actual real dude) Also being syndicated on MSN. Registered at 'paper mill' address in Wyoming GenAI is the WORST

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