My first open winged, Silver-studded Blue Butterfly photo of the year. On Prees Heath Common Reserve. A bit blustery and dull, so not ideal for finding and photographing butterflies.

Rather than focusing on the dynamics I describe, being the result of individuals, I believe we should see them as cliques, groups of individuals with common interests, who have a tendency to work together, behaving like individual entities, but collectively.

In case it isn't clear, I support and comment this report by the World Inequality Lab. My only note of caution, is that we need more than a good and workable plan, we need a way of ensuring it is implemented.

My thread on one page. Please read it to understand it. skywriter.blue/@steb77.bsky...

"An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival" I want to write a thread about this, but before that, there is something necessary to make clear. It was always known what the solutions were. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 1/🧵

My first Silver-studded Blue Butterfly of the year, at Prees Heath Common Reserve @savebutterflies.bsky.social. There wasn't any out on 24 May, when I looked in sunny weather. Today it was nearly blowing a hoolie, and there was a torrential downpour just over a minute after I took this photo.

"Minister criticises police anti-racism guidance following riot over Henry Nowak death" This is not about anti-racist guidance. If someone says they've been stabbed, can't breathe and begging for help, you don't cuff them and leave them. It's about compassion www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... 1/2

Yet more Farage riots! Peaceful climate activists and anti-genocide activists, get treated like terrorists. But if you're a far right, fascist who incites race riots, you get invited onto BBCQT etc. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The crucial fact in the Mandelson debacle, is it was well known Mandelson was a close friend of Epstein well BEFORE Starmer appointed him to be the UK's ambassador to the US. All that came out was more information about Mandelson's relationship with Epstein. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... 1/5

'Michael Grade, the recently departed chair of Britain’s media watchdog, has accused broadcasters of being “embarrassed” by GB News because it covers the “agenda of the majority”.' Yet another Tory like Tony Blair, outing themselves after pretending to be neutral. 1/2

THIS 👇 IS MOSTLY TRUE.......?

My thread on one page. Apparently it doesn't matter how sleazy you are, you were best friends with Epstein and a security risk, as long as you are strongly anti-left wing, and strongly neoliberal. skywriter.blue/@steb77.bsky...

Does anyone remember this from Peter Mandelson in 2017? "Peter Mandelson: I try to undermine Jeremy Corbyn 'every single day'" Now look at the messages, this best friend of Jeffrey Epstein was sending to cabinet ministers last year, linked to below. www.theguardian.com/politics/201... 1/🧵

Trump's physician failed his cognitive test. www.euronews.com/2026/05/30/t...

I got this series of female White-faced Darter Dragonflies, egg-laying, ovipositing, this morning at Whixall Moss NNR. On one, I managed to capture the moment the female flicks the tip of her abdomen, in the water, whilst hovering, to lay an egg.

My first Large Heath butterfly of the year on Whixall Moss NNR. Just a record shot as this was a gigantic crop, from the middle of the photo.

The problem is not that Tony Blair made idiotic and stupid points on behalf of his oligarch clients, who pay him to spout propaganda, but that the stupid media took what he said seriously, repeated it over and over, and forced it on us. Everything Blair says is nonsense propaganda. Ignore him!

I'm fed up with extreme right wing politicians who just lie or make dishonest denials, knowing full well the MSM will never hold them to account, or challenge them, which is why they get away with it. Farage receives a £5 million secret bribe, then just says the Russia leaked it. 1/2

"Blair says Labour needs debate before selecting new leader as he criticises Burnham speech" Why is what this hated war criminal says, being reported. Blair unites both the left and the right, in their hatred of him. He is hated for a good reason. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Just have a think about this for a moment. The UK's 2008 Climate Change Act, was put in place by a Prime Minister, who didn't believe that climate change was genuinely a serious problem, and who never meant a word of what he said. No wonder, there's a climate crisis.

"Tony Blair says Labour must abandon net zero, support Trump and cut benefits" Quelle surprise, Blair is a right wing Tory. Well he always was, and the only reason he joined the Labour Party was to control it. Don't forget, he was backed by Murdoch. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

What desperate and ridiculous arguments by Harrier Harman, to vainly try to protect Starmer. There would be absolutely no need to call another general election if Andy Burnham or anyone else replaced Starmer. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 1/5

This massive organized wildlife crime is carried out on behalf of the establishment, the richest and most powerful people in the country, all engaged in mafia type behaviour. *Driven game bird shooting, is the chosen "sport" of the establishment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1/3

We could call it the Farage, May Heatwave.

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I wonder what could be behind this unprecedented May heatwave? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Hmm, this is in May!

I wonder why it's getting so hot in India. Anyone would think there's a climate crisis, and its going to get much hotter. apnews.com/article/indi...

A male Nursery Web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis). A 9 shot, handheld, natural light focus stack. At Marbury Big Mere, Cheshire.

It's becoming more transparent who the climate criminals are. But it's not just particular countries and their regimes, because in lots of countries apparently in favour of climate action, there are all sorts of factions, predicated by vested interest. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is one massive herd of elephants in the room, that our governments, the media, the establishment, are desperately trying to avoid acknowledging, as they plough ahead with their drive for maximal economic growth.

My thread on one page about why this supposed landmark report, by the UK, Climate Change Committee, is seriously misleading sophistry, in that it does not properly layout the real nature of the climate crisis. skywriter.blue/@steb77.bsky...

This evaluation of climate change and its impact on the UK is seriously, intellectually dishonest, and does not acknowledge or address many relevant issues. It is trying to mislead the public, crowing about the success of the UK's progress on emissions, achieved by fiddling the figures. 1/🧵

My thread all on one page. All these very eminent people, have overlooked a huge herd of elephants in the room, and I see no acknowledgement, that they are even aware of the primary failure in their thinking. skywriter.blue/@steb77.bsky...

"UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs urgent changes to survive global heating, report warns" This is correct, but the imagined solutions are based on demonstrable logical fallacies, I've been desperately trying to explain for decades. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 1/🧵

The best way to kill off Reform, is to openly speak about neoliberalism and what it has done. Farage/Reform, are covert ultra-neoliberals. The best way to smoke them out, is to openly talk about the failure of neoliberalism. Farage/Reform, won't be able to talk about it without outing themselves.

My latest thread on one page. skywriter.blue/@did:plc:afc...

OMG, Andy Burnham has said the N word in public. Neoliberalism that is. "It all adds up to 40 years of neoliberalism that have not been kind to the north of England – 40 years of trickle-down economics that did not, in the end, trickle down very much ..." www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... 1/

Hairy Dragonfly, Marbury Big Mere, South Cheshire. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

Hardly the master race. In the real Battle of Britain, true British people, fought against the fascists. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Whilst I think Andy Burnham is the best potential Labour leader in the near future, I see neither him, nor Labour as the answer. He is simply a means to steer Labour away from the politically suicidal policy pursued by Starmer, which has given Reform an opportunity they shouldn't have.

This very short thread may seem far too simplistic to clever people, but it is exactly how things are. This is all you need to know about the modern world, and why things are like they are. skywriter.blue/@steb77.bsky...

Lots of people are going to think this is too simplistic, but this is how things are. Neoliberal centrists like Keir Starmer and all the other Western leaders have made themselves very unpopular, by pursuing harsh neoliberalism for the super-rich, whilst falsely claiming to represent everyone. 1/3

"Nigel Farage bought £1.4m property in cash shortly after receiving £5m gift" So the grifter is changing his story. 'saying in an interview on Thursday that it was a “reward” for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years' He's a political prostitute. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

'They're children.' youtube.com/shorts/63n7l...

The central fallacy being presented, is that somehow if Starmer survives these challenges, that he will manage to hold on and remain PM. This is just ridiculous. Throughout his premiership, Starmer has lurched from one self-induced crisis to the next, because he's politically incompetent. 1/7🧵

My thread all on one page. skywriter.blue/@steb77.bsky...

At least we know some of the vested interests, keeping the oligarch/corporate puppet/shill, Starmer, in office.

"Labour-supporting unions predict Starmer will not lead party into next election" No shit Sherlock! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...