Let’s all be more Caerphilly in 2026

Profiting by withdrawing: some of the world’s largest reinsurance companies boosted profitability this year after they reduced coverage to limit their risk from catastrophic events such as flooding and increased prices for their policies. www.ft.com/content/4623...

It’s not as if I am blaming the ubiquitous disaffection with Starmer today on the lies he told Labour Party members to become party leader. But Labour members should be his core supporters, instead he has ostentatiously alienated them since day one as leader. Others were always going to hate him!

There is a lot of evidence of the IPCC process leading to gatekeeping of inconvenient information, especially in the summaries for policymakers (which few read beyond). See for example the removal of sulphur aerosol cooling from AR6 SYR SPM: enb.iisd.org/58th-session...

Since all the VSPs seem to have recently discovered the circa-2012 point that "supply-side restrictions on fossil fuels are pointless," here's a piece I wrote in Vox that presents the other side of that argument:

In December 2025, Arctic sea-ice extent reached a record low - a substantial decline from the previous record low in 2024.

Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not

Trump’s dizzying 2nd term has turned fringe movements and personal grudges into full-blown policies. But while vaccines and universities will endure through Trump’s political attacks, in one form or another, the U.S. offshore wind industry may not. My last story of 2025 is a postmortem.

‪A profound meditation on the meaning of Mamdani's mayoralty by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social - it's a map to the future that runs through New York's radical past. We are so much stronger, so much harder to manipulate, when we know our history. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Excellent summary here of climate wins in courts across the world in 2025. For all the setbacks, legal mobilisation is gaining ground - largely because the law has no choice but to adapt. It’s a question of when, not if.

Looking back on 2025, this was a big one for us. 3.5 months of radio silence since then, so, yeah, it was harassment.

This is the technology our schools are encouraging our children to use.

Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It’s not a coincidence that as Democratic states and cities are discussing and rolling out universal childcare the insane reactionary right is attacking childcare centers. They know that universal childcare is a popular proposal and they want to taint and destroy it any way they can.

The 8 billionaires are: Musk, Ellison, Bezos, Page, Brin, Zuckerberg, Huang, Ballmer. Each one saw their wealth explode as a direct result of the massive and unsustainable AI bubble. Let's resolve to remember that when their bubble bursts all over working people in 2026. Happy New Year!

🔴 70% of all new births in Gaza are now premature, the UNFPA reported. 1 in 3 pregnancies is considered high-risk. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa told Drop Site News about the impossible choices pregnant women are being forced to make under enforced starvation: With no infant formula available, a mother with...

Commentary: Donald Trump spent 2025 attacking the free press, further eroding the First Amendment and empowering autocrats around the world www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"No Way To Prevent This," Says Company Spending Billions Of Dollars To Encourage This

When 15 people are massacred by terrorists in Bondi, Netanyahu blames Albanese - and the media follows his cue. But Netanyahu commits mass murder and enforced starvation every day, and it’s silence from Albanese and our media (oh, except for a ceremonial invitation to Israel’s pres). Pretty stark.

sorry to grimpost so soon into the year but we truly gotta fight back against the people who are proudly encouraging use of the mistake generator and that's going to mean criticising some people we formerly respected as people who like the idea of science or truth or evidence

Without exaggeration, there has never been a major loss that has been so self-inflicted and openly welcomed as machine-generated lies, mainly because it appeals to big male egos and self-interest through chatbot sycophancy and those personalities have had the biggest platforms

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

As always, my last post of the year reminder... Reducing emissions will reduce future climate warming and impacts. The time is now. Visualization made by globalcarbonbudget.org. Thanks for being here in 2025! I appreciate all the support 🙂

happy new 2026, starting the year with some redistribution baby! www.ft.com/content/8b74...

Three of the top five British grid electricity records smashed in 2025! This is a huge success story, despite what Russian bots and U.S fossil fuel shills scream on X. Every unit of clean domestic energy we produce means a safer future for our children…🥳

"Oxford's High Street booming, bucking national trend" And this in a city where we've removed city centre parking and put in a congestion charge. Almost as if it's people who shop, not cars. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2573227...

People (Still) Have (Some of) the Power: Looking Forward to 2026 www.meditationsinanemergency.com/people-still...

It’s easy to feel powerless about climate chaos. Here’s what gives me hope www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In the upside-down world we live in, a critic of genocide is sanctioned by a university for speaking the truth about universities when in fact it should be the university that faces sanction for such a heinous form of complicity.

Yours and my data makes someone money and actually providing a better service with it is pretty incidental

Working together on restoration projects creates what they call “camaraderie”, a form of friendship that is grounded in doing things together, rather than in the reflection on interior feelings that has become an increasing expectation of modern intimacy. theconversation.com/heritage-rai...

“Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s tweets were wrong, but he is no ‘anti-white Islamist’. Why does the British right want you to believe he is?” Some sense from @naomiaklein.bsky.social ‬⁩

If the next Democratic president doesn’t abolish ICE then the Dems deserve to lose forever

Fascinating thread but I don't feel it's that complicated? This is what happens when you go out of your way to performatively kick your own coalition in the hope of impressing voters who never liked you to start with.

Before Thatcherism ruined the benefits system, Britain produced some of the greatest bands of all time thanks partly to many making music in their spare time - while "unemployed." Could a Universal Basic Income also create unexpected culture for society?

I’m trying to think what would have happened if, during the Mississippi welfare fraud scandal between 2020 and 2023, the Biden administration had halted *all* federal welfare funding to Mississippi. The right would have lost it; Fox & GOP would have called for an armed revolt.

By me: It’s easy to feel powerless about climate chaos. Here’s what gives me hope - my swan song for @theguardian.com, at least for now www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Starmer has killed hope. When the Tories were the nasty party, we could at least hope for something better. Now that Labour are the nasty party, we must dread an opposition that's even worse.

I've had an appalled IPCC employee reach out to me about the gatekeeping of science by petrostate representatives. They told me that statements about '1.5°C being breached in the early 2030s in all scenarios' were scrapped from the IPCC report, during a huddle... Some scientists were crying.

Or the difference between the Titanic 'sinking' and 'sunk' bsky.app/profile/jame...

Unequal evidence and impacts, limits to adaptation: Extreme Weather in 2025 www.worldweatherattribution.org/unequal-evid...

What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid www.propublica.org/article/kaku...

Doctors Without Borders Among Dozens of Aid Groups Israel Moves to Shut Down in Gaza www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We Are Going to Win: Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us. www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...

Debating Away Our Humanity jessica.substack.com/p/cbs-news-f...

As we prepare for 2026, remember we have the power to make our future www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A quick look back at 2025 regarding the instability risk of the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC.🌊 skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

There are no pure cultures – we have always been global aeon.co/essays/there...

Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s tweets were wrong, but he is no ‘anti-white Islamist’. Why does the British right want you to believe he is? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...