How many people think to themselves, "I'd vote Labour, if only they could be more like Trump." I would guess it's a number close to zero. But Labour seems to be chasing a figment of its imagination, and this is perhaps the most grotesque example so far. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...

Kemi Badenoch's pledge to scrap the Climate Change Act has now been condemned by Theresa May, Lord Deben (John Gummer), Alok Sharma, the Confederation of British Industry, the Church of England, the Catholic Church - all previously mainstays of the Tory party: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The European Commission’s Omnibus I proposal, the Council position, and Member of European Parliament Jörgen Warborn’s draft position all strongly align with three of ExxonMobil’s four demands on the CSDDD"

#Zeebrugge, Belgium has become Putin’s main EU gateway. It handled a quarter of all Russian LNG imports in 2025. Gas unloaded there flows straight into Europe’s energy system. #StopFossilGas

This is really good.

Some great reporting, focussing on indigenous activities documenting and campaigning on mining impacts in Bolivia cs.org/news/all-eye...

The markets for certain critical minerals are in bad shape "largely because of over-investment in new supply, either in expectations that demand growth would arrive faster than it has, or as part of government industrial policy" The latter seems to be accelerating. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

Thanks to Eco-Business for highlighting Scott Morrison's links to financing #DeepSeaMining, which helps to set the comments into context www.eco-business.com/news/controv...

Nothing to see here - just a leader telling the military of a country it needs to be deployed on the streets of the country against civilians as 'a training ground'. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Yet another reason to maybe think about whether this whole rush to AI is really necessary (especially as a local development). The carbon & water costs should be enough, but people paying more for their bills may be a wake up call www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

I can't understand why anyone would take up a job with the American government? There is so much uncertainty as even non-political appointments risk getting fired in a partisan political world & the annual budget shutdown. Surely there'll be a massive talent drain. www.economist.com/united-state...

"And only five mining companies have policy commitments to not tolerate or contribute to attacks on HRDs ... despite the highest number of attacks being related to this sector. No mining company meets all three CHRB indicators" www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/b...

India is deeply enmeshed in Israel's genocide in Gaza as a new trade deal shows ... www.thecanary.co/global/world...

"The data highlights Europe's key role in the production network of Russia’s giant mining conglomerate Norilsk Nickel, which continues to operate a major nickel refinery in Finland via a Finnish subsidiary, even while Russian troops build up on the Finnish border." globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

Good to have good news every now & again ... "Judicial Ruling That Finds All Five Water Defenders Innocent of All Charges" ips-dc.org/internationa...

Yet more fatalities at a mine that has such a poor record historically - in terms of worker health & safety, human rights issues in wider West Papuan community & environmental destruction. Difficult to think of mines with that scale of negative impact. www.mining.com/indonesia-ha...

Starting off the sloe gin is a good way to make use of a wet Sunday ... At the moment the undissolved sugar makes them look like boozy snow-shakers

Today a new global coalition of organizations including Solutions for Our Climate, @mightyearth.org, @greenpeaceeastasia.bsky.social, @publiccitizen.bsky.social, @culturalsurvival.org & @steelwatch.bsky.social launched a campaign calling on Hyundai to clean up its dirty, dangerous supply chain.

This is a painful read (& am sure it was a painful write), but needs reading ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

She came into her job widely accused of being a foreign asset. She now responds to those credible allegations by doing the first thing any foreign asset would do in her role: bury all intelligence on pending foreign threats to the United States. It's almost like America doesn't *want* to survive.

"Under the guise of 'green transition', a new colonial plunder is taking place." "We need a form of transition that doesn't harm us." "We categorically reject sowing discord between workers and nature defenders." Bob Myers reports on a meeting in Bosnia peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/b...

"Three years have passed, and community members are still seeking accountability and a voice in the decisions about what comes next" Same story re corporate mining, another place ... earthworks.org/blog/three-y...

A reminder that the problems of mining can be (often are?) trans-national, which is another reason they are associated with conflict. www.dw.com/en/is-rare-e...

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A quick and dirty non-comprehensive write-up of my comments during my congressional briefing on deep-sea mining last Friday. www.southernfriedscience.com/9-quick-ques...

It's almost as if, before the Gaza famine was officially recognised, it was a story, as media organisations could generate controversy by hosting Israeli government spokespeople and our own rightwing blowhards, insisting it was all a fabrication. Now that it can no longer be denied ... no story.

Welcome in the UK to the world of performative politics as policy - it isn't meant to work, it is just meant to sound enticing to enough people. There is no attempt at improving the lot of the majority, just a grab for power to benefit a few. Cynical and frankly evil. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I have defended the BBC again and again. No more.

There is so much going wrong with the world at the moment, but the continuing murder of public orientated-lawyers in the Philippines is so sad and shocking - even as Duterte's case should be starting in the International Criminal Court defendlawyers.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/p...

A big welcome to the High Seas Treaty! "The treaty creates a legal process for countries to establish marine protected areas in the high seas, including rules for potentially destructive activities like deep-sea mining and geoengineering" apnews.com/article/high...

"There is a public interest in there being terrorism law, but there is also a public interest in it being used properly and credibly. The government’s rushed proscription of Palestine Action risks rendering this important area of law as absurd" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

"The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🎉 A historic win for our ocean! The #HighSeasTreaty just passed the 60 ratifications needed to enter into force! This landmark pact brings powerful new tools to protect the deep ocean and sets binding obligations for nations to uphold strong environmental standards: https://bit.ly/46LpKsy

Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action? A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org

DONALD TRUMP VS JIMMY KIMMEL: Let's show Disney that capitulating to Trump is unacceptable. Bring back Kimmel NOW! action.eko.org/a/disney-kim...

One of the Ig Nobel prizes went to research on: "People become more narcissistic after being told they are smarter than most, even if they are not" For some reason a certain president popped into my head as an example (even if it is only him telling himself) independentxpress.de/en-ru/catego...

"Every time Starmer clamps down on peaceful protest while ignoring violent rhetoric from figures like Musk, it hands the far right another rallying cry ... In trying to suppress dissent, Labour may in fact be stoking the very forces that threaten democracy most" www.plagueisland.com/p/led-by-don...

It's a familiar story re the impacts of #CriticalMinerals - this time in Brazil - but at least well documented news.mongabay.com/2025/08/surg...

"I find it baffling when a mine is labeled ‘green,’ especially a mine on a small island, which regulations clearly prohibit." So many of us need protecting from more 'green' mines ... news.mongabay.com/2025/09/indo...

This is important considering Musk is supporting the far right and inciting violent race violence in the UK. I have joined so many moving off X-Twitter - our Government should too @kevinbonavia.bsky.social. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

A reminder that even EVs and recycling have their down-side that needs to be managed (& not just by sending it 'somewhere else' with weaker environmental legislation)... .. so a reminder that considering consumption should be the starting point of circularity www.no-burn.org/resources/in...

😂 inview.org.uk/news/184937-...

Basically it is sort of pick a country that starts with 'A' ... "Donald Trump boasts that he ended the war between “Andorra and Australia"."

Important work being done to promote rights-based community-led conservation rightsandresources.org/publication/...

🚨 Fighting harmful bank finance? We just launched a Users' Guide for communities & their allies on how to use bank human rights complaint channels: 👇 www.banktrack.org/campaign/hru...

A good piece covering an under-reported aspect of the (many) concerns on #DeepSeaMining - undersea cables seabedspotlight.substack.com/p/wont-someb...

"Both leaders need to learn from the past: racism does not diminish through rising GDP but through the willingness of politicians to argue against it" www.ft.com/content/fbbd...

The risks are very real ... "Musk has identified a country riddled with unresolved crises - Brexit, inequality, collapsing public services - and chosen to weaponise them ... redirecting anger away from wealth and power, and onto immigrants and minorities" www.plagueisland.com/p/elon-musk-...

So copper is being added to the critical mineral list even though the US is a net exporter (or ore & concentrates). This is being used to argue for new mines like Resolution Copper that are apparently necessary because copper is a critical mineral! www.mining.com/web/column-u...

Empathy - the ability to understand and share the feelings of others - is the cornerstone of a peaceful democratic society. Hannah Arendt stated: “The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” open.substack.com/pub/tcavant/...