I have many issues with Keir Starmer. But his response to Nigel Farage in the House of Commons today was dignified, firm and quietly powerful. It exposed Farage for the shallow and heartless opportunist he is. Could we please see much more like this from the government.

"Terrorism" on the left. "Protest" on the right.

The media is 50% of any problem.

The Telegraph is choosing to exploit the murder in exactly the same way as Farage (who gets an oped), Yaxley-Lennon and Lowe.

If you have 8 grandparents, you get two votes.

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

The worst possible way to honour the memory of Henry Nowak, victim of a horrible murder and a grave misjudgement by the police, is to do what Nigel Farage appears to want: turn it into an excuse for racial conflict.

A great article by Fred Pearce about our Earth Rover Program in BBC Science Focus. www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth...

Reform UK wants to shut this down. If it did so, it would throw a million people out of work. Why? because it is beholden to the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When he was an MEP, Farage excused his absences on basis that it was an illegitimate government and that sovereignty should reside in Westminster. He's now an MP in Westminster And he's been absent for 77 Parliament votes in a row. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe...

Our democracy is under threat. From the Kremlin to Mar-a-Lago, powerful men are trying to destroy our great country. Our new laws would ban foreign money, block foreign ads, and stop tech giants like Elon Musk buying influence. We need action now. Only our party is offering it.

"Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes" - Wes Streeting, in a private message. So it turns out that government ministers were not, after all, incapable of understanding what is happening there. Just incapable of saying it in public, and of acting on that knowledge. #MorallySupine

NEW @iea.org data: clean energy investment is now more than double fossil fuels. $2,155bn vs $1,008bn in 2025. The crossover happened around 2016. Since then the gap has only widened. What was a narrow lead a decade ago is now a >2-to-1 split.

50 years ago we notice dead animals that had been tortured around our stables we found out or suspected a young village boy aged 11 within 6 months he burned our stables down killing two horses it was devastating. The boy went on to commit murder 15 years later.

I support this call. I've seen evidence firsthand. At one of my schools, two of the worst bullies devised elaborate games for torturing animals to death. They enjoyed hurting other animals as much as they enjoyed hurting humans. It's a flashing red danger sign.🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

In this Telegraph article from just before the last General Election, Rishi Sunak promised to increase North Sea drilling and cut National Insurance. Exactly what Wes Streeting is now promising. But, sure, Labour represents change.

One of the points I made is that Reform claims to be the party of the "man and woman in the street". But in reality, it is run by millionaires on behalf of billionaires.

Both of which happen to be the same positions as Reform UK's. Why would anyone who doesn't care about either the living planet or distributional fairness vote for Streeting, rather than Farage? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

You can listen to the, ahem, robust exchange of views I had with Richard Tice of Reform UK and others on Any Questions? here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Just finished Any Questions, up against Richard Tice. I knew there would be plenty of BS on climate, but he spouted rubbish on *every* subject. Even claimed that the EU is not our biggest trading partner, but the US. In fact, we have 3x more trade with the EU. He believes whatever he wants to.

This video is an absolute masterclass in Hitchensism because at no point does he actually mention what Graham Phillips has done (moved to occupied Donbas in March 2022 to make propaganda films for the Russian government).

Today the Daily Mail opposes Restore Britain, partly it seems because RB could split the far-right vote in Makerfield, helping Andy Burnham to win. But if, as I suspect, RB soon becomes the leading far right party, how long will it be before the Mail supports it?🧵 www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Tonight I'll be sparring with Richard Tice and others on Any Questions? From 8pm. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This is so important – we’re embarking on a societal transformation and the only way to get legitimate, socially-acceptable & stable outcomes is for that transformation to be negotiated, not imposed The more participatory the decisionmaking, the better the decisions & the more acceptable they’ll be

Privatised water is such an obvious scam that it's achieved the impossible: getting 82% of Brits to agree on something. The only issue to score higher was the public’s desire for Tony Blair to stick to retirement.

Voters of every major party want water and energy in public hands. Labour, the Tories and Reform want more of the same: private profit over public interest. It’s time for public ownership.

Quite a few people seem to have sucked up government propaganda about objections to infrastructure schemes being vexatious and unnecessary. The whole point of the planning system is to assess whether or not they are. Do away with large parts of it and you do away with some crucial decision making.

Tony Blair is "contemptuous of democracy, greases up to wealth and power and lets the poor go to hell. He is ruthless, mendacious, slippery and shameless...." @georgemonbiot.bsky.social in 2009, when it was already well time for "arresting Blair": www.monbiot.com/2009/10/26/a...

Crucial discussion by @rewildingbritain.org.uk of how nature conservation in the UK needs to change. It is currently locked into rigid criteria and fixed endpoints - an approach entirely alien to how ecosystems work. But there are better ways. www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/blog/the-wil...

If you look at other North Sea countries with really successful uptake on renewables, you'll see a strategy: community buy-in through community ownership. 52% of Denmark's wind farms are community owned. It's 50% in Germany!

How do you turn people off the green transition and deliver them to the far right? Through #ClimateAuthoritarianism. The government seeks to coerce, not to persuade. And it's turning a planning system based on consent into one based on decree. This week's column.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Save our women and children" from asylum seekers, they said. And yet again, it was projection. They hunt what they see in the mirror. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A crucial article by the great @rachelshabi.bsky.social . To defeat the monster of antisemitism we must also defeat the monster of Islamophobia, and all forms of racism and hate. substack.com/home/post/p-...

There's an exceptionalist belief that the UK's immune to the worst political extremes. In reality, we were lucky not to get a fascist government in the 1930s. Now that the world's richest man supports our most extreme political party, we need more than luck. We need to get the money out of politics.

ICYM - Almost all – 98% – environmental claims and commitments made by meat and dairy companies over 2021-24 could be categorised as “greenwashing” - research paper #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

What some of us have been warning of for decades is happening, faster and fiercer than most imagined, even in the mildest and most temperate corners of the world. #ClimateBreakdown

As we face an unprecedented May heatwave, please remember that globally we haven't any idea how many are killed by extreme heat. The given estimates may be a small fraction of the real total. A huge and shocking data gap, which illustrates rich world indifference. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No one will ever be far-right enough for Elon Musk. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The smell of BS in the morning…. Farage is clearly very worried about this £5m bung from Harborne. And rightly so - British voters really don’t like big money in politics, Reform voters as much as anyone So Farage is trying everything to distract from the crypto bros bankrolling Reform.

Another great look ... 🙄

This whole thread.

If this is what the Israeli authorities do to people the world is watching, imagine what they do to people with no voice and no visibility. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The big question - when indeed will the Environment Agency do what it exists to do and, you know, er, enforce the law? Great work by @nicolacutcher.bsky.social and @friendsriverwye.bsky.social

The government’s new assault on the right to challenge planning decisions is another example of its authoritarian reflex. We very much need a fast green transition, which means large-scale renewables. But instead of bringing people along, it goes straight for coercion.🧵1/8 www.gov.uk/government/n...

All cancel culture is bad, but rightwing cancel culture is more pervasive and has more powerful backers than leftwing cancel culture. These people are hypocrites as well as Inquisitors. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Something I learnt today, while reading an article about Egyptian dynasties, is that Philadelphia means incest. Even if I weren't a vegan, it would put me right off.

This, by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social, is a brilliant, fascinating and definitional article. If you want to understand what's happening around the world, you should read it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

We like to imagine that voters make decisions on the basis of accountability and attribution. But they never have, and never will. It's time to drop the myths and build our politics on things that work, such as inspiration and transformation. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...