First they ignore you. Then they patronise you by telling you that you have the right ideas but we need to move slowly. Finally, when you are getting somewhere, they show their real colours and attack. Greens are clearly worrying Labour. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

As the climate heats up and becomes more energetic the inevitable consequence is more storms, more droughts and more wildfires www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Brave Iranian people standing up to autocratic rule. comeducentre.co.uk/iran-on-edge...

Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

So Putin is bribing Trump with crypto mining... shocked face.

I’m guessing why so many towns and cities are getting notices about reducing water consumption. We have to feed the machines.

I spent some time in the Savoie, in the Maurienne, late 1980s to early 1990s. Snow was already arriving later most years. It is a tragedy that decades of knowledge have been ignored to keep big oil in profits.

The most likely reason for Putin making up lies about an attack on his residence is that he intends to attack and kill Zelensky and he is preparing the justification. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In this year’s #PlanetaryHealthCheck (www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...), the #OceanAcidification boundary has been assessed as breached for the first time. What does this mean? Nice explanatory piece in “Dialogue Earth”, with input from PIK researcher Levke Caesar. dialogue.earth/en/ocean/exp...

Further evidence of the rapid pace of climate breakdown. Ski resorts closing because it rains a lot but doesn't snow often enough. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

160,000 obituaries of soldiers in Russian newspapers in a single year yet Trump buys every lie that Putin pumps out about winning a special operation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“I joined to protect local green spaces, and I’ve been campaigning across Cardiff to stop overdevelopment of our city.” Getting to know Tessa Marshall, our candidate for Caerdydd/Penarth in the Welsh Senedd election in 2026.

Britain is facing renewed pressure from the White House to allow American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into UK supermarkets, as Donald Trump seeks trade concessions in exchange for reviving a collapsed US-UK technology deal. and so it begins www.farminguk.com/news/chlorin...

I wish the US had EU level regulations on 'big tech' They are poisonous to a society

Mini nuclear reactors are already losing their glow ft.trib.al/V1KUH2e | opinion

“Brexit will all be right, one day …” Time’s up.

The rule of oligarchs threatens us all, but we can fight back The irresponsible rich are bringing us to the very brink of economic and environmental disaster – they must be controlled By Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social

Personally I predict that if Trump looks like losing the mid terms he will either rig the vote or cancel it because of some invented national emergency. We are not dealing with a normal administration that respects the rules

My latest article for @yorkshirebylines is on the dangerous fragility of a global economy run in the interests of a few ultra rich licence and resource owners. The chances of another 2008 crash are high and the ability to survive it very low.

In the 1970s when they started selling off council houses in Britain it was possible to borrow 3 times your salary and buy a house. Now it is 10 times. Tax second homes, empty homes, air b n b and use the money to enable councils to renovate and regenerate. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...

Agree 💯 With Bernie.......

We had a referendum about whether we liked the sound of these promises. We've never been asked to vote about the reality. Brexit was a serious mistake and the quicker it is reversed the better

As I was saying… #nigeria #africa

Man who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax and moved his business to Singapore after the Brexit he voted for wants your sympathy.

This message hits hard.

It has been 395 days of continuous demonstrations in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Our citizens demand the resignation of Georgia's mostly illegitimate and pro-Russian government, the release of political prisoners, and the return to a pro-European course.

It has been a huge mistake to allow the US President to set himself up as the arbiter in this war when he is a deeply interested party with a keen interest in selling Ukraine down the river to get his hands on cheap raw materials and profitable contracts. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Better by far to renovate wonderful old Mills and run down houses than cover the green belt with suburban sprawl. The British government's changes to planning rules are a complete sell out to the developers who contributed heavily to party funds before the election. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Despite all the lies the truth still cuts through to sensible people. The climate crisis is increasingly costing ordinary people money whilst making a fortune for those who are clinging on to outdated technology www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Totally agree with this. I have given quite a few lectures in the last couple of years specifically on adaptation and disaster management. More will be needed! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fixing Brexit’s damage isn’t ‘betrayal’ Every attempt to limit Brexit’s damage is branded a “betrayal” – but it’s the broken promises of 2016 that still haunt Britain By Sue Wilson MBE

UN meeting highlights record numbers of executions and human rights violations in Iran while Europe remains largely silent By Dr Ela Zabihi

Trump’s authoritarian threat to Europe and the UK No room for complacency: the signs are that US authoritarianism will spread here – and we must be prepared By Helen Johnston

Antarctic sea ice concentration, on December 25, 2025. The image also shows the median Antarctic sea ice edge 1981-2010 highlighted in orange. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2025/12/wild...

Knaresborough in North Yorkshire looking fine in last night's low winter sun

We are increasingly ruled by a few ultra rich tech giants and the horrible politicians that they employ to provide them with cover.

So much for Trump's promise to keep the US out of foreign adventures www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The President of the United States is very seriously mentally ill, and elected Republicans are so afraid of him that they won’t do or say anything about it.

Zelensky and his whole nation are being sold out - literally. Trump is only interested in the property and the raw materials he can extract. Expect an enforced unfair peace deal that Putin will love.

In case anyone is in the remotest doubt, Donald Trump has made the disunited States disrespected across the world. Being led by a rambling old man with bizarre ideas and nasty ways of implementing them doesn't make a nation strong - it shreds trust from former allies.

Woke up on Christmas morning to discover that I'd gone over 7,000 followers. Thank you bluesky folk.

I do hope Starmer isn't stupid enough to send British troops into harms way in order to clear the ground for Trump to steal as many resources as he can out of Ukraine. Trump's deals have nothing to do with peace and everything to do with real estate values. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Breaking temperature records is becoming routine. The consequences of doing so are not. They become more evident with every passing year and we have another 30 years of this getting worse already baked in. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Definite upsurge in Trump administration attacks on the EU / Europe in the last week, and I think of it rather as a cross between a toddler tantrum and an arsonist where the key fact is the project to reshape the world and even the US is failing.

So much for freedom of speech. Alternative voices aren't even allowed into the deeply divided country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Greenland's prime minister said the island must ‘decide our own future’ and its ‘territorial integrity must be respected’.” The US doesn’t respect territorial integrity in Ukraine. Or in Venezuela. Why would it respect it in Denmark/Greenland? America is a rogue state.

I installed PV with 2kW storage on our house in Germany. Super easy to install, it saves us a fortune. #Balkonkraftwerk flic.kr/p/2r3rvZd

Research confirming the obvious. Cutting energy demand and evening out the timing of it are the best ways of moving beyond fossilised technology and limiting the coming climate chaos climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/cutting...