So the US administration considers hate speech and disinformation “American viewpoints“? 🙄 HateAid is an organization that also helps climate scientists to defend themselves against online abuse and threats. Its founder was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 🇩🇪 this year.

Refreshingly simple and accurate graphic and headline.

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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹 They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating. A new scoop for The Reengineer! www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...

Ru is NOT winning. It’s gradually losing its grip. It’s time for the West to back Ukraine to win. « Novorossiysk was treated not merely as a fallback, but as a sanctuary — a place where submarines and surface vessels could operate, rearm, and launch strikes.. open.substack.com/pub/shankarn...

Sen. Blumenthal making a very good point.

Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

France's updated National Low-Carbon Strategy (SNBC-3) foresees the end of oil use between 2040 and 2045. Fossil gas would be phased out by 2050. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Literally the most important story in UK politics today. A low discount rate unlocks public investment in a much bigger array of infrastructure projects, as it changes how Government accounts for the future benefits of them.

Interesting background on Paul Doyle, who drove his car into the Liverpool parade www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

The enemy within

Vietnam & Singapore have both overtaken the UK & EU with record EV market shares of around 40% If stats like these, showing the clean tech race is being won elsewhere, doesn't show European countries (and UK Conservatives) they need to back off diluting EV targets, I don't know what can

Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.

Jared Kushner’s Firm Pulls Out of Trump-Branded Hotel Deal in Serbia The announcement came just hours after prosecutors there charged four government officials with corruption in connection with the half-billion-dollar project. By Sharon LaFraniere and Lara Jakes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...

Editor in Chief of Christianity Today Magazine 👇🏽

Tell Mr Cole he can choose to interview racists (who'd chuck 90 MPs out of our parliament out on racist grounds) or interview government ministers but that he can't do both. Don't give him any ministerial guests until/unless Talk TV say they wouldn't have this guy back on bsky.app/profile/sund...

The GOP War on Christmas

With the latest mass shooting at Brown University, this might be a good time to mention that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by 43% - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths spiked by 239%. It's the GUNS -Joann Duman

Our Paris correspondent @sophiepedder.bsky.social alerted me to this viral French Christmas supermarket ad and now I’m choked up. youtu.be/iLERt5ZkpQ4

Using old coal mines to heat homes? Gateshead is doing it. Their mine-water project—the UK’s largest—draws 15°C water from boreholes, uses heat pumps to boost it to 80°C, and sends that heat through an underground network. The system now warms 350+ homes and 23 buildings.

Tory transport culture wars risked making roads less safe, says minister

Anyone complaining about European rearmament as escalatory simply doesn’t understand Ru. Ru invades the unarmed and the neutral (Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine). It hasn’t dared invade a NATO member, no matter how small. If Ru does attack NATO, it will be because it perceives its members as unprepared.

NEW: How cheap are grid batteries?🔋🔋🔋 Grid batteries are now only c.$125/KWh connected🤯 This assessment is based on a series of expert interviews and storage auction results as of October 2025. 🧵

10 years on from the Paris Agreement, my message for fossil fuel companies is clear: get on board with a green future, or get left behind. London is leading the way, now we need businesses and governments around the world to step up.

Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO, warned yesterday that Europe faces war with Russia. Yesterday, wind produced 60% of British electricity. Every unit of clean domestic energy we produce makes us more secure. That’s why our enemies fund anti-renewables propaganda.

just catching up with this - an amazing example of misleading statistics. Badenoch tries to blame the government for teacher numbers falling, but the fall was between November 2023 *and November 2024* (it's just that the figures were published in 2025). we don't have 2025 figure.

Incredible chart, when you consider what revenues OpenAI has giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @financialtimes.com

This is ringing bells as one of those extremely misleading stats that has been regularly debunked by more or less etc.

Zarah Sultana voted with the Tories in every vote on the Employment Rights Bill last night. That includes voting to keep the Lords' wrecking amendments on strike ballot thresholds and to keep the 2016 Trade Union Act's restrictions on unions' political funds.

Reform councils have spent twice as much on private sector contracts in the six months since the election compared to a year previously www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

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Caribbean reefs have lost 48% of hard coral since 1980, study finds #Climate

Yep, a huge number of people in Northern Ireland - including Protestants - are now both UK and Irish citizens. It will be interesting to see how long it takes Unionist MPs to realise how unpopular this will be..,

Um, this doesn't seem to acknowledge that you can have dual nationality and not be a migrant...

Absolutely. This.

The Employment's Right's Bill was introduced to Parliament by Angela Rayner. Here is her speech today in support of the bill & the government's amendment to break the deadlock with the Lords. But she has a message for the Tories, Lib Dems, Reform & Greens: there no more excuses to block this bill!

Transport anoraks (and others) might want to know that tomorrow we will be debating the 2nd reading of the Railways Bill in the commons. This is a huge piece of legislation & the most consequential change since British Rail was privatised. bills.parliament.uk/bills/4030

This is actually a new low, it's genuinely impressive

Beyond a joke - this hideous failure of privatisation, this company that has pumped £billions out of our economy to foreign owners while pumping billions of litres of sewage into our rivers. buff.ly/taOhgF3

Hugely encouraging news from Brazil today. President Lula has instructed four ministries to draw up a roadmap for a just transition away from fossil fuels, and asked his government to formulate an energy transition fund using income from petroleum revenues. www.linkedin.com/posts/ana-to...

Using hydrogen for low/medium temperature industrial process heat is by far the most expensive option available. Our recent analysis shows that heat pumps coupled with electro-thermal storage is the most cost-effective technology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working. Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.

The difficult truth is that a radical programme probably needs to be conservatively financed. Some on the left appear to confuse radical proposals for financing mechanisms with proposals for a policy programme itself.

The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.

The Trump National Security Strategy is bonkers in many ways but this objective stood out: "Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations" Making their strategy of supporting radical right and extremist parties explicit.

Firefighters, performers, educators, public service workers and many others are raising their voices to demand a global plan to move away from coal, oil and gas and secure a safe future for all. 👩‍🚒 🎭 👩‍🏫🌱

Two major UK trade unions, Equity and the Fire Brigades Union, have officially endorsed the call for a fast, fair, and financed phase-out of fossil fuels.