#ClimateCrisis? What #ClimateCrisis? Current UK weather together with global high temp records outnumbering lows by nearly 5:1 just demonstrates #ClimateChangeIsReal and impacting us today.

#ClimateCrisis? What #ClimateCrisis? Current UK weather together with global high temp records outnumbering lows by nearly 5:1 just demonstrates #ClimateChangeIsReal and impacting us today.

“The president…began making vandalism claims over the weekend, after problems at the reflecting pool appeared to be getting worse, with visible tears in the pool’s new flooring and algae blooming despite cleanup efforts.” Think I know where the vandal lives. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The UK summer of 1976 was an extraordinary heatwave for its time. On the 50th anniversary, we look back to learn about what that event can tell us today. For those who experienced the heatwave it is engrained in the memory, but it gives us a stark warning about future extreme heat for the UK.

Love this ad from @libdems.org.uk - farage is one of the few to make out personally from #Brexit. Leaving the #EU has failed, making the UK poorer. We need a closer relationship with them if we’re to significantly raise living standards and help address the #CostOfLivingCrisis.

Europe has already cut its energy bill by 29% but nobody talks about it. EU energy use in 2024: 854 Mtoe. Without efficiency gains since 2000 it would have been ~1,103 Mtoe. That's energy nobody had to generate, import or pay for. New policy brief out today 👇 www.janrosenow.com/uploads/4/7/...

A great success story for the reintroduction of beavers, into London of all places, which has led to reduced flooding in nearby residential areas due to the new wetlands the beavers have created with their dams. #NatureIsAmazing www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Trump: UFC fighters? I could fight them both, but I’d win easy. They’d be black and blue… like my hand… which is a totally normal colour for skin. New Private Eye on shelves now.

@royalsociety.org - cancel #Musk fellowship. His continued presence shames British science.

Great article from @marketwatch.com - #SpaceX looks to be a house built on sand (hot air promises of jam, not tomorrow but, many years into the future, if ever). Wall Street claims its worth $135 a share but last October it was valued internally at $42. www.marketwatch.com/story/here-a...

You can now vote to choose the faces on the new bank notes from the Bank of #England. This series focuses on #UK #wildlife and there are plenty of great choices! @bbowt.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social app.keysurvey.co.uk/f/41844465/6...

Memories of the Summer of 1976 endure in the British memory, 35.9 °C, parched fields, standpipes in the streets. 50 years on and, in the last decade alone, temperatures above 36 °C have been recorded on six days in the UK and the UK’s highest record temperature now stands at 40.3 °C.

Britain sets solar record as households take control of energy bills 💸 New government figures published today confirm a record year for solar deployment, as households and businesses across Britain respond to the energy crisis by generating their own power. #SolarEnergyUK

The Rejoin petition has just hit 💥90,000💥 signatures!

Important to remember that it's not just right-wingers who are unable to accept hard data, it's an issue with the left too. In both cases the strong emotional attachment to a dogma outweighs anything that can disprove it.

“Putin harms the German people. Putin harms Europe. Putin is killing people in Europe.” - Jürgen Hardt, member of the German Bundestag from Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), addressing the Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Every Reform UK Councillor that has gone, with reasons. This is superb:

The Rejoin petition jumped from 70K to 75K yesterday. It needs to hit 100K by June 8th when the petition closes in order to get a debate in Parliament. The 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote is June 23rd.

Wednesday's @theguardian.com cartoon #Farage #ReformUk #AndyBurnham #MakerfieldByelection #Brexit

And now 6 times @markhamillofficial.bsky.social

This issue is not going away. We demand action.

Detailed article on the huge rises in insurance costs for many US households due to the increasing number & intensity of natural disasters but not once does it mention the driving factor - #ClimateChange. @wsj.com see it but they just can’t say the words “climate” & “change”. Wilfully obtuse.

Over the last year recorded global all time record temperatures: - maximum highs outnumbered max lows by 2.75:1 - minimum highs outnumbered min lows by 6.77:1. This isn’t hard to understand - #ClimateChangeIsReal www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/data...

Great to see the tide is really turning, something that trump’s war with Iran will only make all the more urgent as energy security becomes front & centre in the minds of governments globally. www.ft.com/content/d525...

Remembering Amal Khalil

What you get with Reform UK. Spread the word.

Yet again we see the direct consequences of being an insular, boorish superpower that seems completely disinterested in understanding anything beyond its borders.

I don't want to ever hear again from anyone in the #US that they somehow have it so bad with the price of #petrol / #gas when their cost is literally half that of what we pay in #Europe. Go buy something that can do more than 10MPG, or better still an #EV! #IranWar

Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions A 🧵 with the evidence:

Please sign this - we the people of the UK need to make it clear to Parliament, in which a tiny minority have sought to block the #AssistedDying bill, of the overwhelming support for the right to die with dignity.

Please sign this - we the people of the UK need to make it clear to Parliament, in which a tiny minority have sought to block the #AssistedDying bill, of the overwhelming support for the right to die with dignity.

posted without comment* *many thanks to @johnfugelsang.bsky.social

Hungary: Orban loses historic election The new Private Eye is out now.

The receipts. A complete timeline of the shifting rhetoric. More: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

Over the last year recorded global all time record temperatures: - maximum highs outnumbered max lows by 2.75:1 - minimum highs outnumbered min lows by 6.77:1. This isn’t hard to understand - #ClimateChangeIsReal www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/data...

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country, we have 50 states, all these people, we're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things

news.sky.com/story/how-fo... Join over 100,000 and call on the government to intervene to defend democracy. www.dignityindying.org.uk/petition

We must never forget the #WarCrimes committed by ruzzia against the people of #Ukraine.

Fucking nailed it.

Closure of Strait of Hormuz isn’t just an energy shock—it ripples through chemicals, fertilizers, and food systems.🌾 Developing countries face the harshest impact, with welfare losses 10–20x higher than in advanced economies. New Kiel Policy Brief 👉 kielinstitut.de/publications... @julianhi.nz

A frankly terrifying potential vision of the near future - global food shortages resulting from fertiliser shortages. All the consequence of the vain, arrogant stupidity of one old man combined with a possible El Niño in 2026 would harm millions of innocent lives. www.ft.com/content/27e0...

Long before it gets to this level, trump will declare an IEPA emergency and block all oil & gas exports from the US. That should get the ex-US price to $200 soon enough.

@marketwatch.com misses the point on this article - the drivers who will "smash right through" the #gasprice will be all the #EV drivers. www.marketwatch.com/story/gas-pr...

Not always a fan of Hastings, but I agree with him here: "Truth is not merely a virtue. It is a weapon, which this administration has wantonly broken with its own hands, even as it wages a shooting war in which scarcely anybody save the Israelis sees merit or reason." The US has lost this war.

Labour MP James Naish presents a petition to Parliament calling for the assisted dying Bill to be enacted without delay, despite having voted against the Bill at Third Reading in the Commons.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

“The oceans had absorbed most of the excess heat, storing about 91 per cent of the energy. Another 5 per cent had warmed the land, 3 per cent heated the ice and 1 per cent warmed the air”. So just 6% of that heat has given us the #GlobalWarming we’re experiencing now. www.ft.com/content/e839...

Thanks to everyone who’s signed so far - the petition now needs to be checked before it can be made more widely available. No representation without taxation!

@hopenothate.org.uk - do you think that tax exiles should be allowed to legislate in Parliament? I don’t. If you agree, please sign this petition- no representation without taxation! bsky.app/profile/dona...

Yet more proof, if any needed, that tax haven exiles shouldn’t be allowed to legislate - no representation without taxation! bsky.app/profile/dona...