I mean, let's be honest this tracks

Isn't "armchair media critique" the job description of an opinion writer?

Is the Government still claiming the UK isn't involved in this war?

Similarly we should be doing ground-source district heating (1 ground source heat pump heating a whole building or street) rather than issuing individual grants for air source heat pumps.

Free buses, more of them, lots of bus lanes, lots of bike lanes, vouchers for ebikes are measures we can roll out in the time frame of the crisis. There is a danger that "but you don't understand, I need my car" while sometimes completely valid, prevents collective action.

Am I being daft here, but I would’ve assumed that the most fair form of rationing a scarce resource probably isn’t “price goes up”, and it might be… rationing

Don't worry folks once we're done bashing the Greens a trade system under which rich countries can outbid poor countries for essential resources will be fine again.

Labour MP says what?

Because "tightening your belt" by £100 a month or whatever looks very different depending on where you are on this graph. Concentrating that burden at the lower end of the graph is insane unless your government and media system is designed to help rich people stay rich.

Many cities are demolishing their high-rise public housing (I’m looking at you Melbourne!) Paris is bucking the trend by refurbishing. These 101 apartments originally build in 1976 were reclad with new insulation on the outside and look great! By Ithaques

They're just saying it how it is

Perhaps it was on a defensive mission over Iran

*looks around at the state of things*

We have a very simple solution to universal programs benefiting the wealthy. You claw back the money through taxes on the back end. Everyone has known this for 100 years, but people get to pretend they don’t when it’s convenient for their ideology.

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if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

Ah, this is why you need a journalist-free newsroom?

Great time to talk about drilling north sea oil and gas that WILL NOT BRING BILLS DOWN BECAUSE IT IS SOLD ON AN INTERNATIONAL MARKET.

"killing it" in this case meaning "making it orders of magnitude more popular than it ever was"

After giving us false hope that he might be the only sensible one in government, Ed Miliband confirming once again that he’s just another Labour politician. This is an awful, destructive decision that won’t shift UK energy prices one penny. 2/3rds of fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground.

Literally anyone talking about drilling the north sea right now.

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The UK has one of the highest historical contributions to climate change and does not deserve to profit off of more fossil fuel extraction. Plus carbon capture doesn't work so the best carbon capture is the stuff you don't extract. Plus not extracting gives us more incentive to reduce consumption

I'm very confused by people who think the solution to a fuel shortage is the imposition of rationing that you can buy your way out of if you're wealthy (ie price increases).

A classic "'this is bad for your cause' - guy who hates you and your cause"

If you can see the world's most powerful Empire talk about reducing a country of 90 million to rubble and then act horrified that I want Iran to win, you're just racist, pure and simple Iranians deserve life, freedom, dignity and happiness. America is trying to murder them all

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1p off plastic bags

Toilet seats

“The Islamo-left” is a straight up fascist conspiracy theory but let’s not pretend that it is not exactly what’s been lurking at the bottom of the pond that most of our parliamentarians and media figures have been frolicking and splashing in, at least since the Iraq War went Kaboom live on TV.

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A world food crisis is coming as a consequence of the war on Iran. It’s not just about fertilizers and grains. Tomatoes and cucumbers are grown in greenhouses powered by gas. Gas is getting too expensive which means shortages are looming.

This government can't be trusted to end the housing crisis because its ministers are bought and paid for by the developers, landlords and corporate interests who profit from it.

We could've phased out fossil fuels the gradual, smart and painless way starting in the 1990s The fossil fuel industry decided we have to do it the painful, unfair and cruel way instead. because that gave them an extra few decades of super-profits

This is very sensible and the UK should be recommending this now to ease the shock. But the government won't.

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The fact these guys are totally untouchable and can't get fired kind of means you get to see how little is there behind the eyes

Beavers dont kill trees, they coppice them. Here are two trees that have been beavered at Bathampton Meadows (just down the river from Warleigh Nature Reserve) that people have been worried were “killed” that are both still growing happily. Let’s talk about it.

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I was told it was an avoidable disaster created by the ideological derangement of successive governments, utterly discrediting the dominant political and economic philosophy of the era and required extreme destructive measures to be imposed upon the populace, in the name of common sense.

meanwhile, at Spiked HQ

To paraphrase @thesinankose.bsky.social it's perfectly possible to argue that people feel we've had too many chocolate teapots orbiting the earth in recent years. Doesn't follow that you have to treat these as legitimate concerns!

If you want to live on Mars, go live in Antarctica. That's the closest you can get right now and I'd bet a lot of money those Mars guys would absolutely hate it.

Even if we don’t consider motive, it’s simply true that the far right march in London last year - the largest fascist mobilisation in Britain since before the war - was treated as a legit democratic uprising that must be heard, a thing that does not happen for anything from the left.

Disappointing to see Greens vote against energy company nationalisation.

It’s not only the far right that view politics as basically a licence to be as much of an appalling, malignant prick as you can