Forty years ago today - June 26, 1986 – “our children will grow old in a world that fragmenting and disintegrating.” Report in the Melbourne Age. And here we are. allouryesterdays.info/2023/06/25/j...

Today I read the first part of Book Two of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phaethon's Ride - omfg. OMFG. Every environmentally-minded person should read it!

July 1, 1959 – Gilbert Plass article on climate change published in Scientific American allouryesterdays.info/2025/06/30/j...

July 1st is "one of those days" in climate (and environment) history. A lot going on. Pls comment on and share this thread! July 1, 1950 – “Is the World Getting Warmer?” asks Saturday Evening Post allouryesterdays.info/2022/07/01/j... 1/n

Homo insapiens...

The daily photo. Richmond Park, SW London. June 2023.

Another day, another renewables record. www.businessgreen.com/news/4532015...

what are we even doing anymore www.404media.co/henrico-virg...

'For many businesses, policymakers and investors, identifying the right expertise – and the right people – is a difficult task. Expertise is distributed across institutions, departments, research centres and disciplines, making it difficult to navigate.' 1/3

Via George Monbiot's column, this ALSO is a must read, about 1976 and all that. Geographers are pretty smart people, when they put down their colour-in pencils. geogramblings.com/2026/06/29/w...

“Humanity is frying itself alive but refuses to turn the stove off, because the fumes smell quite tasty. This is how I would summarize our collective cognitive blackout. Stupidity has won” My new article

It's almost as if... scientists were right about C͟l͟i͟m͟a͟t͟e͟ C͟h͟a͟n͟g͟e͟...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Democratic socialist Melat Kiros defeats 15-term incumbent in Colorado House primary

A united Europe is our only option. And a good option on top.

Hope that one day you will find someone who loves you as much as Labour loves the Reform voter.

On the other hand, Burnham needn't be tied by Reeves' silly tax promises, & can use this to highlight the urgent need for grrowth: "two decades of stagnation have left us unable to afford to defend the country": www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour can threaten a £10k charge on migrants and still it’s never enough for the hard right. Perhaps there’s a lesson here? 🤔

This "we're only small" argument is a basic incapability or refusal to understand the core ethos and dynamics of collective action. It's not tricky, without cooperation the whole of civilised life breaks down. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here’s a difficult but important task for Burnham’s next Chancellor: how to tax/regulate the parasitic private equity industry out of the UK economy, both public and private sectors. Think of all the money that could be going into care and real investment instead… www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

PE insists it uses debt leverage ’responsibly’, by which they mean a high rate of return for investors. But if you asset strip public services, raise prices for goods and services and minimise investment it’s a dead end - you kill the real economy in the process. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

A whole new type of micro-'entrepreneurship' (mixture of grift, side hustle and scam economies) is opening up thanks to AI www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

"Charismatic Stokes" ought to have been one of the names on The Mayflower in 1620.

People who've managed to do absolutely zilch (or *worse*) on climate and ageing population now giving us finger-wagging lectures on "the price of inaction" when it comes to defence

We are going to have to hunt down the people who did these things, no matter where they hide or how long it takes.

That a member of BBC staff refers to some of the presenters as “big beasts” tells you so much about how they see themselves.

A thought provoked by Burnham's speech yesterday: could a political leader find a path to legitimacy, that didn't hang entirely on macroeconomics? substack.com/@willd10/p-2...

For everyone fascinated by the couple who ate pack lunches for a decade, check out @ntaylor.bsky.social and my (OA) piece about this weird and wonderful world! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yet another report underscoring how the global energy system is changing at a remarkable rate, with renewables and clean tech steadily eating away at fossil fuels' centuries long dominance. www.businessgreen.com/news/4531937...

Also, very notable how the US under Trump did not get the memo.

Of course it looks like a fucking Reichsadler. Why wouldn’t it 🤦‍♂️

Today is a parade of the prejudices and priorities of our ruling class. Britain would be better off if we pulled the plug entirely.

BBC News is losing audience because it is losing trust. It should be a vital service, free from government influence and political bias. Instead it is a purveyor of political bias, and more and more people are sensing that. It demeans the basis of public service broadcasting.

The Today programme has been dying a slow death for some years now - it may still command 5m listeners but that's way fewer than it used to & it isn't all down to social media or audiences changing. That so many people think it's biased and pandering to certain audiences is central to its decline.

“This is an act of vandalism pure and simple” says a Radio 4 “insider”, but the Today Programme is *so* dreadful that serious vandalism could only improve it.

On the Today programme, Nick explains that “many listeners” will be “worried” about Miliband becoming chancellor because he was “rejected as prime minister”. Once again, the effects on these guys’ brains of reading all the papers before 5am deserves urgent study

I think I can fix that line for the BBC and Christeria Mason: 'Burnham revels on public stage but has little time for banal, gotcha questions'

Coincidentally this BBC headline, you could swap the names around and it would still make perfect sense.

Chris Mason attempting analysis is like watching a chimp trying to knit. #r4today

The daily photo. Alfie the Cat, Wimbledon, June 2018.

I am genuinely excited about a PM who will be serious about devolution. If done right it could give people more sense of control about their locality; free up Whitehall to focus on big strategic issues; and make it harder for a future national govt to burn everything down.

[email protected] released a report on the environmental impacts of Brexit on UK: * UK has fallen behind on protecting waterways * laws that protect wild spaces weakened * failure to protect marine wildlife * rise in trace pesticides on foods www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/ten-yea...

Ever climbed into a car that's been baking in the sun and wondered why our biggest car parks don't have shade? The Government was considering exactly that. It has now quietly parked the idea. Here's why it matters. eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

'Green Party leader...Zack Polanski said: "What is the value of giving local govt more powers if it cannot afford to use them?... #Burnham's commitment today to stick to the so-called fiscal rules ensures continued austerity & cuts to vital services." ' #devolution www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the future Big Oil built for us. Fossil fuel companies knew decades ago that their products would drive increasingly severe and frequent heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires, but lied to protect their own profits at the expense of public health and safety. The public deserves accountability.

Bill Bramhall cartoon: The new White House annex.

Economists talk about 'scarring' - long-term effects on a cohort of some short-term phenomenon like a bout of unemployment: even if we pull out of this UK HE crisis soon (doubtful), the whole sector will be scarred for life. (1/2)

Some precious and fragile ideas about what an education can be, what a university can be, will have been lost as all university managers will remember is how to achieve cost savings and raise 'productivity'. (2/2)

‘The press has been like a dog with a bone, chasing down bond market analysts for apocalyptic visions of Burnhamism, treating vox pops conducted within the Square Mile as the expression of pure economic reason.’ @will-davies.bsky.social, online now from the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...