It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thank you so much to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for inviting me onto his podcast. We talked about critical issues the media & political establishment is ignoring such as the extraordinarily dumb & dangerous UK defence deal with Peter Thiel’s Palantir

Please read this. The UK political & media establishment is asleep at the wheel. We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Meta, Microsoft and Google are all coordinating with the European far right in order to dismantle EU digital laws designed to protect citizens, according to a new report. The recent 🇺🇸NSS strategy outlined regime change plans to support the European far right. A public-private partnership.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

"Hey, Trump! Greenland is not a child on Epstein Island who you can take whenever you want." ##Greenland 🇬🇱

Don't forget the Epstein Files. #Trump

#REPORT | Armed Israeli settler gangs roam freely in the Khallet Al-Natsh area, south of Hebron, intimidating and harassing Palestinians. (7/1/2026)

If climate denial feels global, that’s because it is. No longer national politics – it’s an organised international movement. Geoff Dembicki reports. From _DeSmog_ -- thanks! eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

In 2026, Trump-aligned operatives, opaque funding networks and far-right agitators are intensifying efforts to shape the next General Election in Britain. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/16/n...

Fareed Zakaria nails it, as per usual👇 The fate of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 might get decided in 2026, and the consequences will be seismic for the international system (read: for America, for Europe, for you and me personally) Aggressors’ appetites are set to grow. Will we let them consume the world?

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Spot on from the brilliant @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social 👇

During the month of December in the West Bank, Israel has: • Executed a child • Demolished 23 homes • Destroyed 72 commercial facilities • Shut down 3 civil society institutions • Approved 19 new settlements (Source: Palestinian Center for Human Rights)

Great 💪🇻🇪❤️

Never trust Israël. It always lies.

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Maybe a warning to Starmer that charming a complete idiot is not a wise move?

3/ Trump: Nicolas Maduro has been "along with his wife, captured & flown out of the country". This wildly illegal act of aggression elevates Maduro - a blood-stained crook - to the status of anti-imperialist martyr. Putin & Xi will see this as a licence to do what they like in their "back yards".

They want to complete the Genocide now?

⭕️ The latest victims of Israel’s genocide: A 29-day-old infant who died from hypothermia. A 7-year-old who drowned in an open sewage ditch A 30-year-old mother who died as the rubble around her shelter collapsed over her due to the storms. Israel is still refusing the entry of shelter aid.

Interesting new plan from Ed Miliband today - in terms of value for money tho he should drop the heat pump subsidy (and the battery one) and go all in on solar - we could solarise 10m homes with that £15bn - it’s the most economic technology we have for homes and we can slash energy bills this way.

I have a new estimate: Earth's albedo (reflectivity) has declined about 0.55% since 2000 (CERES data), the so-called "great darkening." Just to restore the albedo lost since 2000 would require a band of mirrors (92% efficient) circling the earth at the equator about 90km wide.

Sunday News: “The Year in Climate”; “Trump’s top 25 lies of 2025”; “Pausing Dominion’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project is lunacy” and more | A powerful collection of today’s headlines via Lowkell for @bluevirginia.bsky.social: bluevirginia.us/2025/12/sund...

Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No outrage because it isn't a beach in Australia so obviously MSM silence 🙄🤔

Yet more birds of prey getting depressed, killing themselves, removing their satellite tags, then disposing of their own corpses. It's hard to believe, but the statistics don't like. Either that or the shooting industry is involved. But that's a stretch of the imagination too far.

Teresa Bo reporting from Argentina on how a shipment of aid for Gaza is being blocked by the govt there.

Three days ago Starmer was arguing that the UK shouldn’t think about rejoining the EU because it would unpick all these great US trade deals.

The Conservatives are threatening to abandon the phaseout date for petrol and diesel cars should they win the next election There are so many reasons this is an awful idea you wonder whether any thought has been involved Let me run through them 🧵🧵 1/7 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This study predicts UK energy spending to halve by 2050, as part of our ‘rush’ to net zero….:) Five years ago I flagged this incredible fact in my book Manifesto - we spend £50 billion a year to bring oil and gas into our country - just to burn it. Good to see it in this study. buff.ly/OBwYgKG

The politics of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Growing evidence suggests that the AMOC system of ocean currents may be heading towards collapse @stevedawe.bsky.social westenglandbylines.co.uk/features/cli...

“The democratic threat is terrifying. The time for timidity is over, for appeasing the US, for pretending Brexit can ever work – and for allowing big money into politics. For a government so low in the polls, boldness is the only way up.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Polling: "Do you think the rich have too much political power in the U.S.?" Yes: 80% No: 8% Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%. Maybe a political party could lead on this issue. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

🚨10 years after Paris: As far as the recent past is any indication of the future, I don't expect we will see the 3-year average going down below +1.5°C much ever again...

Heavy rain on Gaza now... Gaza is drowning now... Children are dying in Gaza from the severe cold, and people are drowning and cannot find a place to shelter from the rain after the storm swept away their tents

NEW – Net-zero scenario is ‘cheapest option’ for UK, says energy system operator | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/yozZTRE

Farage thinks I'm a maniac? Starmer thinks the Greens are nuts? Badenoch thinks I'm weird? Join.greenparty.org.uk

Trump is doing everything to reintegrate Russia into the global political and economic order. The unclassified version of the new U.S. security strategy proposes a new “G7” excluding Europe but including Russia, China, and India. It also aims to pull Italy and Hungary away from Brussels’ influence.

these technology schemes obsessed degenerates ...

🔴 NEW 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch “Groundbreaking investigation” reveals how the IEA has campaigned against climate action after taking cash from fossil fuel firms. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

🚨🚨"Elon Musk Has Made X a Threat to Democracy and His War on the EU Proves It". Caroline Orr Bueno has an excellent report here on how #Musk has turned #Twitter/#X into a tool for foreign #interference which monetises and weaponises a global network of disinformation. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/08/e...

Manic week - apologies for multiple posts, but its all in plain sight now The Double Headed Eagle - Russia and America and Authoritarian Big tech The EU is the enemy of both pdjukes.substack.com/p/the-double...

Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.

ICYMI: don't miss this critical reporting on the fossil fuel industry's involvement in crippling the EU's green laws.

BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...