Coventry Council votes to end Palantir contract over sensitive data access A motion proposed by the Green Party has been passed, asking the local authority to reconsider its contract with the US tech giant Palantir

This is absolutely terrifying The Nino 3.4 forecast temperature anomaly mean is now at 4C, when even the biggest historical super ninos have seen less than 3C I really have no idea what this is going to bring over the next 12 months, but it will be very, very, grim

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Adapting to hotter temperatures is not solely about cooling. . We need our entire infrastructure to be fit for purpose. Last week, six NHS trusts declared a critical incident after hot weather damaged their IT systems, scanners, and cancer and lab equipment.

A £5 million "unconditional gift" from a crypto billionaire. A promise to launch a crypto revolution in Britain. Yeah, nothing to see here from Nigel "nine-jobs, five-houses" Farage. 👀

It's make your mind up time for Andy Burnham. Public control and public ownership are NOT the same thing. When it comes to services for people not profit, we need to know you're on our side. vist.ly/59s2x

Allowing data centres to use carbon offsets, one of the most useless, divisive and generally unhelpful mechanisms for tackling climate change, would be a ridiculous concession to Big Tech power by the EU 🧵🧵 1/4 www.ft.com/content/2135...

The Times (via Politico): "Christopher Harborne, who has given Reform £15 million and Nigel Farage personally £5 million, owns a jet fuel company that sources from refineries using large volumes of Russian crude oil."

Blatant lobbying, not for the sake of our country, but for the fossil fuel industry, in which almost all the ultrarich - including, in all likelihood, the proprietors of these newspapers - are heavily invested. These people are not and never will be your friends. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

I'm so proud of Yassin. He made Bristol and Britain his home. He has contributed so much as a Green Party Cllr to his city and to the community in Lawrence Hill. Solidarity in the face of this Reform fuelled racist hate. Hope always wins!

I just wanna say, several Prosecco’s and a very stressful game down, white nationalists will never take away what England is Watching this game, with my black dad, white step mom, and mixed race brother and sister on the edge of our seats remind me of this We are England, nationalists be damned

UK households are sick of being a revenue stream for a handful of shareholders around the world Andy Burnham we'd like our assets back 💧⚡️📮🏥

This is incorrect Welsh Water is not in public ownership, it's a 'not for profit' which loses 41% of bills to finance costs, same as Thames Water Publicly owned Scottish Water on the other hand has finance costs of only 8% - and 50% more investment www.theguardian.com/business/nil...

We should allow asylum seekers to work – so that they can support themselves and become part of our communities. It’s these common sense solutions, not more performative cruelty, that will fix our broken migration system. metro.co.uk/2026/07/01/z...

The first of TWO speeches to two rooms packed with constituents come to lobby their MPs for more action on Palestinian rights yesterday in Parliament. Thanks to everyone who is keeping up the pressure on MPs and the Government for the simplest actions any normal country would take.

If you're in or near #Diss on Friday (3rd), do consider coming to free a screening of the People's Emergency Briefing, hosted by @adrianramsay.bsky.social, MP. I'll be part of the panel following the film. More details and how to reserve your spot via the link. rupertread.net/events/peopl...

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

Nigel Farage launched Reform’s flagship policy in Las Vegas last year and promised to make it law. Now, as his links to cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne are under scrutiny, it has disappeared. When you understand who it would benefit, this is no surprise @tuckerian.bsky.social reports

Presumably Matt Goodwin is equally outraged that Alf Dubs, who arrived on the Kindertransport in 1939, is now a life peer.

Some good news: a former refugee from Somalia who made Bristol his home 15 years ago, studied in the U.K. and represents his ward since 2021, pushing for improving local conditions, now fills the ceremonial role of Lord Mayor of Bristol.

It’s very hard to escape the conclusion that these people don’t have a problem with violence against women or child abuse, per se. They’re just against “braaahn people touching aaahr women and kids”, precisely because they see them as THEIRS to assault and abuse…

Serving as an MP is a privilege and should be viewed as such by those who do the job – not as a part-time role or a get-rich-quick scheme. We need a ban on second jobs for MPs now.

Was The Canary in receipt of a mysterious £5 million payment from an offshore source? Was it closely linked to convicted fraudsters and money-launderers? That might set off alarm bells at any bank. But this looks much more like *political* debanking by Lloyds.

Investment in our security must reflect the world we live in. Starmer's plan won't be worth the paper it's written on if it doesn't address long term threats we face: not just aggressive foreign powers but cyber attacks, food & water insecurity, pandemics and climate breakdown.

Nothing says 'speaking for the concerns of the common man' like being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to promote actual gold bars

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

Scientists called 2023 ocean temperature records ‘terrifying’ and ‘bonkers.’ We just broke them. Worse than they thought. And yet the government is failing to get to grips with the climate crisis and considering major new oil drilling. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - Sign the Petition! No compelling financial case has been made for these cuts, which will have a devastating effect on courses, staff and students. c.org/JCTnd8DmWY

GB News gives its take on climate change. This is what a propaganda campaign looks like. Who'd have guessed that the GB News co-owner runs a hedge fund with massive investments in oil and gas? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

The UK is a sitting duck when it comes to heatwaves, and for all the other effects of climate breakdown. We cannot afford any more doubt or delay. Stopping the very worst effect means clear and decisive climate action. All eyes on the candidates for PM!

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

It tells you everything you need to know about Kemi Badneoch and Nigel Farage that as London schools, hospitals and transport networks all buckle under extreme record-breaking temperatures, they gather with fossil fuel lobbyists, climate deniers and the far-right to demand an end to Net Zero

"a full list of Flint Global’s clients must be published.” www.opendemocracy.net/blair-tribut...

This was Brisket, soon after he joined our pack. I want to tell you about him because it was the 40º UK heatwave that did him in, in 2022. And how that changed how I approach heat and why I skipped #LCAW26. Short 🧵

Which Andy Burnham turns up to Downing Street is crucial. I really hope it's the non-tribal mayor who listens across party lines and thinks long-term (and not the Iraq War and PFI-backer)

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

"A breast feeding baby was shot by a quad copter through the head" Yesterday the UN commission of inquiry published a report detailing how Israel deliberately targets & kills Palestinian children

Over 40 economists write to leader of Unite the Union, rejecting her claim that Ed Miliband would destroy jobs if he becomes next UK chancellor "The net zero economy generates output worth over £100bn and employs over a million workers....these numbers will grow” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Watching BBC News and they just did 5 minutes with a doctor about how this heatwave is life threatening and the interviewer closed it with "well, it's just an opportunity to have ice cream for breakfast!!". Amazing clip of how the BBC seems just blissfully unaware of what is happening

“Climate change has been presented as some future problem for future generations. . . it’s not true. It’s us.” Prof Montgomery pointed to an intelligence report painting climate-accelerated nature loss as a risk to food, labelled opposition to net zero “clearly insane” www.ft.com/content/f059...

The Climate Change Committee is clear. The Government is not moving fast enough to reduce emissions and this is putting our climate targets at risk. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Europe is red hot this week & we are seeing red. People are being killed by our government’s inaction in the face of extreme weather. It is preventable, but they refuse to what is necessary, ban fossil fuels & invest in renewables The power to demand change is in our hands.

The “new normal” has a huge human cost & should also force urgent review of energy & infrastructure policies eg this: “The heatwave meant a nuclear power plant in southwest France had to be shut down on Monday night because water temperatures in the River Garonne were set to reach 28C on Tuesday”

London needs more council homes, not luxury flats Green & Aspire Mayors are rightfully taking the Mayor of London to court - to fight for genuinely affordable housing Labour have sold out to the developers. The Green Party never will www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rocco Forte & Martin Sorrell are being quoted as representing "business community" opposition to Ed Miliband becoming Chancellor. Forte was a prominent backer of Brexit. Sorrell was a cheerleader for Tory austerity. These two have done major damage to the UK economy. Burnham should ignore them.

People who are getting super rich from property development should contribute fairly to the communities they profit from. Hannah Spencer, MP for Gorton and Denton, calls for a wealth tax on the super-rich to help councils tackle fly-tipping and invest in cleaner communities.

NEW: "Defence can no longer mean only tanks, submarines and the threat from Russia, real though those threats are." My latest column highlights the @nebriefing.bsky.social and some wise words 👆️ from @labourlewis.bsky.social. uk.news.yahoo.com/face-increas...

10 years since the Brexit vote, we need to turn the page. Billions of pounds lost, nearly 2 million jobs gone, a 6–8% hit to our economy. Enough. It's time for the Government to set out a roadmap to rejoining.

After the #Brexit referendum, @greenpartymolly.bsky.social & I dug deep into the individuals & organisations that had worked to bring about an unprecedented act of national self-harm. Brexit was a highly effective far-right coup. And the people behind it do not see their work as finished.

Its darkly ironic that for the last 15 yrs we've had governments committed to cutting investment to "reassure the markets". But all that's happened is that 🇬🇧has got sicker, poorer, & more unequal. Debt to GDP has not declined. It's jumped. Perhaps the best way to reassure the markets is investment?