We begin another months-in-the-making three-parter with the story of Labour. In part one (up to 1939): why it was a fractious coalition from day one, how it overtook the Liberals to become a party of government, and why Ramsay MacDonald went from hero to treacherous villain. Contains foreshadowing

UNEP’s new #AdaptationGap Report warns that developing countries will need at least US$310 billion per year by 2035 to protect lives, livelihoods, and economies. Yet, current financing lags far behind. Discover how to close this gap: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

“Climate impacts are accelerating. Yet adaptation finance is not keeping pace, leaving the world’s most vulnerable exposed to rising seas, deadly storms, searing heat,” says UN SG António Guterres. “Adaptation is not a cost – it is a lifeline" @unep.org #climatecrisis www.unep.org/resources/ad...

Very much looking forward to this! Feels like a perfect time to reassess high-rise living in Britain.

Exclusive: our investigation into the link between occupational asthma and biomass power has been published today by @theguardian.com We reveal that 10 lawsuits have been filed against Drax by workers following specialist diagnoses. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Proud of our team at @landclimate.bsky.social for bringing these cases to light. These people have been failed and deserve better. I hope they get justice asap!

A lovely story about Dr Jane Goodall's career & legacy, from Rachel Fieldhouse & Mohana Basu, in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41.... Includes some comments from me about how researchers _can also_ be advocates and science communicators, and still be taken seriously (I hope)! Vale, Jane.

"To appreciate the Paris agreement’s effectiveness, consider that renewables comprised 92.5% of all new installed electricity capacity in 2024." The optimistic voice of Jennifer Morgan here, via @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/7NKPPvc

Priyanka Kumar's new book "The Light Between Apple Trees" explains how Americans became hooked on a cartoon version of the apple and how this endangers them. You can read an edited extract on @landclimate.bsky.social. It's out now from @islandpress.bsky.social www.landclimate.org/seeds-of-ind...

Nonfiction science new releases for September, 2025! Which of these books are you adding to your TBR? I am adding GHOSTED, BLUEPRINTS, and DANGEROUS MIRACLE to my TBR. #nonfiction #booksky #science 🧪 #sciencebooks #womeninscience #nonfictionscience ⚛️🎢🌱🦜📚

"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat" Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This article is more optimistic than the headline suggests. I think it is actually about the West's decision to hand the future economy to China and the East. The speed of the energy transition in China is good for the world and, geopolitically, bad for the West as it inexplicably relegates itself

As far as I can tell, @zackpolanski.bsky.social is one of the bravest people in the country at the moment. The more Labour and the Tory press attack him, the more the vast majority of decent Britain will tune in to his positive message. Fear may be contagious but so is courage!

Really looking forward to this! Well done @jsmillinstitute.bsky.social for bringing back the Liberal summer schools and keeping them open to people of all political colours. There's a lot to discuss!

24 July is #EarthOvershootDay. That means humanity has used up Earth’s yearly natural resources budget in just 7 months. In 2024, the date was 1 August. The date keeps creeping earlier—but the trend can be reversed: www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/up...

"Interviews with Kurdish microworkers in northern Iraq revealed that many of them still lived in refugee camps, ten years after being displaced by different stages of the Syrian war. Their work consisted in tagging images, mainly for self-driving car systems."

If you're worried about the #climate and #nature emergencies and looking for the perfect (UK-focused) climate adaptation and resilience newsletter, check out this one, which I'm helping to edit. It's free on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/adaptati...

This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, @alimacewen.bsky.social‬ interviewed @simonclimate.bsky.social‬ from ‪@tyndallcentre.bsky.social‬ about the International Maritime Organisation's new penalties for shipping emissions. Click below to listen: www.landclimate.org/...

Oh this is just unspeakably ridiculous. Starmer was even part of a coup against a Labour leader in 2016 and didn't lose the whip at the time (as he shouldn't have). These are decent and popular Labour MPs. Is this possibly the most paranoid whips office of recent times?

Great to see this report out. Looking forward to getting stuck in and very sorry to be missing today's event.

Just seen this important film. Credit to @ejfoundation.org for making it and for continuing to campaign and educate in the area of unsustainable fishing. Well worth a watch!

How did we lose the farmers? @felixschulz.bsky.social has some answers on our latest podcast 👇👇

Join CCNow and @soljourno.bsky.social on Tuesday, June 10, for a webinar that will help you cover climate movements thoughtfully and fairly. You’ll get to learn from journalists who have decades of experience covering climate change and movements to address it. ⁠https://buff.ly/JJDgkwI

It's back!

@seththevoz.bsky.social that's not the National Liberal Club I see hosting Farage's vainglorious press conference today is it? 😱🤯

Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert in @haaretzcom.bsky.social “What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians … It's the result of government policy – knowingly, evilly, maliciously ... Yes, Israel is committing war crimes.”

In the year that BYD sales overtook Teslas in Europe, this podcast from @landclimate.bsky.social and @bertiehb.bsky.social delves into the role that activists played in shifting China from pollution-riddled to an emerging Green powerhouse: www.landclimate.org/how-did-chin...

🤯 This! A rent hike is as good as an eviction for too many renters. Yesterday the Office for National Statistics published data that shows average private rents are up 7.5% in England compared to last year. The #RentersRightsBill must get increases under control by limiting in tenancy rent hikes.

This looks like excellent pre-reading for anyone (like me) attending the final show dates of the Gang of Three at @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/6/b...

100%. And Britain is basically a tax haven when compared with other European countries with welfare states. Not to mention the actual tax havens it protects as crown dependencies.

"We should understand the energy price guarantee, and interventions like it, as an electricity and gas industry bailout akin to the bailouts for financial institutions in 2007/8". Robust and compelling stuff from @cmmonwealth here: www.common-wealth.co.uk/perspectives...

"Our research reveals that Accenture has joined forces with some of the world’s most notorious tech surveillance giants to advance an agenda of extraction, exploitation and oppression." The 18th PI Briefing of 2025 is online now.

While not enough to overturn their push for gas, it's good to see some local authority pension funds pushing back on Shell's climate denialism. Maybe cause for some hope, if it can be built on www.ft.com/content/1158...

Corporate Welfare. Centrica, owner of British Gas, makes massive profits by ripping off people. It wants more subsidies and guaranteed profits from gas storage. Privatisation empowered companies to hold govts/people to ransom.

It keeps on coming …

The price of all public charging versus home charging would seem to me to be a barrier to lowering the costs of EVs for the less able to pay who must have less access to offstreet parking. Something we have to tackle in the UK if we want even faster switching to EVs.

Money’s Place: Science Fiction, Realism & MMT in The Ministry for the Future

Really pleased to see the launch of this new journal. This is an incredibly urgent argument.

On Saturday I'll be interviewing the amazing @guyshrubsole.bsky.social about his book The Lie of the Land (which is great!) at the Restoring Nature festival. Do come. www.ambios.net/restoring-na...

Quite possibly the biggest climate story of the year (especially when we look back on this in a few years' time) For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand...

With the food aspects of the US-UK trade deal still emerging, now is an even more important time for this book! 'Titans of Industrial Agriculture.'

"We create divisions between the working and middle class, when the real problem is people earning more in their sleep than you could earn in your life". Great line from @zackpolanski.bsky.social. The essence of a radical liberal or liberal socialist approach. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Really enjoyed this and very much appreciated it being open to non-members as well. Also, great to (briefly) meet @zackpolanski.bsky.social, who is making waves, as well as the brilliant @faizashaheen.bsky.social! Very positive energy. Congrats (and thanks)

This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, @alimacewen.bsky.social talks with Albert Van Wijngaarden and Adrian Hindes about the history of polar and solar geoengineering, its divisive nature, the risks, and the lack of global governance. www.landclimate.org/...

This important new book from @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social shows in very great detail both the extent of the control a tiny number of massive agribusinesses have over farmers all over the world and the extent to which it should matter to all of us. Urgent👇❗

The numbers not adding up for Orsted on Hornsea 4 at an agreed fixed tariff of nearly £60/MWh is an absolute hammer blow for UK decarbonization ambitions Renewables profitability has rarely looked as marginal, even with what appeared robust de-risking

Courts continue to be an important battleground in the climate fight. Climate in the Courts is a news outlet dedicated to covering this rapidly evolving & expanding space of #climatelitigation. Check it out and subscribe www.climateinthecourts.com

Anyone looking for a recording of my Earth Day conversation about Climate Activism at @coveringclimatenow.org with @amywestervelt.bsky.social John Paul Mejia and @theresariley.bsky.social, here you go: youtu.be/gTA3YcNgrNo

Last night @itvpeston.bsky.social interviewed UK opposition leader @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social… They showed her a series of charts showing why gas – not net-zero – is to blame for high power prices, inc one from me (pic) Watch the full clip here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NuG...