A Labour government - a Labour government - acting on instructions from Netanyahu no doubt - has denied Hasan Piker a visa. I am a great admirer of Piker's principles, intelligence and integrity and regard this denial of free speech as reprehensible. This government is toast.

There is a great French expression: "you have lost a beautiful opportunity to shut up..." (Vous avez perdu une belle occasion de vous taire) #Blair #climateaction

Important letter in @theguardian.com from @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social "This is not alarmism. As the @thecccuk.bsky.social report shows, our high-grade farmland in England & Wales could collapse from 40% to just over 10% by 2050, striking at our ability to feed ourselves."

Perceptive piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social in which he flags our @nebriefing.bsky.social campaign, and asks why the UK government is trying to run the energy transition on the quiet, rather than informing and galvanising people... #PEBuk @nickoldridge.bsky.social @sioldridge.bsky.social

If you're in the UK, election candidates will knock on your door this #bankholiday weekend and bombard you with leaflets. Why not return the favour? Here is a "reverse canvassing" National Emergency Briefing leaflet to hand them #PEBuk Get yours below!

👀 This should be front page news globally. The fact that it’s not speaks volumes about the capture of the media by vested interests. 57 countries, representing 1/3 of the world’s economy, met to phase out fossil fuels www.carbonbrief.org/santa-marta-... #climatechange #fossilfuels #energytransition

New book by @naomiaklein.bsky.social coming out this autumn, looking highly enlightening and punchy as ever. www.penguin.co.uk/books/480399...

🥰 📣 BREAKING NEWS 📣 France has announced a climate roadmap that aims explicitly to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045, and "gas for energy purposes" by 2050!! This is a historic moment, the first time a major economy has pledged *specifically* to phase out fossil fuels. 🙌 💚

Rogue @nebriefing.bsky.social artwork of the day Our #NationalEmergencyBriefing #PEBuk artwork is designed to be customised by local screening hosts all over the UK. Here we showcase the ones who have gone beyond the brief, and in this case, into the unknown!

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@georgemonbiot.bsky.social trenchant on the AMOC threat as usual. Also watch Professor Tim Lenton's overview, and reactions in our People's Emergency Briefing, link to screenings nationwide below. #PEBuk #NationalEmergencyBriefing

There's a fair amount to worry about these days, but this should rise to near the top of the pile!

Thought-provoking video by Tim Snyder on the many ways the US is shooting itself in the foot, if not the head - including its pursuit of obsolete energy technology.

Great and informative account of one of the 1000s of screenings of our People's Emergency Briefing film gathering momentum up and down the UK (and beyond...) @nebriefing.bsky.social nowthenmagazine.com/articles/why...

In the @financialtimes.com today, inviting a few officials to an official briefing on the climate and nature crisis...

Government covers up impacts of climate crisis... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Not about climate (well, not directly), but great read by @oconnellmark.bsky.social on the political significance of Mr Beast (whom we can't find on Bluesky, oddly 🤔). www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

Pleased to finally launch this in the US today. Now let's see if it works!

Strong piece by @jksteinberger.bsky.social on cataclysmic capitalism and reacting to its appeal to young men in particular.

There are many valid explanations for the success of the far right around the world. But much of it comes down to this: The right has realised that anything is possible, while the left has persuaded itself that nothing is possible.

Is profuse anti-fossil-fuel swearing allowed on Bluesky or would that lower the tone?