NEW: A major supplier of ‘green’ airline fuel to the UK has sourced beef fat linked to illegal Amazon deforestation Our new investigation 🐄 🌳 ✈️: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/04/10/u...

Why do some killer motorists get short prison sentences? UK road safety laws are letting them off the hook | Sally Kyd

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Did BBC radio 4 #Today programme really just do a whole package about drilling in the N Sea without once even mentioning #climate change? And not having anyone challenging the one-sided claims of former BP boss? So irresponsible #bbcr4today

Ministers are exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. I've signed the open letter to Wes Streeting calling on him to get Palantir out of the NHS. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/we...

Brighton Marina are trying to get a license to dump polluted sediment on a protected reef - still time to oppose: sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/campaign/dre...

Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC

"The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people." www.404media.co/rip-metavers...

www.ft.com/content/2d2b... Ministers consider triggering the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. They should. Palantir has no place in the NHS. @justtreatment.org @labourlewis.bsky.social @foxglovelegal.bsky.social

The 'green' fuel market supplying Europe with used cooking oil, appears to be rife with fraud. An investigation by SVT has uncovered that the world's largest producer of biofuel for aviation, Neste, is likely receiving virgin palm oil instead of recycled frying oil.

Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds

Maybe, just maybe, we should listen more to these people, rather than venture capitalists and investors who pass themselves off as tech specialists.

Worth noting the impressive list of signatories here, including a number of AI, machine learning and computing experts.

"The University of Edinburgh's AI Principles are 'Safe', 'Secure', 'Responsible Access' , 'Inclusive', and 'Equity'. ChatGPT and OpenAI do not align with any of these principles" Academics at Edin Uni call for end to OpenAI contract: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

UK Govt continues to face questions over Mandelson's links with Palantir and OpenAI: questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques... Both were clients of his lobbying firm, and have picked up significant contracts & partnerships under the current Govt.

“I fled with nothing and I have nowhere to go. I had hopes I almost beat cancer.” In Lebanon, people - including cancer patients - are being cut off from care as Israeli strikes intensify, forcibly displacing people. 

Good piece by @timsmedley.bsky.social on data centres & the growing mobilisation against them (including @foxglovelegal.bsky.social successfully forcing the Govt to admit serious errors over environmental measures). www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...

Good to see growing parliamentary criticism of the Govt's alarming fondness for Palantir. Why are ministers so keen to hand yet more influence to a Trump-supporting billionaire who doesn't like democracy?

You start to wonder: what would Palantir need to do to stop the UK Govt happily signing more and more contracts with them?

There seems to be something very wrong with the Dept for Tech's estimate on emissions from "AI compute". They claimed a maximum of 0.142 MtCO2 by 2035. This is one seventh of the total emissions from just one, new hyperscale data centre (1 MtCO2 by 2033). www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-co2...

Earth being pushed beyond its limits as record energy imbalance heats planet The UN says Earth's climate is more out of balance than at any time in recorded history. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articl...

Astonishing that the UK Govt is backing data centre developers who want to build new, fossil gas power plants to run their facilities - this is the kind of thing Musk has been doing in the US: www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Should people working in the govt department responsible for tech regulation be getting paid by Larry Ellison of Oracle? You would think maybe not. www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...

Pic from the 'due diligence' part of today's Mandelson docs. It lists some clients of Global Counsel, where he still held a stake, but not all of them - notably, Palantir and OpenAI, who were both clients in 2024, aren't mentioned here - why not?

Mandelson docs published today show that (1) he seems to take credit for the 2025 US-UK tech deal - at a time he still held a stake in a lobbying firm representing US tech giants

A reminder ahead of the release of Mandelson docs today that his lobbying firm counted both Palantir and OpenAI as clients - and both have amassed a vast quantity of contracts, deals and influence with the UK Govt in recent years. Time for transparency on the Govt's relationship with Big Tech.

We found that: • One fossil fuel price shock could cost the UK more than the entire additional cost of the transition to Net Zero. • The benefits of Net Zero far outweigh the costs. For every pound spent on Net Zero, the benefits outweigh this by 2.2 to 4.1 times. ⬇️

Today we have published new analysis building on the Committee's advice on the UK’s Seventh Carbon Budget. Our conclusions about the cost of decarbonising the UK and impacts on energy security were tested against different scenarios ⬇️ Read the full report here: www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...

'Autonomous Power Corporation, which “builds and scales autonomous drone systems for military and commercial use in high-risk environments”, is set to merge with Nasdaq-listed golf course group Aureus Greenway Holdings.' The military-golf complex now runs the world.

Another fossil-fuelled data centre emissions estimate (via @adamvaughan.bsky.social) -> UK project will see 1 MTCO2-e, about the same as all British Airways flights in the country www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Good piece on how companies as large and dominant as Amazon are not just a threat to markets and consumers, but to democracy itself: inews.co.uk/opinion/amaz... And yet, the Govt decided to put one of Bezos' sidekicks in charge of a key regulator.

Tomorrow, councillors in eastern England will vote on whether a data centre which will produce a million tonnes of climate pollution per year should get the go ahead. And they'll do it based on figures which are dubious at best. www.foxglove.org.uk/2026/03/10/p...

Just one data centre would emit one million tonnes of CO2 annually - that's twice the amount absorbed by all the woodlands in Wales each year:

"Ms Badenoch has ranked MPs based on how well they are performing on X, Facebook and LinkedIn." Why sure! Get retweeted by hordes of bots and Nazis - win a promotion!

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand. Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules. observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...

Staggering that a Palantir lobbyist was appointed to an NHS role. And no one seems to have seen this as a problem. He worked for Global Counsel, where Palantir was a client, and was "a member of Palantir’s health advisory board..until April 2022" when he was appointed chair for 4 hospital trusts.

The head of a UK regulator's inquiry into Amazon has quit due to concerns over independence. The Govt has put Amazon's former UK chief in charge of the regulator. Could the two possibly be connected? www.themorningintelligence.uk/cma-cloud-in...

UK Govt's upcoming National Policy Statement on data centres must include real protections for climate and water: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.

Behind the scenes, “Meta was divided on whether protecting kids should take precedence over user growth and engagement. For years, the company only incrementally rolled out restrictive safety features, even as its own staff detailed the risks its platforms posed to children.”

In good news, the Commons Environmental Audit Committee has announced an inquiry into the environmental impact of data centres. And they don't seem hugely impressed by the non-answers they've had from the Govt so far. committees.parliament.uk/committee/62...

I'd assume child soldier TikTok videos can only have received millions of views if they're being promoted by TT's algorithm. Shows the truth behind TikTok's claims that they "don't allow content that could harm young people".

EXCLUSIVE: The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has triggered security fears in Berlin after officially requesting information on vulnerabilities in NATO defenses — insight that would prove useful to the Kremlin.

I know PQ answers have always been a bit uneven, but have govts in recent years got worse in terms of just not answering or even addressing the Q at all? This one on Palantir / MoD is a particularly bad example: questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

This is batshit

There are so many examples like this of Big Tech forcing the state to pick up piles of extra work because they can't keep their platform safe, and want to run it as cheaply as possible. They effectively run off huge, public subsidies. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Today's by-election is another illustration of the problems with FPTP. The result may tell us less about what voters want to happen than whether they can game the system effectively to stop a result most *don't* want. The electoral system should not be an obstacle that voters have to work around.

If the Treasury is serious about getting better at tech procurement, why are they taking advice from (1) a former PR person for Big Tech and (2) a Larry Ellison-funded lobby group? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK Govt calls in Ellison's lobbying front to advise on tech procurement. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...