And we're now on our 2nd crisis in 4 years. Suspect we're going to continue having crises until the last LNG tanker docks.

Tomorrow is now today. Come get your bogs/peatland/wet moorland fix, cos obviously that’s everybody’s thing.

FACTS: Net Zero barely nudges your bill. Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof. So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

"In the United States, the fossil fuel industry budget for Communications and Public Affairs is $4 billion a year. The entire renewable energy industry is $150 million... and so we have a lot of work just to get the message out about the basic facts."

4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories. But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production? They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?

War criminals.

Tomorrow. Join me, @clareshawpoet.bsky.social, @draflint.bsky.social, Harriet Tarlo and Melanie Giles for the Sheffield launch of THE BOOK OF BOGS. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social

there is an extremely long list of people who need to be held accountable in the next administration but sending the DOGE boys to big boy jail needs to be near the top of the list

So, I thought, "they can't possibly have said that." So I went looking. OOF. charitably, it seems like they're surprised by the explicit text of the constitution and flails around trying to justify their view. A view which, incidentally, would reduce an enumerated power of Congress to zero.

At the most basic level of 'have some self-respect', Conservative MPs should not put forward someone who visibly is not intellectually equipped to be prime minister as their candidate to be prime minister.

Sadly, this is absolutely necessary and I welcome it for at least 2 reasons: Books are personal, about sharing experience & exploring ideas - if you’ve read my books, you’ve met me. And a human author is *accountable* for what they/we write: we take responsibility & influences/money are traceable.

I'm currently reading DUNE and can only visualise the Harkonnens as the GOP.

"We can take them at their word." Witkoff, like Trump, trusts his handler.

Tomorrow. Join me, @clareshawpoet.bsky.social, @draflint.bsky.social, Harriet Tarlo and Melanie Giles for the Sheffield launch of THE BOOK OF BOGS. @littletollerbooks.bsky.social

A week on Saturday. My sister @natalielindsay.bsky.social sings in the choir. We will be announcing the David Norminton Choral Scholarship in memory of our beloved dad. Do come along.

This is what scholar of genocide A. Dirk Moses calls the logic of permanent security: 'we need to eliminate them, before they eliminate us.' It is not rooted in any form of reality, but on the desire to *remake* reality, categorising people as threats in order to justify eliminating them.

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.

“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.” -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...

From the always on-point Sue Halpern, a good catalogue of GOP efforts to disenfranchise voters. It's what they've got left. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

“There’s been a massive wave of fossil fuel nostalgia in Brussels,” said Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, a Socialist lawmaker in the European Parliament. “The only way for us to achieve energy security is to get out of fossil fuels. We need to understand it’s the road to serfdom, otherwise.” He gets it.

"In the last 24 hours both Farage and Badenoch have U-turned on their previous support for Britain joining Trump’s war, with both even daring to suggest that they had never really backed joining it in the first place." bylinetimes.com/2026/03/10/n...

At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion). Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."

China and India making the smart choice while Europe bafflingly decides this is the perfect time to tighten the cuffs that are chaining us to ultra-expensive gas

In 2024, the % of all campaign donations (i.e., $ raised) coming from billionaires was 19%. Before Citizens United, that was 0.3%. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Amazing what massive lobbying and influencer payment schemes can do for ecocidal industries.

Commenting on news that Reform UK are pledging to end the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, which providers homeowners with grants to install heat pumps, Simon Cran-McGreehin, @eciu.net said: "The facts speak for themselves on this one." eciu.net/media/press...

The President of the USA is now openly threatening Iran with being the target of one of the greatest crimes in world history. Trump is saying he will destroy the basis of life for more than 90 million people. He should be removed from office for this.

How an electric bike can protect your money as another oil shock hits. The argument for fossil fuels is ending, but so too is the argument for relying on cars for journeys of under five miles. Here's some numbers to convince: www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/how...

GB News is platforming an extremist narrative that is central to the socialisation of violence, including to the terrorist rampages in Europe and New Zealand & the USA www.reuters.com/world/europe... www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/3/...

“.. off limits to the public.”

When you assumed the man who almost single handedly crashed a G7 economy had already hit rock bottom.

This 18-year-old Afghan girl had offers from York and Reading – thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...

Both of the options here are human writers. The first option is unprocessed human writing and the second option is human writing run through a language model to reproduce the same outputs with different words If it couldn't have existed without training data, it isn't creating anything at all.

"In the United States, the fossil fuel industry budget for Communications and Public Affairs is $4 billion a year. The entire renewable energy industry is $150 million... and so we have a lot of work just to get the message out about the basic facts."

note that it's the right-wing parties, who have complained that UK should have joined US strikes on Iran, who are now also demanding the Labour government steps up household help with energy bills

Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure to have major environmental fallout, experts warn

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof. That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy. The dealer needs to keep you addicted.

So, as people stuggle with their mortgages and bills, Farage invests £215,000 in Kwasi Kwarteng’s crypto business. And plans to deregulate that high-risk industry by removing our rights and consumer protections. He’s laughing at voters. All the way to the bank. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

A rather gloomy read..., When I ask students whether they ever read for pleasure, the most common response is a look of total incomprehension, as if I've asked whether they play with dollies or ride a tricycle. Followed by "well, I did when I was a child". www.generationtechblog.com/p/are-books-...

…..and on this side of the pond Farage, Badenoch and Blair want us to collectively dip our hands in these people’s blood. “A senseless, criminal waste.” Starmer made the right call 👇

Heating oil prices in the UK have trebled in a week. 2 million homes, no price cap protection, no warning. Heat pumps + solar are multiple times more efficient, don’t require an oil tank and oil deliveries and are an insurance against such frightening price spikes.

Typical. Nobody asked me not to contribute.

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

It is quite possible to see the Trump presidency entirely through the prism of market manipulation for private gain.

Overt white supremacy, stoking racial violence. Ofcom yawns.

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

Extraordinary piece, brilliant writing.

“He is, of course, a serial liar & prone to espousing completely contradictory positions within moments of each other.” It is extraordinary to me that journalists continue to ‘analyse’ Donald Trump without adding this constant caveat. It does readers, listeners & viewers a grave disservice.