The possibility that Josh Simons could be close to Andy Burnham's government raises some very serious questions. Should a man who waged factional warfare, spied on journalists and then resigned in disgrace really be at the centre of Government? Feels very Starmer 2.0

Andy Burnham is already pulling out of events where he knows @zackpolanski.bsky.social is going to show up - our PM-in-waiting is terrified of scrutiny! By @willem-moore.bsky.social

U-turn Burnham spurns 'em as Green team reigns supreme in scene-stealing dream

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/...

Observation for today: what a mess we’re all in.

this is the murder that elon musk doesn't want you to know he did

Half of Reform’s cabinet are defectors from another party, half of it’s MPs in fact….:)

In this increasingly uncertain and dangerous world, this could be any one of us one day.

"The hardest decision we had to make in completing this report was.. not to name the Palestinian children, whose deaths, injuries & suffering we describe.. we didn't name them because we feared the consequences for their families" He means Israel would go after them too.

These two skeets turned up sequentially in my feed. Do not go gentle into that hot day, Rage, rage against the inane chatter of so many anchors.

“Purnell is the CEO of one of the UK’s most elite lobbying and advisory firms, Flint Global, whose clients have included Uber, Amazon, BP & Airbnb. While the company does not declare its clients in the UK*, its European arm was last year paid more than one million euros to lobby for Apple.” * WHY?!

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

++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"

Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell says that the parliamentary debate on pro-Israel influence in Britain "smacks of an antisemitic conspiracy theory". As we previously showed, as a minister, he acted as an apologist for Israel's genocide. www.declassifieduk.org/andrew-mitch...

My favourite lollies are dairy free. Livestock, but especially cows, contributes a quarter of global heating, so if we want that to stop rising fast, we also need to shift our diets fast. (Dairy also major driver of water & air pollution, increases risks of pandemics & antibiotic resistance, etc)

Thank you so much! 😍 We see a whole new model of media here - putting generation of news back in the hands of citizens… as a new civic layer in society.

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

Exeter Green Party stands in solidarity with the Exeter University and College Union in condemning the University of Exeter’s announcement of sweeping job cuts. These plans will recklessly imperil the University’s vital contributions to the social, cultural, and economic life of the city. 1/4

Because Reform cares more about its financial sponsors than its own region, its people or science. The 2022 heatwave burned down five houses, outbuildings and cars in Brancaster Staithe, 82 acres of vital coastal nature reserve at Wild Ken Hill and 120 acres at Heatcham Marsh. All in this borough….

Reminder of Great British Patriot!! Nigel Farage, laughing his socks off as the pound crashed on the night of the EU Ref 10 years ago Making the rest of us poorer

Found out yesterday that my job is at risk. Feels terrible: multiple video-only "consultations" without even a q and a... Humanities and social sciences overwhelmingly targeted... Whole thing feels deeply ideological and also like payback aimed at the departments with high union density...

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

Show this to anyone who says scientists are scaremongers or doomsayers. Scientists have erred on the side of caution for decades.

The top frame is from 2015, when French meteorologists did a “forecast” from a #climate heated August 2050 - a warning on what could possibly happen in 35 years time. Bottom frame: well, it’s happened in barely a decade, only it’s already *much* worse than predicted. It’s a runaway train.

Please take a moment to read and share! Our health is worth it.

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: It's too hot inside prison. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/its-...

"This indicates that such attacks, which killed children in such high numbers, were intentional." UN Commission finds that between Oct. 7, 2023 and Oct. 7, 2025, at least 20,179 children were killed in Gaza, around 30% of the overall death toll www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... #Gaza

Israel has committed genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity across Palestine, a UN commission of inquiry has said

EU Minister Thomas-Symonds: "In 2014, when Nigel Farage said the European Union was to blame for Putin's aggression against Ukraine, that is not a worldview that serves to protect the British people" "With views like that Nigel Farage is a threat to our national security."

Burnham is the clear frontrunner to replace Starmer. So, where does he stand on taxing the super-rich? Well, luckily Louisa Munch asked him just that, back in November, when he came down to see the @patrioticmillionairesuk's bus tour. #wealthtaxes #ukpolitics

Andy Burnham can allow US hedge funds to profit at our expense OR He can take back Thames Water, and show us that he’s serious about putting people over profit Take 2 mins to sign the petition: Andy Burnham must bring Thames Water into public hands weownit.org.uk/burnham-thames-water

“Your wages will rise... weekly food shops will get cheaper… You and your family will benefit from a resurgent economy... Politicians both local and national will become more accountable..." A quick reminder of how Brexit was sold to us ten years ago today

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey has unveiled a billboard campaign across the UK to mark the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum today. The billboards call out Reform leader Nigel Farage’s £5 million "reward for campaigning for Brexit, whilst people across the country feel the pinch."

Well this should cement the message to Andy Burnham and all at Westminster! "The words BREXIT BROKE BRITAIN have been carved into a Wiltshire, with the letters so big they could be seen from space" #LedByDonkeys

Andy Burnham is currently under a load of media-driven pressure to "reassure the markets" by appointing a Chancellor whose views are almost entirely out of line with everything he's said so far. How he responds will tell us whether he actually wants to change how Westminster works

Call me crazy but I suspect 'I'm going to end 40 years of neoliberalism... by appointing Wes Streeting as Chancellor' would be a far harder sell for Burnham than any of the alternatives

On the tenth anniversary of the Brexit referendum, Nigel Farage tells the #R4Today programme that the £5 million donation he received is none of the interviewer’s business, meaning he thinks it’s none of our business either. That is the contempt he really holds the electorate in.

It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5

No… The billionaires and Trillionaire who own U.S and U.K politicians have given up on the planet… But then the mega wealthy do have alternatives, whether that’s building Silos beneath the earth, or escaping to Mars

BBC Nick Robinson has shifted his sneering, mocking tone to Burnham and of course the BBC is parroting Farage’s ambition. We have a chance of stability for a couple of years; BBC keen to destroy it just as they’ve undermined stability in UK for the past 2 decades. Off they go - next target in sight.

Please complain to BBC about last night’s 10 o’clock news: long piece about the heatwave. Truth about how we’ve reached end of 12000 years of climate stability in which we’ve thrived. But not a single mention of the causes, of the more than urgent need to stop burning fossil fuels.

All the journalists claiming not to understand why Starmer is hated are of course just laying the foundation for defending exactly those polices from the next PM. Their feigning ignorance is just propaganda.

In this week's newsletter, we asked @dylanbaddour.bsky.social, our colleague at @insideclimatenews.org and a new-ish father, what he learned following three environmental leader mothers from Texas to Taiwan for his latest reporting project: newsletter.thexylom.com/archive/go-u...

In fact we should all write to our MPs to push for this - whatever the party, even though we know shades of blue are generally a lost cause

If you haven’t read the opening chapter of kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future I recommend that you DO NOT read it this week.

Please push starmer &Burnham on this @simonforstroud.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social

Starmer - you said you came into no 10 wanting to help people and that you leave wanting to be a good dad. Prove both. in final your stages as PM with nothing to lose: break ties between government and oil companies; stop fossil fuel subsidies; tell the f’ing truth about this and future heat waves.

Our world as it approaches 1.5C above preindustrial temperatures. Our children face futures of 4C. “It is not possible to survive that sort of change.” Dr. Will Steffen