BREAKING: Dan Jarvis is new defence secretary

Alexa tells me 42% of state-educated (not part of my question) London pupils currently go to #university. In my era (the 70s) around 10% of the population did. Current problems of employment of graduates at a decent salary stem from this, do they? And doubtless other factors....

. Are Australia’s carbon farming schemes just hot air? Hardly – forests are regrowing almost everywhere There is #hope, because we have the solutions 🛠️⚖️🔍 to take #ClimateAction. More: theconversation.com/are-aus... .

Voting for Brexit or Boris Johnson did not, in the great scheme of things, demand support for anything truly toxic. Voting for Farage, by contrast, absolutely & obviously does. This is why the people who brought you the first two disasters are working so hard to detoxify him, in two main ways… 1/2

GOOD NEWS: An equal and habitable world is entirely possible. Academics have just shared a radical plan for planetary survival where nearly everyone gains. Higher incomes, way less working hours, and a climate where people can thrive. What more could we want?

"Rage, rage, against the Lying of the Right" - memorable slogan!👏

The UK’s biggest nature challenge is underway, and it's not too late to join in! Do one wild thing a day in June - listen to birdsong, take a wild walk, or plant for pollinators. Great for nature and your wellbeing 💚 Get your free pack: https://wildlifetrusts.pulse.ly/bremfj8uf3 #30DaysWild

Can confirm. It was pissing it down the day I visited, yet I remained quite dry inside. Their defenses are solid.

What happens when energy security is threatened? In the 2020s, it means speeding up deployment of renewables and electric devices. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The corruption runs deep.

For all those who keep insisting that Bluesky is dead or dying... Bluesky is where you can get actual engagement with real humans.

There are two enormous offshore wind projects under construction off Long Island right now! A smaller farm is already operating. And even people who know a lot about public life don’t know it.

The msm has helped create a renewables doom narrative, even as renewables boom. It’s a massive transition in our lives, happening now. Yet if you are even a heavy consumer of news media, you probably haven’t seen anything on it. You may even think Trump killed it all. 🤦

We should go the way of the Spanish . More wind , more solar . Damn the doom-mongers , let’s get on with it …. Badenoch & Farage are suggesting that north sea drilling can solve our problems tomorrow . Utter bull shit & ignorance from them both !

In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

I went yesterday to a screening where @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social was a panellist. He told me some people have offered to put him in touch with Jeremy Clarkson, who has agreed climate change is real but he can do "absolutely nothing about it" bsky.app/profile/keta... and bsky.app/profile/prof... 🤞

The world's laziest MP, and formally the world's laziest MEP

Farage on the murder of Henry Nowak: “(we) should respond with pure, cold rage” Farage on the murder of Sarah Everard: “We must not allow the tragic murder of a young woman to turn into attacks on men and attacks on the police” What changed?

How many of us feel in a cold rage today? Mine is directed at Farage & this comment on yesterday's Guardian piece by John Crace is spot on. The writer uses a pseudonym or I would credit them but, to whomever he or she is, I say bravo.

Prem Sikka @premnsikka South West Water fined £1.853m for supplying contaminated drinking water. SWW is a serial offender, loses 107m litres of water daily to leaky pipes, dumped sewage in rivers for 407,006 hours. Still trades. No exec fined, charged. People fleeced.

Britain is in a doom loop: people mistrust democracy and politicians. I say a hope loop is possible too | Polly Curtis

Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

This is the correct headline

The signing ceremony!

You need to read Mamdani’s “Mayor’s Order” repealing kids’ bedtime so they can watch the Knicks in the final. This is how to do politics with joy.

Would you like four pieces of good news about climate change? Welcome back to the Public Good News. (Also on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-ph...)

Farage has spent years trying to avoid associating his parties with coked up racist thugs and Restore have panicked him into forgetting why.

Don't think people realise quite how deeply split by age current voting intention is. This is the latest YouGov for under-50s: Green: 26% Lab: 18% Reform: 14% Tories: 12% LD: 11% And over 50s: Reform: 36% Tory: 22% Lab: 16% LD: 12% Greens: 9%

Chicken shit can’t face them because he knows there’s no justification for what he’s done. Consciousnesses of guilt. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-v...

Beautiful words and art, 100% human-made, by @jessharwoodart.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/technology/c...

Our work points not to fraud at the ballot box… But to manipulation at the reporting layer… The removal of millions of votes… And their replacement with artificially created vote banks… Built using voter data harvested by Elon Musk’s America PAC.

Reform UK's Robert Kenyon was an Army Reservist, but he doesn't seem to have 'served' anywhere, despite what his party is claiming.

It's really hard to ignore that America has twice shown that it prefers a rapist to a woman.

I wrote this a year ago. Seems quite relevant again. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 A new report from @greenpeaceap.bsky.social and @ketanjoshi.co explores how AI data centres are quietly locking Australia into higher emissions, while fossil fuel corporations join data centre lobby groups, sponsor tech conferences, and reinforce each other’s PR spin on “clean” AI.

In a proper decaying empire, two copulating black snakes biting the degenerate emperor’s loathsome vizier would be taken as the powerful and perilous omen it is

Most countries in Europe faces the same problems of broken politics and populist surges. Including ones with faster growth or higher GDP. So this is bigger than one country. Which you'd never guess from most political coverage. What Britain Won't Face then is our normality.

UK is approaching an energy milestone that would have seemed impossible during the Industrial Revolution #OffshoreWind has become one of Britain’s strongest energy advantages due to favorable coastal conditions. Massive offshore installations now generate electricity at utility scale #ActOnClimate

Reminder about the environment/future of our planet: All the brilliant scientists in the world cannot, on their own, deal with our environmental crisis. Humans must build links between every other human to raise awareness & take individual remedial steps. "Un pueblo unido jamas sera vencido".

Healing your inner child starts with recognizing that the younger version of you is still there. Still carrying pain, memories, fears, creativity, wonder, and hope. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uVT...

There is so much poetry in Stephen Colbert celebrating his finale on the exact stage where the Beatles changed culture in 1964. Singing "Hello Goodbye" surrounded by his family, his band, and his crew before Paul McCartney flipped the final power switch. This was the perfect full-circle goodbye!

This report is really worth your time!

If the double tap isn’t already an automatic trip to the gallows for doing war crimes, it needs to be.

✅ UN has just voted to endorse the ICJ Advisory on climate change www.climatechangenews.com/2026/05/21/u... in "historic" resolution & "turning point in accountability" Accountability starts with climate targets - are they "highest possible ambition"? 💡 Read about the #CarbonReckoning project 🧵👇👇👇

Today is #BiodiversityDay, or more formally, International Day for Biodiversity #IDB2026 Please share the importance of #Brighton #Wildlife with others. A hot weekend coming up to see local #Nature! 🌞 #Biodiversity #brightonwildlife

I want to say thank you, and farewell, to Stephen Colbert before his final show this evening. But I also want to remind folks of the corruption behind his cancellation. Watch.

This is the content I need right now… …a podcast called “Absolute Units” referring to farm animals and a discussion of mutant hogs 😛

NEW The UK will adopt one of the world’s most ambitious climate targets as Labour takes on Reform opposition to net zero and moves to neuter the Green Party’s rise. Ministers have accepted @thecccuk.bsky.social's recommendation for an 87% cut in emissions by 2040 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...