SHOCKING: Over 60,000 African penguins have STARVED to death because of disappearing sardines. How much longer will destructive fishing be allowed to empty our seas of fish that ENTIRE ecosystems depend on? Add your voice - act.gp/4iXiM8n #ProtectTheOcean #Penguins

I got visited by three ghosts last night, who were all experts in English grammar.

Those opposed to the ECHR will never be satisfied by tinkering, just as Brexiters were never satisfied by the many opt-outs and rebates the UK received, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

This graph shows the average November volume of Arctic sea-ice. As you can see, November, 2025, set a new record low for sea-ice volume. Volume, thickness and extent are all at record lows right now for the date. The Climate 8-ball is chanting, "Ice free by twenty-fifty."

Let’s normalize seeing the exploitation of defenseless beings as morally repugnant and the root of all evil in this world.

1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12

Olivia Williams's powerful reading of an open letter to Sir Keir Starmer and the national broadcasters calling for a televised emergency briefing. Full version here: www.youtube.com/@nebriefing Please add your name: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... #NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

3 more Reform/Brexit Party MEPs have been named as 'following the same script' provided by Russia to the jailed Nathan Gill. Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolf are all named in Crown Prosecution Service Documents, as among 8 Ukip/Brexit party MEPs which Gill targeted to fulfil tasks.

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Great piece from Ian. You won’t get attacked by Nazis here, but there’s a good chance you might be trampled to death by a High Horse. Yet for all that it’s still a place and people I call my own.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Thank you to @carolinevoadenmp.bsky.social for pushing for Government to consider a televised emergency briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis. The public have a right to know. Sign the open letter: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... Now at over 36,000 signatories. #TimeToStepUp #NEB2025

Will the government back the call for a televised #ClimateEmergency briefing, as called for by @nebriefing.bsky.social? In the context of #COP30, I ask the question Minister's answer: hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-1...

OTD in 1994 Russia signed the Budapest memo, guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity in exchange for their nukes, 44 Ukrainian Tu-22 heavy bombers and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles. Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.

HT @shashj.bsky.social - make no mistake, Reform UK, AfD, Front National and other ethnonationalist parties are being supported and encouraged by Trump's administration. They don't want a united, peaceful Europe. They want us atomised and beholden to the US www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...

Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY? Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡

🧪 NEW STUDY with oh-no findings: Nitrates from farm run-off (manure, synthetic fertilizers) are altered by soil microbes in ways that make them more chemically reactive and able to mobilize naturally occurring uranium out of rock and…into drinking water aquifers. 😳 www.earth.com/video/farm-r...

How did we end up with a media ecosystem that constantly echoes misleading & scientifically unfounded political 'false-choice' framing between climate action and economic security, from industry talking points? Any ecological economists out there who can talk to me about this on Thursday morning?

My interview with Andrew Tate & Laurence Fox

In depth explanation of why the criminal justice system is just one step off collapsing. Blow your mind if you didn't know

When the did the greens stop being green and become socialist workers. What happened to environmentalists seeking a cleaner sustainable country not a dogmatic state run command economy

If you haven't already been persuaded to sign the @nebriefing.bsky.social letter on the rapidly escalating climate and nature crises, this summary of the presentations at the National Emergency Briefing event in Westminster, by Dave Borlace, is really worth a watch: youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...

Some seriously dedicated research went into this thread. Well worth upping for this Christmas.

Good discussion on the @green-alliance.org.uk podcast about the attack on peaceful protest from successive governments , and how we must fight back . Listen now at chrispackh.am/1d0271

You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

Please watch this important new video from Youtube channel “Just Have a Think”.

This is Trevor Fisher, speaking to @channel4news.bsky.social from Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridgeshire this week. As a palliative care specialist, Trevor’s interview has devastated me. His hospice has just been told Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is withdrawing £800k of funding. 🧵

This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.

Let's say "Cleaner energy" and "Cleaner technology" except in cases where the facts about, and/or the absence of needs for, mining, processing, manufacture, transport, maintenance, heating of buildings, disposal and so on really do justify the word "clean".

CITES CoP20 Decision Allows International Trade in Saiga Horn, Strongly Opposed by WCS ->Wildlife Conservation Society Newsroom | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

They won't be the only one. This government's cruel and inhumane anti-immigration policies are already cause widespread fear, even before they are implemented. Labour needs to change course on this right now before more harm is caused. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Please sign and share "Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy" petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn - Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn What gets more attention? James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.

It's almost like much of the mainstream media and right wing press has an agenda, isn't it.

1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:

My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter. I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.

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Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy Nearly at 70k, sign and share! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Trump's 28 point "peace plan" screws over Poland and all of Eastern Europe. Russia wants Eastern Europe weakened for their next attack.