The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Good morning. If you've just woken up, the politics of hope just crushed the politics of fear and hatred (Labour-Reform). It wasn't even close. 40.6% for the Greens. Reform second on 28.7%, Labour third on 25.4%.

This is a big deal! If Reform can replace the Tories, Greens can replace Labour—and beat Reform. The Q is will we learn the right lesson from this, which is: unite behind Greens now if we want any chance of beating Reform. The story must not be about Labour’s failure but about the Greens’ success.

Broadly speaking, there are 2 political factions. Not Labour v Tory/Reform, Republicans v Democrats etc, but an economic elite, operating globally, versus all of us. Though they are small in number, through the power of the political, media and social media systems they control, they keep winning.

the Black Panthers were right

I came across this "critique" of degrowth today in Catalyst magazine, by two prominent writers. I was struck by how wildly incorrect it is.

This is the shit that happens when capitalists delude themselves into thinking that vital environmental regulations are the reason we can’t have nice things. As long as production is a product of the growth imperative we will only ever get what’s profitable for rich people instead of what’s needed

Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A perfect summary of our moment from armond(dot)needs(dot)rest on IG and Tiktok www.instagram.com/reel/DUU20Vg...

It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵

This is excellent political messaging. @zackpolanski.bsky.social hits straight to the core of the problem. This system is intolerable and it must be overcome: production should be organized around human well-being and ecology, not around maximizing profits for the rich.

US imperialism has set its sights on Venezuela's billions of barrels of oil

New research highlights from 2025! This thread covers some of our latest work on capitalism, imperialism, post-growth and ecosocialist futures. It's all open access, and free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

Remember that the US *does not care* about the people of Venezuela. It is not about "narcotrafficking", or "democracy", or whatever propaganda they have going. It is *explicitly* about US control over oil, capital accumulation, and geopolitical power.

This laughable caricature of a Labour government bows down once again to its property developer masters While a completely despicable and utterly spineless climb down, it is honestly no surprise for these big business facilitators www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW: In this short piece (open access!) I describe how ecomodernist visions and "green growth" scenarios rely on fundamentally imperialist assumptions, and have no answer to this problem. brill.com/view/journal...

I write about the food industry, so I see dumb things all the time, but this Farmkind meat-eating offset scheme has got to be the single dumbest fucking thing I have ever seen.

The Countryside Alliance are once again talking out of their (top) hat. 80% of the public, rural & urban, think fox hunting should remain illegal. The ‘rural culture war’ is a myth, as @jon-moses.bsky.social shows here: national.thelead.uk/p/the-rural-... bsky.app/profile/theg...

Genuinely astonishing if true because let me tell you it did not feel like it

Interesting questions we could get in Pluribus: What sacrifices are acceptable when building a better world? Are there ways of existing beyond individualism? How do we know that resistance to building a better world is principled or misanthropic? What we will inevitably get:

Thick as mince and thick as thieves. A column about the absolute idiots European legislators have made of themselves over the naming of food, at the behest of meat lobbyists. You laugh and then you weep. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Police investigate after white-tailed eagles go missing across UK

‘Magical’ galaxy frogs disappear after reports of photographers destroying their habitats

Please respond to this consultation if you haven’t already! This is an unusually significant opportunity to make factory farms less nightmarish for the animals who have to live in them. You do not need to live in the EU to respond. Handy guide to filling it out here: act.opencages.org

On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four. I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation. 🧵

Amazon bought MGM and now Warner Bros is being bought by Netflix. I love the invisible hand of the market. It is so pure and perfect. It would never allow monopolies. Can't wait until a handful of tech billionaires own all major media outlets. Long live democracy!

Same in the UK, where environmental regulations are scapegoated for blocking housing — meanwhile developers are sitting on empty houses because supplying enough for people to live in would bring prices (and profits) down.

This is so cooooool. I have always thought that degrowth is actually entirely politically feasible,* provided it’s done by just quietly implementing degrowth policies without championing the label.

The government's plans for carbon capture + hydrogen could consume 860mn litres of water a day - which may leave some parts of England without enough water to meet demand, even with additional reservoirs being built, report finds. Our latest article, out now: share.google/GiSGJ9xD2ES3...

Police are now investigating the deliberate poisoning of trees on a Dartmoor common owned by Prince William’s Duchy estate, according to the Western Morning News The Duchy has condemned the culprit All Dartmoor farming, heritage & conservation groups must condemn this act of ecological sabotage

Many people still imagine beekeeping and honey making are somehow 'good for nature'. But it's the *total* opposite. share.google/1csfRNfR3lnL...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Thank you to the guardian for once again printing my tiresome opinions (this time improved by proximity to more thoughtful letters)

After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries." THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.

#Cop30 draft text omits mention of fossil fuel phase-out roadmap - Brazilian presidency releases new text despite 29 nations threatening to block progress without the commitment #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’m not worried that the AI bubble will herald the end of capitalism as we know it - or even the end of the AI boom. I'm worried that it will result in a massive upwards transfer of wealth - and further endanger our democracies in the process. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-cir...

The scriptwriters need a little more nuance. This seems kind of heavyhanded www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...

This is so telling: Labour voters aren’t defecting to Reform; they’re defecting to Greens and Lib Dems. Yet somehow Starmer (by which I mean McSweeney) will look at this and decide the answer is still trying to be Farage Lite

⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk! A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action. (1/4)👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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".

Starmer isn't Britain's worst ever prime minister, but he is Labour's worst ever prime minister and it's not even close

Here's a brief clip from the programme yesterday, about why Keir Starmer's Labour Party is tanking in the polls. www.youtube.com/shorts/jcUXX...

I set out to write a story about the practical ills of salmon farming (and I did), but also found an even bigger story kinda hidden in plain sight: How humanity is speedrunning the domestication of hundreds of aquatic species, and what it means for them.

Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%. This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement. www.unep.org/resources/em... 1/

My feeling is: I knew they wouldn’t be terrific, but what I never expected was that Labour, upon election, would just inexplicably become a hard right party whose main thing is to contemptuously shit on everything people hold dear?

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