⚠️ The Amazon's powerful ability to regulate climate is under threat ⚠️ Illegal mining and industrial-scale agriculture are cutting and burning down vast areas of forests for a quick profit. Add your name to demand global leaders #RespectTheAmazon act.gp/4c12sje

Sam Fender didn’t need his Mercury prize win – but he earned it with his incisive social realism

The greatest shit-show on earth www.theguardian.com/football/202...

‘It’s better than plastic and cheaper’: 20 sustainable swaps that worked (and saved you money)

As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. HT Ian Lockwood. Spread the word.

Reclaiming Keegan: The Forgotten Great of Liverpool’s Golden Age "At #LFC, Kevin Keegan pressed before pressing had a name, erupted where others glided, and turned Anfield from a cathedral of noise into a launchpad for superstardom." ✍️ @eddiegibbs.bsky.social Available free on Substack 👇

No wonder he wanted to wake up Maggie.

We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich

The Neymar/Messi years. All part of the same plan. How Qatar completed football www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Allister, what have you been inhaling? Nigel Farage IS the establishment. Privately educated at Dulwich College, former commodities broker. A man rich enough to argue about having an account at Coutts. Elected as an MEP in 1999, leader of UKIP, the Brexit Party, Reform Party, current MP for Clacton.

Will Hughes was once the next big thing in English football; a teenage prodigy compared with Iniesta and Wilshere. Now he’s 30, a tough-tackling midfielder and two-time Cup finalist. So I wanted to ask him: did he actually “make it”? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Quite possibly the biggest climate story of the year (especially when we look back on this in a few years' time) For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand...

Leaving Anfield and, well, that second-half was horrible. The most toxic and divisive atmosphere I’ve experienced there since the days of Hicks and Gillett. You can blame Trent but I’d rather blame those who booed and made a day that was meant to be totally and utterly celebratory anything but.

We’re not all going to agree on everything and that’s fair enough. I know there’s people who won’t have a problem with it. But for me, what happened re: booing Trent, has left a bitter taste in my mouth. I didn’t like it one little bit. Never boo a player wearing the Liverpool shirt no matter what.

Didn’t like Trent being booed

The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK govt admits it can’t afford to adapt high-risk areas to climate breakdown. As Joseph Tainter said, complex societies fall when the metabolic cost of maintaining complexity exceeds the return. Environmental breakdown raises those costs leading to #collapse www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mcginley just said Rory pulled a putt into the hole! 🙄😳. Fuck sake

Big balls round from Rory that.

PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows

1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hillsborough Law is important for scandals like Windrush, Post Office, Grenfell too. @inquest-org.bsky.social does brilliant work listening to people affected. Starmer must not go back on such an important promise to people who have suffered huge injustice. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Do we need more QE? Mo. Do we need the government to admit that QE was simply it borrowing from the Bank of England, and that it will need to do more of that to get us through the crisis heading our way? Yes, most definitely we do. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...

Liverpool: still winning it by default, via the sneaky trick of being by far the best team in the country. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵

10. Capitalism's promise is that we can all aspire to private luxury. Never mind that the system is built on some people exploiting others, who must remain poor if exploitation is to succeed. Never mind that there isn’t even physical space (let alone ecological space) for universal private luxury.

"Poverty in Britain exists not because we don't have enough money to satisfy the needs of the poor, but because we don't have enough money to satisfy the greed of the rich." My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on wealth tax and the new austerity. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

In the last week, Liverpool have failed to prevent Qatar-owned sportswashing atrocity Paris Saint Germain from progressing in the Champions League, and failed to prevent the equally awful Geordi Arabia from winning their first cup in forever. Next fixture's against Hezbollah. What could go wrong?

After Newcastle end their 70-year wait for a domestic trophy, you have to say that football (authorities allowing authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights records to own top-flight clubs) is the winner.

#FridayReads Regenesis by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, a study of the ecological impact of the food system and ways to improve it. Well-written, lyrical in parts, and densely informative, though inevitably depressing.

Super interview. Very excited for this

My lovely 78 year old Dad is walking 100 miles for @ParkinsonsUK during May 2025 (not all at once! 🤣) he’s doing this for my Mum who has Parkinson’s with dementia. I would be so so grateful if you could rt this and possibly donate for such a great cause 💕 events.parkinsons.org.uk/fundraisers/...

Started to well up at the end of this one. Needs a book of these again @knoxharrington.bsky.social

"Humans exceeded the carrying capacity of Earth over 50 years ago, and when a population of animals exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecosystem, the population rapidly declines. Every single time." #overshoot #collapse www.collapsemusings.com/i-believe-th...

An absolute belter this one, super read

Lost in latest whingy complaints about Darwin’s finishing is the fact that’s been basically fine in the league, but been taking far fewer shots than you’d maybe want from your striker. Lucho is up there with Mo and Cody, despite accusations that he has no end product. #facts vs #narratives

Loved the Green Day reference

Really good this

Looking forward to a James Bond origin series with 8 episodes a season that's cancelled after the 3rd season.

No one alive will experience a better climate than today. But young people will experience a much more dangerous and chaotic world in the future, and the extent to which that happens will depend on our choices today. Trump doesn't care because he's old and a sociopath. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s...

My bird has just told me she is going to kill me in cold blood if I carry on like today so that’s good. Something to look forward to. A blessed relief

Our best wishes to Kevin Keegan! The legendary striker turns 74 today. Kevin was 20 when the Reds signed him from Scunthorpe. 7 years, 323 games and 100 goals later, he left Liverpool FC as a massive legend. Happy birthday!

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Plymouth Argyle have drawn away at Sunderland, beaten West Brom Albion, beat LIVERPOOL, and now are up 2-0 after 11 minutes. Apparently this is what happens when you fire Wayne Rooney. Teams will be scrambling over themselves to hire him just to fire him later for the boost.

It’s straight from the Trump playbook: Labour is tearing up the machinery of government | George Monbiot

"Kendrick gave us what we needed. He was defiant, proud, vindictive, playful & celebratory. He was pro-Black & subversive, trolling & joyful, and through all the expectations and fighting and nastiness, he was ultimately victorious" - @daviddennisjr.bsky.social on Kendrick's #SuperBowl performance

It’s a very high bar, but this might be one of @knoxharrington.bsky.social best ever. Bloody brilliant writing.

Rashford and a genuinely weird sporting life www.theguardian.com/football/202...