And then they have Kemi Badenoch on to talk about immigrants, but then more interestingly for me, the climate. She literally said they shouldn’t be living in the past in the same breath as talking about scrapping green energy in favour of fossil fuels. If you said that 15 years ago, it’d be stupid..

There is only one, solitary party and leader that now stands willing to defend unequivocally the basic human and civil rights that have underpinned English law for centuries: @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social . That’s real patriotism! www.bbc.com/news/article...

The entire establishment now seems to be doing the Suella Braverman hate marches thing.

Started watching Laura K. I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that they’ll be no coverage of the Green Conference or interview with Zack Polanski. Already they’ve got a full lineup of multiple Tories and multiple Labour representatives on the panel. Not even Reform or Lib Dems on this week.

Fiona Bruce making sure to bring up Greta when the Sinn Fein MP mentioned a colleague getting kidnapped by Israel in international waters. Seems like Bruce thought that bringing up Greta would be good to turn the audience against the flotilla, because apparently people dislike Greta? I don’t know.

I get a bit of a Charlie Kirk feeling with this Manchester attacks. The media and politicians appear to be using a heinous attack by a lunatic to smear the left. And also to give them some breathing room when it comes to the pressure against them for supporting the 2 year genocide.

EUROPEAN COLD SPELL Snow fell in Pristina, Kosovo ! Historic super early wintry cold spell. Since historic cold spells have become so rare nowadays,I ll dedicate some posts later about this event. Webcam: video.gjirafa.com/slowtv-staci...

I think in the debates at the next general election, Zack Polanski (if he’s invited) will still be being asked about renewable energy “costing jobs” in oil and gas. And between now and then, endless climate records, weather records and extremes, melting ice, thawing permafrost etc etc.

Maybe I was a bit overly optimistic. I think Zack did well; but when you’re actually 1 vs 4 (including the oil refinery guy), it’s almost impossible. They brought up every lie in the book: cost, nuclear power, climate action vs jobs, the rich leaving the country. They threw the kitchen sink at him.

As always with the BBC, they only invite the Greens on when they have a story or two they think they can gang up against them with. And guess what the topics are today on Politics Live. Is “net zero” costing jobs, and will a wealth tax make the rich leave the country? I’ve only just started watching

Looking at 100 years of October sea ice - I am sure you can guess what will happen next... Summary of ice reconstruction: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-p...

Catching up on World Athletics Champs. Glad Rai Benjamin won the 400 Hurdles. I can’t stand the arrogant Warholm. And Benjamin talked about the USA’s deserved bad reputation around the world right now in his interview. Very nicely done. That’s saying a lot compared to the vast majority of athletes..

It’s a legally binding commitment, until some idiotic right winger decides to scrap it. Of course. She won’t ever be PM, or even probably Con leader by the next election. But it shows the desperate situation in the UK. Tories pledge to scrap landmark climate legislation www.bbc.com/news/article...

@bookshop.org ebook readers are crying out for a fully DRM-free store. DRM in ebooks should have ended when it ended for iTunes music downloads (aka a very long time ago).

Man. The fact that Bookshop.org started an ebook store now, with all of the DRM crackdown going on with Amazon Kindle; and they didn’t decide to take a stand and go DRM free with this new store is such a missed opportunity. Yes, you support local bookshops via the store. Great. But considering what

I thought it was interesting what Josh Symonds said at a Jewish Chronicle event shown in the DDN video about him, McSweeney and Labour Together the other day. He said that you have to pretend to be a socialist to win over Labour members, and then ditch all the policies and go to the centre (right)..

New research shows that ocean acidification has now crossed the planetary boundary. That's 7 of 9 boundaries crossed. Capitalism is driving ecological catastrophe and will continue to do so until we align production to a new law of value. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

47 years of #Arctic sea ice thickness during the month of August... (updated through 2025). What trend do you see? Graphic available at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

This right wing finance lecturer on Politics Live talking bullshit as you’d expect. She said something like very few economists can tell you where the point on the so called Laffer curve is where people are disincentivised from working. If a single person knew definitively, then they’d tell everyone

Even after just a week of EA Skate, I already got totally messed up going back to Session. Going back to triggers for steering and spinning is hard. Plus the sensitivity of spins is totally different.

Laura K accuses Greta of the flotilla being a publicity stunt. Whereas no such accusation against Lammy’s hand wringing and Starmer’s Palestinian state declaration. How strange…

🚨 BREAKING | Greens now have 80,000 members. This is an increase of 10,000 since @zackpolanski.bsky.social won the leadership in a landslide victory (85-15). (Source: @greenparty.org.uk)

🎉 80,000 Green Party members! 📈 But we're not stopping there. 💚 We have no time to waste. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

🗳️ BREAKING | Starmer is now the most unpopular Prime Minister in history - WORSE than Truss 🔴 Starmer – 13% satisfied, 79% dissatisfied 🔵 Liz Truss – 16% satisfied, 67% dissatisfied Via @Ipsos_in_the_UK, 11-17 Sep

It's been extremely warm (again) over global land areas so far this year. Here's a comparison against every other average January-August period since at least 1850... Data from NOAAGlobalTempv6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

What I’m seeing regarding the climate crisis at the moment - The science itself and the political and societal discourse surrounding it; suggests to me that we are never going to do anything about it. Or at least not until it’s a total blind panic. At which point it’ll be mostly irrelevevnt.

I actually didn’t realise China’s new goal was that weak. I guess I wasn’t paying that much attention. It’s not as if they were ever going to announce anything truly ambitious anyway. Also, the UN are still talking about 1.5 Celsius. That’s totally insane. We’re fucked www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Billy Bragg is ok. But it should have been Zack Polanski in his seat on Question Time. Polanski vs Tice would have been an intellectual bloodbath. We’ll see if the BBC do end up platforming him beyond the initial first day he won the leadership. But so far, it’s been all Farage all the time…

Another year of being a beta tester for the new Train Sim World. I love the game, and I get that it’s a complicated game where things go wrong. But at the same time, it’s a bit much when every version launch there’s various random issues like audio bugs and broken tutorials I’m seeing this time.

How bizarre and refreshing to see a world leader in 2025 talk about the climate in a serious way. Obviously these targets are totally hopeless in the face of the state of the climate now; as seen in the latest graphs and other data. But at least they’re doing something! youtube.com/watch?v=g5VI...

This conversation about climate change is bizarre. Looney Fascist (Trump) apologist Greg Swenson saying Trump is relatable because he wants to reduce petrol prices. Obviously that is insane from a scientific point of view. But he’s also not reducing cost of living in the US either.

Hmm I wonder Politics Live why Trump brought up Sadiq Khan in his UN speech. It’s so hard to figure out. I just can’t put my finger on it… TRUMP’S A RACIST! HE’S A FASCIST! Do people really need to spell this out for you BBC?

Trends in September #Arctic sea ice thickness over approximately the last four decades (yes, that shows thinning everywhere)... Data from PIOMAS. For more information: doi.org/10.1175/JCLI...

It’s mind blowing to me that people are still visiting / moving to a USA that’s really now resembling 1930s Nazi Germany.

Not a fan of this new format of Politics Live. Having three guests instead of four, and putting them in a more relaxed environment, closer together on a couch, to me looks like they’re trying to encourage a friendlier discussion. And that’ll no doubt benefit the right wing. Civility politics does..

Ignoring what I think about HAchubby choosing right now to move to fascist USA; just the fact that even she, who was totally prepared with all the paperwork and everything, and is one of the least controversial people I can think of, still got excessively questioned and interrogated by immigration..

As a reminder, land areas (where we live) are warming around twice as fast as over the oceans. Subsequently, most of us are 'feeling' temperatures rising faster than the global mean record. Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

I hate how everyone’s mad at inflation; but 99% don’t think deeper than the absolute surface level. So they never realise that it’s corporate greed causing it. They think it just happens in a process that’s out of human control.

This went from a situation of genuine concern for Jinny, to ending up as fuel for the racist far-right in France against immigrants and anyone from West Asia / North Africa in particular it seems like. www.ladepeche.fr/2025/09/12/i...

‼️MEDITERRANEAN HISTORIC HEAT WAVE >40c Insane, unprecedented heat in SPAIN with 39/40C from South to North even above 500m asl including Canary Islands ! 40.5 Navalmoral 40.2 Merida 39.6 Plasencia 39.3 Candelada etc 37.9 Portela GALICIA CANARY I: Tasarte min 28.6! Max 39.5

HISTORIC HEAT IN MIDDLE EAST 48.1C Jahra KUWAIT 47.7C Semawa IRAQ Crazy MINIMUMS up to 32C at 600m asl at Iranshar,IRAN. It's the harshest heat wave IN WORLD HISTORY for this time of the year And tomorrow it can be even hotter: World record (just broken) at risk again !

Would be a good change. I said probably after the first or second Pit Boost race last year that it should be one Attack Mode per race in those races because 2 was too much for viewers. www.the-race.com/formula-e/fo...

Can you turn animations off in iOS 26? Seems like the only thing this update does for my iPhone 12 Mini is heat it up. I don’t need the Windows Vista graphics.

SOUTH AMERICA HEAT WAVE Brutal heat today with up to 43.4C at Base Jara in PARAGUAY But this is JOKE to what's coming The most insane and extreme September heat in South Hemisphere history with hundreds of records in Argentina,Paraguay,Bolivia and Brazil:44C+ and 30C at night!

BRUTAL HEAT IN JAPAN Record heat never ends in Japan with thousands of records falling no-stop since early June. Today's new records of September highest temperatures: 35.8 Kimotsuki Maeda 34.9 Ume High Min:26.3 Cape Muroto Much hotter next days!

CHINA & KOREAS RECORD HEAT CHINA More extraordinary heat in the area which is baking since May. Today widespread temperatures 35C/39C in Eastern China with several mid-September records. More records coming NORTH KOREA Mid September record heat with up to 33.3C at Changjon

Interesting when Josh Synonds was talking about these pointless and stupid nuclear reactors on Politics Live; the first thing he mentioned was how many jobs it would create. Rather than how much “clean” energy it would produce; which is to me the far more important point. But that’s neoliberalism.

The people who insist that any specific thing “has nothing to do with politics” can only come to that thought from an incredibly simplistic level of looking at something. Or they’re just disingenuous in order to shut down smart people making a point that they have no answer to.

Danny Kruger is a dislikeable, shitty right wing politician. How long until Reform voters realise it’s the same people just switching from a blue to a turquoise rosette? Is it Conservatives that are over, or conservatism? Conservative MP Danny Kruger defects to Reform UK www.bbc.com/news/article...

Speaking of greenhouse gases... 🙄 www.axios.com/2025/09/12/e...