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Volcanologist, climate scientist, writer, broadcaster, activist, socialist, best-selling author of HOTHOUSE EARTH: AN INHABITANT'S GUIDE. Born @ 313 Home town, Llanelli (South Wales) - lives in the wonderful Peak District Website: billmcguire.co.uk
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The true meaning of cannon fodder Between 164,000 and 237,000 Russian dead, and only a small fraction mobilised soldiers What an appalling waste of (mostly) young life

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Yeah - let's have lots more children and lots more houses for them when they grow up, until the country is covered in concrete and tarmac More people - just what need on a tiny planet heading for #climate catastrophe amidst capitalism demnding ever more growth www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

Marvellous, perceptive, piece from @johnharris1969.bsky.social "mean bureaucrats set on tilting the scales even further away from basic fairness" Add astonishingly politically naive and that's Starmer's Labour to a T www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Drivel from Wes Streeting It isn't about time. It's about stupid, politically naive, policies that target the poor and vulnerable, while refusing to get the wealthy to do their bit You hev run out of time www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If you can't treat our marvellous countryside up here with respect, DON'T COME www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Hey, I have an idea. if the government needs to make savings, get rid of the Treasury A win all round www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Even after yesterday's thrashing, which resulted in millions of people condemned to being governed at local level by Reform, this idiot of a PM thinks this is the way to go Just unbelievable www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Incompetent, stupid and politically naive You - Mr Starmer - are responsible for millions of us waking up in #Reformland today Change, or preferably get out, so we at least have a chance of avoiding the entire country waking up beneath the Reform UK boot in 2029 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Like millions this morning, I have woken - not in the UK, but in #Reformland A far-right Trumpian state within a state In our part - Derbyshire - the new regime plans, on its first day, to shut all libraries and sack anyone working on nature, climate or diversity The fight-back starts here

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Another massive defeat for Starmer's Labour today Now, do the right thing Mr Starmer and allow us to protest peacefully without fear of arrest and imprisonment It is a basic human right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Is there anyone Starmer's Labour hasn't pissed off? The poor The old The disabled People who care about nature People who care about the climate Everyone who has ever written an article, book, song or play People on benefits with more than two kids Trans people Peaceful protestors... Whose next?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

'A.....Labour MP said: “It’s all very well for No 10 to say we’ve got to keep delivering. The problem is that it’s the stuff we’ve delivered that people hate” ' Got it in one 👍 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks Starmer for dumping a Reform council on us for the next 4 years A year ago, Labour were expected to take this council - now you are left with three - YES THREE - seats You really haven't a clue. PLEASE go now We can't afford to wait 'til 2029 www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Is there nothing this vile rogue state won't stoop to in its genocidal campaign to obliterate the Palestinian people? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

As expected, Starmer's Labour being hammered today Who wants to bet that instead of changing course towards a socialist agenda focusing on working people, the poor and the vulnerable, Starmer goes for trying to out Reform Reform? Might be wrong, but I don't think so www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Despicable This is the worst UK government for nature ever If you get hammered in today's election, Mr Starmer, don't be at all surprised It's going to get a great deal worse www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The Drax claims that it burns sustainably-sourced wood are farcical lies The place should be shut down and the company forced to pay back the taxpayer for 'green' subsidies that they should never have received in the first place www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

While banks are allowed to fund FF enterprises, and insurers continue to underwrite them, this will never stop Given the chance, FF corporations will suck up every drop of oil, gas and coal The average temperature of our planet will top 30C as a result THE END www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

For once the government has stood its ground No reason at all, however, that we need to wait until 2027 And will the builders bear the cost out of their huge profits and dividends? Of course not - the hard-pressed buyer pays! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

When we moved to our tiny Peak District village more than 18 years ago, the summer skies were full of swifts, swallows and martins This year there are literally none - nada, zilch The skies are silent Really hammers home what is happening to nature in the UK Just grim

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

I've been calling for this for years Please sign up and share

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Blistering Spring temperatures in South Asia touch 50C - 8.5C above normal It's been called the new normal, but it's going to get worse in the years and decades to come - much worse - unliveable worse - in some cases unsurvivable worse www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment