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"What made me very cross was when [Defence Minister] Luke Pollard keeps saying 'this was a hard decision'" The Green Party's Caroline Lucas responds to the Government's decision to cut foreign aid to fund an increase in defence spending. #Newsnight

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Flea treatments are turning our pets into an environmental hazard – there has to be a better way | Sophie Pavelle

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Very interesting video from “just have a think”. Several good points, but the potential flip in the arctic from carbon sink to carbon source is new to me. youtu.be/LrS4PKDln0E?...

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The UK's anti-protest laws pre-legitimise far right authoritarianism. Labour must repeal them now. My column today. www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

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Exciting to have ITV Meridian visit the storks at @kneppwilding.bsky.social! 🎥 Check out their feature on the White Stork Project⬇️ youtu.be/Y3wB7PYf-LU?... #WhiteStorks #Rewilding #Knepp @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social

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"Any politician who says that Heathrow Airport expansion is compatible with the UK's obligations as set out in the 2008 Climate Change Act, and the 2015 Paris Agreement is: 1. ignorant 2. deluded 3. lying" [Likewise for politicians & media in Ireland on increasing Dublin Airport flight numbers.]

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There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here’s how to survive if that happens | George Monbiot

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This is a really excellent article from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and I advise everyone to read it. I have forlornly being trying to warn of this eventuality for some time, and recently, specifically about the Trump regime, which risks complete systemic failure in the US. 1/🧵

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Is this the moment when everything changes? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02... Has the US withdrawal from supporting Europe created the moment when we can discuss what is necessary, which is the demise of neoliberalism and its replacement by a new political order?

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Reform UK finally proposed a policy - and it’s an economic disaster www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

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In this week's column, I explore what I see as a very real prospect of systemic collapse, caused by Trump's actions, and suggest we start preparing. I try to explain how complex systems fail, and suggest some of the failure paths we could be on. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I was asked for my view on the new paper from Jim Hansen "Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations & the Public Well-Informed?" My full quote is at: climateuncensored.com/has-global-w... Jim's paper is at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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‘I closed my eyes to brace for impact’: the man who escaped a whale’s mouth

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The Treasury should stop playing silly games www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02... The Treasury and Bank of England published a so-called Memorandum of Understanding between the two of them yesterday. It is completely disingenuous. It is time the games came to an end.

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“there are Neville Chamberlain’s in every generation” George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt

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Why is the CEO of the NHS in England calling for private sector funding for NHS infrastructure when it is obvious that readily available state funding would be cheaper? Is this just pro-market political dogma being promoted by a civil servant? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...

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George Monibot, "We have a Chancellor and. Prime Minister who seem to have no vision at all, except this thing called growth, GDP growth" "GDP should not be used as a measure of national welfare" #BBCQT

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Great article by Matt Phelps - yet another in the long line of Chancellors of the Exchequers who feel that the best route to human development is to bash the bats and newts! knepp.co.uk/2025/02/dont...

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We need to get governments that abandon the endless pursuit of growth and have a vision of structural change that brings about better social and ecological outcomes - sadly Labour is really entrenching the common sense of growthism and undermining it's own future...

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If Labour approves the Rosebank oil field, it would be the final straw for many of its green-minded voters. It might appease corporate power for a moment, but in doing so it will lose far more than it gains. The government seems to be on a self-destructive streak. Now's the time to rethink.

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Nimbys. Naysayers. Traitors. Children take note, why learn oracy when insults will do? | Catherine Bennett

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Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

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Channel 4's Go Back to Where You Came From is shocking. I’m glad it was made | Gareth Benest

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Thanks to everyone who came along to our annual gathering in Guildford! We brought together more than 100 activists from across the South East for fascinating talks and stimulating discussion groups. We hope you all went home with new contacts and new ideas, ready for another year's campaigning!

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@seclimatealliance.bsky.social A wonderful annual gathering yesterday when about 60 organisations from the SE came together to share thoughts on the #climateandecologicalcrisis. Here the founder members read back the one word take-home messages to leave the audience with hope and inspiration.

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The Corporate Con. With corporate greed out of control, it's time for Labour to start governing. youtu.be/qj-gAUaUF-4?...

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I "I’m a Labour MP – but the government’s ‘growth’ mission reeks of panic" | Clive Lewis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Reeves has claimed that sustainable aviation fuel will make an expanded Heathrow green. There is literally no truth in that, but there is a lot of evidence for my suggestion that her relationship with reality is limited. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01...

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Excellent article. Could have been written any time in the last 70 years. As a society we have learned nothing. Depressing.

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In my column today I argue that, unbelievably, Labour are worse on environmental issues than the Conservatives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

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What is the end goal of growth? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01... Growth should be about an increase in economic activity directed predominantly towards rebuilding public services and turbocharging a green transition.

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Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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This is an excellent article by David Wengrow! A long read but will probably challenge everything you thought you knew about civilisation. aeon.co/essays/an-ar...

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My piece is out! A history of archaeological scholarship on the potential for matrilineal societies in Iron Age Europe.

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These airport expansion plans are #greenwash of the highest order! “We’re often told that airport expansion is good for jobs, however the biggest threat to job security is #climatebreakdown" - Todd Smith, a former Gatwick pilot & former #ExtinctionRebellion spokesperson #FlyingtoExtinction #ActNow

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When a government tells us, within the course of one week, that we can't have new hospitals but must have new runways, you know that it is not working on our behalf, but on behalf of economic power.

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This is George Monbiot's "X" leaving speech, and wow ❤️ @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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1. There have been plenty of debates about whether or not Trump and his circle are fascists. In this column, I argue that the debate solves nothing. What we’re seeing is a reversion to the default state of politics in centralised societies: autocratic tyranny. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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1. Now, on top of all the other things we can't have, we learn we can't have new hospitals. Why? Because Starmer's government is committed to a higher principle than saving lives: saving money. Never mind that trying to keep old hospitals running costs a fortune: a classic false economy. ... 🧵

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Reeves is still peddling the household analogy www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01... Reeves is still claiming she is running the economy like her mother did their household when she was growing up. That's crazy. Her mother could not create her own money. As Chancellor, that is what she has to do.

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We joined the @sascampaigns.bsky.social rally to stop Brighton Marina dumping dredged sediment onto Beachy Head West Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ). We do not oppose dredging, only where the sediment is being dumped. A better disposal solution is needed. 📸 Kai Hilton https://buff.ly/4hhSsnr

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A really good video, mainly a critique of Reform policies but also giving a good explanation of how the economy actually works.

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1. This is what it’s really about. Farage, Truss and co have no convictions of their own. They are mere channels for the demands of capital. Here they are, supporting a climate science-denying lobby group funded by oil and oligarchs. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵

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An excellent article, worth a read. It shows that the economic answers presented to us by the mainstream are, by no means, the only way of dong things.

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I fear there is deep truth here.

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Good video by Monbiot here. Difficult to disagree with and rather worrying. youtu.be/4iqiz0KHuJo?...

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