Important read about the incredibly ugly racist hate, abuse & threats Indigenous Australians get
"Many noted a marked uptick in violent rhetoric since the failed voice to parliament referendum in 2023."
“A lot of people in general feel really comfortable being racist.” 1/
It’s nonsense. 75% of our gas imports come from Norway, 17% from the US & just 1-2% from Qatar, so trying to squeeze a tiny bit more from North Sea fields that’ve been declining for decades will make no odds to security, global prices or tax receipts. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/688a09...
"The pollster Peter Kellner has calculated that if the referendum were rerun today, instead of a leave win by 1.3m votes, remain would win by 8m. There’s no historic parallel for the injustice of that"
The UK's North Sea gas production is set to drop 97% by 2050 - and even with new licensing rounds it would fall by 95% As of 2022, UK gas production had already fallen by two-thirds since 2000 From 2022, production is expected to fall by another 97% by 2050 - or by 95% if new licenses are issued
Better to focus our efforts on how we can reduce oil & gas demand.
We need to speed up decarbonisation of heating, industry and transport, rather than focusing on increasing gas production.
Increasing production would not have a material impact on energy security.
Thank you Megan McCubbin and Dr Amir Khan for highlighting the arrogance of the Cottesmore Hunt
Did you know that @theees.bsky.social was founded by pioneering writer Amelia Edwards, author of 'A Thousand Miles Up the Nile'? #InternationalWomensDay
She envisaged the EES to include other eminent women. Read about her and these women in our Spotlight volume👇
www.ees.ac.uk/resource/ame...
A wonderful and terrifying book!
The home secretary talks about her reforms to the asylum system, including reprocessing applications every two and a half years, as a means to end "pull factors" for refugees. This shows a disturbing lack of awareness about the current system. The majority of those seeking asylum who we work with come to the UK because they have existing ties to this country. It is where they feel the safest in rebuilding their lives after fleeing war and persecution. Despite the home secretary's claims to the contrary, the Home Office has neither the ability nor the resources to implement this policy in a workable way. We already see initial applications taking more than a year. To increase the number that need to be reviewed is unfeasible and costly. Not only that, it would leave people seeking safety and security in limbo, at more risk of becoming undocumented and exploited. This is a policy that is not supported by evidence, and instead has been designed to grab headlines with no thought to the harm it causes those individuals who hoped that they may find some safety here, and the economic and social costs to all of us. Daniel Sohege Director, Stand For All
My response in the Guardian to the Home Secretary's changes to asylum rules, and the utterly false claim that Labour's hostile and Inhumane anti-asylum policies reduce "pull factors".
Beyond food: Bees support wild ecosystems,90% of flowering plants rely on pollinators.They sustain biodiversity, habitats for wildlife,and even indirect chains (pollinated crops).Remove bees? Ecosystems unravel,agriculture falters, societies destabilize. Nature's web is fragile.
I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth
This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)
There are at least 3 companies with Nigel Farage as Director, in breach at Companies House.
Compy no:
16260766 Reform UK Party Ltd.
13066592 Farage Media Ltd ( being struck off)
11694875 Reform 2025 Ltd
From which company does Farage claim to give bona fide accounts to Electoral Commission?
You've got to be kidding me...
They're stealing the voice of Sinead O'Connor, who risked her own career in 1992 by speaking up about child sexual abuse in the Catholic church, so let's make this theft an occasion to keep talking about Trump in the Epstein files.
Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels.
www.positive.news/environment/...
Moth populations are plummeting & many of the 2,500 species in the UK are at risk, numbers having fallen by 33% since the 1960s, due to habitat loss & climate breakdown
The RHS has asked gardeners to “allow for nibbling on ornamentals and vegetable crops”
#moths
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
At the same time water supplies are stretched in England, farmers are finding they need to use more water, agricultural use in England more than doubling in the past 5 years, as Watershed's Rachel Salvidge revealed last year:
share.google/KznWPHKqY7S9...
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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
The lovely, atmospheric title sequence to forgotten Irish supernatural anthology WHEN REASON SLEEPS (1987), an RTE/Channel 4 co-production. The Goya etching 'The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters' was the clear inspiration.
SUNDERLAND! Don't vote #ReformUK! They will destroy the NHS! Just like their leaders did to NHS dentistry, when they were in tory govt, like Jenrick!
Did you know...there are now ZERO NHS dentist places in the North East! ReformUK will do the same to the NHS.
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/27/n...
The front page of The National. The headline reads: THIS IS THE HUMAN COST. The photo stretches across the front and back pages of the paper and is the aerial view of 100 freshly dug graves for the murdered schoolgirls of Minab, Iran
NEW: US & Israeli have bombed a 4th school.
Shahid Hamedane School in Tehran was hit today, following schools hit in Minab and Parand, Iran.
And The National in Scotland seems to be the only newspaper in the Western world giving these war crimes appropriate coverage.
Tomorrow’s front page👇
The oil and gas giants have made $2.8 billion in profits EVERY DAY for 50 years, wrecking our climate and driving up bills. It’s time they paid to fix it - here and abroad. We're holding them to account!
Sign up to Make Polluters Pay:
makepolluterspay.co.uk/ask-your-mp-...
The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury.
See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...
We need safe and legal routes for refugees.
George Monbiot explains what’s often missing in the debate about asylum seekers and refugees: "My worry is that we end up talking about what's good for us and forget about what's good for people."
You there! You like random nonsense, don’t you? You’re reading one of my posts, aren’t you? Well, you might like this…
🚨 URGENT 🚨
Experts warn UK must start stockpiling food to prepare for climate shocks or war.
UK is only 54% self-sufficient - much, much lower than eg France, Spain, Netherlands, US, Australia.
We are dangerously reliant on fragile global supply chains.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
*10 MARCH DEADLINE* BBC Charter survey covers a range of themes as set out in the Green Paper (suggested to read the GP before completing the survey
www.gov.uk/government/c... )
Should take between 30-45 mins to complete
🙏 Provide relevant evidence to support responses, where possible
#DefendTheBBC
Title card for the talk, with the details from the main text with an image of a UFO toy
Our next ONLINE fundraising talk:
Sat 21st March, 8pm via Zoom with recording for all ticket holders
INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN
THE VISUAL FOLKLORE OF UFOs
Dr David Clarke and Andrew Robinson will be presenting on everything from hoax photos to kid's toys
Tickets £5+booking from bit.ly/flaevents
🦇 We are looking for volunteers for the Volunteer Bat Care Helpline, in which volunteers will answer calls from members of the public who have found grounded, injured or lost bats.
More information and how to apply here: www.bats.org.uk/support-bats...
