Steve B
@bradder19.bsky.social
Like Guinness, Crisps and nuts. Climate doomer. Liverpool FC fan. Bit of a Star Wars nerd as well.
⚠️ 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
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
Respect the Amazon - Greenpeace International
Add your name to demand global leaders #RespectTheAmazon and protect its forests, wildlife and its people.
act.gp
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
⚠️ 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
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
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Sam Fender didn’t need his Mercury prize win – but he earned it with his incisive social realism
Sam Fender didn’t need his Mercury prize win – but he earned it with his incisive social realism
Maybe they should have given the award to an album that wasn’t already a huge hit – but Fender’s blend of kitchen-sink drama and stadium choruses is expertly done
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Sam Fender didn’t need his Mercury prize win – but he earned it with his incisive social realism
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The greatest shit-show on earth
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Ronaldo’s sudden interest in return to US is World Cup Trump card that Fifa craves | Barney Ronay
Portugal star will hand Gianni Infantino the perfect publicity coup if he does play in America for the first time in more than 10 years, having already begun cosying up to Donald Trump
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The greatest shit-show on earth
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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‘It’s better than plastic and cheaper’: 20 sustainable swaps that worked (and saved you money)
‘It’s better than plastic and cheaper’: 20 sustainable swaps that worked (and saved you money)
From a metal dustpan and solid shampoo to refillable deodorant and organic veg boxes, these are the eco-friendly changes readers stuck with
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
‘It’s better than plastic and cheaper’: 20 sustainable swaps that worked (and saved you money)
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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.
Spread the word.
August 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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.
Spread the word.
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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 👇
"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 👇
July 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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 👇
"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 👇
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No wonder he wanted to wake up Maggie.
June 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
No wonder he wanted to wake up Maggie.
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We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich
We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich
The national guard’s deployment in Los Angeles sets the US on a familiar authoritarian pathway. History shows the results
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich
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The Neymar/Messi years. All part of the same plan. How Qatar completed football www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Qatar bid to complete football with PSG project’s crowd-pleasing third act | Barney Ronay
Whatever the result of Champions League final, PSG’s owners have positioned club as game’s next superpower
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The Neymar/Messi years. All part of the same plan. How Qatar completed football www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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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.
May 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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.
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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...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Will Hughes: ‘I don’t like the limelight … you’ve got to remember the priority is football’
The Crystal Palace midfielder tells Jonathan Liew about the hype in his early career, ‘shit’ VAR and the embarrassment of Watford’s 2019 FA Cup final
www.theguardian.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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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...
For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand...
NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
May 15, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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...
For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand...
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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.
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.
May 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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.
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.
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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.
May 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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
May 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Didn’t like Trent being booed
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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...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot
The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
May 1, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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...
Environmental breakdown raises those costs leading to #collapse
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government not taking climate threats seriously - watchdog
The government has made little progress in preparing the UK for rising temperatures, climate watchdog the CCC says.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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...
Environmental breakdown raises those costs leading to #collapse
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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April 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mcginley just said Rory pulled a putt into the hole! 🙄😳. Fuck sake
April 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Mcginley just said Rory pulled a putt into the hole! 🙄😳. Fuck sake
Big balls round from Rory that.
April 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Big balls round from Rory that.
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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
A leaked document shows that vested interests may have been behind a “mud-slinging” PR campaign to discredit a landmark environment study, according to an investigation.
The Eat-Lancet Commission study, published in 2019, set out to answer the question: how can we feed the world’s growing population without causing catastrophic climate breakdown? Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
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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/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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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...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Hillsborough families call for ‘all or nothing’ law as Labour expected to break pledge
Report released as Labour admits it will break promise to enact law by 36th anniversary and rewrites key proposals
www.theguardian.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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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...
Do we need more quantitative easing?
Over the last day or so, I have seen or heard discussion on whether the government might revive quantitative easing as a way of easing the pressure on the UK economy in response to the crisis that Tru...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
April 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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...
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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...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
It’s unfair to blame Liverpool for being the best team: that's how you win titles | Barney Ronay
It has been an odd, slow bicycle race of a season, but this is hardly the fault of Arne Slot’s impressive league leaders
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April 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...