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· Oct 10
If you read only one thing this week, this is it. Multiple jaw drops 😳
“even under an optimistic ‘low’ emissions climate scenario, the earliest the climate might stabilize is in the mid-2070s” and weather patterns are already locked in to growing increasingly more extreme for the next 50-100 years.
“even under an optimistic ‘low’ emissions climate scenario, the earliest the climate might stabilize is in the mid-2070s” and weather patterns are already locked in to growing increasingly more extreme for the next 50-100 years.
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Across regulated industries there has been a step change in the past 16 months. Solar farms left as proposals for years were signed off in weeks. We haven’t completed a new reservoir in 30 years despite the population growing by 10m. This government’s signed off 9
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Across regulated industries there has been a step change in the past 16 months. Solar farms left as proposals for years were signed off in weeks. We haven’t completed a new reservoir in 30 years despite the population growing by 10m. This government’s signed off 9
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I live in the rurals and in 2024 ordered from Amazon almost once per week: 50 times in the year. In 2025 I've cut that down to 2 with almost no effort: the 2 were the only time I had to do any extra work, trying to find alternative sources. If I can ~cut Amazon out of my life, most people can.
Thinking about shopping on Amazon for Cyber Monday?
Watch this first. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FaRBjqYsXRE
Watch this first. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FaRBjqYsXRE
Should You Boycott Amazon?
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I live in the rurals and in 2024 ordered from Amazon almost once per week: 50 times in the year. In 2025 I've cut that down to 2 with almost no effort: the 2 were the only time I had to do any extra work, trying to find alternative sources. If I can ~cut Amazon out of my life, most people can.
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Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
By Anthony Robinson
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
By Anthony Robinson
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
By Anthony Robinson
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
By Anthony Robinson
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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"The #HockeyStick" | My recent conversation with #BBC's Hannah Fry for the "Uncharted with Hannah Fry" podcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Uncharted with Hannah Fry, 2. The Hockey Stick
A climate scientist who shocked the world and provoked a scandal.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"The #HockeyStick" | My recent conversation with #BBC's Hannah Fry for the "Uncharted with Hannah Fry" podcast: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Great podcast! Everyone should be breathing healthier indoor air.
If you haven't listened to this yet, I highly recommend it. All your basic questions about indoor air quality -- what are the pollutants? what tech can keep them out? what policies do we need? -- are answered.
What's the deal with indoor air quality?
From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.
www.volts.wtf
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Great podcast! Everyone should be breathing healthier indoor air.
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I'm not sure a squeezed middle isn't an almost inevitable consequence of demographics. There are 13 million pensioners in the UK. Compared to 25 million full time workers. Do the maths, it won't be pretty however you cut it.
Latest from me: on the budget, Labour's troubles, & the government's increasingly tense & distant relationship with the UK's squeezed middle www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘squeezed middle’ is back – and this time it could be Labour’s undoing | John Harris
Last week’s budget left middle-income families anxious and angry. The party is turning its back on voters it can little afford to lose, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I'm not sure a squeezed middle isn't an almost inevitable consequence of demographics. There are 13 million pensioners in the UK. Compared to 25 million full time workers. Do the maths, it won't be pretty however you cut it.
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😳 Wow.
"For the first time in American history, a president has openly claimed that justice is an extension of his will — a rejection of not only what the Founders envisioned but of the thousand years of effort since the Magna Carta to reject such an approach."
#History #USPolitics #Law #Democracy
"For the first time in American history, a president has openly claimed that justice is an extension of his will — a rejection of not only what the Founders envisioned but of the thousand years of effort since the Magna Carta to reject such an approach."
#History #USPolitics #Law #Democracy
We have spent more than 1,000 years trying to separate the awesome prosecutorial powers of the state from the personal whims and vendettas of the head of state.
Trump’s actions and ideology seek to reverse those gains.
Here’s the history he’d like to reverse www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-oldest...
Trump’s actions and ideology seek to reverse those gains.
Here’s the history he’d like to reverse www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-oldest...
The oldest abuse in human government
Donald Trump and the ‘king’s justice’
www.ifyoucankeepit.org
November 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
😳 Wow.
"For the first time in American history, a president has openly claimed that justice is an extension of his will — a rejection of not only what the Founders envisioned but of the thousand years of effort since the Magna Carta to reject such an approach."
#History #USPolitics #Law #Democracy
"For the first time in American history, a president has openly claimed that justice is an extension of his will — a rejection of not only what the Founders envisioned but of the thousand years of effort since the Magna Carta to reject such an approach."
#History #USPolitics #Law #Democracy
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If you look at the ridiculous case studies they dredged up & the desperate attempts to hang Reeves for ‘lying’ about the rationale behind a policy she *did not introduce*, you might work out why right-wing media is straining *not* to talk about the finer detail of her (unremarkable) budget.
November 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
If you look at the ridiculous case studies they dredged up & the desperate attempts to hang Reeves for ‘lying’ about the rationale behind a policy she *did not introduce*, you might work out why right-wing media is straining *not* to talk about the finer detail of her (unremarkable) budget.
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If you're calling someone with a degree in PPE from Oxford and a masters in economics from LSE 'Rachel from Accounts' you want to have a long hard look at your misogyny.
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
If you're calling someone with a degree in PPE from Oxford and a masters in economics from LSE 'Rachel from Accounts' you want to have a long hard look at your misogyny.
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I'm not sticking up for her or anything but referring to the Chancellor as "Rachel From Accounts" is hideously misogynistic and I see you. And your fella. And you're disgusting.
November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I'm not sticking up for her or anything but referring to the Chancellor as "Rachel From Accounts" is hideously misogynistic and I see you. And your fella. And you're disgusting.
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How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage.
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage.
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
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UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
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During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.
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The tide is turning. Even the Telegraph is now admitting the damage the Brexit deal has done to the economy.
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The tide is turning. Even the Telegraph is now admitting the damage the Brexit deal has done to the economy.
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Not really a comment on this story, but I think we should try to make it easier and more normalised to downsize in your 60s.
If left too late, moving house can be incredibly disorientating - and you don’t tend to know it’s too late until it is
If left too late, moving house can be incredibly disorientating - and you don’t tend to know it’s too late until it is
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Not really a comment on this story, but I think we should try to make it easier and more normalised to downsize in your 60s.
If left too late, moving house can be incredibly disorientating - and you don’t tend to know it’s too late until it is
If left too late, moving house can be incredibly disorientating - and you don’t tend to know it’s too late until it is
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You have to read this thread. It's an eye-opener on how the right-wing press is trying to bamboozle people, or, to put it plainly, how right-wing people and media are lying.
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
You have to read this thread. It's an eye-opener on how the right-wing press is trying to bamboozle people, or, to put it plainly, how right-wing people and media are lying.
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One of the reasons why an #AMOC shutdown “cannot be considered a low likelihood risk anymore” is this study:
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
And if you want to know more what this is about, watch my short presentation here: youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8?...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
And if you want to know more what this is about, watch my short presentation here: youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8?...
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
One of the reasons why an #AMOC shutdown “cannot be considered a low likelihood risk anymore” is this study:
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
And if you want to know more what this is about, watch my short presentation here: youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8?...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
And if you want to know more what this is about, watch my short presentation here: youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8?...
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An army relying on it’s soldiers to buy their own equipment, is not an army winning the war.
1/ The Russian army has to rely on modified civilian vehicles purchased with soldiers' own money, because military trucks are in such short supply. According to a Russian soldier-warblogger, units have to wait between 5 to 12 months to receive trucks. ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/rshe...
bsky.app/profile/rshe...
Looks like a scene from an apocalypse movie — the russians are entering the southern part of Pokrovsk under the cover of morning fog.
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
An army relying on it’s soldiers to buy their own equipment, is not an army winning the war.
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“Andy Field, a GP in York, was two years below Farage. “If smartphones had been widely available at this time we would no doubt have footage of him goose-stepping as this was a fairly frequent sight in the playground, particularly when he was a prefect in the upper sixth,” he said.
November 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
“Andy Field, a GP in York, was two years below Farage. “If smartphones had been widely available at this time we would no doubt have footage of him goose-stepping as this was a fairly frequent sight in the playground, particularly when he was a prefect in the upper sixth,” he said.
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
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She is so profoundly intellectually incurious that I find myself fascinated how she ever learnt how to *speak*.
Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
She is so profoundly intellectually incurious that I find myself fascinated how she ever learnt how to *speak*.
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Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.
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Another outcome for which the Kremlin worked, lest we forget. Described in "Road to Unfreedom."
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Another outcome for which the Kremlin worked, lest we forget. Described in "Road to Unfreedom."