Trump, Putin and MBS are the three amigos of oil and gas trying to fight renewable power (with a little help from their friends in Canada, Mexico, etc).
They can't win now but they still can do a lot of damage. And they will not go quietly.
The New School of the Anthropocene is an experimental micro-university, which offers an affordable, radical, alternative to mainstream higher ed.
I teach there each year & we have students from Gaza, Ukraine & around the world.
2026 enrolment is now open.
www.nsota.org
@nsota.bsky.social
Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.
If I was an investigative journalist, I would 100 percent make it my personal mission to uncover the dark money trail coming from the fascist US evangelical Christians that are hell bent of spreading their horrendous policies all over the world through buying out our governments.
I bet you money if you look into who is funding school book bans in the UK, you will find dirty US evangelical money behind it.
Anyway, my book Great Goddesses which is a poetry collection about Greek myths is on this list.
If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one.
My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Course they did. The most moral army you know.
Why can't that happen to Trump.
No the fucking right wing scum media. May they all rot in hell. Especially Rothermere and his rag.
I don't know where we are heading but if it's the end, I just wish it'd be swift. Copilot is being pushed for at work. I want AI to detect cancers, not take over the jobs. We need Unions more than ever.
I’m one of the thousands of authors who have published this empty book, in protest at AI companies stealing our copyrighted work www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
As the US/Israel attack on Iran is likely to tip the UK into recession, let's not forget that Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are trashing our rivers, ecosystems, communities, health and resilience for the sake of economic growth. But, as they are now discovering, it's not something they can control.
Virtue signalling has become a dirty word, a sneering taunt, but I think it's really important
It's how we normalise doing good things
(Hmm... maybe that's why it was turned into a dirty word? 🤔)
Ramadan Market is an auction of signed books and other offers from many participating authors (including me with three signed copies of RAKESFALL!) organized by Lit for Lebanon and others. Each book sold feeds a family in Lebanon this Ramadan! www.32auctions.com/ramadanmarket
Cover of Gisele Pelicot's book A Hymn to Life
On #IWD2026, it feels fitting to sing the praises of this extraordinary book, read beautifully by Emma Thompson.
If you’ve yet to read it, please do. Gisèle Pelicot’s strength, courage & basic human decency ring out from its pages - as does the grotesque misogyny of her courtroom experience...
It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
Good afternoon from Yorkshire! I'm reading Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera.
I was at the GP surgery and overheard a conversation where a mum was encouraging her son to go dressed as a Stormtrooper. I went through a lot of emotions. Surely getting them dressed as a killing machine (regardless of whether their aim is good or not) is a very bad idea?!
For anyone who would like the clip (including George).
Have spent 25+ years teaching and communicating science, often to people who have little interest or knowledge of science. Have helped many prominent scientists and science institutions communicate their work to the public. Wrote this book for people who didn‘t understand / enjoy science at school:
Only one spine for a whole continent of leaders and it's not Rutte's.
Murderbot books by Martha Wells, Jingo and other Discworld books by Terry Pratchett.
These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.
The life's work of anyone who gives a damn about humanity is to resist the economic elite, demand the taxes that reduce their power and defend the space in which the rest of us can thrive. If your "elected representatives" aren't helping with that, they are not your representatives, but theirs.
I was saddened to see that the court cases against him have been thrown out. I don't know much about the law in the US - it doesn't appear to be a good time for anybody over there.
Direct mentions in the Epstein Files...
Starmer 0
Farage 18
Mandelson 10
Person getting all the hate
Starmer.
Shows me journalists care more about narrative and sales than victims...
No worries. Me too. Absolutely devastated. And heartbroken for the victims. I don't quite know if I'll ever come across writing like his. And that makes me very sad too.
Argh 🤢
It's easier to get over it when you're a man I suppose.
Please could you tell us a bit more about that?