Those two statements are not contradictory

Those ready for ‘celestial discovery’

It looks that way now because Isreal will plough on regardless until their allies withdraw support. The UK’s support has been significant so exposing it to public view has a real chance of forcing a tipping point

This is the only Guardian article this week on the use of RAF Fairfeld to commit war crimes. Instead of challenging the government about this travesty you’re snidely poking at these moronic spectators. Hope you feel superior: you’re looking far more unprincipled and ignorant than them.

Also ‘The findings are alarming, not just for Colorado, but for mountains across the planet’ … wtf? come on!

Probably close to the truth - they replaced the pump handle once the outbreak was over and it took them years to start acting on the evidence he provided.

No that’s not what i said

I’m sure Greens all agree we need a new economics that radically changes the lifestyles of the rich while delivering social justice for the poor.

Consensus will fall apart when it comes to specific proposals though. Avoiding that debate does not help us in the long run

I genuinely don’t understand what relevance the lack of alternative green parties has.

We’re still allowed to be concerned about their strategy and not leading on the issue they’re named for - the Labour party is a precedent what can go wrong there

This is exactly wrong. A credible ‘offer’ on the climate, would involve huge changes in public attitudes affecting all other policy areas. Treating it as a box that the public can be assured is ‘ticked’ rather than as a motivator for societal change merely postpones this urgently-needed debate

…furthermore, we don’t deserve to even be informed of the extent of our colonisation by a foreign power, let alone consulted.

Yes, agree with that part

I’m astonished he describes their performance as ‘very impressive’. Their decisions (airport & road expansion, CCS) accelerate our headlong rush towards the abyss and they’ve shown a tin ear to environmentalists’ concerns

Sorry what? You’re selecting climate policy as their saving grace? I’m afraid you’ve severely underestimated the severity of our predicament

Allowing US citizens to use our runways to destroy lives and the rules-based international order:

‘This is all a bit dodgy you know, but go on’

Allowing UK citizens to peacefully protest about it on our streets:

‘sorry, that would create an unacceptable risk of public disorder’

I’m old enough to remember when that sort of content was getting so much traction in US ‘news’ outlets that they had to start a war to distract them

BBC must have realised that Heat Pumps are no longer ‘politically controversial’

My theory is that it’s such a small % of the cost of driving that cost pressure alone won’t reduce it faster than overall petrol car use.

Perhaps when electric car adoption reaches a certain level it will become susceptible to social pressure, like smoking post 2005

They are psychopaths trying to kill us and we need to react accordingly they can bat back science papers all day long

I swear this sort of framing does more damage than outright deniers.

I’m sure they think ‘proving’ the obvious is going to jolt people into action. In fact it’s just a gift for the bad faith actors who we need to tackle directly

Describing it as an ‘unfortunate incident’ doesn’t quite cut it as an expression of remorse.

Suggests it was outside anyone’s control to prevent and centres on the perpetrator not the potential victims - it was actually fortunate no one was hurt

All fired up: wood-burning stoves They keep our homes warm in style, and are a renewable energy source to boot. What's not to like about wood-burning stoves, asks Dominic Murphy

The Guardian needs to acknowledge their own role in this
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

To be fair, they're observing on a sample basis, then producing recommendations on procedure changes for future elections. Intervention at the time of observation would probably skew the sample by changing the behaviour of election officials and therefore undermine their findings.

Some people have no real curiosity about the world - hence never examined their own political conscience - they just want a version of their own consumerist culture transplanted to a hot country

Keep digging. The numbers quoted are ridiculously high (12% of votes cast) and they are being vague on the definition. Suspect they are using a wider definition than the legal one (sharing a booth) implying judgement by the observers. Some sort of ‘white saviour’ complex may be at play.

How about following the advice we just gave the Iranians - don’t retaliate and seek a negotiated solution.

‘Return to diplomacy’ really? How does that work when the other side just broke off to kill you and your kids?

The US killing one and hundred fifty school children in a single attack on Iran has apparently been universally decided to be a non story by the Western press. Not front page news, not in the highlights, instantly memory holed. Profession and institutions worse than worthless.

So you can use it to launder this dreck?

From what I can tell well-meaning but two things don’t add up for me

(1) the rule seems easy to enforce (bans entering a voting both except to assist a blind person) so why aren’t election officials enforcing it

(2) impossible to police for postal voting so why bother

The Greens won by occupying political space vacated by Labour’s rightward shift. They probably judged specificity on green policies to be an unnecessary risk. It’s a pantomime and sadly a ‘green’ win in name only