James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social I'm shocked, *shocked* that once again the Greens are opposing renewables Mark O'Neill@radiobeartime.com www.bbc.co.uk/news/article.. The Greens are an embarrassment BBC NEWS 'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Norfolk's Green The county council's Green leader says solar panels should be locally owned and put on ro... www.bbc.co.uk 9:33 AM: Apr 18, 2026 Everybody can reply

Except they're not opposing renewables. They're opposing us flogging off still more of our natural resources to rent seeking overseas capital. And we can all click on the article to read this

Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Green Party councillor @frankadlingtons.bsky.social talks about nimbyism.

Original interview
youtu.be/fHQ6jRqHVP8?...

For Keir Starmer to talk of national resilience and ignore nature is absurd | Letters Letters: Responding to an article by the PM, Caroline Lucas says he must be clearer about climate risks, Molly Scott Cato says we must reverse Brexit and Dr Victor Ajuwon applauds Labour’s directness....

Extraordinary that nowhere in an article on resilience did PM find space to include the growing threat posed to UK security by the dramatic decline in the health of nature around the world - especially since his own intelligence chiefs have recently spelt it out for him in no uncertain terms 👇

When you aggregate the comments of various Reform UK candidates, you find they:
Hate the NHS
Hate immigrants
Hate Black people
Hate Brown people
Hate Muslims
Hate Jews
Hate women
Hate students
Hate LGTBQ people
Hate the unemployed
Hate disabled people
Hate everyone ...
But claim to love the country.

In the 1930s, Oswald Mosley claimed to be a patriot, while his British Union of Fascists was secretly funded by the Italian government. We are just beginning to grasp how much of the far right in the UK today has been funded by Viktor Orbán and Russian oil money.
Their "patriotism" is always a con.

National Emergency Briefing Find a People's Emergency Briefing screening near you, or spot a gap that you can fill by hosting a screening.

Truly astonishing number of screenings already booked for the National Emergency Briefing film. Very likely to be one near you. www.nebriefing.org/screening-map

A Bradford District Green Party graphic featuring a crowd scene with people smiling and talking at an outdoor event - including Zack Polanski. Overlaid is a headline styled from The Independent reading: “Labour faces a green apocalypse at the local elections.” At the bottom, a green banner displays the link “join.greenparty.org.uk,” alongside the Bradford District logo and small promotional text.

🥀 We are here to replace Labour.

⛔️ To stop Reform.

🌱 And to create a fairer, greener Bradford.

✅️ Vote Green on May 7th.

M Richard Tice's firm broke law by failing to pay £91,000 taxes The deputy leader of Reform UK owns a property investment company which did not pay tax on dividends before sending profits to a trust registered in Jersey

It's the scroungers who contribute nothing who are the worst.

Absolutely nothing dodgy at all going on here. It's perfectly normal and not at all coordinated for six different papers to carry the exact same headline like this.

John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement The ag manufacturing giant will also make digital diagnostic, maintenance, and repair tools available to third parties for 10 years.

Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools ​required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”. [thedrive.com]

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.

Global super-rich may have hidden $3.55tn from tax officials, says Oxfam Charity calls for a levy on the very richest and the closing of tax loopholes in its report on offshore wealth

Global super-rich may have hidden $3.55tn from tax officials.

0.1% of households have more wealth than the poorest half of the global population.

Govts funded by the super rich, don't shut down tax havens and the tax abuse industry or levy wealth tax.

HMRC goes easy on wealthy individuals.

This war is a long way from over as yet As I have already noted this morning, Donald Trump appears to have conceded that the USA has suffered a major military defeat in its war, in collaboration with Israel, against Iran, which has dominate...

This war is a long way from over as yet www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04... Even if we do have a ceasefire this morning, the consequences of this war will last for decades, and we might all pay the price for that.

Mapped: The Reform-Orbán Network “Viktor Orbán is the strongest leader in Europe and the EU’s biggest nightmare.” These were the words posted on Twitter by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage about the prime minister of Hungary in April 20...

🔴 MAPPED: The Reform-Orbán Network

Ahead of elections in both countries, DeSmog has catalogued the connections between Hungary’s autocratic government and Farage’s operation.

📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

Something I don't think the UK boasts about enough - and a great rebuttal to Reform and the Tories' anti-net zero propaganda:

The UK is home to 7 out of the top 10 biggest offshore wind farms in the world. 10 of the top 20. And 6 in 10 of the largest ones in the world currently under construction.

This is everything.

It comes down to us — all of us ordinary folks in our local communities

・Local Mums who want better child care
・Tradesmen that need extra support & rewards for apprenticeships
・Farmers who need new ideas & support for farm waste
・Business People who need town centres renewed

More drilling in the North Sea would be a catastrophic mistake for Labour - locking us into high bills, and betraying their climate ambitions. If they’re serious about energy security, the answer is to double down instead on renewables and efficiency - and lower bills for good

We need to find a way to put all national forests in joint state and federal custody and require agreement between both to do stuff like this. Otherwise Republicans will raze the country to the ground in pursuit of money.

UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units

Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reading about the two men behind Raise The Colours: “Founded by Ryan Bridge, whose background is in compensation claims and is currently wanted in Spain in connection with charges of aggravated fraud, and Elliott Stanley, who formerly ran a sex doll rental company.”

“We’re being very clear, every single Green elected to the Senedd will be standing up for rent controls, bringing down water bills and abolishing council tax by replacing it with a fairer land value tax.”

Zack Polanski speaking at the Wales Green Party launch for the Senedd elections.

‘A national scandal’: trawlers scour seabeds of supposedly protected UK waters ‘Precious ocean life is being pushed to the brink’ say campaigners, arguing that overfished marine areas are ‘protected only on paper’

Regardless of the issue, it's always the same story: commercial interests allowed to ride roughshod over everything and everyone else. Faced with the urgent need for action, successive governments twiddle their thumbs.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hundreds of North Sea licences granted by Conservatives have ‘so far produced only 36 days worth of gas’ Exclusive: Findings cast doubt on claims new drilling would help cut bills and boost energy security, researchers say

When someone tells you they'll base the country's future energy security off of North Sea gas, they're not being honest with you.
14 years & a policy of 'maxing out' the basin produced only 36 days worth of gas to date

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Farage’s Reform UK drops pledge to nationalise water and energy companies Rightwing populist party is shifting back to ‘small state’ economic policies

Pro-war, pro-privatisation.

Don't trust these people..

www.ft.com/content/be4b...

Military experts say it will be difficult for the United States to retrieve Iran's nuclear materials. An elderly rapist who shits himself in public says it will be easy. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Is the Britain on the path to barbarism? Dehumanisation of the people always unleashes personal and social tragedies

Think-tank funded by the super rich wants to freeze the UK state pension, end the triple-lock.

Full state pension is below 50% of the minimum wage.

2m pensioners live in poverty. 110,000 a year die in poverty.

Democide disguised as financial policy.

Loss of empathy leads to inhumanity.

Detectorists had a great example:
LANCE
Choppy. I was getting nothing but
iffies and pops so I cranked up the
‘scrimination, dropped her down a
cog and wound her up full-chat.
You?

Monday - Send more troops
Tuesday - Say we’re ending war
Wednesday - Send more troops
Thursday - Say ending war
Friday - Send more troops
Saturday - Golf
Sunday - Golf