Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

The Amoc is a major part of the global climate system and is close to the tipping point of collapse.

This is the biggest news of the year if not the decade.

More great news from our university sector - more abandonment of community, more funding cuts to culture and politics.

Livres. Despentes, Lévy, Beigbeder : 115 écrivains quittent la maison d'édition Grasset et ciblent Bolloré Un total de 115 auteurs publiés chez Grasset annoncent quitter cette maison d'édition pour dénoncer le licenciement de son PDG, Olivier Nora.

Bref, 150 writers, including Virginie Despentes, have left Grasset, French publisher, due to policies of its ultra-right owner Vincent Bolloré.

Grasset is part of Hachette, big list here in Australia.

I’m so inspired by writers acting against autocrats. ✊🏼

REMEMORY - 25th BIENNALE OF SYDNEY - Curated by Hoor al Qasimi CAMPBELLTOWN ARTS CENTRE, 14 March – 14 June 2026

REMEMORY - 25th Biennale of Sydney. This review is of Campbelltown Arts Centre.

The very model of a modern Labor general Murray Watt – tireless fixer and good soldier – is federal environment minister in a Labor government that has approved 35 fossil fuel projects and has done little to quell disquiet about the climate ...

"In short, Watt’s own statement revealed that at the very time he was arguing in public and at UNESCO that industrial emissions were causing no damage to the [50,000 year-old] rock art, his own department was telling him – and he accepted – that the opposite was true."

Mike Parr – Ships in the Night SYRUP Gallery, Marrickville. 8pm, Thursday 12 March, 2026. (Exhibition 5 – 22 March)

Latest essay up on substack@fkmcg

Macquarie has been a little shy 👉👈 … but we know deep down it's just as proud of the billions of tonnes of emissions its financing as it is about doing climate action 🫠

So today we surprised them with an award. 🎖️ #auspol #climate #macquariebank #beetaloo

Hard to top that!

Ignorant men. Introspection has existed as long as culture - it’s intrinsic to it.

✍️ PETITION: Scrap the Capital Gains Tax Discount Scrapping the capital gains tax discount would make housing more affordable, increase home ownership rates, and fix a fundamental inequality in our tax system. ✍️ Add your name now >

I just signed @australiainstitute.org.au's petition: Scrap the Capital Gains Tax Discount! Will you join me? nb.australiainstitute.org.au/scrap_cgt_di...

Please sign to get rid of this crazy tax break!

Come and help me launch this novel into Sydney harbour. Everyone is welcome!

Tuesday March 31. 5.30pm
Sean and Dolly’s
220 William St, Woolloomooloo

Hosted by Potts Point Bookshop. Launched by 78er Mark Gillespie

RSVP to anna@pottspointbookshop.com.au

Albanese can run but not hide from Carney's message about the threat from the US Mark Carney arrives in Australia today. He has to live in a world where the threat posed by the US is obvious. It's a threat Anthony Albanese refuses to see.

"Albanese can run but not hide from Carney's message about the threat from the US"

But what will Carney advise? Will he have the guts to refuse involvement in the latest war? I mean, who in the woeful west hasn’t capitulated to Trump apart from Sanchez and Greenland?

Syria reports ‘mass escape’ from detention camp holding ISIS-linked families amid reports thousands fled | CNN A “mass escape” took place last month from Syria’s al-Hol camp that holds families linked to the Islamic State following the withdrawal of Kurdish forces, according to Syrian TV, amid reports thousand...

" … more than half the al-Hol camp’s population are children, most under 12 years old.

Albanese said Australia won't repatriate its citizens with links to Islamic State. 34 Australian women & children were turned back by Syrian authorities after they left al-Roj detention camp.

To make way for the assault by our great ally.

Alice Oswald in the City of Light And a Stranger on the Train

New essay up at substack. On English poet Alice Oswald giving a lecture in Paris. And other stuff too.

#poetry #literature #lecture #review #paris #essay

James Butler · ‘Need a lord on the board?’: Mandelson and the Lobbyists Why​ did a man whose political expertise was acquired in the departed era of broadcast television maintain such...

‘Need a lord on the board?’

Great article on that pimple Mandelson, one of legion pustules popped out of the Epstein file.

As a coda, read this about Mandelson's contribution to the campaign to destroy Australian Labor's proposed mining super profits tax. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

They’re clearly practising for next weekend bless em. But yeah let’s see if a bit of fun during a festival of defiant political subversion, can survive in the contemporary penal colony.

Kenyan authorities used Israeli tech to crack activist’s phone, report claims Citizen Lab report suggests Cellebrite software was used to break into Boniface Mwangi’s phone while he was under arrest

Israeli technology Cellebite used to hack an activist’s phone. Like Israel's Pegasus was used to track SA journalist Kashoggi before his murder.

How many state and federal police forces have purchased these technologies, and are these corporate deals behind continuing support of Israel?

Melvin Edwards, Echo Delay Reverb, and the Cops Who Just Won’t Stop. PALAIS DE TOKYO, PARIS 22/10/2025 – 15/2/2026

New essay up at brand new substack. Published five days ago, and just tweaked. Please enjoy!

"Melvin Edwards, Echo Delay Reverb, and the Cops Who Just Won’t Stop."
Paris, January 2026.

I don’t think it will stop them. Their body cameras haven’t stopped them even when they are switched on.

NSW is a police state. Has been for some time. international events like the Olympics and the Pope’s visit were used to increase their powers. Sniffer dogs introduced by Carr’s Labor gov over 25 years ago. Scipione got his wage raised above the Premier’s. Drones over Moree. No surprises here alas.

Nobody’s looking at us honey. Nobody cares but us.

They will be charged, sued and will lose the case. But not their jobs. And us NSW taxpayers will foot the bill, as we do for millions every year in successful cases against police brutality.

Yep. Just a little surprising it was a white guy in a business shirt.

Here’s the footage. Multiple punches on a man with his arms up.

Another assault case against #nswpolice, paid for by us?

Meanwhile, the man who should be arrested for inciting genocide is dining on canapés with our PM.

All this under a democratically elected leftist government.

Police use pepper spray at Sydney rally against Isaac Herzog visit, with MP alleging officers threw punches Grace Tame and Lidia Thorpe address crowds in Sydney and Melbourne as NSW Labor backbencher says police reaction ‘totally over-the-top’

Why does this article say « police allegedly threw punches » when footage of them actually, graphically doing so has been circulating for hours already?

Beautiful story amidst the rolling disasters on our feed

What??

I know the one. It’s called Destroy Capitalism.

AND when will we legislate time limits on properties being left empty, and in disrepair? 10s of 1000s in Sydney alone.

The focus on supply is neither honest nor efficient. It’s a gift to the building industry first. And developers.

There are more homeless in Sydney than in Paris & Rome.