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

& we’re wasting time talking about more fossil fuel extraction around the British Isles. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wickedness.

Every member of Congress should be condemning Trump's words immediately. Every member of his cabinet should be invoking the 25th Amendment. If none of this happens, they are all complicit. This is the end of who we are, and history will remember who stood up and who stayed silent.

Well done PM.

This is very wrong. Please will the other parts of the US constitution step in quickly to prevent this.

Another insult for the UK from the US President. And appalling threats to Iran. Our head of state should not visit.

The real objective here should be to improve driving. So let's have lots of adverts showing the dangers of phone & screen use, & in-car warnings about them. Can speed cameras be use to catch phone use? Make it socially unacceptable to take your eyes off the road.

...and take better decisions – when we resist pressure to leap to a conclusion, and we let our thinking mature.

The destruction of infrastructure and public works is immoral.

Immoral behaviour by settlers unrestrained by the state.

‘Jesus is with us in the darkness’ says Archbishop Mullally in Easter sermon AS CHRISTIANS “shout with joy that Christ is risen”, they should “pray and call with renewed urgency for an end to the violence and destruction in the Middle East”, the Archbishop of Canterbury said in her first Easter Day sermon at Canterbury Cat...

As Christians “shout with joy that Christ is risen”, they should “pray and call with renewed urgency for an end to the violence and destruction in the Middle East”, the #ArchbishopofCanterbury said in her first #Easter Day sermon at Canterbury Cathedral.

The image includes the quotation below along with a picture of Nadia Bolz-Weber (a middle aged woman wearing glasses, a dog collar and a cross): It happens to all of us, I concluded that Easter Sunday morning, God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity and resurrecting us from the graves we dig for ourselves through violence, our lies, our selfishness, our arrogance, and our addictions. And God keeps loving us back to life over and over. Nadia Bolz-Weber

...I concluded that Easter Sunday morning, God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity and resurrecting us from the graves we dig for ourselves through violence, our lies, our selfishness, our arrogance, and our addictions. And God keeps loving us back to life over and over.

Of course we shouldn’t drill for more oil in the North Sea – we cancelled further exploitation for a reason | Bill McGuire We are at a critical point in the climate emergency and already struggling to meet emissions reduction targets. The UK government must hold its nerve, says Bill McGuire, professor emeritus of geophysical and climate hazards

Of course we shouldn’t drill for more oil in the North Sea – we cancelled further exploitation for a reason | Bill McGuire

Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime | George Monbiot Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

A similar story of ineffective regulation as with our dirty water: starve the regulator of resources and denigrate necessary control, and the result is a mess which we can't afford to clean up. Similarly, the privatisation of building control led to tragedy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It'd be too little, too late. But the government could cut duty as their VAT returns rise on higher fuel prices. Meanwhile, if you fit a home charger, get an electric car! Less than a fiver to charge the battery overnight... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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 Hundreds of licences granted for new oil and gas projects in the North Sea under the Conservatives have so far produced only 36 days’ worth of gas, according to analysis. Research by the energy consultancy Voar and the campaign group Uplift found that between 2010 and 2024, the government handed out hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas licences in seven licensing rounds. Continue reading...

Hundreds of North Sea licences granted by Conservatives have ‘so far produced only 36 days worth of gas’

Free speech needed – especially in protecting human rights. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rowing on the strait sounds a bit risky.

Surprise Solar Uptake in Pakistan Cushions Mideast Energy Shock Pakistan’s rapid adoption of solar power in the past few years is helping cushion the impact of a surge in fossil fuel prices due to the Middle East war.

Pakistan’s adoption of solar energy is helping inoculate the country against the oil-price shock, saving at least $6.3 billion this year, according to the think tank Renewables First and @creacleanair.bsky.social. By @lilipike.bsky.social & Aaron Clark for @bloomberg.com:

Israel deliberately targeting medical facilities in south Lebanon, say health workers Medics and officials say there is systematic use of double-tap strikes in campaign to make the south uninhabitable

Disgraceful. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Appalling failure of western nations to defend UNWRA. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Home Office again a disgrace – after the hostile way that for years it's treated migrants & asylum seekers, & long-established naturalised British citizens, it's now dual nationals. Do they think it's funny to allow parents but not their children to return? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

War in Iran, chaos in the Gulf, repression in the west: and the thread that binds them all is Palestine | Nesrine Malik In the Middle East, the occupation is the original sin. And those who banked on this US-backed ‘stability’ now find it giving way beneath them, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Disgraceful to cause such suffering.

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Gas is not the answer, it's the problem. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

He’s got this about right so far.

US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war

Worryingly misguided. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

For the 165 grieving mothers and families after a stray missile hit Shajareh Tayyebeh girls school last Saturday morning; one the first day of Trump’s war on Iran. (The Iran school week runs from Saturday-Thursday). Trump is no Noble Peace Prize candidate.

Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images from the site

Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide

Archbishop in Jerusalem calls on US, Israel, and Iran to ‘turn back from the precipice of a global catastrophe’ AS CONFLICT spread across the Middle East after the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the weekend, the Archbishop in Jerusalem, Dr Hosam Naoum, condemned the “cycle of violence” that was expanding “with terrifying speed”...

As conflict spread across the #MiddleEast after the killing of #Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the weekend, the Archbishop in #Jerusalem, Dr Hosam Naoum, condemned the “cycle of violence” that was expanding “with terrifying speed”