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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 08/09/2026

Faraway Friends is here! Madeleina Kay is signing the first copies of our new children’s book, created to encourage language learning, cultural exchange and friendship across borders. Half the first print run has already sold - order your copy today, or contact us if your school would like one.

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 02/09/2026

Global warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns. Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies.

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Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This summer was the hottest on record in the UK The summer of 1976 that some folks my age keep banging on about is now only the SEVENTH hottest on record The top five hottest summers all happened since 2003 We're heating the planet by burning fossil fuels www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

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Summer 2026 provisionally hottest on record for the UK

The season’s mean temperature was made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/08/2026

Great letter in The Yorkshire Post from Peter Packham @leedseurope.bsky.social. 'The Brexit elite didn't "take back control" of our borders; they undermined our ability to manage them and incentivised criminal gangs behind the trafficking of desperate, vulnerable migrants.'

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Right now the government is putting our communities, our water security and our climate ambitions second to the demands of tech giants. It's time to slam the brakes on water-guzzling, energy hungry datacentres.

Greens call for temporary ban on new data centres

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

Cartoon image of a street with much of the space taken up by a car with a single driver, while the rest of the street has people tightly packed in a bus, a bus shelter and riding bikes in a bike lane. Adding insult to injury, the driver says “damn those bike paths and bike lanes taking all the space.”

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David Rochester @dgr70.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's super-helpful whenever Daniel says anything because it clarifies exactly what the truth is

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

BROWDER: What we should do is give Ukrainians all resources they need, and just let them finish Putin off. So far, we've drip-fed resources to them, giving enough so they couldn't lose, but not so much so they could win. We could give Ukrainians €220 billion in frozen Russian assets

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports

Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The fact that the UK govt appears structurally incapable of taking actions that are good, useful and popular, but eminently capable of taking actions that are wasteful, frivolous and harmful, serves to bolster the narrative that government is good for nothing.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

BROWDER: Russia certainly has lot more resources than Ukraine. But Ukraine has found the Achilles’ heel of Russian economy. Wherever most economic activity is, that should be target. If they’re targeting oil refineries or oil exports, that’s good.

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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Extreme Climate & Weather Events - August 2026 (Updated 20260815) www.facebook.com/share/p/14m4...

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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"Yet even now, when weather records are being broken, when climate change is demonstrably here, not in the future, we seem frozen."

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Heatwaves expose the great human gift for ignoring catastrophe

We need to stop waiting for someone else to break the spell

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Burnham: “This summer has shown beyond doubt that climate change is not a far-off prospect but with us today… I know people are deeply worried about the climate crisis… This govt will rise to the moment & build a better, fairer, greener & more resilient Britain” www.independent.co.uk/voices/andy-...

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I will send in as many troops as are needed to fight tinderbox Britain

The country is a tinderbox right now, and we must take extraordinary steps to protect ourselves, says prime minister Andy Burnham

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

50 green groups write to Andy Burnham demanding he be clear that climate change is the cause of the current extreme heat crisis. Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth and others say "the British public deserves leadership that speaks honestly about the nature of the challenges the country faces"

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Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🏘️ NEW - As we spend another day overheating in our homes, we look at the simple changes needed to the planning system to allow installation of passive cooling options (things like external blinds, awnings etc) common in many other European countries - www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p...

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Britain's cooling debate is blind to passive options

Britain is in yet another heatwave. Whilst the policy debate has revolved around air conditioning, are we missing a more sustainable fix?

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bin Day cometh.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Our Prime Minister has had a lot to say today about subscriptions. Meanwhile, huge parts of the country are in drought. We're about to enter our fifth heatwave of the year, killing more people. Are we going to get anything from the Government? Literally anything?

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/08/2026

What an unbeavable sight. 🦫 London's greatest little engineers are helping to stop floods across the capital.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Very weird to be living for weeks through what has so far been the worst UK drought since records began and for the Prime Minister to have still said absolutely nothing about it

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I believe Clacton deserves an MP who will spend their time shining a light on everything the area has to offer. And why wait till I'm elected? I've been to visit one of the constituency's most stunning landmarks.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Wow. Just wow.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.

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JoRichardsKent @jorichardskent.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The Ukrainian people really are amazing! This is both ingenious and terrifying. “It can deliver hundreds of kilogrammes of ammunition, medical supplies or food, draw a cart with more cargo or carry radio antennas that widen the operational horizon for drones”: aje.news/9hvrbw #SlavaUkraine

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‘Like the movies’: How Ukraine’s ground robots are changing rules of war

They carry ammunition, can conduct kamikaze missions and have shown they can capture enemy positions.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I understand the softly-softly-red-lines-in-our-manifesto approach but I also think it’s tediously prolonging the agony of this game of let’s-pretend-Brexit-wasn’t-a-monumental-fuck-up. The world is very different to 2016. Brexit Britain is going nowhere fast. Time to get real and say so.

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David Rochester @dgr70.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The key phrase in the article seems to be that the site is NT and "ecologically sensitive". So the NT didn't want people to bring in stones etc - fair enough. But it was going to be fine to lay a massive cable. The whole story is upside down

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Climate is a pattern, and the pattern has changed. = Climate Change

Graphic reading, “The difference between ‘There used to be hot summers too.’ and climate crisis.” Below is a temperature-anomaly chart showing mostly blue, cooler-than-average years in the earlier record, shifting dramatically toward sustained red, warmer-than-average years in recent decades. Occasional earlier red bars are labelled “These were hot summers,” while the sustained cluster of increasingly warm recent years is labelled “This is climate change.”

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

personally I think God is probably more in the 'sending the actual pope to tell you you are a sinner' camp than 'glass falls off wall'

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 10/08/2026

Western Europe recorded its hottest June-July on record, enduring the fourth heatwave since May with severe drought conditions that contributed to exceptional wildfire activity. Climate signals are becoming increasingly interconnected and increasingly difficult to ignore.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 08/08/2026

Climate denial is getting louder. Reality is getting harder to ignore. When parks are brown, rivers are shrinking and firefighters are battling blazes across the globe, governments must accelerate climate action, not slow it down.

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This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan

Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 06/08/2026

More than 27,000 people backed our Five Asks for Andy. Today, we took them directly to Downing Street. The new Prime Minister has an opportunity to build a closer relationship with Europe — and our movement will keep pushing him to seize it.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The only defense of Europe is the armed forces of Ukraine. Russian terror state is targeting Ukrainian civilians because they know that only will of Ukrainians really stands in their way, and not European leadership outside Ukraine.

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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · 29/07/2026

🎥 How to survive a heatwave - make your home a cool zone (without air conditioning) More detailed #video ▶️ youtu.be/mSSQmkH2XdM What other tips do you have!? PL RP🩷💚💙 Thank you! #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Klima #ClimateSolutions #ClimateAction #heatwave #heat

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Once in a 1000 year events happening increasingly regularly all over the world say it's time to #StopAllDrilling #ReduceFossilFuelUseToZero "1000-Year Rain Event In New York The rain falling in the #Hudson Valley has peaked near the 1-in-1000 year recurrence interval." via WFLA Jeff Berardelli

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

MOST EXTREME DAY IN EUROPEAN HISTORY Thousands of records have been shattered with the hugest margins ever seen in European history from West to East. There has never been anything like this, not even last June. Wait for many updates later.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 05/08/2026

Wednesday El Niño update - Record warmth continues in the key monitoring region called Niño 3.4, which is due to both the long-term warming of the tropics (climate change) and the developing El Niño. Over the last 7 days, there has been a steady warming across the central Pacific. Data: OISSTv2.1 🌊

Line graph time series of daily sea surface temperature anomalies in the Nino3.4 region. Years are shown from 1982 to 2025 in shades of blue to light yellow, and 2026 is shown in red. Climatologically, the largest anomalies are during the boreal winter in terms of magnitude. Data is from OISSTv2.1.

Map of August 4, 2026 average sea surface temperature anomalies in the ENSO monitoring regions. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1 with anomalies relative to a 1991-2020 baseline.

Graphic showing the 1-week change in sea surface temperature anomalies across the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean from July 28, 2026 to August 4, 2026. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1

Graphic showing the 4-week change in sea surface temperature anomalies across the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean from July 5, 2026 to August 4, 2026. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1

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David Rochester @dgr70.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My only criticism of "A City on Mars" is that it's too optimistic. It wavers in its conviction near the end. Mars is an utter hellhole and we will never live there.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

NEW How the BBC turned the litigation table on Trump The president now faces a dilemma about revealing his business records By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

And so in another splendid Order in this case, the court sided firmly with the BBC. Nothing in the litigation rules means that disclosure can be delayed. Trump’s lawyers wanted to hide behind an “expert report” at trial setting out the purported damage. But the court said the documents need to be produced now.

Trump’s representatives even contended that producing the business records would be “overbroad” even though they are claiming an astronomical amount of damage to Trump’s commercial interests. Trump and his lawyers essentially wanted it both ways: to mount a wide-ranging damages claim but with the narrowest range of produced documents to support that claim. The court said no.

As with many other things to do with Trump, this case smacks of bluster but little tactical (and still less strategic) thought. What seemed a powerful first move was not really thought through. Trump presumably assumed the BBC, like other entities he has brought suits against, would simply fold. But the BBC also said no.

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

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David Rochester @dgr70.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

There is a serious point here. How do you get someone who doesn't care about climate chaos to care about climate chaos? They will never care about ppm. So find out what they love. Whatever it is, it will be ruined by climate chaos. Football, wine, fishing, holidays, cricket, gardening. Anything

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David Rochester @dgr70.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I "love" this cartoon. It should be law for every capitalist organisation, and every Government, to have a massive version of this up in the foyer of their office

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Tyndyll @tyndyll.dev · 25/07/2026

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David Rochester @dgr70.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Show me a photo that encapsulates our response to climate chaos"

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