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UK. Paddler, walker, the future should be better but will it? “Men argue. Nature acts.” –Voltaire

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garethcarson.bsky.social @garethcarson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Climate change contributing to permafrost thawing and glacial thinning
The catastrophic rock and ice collapse on the northern Nepalese border was influenced by a range of climatic and geological factors, most of which are worsened by the impacts of climate change.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21/09/2026
The correct answer to hate ♥️
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr... Tice serving up his usual lying bullshit - he's known about the Bill since Feb of this year and specifically about the retroactive element since it was accepted as an amendment by the gov't in July - a full 2 months ago.
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Tice says government trying to 'retrospectively change rules' as Reform receives £72m in donations
Reform UK announced two £36m donations this weekend, as a bill that could change the rules passes through Parliament. It's being debated again in the Lords later.
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.
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garethcarson.bsky.social @garethcarson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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World's oceans hit highest temperature on record as El Niño grows
The record "is another clear signal of an ocean under growing stress", according to Dr Samantha Burgess from the European Copernicus climate change service.
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garethcarson.bsky.social @garethcarson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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This is not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly
Global heating is an outrage, not a tragedy. We deserve the facts about the climate crisis – I choose the Guardian because it’s one of the few places left to share them honestly
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
UK economy grew by 0.4% in last quarter. Is it trickling down? 1975: workers share of gross value added, 71.9%; now 59.3% Average real wage stagnant since 2008. 25.3m live below minimum income standard. Healthy life expectancy falling. Richest 1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined.
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UK economy grows between April and June but experts warn of challenges in coming months
The UK economy grew by 0.4% with some firms reporting hot weather and sports helped growth in June.
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“There is a magnificent initiative called the #NationalEmergencyBriefing - a UK initiative focused on delivering an unfiltered evidence-led expert assessment of the climate and nature crisis” Thank you @mrjamesob.bsky.social Screenings across the UK, and beyond: www.nebriefing.org/screening-map
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"Any plan for growth that does not put climate first... can only undermine the future it claims to protect" Ex-government chief scientific advisor Sir David King on how the "shattering" heatwaves are but a foretaste of what's to come if we don't meet net zero www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Europe heatwave live: Temperatures of 40C expected in Spain; rare warning for ‘extreme heat’ expanded across England
A former UK government scientific adviser warned amid the ‘shattering’ heat that worse is still to come
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 13/08/2026
Temperatures have now provisionally exceeded 37°C 🌡️ Before 2026, the UK had recorded 37°C or higher on only six occasions. This year alone, we've already reached that mark three times.
A table of top temperatures so far. The highest currently at 37.6°C at Charlwood.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
What will you tell the next generation? That we watched the Amazon and Congo Basin burn because timber was profitable? We are custodians. Let's prove it.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It just keeps on coming… Farage struck deal to return as leader long before Sunak called surprise 2024 vote, so his claim that he wasn’t involved in politics when he got his £5million “gift” is, of course, another grubby lie. The man is garbage. Grifting, lying, cheating garbage. (Sunday Times)
Farage struck deal to return as leader long before election
Reform chief had insisted he was not involved in politics until Sunak called surprise 2024 vote

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Nigel Farage struck a secret deal to return as Reform UK leader months before the general election.
Farage negotiated the pact with Richard Tice, then the leader, in March and April 2024. George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who had been secretly bankrolling Farage, supervised the discussions.
Under the terms of the deal, Reform agreed to repay or write off more than £1 million in outstand ing loans it had taken from Tice's company upon Farage becoming leader.
The deal was first presented by Farage and Cottrell to the party's treasurer in mid-May. Its existence undermines the Reform leader's claim that he had no intention until June 2024 of returning to politics. Farage has used this to defend his failure to declare
donations made to him in the year before he was elected as an MP, which triggered two parliamentary investigations.
Last night, Reform sources
acknowledged the existence of the deal but insisted it had been drafted for if, not when, Farage became leader. Asked why he would have signed such an agreement if he had no intention of returning as leader, they said it kept his options open. They said Farage had assumed he would focus his energies on campaigning for Donald Trump in that year's US presidential election.
Farage has claimed repeatedly that he did not need to declare a £5 million gift from the crypto--billionaire Christopher Harborne or in-kind benefits from Cottrell, as he was a media personality at the time. MPs must declare any benefit in any way connected to their
"political activities" received in the 12 months before their election.
He told the "anti-woke" Trigger-nometry podcast last month: "At that period of my life, from 2021 to the third of June 2024, I was a broadcaster… I was somebody that promoted financial market products, I was an influencer, I wasn't in politics."
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops. Food insecurity and higher prices would follow. Poor hit the hardest. Despite warnings, no plan for water shortages. Need reservoirs, water storage, better water management. Companies can't do national planning.
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‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops
Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 28/07/2026
Here's Nick Bridge – the UK's former special representative on climate change under last Tory govt – on Channel 4 News citing @carbonbrief.org analysis about the extreme and relentless anti-climate action campaigning by some UK newspapers "Some of the media is shocking on this..."
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 28/07/2026
Channel 4 News also has this... “On this episode of The Fourcast, Matt Frei is joined by environmentalist @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, @proflizbentley.bsky.social from the Royal Meteorological Society and Fiona Macklin, Head of Climate at Apolitical.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQat...
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Europe is BURNING - why are politicians not acting?
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The correlation between science denial, racism, and far rightedness is almost a straight collinear line.
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garethcarson.bsky.social @garethcarson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
www.jameslovelock.org/the-earth-is...
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The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000 years – James Lovelock
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garethcarson.bsky.social @garethcarson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“River levels approach all-time low as drought announcement looms” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Disruption to the biosphere, deoxygenation and acidification of water. All caused by mass release of CO2 leading to extinctions shown in geological record. Happening now.
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Drought announcement looms for parts of Wales over river levels
An announcement is expected from NRW as some river levels are reported to be nearing all-time lows.
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Windhorse @windhorse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Snagged this from FB. This may make some people uncomfortable but I think it highlights just how far we've come from what's natural, from our relationship to the Earth that sustains us and our beautiful relatives we share it with.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
No biggie. Just another slow, predictable mega catastrophe coming right at humanity that mainstream news and elected officials have decided to downplay/ignore. www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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El Niño is here, and it’s already looking like it could be 'mind-blowing' | CBC News
Temperatures in the El Niño region in the Pacific Ocean are the warmest they've been on record at this time of year. And the peak is still months away.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Canada is burning.Norway is breaking heat records.This isn’t a natural disaster;it’s a policy failure. While boreal forests turn to ash, policymakers continue to hand out billions in fossil fuel subsidies. We aren't just witnessing a tipping point,we are witnessing state-sanctioned climate collapse.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity and happiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The refusal by corrupt politicians to ditch all fossil fuels means the coming years will be much worse ... "We are witnessing something beyond any imagination with 220+ countries/territories (>95% of the total) smashing records with insane margins WORLD RECORD can fall next days ..."
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Disposable barbecues and fireworks are on my ban list 6/
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Pathetic": I told the Guardian what I think about the Starmer government's plan for nature It's more of the failed politics of the past 40yrs: failing to take public control of the nature crisis & contracting it out to private landowners. Burnham must do better www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Plan to restore nature in England by 2030 criticised as ‘completely insufficient’
Critics accuse ministers of failing to take control of nature crisis and leaving it to private landowners to act voluntarily
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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Ich bin ein binliner!
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garethcarson.bsky.social @garethcarson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What is the right wing fascination with guns. The UK is a lot safer with its current ban on weapons. “Restore Britain leader describes Dunblane tragedy as 'one murder'”https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3gdj300lyo
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Restore Britain leader describes Dunblane tragedy as 'one murder'
Rupert Lowe criticised the ban of handguns in the UK, saying it was "because there was a murder in Dunblane".
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 07/07/2026
Farage is trying to reset the narrative. The problem is a by election win is no guarantee of that, indeed it could make Qs around his finances more acute. This move is born of wider (and worsening) political weaknesses, dressed as strength. New piece from me open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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Farage resigns as an MP. Can he control what happens next?
What is he up to?
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garethcarson.bsky.social @garethcarson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn... Libdems, Labour and Greens don’t split the vote!
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Nigel Farage resigns as MP for Clacton, triggering by-election which he says he will stand in
The Reform UK leader's statement follows reports he failed to declare financial support from an ally. He has also faced questions over an unregistered £5m gift from a donor.
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Lea Zengage @leazengage.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information."
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is calamitously stupid and short-sighted. And note the coverage: ‘a blow to Ed Miliband’. No: it’s a blow to our children and grandchildren, and in the medium term, the death-knell for a competitive UK car industry.
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Michael Warhurst @mwarhurst.eurosky.social · 14/06/2026
Great news for the Chinese car industry!
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garethcarson.bsky.social @garethcarson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Well done Belfast! “Thousands gather for anti-racism rally in Belfast after disorder” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Belfast protest: Thousands gather for anti-racism rally
Protesters gathered at Belfast City Hall for a demonstration against racism, after the past week of violence and disorder.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
History shows us there are 2 options when faced with a rising far right. 1. Deal with it quickly and decisively. 2. Let it win. The great majority reject it. But it doesn't need majority support: just enough thugs to intimidate everyone else. Weakness and indecision by government let it rise.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.
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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Palantir's co-founder claimed "the NHS makes people sick" Yet this US tech giant now runs the NHS data platform. There are serious concerns about its access to patient data and human rights record. The Government should use the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Tory legacy England social housing lists would take 119 years to clear at current building rate. 1.3m households waiting, 12198 built. Govts prevented councils from building social homes to support private developers, push people into private renting. Tory social engineering created homelessness
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Social housing lists ‘would take 119 years to clear at current building rate’
Research shows generations of children in England will grow up homeless unless government addresses council housing debt, charity says
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We're losing 10M hectares of forest yearly. That's 27 soccer fields per minute. Air pollution kills 7M people/year. More than COVID at its peak. 1M species face extinction. We're in the 6th mass extinction event. Like, comment and repost let's accelerate climate education.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is exactly what we have been warning about. But oh no, anyone who objects to the changes is a selfish, privileged nimby, a zealot, a blocker, an elitist. Let's trash the lives of England's poorest communities, and smear anyone who complains. Thanks Keir. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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England’s poorest areas face deepest cuts to green space under planning law changes, report finds
Exclusive: New loopholes for developers will exacerbate extreme disparities across country, charity coalition warns
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/06/2026
‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
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‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions Humanity can raise living standards, reduce inequality and keep global heating within a 2C rise, according to a sweeping vision for planetary survival. The new report by the World Inequality Lab (WIL) aims to be the most comprehensive attempt yet to navigate the polycrisis that is pushing the world toward climate breakdown, political extremism and ever greater economic and social tension. Continue reading...
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Opda @opda.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Fossil Fuel Industries should be paying reparations to the entire world for the lies they've spouted for half a century. Every single cent of income that is made should be funneled to natural disaster relied and clean energy, along with atmospheric carbon recapturing
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Two out of the (only) three White-tailed Eagles fledged in England in 2025 have since 'disappeared in suspicious circumstances', i.e. people killed them within months. Read this, and see how much effort those people go to, to kill them. We all know who & why. Two out of three. Within months.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
We call ourselves "intelligent," yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy, and a wetland can purify water—all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
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Andy Wood @andyatnanyuki.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Tony Blair’s endorsement of Trump, AI and climate deniers makes me think he has learned nothing from his lifetime in politics. It stinks, frankly.
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Arvindjadwa @arvindjadwa.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Nearly 2 billion people live in the red area. It is becoming completely uninhabitable. What do the climate deniers, who also hate immigration, think is going to happen?
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garethcarson.bsky.social @garethcarson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Not surprised given the increase of right wing politicians who have a record of racism, homophobia and negative references to welfare claims based on disability. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Anti-bullying cuts linked to 'shocking' rise in school exclusions
Education experts and charities are calling for a national anti-bullying strategy in schools.
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