Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided 12549219
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialTorsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Conservative Party debated for a couple of hours and decided that no, they are not a serious party. Inevitably. 1319041
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialMike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Haigh pleaded guilty over a £500 issue and got a conditional discharge 13 yrs ago. Is this a new thing the right wing media are now interested in? What about people who served US jail time for fraud, made millions supplying dodgy PPE or 'carelessly, not deliberately' forgot to pay £5m in tax, etc? 59570176
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George MonbiotThere are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 461222689
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2026Trump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan" 165580312800
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 06/07/2026"I don’t know about you, but Trump’s intervention in the World Cup has ruined the game for me," writes @rbreich.bsky.social. "How can the fine athletes representing us rejoice in a victory when the president of the United States has used his political power to seek to change a referee’s call?"theguardian.comTrump’s World Cup intervention has ruined the game | Robert ReichWe try to teach our children to follow the rules. Now an American president has chosen the opposite tack 1681517446
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 16/06/2026NEW: Oil tycoon Jeffery Hildebrand gave millions to Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign. He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very little energy but release vast amounts of methane. By @alexcuadros.bsky.socialpropublica.orgTrump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit.Oil tycoon Jeffery Hildebrand gave millions to Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign. He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very... 9517711161
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialGuy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14/06/2026If this is to be Starmer’s ‘legacy’ - undermining the UK’s transition to electric vehicles - it’s one that @andyburnham.bsky.social must un-do if he becomes PM. With the Strait of Hormuz still closed, with the UK hitting record temperatures, why on earth would we go slow on net zero?! 1715458
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Immigrants & 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. 7731191093
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 09/06/2026A whole 12% of voters think Brexit has been a success. And just 25% of Leave voters. Sigh. 1041562482
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialGuy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 05/06/2026'Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds' 🤯 🐔 A trend that's fuelling ecological destruction from the Amazon (rainforests cut down to grow soy feed for chickens) to the River Wye (full of chicken shit): www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comAverage person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report findsUN report says global meat supply has risen fourfold in last 60 years and is expected to keep rising 78554
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialHillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 29/05/2026This is what Trump's done to the people's house: A third of it is rubble. Another third is a cage match. What a metaphor. 49480492549
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 11/05/2026Starmer set himself a hostage to fortune. These make or break speeches can almost never make, unless there is a genuinely surprising proposal. There wasn’t one in there- as is evidenced by fact all the Qs instantly return to leadership process questions. 5731149
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/05/2026Starmer appears to be doing exactly the same (false) equivalence between Reform and the Green Party that has previously utterly enraged people who have switched their vote from Labour to Green. Spectacularly counterproductive. 56813163
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/05/2026For two years the 'Blue Labour' tendency has told the party's core liberal voters (in the famous words of Shabana Mahmood) to "f*** right off". Now they've acted accordingly www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-ma...adambienkov.co.ukHow the Mahmood-McSweeney Strategy Handed the Local Elections to Nigel FarageFor two years the 'Blue Labour' tendency has told the party's core voters to "f*** right off". Now they've acted accordingly 24737238
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Of course no one from *checks notes* Sudan or Afghanistan could be in genuine danger. 1151402359
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals. We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader. 1252183257390
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I wonder how the Daily Mail will make this Meghan's fault. 2054144
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/01/2026And here it is. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...nytimes.comTrump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’ 93455147
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Interesting that the BBC will call National Rally "Far Right" (in an article about Bardella meeting Farage) - when they would never use that term for Reform. Their policies are very similar. If anything Reform's are more authoritarian. 311106295
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/11/2025This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comNature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry findsCommons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment 341284497
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials. I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did. 508118084466
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 22/09/2025.@SadiqKhan responds to Farage’s deportation plan “Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.” 431004231
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 22/09/2025There are 4.24m people with Indefinite Leave to Remain (or equivalent). 82% are in work, compared with 74% of Britons 3.8m are in relationships with Britons They have about 2.4m British-born children. This bullshit is never going to happen. Again. But... www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...theguardian.comReform branded ‘threat to democracy’ over Farage plan to remove thousands of migrants with leave to be in UK – politics liveNigel Farage says Reform UK would scrap the main route that migrants take to gain British citizenship 37796302
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2025This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comBottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rulesDefra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider 882393977
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/05/2025What this map shows is, as with UKIP and BXP, Reform is strongest in areas with few graduates and a lot of old people. There are enough Commons seat that look like that for them to win 100-200 seats but not win a majority. 4133192
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Their fundamental strategic error from which so much else flows was their 2024 tax pledge. They've trapped themselves for no good reason. 4155189
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/04/2025The "Mammoth" carbon capture plant in Iceland removes 36,000 tons of CO2 from the air annually. It is the only functioning plant anywhere near this size. The world produces 37.01 billion tons of CO2 per year. That's 1 million times as much. So ... no. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comClimate plan based on phasing out fossil fuels doomed to fail, says Tony BlairFormer PM claims net zero policies losing public support and says there should be greater focus on carbon capture 1416333
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...theguardian.comPhasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy – UK politics live‘Any strategy based on either phasing out fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail,’ says former PM 1021943875
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialRobert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Can someone explain to our former prime minister Tony Blair that carbon capture and storage does not effing work. It’s the shoddiest bit of crap misinformation from the fossil lobby that Tony is clearly benefiting from . . . allegedly. 2636068
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Can’t help but feel that if President Bernie Sanders pulled this move the entirety of American business would try to get him pushed out of office immediately. 1063366714407
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialAnthony Scaramucci @scaramucci.bsky.social · 03/04/2025If you were coming up with the action items to destroy American and advantage China and Russia you couldn’t have come up with a better plan for those two countries than Trump’s plan. 1929655
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 03/04/2025We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy. Third time’s the charm, I guess. 14614400210015
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 26/03/2025Let it begin. 1963330425837
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialAnthony Scaramucci @scaramucci.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Imagine what Trump would be saying if Biden crippled our superpower status and wiped $1.6 trillion off our capital markets. I don’t think he would be saying think long term. 1027035
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off. That's what blackmail looks like. That's what the world is up against. 13856221662
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialMark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Freedom and democracy are always worth fighting for. Slava Ukraini. 13065851379
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialRobert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 28/02/2025This is the most awful Trump moment to date. And as for Vance. . . 1633446
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialRobert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of Bezos' move, the WashPo was a liberal paper and its readers identified as such. It's always a bold move to sack your readers. Ordinarily I'd assume Bezos worked off the data but this feels different 1415630
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Nigel Farage & Liz Truss happy at an event too fascistic even for the political heir to the Le Pens… www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comFrench far-right leader cancels speech after accusing Bannon of 'Nazi gesture'Former top Trump adviser Steve Bannon denies making Nazi salute at CPAC and says Jordan Bardella is "unworthy to lead France". 1492492638
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 16/02/2025Zelensky on Meet the Press: “We believe that Putin will wage war against NATO. What is he waiting for? Any weakening of NATO by for instance, a policy of the United States.” 1243573
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialGavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025We all heard what Trump gave away in his call with Putin. Anyone know what he got in return? 2312127
kris-1.bsky.social @kris-1.bsky.social · 13/02/2025What’s the logic behind banning battery storage? 100
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Yet again, if these were climate protestors, there'd have been multiple arrests, with some facing years in jail for "public nuisance". But farmers can block the road and drown out the Prime Minister and the police won't touch them. The real #TwoTierPolicing 651851581
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025"Daddy says he owns you. Can you get me an ice cream?" 2250477879677
Reposted by @kris-1.bsky.socialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 10/02/2025Trump is asked on Fox whether he sees Vance as his natural successor in 2028. “No”, the President replies. 3726635
