Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them.
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Truly wild that the Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express & Daily Telegraph all covered false claims that net-zero will "cost" £7.6bn – or even £9tn – which assumes we could have free gas, free petrol, free petrol cars & free gas power plants if we scrapped net-zero

More here: bsky.app/profile/drsi...

Awful to see this plastic pollution at Rye Harbour. Devastating.

Why the news no longer tells the truth YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

Why the news no longer tells the truth youtu.be/QHcNHG_iVPQ?...

3 tips to make your world beautifully wild When conservationists talk about rewilding, most people picture wolves and bison roaming endless landscapes — but Isabella Tree discovered the real revolution is happening in ordinary backyards. She s...

Do watch this TED talk from Issy Tree. Pure inspiration for rewilding!

www.ted.com/talks/isabel...

This what we’re up against. Our essential natural world (and us who wish to defend it) portrayed as traitors and blockers.

Oh MHCLG you’ve got this so wrong.

I’ll say it again NATURE IS NOT THE REASON FOR THE HOUSING CRISIS - fix what’s really wrong and stop blaming wildlife for your failures.

A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are being sold a false story that nature is the enemy. That newts, bats, snails and spiders are somehow responsible for the so-called housing crisis and a blocker to economic growth. This is a deliberate lie - using a cynically chosen group of species that could be found in a witches cauldron.

Cross-government planning proposals threaten nature and must be fixed This post is by Richard Benwell, chief executive of Wildlife and Countryside Link The planning system must be improved for nature. When development damages protected wildlife, developers shouldn’t …

"We can’t say it strongly enough: for planning reform to succeed for both people and nature, this newt-bashing, snail-baiting, spider-hating scapegoating must stop."

@richardbenwell.bsky.social, chief exec @wclnews.bsky.social, outlines what's needed to create balance between nature and planning:

Agree. Maybe we should push Craig Bennet, the Trust’s CEO, he’s pretty good at pushing campaigns.

Britain’s property addiction: how politics has built a broken market YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

Britain’s property addiction: how politics has built a broken market youtu.be/PvkHfM9tsQg?...

Maybe not enough of a campaign, but this is one example. sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/first-i.... But agree. There’s not enough outrage.

Nigel Farage’s declaration of war on teachers is a war on compassion, empathy and kindness According to The Guardian, Nigel Farage, speaking at an event at a private Christian college in Michigan, USA, has accused teachers in the UK of “poisoning our kids” and predicted that they would go o...

Farage is saying all teachers are Marxists. They're not. They just teach that we should care for one another. But that offends his fascist instincts. The result is he is turning on a profession that teaches about compassion and empathy - because he loathes it. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up? We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just seen the latest work from the Doughnut Economic Lab highlighting the huge inequalities between the richest and poorest nations and the accelerating planetary metacrisis we are in.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🤬 Conservatives pledge to scrap the world leading Climate Change Act.

😰 Nature is bearing the brunt of climate impact, leading to ecosystem breakdown.

🌱 Nature recovery is a solution to climate breakdown (alongside renewables of course).

❓What are they thinking?

Very well put Tony

The #ClimateCrisis is obviously a huge threat to people, our economy, our security, our food production and our water supply...

And also one of the greatest threats to #nature

Any party that seeks to deny or dismiss climate science, is not fit for Govt

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

What have #beavers ever done for us? Ecologist Matt Phelps at @kneppwilding.bsky.social

... but she has left in her wake generations who have been encouraged by her spirit and are determined to realise her vision for the natural world."

#JaneGoodall

📷Jane Goodall Institute

The BBC website brilliantly displays politics ability to ignore the long term, in this case on climate change, to make decisions that are self immolating in the name of apparent short term interest

The power elite has drawn up the drawbridge Something quite extraordinary happened yesterday. A state visit took place, with all the associated pomp and ceremony, and no one was allowed to witness it, or to wave the required flags, or to cheer,...

The power elite has drawn up the drawbridge www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09... Wealth and power hid from view in a castle yesterday, too frightened to be seen by the population at large. Any society where those in charge realise that has to happen cannot last for long.

From my Tyndall talk: Structurally locked-in emissions dominate discourse; discretionary emissions – especially from the middle and upper classes – are ignored. Even now, questioning these lifestyles remains taboo, despite their hugely disproportionate impact and capacity for rapid change.

Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’ Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found. Epidemiologists and climate scientists attributed 16,500 out of 24,400 heat deaths from June to August to the extra hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases. Continue reading...

Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’

Has Labour really noticed? Acknowledging racism is one thing, but delivering freedom from fear is essential as well The weekend's far-right march in London appears to have been pivotal in waking opinion on the danger the far right poses in the UK, and the reality of what they are doing. Let me offer this quotation...

Has Labour really noticed? Acknowledging racism is one thing, but delivering freedom from fear is essential as well www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...

Guest blog - Taking a stand for marine protection by
@chriscorrigan3.bsky.social
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@sussexwildlife.bsky.social challenges Marine Management Organisation on behalf of sea-horses, oysters, mussels & kelp.

Good!

#Brighton @leigh-day.bsky.social @wclnews.bsky.social

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.

Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.

That, right there, is the problem.

Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The UK’s year of climate U-turns exposes a deeper failure Breaking free of the dangerous pretence that current efforts suffice demands a fundamental rethink of the UK’s climate policy consensus.

"The UK’s net zero 2050 framing isn’t just delaying urgent action, it normalises ecological breakdown while maintaining the illusion of responsible stewardship."
Read this insightful and timely piece by @kevinclimate.bsky.social, Dr Chris Jones, Dr Gaurav Gharde.
theconversation.com/the-uks-year...