Rupert Read

Favouring the overdog: An explanation of how Trump is evil… DIRECT This Short explains the brutal way in which the far-Right enjoys lording it over underdogs. It sets out how in response we need to be exceptional, and how we need to be the people who are ready to…

1/2 This Short explains the brutal way in which the far-Right >enjoys< lording it over underdogs.

www.youtube.com/shorts/SZedG...

WATCH. You’ve never seen anything like this:

Select tickets – We need a plan B: Engaging with the realities of catastrophic climate risk – Zoom We need a plan B: Engaging with the realities of catastrophic climate risk – Zoom, Tue 10 Mar 2026 - The UK faces escalating climate and ecological risks. We may not know exactly when and where they w...

A new film about societal breakdown is generating discussion - and BBC coverage referencing our work: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Time to start discussing a Plan B for society if business-as-usual proves too risky.

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Protecting (and restoring) peatlands is a powerful climate solution.

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Remember Earth’s energy imbalance has tripled in two decades.

Pretty much everything else is noise.

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New blog: "Most revealing of all is the report’s own estimate that nature-loss could cost roughly 12% of UK GDP by 2030."

I've written about the latest details emerging from the suppressed National Security Assessment.

rupertread.net/blog/2026/th...

You Told Us To Talk About The Weather - Climate Short YouTube video by Talk About The Weather

That is ... powerful.

Brilliant - and here www.youtube.com/watch?v=pozD...

Labour urged to listen to progressive voters or face ‘political earthquake’ in London Exclusive: Senior party figures share data suggesting Green surge could put Labour in fourth place in capital in May

Labour urged to listen to progressive voters or face ‘political earthquake’ in London

Senior party figures share data suggesting Green surge could put Labour in fourth place in capital in May

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

2/2 It sets out how in response we need to be exceptional, and how we need to be the people who are ready in fact to rule (which is what democracy >means<), to step into our true power; on pain of otherwise ceding our humanity, and ceding the world to this abhorrent far-Right.

Favouring the overdog: An explanation of how Trump is evil… DIRECT This Short explains the brutal way in which the far-Right enjoys lording it over underdogs. It sets out how in response we need to be exceptional, and how we need to be the people who are ready to…

1/2 This Short explains the brutal way in which the far-Right >enjoys< lording it over underdogs.

www.youtube.com/shorts/SZedG...

Forest-Risk Commodities - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'Forest-Risk Commodities' on Monday 2 March 2026.

Baroness Sheehan raised a stark warning from the repressed national security assessment: nature loss could leave UK GDP 12% lower by 2030.

Read the exchange:
hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2026-0...

How UK cuts to climate finance could bankrupt ecosystems at home – and abroad In this week’s newsletter: From nature projects to biodiversity funds, key programmes will suffer as the UK aims to lower its international climate finance commitments by billions

"...the UK government’s response has been to first suppress the report and then, rather than increase protection for ecosystems, make drastic cuts to the budgets..."

This week's Guardian newsletter focusses on the suppressed National Security Assessment 👇

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Michael Sheen narrates new climate change film shot in Norfolk It is hoped the five-minute short will stimulate "honest and sensitive" debate in schools.

NEW: "Environmental campaign group the Climate Majority Project, hopes the five-minute film will help pupils and teachers speak "honestly and sensitively" about the issue."

Have you seen our amazing and moving new short film, narrated by Michael Sheen?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I hear you. But tbh is still take a load more large donations - the task is simply not to be corrupted.

Select tickets – We need a plan B: Engaging with the realities of catastrophic climate risk – Zoom We need a plan B: Engaging with the realities of catastrophic climate risk – Zoom, Tue 10 Mar 2026 - The UK faces escalating climate and ecological risks. We may not know exactly when and where they…

Join me, Theo Cox and Liam Kavanagh online for the launch of a bold new report, We Need A Plan B.

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Let’s even this up, people!

Select tickets – We need a plan B: Engaging with the realities of catastrophic climate risk – Zoom We need a plan B: Engaging with the realities of catastrophic climate risk – Zoom, Tue 10 Mar 2026 - The UK faces escalating climate and ecological risks. We may not know exactly when and where they…

Join me, Theo Cox and Liam Kavanagh online for the launch of a bold new report, We Need A Plan B.

✳️ Tue 10 Mar 2026, 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM GMT.
✳️ Register now: www.tickettailor.com/events/clima...

Favouring the overdog: An explanation of how Trump is evil… DIRECT This Short explains the brutal way in which the far-Right enjoys lording it over underdogs. It sets out how in response we need to be exceptional, and how we need to be the people who are ready to…

NEW: "Tragically, we now appear to be in a new era of might-based societies."

My latest short explains the brutal way in which the far-Right enjoys lording it over underdogs and what WE need to do in response. Watch now.

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I got the 20mph rollout in the city of Norwich done, 15 years ago. There was literally no resistance.

Is this bad? It seems bad.

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Reform are in denial about why they lost by 12% in Gorton & Denton (60% white, 80% UK-born) after losing by 11% in Caerphilly (98% white, 98% UK-born) to Plaid Cyrmu

Both seats unusual in seeing more people vote than at last Welsh Senedd/last GE: more voters turned out to stop Reform than supoort

We uncovered the redacted climate report the government didn’t want you to see ITV News has seen a classified government intelligence report which appears to show some of the most worrying potential impacts of our loss of nature weren't disclosed to the public. In January,…

This revelatory news report by ITV (well done them), revealing what is in the FULL (still officially suppressed) intelligence services’ national security assessment on “Ecosystem collapse and national security” (actual title!), is an epochal shift.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=59DZ...

I also take a bit of hope from the birth of Prosper: as the Conservatives come to understand that they can’t outcompete Reform, they may abandon Badenoch’s disastrous strategy and return towards climate-sanity as part of a new old Toryism.

Strangled by the Duopoly John Hare and Rupert Read’s new report argues that any discussion of party funding that does not examine the wider crisis of UK democracy – including questions of electoral system, participation-rates...

On overcoming the duopoly, see eg this: www.greenhousethinktank.org/strangled-by...
14 years old but still relevant.

Depolarisation and adaptation create serious change together Adaptation is a chance to gather almost everybody around the table. The hard facts can be laid out on that table for all to see and, around it, the possibility of a future can be negotiated. Please le...

On depolarisation and climate, see eg www.resilience.org/stories/2025...