Martin Cullen

Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy

While Jared Kushner is negotiating on behalf of the United States with governments in the Middle East, he is also soliciting investments in his private business ventures from the same governments
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Incorrect. The biggest threats to our (UK) natural environment are intensive land uses such as agriculture and Commercial Forestry. Pollution is also a huge threat, with excessive Nitrogen levels a bigger threat for many UK ecosystems than CO2 or Methane, the main GHGs.

So tired of these pricks. See also: Palantir's Alex Karp.
But that's all just this week.
The club for wretched and entitled little tech boys has a vast, and increasingly abhorrent membership.

Nearly three-quarters of England’s woods inaccessible to public, study finds Exclusive: Campaigners call for government to introduce right-to-roam bill that allows people to walk around their local woodlands

REVEALED: Nearly three-quarters of England's woods are inaccessible to the public, according to official stats

@righttoroam.bsky.social local groups are organising upcoming trespasses to woods to show how pheasant shoots & private logging firms prevent access:

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Nearly three-quarters of England’s woods inaccessible to public, study finds Exclusive: Campaigners call for government to introduce right-to-roam bill that allows people to walk around their local woodlands

Nearly three-quarters of England’s woods inaccessible to public, study finds

- Campaigners call for government to introduce right-to-roam bill that allows people to walk around their local woodlands

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Why China could emerge a winner from Trump’s global energy shock Spiking oil prices may reveal how China has been more successful in electrifying its economy and reducing dependence on fossil fuels than the United States.

Wind power, as it turns out, is very useful

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So long, hereditary peers – but the Lords is still full of absurd anachronisms | Polly Toynbee Two-thirds of voters want an elected second chamber. The government needs a radical legacy: it should use its rare majority for this, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

You couldn’t make this up - one peer claimed his crusader ancestry would be helpful in Israel/Gaza context!! 🤦‍♀️ I say begone to all the hereditaries - and now, on to the Bishops, political chancers and corrupt donors in there. More reforms necessary . www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BBC Radio 4 - Rare Earth, Lakes, Lochs and Loughs Plunge into the chilly, much-disputed waters of the lakes of the British Isles.

AMR is one of the biggest public health threats of our time. I found genes capable of creating antibiotic-resistant superbugs in every water sample I tested from Lough Neagh and talk about this on BBC Rare Earth today. Full report in the Guardian tomorrow www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

March 12, 2026 In Ohio today, Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy launched a $10 million TV and digital ad campaign to run until Election Day.

March 12, 2026

Monochrome photograph featuring a crowd of woman sitting on grass a woman near the front holds a placard with writing 'Eve was framed'

Women's liberation protest sign, New York, August 26, 1970. Tens of thousands of women marched along Fifth Avenue to Bryant Park to demand equal opportunity in employment and society #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

This is the company the UK government has embedded in the nation’s services. Seriously, fuck everyone who is excusing this.

BBC World Service funding freeze risks ‘opening door to hostile states’, MPs say Cross-party committee says service is ‘jewel in crown of UK’s soft power’ but is diminished by poor governance

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Stop eating the taco. 🌮

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one.
My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
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Kemi Badenoch's spokesman denies she is ashamed of British animals, after the Conservative party call the Bank of England's decision to put British wildlife on our banknotes "deeply depressing"

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Awks for Tories & Reform who want to keep us hooked on fossil fuels: new @theCCCuk report shows transition to net zero will cost less than a single oil shock - £4bn a year - as well as delivering health & security benefits

Communities must be given the right to own environmental assets like rivers, woods & peat bogs

Thanks to @jenny4suffcoast.bsky.social & other MPs for writing this letter to Ministers, urging them to amend Community Right to Buy rules whilst there's still time:
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Monochrome photograph featuring a group of women in saris each individually hugging a tree in a forest.

Chipko movement ("to hug" in Hindi) non-violent women-led, forest conservation movement, 1970s, of India (Uttarakhand). Participants hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down, successfully preventing massive deforestation. Where "tree huggers' originated #WomensHistoryMonth

‘It’s good business’: how London became an ‘energy from waste’ capital Expansion will turn Thames-side facility into Europe’s biggest but critics say it will discourage recycling and cause air pollution

By this summer, London will have the biggest "energy from waste" site in Europe, the FT reports.

The story cites a 2020 Unearthed investigation, which found that these incinerators tend to disproportionately affect deprived communities.

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Farage U-turns again on Iran war as Reform’s policy descends into ‘chaos’

No principles, no morality, no information, no expertise, just endlessly appeasing Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and assorted billionaires and foreign oligarchs or chasing the next headline, until suddenly colliding with reality. Bang, oof.
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After the original Verge story on Grammarly using writers’ identities without consent, I thought that we should make a site about teaching consent, where we use Superhuman (who owns Grammarly) execs as examples of people who don’t understand consent. They could be shown as child predators.

Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty This week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our…

Labour's core voters, on which its re-election entirely depends, are crystal clear about this: they absolutely hate its illiberal, intolerant, draconian, rightwards turn. Hence the total collapse in support. So how does the government respond? #SuicideMission🤦‍♂️
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It’s not just that little can be done by this autumn. Little can be done this side of 2030 and it’s highly probably little can be done, full stop, given the maturity of the N Sea basin. This much shared Carbon Brief graph says it all.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! Here’s a thread on some of the extraordinary women in my book, #GhostsoftheFarm: Farmers, Horse Breeders, Community Leaders & Change Makers, who had been all but forgotten. Their mid-life (& beyond) energy, humility & humour was an inspiration in itself… 1/21

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

Meanwhile, Irish agriculture system entirely incapable of meeting fundamental food needs of our population, with its export-based model predicated on massive fertiliser, animal feed imports.

We are shockingly vulnerable yet nobody is even talking about it.

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Senators demand investigation after ninth American killed by Israeli settlers or soldiers in West Bank Lawmakers cite ‘consistent pattern’ in which Americans are being killed ‘without justice or accountability’

At least 9 American citizens have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank since 2022. The most recent victim is Philadelphia native Nasrallah Abu Siyam, killed on 18 Feb

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You star!

UK must double down on renewables as wars drive up energy costs, experts say Fossil fuel price surge after US-Israeli attacks on Iran prompts calls to end dependence on ‘volatile’ energy source

Again and again: renewables are the best solution for people's pockets, for the UK's security and for the planet.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/05/uk-clean-energy-iran-war-fossil-fuel-prices-surge

friends! I have a question, for secret reasons:

if I were looking for a venue in zone 1/central zone 2 London, ideally a pub, with a room that could hold, say, between 80 and 100 people, probably sitting, and had maybe some form of stage, where might I start my search?

thanking you kindly!

Greens deputy leader calls for apology from Starmer over false claims that led to death threats Mothin Ali fears for his life after anti-war protest was wrongly described as being in support of Iranian regime

When the Prime Minister spreads lies about people - there are consequences.

He's made some outrageous smears. It's debasing our politics.

Anything to try to quieten dissent about the US and Israel starting an illegal war.

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