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It's official
Climate breakdown made the 2026 UK harvest the worst on record
The 4 worst UK harvests ever have happened since 2020, leading to the loss of grain equivalent to more than a year's worth of bread supply
And it won't stop there
eciu.net/media/press-release…
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On track to breaching a threshold we should never breach
How many more devastating thresholds must we push ourselves towards before world takes decisive action
"Democrats stayed quiet on climate. Now it’s time to act" | My new commentary for @BulletinAtomic:
thebulletin.org/2026/11/demo…
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You’ve got to laugh. Here we are, supposedly the planet’s most intelligent species by a country mile & we’re destroying our only home by burning fossil fuels for profit. It beggars belief, our leaders truly are turds of epic proportions!
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I have seen this bald man on things talking a lot. Inexplicably I have never once seen anyone tell him to shut the fuck up or call him an idiot.
“They are weak and woke.”
“There is room certainly for being more woke.”
Sunday Times columnist Matthew Syed and Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee Emily Thornberry MP debate which direction the US Democratic Party should take.
#Newsnight
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A Ukrainian “patriot’s” patch collection.
Freely available for sale on a far-right Telegram channel. For years.
Illegal? Absolutely.
Police doing anything about it? Of course not. Don't be ridiculous.
Welcome to post-Maidan Ukraine, where the far right gets to play dress-up Nazis with impunity — as long as they defend Zelensky’s regime and drag working-class men off the streets to serve as cannon fodder in NATO’s proxy war.
Slava Ukraini!?
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Yes Carole that’s the plan, just don’t look, nothing to see in Gaza where tens of thousands sinking in sodden sand.
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Israel is blocking tens of thousands of tents at the Gaza border as horrific winter floods destroy Gaza tents and collapse buildings...
skwawkbox.org/2026/11/08/isr…
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Listen up, folks, it's our daily masochist command from the neoliberal priesthood. As sovereign currency-issuing nations - the sooner the Eurozone fragments the better - we must keep believing that the bond/FX markets and rating agencies are the ultimate celestial power, the Sun God that can punish us at the slightest sign of dissent and infidelity. But only because cowardly bought-off politicians allow rich private institutions to manipulate value by holding bonds tradable in secondary markets and exchanging capital across borders. Enlightenment? Knowledge? Progress? We are still the willing subjects of a deranged, masochistic cult-like belief system when, really, to escape it, all we need is a diploma, a heart-shaped clock and a medal.
Most people don’t yet grasp what is happening in France. Markets are pricing French sovereign debt as junk, rating agencies will eventually have to follow. This will have two major impacts:
1. Most French banks are already rated at or just below the sovereign, so a move toward junk would likely drag domestically focused lenders with it. Credit to households and firms would slow sharply, hurting the economy and widening the fiscal deficit even further, a vicious cycle.
2. For the ECB, the constraint is legal as well as financial. A fall below investment grade would force sales by ratings-bound investors while making any backstop harder to justify under current rules.
The next euro crisis will begin in France. The first, which began in Greece, will feel like a walk in the park compared with what comes next.
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Have a listen because this is unerringly correct. The only quibble I have is that it's not like a cult, it IS a cult, an unreal mythology imposed on the management of Western economies by Anglicised Protestantism. It deified the saver/investor and profaned the worker/debtor.
Economist @ProfSteveKeen has a provocative take on neoclassical economics: “The most dangerous cult is the one that doesn’t realize it’s a cult.”
Read more: evonomics.com/why-economists…
Full video in comments.
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If this is not headline news in our media this weekend then we will know for sure that we have no real independent media in the UK.
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See BELOW
I live in the UK
The UK HAS A RESPONSIBILITY
WHAT are you doing @andyburnham @Ed_Miliband?
What would you do if this was happening in France or Italy or anywhere where the people look like us?
DO THAT NOW
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I put a map of the "Yellow Line" on a topographic map of Gaza. It shows that Israel is pushing Palestinians into the lowest-lying parts of Gaza, ensuring that as many people as possible are flooded by cold water and sewage.
Let's be clear: This policy is intended to kill.
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“The high overshoot expected under current policies—with peak temperatures of about 3C–would thaw nearly all near-surface permafrost, make ‘severe and possibly abrupt’ disruption to ocean circulation likely, and lead to widespread acidification.” theguardian.com/science/2026…
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Thwaites is a runaway climate disaster. New studies show how. grist.org/science/thwaites-r…
A single glacier sitting at the bottom of the world may be all that is holding back catastrophic amounts of sea level rise. As it melts away faster than ever, scientists are racing to get a better understanding of when it might fail. Unfortunately, they’ve recently found more bad news.
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In a post about “a crazy way to frame” the issue …. You failed to mention the buyers are not legally allowed to live in Jericho because it’s occupied territory.
Also, you forgot to mention the people who moved in didn’t buy any property at all.
They didn’t even know they would be sent to Jericho.
They are part of a movement to ethnically cleanse 3.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank.
Don’t lecture people on crazy ways to frame stuff that you yourself frame in a “I love ethnic cleansing” way.
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This is Gaza with families in each tent, a few miles away children in Israel (an EU "preferred partner) are swimming in heated pools and getting fast food.
Welcome to the world of the UK/EU/US
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‘According to Martin Shaw … nearly every war you've heard of is a genocide.’ No, but genocide is a general danger of modern war and most genocide occurs in the context of war.
The banalisation of evil arises from the normalisation of genocidal goals, ideas and practices in states and militaries, especially those that proclaim themselves anti-genocidal—not in critics like myself specifying their genocidal characters.
על פי מרטין שו, חוקר ותיק בתחום, כמעט כל מלחמה ששמעתם עליה היא ג'נוסייד. הכוונה היא אולי לעורר את דעת הקהל אבל התוצאה היא הבנאליזציה של הרוע. כתבתי לידיעות על ספרו שתורגם כעת לעברית
ynet.co.il/yedioth/article/y…
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The UK charities sending nearly £2 million to illegal settlements.
Six British charities appear to funnel donations to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank👇
declassifieduk.org/the-uk-ch…
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German liberals: "We must take to the streets to stop the Nazis from the AfD!"
Also German liberals: "What Nazis in Ukraine? Let's send them more money and weapons!"
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Unfortunately @BenKentish can't stand being exposed as the liar he is so he's blocked me. Here's a pic of his dishonest tweet making out a woman slagging Israelis actually said "Jews".
Here's @BenKentish typically making something up & then claiming that what he made up "worries [him] most". I wish he'd worry about getting caught lying but sadly he's too used to that by now.