Portugal is smashing it - the whole country ran 95% on green electricity last month. That’s incredible, and right on our doorstep. We have everything we need to reach Energy Independence ourselves - except a government that gets it. bit.ly/3WLyB91

500,000 displaced and 147 dead in Brazil's worst climate disaster—mudslides and downpours turning towns into rivers.

Meanwhile the Italian droughts have sparked an affected beekeeper from Fondo Riparazione | Ultima Generazione to disrupt the Italian Open Tennis.

May we all be so brave.

Yet more time and money wasted - when we need both time and money to fight the climate emergency .....

REVEALED: CONFLICTS OF INTEREST OF ‘ADVISER’ PROPOSING ACTIVIST BAN

Lord Walney, Gov's 'independent' adviser, holds paid roles to further the interests of arms and oil companies, whose profits are threatened by the same groups he's proposing to ban

bit.ly/3WHbGvp

Until freelance creative careers stop being absurdly precarious, this will not change. That means media companies radically changing how they use – and pay – freelancers. We need a Freelancer Commissioner in government.

And half the nation wouldn’t care if every football stadium closed. What’s your point? Because there is such a thing as society, in fact, we accommodate each other’s enthusiasms. (Pic c/o adele geras)

Lora Johnson’s case shows why juries are so important.

When a defendant is able to explain their actions, the reasons they might do something extraordinary in the name of justice, jurors can use their conscience to determine a fair verdict.

We must: defendourjuries.org

Many thanks ALCS for a wonderful event last night. I generally feel pretty gutted about the shocking fall in author incomes .... but last night made me feel confident that there are people fighting on our side. #TheWriteShareCampaign #writingcommunity #writerslife #litfic

🚨BREAKING🚨

I am taking UK Government to Court for a fake net zero project and very grateful for Dale Vince's support

This is fossil fuel deception from two of the world’s biggest companies

(NB burning LNG is worse than coal)

READ MORE👉theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Publishers' green credentials will increasingly be one of the reasons authors go with one offer over another. 'Canongate becomes first UK trade publisher to gain B Corp Certification for positive global impact' thebookseller.com/news/canongate…

London population 9.7 million.
Mexico City 22 million.

“If it doesn’t start raining soon, as it is supposed to, these [reservoirs] will run out of water by the end of June,” Oscar Ocampo, a public policy researcher.

22 million no water, what comes next?

vox.com/24152402/mexic…

🚨 Just Stop Oil Supporters NOT GUILTY

🔥 Imogen, Red, Poppy and Max were acquitted of Wilful Obstruction of the Highway in Stratford Magistrates Court today.

🚔 They were arrested in June last year for slow marching.

✈️ This summer, airports will be sites of civil resistance.

The Happiest of Paperback publication days today to Miranda France and her jewel of a memoir, THE WRITING SCHOOL.

“It is funny, exhilarating, heart-breaking and passionate. Its delicate pulsing themes are held like a bird in the writer’s confident, gentle hand’ Katharine Norbury

It is now 3 months since ET ruled that Alice Jolly and I are and always have been employees of University of Oxford. Still no acknowledgement from anyone at the university, or of its widespread use of sham contracts. Oxford UCU Anti-Casualisation Network Oxford Continuing Education #HigherEd Times Higher Education Law for Change

‘May the Tigris Grieve for You’ by Emilienne Malfatto translated from the French by Lorna Scott Fox is a lyrical and condensed tour de force. Both intimate and epic, it is both intensely painful and v beautiful. #litfic LesFugitives Republic of Consciousness Prize

'[M]any of the most knowledgeable people on the planet expect climate havoc to unfold in the coming decades'

And what are YOU doing Crown Prosecution Service? Criminalising the courageous young people doing all they can to protect us.

#ShameOnYou

theguardian.com/environment/ar…

UK publishing revenue exceeds £7 billion for first time publishers.org.uk/publishingin20…
- but mysteriously authors aren't sharing in this bonanza.

Couldn't be prouder of the team at Canongate who've worked for 3 years to make this happen. That books are important can never be in doubt, but we can't forget publishers have an impact in many other ways too - and it's a choice as to whether that impact is positive or negative.

The big 5 publishers do the hype jig all day long

But it is the Indies doing most of the heavy lifting in finding different stories.

Please Read Indy!

Galley Beggar Press
Dead Ink Books
Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow
Jacaranda Books
Oneworld Publications
Saraband Books
Peepal Tree Press

Booksellers Association

The way senior managers have been abusing words --vacuous statements, stating support of values without putting them into action, claiming to 'consult' while acting in opposition to that consultation, misrepresenting dissent as radical etc--requires an urgent deep dive in itself.