There is a monster leak of Arctic air heading towards the whole of North America. Many places will experience -20C. These leaks are becoming more frequent as the jet stream weakens. This is a new climate. The stability of the Holocene is over.

Superb distillation of the crimes and catastrophes of our colonial history and present by William Dalrymple

Please spend 10 mins watching this. All the way through, please. Please share as widely as you can. Please keep it in a place where you can find it, in the months to come.

“But the ban is too narrow in its scope. It won’t cover single-use plastic water bottles, makes no mention of plastic bags and does not even try to control the burning of plastic waste in incinerators.”| John Vidal theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

‘ A historical imagination equips you to understand that change is ceaseless.” ⁦Rebecca Solnit⁩ excellent. No single story/solution. Cathedral thinking. And above all FOLLOW THE MONEY for the most important area of personal/public climate action theguardian.com/news/2023/jan/…

Exceptionally important act of historical and architectural redemption - the Residency where the story of Khair Un-Nissa and James Kirkpatrick - and their two children, before they were sent to England - was lived out, as gloriously detailed in White Mughals by William Dalrymple

Enjoy this moment! I am greatly looking forward to reading… Caspar Henderson

Thank you so much Lucinda Williams ie Lucinda Williams, for a moving, astounding concert Barbican Centre . Your elegies and celebrations are peerlessly beautiful, conjured from a handful of chords, a perfection of words, and a voice that don’t tell no pretty lies. Here’s to you -

Oh barf. Butter? Hearts of hydrogenated saturated full fat sycophancy …

🍾🥂⭐️to Three Sisters Productions and all involved in the fantastic, delicious Ripe 🍅

The anonymous Mattress Artist of E5 at work again. Unsigned!

Hey The Wall Street Journal, fixed it for you.

This is a brilliant collection, the writing is audacious, poetic, passionate, moving…

It gives me vast pleasure to find myself nickdrake taking my rightful place between two geniuses... oh, hang on... mojo4music.com/magazine/lates…

the idea of a carbon footprint calculator was invented by British Petroleum not to encourage conservation, but to focus consumers' attention on their own emissions and distract their attention from the incomparably greater emissions of the industry itself. salon.com/2023/05/13/how…

Superb drawing together of truths and realities by ROB COWEN

Fantastic news. Many congrats

📼 We're recording Nick Drake's long-form poem A Farewell Glacier in Glasgow, Manchester & London 🧊 First performed at COP 26 last year by Peter Mullan, it's an epic journey into the mysteries, wonders and climate emergencies of the Arctic. Coming soon to BBC Radio 3 !

Coming soon! Nick Drake's long-form poem, The Farewell Glacier, broadcasts on Sun 4th Feb at 19:30 on @bbcradio3. First performed at COP 26 last year by Peter Mullan, it's an epic journey into the mysteries, wonders and climate emergencies of the Arctic. #ClimateCrisis