THIS DAY in 1964, singer Dusty Springfield was deported from South Africa for refusing to abide by #Apartheid regulations, and demanding non-segregated audiences. She and her band had been arrested & questioned for 3 days without recourse to the British Embassy or legal advice.

‘What we’re doing to the atmosphere is turning the skies into a guillotine blade dropping slowly towards our necks’ Dr James Hansen, ‘the grandfather of climate science’

Cities are 5–12°C hotter than surrounding areas because we replaced forests with concrete. It’s called Urban Heat Island. Translation: We built ovens and called it development.

"The Third World is not poor. You don't go to poor countries to make money. They are not underdeveloped; they are over-exploited." — Michael Parenti

Cleaners at British Airways offices across 4 Heathrow terminals are on strike. They are demanding the London Living Wage. These workers do not get sick pay and some are forced to rely on food banks They are employed by outsourcing giant OCS who rake in £1.7 billion a year

There is an amazing technology that literally sucks CO2 out of the air, costs very little, and builds itself...... It's called a tree.

Ecuador bans oil drilling to protect 700,000-hectares of rainforest: buff.ly/M0Xg6vx These are the type of announcements we need. No time to waste. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #IndigenousPeoples #ClimateWeekNYC

Nothing screams ‘patriot’ like asking a foreign President, Donald Trump, to invade your country. Tommy Robinson is a fraud.

Some folk get really pissed off with do-good-ers. I used to assume that 'virtue signallers' just pricked their consciences, hurt their egos like a kick in the vanity-testes with a steel toe-capped, union-made vegan boot. But maybe they've got a point... open.substack.com/pub/whitewealt…

The oil companies were informed about an act of war before it happened, Congress was not. That, my friends, is what an authoritarian regime run by oligarchs looks like.

A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside of work.

“If Renewables are so great they should stand on their own without support” 2026 Fossil fuels remain the most subsidised thing on the planet with a seventh military conflict in fifty years now in progress directly related to fossil fuels.

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This isn't a painting. This is Jupiter's South Pole, taken by Cassini Spacecraft. 🌀 Space is absolutely terrifyingly beautiful.

If anyone is stupid enough to seriously be asking Trump to take over Britain, please be aware that's a crime under Section 3 of the 1848 Treason Felony Act, punishable by life imprisonment. It would be quite amusing to see the DPP prosecute someone for it.

But tell me again how it's disabled people's paltry benefits that are the problem ...

Enjoying being back at work? The freezing weather? The morning commute? By noon today FTSE 100 CEO's have already earned the average workers yearly salary. Average CEO pay is £4.4m, 113 times the media worker's salary. It's time for change.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

“A high proportion of leading figures in the British media are from private school backgrounds. While only 7% of people in Britain attend private school, 47% of political commentators, 45% of leading podcasters and 38% of BBC executives.” - Sutton Trust. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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