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Steve B
@bradder19.bsky.social
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Like Guinness, Crisps and nuts. Climate doomer. Liverpool FC fan. Bit of a Star Wars nerd as well.
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Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social · Sep 13
The greatest shit-show on earth
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Ronaldo’s sudden interest in return to US is World Cup Trump card that Fifa craves | Barney Ronay
Portugal star will hand Gianni Infantino the perfect publicity coup if he does play in America for the first time in more than 10 years, having already begun cosying up to Donald Trump
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 10
‘It’s better than plastic and cheaper’: 20 sustainable swaps that worked (and saved you money)
‘It’s better than plastic and cheaper’: 20 sustainable swaps that worked (and saved you money)
From a metal dustpan and solid shampoo to refillable deodorant and organic veg boxes, these are the eco-friendly changes readers stuck with
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 19
As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. HT Ian Lockwood.

Spread the word.
Cartoon illustrating, how traffic induces more traffic. “There is too much traffic for Billy to walk to school, so we drive him.”
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · Jul 11
Fuckinell got it eventually! 😆
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Anfield Index @anfieldindex.com · Jul 9
Reclaiming Keegan: The Forgotten Great of Liverpool’s Golden Age

"At #LFC, Kevin Keegan pressed before pressing had a name, erupted where others glided, and turned Anfield from a cathedral of noise into a launchpad for superstardom."

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · Jun 28
No wonder he wanted to wake up Maggie.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jun 9
We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich
We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich
The national guard’s deployment in Los Angeles sets the US on a familiar authoritarian pathway. History shows the results
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · May 31
I have to say I am very disappointed. I’m sure he could find a job elsewhere. His statements and his book ..
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Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social · May 29
The Neymar/Messi years. All part of the same plan. How Qatar completed football www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Qatar bid to complete football with PSG project’s crowd-pleasing third act | Barney Ronay
Whatever the result of Champions League final, PSG’s owners have positioned club as game’s next superpower
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · May 28
Allister, what have you been inhaling? Nigel Farage IS the establishment. Privately educated at Dulwich College, former commodities broker. A man rich enough to argue about having an account at Coutts. Elected as an MEP in 1999, leader of UKIP, the Brexit Party, Reform Party, current MP for Clacton.
ALLISTER HEATH Follow + Nigel Farage is on course to be PM. This is what the establishment will do to destroy him
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · May 16
Will Hughes was once the next big thing in English football; a teenage prodigy compared with Iniesta and Wilshere. Now he’s 30, a tough-tackling midfielder and two-time Cup finalist. So I wanted to ask him: did he actually “make it”?

www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Will Hughes: ‘I don’t like the limelight … you’ve got to remember the priority is football’
The Crystal Palace midfielder tells Jonathan Liew about the hype in his early career, ‘shit’ VAR and the embarrassment of Watford’s 2019 FA Cup final
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · May 15
Quite possibly the biggest climate story of the year (especially when we look back on this in a few years' time)

For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · May 14
NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
Line chart – China's CO2 emissions are now 1% below their March 2024 peak: China’s emissions from fossil fuels and cement, million tonnes of CO2, rolling 12-month totals. Source: Emissions are estimated from National Bureau of Statistics data on production of different fuels and cement, China Customs data on imports and exports and WIND Information data on changes in inventories, applying emissions factors from China’s latest national greenhouse gas emissions inventory and annual emissions factors per tonne of cement production until 2024. Sector breakdown of coal consumption is estimated using coal consumption data from WIND Information and electricity data from the National Energy Administration.
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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · May 11
Leaving Anfield and, well, that second-half was horrible. The most toxic and divisive
atmosphere I’ve experienced there since the days of Hicks and Gillett. You can blame Trent but I’d rather blame those who booed and made a day that was meant to be totally and utterly celebratory anything but.
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Luke Foley @lukefoley.me · May 11
We’re not all going to agree on everything and that’s fair enough. I know there’s people who won’t have a problem with it. But for me, what happened re: booing Trent, has left a bitter taste in my mouth. I didn’t like it one little bit. Never boo a player wearing the Liverpool shirt no matter what.
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · May 11
Didn’t like Trent being booed
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · May 1
The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment.
My column today.
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The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot
The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · Apr 30
The UK govt admits it can’t afford to adapt high-risk areas to climate breakdown. As Joseph Tainter said, complex societies fall when the metabolic cost of maintaining complexity exceeds the return.

Environmental breakdown raises those costs leading to #collapse

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Government not taking climate threats seriously - watchdog
The government has made little progress in preparing the UK for rising temperatures, climate watchdog the CCC says.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Apr 24
It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power.
This week's column.
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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · Apr 11
Mcginley just said Rory pulled a putt into the hole! 🙄😳. Fuck sake
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · Apr 11
Big balls round from Rory that.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Apr 11
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online A leaked document shows that vested interests may have been behind a “mud-slinging” PR campaign to discredit a landmark environment study, according to an investigation. The Eat-Lancet Commission study, published in 2019, set out to answer the question: how can we feed the world’s growing population without causing catastrophic climate breakdown? Continue reading...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Apr 11
1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes.
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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
www.theguardian.com
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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · Apr 8
Hillsborough Law is important for scandals like Windrush, Post Office, Grenfell too. @inquest-org.bsky.social does brilliant work listening to people affected. Starmer must not go back on such an important promise to people who have suffered huge injustice.
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Hillsborough families call for ‘all or nothing’ law as Labour expected to break pledge
Report released as Labour admits it will break promise to enact law by 36th anniversary and rewrites key proposals
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · Apr 9
Do we need more QE? Mo. Do we need the government to admit that QE was simply it borrowing from the Bank of England, and that it will need to do more of that to get us through the crisis heading our way? Yes, most definitely we do. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
Do we need more quantitative easing?
Over the last day or so, I have seen or heard discussion on whether the government might revive quantitative easing as a way of easing the pressure on the UK economy in response to the crisis that Tru...
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · Apr 4
Currently halfway through it. Really good (and depressing 😃). A must read
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