Mr MT
@mremtee.bsky.social
Ecosocialist Born 320.23ppm Climate Justice
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Crypto-investor who lives in Thailand gives record-breaking donation to Reform UK, to help it win power in a country he doesn't live in.
Britain's political funding laws are a charred and smoking ruin. Ducking change was a catastrophic mistake by Labour.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Britain's political funding laws are a charred and smoking ruin. Ducking change was a catastrophic mistake by Labour.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Reform UK gets record £9mn donation from Christopher Harborne
Nigel Farage’s party attracts far more funding than both Labour and the Conservatives
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Crypto-investor who lives in Thailand gives record-breaking donation to Reform UK, to help it win power in a country he doesn't live in.
Britain's political funding laws are a charred and smoking ruin. Ducking change was a catastrophic mistake by Labour.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Britain's political funding laws are a charred and smoking ruin. Ducking change was a catastrophic mistake by Labour.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
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Ireland's green image is largely a fabrication.
That could be turned around in a decade, with enough political and societal will.
That could be turned around in a decade, with enough political and societal will.
Ireland second highest in EU for greenhouse gas emissions per person
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Ireland second highest in EU for greenhouse gas emissions per person
Farming and forestry responsible for 38% of State’s total output of gases linked to climate change
www.irishtimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Ireland's green image is largely a fabrication.
That could be turned around in a decade, with enough political and societal will.
That could be turned around in a decade, with enough political and societal will.
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UK grain harvest wrecked by climate impacts in 2025, @eciu.net analysis finds
- Record heat and drought cost arable farmers £800m with many now concerned about their ability to make a living in a fast-changing climate
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Record heat and drought cost arable farmers £800m with many now concerned about their ability to make a living in a fast-changing climate
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
UK grain harvest wrecked by climate impacts in 2025, @eciu.net analysis finds
- Record heat and drought cost arable farmers £800m with many now concerned about their ability to make a living in a fast-changing climate
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Record heat and drought cost arable farmers £800m with many now concerned about their ability to make a living in a fast-changing climate
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Update: Apologies I was due to be on Have I got News for You this week. We've now postponed until 2026.
To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.
To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.
December 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Update: Apologies I was due to be on Have I got News for You this week. We've now postponed until 2026.
To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.
To go on Question Time and speak up for migrants right now feels vital.
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Not saying we saved the best till last but...
Final @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar of the year next week: 10th December 14:30-15:30, Streatham Court Lecture Theatre C & online. Email [email protected] to confirm your place in person or online. Hope to see you there!
Final @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar of the year next week: 10th December 14:30-15:30, Streatham Court Lecture Theatre C & online. Email [email protected] to confirm your place in person or online. Hope to see you there!
December 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Not saying we saved the best till last but...
Final @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar of the year next week: 10th December 14:30-15:30, Streatham Court Lecture Theatre C & online. Email [email protected] to confirm your place in person or online. Hope to see you there!
Final @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar of the year next week: 10th December 14:30-15:30, Streatham Court Lecture Theatre C & online. Email [email protected] to confirm your place in person or online. Hope to see you there!
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"We have now had 19 months in a row with temperatures above normal. We have never recorded that before, says climate researcher Jostein Mamen"
kommunikasjon.ntb.no/pressemeldin...
kommunikasjon.ntb.no/pressemeldin...
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"We have now had 19 months in a row with temperatures above normal. We have never recorded that before, says climate researcher Jostein Mamen"
kommunikasjon.ntb.no/pressemeldin...
kommunikasjon.ntb.no/pressemeldin...
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We had the lighting of our street's christmas tree y'day: 5 degrees C, pouring rain, no snow
I wish there were a socially acceptable way to point out that 3 decades ago, it would've almost certainly been snowy, lovely and <0C. Lots of older folks there: I think on some level they know it
I wish there were a socially acceptable way to point out that 3 decades ago, it would've almost certainly been snowy, lovely and <0C. Lots of older folks there: I think on some level they know it
Future Climate in Norway: More Floods, Droughts, and Less Snow - Norce
The climate in Norway has already changed significantly, and the effects are expected to grow stronger in the coming years. We will experience more precipitation, more frequent droughts, and less snow...
www.norceresearch.no
December 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
We had the lighting of our street's christmas tree y'day: 5 degrees C, pouring rain, no snow
I wish there were a socially acceptable way to point out that 3 decades ago, it would've almost certainly been snowy, lovely and <0C. Lots of older folks there: I think on some level they know it
I wish there were a socially acceptable way to point out that 3 decades ago, it would've almost certainly been snowy, lovely and <0C. Lots of older folks there: I think on some level they know it
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Can conservation and ecological restoration affect human health outcomes? A call for multidisciplinary contributions to a special series of papers in #EnvironmentalConservation
Editorial Published online as FirstView on Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#conservationscience🌎
Editorial Published online as FirstView on Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#conservationscience🌎
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Can conservation and ecological restoration affect human health outcomes? A call for multidisciplinary contributions to a special series of papers in #EnvironmentalConservation
Editorial Published online as FirstView on Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#conservationscience🌎
Editorial Published online as FirstView on Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#conservationscience🌎
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This is a great piece, and not just because it says nice things about BusinessGreen. Mainstream media failure to understand and explain the climate implications of so many political and policy stories is a serious failing - and if anything it is getting worse.
www.businessgreen.com/analysis/452...
www.businessgreen.com/analysis/452...
The biggest climate stories often aren't labelled 'climate' - so newsrooms miss them
Last week's Budget provided a perfect example of how the mainstream media has a huge blindspot when it comes to the climate crisis and the policies that are shaping it
www.businessgreen.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is a great piece, and not just because it says nice things about BusinessGreen. Mainstream media failure to understand and explain the climate implications of so many political and policy stories is a serious failing - and if anything it is getting worse.
www.businessgreen.com/analysis/452...
www.businessgreen.com/analysis/452...
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Mercury, lead, arsenic + PFAS: Europe's hidden historic landfills leaching chemicals into water, soil + ecosystems.
Our new joint report with @investigate-europe.eu, out now:
share.google/gQ0rXbwL4rjN...
Our new joint report with @investigate-europe.eu, out now:
share.google/gQ0rXbwL4rjN...
UK and Europe’s hidden landfills at risk of leaking toxic waste into water supplies
Exclusive: Rising flood risks driven by climate change could release toxic waste from ageing sites – posing threats to ecosystems
share.google
December 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Mercury, lead, arsenic + PFAS: Europe's hidden historic landfills leaching chemicals into water, soil + ecosystems.
Our new joint report with @investigate-europe.eu, out now:
share.google/gQ0rXbwL4rjN...
Our new joint report with @investigate-europe.eu, out now:
share.google/gQ0rXbwL4rjN...
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Informative but fails to comprehend life from the other side of the windscreen. Prefers to quote SUV owners.
Big cars = loss of space for everyone else.
Children 82% more likely to be killed if hit by an SUV or LTV rather than smaller vehicle.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@cleancitiescampaign.org
Big cars = loss of space for everyone else.
Children 82% more likely to be killed if hit by an SUV or LTV rather than smaller vehicle.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@cleancitiescampaign.org
'Carspreading’ is on the rise - not everyone is happy
In the UK and across Europe, cars are becoming longer, wider and heavier.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Informative but fails to comprehend life from the other side of the windscreen. Prefers to quote SUV owners.
Big cars = loss of space for everyone else.
Children 82% more likely to be killed if hit by an SUV or LTV rather than smaller vehicle.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@cleancitiescampaign.org
Big cars = loss of space for everyone else.
Children 82% more likely to be killed if hit by an SUV or LTV rather than smaller vehicle.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@cleancitiescampaign.org
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Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
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I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
December 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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"Asserting democratic control over corporate investment decisions is key to an anti-capitalist climate agenda…Imagine if we had collectively decided to build wind turbines and flood gates instead of data centers. Imagine that we could." 👀
Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality.
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
Is Climate Change an Externality?
Environmental harms are often cast as externalities, even by those seeking to emphasize their urgency. Yet the major modern environmental statutes, written before America'
lpeproject.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"Asserting democratic control over corporate investment decisions is key to an anti-capitalist climate agenda…Imagine if we had collectively decided to build wind turbines and flood gates instead of data centers. Imagine that we could." 👀
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Today! I am so happy and proud that this is out in the world, and so grateful to my friends and co-editors @older.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social and all the amazing contributors to We Will Rise Again.
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Today! I am so happy and proud that this is out in the world, and so grateful to my friends and co-editors @older.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social and all the amazing contributors to We Will Rise Again.
“Environmental laws are not just ‘nice-to-haves’. They are what ensures we can live in a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, which is a precondition for our very existence.”
If you’re in the UK and appalled by the government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill, this will be grimly familiar.
If you’re in the UK and appalled by the government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill, this will be grimly familiar.
There have been very few opinion pieces published in national papers on this major issue, despite legal and planning experts spelling out exactly why scapegoating Judicial Reviews is dangerous.
Orla Kelleher in Irish Legal News.
www.irishlegal.com/articles/opi...
Orla Kelleher in Irish Legal News.
www.irishlegal.com/articles/opi...
Opinion: Beware of the judicial review red herring
Dr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis. In recent weeks, journalists, developers, tech entrepreneurs, the Minister for the Environ...
www.irishlegal.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
“Environmental laws are not just ‘nice-to-haves’. They are what ensures we can live in a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, which is a precondition for our very existence.”
If you’re in the UK and appalled by the government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill, this will be grimly familiar.
If you’re in the UK and appalled by the government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill, this will be grimly familiar.
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UK and Europe’s hidden landfills at risk of leaking toxic waste into water supplies
UK and Europe’s hidden landfills at risk of leaking toxic waste into water supplies
Exclusive: Rising flood risks driven by climate change could release toxic waste from ageing sites – posing threats to ecosystems
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:04 AM
UK and Europe’s hidden landfills at risk of leaking toxic waste into water supplies
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Panorama is covering PFAS tonight! Lots of the revelations are based on our work and so I've put together a list of key investigations here so you can dive deeper, if you're interested! Go on, go on... watershedinvestigations.com/watershed-pf...
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Panorama is covering PFAS tonight! Lots of the revelations are based on our work and so I've put together a list of key investigations here so you can dive deeper, if you're interested! Go on, go on... watershedinvestigations.com/watershed-pf...
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Tonight's Panorama highlighted carcinogenic 'forever chemical' pollution from the factory we exposed in 2023. The Environment Agency are now testing soil around there, thanks to our testing. Check watershedinvestigations.com @watershed-i.bsky.social for new pollution revelations & all our articles.
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Tonight's Panorama highlighted carcinogenic 'forever chemical' pollution from the factory we exposed in 2023. The Environment Agency are now testing soil around there, thanks to our testing. Check watershedinvestigations.com @watershed-i.bsky.social for new pollution revelations & all our articles.
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Here is an excellent summary of last week's National Emergency Briefing in London. Well worth a watch and please sign the letter to the Prime Minister linked at the end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
#climatechange #impacts #energy #health #tippingpoints #nationalsecurity #foodsecurity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
#climatechange #impacts #energy #health #tippingpoints #nationalsecurity #foodsecurity
This is not the video I had planned to make.
YouTube video by Just Have a Think
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Here is an excellent summary of last week's National Emergency Briefing in London. Well worth a watch and please sign the letter to the Prime Minister linked at the end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
#climatechange #impacts #energy #health #tippingpoints #nationalsecurity #foodsecurity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
#climatechange #impacts #energy #health #tippingpoints #nationalsecurity #foodsecurity
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WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, & interviews about activism co-edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly, comes out TOMORROW which means today is the last day you can show the love by pre-ordering! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, & interviews about activism co-edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly, comes out TOMORROW which means today is the last day you can show the love by pre-ordering! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
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We have written a special report looking at the people behind Reform in Wales.
This was a bizarre piece to write.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
This was a bizarre piece to write.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
Special report: Who are Reform in Wales?
We dived into the wild world of Reform UK in Cymru
willhaywardwales.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
We have written a special report looking at the people behind Reform in Wales.
This was a bizarre piece to write.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
This was a bizarre piece to write.
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
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This is a good article about the relentless onslaught of climate disinformation that distorts US and global politics.
I just wish it acknowledged that disinformation is sticky precisely because it often resonates w the speech of “our side.”
For example…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
I just wish it acknowledged that disinformation is sticky precisely because it often resonates w the speech of “our side.”
For example…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This is a good article about the relentless onslaught of climate disinformation that distorts US and global politics.
I just wish it acknowledged that disinformation is sticky precisely because it often resonates w the speech of “our side.”
For example…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
I just wish it acknowledged that disinformation is sticky precisely because it often resonates w the speech of “our side.”
For example…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...