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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2h

Landlords flouting the law?

Who knew

Nationalise private rentals 💪

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Landlords exposed flouting London's Airbnb rules

Duplicate short-term rental listings

www.bbc.co.uk

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 23h

Germany 1930s

US 2020s

I've had great times in the US and have friends there, but I wouldn't risk visiting now if you paid me

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Two quakes for the price of one

Cascadia Subduction Zone quake and tsunami could trigger San Andreas

“Our preparedness level is poor.....We have a long way to go, and all these areas were built on top of ticking time bombs"

Grim

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US west coast faults could trigger catastrophic back-to-back earthquakes, study finds

Study shows high-magnitude temblor in north-west could set off another in California, causing unrivaled disaster

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

"In typically forthright style, Stewart Lee described participants as “evil, amoral, grifting bastards”

No arguing with that 👍

@StewartLeeBits

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punitive amputation, jail for satirists … these are the human rights abuses fuelling the fury now being directed at the likes of Louis CK and Dave Chappe...

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

For regulator read business partner

Absolutely disgusting

Renationalise now - without compensation

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Millions of households face jump in water bills after regulator backs more price rises

Competition watchdog agrees requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East to raise household bills

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed Simon

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes, it's easy to think that there is no hope for us - and that we don't deserve to prevail

But - even on an inevitably hotter and chaotic planet, with society and economy crumbling - we can not and must not stop fighting for something better

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Illegal gold mining clears 140,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon

Armed criminal groups tear down precious rainforest to capitalise on record gold prices, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Talk about clutching at straws

Quite pathetic really

Especially as - in the large majority of pubs, on most nights - neither managers nor most customers will want to keep boozing into the early hours

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise plans

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 1d

The National Emergency Briefing on the grave threats posed by the #climate and #nature crisis, on the other hand, will still be going ahead next month. Also setting out how emergency action on a wartime scale can take us to a better place.

Has your MP confirmed yet? www.nebriefing.org
#TimeToStepUp

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

www.nebriefing.org

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed Simon. Action starting NOW 💪

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

“Now it seems a seminal report by the joint intelligence committee on the threats to UK security of the collapse of critically important ecosystems is being swept under the carpet by a government embarrassed by its failure to provide....leadership"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK defence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoy it while it lasts

Capitalism is in its death throes

Climate breakdown will bring it down

Extreme weather alone will cost $38 TRILLION by 2050 - a third of current global GDP

UK Institute of Actuaries predicts 2 billion dead by then for 2C rise
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

City of London approves plans for new Square Mile skyscraper

The new development at 130 Fenchurch Street is due to be completed in 2030.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Universities are now fully incorporated into the business sector

Forget education, their main purpose is research and bringing in the cash

Teaching undergraduates is bottom of the pile, and something they can't get out of doing - yet

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Streeting surrenders to the crushing, parasitic capitalism of Big Pharma

Obscene

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

NHS could pay 25% more for medicines under plan to end row with drugmakers and Trump

UK ministers preparing to raise payments to end standoff with pharma industry, cited as reason for firms axing British investments

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

Not that they will ever be in a position to enact this change, who would benefit most

Oh yes - those with the biggest houses and deepest pockets - the rich

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories will scrap stamp duty on primary residences, Kemi Badenoch tells conference

Leader announces tax cut plan for England and Northern Ireland in policy-heavy speech aimed at boosting fiscal credibility

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

This insane plan would be hard to credit, except for the fact that it fits perfectly with this appalling government's sustained attack on nature and the environment

It must be fought, every step of the way

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

We do give away fruit and veg we can't eat 😊

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

18,000+ children killed in Gaza

This is mass murder on a biblical scale

Those who support the monstrous Israeli regime, and carry out or facilitate it's genocidal crusade, MUST be brought to justice

And that includes the US President and UK PM

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

18,000+ children killed in Gaza

This is mass murder on a biblical scale

Those who support the monstrous Israeli regime, and carry out or facilitate it's genocidal crusade, MUST be brought to justice

And that includes the US President and UK PM

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

#Climate breakdown already having a massive impact on crop yields

By 2050, the world is projected to need 50% more food, at a time yields of key crops could be down 30%

More than a halving of calories per head

Just think about that for a moment

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

One year’s worth of bread lost in UK to wrecked harvests since 2020, report finds

Worsening droughts and floods have destroyed wheat for 4bn loaves of bread and forced record levels of imports

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed. But the rich are never happy. They always want more

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

We all work within a system predicated on greed, short-term profit, exploitation and environmental destruction, designed to make a tiny minority richer than Croesus

Capitalism is an obscenity that will be terminated by the climate catastrophe it has caused

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

This is an appalling indictment of UK society in the early 21st century

A paradise for the rich, but a hell-hole for those at the bottom, who are left to fend for themselves or die

Utterly disgusting

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

We don't need these dangerous monsters in our towns and cities. Replacing a billion FF cars with a billion BEVs is idiotic, and would have huge ramifications for the environment.

What we do need is affordable, low-carbon, accessible, public transport

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

I know