@pyroisbob.bsky.social
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The Liz Truss Show - Behind the Scenes
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Since Covid
Home Insurance up 70%.
Car Insurance up 80%.
Energy Bills up 60%.
Water Bills up more than 50%.
They are just ripping us off on things we have to buy.
Home Insurance up 70%.
Car Insurance up 80%.
Energy Bills up 60%.
Water Bills up more than 50%.
They are just ripping us off on things we have to buy.
December 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Since Covid
Home Insurance up 70%.
Car Insurance up 80%.
Energy Bills up 60%.
Water Bills up more than 50%.
They are just ripping us off on things we have to buy.
Home Insurance up 70%.
Car Insurance up 80%.
Energy Bills up 60%.
Water Bills up more than 50%.
They are just ripping us off on things we have to buy.
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My full page comic for the @prospectmagazine.co.uk Christmas issue. With sincere apologies.
![This is a comic pate drawn in the soft pencil style of The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
Basically the story is this:
- Keir Starmer in dressing gown presses face up to window, excited that it is snowing
- He runs outside, builds a snowman
- It comes to life, taps on his window
- He invites it in, gives it clothes (yellow trouser, green jacket, flat cap) and we realise (face close up) it looks like Nigel Farage
- Snowman takes him outside, launches off the ground
- They fly over the landscape, we see a town below
- A man ziptying a St George’s Flag to a lamp post waves at them as they pass
- As in the original, they head for the sea - we see a light by the coast
- Instead of Brighton pier as in the original, it is an Asylum Detention Center
- They land, we see people queuing behind a fence
- Snowman Farage points excitedly at a large bin marked VALUABLES
- Snowman Farage pulls a child's E-scooter out of the bin, he and Starmer look excited
- They take off again and go back to Keir’s home
- Farage resumes his place in the garden, Starmer walks back inside to go back to bed
- The next day Snowman Farage has melted, leaving only his clothes and the scooter - now with a bow and label attached to show it is a Christmas gift.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My full page comic for the @prospectmagazine.co.uk Christmas issue. With sincere apologies.
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We asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to respond to the opinion "Working with organised crime to improve health: a modest proposal" from our #BMJChristmas Issue 2025.
Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
December 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We asked comedian @michaelspicer.bsky.social to respond to the opinion "Working with organised crime to improve health: a modest proposal" from our #BMJChristmas Issue 2025.
Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Read the opinion here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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This petition is nearly there to 10000 signatures! Just 2000 to go, and then the Govt have to respond… please help us get over the line!
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS FOR YOU TO SIGN (and share)…
;)
>Thanks< so much…
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS FOR YOU TO SIGN (and share)…
;)
>Thanks< so much…
The climate crisis is accelerating - 2025 looks set to become UK’s hottest year on record. Good to see focus on importance of resilience on #r4today- pls take a moment to sign petition calling on Govt to introduce a fully funded national climate adaptation plan petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact
From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...
petition.parliament.uk
December 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This petition is nearly there to 10000 signatures! Just 2000 to go, and then the Govt have to respond… please help us get over the line!
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS FOR YOU TO SIGN (and share)…
;)
>Thanks< so much…
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS FOR YOU TO SIGN (and share)…
;)
>Thanks< so much…
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For the record 👇🏻
The 'free speech for those punching down / prison for those punching up' crowd are going to end up disappointed. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...
December 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
For the record 👇🏻
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"One in six British wild species are already at risk of extinction, yet this Labour government, who recently promised to ‘save nature’, has now given us a builders’ charter. It’s not only developers who cannot be trusted, neither can this government."
"One in six British wild species are already at risk of extinction, yet this Labour government, who recently promised to ‘save nature’, has now given us a builders’ charter. It’s not only developers who cannot be trusted, neither can this government."
Is “Biodiversity Net Gain” another greenwashing gimmick?
If you’re not familiar with it, this article is well worth reading to understand the concept. It will likely be a central pillar in Labour‘s new push to ease regulations for development.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
If you’re not familiar with it, this article is well worth reading to understand the concept. It will likely be a central pillar in Labour‘s new push to ease regulations for development.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Biodiversity Net Gain: can developers be trusted?
Developers seem rather too fickle concerning their obligations to protect the environment, and the situation may be about to get worse
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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"One in six British wild species are already at risk of extinction, yet this Labour government, who recently promised to ‘save nature’, has now given us a builders’ charter. It’s not only developers who cannot be trusted, neither can this government."
"One in six British wild species are already at risk of extinction, yet this Labour government, who recently promised to ‘save nature’, has now given us a builders’ charter. It’s not only developers who cannot be trusted, neither can this government."
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this has been happening almost since the beginning of climate change as a fundamental piece of public knowledge
interactive.carbonbrief.org/carbon-offse...
interactive.carbonbrief.org/carbon-offse...
Timeline: The 60-year history of carbon offsets
Carbon Brief’s timeline of carbon-offsetting traces the origins, ideas, arguments, milestones and controversies, from the 1960s through to today.
interactive.carbonbrief.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
this has been happening almost since the beginning of climate change as a fundamental piece of public knowledge
interactive.carbonbrief.org/carbon-offse...
interactive.carbonbrief.org/carbon-offse...
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"Not only are they trying to dismantle climate science, they're trying to dismantle our ability to protect people from the devastating of climate change."
@michaelemann.bsky.social slams the Trump administration's dismantling of NCAR, a key climate research facility in Colorado.
@michaelemann.bsky.social slams the Trump administration's dismantling of NCAR, a key climate research facility in Colorado.
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"Not only are they trying to dismantle climate science, they're trying to dismantle our ability to protect people from the devastating of climate change."
@michaelemann.bsky.social slams the Trump administration's dismantling of NCAR, a key climate research facility in Colorado.
@michaelemann.bsky.social slams the Trump administration's dismantling of NCAR, a key climate research facility in Colorado.
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Michael Mann and Bob Ward don't mince their words here, and unfortunately they are right about the Trump administration's "Soviet-style campaign to prevent Americans and the rest of the world from knowing the truth about climate change."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Michael Mann and Bob Ward don't mince their words here, and unfortunately they are right about the Trump administration's "Soviet-style campaign to prevent Americans and the rest of the world from knowing the truth about climate change."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Airbus Moving Critical Systems Away From AWS, Google, and Microsoft Citing Data Sovereignty Concerns
https://slashdot.org/story/25/12/19/2252254/airbus-moving-critical-systems-away-from-aws-google-and-microsoft-citing-data-sovereignty-concerns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Airbus Moving Critical Systems Away From AWS, Google, and Microsoft Citing Data Sovereignty Concerns
Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to move mission-critical systems like ERP, manufacturing, and aircraft design data onto a digitally sovereign European cloud, citing national security concerns and fears around U.S. extraterritorial laws like the CLOUD Act. "I need a sovereign cloud bec...
slashdot.org
December 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Airbus Moving Critical Systems Away From AWS, Google, and Microsoft Citing Data Sovereignty Concerns
https://slashdot.org/story/25/12/19/2252254/airbus-moving-critical-systems-away-from-aws-google-and-microsoft-citing-data-sovereignty-concerns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
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Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
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Genius as always from This Cannot Possibly Get Worse Correspondent @mrhenrymorris.substack.com in #TheNewWorld , have a read of his year in review now . . .
www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...
December 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Genius as always from This Cannot Possibly Get Worse Correspondent @mrhenrymorris.substack.com in #TheNewWorld , have a read of his year in review now . . .
www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...
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Big Oil is selling the promise of “low-carbon data centers” using carbon capture, reports @emdashsanders.bsky.social.
But these plans could "easily transform into a sprawling build-out of high-polluting methane gas infrastructure" with lasting impacts to "the climate and communities nearby."
But these plans could "easily transform into a sprawling build-out of high-polluting methane gas infrastructure" with lasting impacts to "the climate and communities nearby."
Exxon’s new greenwashing ploy
The oil giant claims it can eliminate more than 90 percent of emissions from gas-powered AI facilities. Critics say that’s nonsense.
www.exxonknews.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Big Oil is selling the promise of “low-carbon data centers” using carbon capture, reports @emdashsanders.bsky.social.
But these plans could "easily transform into a sprawling build-out of high-polluting methane gas infrastructure" with lasting impacts to "the climate and communities nearby."
But these plans could "easily transform into a sprawling build-out of high-polluting methane gas infrastructure" with lasting impacts to "the climate and communities nearby."
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If I wasn't a religious fanatic about data centres I'd spend 100% of my time working on waste incineration and how it links up with plastics and CCS greenwashing stuff. It is expanding in Aus just like so many other regions
By @richarddenniss.bsky.social -->>
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
By @richarddenniss.bsky.social -->>
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Waste incinerators: the latest bin fire in Australian climate policy
Something has gone terribly wrong with a society and an economy that sees a steady and inexhaustible flow of garbage as a reliable fuel for generating electricity. But here we are.
thepoint.com.au
December 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If I wasn't a religious fanatic about data centres I'd spend 100% of my time working on waste incineration and how it links up with plastics and CCS greenwashing stuff. It is expanding in Aus just like so many other regions
By @richarddenniss.bsky.social -->>
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
By @richarddenniss.bsky.social -->>
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up.
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
We Went to Arkansas. The Farm Crisis Will Shock You
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up.
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...
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UK’s largest proposed datacentre is understating the scale of its planned water use.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’
Analysis suggests consumption at Northumberland site could be 50 times higher than US operator QTS estimates
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
UK’s largest proposed datacentre is understating the scale of its planned water use.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The UK just committed £22bn to carbon capture and storage – a tech with an 80% failure rate that lets oil & gas greenwash their emissions.
At this CCS conference, most speakers repped fossil fuel companies.
Share if you think it's absurd we're funding tech that protects fossil fuel profits 🙃
At this CCS conference, most speakers repped fossil fuel companies.
Share if you think it's absurd we're funding tech that protects fossil fuel profits 🙃
December 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The UK just committed £22bn to carbon capture and storage – a tech with an 80% failure rate that lets oil & gas greenwash their emissions.
At this CCS conference, most speakers repped fossil fuel companies.
Share if you think it's absurd we're funding tech that protects fossil fuel profits 🙃
At this CCS conference, most speakers repped fossil fuel companies.
Share if you think it's absurd we're funding tech that protects fossil fuel profits 🙃
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Reminder, we can't throw anything _away_ on this #PoisonedPlanet.
There is no such place
phys.org/news/2025-12...
There is no such place
phys.org/news/2025-12...
Hidden threats in the dark: Alarming levels of human-made debris in Mediterranean sea caves
Just when we thought we had described all the possible marine environmental recipients of plastic pollution, new research comes in to overturn the picture.
phys.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Reminder, we can't throw anything _away_ on this #PoisonedPlanet.
There is no such place
phys.org/news/2025-12...
There is no such place
phys.org/news/2025-12...
And theres even a song...!
youtu.be/aCkSr0ugTIM?...
youtu.be/aCkSr0ugTIM?...
December 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
And theres even a song...!
youtu.be/aCkSr0ugTIM?...
youtu.be/aCkSr0ugTIM?...
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🚨 Announcement from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency 🚨
The Ministry has published ‘We can’, a comic comparing humanity greatest leaps with the comparatively simple step of a fossil fuel ad ban. 🧵
Full comic 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
A message from @kevinclimate.bsky.social 👇 1/3
The Ministry has published ‘We can’, a comic comparing humanity greatest leaps with the comparatively simple step of a fossil fuel ad ban. 🧵
Full comic 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
A message from @kevinclimate.bsky.social 👇 1/3
December 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🚨 Announcement from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency 🚨
The Ministry has published ‘We can’, a comic comparing humanity greatest leaps with the comparatively simple step of a fossil fuel ad ban. 🧵
Full comic 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
A message from @kevinclimate.bsky.social 👇 1/3
The Ministry has published ‘We can’, a comic comparing humanity greatest leaps with the comparatively simple step of a fossil fuel ad ban. 🧵
Full comic 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
A message from @kevinclimate.bsky.social 👇 1/3
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#Austerity - be in no doubt, this Labour government is continuing where the Coalition and then Tories led
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Local authorities in England and Wales warn finances at ‘breaking point’
More councils expected to fall into bankruptcy in near future as they face nervous wait over government funding
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
#Austerity - be in no doubt, this Labour government is continuing where the Coalition and then Tories led
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Forest City 1 is a charter city proposal by a network of right-wing libertarians, anarcho-capitalists, centrists, and even so-called green supporters. The Guardian, Spiked, CAPX, the Free Speech Union are signatories, something is going very wrong with UK free zones
open.substack.com/pub/european...
open.substack.com/pub/european...
LBC’s Forest City Lovefest: How the Spiked Network Sold a Libertarian Dream as Community Housing
On 5 December 2025, LBC’s Ali Miraj gave Austin Williams 45 minutes of unchallenged airtime to promote Forest City 1, a proposed million-person city on 45,000 acres between Newmarket and Haverhill in ...
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Forest City 1 is a charter city proposal by a network of right-wing libertarians, anarcho-capitalists, centrists, and even so-called green supporters. The Guardian, Spiked, CAPX, the Free Speech Union are signatories, something is going very wrong with UK free zones
open.substack.com/pub/european...
open.substack.com/pub/european...
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We live in a world where a person getting benefits they are entitled to, to survive, are robbing everyone.
But billionaires literally robbing everyone on Energy, Healthcare and Food are 'great guys'.
But billionaires literally robbing everyone on Energy, Healthcare and Food are 'great guys'.
December 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We live in a world where a person getting benefits they are entitled to, to survive, are robbing everyone.
But billionaires literally robbing everyone on Energy, Healthcare and Food are 'great guys'.
But billionaires literally robbing everyone on Energy, Healthcare and Food are 'great guys'.
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Reeves’ £150 cut in energy bills will be nuked by Sizewell costs.
Levies on bills to fund gas pipelines, electricity grid to rise.
Customers to pay years before construction even begins. Companies raise capital from customers, shareholders keep profits.
Privatisation facilitates rip off practices
Levies on bills to fund gas pipelines, electricity grid to rise.
Customers to pay years before construction even begins. Companies raise capital from customers, shareholders keep profits.
Privatisation facilitates rip off practices
Reeves’ cut in energy bills will be nuked by Sizewell costs, ex-Labour donor claims
Dale Vince’s claims over the impact of paying for Sizewell C on energy bills is one of a number of hidden costs which could see consumers pay higher bills - instead of £150 less
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Reeves’ £150 cut in energy bills will be nuked by Sizewell costs.
Levies on bills to fund gas pipelines, electricity grid to rise.
Customers to pay years before construction even begins. Companies raise capital from customers, shareholders keep profits.
Privatisation facilitates rip off practices
Levies on bills to fund gas pipelines, electricity grid to rise.
Customers to pay years before construction even begins. Companies raise capital from customers, shareholders keep profits.
Privatisation facilitates rip off practices