Robin Grant

Welsh Cycling gets a new name and reveals its latest strategy. What’s in it for mountain biking? singletrackworld.com/2024/07/wales-…

"We rely on the BBC to ignore fossil fuel lobby pressure & present voters with the facts to help them choose how to use their vote." @TheGreenParty makes official complaint over @BBC failure to scrutinise climate crisis in election coverage. #GE2024 mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

Unless Labour breaks out of its fiscal straitjacket, a properly resourced green transition won’t be deliverable, increasing disappointment & disillusion & setting the table for a resurgent far right to further weaponise the green agenda. Me for @guardian theguardian.com/politics/artic…

35 years after Privatisation Thames Water admits £19Bm of assets are in “poor” or “failed condition” or are “no longer capable of reliably performing their function”. But the dividends and bonuses have been doing fine. Privatisation was just a scam. on.ft.com/45M6LvJ

@RishiSunak says he is hurt & angry at @reformparty_uk activist using racist language. How did he think I felt when his top donor Frank Hester said I “made him want to hate all Black women' and I should be shot?

Hundreds are dying of heat stroke in South Asia as temperatures of up to 50°C continue, but it just isn't major news for most of the world. independent.co.uk/climate-change…

🚨 BREAKING: 14 ARRESTED IN 12 HOURS AS POLICE CONTINUE RAIDS ⛓️ A further 7 Just Stop Oil supporters have been arrested at their homes this morning for resisting the tyranny of fossil fuels. 💸 Help us replace tech seized by the police — chuffed.org/project/just-s…

Britain is delaying the International Criminal Court prosecutor's request for arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant (for their starvation strategy) by asking to reargue the court's decision that it has jurisdiction over war crimes committed in Palestine. theguardian.com/law/article/20…

John Oliver, "The Conservatives have had 5 different prime ministers over the past 14 years.. It's worth briefly revisiting all of them" 1⃣"David Cameron.. Austerity.. Brexit" 2⃣"Theresa May.. More austerity, two child cap" 3⃣"Boris Johnson.. His time in office was a shambles.. Britain left the EU on the same day of the first case of the corona virus was announced.. His handling of covid was an unmitigated disaster" "For the record there is only one actual f*ckpig in Downing Street.. David Cameron.. As a student at Oxford he once put his d*ck in a dead pig's mouth" 4⃣"Liz Truss who had the shortest tenure of any British prime minister in history.. Her budget full of tax cuts for the rich which caused a mini economic crisis" 5⃣"Sunak the wet.. A man who literally does not have the sense to get in from the rain" "Brexit created red tape that has grown exponentially.. Trading goods with the EU is now so onerous that many businesses have chosen to relocate into mainland Europe which is not good news for the UK" "Brexit is estimated to be costing the economy about £100 billion a year" "While Brexit makes the news, austerity is the legacy of Cameron and his successors because it has in so many ways obliterated public services" "Take the NHS, years of under investment have left it gutted and understaffed.. Wait lists for NHS treatment have exploded.. More than 7.5 million waiting for non emergency treatment, that's over 2.5 million when the Conservatives came in in 2010"

This Panorama is explosive… We are now the poorest country in N.Europe The av Brit is 60% poorer than av American We’re suffering a national pay cut that is years in the making Exacerbated by Brexit …& this lying Govt is blaming Putin and Covid. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

BREAKING: CNN just put together a montage of all the times Donald Trump rambled incoherently or displayed strong signs of cognitive decline. Retweet so every American knows Trump is senile. twitter.com/Jemsinger/stat…

So far in 2024,11 countries have recorded >50C,with few others missing it by few decimals In few days this club can add more members A brutal heat wave can threaten the record of the highest reliable temperature ever recorded in Africa and >50C can be reached in Algeria & Tunisia

While the British media are frothing about ‘betting scandals’, this is breaking news. None of them understand or care. The future is not what most people think it is. edition.cnn.com/2024/06/25/cli…

It looks like climate models are under-predicting sea level rise, and scientists have been trying to work out why. Now, new analysis by Dr Alex Bradley @abraleey may have identified the missing puzzle piece… bas.ac.uk/media-post/new… Buckle up for a 🧵⬇️

#WeAreTheEconomy! Key services like healthcare, housing and education are essential for a healthy country and strong economy, but they are being starved of funding. We need a fair tax system to invest in key services and build a strong economy, because we are the economy.

"We really should not speak about living conditions in #Gaza because none of them have 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 conditions. What they have, if you look closely, is 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡 conditions. And barely. They’re holding on by a thread." - Yasmina Guerda, @UNOCHA

Exclusive: The Government has incinerated or written off £1.4 BILLION worth of Covid PPE, provided by one supplier in the summer of 2020 - it is the single most wasteful public contract of the whole pandemic. Thread 1/

It is astonishing that everyone in the media is not screaming like fuck. 2023 WAS THE HOTTEST YEAR ON RECORD. RAINFALL AND HEAT RECORDS ARE FALLING ALL OVER THE PLANET. FOSSIL FUEL USE IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH. THE WEATHER IS GOING TO GET ALOT MORE EXTREME. The Public have very little idea of the forces that record amounts of greenhouse gases are unleashing.

⚠️ New study on impacts of heat & water stress on food production projects: "substantial declines" in global food production of up to 14% by 2050 (RCP8.5) "the number of additional people with severe food insecurity" increases by 1.36 billion (RCP8.5) nature.com/articles/s4159…