Andy Rowell

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Reasons to be cheerful....

The Daily Mail has long since given up been a newspaper, more a mouth-piece for hate, bile & climate denial nonsense. The so called "Eco-zealots" include the UN which yesterday called on all countries to "pull out all the stops” to cut emissions to the internationally recognized 1.5 degree target.

The word on the street is that Labour have wanted to approve Jackdaw for ages - they just couldn't do it until the Holborn and St. Pancras by-election was over. So any left-leaning greens who voted Labour should have a serious case of buyer's remorse www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

The unions have always been dinosaurs when it comes to climate action and today is one of those days.. they even celebrate betraying the generations of the future...

How super-rich are divorced from the reality of climate crisis. "Here at MYS 2026 there are 118 superyachts, with a combined length of 5,508 metres, and a value of €4.5bn .. I have an Italian friend who calls these superyachts stronzi di mare – turds of the sea." www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...

🆕 research raises serious questions about British American Tobacco’s role in cigarette smuggling. A team from the Tobacco Control Research Group analysed 164 documents and found evidence that the tobacco company used its anti-smuggling programme to boost its own profits and influence.

Big bad tobacco up to its old tricks again..

30 years ago, I wrote Green Backlash, which outlined ways political right were labelling environmentalists. Watermelons was one: green on outside & red on inside. So for Express to say environmentalism is now a socialist racket they are 30 years behind the times www.routledge.com/Green-Backla...

Not sure what these means for those of us who have bneen writing on climate for decades... www.ft.com/content/6111...

And so it begins - the Big Oil companies are just about to report obscene 3rd quarter war profiteering on the back of high diesel prices - think about that every time you struggle to pay at the pump. Their gain, your pain.. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Another damning statistic that shows that vaping is addicting people to nicotine not acting as a gateway to quitting smoking www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

nothing ever changes

The Tories are climate and ecological vandals stuck in a bygone age. Who would build flood defences, or protect our waterways or promote natural habitats or ecological diversity - In Toryland it would be straight back to being the sad old Dirty Man of Europe www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Bill McKibben on the nail, as usual: "We can’t keep on like this — it’s simply inhuman. We’re creating a world that’s only fit for something artificial." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

Britain has a revolving door problem. 3 top prosecutors from SFO moved to a firm controlled by a Venezuelan billionaire who was under investigation by the Swiss for money-laundering. At SFO they were investigating oil trader Glencore now they work for an oil billionaire www.ft.com/content/f2f3...

Lets throw 13 million or so people into poverty so the Crypto billionaires and super rich can get even richer...

Still cannot get my head around the fact we are locking up grannies for years in prison for holding up placards on Palestine whilst far right thugs can deliberately sabotage a dinghy putting rescue workers lives at risk and nothing happens... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

God damn hippies at the FT pushing for action on climate again www.ft.com/content/4870...

Anyone remember "too cheap to meter?" Its deja vu. Here we go again with nuclearspin... "Insiders warn that as competition for funding intensifies, companies are making overly optimistic claims about the cheapness of the electricity they hope to produce" www.ft.com/content/ef51...

this is what happens if you don't kick billionaires out of politics www.ft.com/content/2285...

Unions fail to grow a backbone yet again when it comes to protecting our democracy and political reform.... www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

🔴 The £72million pound question - how worried are you about big money in British politics? Democracy for Sale is running a survey to find out what the public thinks about money in politics - and what we should do about it Please take it!! And share widely!! thx! 😀 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Crypto billionaire Ben Delo wants to "fight for national renewal" by funding Reform, who'd gut climate legislation despite thousands dying from heat recently. Delo & Reform face rude awakening trying to frack the UK as communities will fight it: less renewal more reversal www.ft.com/content/410b...

How to stop billionaires buying our politics - three clear fixes to mend our democracy, from a former Electoral Commissioner democracyforsale.substack.com/p/stop-billi...

We can't allow two crypto-billionaires to buy Britain - a Reform government will trash any climate initiatives, including net zero; frack the UK; drill offshore, gut agencies like Natural England & probably the Environment Agency; and that is before they start departing people who aren't white..

Miliband promised accountability for what’s happened in Gaza. That must include corporations fueling Israel’s genocide. Vitol supplied ~14 million barrels of crude to Israel Oct 2023-June 2026. The UK Govt must investigate + act. --> Read our statement: oilchange.org/news/reactiv...

And so it continues...

Every day, mainstream media normalises hate over hope & fear over facts. BBC is one of biggest culprits - yesterday on Radio 4 World at One they interviewed a far right "patriot" from Portsmouth who said there had been no violence & his claim was not challenged at all news.sky.com/story/office...

The next step would be for the UK to hold those fuelling a genocide to account... Read the latest analysis on the companies responsible here: oilchange.org/wp-content/u... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

100%. And it's not just vibes, the met's own figures back this up: novaramedia.com/2025/11/19/r...

I keep thinking about the real two tier Policing. If you hold a banner offering support for Palestine you are likely to be arrested, if you are a climate activist you are arrested but if you are a far right thug with a balaclava blocking traffic nothing happens www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Exactly, no surprises here at all - if Reform get into power expect a repeal of many of the public health measures that have saved tens of thousands of lives

Looks like no one cares about a genocide anymore...

Breaking research from OCI, SOMO, & Data Desk, reveals how two companies, Vitol and Heritage Petroleum FZCO – have become important traders of crude oil to Israel since the recent genocide against Palestinians. They have delivered 22 million barrels of crude - read more oilchange.org/publications...

How to design a non-EV EV Chelsea Tractor www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Reuters should be doing better here than just acting as a mouthpiece for a MAGA oil grab in Venezuela and spouting nonsense from Chris Wright - most analysts are predicting it will take tens of billions of dollars and decades before a significant increase in oil production from the country..

You have to look hard to find this in the news - it should be on every front page. We are heading for real trouble: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/c...

Exactly @profbillmcguire.bsky.social - This was five years ago, so its now five and a half decades of false hope, hype and hot air.... oilchange.org/blogs/carbon...

Don't worry there won't be any water & food or we're all ravaged by wildfires @thehorsman.bsky.social, the climate deniers from Reform funded by crypto billionaires & fossil fuel industry tell us to enjoy sunbathing to a crisp, drinking English sparkling wine! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

you would expect the media to speak truth to power... but for decades it has failed to challenge the fossil fuel industry and it has consistently failed to mention climate change when the world is burning or flooding as a result of climate change.. uk.themedialeader.com/two-thirds-o...

The ecological illiteracy of climate denying Tories & Reform is nonsensical - the FT this morning is saying that the European drought is likely to cause "a short-term economic blow to Europe of at least €50bn, which could rise significantly if the water shortages drag on." www.ft.com/content/9822...

A World on Fire ... time.com/article/2026...

Financial Times this AM criticises the gaslighting "real climate change zealots" of Reform UK, who are the "anti-net zero movement". "It requires dedicated ideological belief to argue against the scientific evidence that net zero is needed to stop destructive warming" www.ft.com/content/e16e...

oilchange.org/blogs/our-pa... World’s five largest IOCs & five largest U.S. independent refiners made a staggering US$65 billion in profits in 2Q. Now is the time to tax oil and gas profits and use the revenue to alleviate energy poverty and support an equitable transition away from fossil fuels.

Thats what privatisation gives you...

New old sayings about the weather The new Private Eye is out now.

Back on here to thank @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social "It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone. The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

He clearly doesn't do irony... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/c...

So predictable - All those harm reduction / free choice activists who argued that vaping was harmless have suddenly eaten their tongues... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...