Andrew Grantham

"Train operating companies already have the power to issue fines [for playing loud music] of up to £1,000 for similar behaviour." Well, if enforced, that is the rail industry's financial problems solved!

Ah yes, it's "let's burn stuff" season. So much for the Council's climate emergency.

I don't disagree with any criticism here particularly but I think that taking aim at Wikipedia, one of the great achievements of humanity, in this internet context, is reckless and dumb www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Look up your Labour MP here 👇 Every MP listed. How they voted, who they received donations from, and their links with big business. Not all of them are terrible, but quite a lot are 🥀 labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/t...

Grain, for goodness sake! Everyone loses.

Footage shows a Russian drone striking the grain carrier Royad Mammadov in the Black Sea. The ship’s captain was killed and another person remains missing. The vessel sank following the attack near the Romanian coast. #Ukraine

Back in the 1980s when I was a student, Barclays was the least favoured bank because of investments in South Africa in the apartheid years. Somehow, it is always Barclays - sad bearing in mind its Quaker origins. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is a great watch and really inspiring for rail travel. Legendary effort Jon 🚂💚 @jonworth.eu

I was a bit busy during the PM's speech. I thought I would catch up with the news reports. But it seems that all the journalists have omitted the grand pronuncements about climate change that were surely there. Can someone fill me in?

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

HEY EVERYONE - NEW REPORT!!! NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate. We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record: ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

Day 82: Mission accomplished! Reach Buka after last 24-hour leg from Rabaul by ferry. Delighted I completed this 28,000km journey from Europe without catching a plane, thus reducing my CO2 by ~10 times. It's all I could do for this fragile planet & I'm glad I did it! 96/ youtube.com/shorts/JzJzW...

Wooden crown, Great Wood. Battle.

I can't help but think there could be a publishing market for a weekly magazine that unpicks every article published in the Economist. Last week, for example, blueberry's being more valuable to South Africa than diamonds (not a single reference to climate change and airfreight logistics).

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We all need to act on climate — with our vote, with our bank account, with our job, with our lifestyle, and with our voice. SHIFT shows you how — by providing science-backed recommendations that are tailored for YOU. Please share!

If you are interested in the latest evidence on health impacts of microplastics here is the view from a panel of experts including me. youtu.be/0b4iYznC1rU?...

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One of the most horrifying visualisations of climate change I've ever seen. Very upsetting video, so watch with caution. So sad for those people.

Michael Jacobs writes in the Guardian today: "Amid both insecurity of energy supplies and deadly evidence of the climate crisis, the [PM]..is facing pressure from the oil and gas industry and unions on one side, and environmentalists on the other." Sorry, it is the oil lobby against the rest of us".

Saturday morning food waste in London!

Emissions have flatlined. CO2's Rising At Record Rates. WTF is going on?! youtu.be/WlD2UN7gPmg

NEWS! Reform promises to restore British children's lungs to their traditional pollution-stunted size newsthump.com/2026/08/19/r...

Someone who knows!

My thoughts on the press that hounded Jason Arday to his death… And my personal message to Julia Hartley-Brewer.

Government bonds are hard to understand, but not that hard, and most of the mystery is spread by the City, which wants to use them as a weapon to deny you what you need from the government. I wrote this infographic. AI drew it, directed by me.

🚨Is Britain giving up on the North Sea too soon? Does oil & gas still have a big future in the UK? Is it the answer to our economic problems? Or just another political distraction? Spent the past few months making a Sky News documentary on this. Watch👇 youtu.be/NSdBTwL4iqA?...

One for my corporate governance students.

I can think of a solution to this. E-scooters far more dangerous than motorbikes or cycles, analysis suggests www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

4/4 This motion calls on the Government to recognise Nature as a rights-bearing entity, establish a duty of care towards Nature, and ensure that public policy supports the protection, restoration and regeneration of the living systems on which we all depend.

I've just read Ian Dunt's Substack this week entitled “Jenrick is an idiot sandwich“. There is a little formula derived from Andy Burnham's current strategy on social care. I've applied it to climate change. See what you think: weiterzugehen.net/2026/08/01/1...

Ben Jennings' cartoons are really coming of age, notwithstanding the subject matter. Ben Jennings on southern Europe’s wildfires – cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Here we go, another call on the aid budget, this time to cut bus fares. Was this thought through, or have I misunderstood? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My Spanish champion is Pontevedra Mayor Miguel Anxo Fernández Lores, who kicked cars out of city center: “It's not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. It's the same as if you bought a cow, or fridge, and then ask me where you're going to put them.”

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Amnesty is a globally respected human rights charity that once won a Nobel Peace Prize and campaigns against, among other things, torture, the death penalty and unfair trials, yet on exposing the GC movement’s anti-rights approach to trans people, suddenly they’re making it up and not to be trusted.

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Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made tough choices regarding cars in the past, and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.

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LISTEN UP PLEASE! Climate change has been devastating food production, we have a fantastically fragile global food system, Trump's war has created a global fertiliser shock... and El Nino's about to hit We could be facing a major food crisis, and we need to get ready... here's what to do