David Rochester

I saw this video several years ago; thank you for sharing it again. It's heartbreaking to watch. She completely summed it up, and she has been proven exactly right.

The first 2 minutes of this exceptional documentary are a very good indication of the high quality of this brilliant 1 and a half hour journey through fear and despair and arriving at hope.

Brexit has been catastrophic. It's time to rejoin the EU.

⚠️ Prudence : la première tempête de l’automne, nommée Austen, touche la France cette semaine. Risque de rafales dépassant 100 km/h sur la Bretagne, la Normandie et les Hauts-de-France dès la nuit de jeudi et dans la journée de vendredi. Le point complet : meteofrance.com/actualites/t...

Et tu, Guardian? Disappointing to see this given their generally great climate coverage. (fixed it for them)

Longyearbyen is warming at between 5 & 7 times the world’s average rate We're getting a glimpse of the chaos to come if the world does not act now on climate change share.google/Fxd4dhTvAVlD...

In the BBC News room... Boss, this new ONS report has good news - unemployment rate falling and employment going up! - Isn't there some bad news in there too, so we can make Labour look bad?? Well, vacancies are down... - Great! Use that for the headline!

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Today, Andorra 🇦🇩 and San Marino 🇸🇲 are officially signing the Association Agreement with the EU. Gaining access to the EU Single Market will create new opportunities for people, trade, and economic stability. More 📰 link.europa.eu/M9YXTq

Oh well, no harm done, eh?

Me in The Independent this morning. Link to article —> www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Go to your camera roll and search "boat", then post a picture of a boat that you like

Brexit Turning Point as MPs Line Up to Make the Case for Rejoining the EU Parliamentarians cite Russian interference and post-Brexit red tape, as Andy Burnham opens up a debate which… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/10/13/brexit-turning-point-as-mps-line-up-to-make-the-case-for-rejoining-the-eu/

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

Faraway Friends is here! Madeleina Kay is signing the first copies of our new children’s book, created to encourage language learning, cultural exchange and friendship across borders. Half the first print run has already sold - order your copy today, or contact us if your school would like one.

Global warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns.   Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Yep. Downhill from here, and the blame falls squarely on #FossilFuel corporations and the #MisinformationIndustry that sustains them. Do we have the balls to act?

This summer was the hottest on record in the UK The summer of 1976 that some folks my age keep banging on about is now only the SEVENTH hottest on record The top five hottest summers all happened since 2003 We're heating the planet by burning fossil fuels www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

"But in 1976..."

Great letter in The Yorkshire Post from Peter Packham @leedseurope.bsky.social. 'The Brexit elite didn't "take back control" of our borders; they undermined our ability to manage them and incentivised criminal gangs behind the trafficking of desperate, vulnerable migrants.'

Right now the government is putting our communities, our water security and our climate ambitions second to the demands of tech giants. It's time to slam the brakes on water-guzzling, energy hungry datacentres.

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.

BROWDER: What we should do is give Ukrainians all resources they need, and just let them finish Putin off. So far, we've drip-fed resources to them, giving enough so they couldn't lose, but not so much so they could win. We could give Ukrainians €220 billion in frozen Russian assets

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

The fact that the UK govt appears structurally incapable of taking actions that are good, useful and popular, but eminently capable of taking actions that are wasteful, frivolous and harmful, serves to bolster the narrative that government is good for nothing.

BROWDER: Russia certainly has lot more resources than Ukraine. But Ukraine has found the Achilles’ heel of Russian economy. Wherever most economic activity is, that should be target. If they’re targeting oil refineries or oil exports, that’s good.

Extreme Climate & Weather Events - August 2026 (Updated 20260815) www.facebook.com/share/p/14m4...

"Yet even now, when weather records are being broken, when climate change is demonstrably here, not in the future, we seem frozen."

Gen Z flocks to BirdTok as birding takes flight: ‘It’s a craving for something real’

Burnham: “This summer has shown beyond doubt that climate change is not a far-off prospect but with us today… I know people are deeply worried about the climate crisis… This govt will rise to the moment & build a better, fairer, greener & more resilient Britain” www.independent.co.uk/voices/andy-...

50 green groups write to Andy Burnham demanding he be clear that climate change is the cause of the current extreme heat crisis. Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth and others say "the British public deserves leadership that speaks honestly about the nature of the challenges the country faces"

🏘️ NEW - As we spend another day overheating in our homes, we look at the simple changes needed to the planning system to allow installation of passive cooling options (things like external blinds, awnings etc) common in many other European countries - www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p...

Bin Day cometh.

Our Prime Minister has had a lot to say today about subscriptions. Meanwhile, huge parts of the country are in drought. We're about to enter our fifth heatwave of the year, killing more people. Are we going to get anything from the Government? Literally anything?

What an unbeavable sight. 🦫 London's greatest little engineers are helping to stop floods across the capital.

Very weird to be living for weeks through what has so far been the worst UK drought since records began and for the Prime Minister to have still said absolutely nothing about it

I believe Clacton deserves an MP who will spend their time shining a light on everything the area has to offer. And why wait till I'm elected? I've been to visit one of the constituency's most stunning landmarks.

Wow. Just wow.

It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.

The Ukrainian people really are amazing! This is both ingenious and terrifying. “It can deliver hundreds of kilogrammes of ammunition, medical supplies or food, draw a cart with more cargo or carry radio antennas that widen the operational horizon for drones”: aje.news/9hvrbw #SlavaUkraine

I understand the softly-softly-red-lines-in-our-manifesto approach but I also think it’s tediously prolonging the agony of this game of let’s-pretend-Brexit-wasn’t-a-monumental-fuck-up. The world is very different to 2016. Brexit Britain is going nowhere fast. Time to get real and say so.

Western Europe recorded its hottest June-July on record, enduring the fourth heatwave since May with severe drought conditions that contributed to exceptional wildfire activity. Climate signals are becoming increasingly interconnected and increasingly difficult to ignore.

Climate denial is getting louder. Reality is getting harder to ignore. When parks are brown, rivers are shrinking and firefighters are battling blazes across the globe, governments must accelerate climate action, not slow it down.

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

More than 27,000 people backed our Five Asks for Andy. Today, we took them directly to Downing Street. The new Prime Minister has an opportunity to build a closer relationship with Europe — and our movement will keep pushing him to seize it.

The only defense of Europe is the armed forces of Ukraine. Russian terror state is targeting Ukrainian civilians because they know that only will of Ukrainians really stands in their way, and not European leadership outside Ukraine.