Gregory Norminton

Vol. 1 of our graphic novel SWEENEY'S PROGRESS is finished. An ecological fable set in C7th Ireland, from one of the great medieval poems. Script by me, art by @zaraslattery.bsky.social. To read the book online & help with the making of Volume 2, visit our Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/sweeneyspr...

Cleantech lives - and it’s flipping the script on energy where it matters: Emerging markets @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Whole families standing on the 13.11 Sheffield to Manchester train. Far too few carriages as ever. How I hate travelling by public transport in this country.

Big day today for ending centuries of secrecy about who owns our land! A new government consultation will propose revealing who owns the vast majority of England and Wales. To get this over the line, I’ll need your help to send in supportive evidence! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Diesel Dieter doesn't brake! 🤣 #alwaysbecharging www.ft.com/content/7dbe...

Of all the bbc presenters, Webb’s politics are the easiest to read - because he puts them in newspapers and doesn’t even try to hide them in broadcasts His politics are also mind numbingly predictable

Pro-Europeans really need to get their act together if they're going to sieze the opportunity which is being presented here. Press and broadcasters reverting right back to their previous position from 2016, with zero update.

Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

It's not just about climate chaos. It's also about landscape chaos. The damage we do to the land's hydrology is layered on top of the damage we do to the atmosphere. Our mismanagement of land commits us to a cycle of flood and drought. We can change this, as explained here. Please read. Thanks.

If only there were a Nobel Prize for heckling

NEW: Hormuz reminded fuel importers that buying energy cargo by cargo means importing every price shock. In TIME, María Mendiluce and I argue the response will decide who becomes the electrostates of the next decade. @wemeanbusiness.bsky.social time.com/article/2026...

As in Hungary, the authoritarian regime in Serbia is being dismantled . “For years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly, and failed to ask the necessary questions. For that, we owe our viewers an apology,” news anchor Goran Eror said.

"Fossil f. interests secured a staggering 500 meetings with newly elected Labour ministers in the party's 1st year in power alone… There were 1321 contracts between 386 ff companies & 802 advert. & PR agencies in the last year. The skill with which reality can be distorted is sometimes astounding"

Climate emissions resulting from approving drilling at Rosebank, expanding Heathrow airport, watering down UK’s EV targets, cutting heat pump grants would be 402m tonnes of CO2 over the next 25 years Greater than the annual emissions of 106 coal plants www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

As I suggested for @thebulwark.com this fall, RFK Jr is a eugenicist at his core. It’s why he talks about autism like it’s contagious. It’s why he want to deprive people of SSRIs. And of course it’s why he’s saying that “Arabs don’t produce literature.” He’s a eugenicist and a fascist, simple as.

This is utterly damning, and yet still about as generous as possible

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

UK government recognises The Rothbury Estate as one of most significant opportunities for nature recovery in England at COP17 announces a £1.94 million pledge... www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/uk-gove...

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

A summer of extreme heat, reservoirs running dangerously low and fears of water shortages before Christmas. The weather today may feel reassuring, but one wet spell won’t undo months of drought. www.thetimes.com/article/7812...

Thanks to British Columbia for pooping the elections party.

My reporting on the student movement in Serbia last summer. They kept at it, amazingly, for two years. And they won. snyder.substack.com/p/youth-prot...

Planting a tree means nothing if it dies a week later. Local authority tree planting is down 45%, and the trees we do plant are heavily imported, bringing biosecurity risks with them. @nationaltrust.org.uk #EcoSky #TreePlanting #GrownInBritain

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

Lula has won the Brazilian presidential runoff. But, as Eliane Brum wrote on Saturday, the first round results still spell trouble for the Amazon. Seven of the forest’s nine governors now have ties to Bolsonarism...

I'm so disappointed the BBC have removed (hopefully temporarily) whole sections on Net Zero, Migration, the Slave Trade, and even the equality UN Sustainable Development Goal, off the back of an unfounded attack by the MoS. 36/

. India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge #ClimateHope There is #hope, because we have the solutions 🛠️⚖️🔍 to take #ClimateAction. More: www.carbonbrief.org/analysi... .

U-turn on EV policy could stall UK’s take-up of EVs | Fiona Harvey and Jasper Jolly www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When you’ve lost Simon Heffer! 🥬🤡

The fiery protests across France didn't shake me. The thought of the next election does ✍️ @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

Le Pen is not Meloni. France is not Italy Those drawing simplistic parallels risk underestimating how disruptive a Le Pen presidency would be — for France, the EU, and wider geopolitics

What is true is that this was a conflict—and make no mistake, this was a conflict; this was a protracted battle in a hybrid war, more than anything—that was largely fought by large numbers of people laboriously working to unfuck the nation's informational environment.

All that hard work to placate the hard right and - surprise! - the hard right still hates the BBC. Maybe restoring journalistic high standards would serve the broadcaster better.

We have a lot to learn from it. I have a Brazilian colleague. She was distraught by the first round result, and couldn't do terribly much because she's in the UK. But she immediately made a concerted effort to talk to any of her friends and relatives back home she thought might be on the fence.

He destroyed his country, maybe they want him to destroy the UN as well?

Hard to transpose electoral lessons from one country / system to another. But the contrast between Lula's broad, majoritarian front (overcoming internal differences & integrating civil society movements) and Europe's fragmented lefts is striking.

💯The case for democracy is not that voters are always right, or wise, or good. It's that they can correct their mistakes. That's why it's so dangerous to have billionaires controlling the media or regulating the flow of information. It shuts down the immune system of democracy.

If you replace "Fabians" and "globalists" with "Jews" (which is kind of what they mean anyway), this is exactly the same argument as Oswald Mosley's "Peace Fascism"

Of course a win for non-authoritarian leaders or movements does not automatically mean all problems are solved or that authoritarian forces can't come back in future. But it is worth maintaining hope and optimism, because if people succumb to nihilism and apathy then democracy cannot survive.

Cities are defined by the choices they make about space. Today, London chose people. Oxford Street's transformation is under way.

"There’s not enough room in my chest for all this joy". What incredible news to wake up to. First Serbia, now this www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...