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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2h

Because what we need as our climate falls apart, and extreme weather threatens to bring down society and economy, is not to build our resilience but.....

.....to have more growth and more roads

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK ministers take control of £10bn Lower Thames Crossing

Exclusive: National Highways Agency stripped of oversight with project handed to DfT amid Labour government drive for growth

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 10h

"Microplastics have been detected in the brains of dementia patients, and in arterial plaques from people with heart disease"

And the response of the plastics industry is......

....to massively ramp up plastic production

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds

The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 22h

It isn't me whose walking in Hitler's footsteps

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

This shows the colossal reach of Netanyahu and the fascist Israeli regime

No country, however powerful, it seems, will stand up to them

Despicable

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The Gaza effect: how a global pro-Palestine protest movement met repression and resistance

Across the west, solidarity marches are testing governments’ tolerance for dissent. From arrests to bans, free-speech boundaries are shifting

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Marvellous 👍

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Madeline Horwath on St George returning to England – cartoon

The St George’s flag is more popular than ever. It’s more complicated for England’s patron saint

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Be afraid, be very afraid, Mr Starmer

Your days are numbered

youtu.be/oPtLEevhgbE

WATCH: Jeremy Corbyn's STUNNING speech at Your Party launch

YouTube video by PoliticsJOE

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

“The people outside looked from Tory to Labour, and from Labour to Tory, and from Tory to Labour again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Apologies to George Orwell (Animal Farm)

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Revealed: Labour-run council using legal loophole to serve families with no-fault evictions

Exclusive: London council created an arm’s-length body to manage some of its housing stock

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

"We can't live in eternal summer"

The way things are going, we will be - and everyone will yearn desperately for the chill of Autumns and Winters past

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Autumn blues: Here's how we turned it around

What's the best way to keep your spirits up as the days get shorter and the weather gets colder?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Berlin 1935

New York 2025

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'They treated us like animals' - Inside the epicentre of deportations in New York City

Chaotic scenes have become routine in a federal immigration court in Manhattan.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d

Landlords flouting the law?

Who knew

Nationalise private rentals 💪

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Landlords exposed flouting London's Airbnb rules

Duplicate short-term rental listings

www.bbc.co.uk

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 3d

Germany 1930s

US 2020s

I've had great times in the US and have friends there, but I wouldn't risk visiting now if you paid me

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 3d

Two quakes for the price of one

Cascadia Subduction Zone quake and tsunami could trigger San Andreas

“Our preparedness level is poor.....We have a long way to go, and all these areas were built on top of ticking time bombs"

Grim

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US west coast faults could trigger catastrophic back-to-back earthquakes, study finds

Study shows high-magnitude temblor in north-west could set off another in California, causing unrivaled disaster

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 3d

"In typically forthright style, Stewart Lee described participants as “evil, amoral, grifting bastards”

No arguing with that 👍

@StewartLeeBits

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punitive amputation, jail for satirists … these are the human rights abuses fuelling the fury now being directed at the likes of Louis CK and Dave Chappe...

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 3d

For regulator read business partner

Absolutely disgusting

Renationalise now - without compensation

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Millions of households face jump in water bills after regulator backs more price rises

Competition watchdog agrees requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East to raise household bills

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 3d

Indeed Simon

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes, it's easy to think that there is no hope for us - and that we don't deserve to prevail

But - even on an inevitably hotter and chaotic planet, with society and economy crumbling - we can not and must not stop fighting for something better

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Illegal gold mining clears 140,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon

Armed criminal groups tear down precious rainforest to capitalise on record gold prices, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 3d

Talk about clutching at straws

Quite pathetic really

Especially as - in the large majority of pubs, on most nights - neither managers nor most customers will want to keep boozing into the early hours

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise plans

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 3d

The National Emergency Briefing on the grave threats posed by the #climate and #nature crisis, on the other hand, will still be going ahead next month. Also setting out how emergency action on a wartime scale can take us to a better place.

Has your MP confirmed yet? www.nebriefing.org
#TimeToStepUp

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

www.nebriefing.org

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 3d

Indeed Simon. Action starting NOW 💪

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 4d

“Now it seems a seminal report by the joint intelligence committee on the threats to UK security of the collapse of critically important ecosystems is being swept under the carpet by a government embarrassed by its failure to provide....leadership"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK defence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 4d

Enjoy it while it lasts

Capitalism is in its death throes

Climate breakdown will bring it down

Extreme weather alone will cost $38 TRILLION by 2050 - a third of current global GDP

UK Institute of Actuaries predicts 2 billion dead by then for 2C rise
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

City of London approves plans for new Square Mile skyscraper

The new development at 130 Fenchurch Street is due to be completed in 2030.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 4d

Universities are now fully incorporated into the business sector

Forget education, their main purpose is research and bringing in the cash

Teaching undergraduates is bottom of the pile, and something they can't get out of doing - yet

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 4d

Streeting surrenders to the crushing, parasitic capitalism of Big Pharma

Obscene

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

NHS could pay 25% more for medicines under plan to end row with drugmakers and Trump

UK ministers preparing to raise payments to end standoff with pharma industry, cited as reason for firms axing British investments

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 4d

Not that they will ever be in a position to enact this change, who would benefit most

Oh yes - those with the biggest houses and deepest pockets - the rich

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories will scrap stamp duty on primary residences, Kemi Badenoch tells conference

Leader announces tax cut plan for England and Northern Ireland in policy-heavy speech aimed at boosting fiscal credibility

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 4d

This insane plan would be hard to credit, except for the fact that it fits perfectly with this appalling government's sustained attack on nature and the environment

It must be fought, every step of the way

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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