put a fried egg on my croque monsieur to make it a croque madame and now jk rowling is outside my house yelling

Pro-independence parties lose majority in Catalonia elections. Failures in handling severe drought & water mismanagement look central. Expect water scarcity to become an important political & econ factor across Europe.

Useful pre-elex piece on Barcelona: politico.eu/article/spain-…

April 2024 was warmer globally than any previous April on record. This is the 11th consecutive month at record levels.

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Labour’s now watered-down proposals for a “New Deal for Workers”, would have been a substantial shift in the balance of power in British workplaces.

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“Trust the Russian government,” says that paragon of trustworthiness and sound judgement, the British government.

Anti-Tesla protests in Germany as activists disrupt a “gigafactory” - one that already uses as much water as 40,000 people, in a region now beset by water shortages, but which Tesla plan to expand.

fortune.com/2022/02/22/elo…

Protestor FAQs: t-den-hahn-abdrehen.org/faq_en/

⚠️ 'Many of the scientists envisage a 'semi-dystopian' future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms of an intensity and frequency far beyond those that have already struck'

theguardian.com/environment/ar…

In the 24 hours since Natalie Elphicke's defection we've had Labour MPs briefing against the leader's office, the leader's office briefing against Labour MPs, and now the leader's office briefing against itself.

Not entirely convinced this was thought through

🚨 Just Stop Oil Supporters NOT GUILTY

🔥 Imogen, Red, Poppy and Max were acquitted of Wilful Obstruction of the Highway in Stratford Magistrates Court today.

🚔 They were arrested in June last year for slow marching.

✈️ This summer, airports will be sites of civil resistance.

Anyone who works in the US automotive industry, EV industry, or in policymaking should taken ten minutes and read Kevin Williams's new piece for InsideEVs on Chinese EVs.

It's a barn burner. And arguably a warning about the cost of inaction.

insideevs.com/features/71901…

Water companies in England have incurred debts of more than £64,000,000,000.

We won't get the water infrastructure we need with privatised water.

I have co-sponsored Early Day Motion 738, calling for English water companies to be brought under public control.

Full programme is being made public very soon: the first Tech Transformed of many I hope!

tickettailor.com/events/cada1/1…

Very useful categorisation - and a depressing insight into our current political failures.

The hard point for us to deal with is not the cataclysm, nor (obviously) everything somehow working out just fine. It’s the grind of everything just becoming steadily more shit.

This week on Macrodose: Labour guts the “New Deal for Worker”; and how climate change is driving monopolisation - la wave of mergers amongst global miners as demand for copper and other minerals soars.

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Worthing voting area (Sussex PCC)

Lab 41% (+12)
Con 36% (-10)
Grn 12% (+2)
LD 10% (-)

No Other (6%) this time