Fewer than a third of wheat varieties used in bread released since the 1960s meet the recommended zinc target, due to poor soil quality" Vegetables are now half as nutritious than 60 years ago. Experts have worked out why | The Independent (Independent puts 24 cookies in your device, so here's […]

This is potentially a useful and important report and proposal by Rupert Read and Caroline Lucas. However, it is long and I can only find a pdf version (multiple columns, images) that is very difficult to read on screen. They coin the term 'climate popularism (sic)' and suggest that resilience […]

Alberto Garzón was Minister for Consumer Affairs in the PSOE/Sumar coalition government and coordinator of Izquierda Unida (United Left, composed of the Spanish Communist Party and several smaller ones). He describes himself as an ecosocialist and one initiative was to raise awareness of the […]

Anyone know of any student-led anti-GenAI campaigns in UK schools? My daughter hates the amount it gets used *by the school itself* and wants to do something…

'Such is the anger at their decision [to block housing reforms], the former mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau predicted that when Puigdemont finally returns from exile “he will have problems walking the streets of Catalonia.”' How Catalan conservatives caused Spanish elections by repeating the SNP's […]

'George Binnette, co-chair for the Camden Trades Council “While the Holborn & St Pancras result suggests a ‘Burnham bounce’ against the backdrop of a low turnout, the fundamental challenges for Labour certainly haven’t gone away. “For all the talk of ending neoliberalism, the Prime Minister and […]

“La violencia de ese tipo de procedimientos y de desahucios que se dan todos los días en nuestro país tiene unas consecuencias, un impacto en la salud que es evidente y que con este caso hemos podido verlo casi en directo” La abogada de Maricarmen dice tras su muerte que "no estaríamos en esta […]

Very sad and hardly surprising. It's long been known that moving will risk severe health problems and death for very old and clinically vulnerable people. When housing is a commodity and capital seeks easy profits, this is what happens. Spanish pensioner whose eviction sparked nationwide […]

cont'd/ In contrast, take the Meadows et al. Limits to Growth BAU scenario. Every repeat of this study, with new data, demonstrates its continued vitality. It adds adjustments and refinements but these don't contradict the central thesis, that growth cannot continue, and will lead to collapse […]

cont'd/ He demonstrated this with comparison between the Ptolemaic (terrocentric) and Copernican (heliocentric) research programmes. The Ptolemaic was degenerating and the Copernican progressing. I apply this to Green Growth and Degrowth. For example, Green Growth keeps coming up with spurious […]

A note on green growth and degrowth. Imre Lakatos, British-based Hungarian philosopher of science developed, in the 1970s) a way of distinguishing between theoretical orientations (research programmes in his terminology). He distinguished between progressive theory, which generates new […]

Paul Nowak said: “Household budgets have been hammered by the consequences of Donald Trump’s and Vladimir Putin’s reckless warmongering. “The government must use this month’s Budget to deliver the circuit breaker the Prime Minister has recognised the country needs" Households £3,000 worse off […]

"Already, the heirs of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts march on our streets with impunity. ... stopping non-white residents in some of our towns and cities... Should the day ever come when these thugs roam our streets with the full support of central government and the state, Badenoch’s […]