Peter Garbutt

Peter Garbutt

@petergarbutt.bsky.social

I'm 74, happily married. Vegan. I'm a dad and a grandad. Sheffield, UK. To avoid Climate catastrophe and Civilisational collapse we need government by Citizens Assemblies selected by sortition.

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The BBC needs to provide an explanation for this.

Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social

Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...

I dismissed this word on line 3 because, imho, it's spelt wrong. Had to accept it on line 4 as the only fit I could think of. Disappointing when the setter gets it wrong. Septle 1955 - 🔥 45 day streak - septle.com #Septle: 4/8 ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩⬜️🟨⬜️🟨🟩⬜️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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A Muslim surgeon of Pakistani descent has won a Pride of Britain Award for his extraordinary work saving children’s lives. Asif Hasan has received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 Pride of Britain Awards, recognising decades of dedication to children with serious heart conditions #Migrants

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The achievements of the Serbian student movement will be studied for decades. This was their blueprint for revolution. The recipe for throwing a corrupt authoritarian from office. Read, learn, implement. (📸 Save and Saclony)

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71% of global emissions come from just 100 companies. But 100% of the consequences are paid by all 8 billion of us. That's why system change > just personal change.

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“The principal purpose of Carbon Capture & Storage has never been to tackle the climate crisis. Instead, CCS serves to align public opinion & government policies with the fossil fuel industry’s plans for unrestricted expansion under the cover of “net-zero". www.nationalobserver.com/2022/04/06/o...

nationalobserver.comLessons from Australia show CCUS is about capturing public opinion and public finances, not carbonExperience from Australia shows the CCUS technology was not designed to contribute meaningfully to emissions reductions.
Dan Ilic@danilic.bsky.social

This is where the “capture and storage” plant that we were promised that has NEVER worked

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Share to spread the truth! The bird shooting industry is very good at curating its image. But behind that carefully polished picture lies the truth: birds raised in barren cages, bred in their millions just to be shot.

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Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

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Private equity buys UK fertility clinics. PE already controls social care, hospitals, GP surgeries, dentistry, child fostering. Usual business model. High debt, quality of care declines, prices increase, high profits. When things go wrong, NHS has to step in, PE doesn't pay.

thebusinessdesk.comManchester Fertility Services sold to private equity-backed international care groupTFP Fertility Group is backed by US private equity firm Amulet Capital Partners

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Politicians should look at the UK economy as a CEO would, says Lloyds Bank CEO From a bank that hasn't investigated HBOS frauds. No thank you. Companies enrich shareholders. Countries have entirely different purpose, governance, accountability. Must not be treated as corporations. archive.ph/lj45s

ft.comPoliticians should ‘look at the UK economy as a CEO would’, says Lloyds Bank’s bossHead of Britain’s biggest lender talks about tax, AI and why the City of London has fallen behind global rivals

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Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.comLula wins fourth term as Brazil president after historic upset over far-right Flávio BolsonaroLeftist incumbent Lula stages unprecedented comeback weeks after narrowly losing first round of election to Bolsonaro

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Replying to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

"So who is the homicidal maniac in this story? It’s a scarcely examined abstraction we call “the economy”, a monster to whom anything and everything must be sacrificed without question or resistance: farmed animals, wild ones, even, unless we are fortunate, human beings in their millions."

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I warned 3 years ago that mink farms are a likely route to a new and horrific human pandemic, and once more I'm fervently praying it doesn't map out that way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comBe warned: the next deadly pandemic is not inevitable, but all the elements are in place | George MonbiotBird flu is a mass killer, and mink farms are perfect for infection and transmission. They are a grave threat and must be banned, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Kevin Uhrmacher@kevinuhrm.bsky.social

Wild new story from @natlash.bsky.social Bird flu has been raging uncontrolled on a mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted, instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade. www.propublica.org/article/bird...

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"farming mink for their fur, a cruel and pointless practice, continues in Europe, North America and China. There’s a high chance that the next pandemic, whatever it may be, will emerge in one of these places. .... we need a global treaty to ban mink farming."