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Do you live in Manchester and want to bring people and ideas together? Becoming an Art Agent is an opportunity for you to imagine a better future for people in Manchester, to make something happen and to do it your … Continue reading →

So, as I predicted, and feared, the blog post I wrote about the atrocity of Extinction Rebelllion “strategy” “tour” was ignored in its content and instead drew the predictable ire of people who are desperate to believe that they, after … Continue reading →

Manchester Climate Monthly is largely in hibernation, but like a grizzling and grisy, grizzly bear it will occasionally poke its head out of its mancave.  It did so yesterday to point out that the recent Climate Emergency UK report about … Continue reading →

“Eco-Socialism Without Guarantees” Dr M. MCFly (independent scholar) Abstract: We’re toast. That has been clear for quite some time. Who gets to count as “we” is of course of for debate, and how the toast-i-ness came to be “a thing” … Continue reading →

Manchester City Council’s Highways Department has been forced to admit, again, it is not doing anything about switching to low-carbon asphalt. In response to a request for more complete information the Council has conceded, in response to the question “What … Continue reading →

From an email – BREAKING NEWS: XR has blocked 13 of Amazon’s biggest fulfilment centres around the UK, as well as some in the Netherlands and Germany, in a Black Friday action. We’re taking a stand against one of the world’s biggest … Continue reading →

Two and a half years ago – at what I suspected at the time was the height of the climate issue (1) – I wrote a piece called A bluffer’s guide to #Manchester environment & #climate organisations, old and new. … Continue reading →

If people won’t even tell the truth about their own actions, why should we trust their analysis of others’? Or their trustworthiness, competence etc? Serious question. And silence is complicity, btw.