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[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Greta Thunberg has warned that 40C heatwaves in the UK are “only the beginning” and says Britain’s leaders have “their heads completely buried in the sand” regarding climate change.

Her comments follow revelations that Labour ministers met fossil fuel industry lobbyists more than 500 times during the party’s first year in power, while Labour MPs took tens of thousands of pounds in donations from oil and gas lobbyists.

The activist, 23, was speaking as the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued a rare red heat-health alert for the first time since 2022, with temperatures forecast to reach as high as 40C later this week.

“This is what experts have been warning about for decades,” Thunberg told Metro. “This is unfortunately only the beginning.”

She added: “We know that the climate crisis is here and now, and not a faraway threat in the future, and those suffering the most are the ones who have contributed the least to cause it.”

The red alert – which indicates heat that is life-threatening for even the healthy population – covers the East and West Midlands, London, and southern and east England from 1am on Wednesday until 11pm on Thursday.

The heatwave could also disrupt transport infrastructure, food and water access, energy supplies and force businesses to close, UKHSA warned.

Thunberg said: “What is most concerning about this is not only that we continuously shatter heat records and destabilise the entire biosphere way faster than models have been predicting, but that it is not treated as the existential crisis it is in media and politics.

“The UK’s responsibility for the climate crisis cannot be overstated, still its leaders continue acting as if there was no tomorrow.”

Research by UKHSA published last year found that as well as the elderly, the very young and people with pre-existing medical conditions, people experiencing poverty, overcrowded housing or difficult economic circumstances are also at far greater risk in the heat.

Thunberg’s comments were echoed by climate scientists, including professor Friederike Otto of Imperial College London, who said politicians had failed to respond to the first red heat-health alert in 2022.

“Our first 40C day was supposed to be a wake-up call, but clearly someone hit snooze,” she said.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Israel is pursuing “a deliberate strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinians in Gaza by targeting their children.”

The UN’s highest investigative body concluded today that an aspect of Israel’s genocide involves “deliberately shooting children in vital organs using precision weapons”

And arresting, torturing, and subjecting Palestinian children to sexual violence in detention.

[WearThePeace @WearThePeaceCo]

Right now, Congolese supporter Michel Kuka Mboladinga is honoring Congo’s independence hero Patrice Lumumba, who is a symbol of anti-colonial resistance and was assassinated in 1961, by mimicking his statue’s pose in Kinshasa for the full 90 minute match against Colombia in the FIFA World Cup.

[Ethan Shone @EJShone93]

https://t.co/O31LlcBYRQ

[Ethan Shone @EJShone93]

NEW: Zack Polanski has accused Andy Burnham of a being a "Blair tribute act" over his move to hire top lobbyist and New Labour minister James Purnell

Purnell is boss of Flint Global, an elite advisory and lobbying firm set up by a former cabinet secretary

The Green Party leader has also called for Flint's UK client list to be published in full - thanks to Westminster rules Flint declares very few clients, but EU records show it was paid over £1m by Apple last year, and worked for other tech giants including Uber, Airbnb and Amazon, plus BP.

Details below ⬇️

[Crìsdean MacEanraig @NosrednehTemple]

Keir Starmer has done his job. He sabotaged a socialist project with a progressive internationalist vision, and replaced it with a repressive pro-genocide government that perpetuated the inequalities and deprivations that define the UK. They don't give out knighthoods for nothing

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Not one MSM account of his premiership—left, centre, right—will mention his participation in genocide

Propaganda by omission is how they brainwash

Those who write the history books do same thing

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

who amongst us can honestly say they've never taken £5 million pounds from an offshore crypto-bro

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Starmer will be remembered as one of worst, most regressive prime ministers of last century—and it was all entirely predictable

But Andy Burnham is cut from same cloth

The problem is not these empty suits. The problem is the Labour Party: it is set-up to sustain UK oligarchy

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

That Starmer (pettily) called Corbyn's Labour "immoral" in his speech is astounding. From the man who led a party that backed a genocide, proscribed a direct action group, arrested pensioners, demonised immigrants, cut disability benefits and more. What planet do they live on?

[Aydin Dikerdem @AydinDikerdem]

It’s wild how Gaza is being erased from the narrative surrounding Starmer’s unpopularity. Over 50% of Labour switchers at the locals said it influenced them. It came up on the doorstep over & over again. It’s one of the greatest moral stains of our era. And yet media silence.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

There is a lot of myth-making about Starmer's leadership, much of it unchallenged.
It is hard to support the claim Starmer 'saved the Labour party' when he got 560,000 votes fewer than Corbyn in 2019.
2024 was a Tory collapse, not a Labour surge.
(via HoC Library).

[Karl Hansen @karl_fh]

Britain is not "ungovernable". It is governed according to an economic model that has delivered almost two decades of stagnant living standards and national decline. Everything is downstream of that. It is why prime ministers become so unpopular so quickly, and why their governments keep collapsing into crisis.

[Jess Barnard @JessicaLBarnard]

To bring members back and to empower those who stayed, we must recentre the Labour Party around our movement: democratic policy‑making, fair candidate selections instead of stitch‑ups, and real transparency on the NEC. Members need their full democratic rights restored.

[Jess Barnard @JessicaLBarnard]

To stop the march of Reform and the threat of a Trump‑style Government, the next Labour leader must ditch this approach. That means becoming a democratic, rules‑based party again. One which is outward looking and embraces our membership, rather than holds them in contempt.

[Jess Barnard @JessicaLBarnard]

Failures on winter fuel and disability benefits ended in avoidable U‑turns; if members had been listened to rather than dismissed, we could have got these choices right the first time.

[Jess Barnard @JessicaLBarnard]

On civil liberties Starmer has taken an axe to them, attempting to scrap jury trials, giving police unprecedented new powers, restricting the right to protest and criminalising pensioners for holding signs for peace

[Jess Barnard @JessicaLBarnard]

When thousands of Palestinian men, women and children were being murdered, Starmer defended Israel’s “right” to withhold food, water and power and continued to send arms to Israel.

[Jess Barnard @JessicaLBarnard]

His control‑freakery treated any internal dissent as an affront to the right of a small, out‑of‑touch clique to run the party.

The result was a disaster.

[Jess Barnard @JessicaLBarnard]

His authoritarianism treated our members with contempt - driving hundreds of thousands out of politics.

When Labour lost the support of committed activists and councillors, his allies briefed that they were “shaking off fleas”.