Meanwhile, In the Real World
A week of heatwaves that were entirely predictable
The UK is about to go over 35C for three days in a row. We are at a global warming increase of 1.5C, and temperatures are now rising by 0.4C a decade, meaning we will be hitting 2C in ten years. Meaning the UK's wiring, roads, railway lines and housing will be melting, subsiding and heading underwater.
Meanwhile the Guardian reports that "Starmer has a good story to tell."
Great story to tell. Just great.
And yes, to round it off, Starmer sat back and allowed judges to give years-long sentences to the most courageous members of the younger generation — people who took proportionate peaceful action to force reality onto the agenda, and who are going to have to spend their whole lives dealing with this shit.
At the very minimum, to make any real difference, the UK has to get to zero emissions by 2035. Pretending otherwise is the purest of pure bullshit.
Fiona Harvey
Entirely predictable
When the Nazis saw thousands of tanks coming over the horizon in 1944, they thought it was "nothing short of astonishing."
Since then, everyone else has thought it was entirely predictable.
France will be at the epicenter of the most significant heat anomaly on the planet over the next few days. The sheer extent of the country that could experience temperatures above 40°C is nothing short of astonishing. Red-level extreme heat warnings are likely to be issued soon. pic.twitter.com/V4AgIUg2vA
— Nahel Belgherze (@WxNB_) June 20, 2026
There's a real world out there. It was coming to kill Nazis in the past. It is coming to kill our children in the very near future.
Classism at the Guardian
Guardian columnist Marina Hyde wrote a column this week on Andy Burnham's Makerfield by-election result and the winning candidate Rob Kenyon.
Marina Elizabeth Catherine Dudley-Williams, also known as Marina Hyde, daughter of Sir Alastair Edgcumbe James Dunley-Williams, 2nd Baronet — just for starters — rightly criticises the sexism of the Reform candidate and plumber Rob Kenyon. She then goes on to say that he:
"will no doubt be back on his plumbing rounds next week. So, Makerfield ladies, make sure your husband's home to be consulted as to whether you really want your sink unblocked. It'll honestly be cheaper to replace it."
Ha ha ha. Get back to being peasants, you underlings.
She might want to check out how many plumbers are in parliament compared with the offspring of aristocrats. And why working-class people vote for the far right when elitist "progressives" are not only so patronising to them, but don't even notice they are doing it.
Marina Hyde
If the reporting won't tell you what organised political struggle looks like against heatwaves, we will. Below are recordings from last month's Festival of Revolutions, along with upcoming events where you can hear more and get involved directly.
If a video or workshop isn't enough, there are several longer programmes running over the summer: a Collaborative Leadership Summer Intensive with Resilient Uprising in early July; an Introduction to Sacred Activism later that month; and a Strategic Leadership Intensive with Resilient Uprising in October. Full details and registration for all of these are on the events page.