‘Now is the hour’: Labor urged to speed up fossil fuel phase-out to justify Cop30 pledge

Musician says seeing national flags on recent visits to London and Dublin ‘doesn’t make me feel safe’ The UK and Ireland are entering a “dark time”, according to the singer Joy Crookes, who said the influence of far-right ideology on mainstream politics was comparable to the 1970s when the National Front was at its peak. Crookes, who has just played two sold-out shows at the O2 Academy in Brixton, said the recent wave of nationalism and the far-right march through central London in September made her feel unsafe in the UK. Continue reading… Source link

Bolsonaro was under house arrest for masterminding coup to stop 2022 election winner, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, taking office Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília​, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup. In a brief statement, federal police confirmed officers had executed a preventive arrest warrant at the request of the supreme court. The 70-year-old politician was taken to a federal police base, 7 miles from the presidential palace he occupied from 2019 until…

Former journalist and first-term MP has vowed to take the fight on energy, infrastructure and housing to the Minns Labor government Who is Kellie Sloane, the new NSW Liberal leader – and can this first-term former journalist save the party? Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Kellie Sloane has vowed to take the fight to the Minns Labor government, focussing on families and cost of living, after she became the third woman to lead the New South Wales Liberals. The Liberal party room unanimously endorsed…