Mark Lynas is the author of numerous books on the environment. His latest is Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency. He also advises former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed on climate, works with the 55-member Climate Vulnerable Forum, and is co-founder of the pro-science environmental campaign network RePlanet.

“The Ukraine war has exposed the bankruptcy of an ideologically diverse set of foreign-policy commentators,” writes @jkirchick, “the ‘anti-imperialists’ who justify acts of imperial conquest, and the ‘realists’ who make arguments unmoored from reality”: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/anti-war-camp-intellectually-bankrupt/671576/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

The government has lost control of the economy. It’s going to mean higher mortgages and higher prices.

And what for?

Unfunded tax cuts for the one per cent.

They must recall parliament today and abandon this act of economic self-harm.

NEW: Keir Starmer calls for Parliament to be recalled in response to the economic crisis.