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2026-09-28 06:55:04 GMT

It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ed Miliband to acknowledge Lab...

2026-07-28 06:48:02 GMT

Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
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2026-03-10 07:50:35 GMT

From 1941 to 1952 in the UK, the top rate of income tax was 98%. A luxury goods purchase tax introduced in 1940 later rose to 100%.
Result? The share of incomes captured by the richest 0.1% fell from 7% in 1937 to just over 1% in 1975. That's what we need today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Things are not going to get be...

2026-02-27 19:44:28 GMT

Keir Starmer's attempt to paint the Greens as extremists yet again reveals his intolerance of political difference. His instincts are illiberal and authoritarian.

2026-01-28 07:18:40 GMT

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want ...

2026-01-27 17:02:09 GMT

This week's column is about something that's arguably more important than anything in the news, crucial as some of the other issues are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want ...

2026-01-27 07:14:03 GMT

If you are unlawfully killed by the authorities, you posthumously become a terrorist.

2026-01-26 13:11:49 GMT

This is a tough thing to face. But on the left we *must* uphold the standards we preach. It concerns me that this is the only article by a leftist I've yet read that handles the issue honestly. Otherwise I've seen only tortured apologetics & gross hypocrisy. www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?art...
Noam Chomsky's friendship with...

2026-01-23 11:38:43 GMT

10. It’s time to recognise how deeply weird this is, reserve our votes for people who give us what we want, and stop subscribing to media outlets that lie on behalf of oligarchs.
More on this subject, with facts and figures, in my most recent column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
At the root of all our problem...

2026-01-23 11:30:06 GMT

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

2026-01-16 18:18:38 GMT

It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
At the root of all our problem...

2026-01-14 07:20:44 GMT

Any weaponry the UK has acquired from or developed with the US is likely to contain a kill switch, making it inoperable if the US government does not endorse its use. This includes our entire nuclear arsenal. As old alliances rupture, we find ourselves sitting on a multi-billion pile of bricks.

2026-01-12 17:24:48 GMT

This is on Starmer, on Lammy, on Mahmood. Heba's impending death, it seems, is a matter of policy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palesti...

2026-01-12 17:22:48 GMT

The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Imprisoned hunger striker link...

2026-01-12 12:31:56 GMT

Never forget: the people who hate their country most are those who style themselves "patriots".
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2026-01-12 10:27:52 GMT

In the spirit of brotherly love, could I gently enquire why the almighty **** are government departments, government ministers and Labour MPs *STILL* using X?

2026-01-11 15:08:20 GMT

Q. How do you know a government has undemocratic tendencies?
A. It calls those who challenge it terrorists.

2026-01-10 10:51:13 GMT

A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.

2026-01-07 08:07:03 GMT

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palesti...

2026-01-07 07:05:02 GMT

In July 2024, I warned that if Trump were re-elected, "The age of multilateralism would be over, and something much worse will take its place. The UK and Europe will need to find the means of defending ourselves".
I was called "hysterical".
Well, here we are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I never thought I’d argue for ...

2026-01-06 17:24:04 GMT

Many of those who complain about mining for batteries / solar / wind power have curiously never raised a squeak about the far greater extraction required for fossil energy. Funny how they become concerned about the planet only when fossil fuel interests are threatened.

2026-01-06 17:04:14 GMT

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

2026-01-06 07:05:37 GMT

This explains so much.
People with psychopathic traits and low cognitive ability are over-represented in online political activity.
If someone is being cruel, obnoxious and ridiculous, don't try to reason with them. Chances are you won't get anywhere. Just block.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dark personalities in the digi...

2026-01-05 12:27:32 GMT

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

2026-01-05 09:28:11 GMT

To all those saying "but if our government spoke out, there might be consequences", please remember that not speaking out also has consequences. The history of appeasement is not a reassuring one.

2026-01-03 10:14:02 GMT

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

2026-01-03 09:25:15 GMT

The bombing of Venezuela is an act of aggression: unprovoked, unjustified and unjustifiable.

2025-12-23 07:58:22 GMT

Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Families of Palestine Action h...

2025-12-19 08:33:09 GMT

The more I think about it, the more I reckon the 2003 Iraq War began the process that let Trump win. The blatant lies we were told by our governments, the disregard for public opinion and mockery of international law created a rupture that never healed. Trust, consent and cohesion were smashed.🧵 1/3

2025-12-15 08:07:31 GMT

So yes, do both if you want to, while being aware that one activity is useful and the other is futile. But be aware that for most population obsessives, it's either/or, and is used to avoid moral responsibility and effective action.
More on all this here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
13/13
The facts are stark: Europe mu...

2025-12-15 08:01:57 GMT

In the short run, we can survive the decline in wealthy countries by reopening the door to immigrants, which would also offer sanctuary to people fleeing from the climate breakdown and conflict we've caused overseas. Two wins, in other words. In the long run, we'll steadily shuffle away.
8/13

2025-12-10 10:56:39 GMT

How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders...

2025-12-09 09:57:24 GMT

No good deed, thanks to the vicious propaganda campaigns of the billionaire media, now goes unpunished.
They hate it when anyone tries to make life better for vulnerable people.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK charities face ‘culture of ...

2025-12-07 10:22:08 GMT

1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12

2025-12-05 06:55:46 GMT

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may ...

2025-11-21 08:06:58 GMT

Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me:
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There’s a catastrophic black h...

2025-11-20 14:03:41 GMT

Among other topics, we discuss the sale of children in care.
They're worth roughly £100k each. The profit you can extract by sending them across the country to the cheapest housing in derelict places, cutting them off from all hope and contact, is off the scale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...
How To Platform Socialist Idea...

2025-11-19 11:13:44 GMT

The sheer scale of it shows that these people know they can get away with anything. The Environment Agency has been reduced to a chihuahua, sent out to do battle with rottweilers. It can yap, but can't land a bite. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
River close to engulfing Oxfor...

2025-11-19 11:11:24 GMT

The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain through the looking gl...

2025-11-16 10:41:28 GMT

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us ...

2025-11-15 11:41:51 GMT

If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expe...

2025-11-14 06:47:45 GMT

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us ...

2025-11-13 06:56:51 GMT

4. Those who own media platforms repeatedly bang the drum for longer sentences and greater criminalisation of the underclasses. They frequently exaggerate the dangers of crime and claim it is rising when it is falling. They push governments ever further towards a prison state. 4/8

2025-11-11 18:17:50 GMT

The allegation here is that wealthy tourists paid to be able to shoot human beings. Perhaps killing wildlife wasn't enough for them. If true, psychopathic scarcely begins to cover it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Milan prosecutors investigate ...

2025-11-11 08:01:12 GMT

Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.
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2025-11-10 06:00:20 GMT

Panorama made a stupid editing mistake. But compare this to the deliberate and systemic attempt, sustained across years, to ensure that BBC output aligns ever more closely to the demands of economic power. Against your straw of bias, I raise you a haystack.

2025-11-10 05:50:09 GMT

I mean, just look at how far they stooped to try to appease not just the right but the far right. But you can never stoop far enough. Appeasement gets you nowhere. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
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2025-11-10 05:44:33 GMT

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

2025-11-09 10:55:39 GMT

This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New Yo...

2025-11-08 16:19:39 GMT

We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history.
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Ga...

2025-11-08 08:19:46 GMT

This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Ga...

2025-11-07 06:42:20 GMT

10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone.

2025-11-07 06:41:48 GMT

9. An autocratic ruler can quickly assert control, shutting down democratic institutions and competing poles of power, building an apparatus of state terror to crush dissent, controlling beliefs through the media, social media and other propaganda outlets. Every step makes the next one easier.

2025-11-07 06:41:12 GMT

8. But it might not require Nazi terror for Europe to revert to default mode. We seem perfectly happy to vote or drift our way back to it. As the US might already have done.
Once you vote for an autocrat, you might find it extremely hard to reverse the decision.

2025-11-07 06:37:17 GMT

2. These regimes were sustained by terror: extreme punishments for slight infractions; spectacular acts of public cruelty; torture and killing of those considered “disloyal” to the lord/bishop/king/emperor/pope. Belief in many cases was rigidly controlled: dissent or “heresy” often meant death.

2025-11-07 06:35:48 GMT

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.
Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

2025-11-06 07:11:58 GMT

1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville:
“Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
🧵
Opinion | James Carville: It’s...

2025-11-05 07:58:01 GMT

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

2025-11-05 06:49:03 GMT

It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected.
More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.

2025-11-03 17:56:48 GMT

Partly because so many formerly leftwing parties have turned to the right, there's a lot of confusion about what right and left mean in politics. I hope this helps:
The right defends economic power.
The left resists economic power.

2025-10-28 08:22:19 GMT

I’m not sure most people have grasped the implications of parliamentary, rather than popular sovereignty, and just how vulnerable this leaves us. Why should we not have guaranteed political rights? Why should we allow any government, current or future, to walk all over us?

2025-10-21 13:36:44 GMT

Help please. Does anyone know where I can find a copy of John Ruskin's lecture on "Imperial duty"? Thanks

2025-10-16 06:24:11 GMT

Worth reading Democracy for Realists by Christopher Aachen and Larry Bartels.

2025-10-16 06:18:48 GMT

That's some serious system justification.

2025-10-16 06:16:10 GMT

Ah yes, the folk theory of how democracy works. But never actually does ...

2025-10-16 06:03:15 GMT

The same thing has happened to the Labour Party and the BBC. It's as if some vitiating mist has crept across the political landscape, sucking the courage out of all the institutions it touches. Perhaps it's neoliberalism. Perhaps it's the growing wealth and power of the very rich.

2025-10-16 06:01:24 GMT

Over the years, our big conservation groups, once brave and radical, have been taken over by suits: people with an Establishment mindset, who identify with the system they should be contesting. They wheedle and appease when they should be fighting with every legitimate tool they have.

2025-10-16 05:52:55 GMT

Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wage war on nature to build ne...

2025-10-14 06:40:14 GMT

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what you need to know a...

2025-10-08 06:11:41 GMT

Many patients have been forced into useless and sometimes dangerous “buck up” treatments such as Graded Exercise Therapy and CBT, in some cases long after these “treatments” have been debunked. The most eminent advocate of these treatments? Professor Sir Simon Wesseley.

2025-10-04 06:24:37 GMT

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It hurt when I crashed my bike...

2025-10-03 10:50:51 GMT

They are each 1,000 times more useful than Lord Glasman will ever be (or than I will, for that matter). His attacks on them are gobsmackingly snobbish and misanthropic. They reveal the real spirit of Blue Labour: a hatred of public sector workers and of the enabling state.

2025-10-03 10:47:53 GMT

This is his repeated attacks on what he calls the "lanyard class". Who are the terrible people who wear lanyards? Doctors & nurses, care workers, teachers, managers, administrators, secretaries. The people who hold society together, who keep everything running, who do the jobs he wouldn't stoop to.

2025-10-03 10:43:31 GMT

After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I've come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there's something even worse. 🧵

2025-10-03 10:03:10 GMT

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed...

2025-10-02 13:36:12 GMT

I'll be on Any Questions on Radio 4 tomorrow. I don't yet know who the other panellists are, but given the way things are shaking out, I'm bound to disagree with them.

2025-09-10 07:10:20 GMT

Three of my great uncles, heroes all, died in World War Two to stop men like this. Will we now allow them to saunter into power?
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2025-09-09 13:10:43 GMT

Here’s the thing: we do not concede *one inch* to the far right. Ever. Anywhere. They are not just another political player. They are a threat to everything our ancestors fought and died to protect. They are not to be appeased. They are to be stopped. Rip down the flags wherever you see them. 3/3

2025-09-09 13:09:28 GMT

So when Yvette Cooper goes along with this pretence, boasts about all the flags she hangs in her garden shed (really? and, er, why?) and says “put them up anywhere”, she is, in effect, saying: “have the territory.” 2/3

2025-09-09 13:08:11 GMT

Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3

2025-09-07 16:50:00 GMT

4. Failing to clear out the Tories’ highly political appointments to the BBC. They should be replaced immediately with independent people. Until that happens, it will remain a public relations outfit for the hard right and far right.

2025-09-07 16:49:35 GMT

3. Refusing to introduce Proportional Representation. Under our First Past The Post system, a party with a minority of the vote can achieve a huge majority (as Starmer did with 34%). There is no way Farage could become Prime Minister under a PR system. Only under FPTP.

2025-09-07 16:47:59 GMT

2. Empowering and legitimising the far right by echoing its themes, threats, cruelty and nastiness. Even if you set aside the moral implications, it’s an utterly baffling policy, as all the evidence shows that this gifts voters to the far right.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
It’s official – Keir Starmer’s...

2025-09-07 16:46:13 GMT

If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer.
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
🧵

2025-09-04 06:00:19 GMT

But I think what got to me most was Tim Stanley's claim that claims of rightwing bias in the media are nonsense, because GB News is constantly complaining about leftwing bias. This, he appears to believe, is an argument. Yet he is treated, across the BBC, as if he were a serious voice.

2025-09-04 05:29:34 GMT

I was on the Moral Maze last night, and I have to say, with the blazing self-deception of Tim Stanley and Paul Baldwin, and the failure of other contributors to grasp some basic realities, it was an almost perfect showcase of everything that is wrong with the media.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Moral Maze - 03/09/2025 - BBC ...

2025-09-02 05:56:24 GMT

Across Europe, when centrist parties have adopted far right themes and sought to appease far right voters, they go down in flames. Why? Because:
1. They alienate their own base.
2. They tell other voters that the far right is correct.
The determination not to learn this lesson is a wonder to behold.

2025-08-28 05:55:11 GMT

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences?
Only one explanation now remains.
They do.
And it is what they want.

2025-08-24 16:19:07 GMT

It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.

2025-08-06 08:30:35 GMT

Let's empty the jails so we can fill them with octogenarians who care about genocide.
Because that's the real threat to society.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Prison bosses make room for po...

2025-08-04 08:13:00 GMT

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
The Renewable Illusion: Why Fo...

2025-08-01 08:26:01 GMT

By supporting the expansion of Heathrow Airport and spreading outright lies about decarbonising flying, Labour has again capitulated to lobbyists.
This is its defining characteristic: doing whatever powerful lobbyists ask, regardless of the social, environmental and even political costs.

2025-07-31 15:38:41 GMT

It cannot be denied: this is a deliberate and coldly-calculated famine, engineered by a technologically-advanced state which knows exactly what it is doing.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The mathematics of starvation:...

2025-07-31 14:27:01 GMT

US students are being forced to attend political propaganda sessions in which facts are distorted and issues conflated. It looks like the kind of "re-education" imposed by dictatorships.
I speak as someone fiercely opposed to antisemitism:
*This does not help*.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Antisemitism training designed...

2025-07-31 06:05:17 GMT

2. The reason is as grim as you could imagine: a cynical and staggeringly expensive greenwashing scheme dreamt up by the fossil fuel industry and packaged as a "climate solution": the supposed "Carbon Capture and Storage" scheme the government is funding. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s carbon-capture scheme...

2025-07-31 06:03:03 GMT

1. A characteristically brilliant explanation by @billmckibben.bsky.social of why Trump's attempt to force the EU to buy US fossil gas (please let's stop calling it "natural gas") will fail. Unfortunately, the UK is now locked into US gas dependence. 🧵 billmckibben.substack.com/p/how-the-gr...
How the Grift Works

2025-07-31 05:22:25 GMT

I support Palestine Action in its judicial review of the government's ban.

2025-07-30 15:33:14 GMT

"What if we just banned empathy? That should shut them up."
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2025-07-30 13:38:36 GMT

What the government has achieved above all is to bring people onto the streets in disgust at its disgraceful facilitation of genocide in Gaza. Its authoritarian policy has backfired spectacularly. Try as it might, it cannot stop people caring.
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2025-07-30 13:34:53 GMT

Great news: the High Court has granted permission for a full judicial review of the government's order proscribing Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act.
Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned.