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Ben Long

@benwhlong.bsky.social
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Co-founder of southdevonprimary.org and the politicalprimary.org network. Father wanting a future for our kids. Born at 340ppm CO2.

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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Nearly 600 screenings of the People's Emergency Briefing are in place up and down the UK, with more being added every day. Our new trailer for Earth Day is out today. Find a screening near you www.nebriefing.org/screening-map
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National Emergency Briefing
Find a People's Emergency Briefing screening near you, or spot a gap that you can fill by hosting a screening.
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Did they forget Satan?
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Even the existence (let alone use) of nuclear weapons harms us, since it forces us to live with the possibility of experiencing that brief moment between the flash and the unimaginable blast.
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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This open invitation to the @nebriefing.bsky.social was published in the @financialtimes.com today. Please check whether your MP can make it here: www.nebriefing.org and if not ask them to! We will be briefing on national security, tipping points, food security, nature and more.
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The most important story in the world. As we heat the planet, we reduce the planet’s ability to stop us heating it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
“This Labour government would have banned the labour movement.” The always-excellent @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on blistering, exceptional form. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Is this moment the closest we’re going to get to the psychological cause of Netanyahu’s genocide?
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
This Labour govt has seized on one brutal anti-Semitic attack to further clamp down on legitimate protest against their own increasing authoritarianism. Are they worse than the Tories? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The Israeli state is psychopathic. Attacks on Jews are intolerable. Two things can be true at once.
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Exactly.
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Progressives urgently need to clarify: progress towards what?
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Wow. Journalist searches in Tel Aviv for three days for evidence of Israeli compassion for Palestinian civilians in Gaza — finds almost none. I’ve never been to Israel, but the impression given here is of collective psychopathy. www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Is Charlie Kirk America’s Reichstag Fire?
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Yes you can fret about @zackpolanski.bsky.social talking only to his base and not reaching more conservative voters, as perhaps others would have. But he seems to be on the airwaves everywhere, & he’s articulating a necessary & genuinely-progressive agenda better than any other leader 👏👏👏
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
If you want to know how dangerous the Israeli regime is, you only need to listen to their spokesperson David Mencer on BBC R4 Today programme at 8.10am. Spends the whole interview shouting over Nick Robinson, claiming the UN is in cahoots with Hamas to starve Gazans. Absolutely unhinged.
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
“…unless the judicial review is successful, membership of, or inviting support for, the group [#PalestineAction] will carry a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.” Palestine Action are a non-violent, direct action protest group. This is wild government overreach.
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
When protest is conflated with terrorism, the complete erosion of all civil liberties is well underway. This presided over by a government that has co-opted the Labour brand but has none of its humanity. It’s time for a complete change in how we do politics. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ban on Palestine Action to take effect after legal challenge fails
Group will become first direct action protest group to be banned under Terrorism Act after unsuccessful action
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I support #PalestineAction and all non-violent direct action groups seeking to protect life.
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
“Unless we are able to democratise our society, political and economic decision-making processes will continue to be dominated by those who have helped to cause climate breakdown up to now.” @graceblakeley.substack.com #VultureCapitalism
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
But Iran isn’t even trying to build a nuke. Even Tulsi Gabbard knows this. So WTAF, Kier Starmer? Even Blair’s government had the shame to dress up illegal wars in the Middle East with dodgy dossiers. Here, nothing but unprovoked aggression.
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Pure posturing by Reform UK. Drilling in the North Sea will do nothing to prevent ongoing production decline, nor secure U.K. energy independence, as the oil and gas is sold on the international market. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Reform UK promises to reverse ban on new North Sea oil drilling if elected
Party spokesperson says policy has ‘clear benefits for securing jobs and energy independence’
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
It’s far more expensive to retrofit quality insulation, PV and heat pumps. House building companies have made profits by building substandard houses and shifting necessary work onto homeowners’ shoulders. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Poor building standards add £1,000 to energy bills of new homes, analysis finds
About £5bn more spent than if rules for low-carbon new-builds had not been scrapped in 2016, ECIU thinktank finds
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The idea that bosses of a failing company might take huge bonuses out of the emergency funding that’s propping the company up is so mind-blowing that there’s only one possible conclusion: We need to renationalise water. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Ministers to block Thames Water paying bosses bonuses out of emergency loan
Exclusive: Firm close to insolvency says using £3bn loan to pay ‘substantial’ bonuses is vital to retain senior managers
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Climeworks’ Iceland capture plant fails to cover its own emissions “Direct capture is a scam, carbon capture is a scam, blue hydrogen is a scam, and electrofuel is a scam. These are all scam technologies that do nothing for the climate or air pollution” heimildin.is/grein/24581/...
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Climeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissions
The carbon capture company Climeworks only captures a fraction of the CO2 it promises its machines can capture. The company is failing to carbon offset the emissions resulting from its operations – wh...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy – UK politics live
‘Any strategy based on either phasing out fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail,’ says former PM
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why. Here is what this means:
Bees play a critical role in U.S. food production. In addition to making honey, they pollinate 75% of the fruits, nuts and vegetables grown in the U.S.
That's $15 billion worth of crops. Shook said the current losses are unsustainable.
"If this is a multi-year thing, it'll change the way we consume food in the United States," Shook said. "If we lose 80% of our bees every year, the industry cannot survive, which means we cannot pollinate at the scale that we need to produce food in the United States."
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We should ‘not…think of this as a Republican administration. This is a far right revolutionary government that is moving with tremendous rapidity to alter America and make it unrecognisable…’
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Stop Musk! Change the law on political donations On 31st March, MPs will debate the petition that 140,000 of us signed - to stop overseas billionaires polluting our politics: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Make sure your MP attends - email them now: www.writetothem.com
Poster depicts Elon Musk donating money to Nigel Farage. Text reads 'Stop Musk! Change the law on political donations. Parliamentary debate 31st March - email your MP now!'. Design inspired by the artist John Heartfield.
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Keep fascist money out of our politics.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Good morning all! 🇺🇦 Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻
Emergency demonstration at US embassy. Wed 5 March - 5:30pm
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This week's impressive Climate Change Committee report makes a rock solid case for net zero. BUT it recommends a major program of new fossil fuel infrastructure—giving Big Oil exactly what it wants. Why that’s a bad mistake, and what the alternative is. 🧵
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
President Krasnov.
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We should stop thinking of Trump as American. He is operationally Russian.
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
As Trump turns on Ukraine to do deals with Russia, here’s your reminder that he is a Russian asset, an easily-manipulated narcissist cultivated by the Russians from an early stage: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
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‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy
The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Musk’s Twitter does not reflect reality. Most Americans know climate breakdown is real. climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/u...
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
George Monbiot has kept the receipts on Labour’s failures so far, which are beyond disappointing.
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
‘When I lost my wife,’ said Tony, ‘I decided that grief is actually always there. It’s like it lives in you, dormant, until somebody goes, and that person dying — it just wakes you up to it, makes you aware of it. But it’s always been there.’ The Deluge, by Stephen Markley.
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
“She would not grow up to be president or a great ballet dancer or a neuroscientist or a VR influencer. She would be, like most of her generation, a scavenger, likely a part-time cannibal… 1/2
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
No-one is safe from climate breakdown.
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
“He says the main function of every society is solving problems by investing resources. But as society becomes more complex, the problems become more complex, so you have to invest more resources. Tainter says at the end of this spiral, collapse is inevitable.” amp.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘We need dramatic social and technological changes’: is societal collapse inevitable? | Climate crisis | The Guardian
Academic Danilo Brozović says studies of failed civilisations all point in one direction – today’s society needs radical transformation to survive
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Arguing for decarbonisation isn’t mobilising sufficient numbers. Concrete, local plans for adaptation, on the other hand, could focus minds better about what is to come, and get more people behind decarbonisation as a by-product. Good thoughts from @rupertread.bsky.social
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“Labour ruthlessly targeted its resources in seats it cd win &…discouraged campaigning elsewhere. In effect it was signalling to…voters to back the best-placed progressive to defeat the Tories, which is exactly what I was charged with.” Excellent from Neal Lawson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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After 44 years as a Labour member, I spent 18 months facing explusion. This is what the party got wrong | Neal Lawson
People are being threatened and punished at the hint of cross-party cooperation. It’s control freakery we cannot afford, says Neal Lawson of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass
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Ben Long @benwhlong.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Holy sh*t. If climate breakdown doesn’t already keep you up at night, spend a moment with this gif. Nice work @edhawkins.org
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