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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
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Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
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Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Keir Starmer wanted to be remembered as Prime Minister for building homes. Instead he will be remembered for his complicity in destroying them. #GazaGenocide
Rafah, in Gaza, on Google Earth, in 2022, left, and in 2026, right. (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/google-earth-gaza-images-update-b3057562.html)
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A gut-punch of a statistic, reflective of what's happening throughout the entire natural world. But using the word "stocks" to describe a wild population of one of Earth's most breathtaking, magical species indicates precisely why we've reached such a predicament. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Ireland’s wild Atlantic salmon stocks down 80% since 1970s
Public consultation launched amid fears ‘iconic species’ could be lost entirely from Irish rivers
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Left Of Center Orange Hater @leftocorangehater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Time and time again when I'm knocking on doors people tell me they've still got their kids living at home with them. The extreme cost of housing is putting lives on hold across this country. We need an emergency brake on rents. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Zack Polanski to call for three-year cap on private rent rises
In his speech to his party's conference, the Green leader will frame housing as a key issue of generational fairness.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@davetuller1.bsky.social, a great champion of patients, interviewed me about the massive, ongoing scandal of the neglect, abuse and mistreatment of people with ME/CFS www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maae...
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Interview with George Monbiot about Guardian column on ME/CFS
YouTube video by David M Tuller
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Two million pensioners live in poverty. We spend less on pensions than other rich countries. Yes, we desperately need a National Care Service. Don't make today's workers poorer in their old age to pay for it!
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D Lovatt 🍃💚🍃 @colliewobbled.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes please to more nature and fewer fleecy stores for the sheepwrecked uplands of Mid Wales. Meanwhile, the arrogance and entitlement displayed by Bards of the Fleece around my way is staggering. No farmers, no food they say. I say: no nature, no food, no farmers.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Telegraph has published my letter responding to a column by James Rebanks. I argue that the pastoral idyll can obscure destructive and wasteful land use. They changed one thing though: I pointed out that the headline accused me of waging a "sheep culture war", not the article. archive.ph/pgEGB
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is just state barbarism. Nothing less.
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D Lovatt 🍃💚🍃 @colliewobbled.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Agree.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why must it always be about planting trees, when they managed just fine for 100s of millions of years before people came along? Just let them seed out. Yes, planting does have a role, but so often the underlying subtext is continued human domination of nature. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government
Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
George is quite right on this. I discovered via FOI requests that just 5% of all woodland creation grants go to support natural regeneration of trees, and 95% to tree planting. I’ll continue to push DEFRA to fix this. www.theguardian.com/environment/... bsky.app/profile/geor...
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Government ‘failing to support natural regeneration of trees in England’
Campaigners say targets for woodland creation are unlikely to be met because 95% of grants are for planting
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meta glasses are being used for covert harassment and group stalking. Women and girls are being secretly filmed in streets, schools, restaurants and on dates, then uploaded for millions of strangers. Police inquiries now span worldwide. #OpDeathEaters
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Meta glasses used to film women and girls without consent from Seoul to Barcelona as police cases mount worldwide
Police and prosecutors across France, Spain, South Korea, Japan and the U.S. have opened cases against men accused of secretly filming women and girls with Meta glasses. The only warning victims have ...
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Finally a talisman for untouchable losers who want to spy on people and be monitored 24/7 by even worse ones
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Free online event tomorrow! Wanting to contribute to wildlife tourism and conservation while trying to prioritise sustainable travel can be a hard balance to get right. Our panel will deep dive into this moral quandary on Thursday, 7pm. Tickets: tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
After banning CNN, MS NOW & Politico from the White House, he installs State-Run television, just like they have in so many other countries... Sieg Heil, ya'll. #38Days 🌊
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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“It’s not easy to reduce how much we fly when airlines actively promote and reward people for taking multiple short haul flights. We need to send a message to event organisers that the climate matters.” Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/drop-pollu...
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D Lovatt 🍃💚🍃 @colliewobbled.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On the news: 1000s of largely well-off people are experiencing flight delays owing to problems with NATS. Not on the news: 3.3 to 3.6 billion people globally, of whom 1 billion are poor, are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. www.ipcc.ch
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IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely horrifying. How can our government be planning to drill for new oil and gas when we know these are the consequences? We have to keep the pressure on this Labour Government to keep all fossil fuels in the ground and secure a safe future for our children and grandchildren.
Babies will face almost twice as much extreme fire weather in Europe that great grandparents
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is the biggest lie you’ve been told. You’re told the West is falling apart because of migrants and minorities. But who closed the factories? Crashed the banks? Launched the wars? Here’s what really happened 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hdp...
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The Biggest Lie You've Been Told
YouTube video by Owen Jones
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Absolutely blown away by all the supportive comments on our fundraiser: donorbox.org/the-flight-f... Thanks so much everyone who has donated 😀💚🌍 We are raising money to continue our climate education work and inspire MORE climate action. Please donate if you can! donorbox.org/the-flight-f...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Palantir have just bought themselves a Labour Lord with close links to the Labour government. No other word to describe this other than corruption. How can Watson remain a member of the House of Lords and keep the Labour whip?
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Does this horrify you? Then you will be smeared as a dangerous, hateful extremist.
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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Exactly! All that destruction for a 0.05% blip. Not worth it. Total greed.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For years I've been told that aviation emissions are negligible, so don't worry your little head about them. But I've kept pointing out that there are - and will be - no good technical solutions, and they'll keep growing. Now we know just how big the problem is. www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-heathrow...
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CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’ - Carbon Brief
Aviation is on track to be responsible for 80% of the UK’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2050, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC).
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D Lovatt 🍃💚🍃 @colliewobbled.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
More CO2 emissions. More noise pollution. More air pollution. The erasure of: communities (including an entire village), historic assets, yet more green spaces and biodiversity. For what? A 0.05% increase in GDP.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's not AI that could kill us all. It's capitalism New column! 👇 zeteo.uk/p/it-could-k...
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
UK aviation emissions to be 50% higher than thought by 2050, government admits www.carbonbrief.org/uk-aviation-...
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UK aviation emissions to be 50% higher than thought by 2050, government admits - Carbon Brief
The Labour government has signalled its support for a contentious third runway at Heathrow airport, with a final planning decision expected by 2029.
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Philipp Steinkrüger @psteinkrueger.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026
Fixed the audio H/T @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And he's right about this: there's no security for Israel until there is security for Palestine. That the Starmer government could never utter such simple truths, but instead treated the Palestinian cause as yet another means of attacking the Labour left, is one of the many reasons why he had to go.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A third of nurses and a third of doctors were born overseas. Without immigrants the NHS would collapse. You are more likely to be treated by an immigrant than to be behind one in a queue. Massive underfunding of our NHS and lack of social housing were a political choice.
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D Lovatt 🍃💚🍃 @colliewobbled.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The #RNLI are the best of us.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...
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D Lovatt 🍃💚🍃 @colliewobbled.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We stepped through the looking glass folks.
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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When blackshirts are marching through the streets of Dover and Portsmouth, the focus shouldn’t be on the disruption they cause, but on their fascist ideology and deliberate intimidation of migrants and people of colour. [1/2]
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