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Liz Probert

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So the ultra-rich will continue to own our politics, and our country. Disappointing to say the least. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A fascinating investigation into the funders of Restore from @bylinetimes.bsky.social - and an interesting link to Camelot Castle in Cornwall. A hotbed of Scientology! bylinetimes.com/2026/07/10/w...
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Who Is Really Bankrolling Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain
Byline Times investigates the figures behind the Elon Musk-backed far-right rival to Nigel Farage's Reform UK
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Why are we standing by and watching this happen? “Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an ⁠independent UN inquiry has found…. about 30% of the people killed by Israeli forces have been children.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds
Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
You can set your watch by this stuff.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
While all eyes are on Farage, we're overlooking something even worse: the building of the very tight and truly vile operation that is Restore Britain. This excellent essay/report by Simon Pearson should wake us up to the threat - and to what exactly it is. simonpearson1.substack.com/p/tory-30
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“Tory 3.0”
The British far right has spent fifty years failing to find a leader who looks like he could run the country. Last Thursday, it did. This is Tory 3.0.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
What kind of justice is this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Palestine Action activists in Elbit protest could be sentenced as terrorists
Judge’s ruling was not disclosed to jurors in two trials and can only now be revealed after reporting restrictions lifted
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.
James Bembridge on X:
Hate is too weak a word for what I feel towards the NHS. I'd tear it down and salt the earth upon which it stood.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying
Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Yet another position that's almost identical to the policy promoted by English fascists in the 1930s. There seems to be a kind of ideological homing instinct at work. Before long, the entire package will be back in place. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Nigel Farage’s farming adviser calls for wheat prices to double
Exclusive: critics warn Reform UK use of trade policy would increase food costs amid cost-of-living crisis
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Why should any political donations other than a standard annual party membership fee (say £25) be permitted? All other options allow wealthy people disproportionate political influence.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one. #NoBrainer www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...
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​​​​Cost of Net Zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock​ – CCC  - Climate Change Committee
The independent, statutory body tested its cost and energy security conclusions against different scenarios. It found that the total additional cost of a single fossil fuel price spike of 2022 magnitu...
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Zero Hour: the campaign for climate and nature @zero-hour.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
👏 Great to see Climate and Nature Crisis Caucus Vice-Chair @pippaheylings.bsky.social introduce a Bill to protect chalk streams today in Parliament. We urge the Government to support her plan before we irreversibly harm these globally rare habitats. 👇 Hear more about Pippa's Bill below.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The thing is, you didn't have to be Nostradamus to see it. You just had to be independent of the ultra-rich. Unfortunately, the great majority of the media is in the plutocrats' pockets. So the people pointing it out are shunned. In 2009 I tried and tried to get the BBC to pick this up. But ...⛔🤐
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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...
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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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...
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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The bombing of Venezuela is an act of aggression: unprovoked, unjustified and unjustifiable.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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...
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Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy
Justice secretary urged to ‘show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks
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max @marximilian.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
unfortunately bsky will still compress it before storing. here is the link to the full size map for others who are interested: www.ochaopt.org/content/west...
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West Bank Access Restrictions Map | July 2025 | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
A 16 year old American citizen has spent the last 9 months in an Israel prison. Tonight he’s finally free. Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida. He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank. He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
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Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months
Israeli soldiers had taken Mohammed Ibrahim from his home in a night raid when he was only 15 years old
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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 …
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Liz Probert @greysquirrel300.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Wow. The Greens are not just SECOND in this poll. They're now 3 points ahead of Labour - who are fourth. Time for Labour to stand down to stop splitting the anti-Reform vote!
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Happening today outside SEA LIFE London from 10.30am – join us! 🐧
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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...
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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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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows
Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories... "Change", my left foot. 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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Liz Probert @greysquirrel300.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fr...
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Free UK Citizens Illegally Detained While Delivering Aid to Gaza
My son Aaron White is one of 13 UK citizens who vanished on October 1st after Israeli forces illegally boarded their humanitarian flotilla in international waters, 70 nautical miles from Gaza. Over 50...
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 23/09/2025
Here are two minutes of lowlights from Trump’s rambling, hour-long address to the UN General Assembly that Twitter is calling one of the most embarrassing moments in recent US history. Subscribe to zeteo.com for more.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
It's almost as if, before the Gaza famine was officially recognised, it was a story, as media organisations could generate controversy by hosting Israeli government spokespeople and our own rightwing blowhards, insisting it was all a fabrication. Now that it can no longer be denied ... no story.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This, it seems, is what the BBC had in mind when it drew up plans in March to alter “story selection” to win over Reform voters.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
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Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all
Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Two very important graphs. Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved. The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers. Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms
Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A very disturbing thing I missed in researching this week's column. Three of the four junktank ultras hired by Labour to groom civil servants are named in this investigation of a Westminster network involving the disgraced eugenicist Andrew Sabisky. investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/andrew-sabis...
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Unravelling Westminster’s secret influence network | HOPE not hate
An ex-Tory aide linked to race science has created a group of political allies to craft policy in the shadows
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules
Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/09/2025
Spain’s PM Sánchez has imposed sweeping measures against Israel, including a total arms embargo, to “stop the Gaza genocide” and “support the Palestinian population.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tcopvq
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Absolutely unbelievable to see egregious anti-science nonsense being given an airing like this. Well done @lewisgoodall.com for calling it out. “A broad church… freedom of speech” - and that’s the excuse for platforming not just misinformation but disinformation.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it. A few examples in 🧵: theconversation.com/how-should-l...
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How should Labour and the Tories respond to the populist right? Lessons from Europe
The evidence suggests traditional parties that ape the populist radical right’s policies risk boosting their rivals instead of reclaiming voters.
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Top work from Rob @protectthewild.bsky.social as he walks around Parliament for 24 hrs to campaign for wildlife here in the UK – do follow and donate ! donorbox.org/24hoursforwi...
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Hovering, consistently, around 100 ppl a day, killed. You do the math. Gaza Officials Say 76 Palestinians Killed in Past Day, Including 18 Seeking Aid and 10 From Hunger www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Gaza officials say 76 Palestinians killed in past day, including 18 aid-seekers
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
With Trump now considering a Blair-Kushner plan for Gaza, worth remembering who else sought advice on the war from the former British PM & Iraq invasion architect: Tony Blinken, in the final months of the Biden admin Constant, depressing echoes of Biden-era failure, with even more Palestinian death
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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.
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