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Hannah @policyhannah.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Are you fed up that government departments are continuing to share important information on platforms like X? Ask your MP to support the 'Public sector comms, decentralised platforms & local journalism' EDM by @sianberry.bsky.social 👇 action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp... @openrightsgroup.org
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Tell your MP: Government must move away from toxic social media platforms
What’s going on? Tell your MP to support the 'Public sector communications, decentralised platforms and local journalism' EDM (Early Day Motion) 411, tabled by Siân Berry MP. No member of the public s...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Guess what? Gas boilers were once a "middle class technology". So were televisions, and phones. That's the standard trajectory for any roll-out. Build the market, drive down the costs and an exclusive tech is universalised. Or did you have another route in mind?
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
BREAKING; The UK has lost confidence in Jim Ratcliffe. Actually, that happened when he scooted off to Monaco to avoid paying tax, tried to force fracking on Britain, and claimed the UK had been ‘colonised by migrants’. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Colonialism was there to abolish slavery is certainly a take
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It is time to end Thatcher's failed 37-year privatisation experiment. It is time to bring water into public control.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 06/09/2026
Two options for @andyburnham.bsky.social to show he’s not continuity Starmer. A) Arrest every fascist thug involved with the obviously coordinated terrorist attack at Dover. B) Release every single elderly vicar connected/conflated with Palestine Action, @xrglobal.bsky.social, Just Stop Oil, etc.
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justreadingjunk.bsky.social @justreadingjunk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Massive contrast in how these masked, unplanned protests are being treated in contrast to pensioners holding signs saying they support Palestine action
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
‘Honest Bob’ Jenrick says he wants to “abolish” Natural England, and at the very least stop funding it, in the first 100 days of a putative Reform government. Reform may appear to be on the rocks currently but their plans are terrifying, mad & must be stopped. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Jenrick: “Even if you can’t abolish, I don’t know, Natural England within the first 100 days, you can stop funding it, you can turn the tap off and the tap will be turned off a lot of these quangos, and that will drive savings.”
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’ve noticed a disturbing credulity amongst some anti-development activists, who seem to think that Reform UK would want to protect the environment (yes, really). The party’s proposals today to rip up environmental duties on developers ought to slay that idea: www.reformparty.uk/policies/pla...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
1. A few years ago, people like me were widely attacked in the media for “declinism”. How could we fail to see that we were heading into a capitalist utopia, in which everything would keep getting better? This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Officially, the water industry in England is regulated. Practically, it's unregulated. There's no difference between what it does under the eye of the Environment Agency and what it would do if the EA did not exist. The EA is completely useless, by design. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny
Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’
Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The treatment of Jason Arday was massively out of proportion to his faults. People who have committed terrible crimes have received less scrutiny, yet I don't believe anything he did or said even crossed the threshold of criminality. How many of us would have survived what he was put through? 🧵
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Exxon is annoyed EU is insisting on some kind of CO2 capture Makes most sense if you think oil company advocacy for CCS is more about pretending to politicians they have an answer for climate change, rather than their actual willingness to do anything about it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I am a girl. I like reptiles and horror movies and science fiction and comics and TTRPGs, and for my entire life, every time I have entered a space, I have had to prove that I didn't "steal" it from the person* it rightfully belonged to. (*Boy, then man.)
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy". As long as the protest is not about Palestine, climate or any other issue that major lobbyists want to shut down. If you're protesting about asylum seekers, on the other hand, your concerns are legitimate, and we're making policy in response.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The same people who have been telling us "we can't stop climate change, instead we must adapt" have been hammering our capacity to adapt, through their promotion of austerity. What they're really saying is "keep burning fossil fuels for the sake of our donors". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 31/07/2026
Fossil fuel companies give huge sums of money to far-right fascist politicians. Those far-right fascists start wars to make fossil fuel companies richer and slash funding for renewable projects & policies. With all the extra money FF fund more far-right fascists. Stop buying fossil fuels.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.
Column by Allister Heath

Britain can’t stop climate change. Scrap net zero and embrace Mediterranean life

We’ve lost the war against global warming so let’s learn to handle hotter weather
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Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 27/07/2026
Spotlight’s @kamilakingstone.bsky.social joined @georgemonbiot.bsky.social & @elliechowns.bsky.social for an Assemble discussion on how to tackle political corruption. They explored why stronger lobbying rules, political finance reform & tougher enforcement matter.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is a brilliant essay, which, in my view, accurately describes the predicament of the post-Boomer generations, and the vast infrastructure of lies designed to disguise it. "Degeneracy is a symptom. The disease is rent." 🧵 henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy...
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Degeneracy is a Symptom
On Conspicuous Despair, the Ponzi stage of being alive, and why your grandparents are wrong about you.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage is a grifter. He always has been and he's continuing to grift. He knew he was heading towards a byelection anyway so has pulled the trigger early. The people Vs the establishment?! Reform are literally part of the establishment.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Here's someone who makes a big, bold and very popular promise, then actually delivers it. Why do other supposedly-leftwing administrations find this so hard? (Actually, that's a rhetorical question: they deliver for their funders and the rest of the oligarch class, ahead of their voters).
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
How the jobs figures pan out. Net zero: massive new employment. Return to fossil fuels: mass unemployment. Don't ever let these grifters persuade you they have your interests at heart. They dance to the tune of their funders. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A question for Nigel Farage – why is your nationalist party so obsessed with destroying British jobs? | George Monbiot
Claims that our prosperity depends on oil and gas are bunkum – unless you’re a Reform backer with fossil fuel interests, of course, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Our country needs a bold change of direction. Starmer lost the confidence of the country because of his abject failure to challenge the power and wealth of an establishment which has taken for themselves while leaving the vast majority in a cost of living crisis. (1/5)
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Bills up. Wages too low. Record profits for Oil & Gas. 50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population. Shit in our rivers. Pensioners jailed for protesting. Migrants thrown under the bus. Supporting a Genocide. That's Starmer's legacy.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Keir Starmer was hanging out with the Murdochs last night, according to Politico
SPOTTED … at News Corp Chairman Lachlan Murdoch’s summer party at Spencer House: Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer … Tory Leader Kemi Badenoch and her husband Hamish Badenoch … former Health Secretary Wes Streeting … ex-No. 10 chief of staff Morgan McSweeney … Reform Treasury spokesperson Robert Jenrick … former Secret Intelligence Service Chief Richard Moore … former Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg … YouTuber Piers Morgan … and DMG Media editor-in-chief Paul Dacre.
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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Labour ministers are engaged in trying to trick Zack Polanski into falling foul of their thoughtcrime ban on Palestine Action. This modern McCarthism and shows Labour for who they really are. Criminalisation of legitimate protest is what go us here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLCb...
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They Just Tried To Get Zack Polanski ARRESTED
YouTube video by Owen Jones
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot
The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In Doppelganger, @naomiaklein.bsky.social shows how white supremacists assume the victimhood of those they oppress, presenting the evils they do as evils done to them. In Britain, where black people are 7 times more likely than white people to die after police restraint, this is what we are seeing.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It would be bad for public confidence if there was a suspicion that large corporate interests are buying access to the Government via the Tony Blair Institute. My letter to the cabinet office. 👇🏼
Dear Chris, 
Tony Blair's essay published by the Tony Blair Institute yesterday contained some 
important points, notably, a call to switch to an AI focussed economy with more 
government investment in AI, which he argued would be facilitated by cuts to welfare 
spending, reductions in the minimum wage and reduced workers’ rights. 


It has been widely reported that Larry Ellison the owner of Oracle, which specialises in AI, 
 
funded the Tony Blair Institute with over £250m, and also that the Tony Blair Institute has 
significant contacts and influence within the government. 
We are sure you will agree that it's important for the public to know whether there is a 
link between Larry Ellison's donations and Tony Blair's public advocacy for more 
government funding of AI. We therefore request that all formal and informal contacts 
between representatives of the Tony Blair Institute and government departments 
(officials and ministers) are disclosed. 
It would be bad for public confidence if there was a suspicion that large corporate 
interests are buying access to the government via the Tony Blair Institute. 
Yours sincerely, 
Zack Polanski 
Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
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JuneSim63 💚 @junesim63.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Exactly. In Blair’s case it's Larry Ellison of Oracle. www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
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'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION
As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...
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justreadingjunk.bsky.social @justreadingjunk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Great to see, democracy in the UK has been an illusion in the UK my whole life. This has eroded faith in politics and reduced voter participation - the old 'wasted vote' argument
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More than 60 Labour MPs call for review of UK voting system
The MPs say the current first-past-the-post system for general elections is
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I can‘t figure out why, but I have never seen news stories about how oil rigs hurt whales. Only wind farms do that. And only solar panels have a recycling problem. Gas stations are fine.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Reform took a £5m donation and they're trying to distract you. Farage is just another establishment stooge. Like in Gorton & Denton - the only way to stop Reform on Thursday - Vote Green. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
There is no special relationship. There hasn't been one for a very long time, if ever. Instead, there's a parasocial relationship, in which the UK government imagines it's involved in ways the other partner doesn't recognise. States have interests, not preferences. They don't love. They calculate.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
In the 1930s, Oswald Mosley claimed to be a patriot, while his British Union of Fascists was secretly funded by the Italian government. We are just beginning to grasp how much of the far right in the UK today has been funded by Viktor Orbán and Russian oil money. Their "patriotism" is always a con.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Translation: Net Zero threatens the value of our proprietor's investments. The world must cook for the sake of his portfolio.
Daily Mail headline says "Drill, Ed, Drill"
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 01/04/2026
What do I want to do? Restore ecosystems. I don’t need much help on this generally BUT My charity has a solid chance of going bankrupt if you don’t support this crowdfunder. It’s been my whole life for over five years. I am scared now. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/warleigh-n...
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Warleigh Nature Reserve, Bath
Bath's largest rewilding project has begun: Warleigh Nature Reserve. Right on the River Avon, and already full of beavers.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
To those saying, "but the Greens will split the vote": 1. Things have changed. 2. It's not the Green's fault that Starmer has the Merdas Touch (turns everything to shit) 3. When the Greens offer the only inspiring option, perhaps we should see the Labour candidate as splitting the vote.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Just so we're clear, and so a tiny handful of wankers online don't create the wrong impression, the vast majority of your European friends are incredibly impressed by Minnesotans' courage against both the ice and ICE.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
A real shame if this photo went viral again today.
Trump and Farage
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Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Tomorrow's episode is going to be a big one... linktr.ee/boldpolitics
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Watching the total donations shooting up after the Xmas Day Message is so beautiful. Thank you all! 💚🎄 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
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Together in Solidarity
At Calais Appeal, we come together with varied areas of expertise to provide essential support. We are committed to continuing this essential network of solidarity, but we need your support to do so.
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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
We've really come full-circle on the whole "War on Christmas" thing, huh? Now, anyone who has the temerity to actually, you know, draw moral lessons from the Nativity Story, presents a threat to those who only value Christmas as a vehicle for stomping on minorities.
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