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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Help bring a watercourse back to life www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/water-rest...
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Help bring a watercourse back to life
Help Furnace Brook Ecosystem Restoration Community restore a polluted lake and Trolliloes stream. Every donation helps us restore nature.
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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📩 I just wrote a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social letter to my MP: to stop data centres powered by burning trees. ✊ Write yours here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge... 🌲 To prevent forest-fuelled AI data.
actionnetwork.org
Write to your MP: To stop data centres powered by burning trees - urge your MP to oppose forest-fuelled AI data centres
In 2025 Drax burned 7,500,000,000 tonnes of trees consuming nearly £1 billion UK taxpayer subsidies for this false “renewable” energy. Thankfully these subsidies were set to in 2031. But now Drax’...
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You may be confused by the arguments & counter arguments around North Sea gas. So here’s a scientist & ex FF engineer giving us chapter & verse: @climatedesk.org @mikebernerslee.bsky.social @sioldridge.bsky.social climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...
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There Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas - Climate Uncensored
I was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tax the rich. Tax multinationals. Tax and regulate tech bros & AI. Get rid of non doms. Trickle down was a hoax. Let’s stop being patsies. Literally everything is at stake.
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Dear future Prime Minister: It's time to tax the super-rich
Just sharing this now — because once you see #HowToGetFilthyRich on Channel 4, you’re going to want to sign it. It’s time to tax wealth, not work. Add your name and help make wealth taxes the first it...
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The debate on having a referendum on water industry yesterday @weownit.org.uk @compassoffice.bsky.social @windrushwasp.bsky.social
mirror.co.uk
Public ownership of water industry could save £22billion, MPs are told
Labour MP Paul Davies, who led a Westminster Hall debate, said scrapping the “disastrous” privatised model could also help restore public trust in the sector
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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
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Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org
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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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A glacier collapsed in Nepal but this is not the time to talk about climate change | First Dog on the Moon
It’s always thoughts and prayers and please don’t politicise this horrible disaster
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Tom F @twf79.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - and both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
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Andy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centres
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
An increasingly brittle Reform UK is banning journalists from its conference. @annaisaac.bsky.social @willhaycardiff.bsky.social @petergeoghegan.bsky.social among those to be denied credentials, apparently as a punishment for breaking negative stories about the Farage and Tice led party.
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Reform UK bans three journalists from its conference after critical reporting
Guardian City editor Anna Isaac among those who had credentials to cover event declined
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In Farage’s words : boom! ‘…a yearlong Verbatim investigation…exposes a plot – masterminded by the Reform leader's top advisers, and welcomed by Farage himself – to break election law by funnelling foreign money into British politics.’
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Dirty Money: A Year Undercover in Reform UK
A yearlong investigation into Nigel Farage’s fundraising operation reveals a plot to break the law by bringing foreign money into British politics
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Meanwhile in Europe…
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Saxony-Anhalt election results live: Far-right AfD on track for landslide victory in German state - but 'firewall' may block it from government
A far-right party could govern a German state for the first time since the Second World War, after exit polls projected a landslide win for AfD in Saxony-Anhalt. But short of an absolute majority, the...
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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wow! Don't miss this! @anothergreen.bsky.social @green-alliance.org.uk @xrglobal.bsky.social @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @democracynow.org @weownit.org.uk @peterjukes.bsky.social @jonathanpienews.bsky.social @coldwarsteve.bsky.social @fullfact.org
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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#excellent #help how 2 work positively with your #UK #MP #PROPER #DEMOCRACY #honestyinpolitics engage in mp chat re #climatechange join www.mpwatch.org @itvnews.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @greenparty.org.uk @conservatives.bsky.social #mpwatch we are non partisan
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MP Watch | Homepage
Along with environmental and democratic allies, we aim to address the democratic deficit, by building and realising the potential of grassroots community groups to expose and oppose MPs of bad faith ...
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yes exactly 👉 bsky.app/profile/dran...
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
And still the UK gaslighting continues. Keep people furious about immigration. Keep them fighting each other. Keep them looking anywhere but up. Meanwhile, the climate is screaming. 42%: immigration 13%: climate & env Distraction. Division. Demoralisation. It works. www.ipsos.com/en-uk/immigr...
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Immigration remains Britain’s biggest issue as concern about climate change and the environment rises
The August 2026 Ipsos Issues Index shows that immigration continues to be seen as the biggest issue facing Britain. Forty-two per cent of Britons name immigration as an important issue facing the coun...
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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Data centres are springing up everywhere, using massive amounts of energy and water. I’ve signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition calling for a pause on new data centres until the government gets a grip on the situation. Will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/put...
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Stop data centres draining our precious resources
Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand...
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Find your hope then on the ground under your feet. Your hope of Heaven, let it rest on the ground underfoot. The world is no better than its places. Its places at last are no better than their people while their people continue in them. When people make dark the light within them, the world darkens
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
and by your caring for it, as you care for no other place, this knowledge cannot be taken from you by power or by wealth. It will stop your ears to the powerful when they ask for your faith, and to the wealthy when they ask for your land and your work. Be still and listen to the voices that belong
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
RIP Wendell Berry Because we have not made our lives to fit our places, the forests are ruined the fields eroded the streams polluted the mountains overturned. Hope then to belong to your place by your own knowledge of what it is that no other place is, to the stream banks & the open fields
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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🧵 1/13 🔦 What does Govt hide about climate 1️⃣ its own intelligence report on ecological breakdown 👉 bsky.app/profile/geor... 2️⃣ how it sets carbon budgets that keep emissions high 📈 ⚖️ We are going to Court to find out more 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... ✅ Click below for rest of 🧵
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It is always the same betrayal: the public interest is sacrificed for the sake of immensely wealthy people. And Andy Burnham has already gone and done it. My column on how Burnham needs to defy the ultra-rich if he's not to follow Starmer out of the door. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Andy Burnham has already made a mistake that will cost him his premiership: he lost his nerve over political donations | George Monbiot
Being subservient to the interests of the wealthy now means that his hands are tied, and he will be unable to tackle Britain’s most pressing issues, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
1/ "Grown-ups heeded not the science they were told." PM chairs emergency COBR. Wildfires in the New Forest. Drought. 33°C today, 38°C tomorrow — our 5th heatwave this summer. 🧵Thread on Heeding the science Please donate to legal action now👉https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-reckoning/
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The Food Foundation @foodfoundation.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
As the UK swelters through its 𝘀𝗶𝘅𝘁𝗵 heatwave of the summer, the need to change our food system has never been clearer. That's why 100+ organisations are calling for Prime Minister @andyburnham.bsky.social to introduce a Good Food Bill. foodfoundation.org.uk/news/cross-s...
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Great early sign 👇🏽from @andy-burnham.bsky.social & @eddavey.libdems.org.uk on social care that fits with the collaboration MPW believes essential to deal with all the crises coming at the UK.
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WeMove Europe @wemoveeurope.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Wildfires are forcing people from their homes across Europe, destroying forests, livelihoods and communities. And these disasters are no longer rare. Climate change is making wildfires more intense, while floods and extreme heat are putting more people at risk too.
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WeMove Europe @wemoveeurope.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
💙💜🌍 Together, we fight every day for a better Europe that puts people and the planet first. Be part of the change 💪 Watch the video to find out more and join our powerful community! 🇪🇺 👉http://wemove.eu/join
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Our Prime Minister has had a lot to say today about subscriptions. Meanwhile, huge parts of the country are in drought. We're about to enter our fifth heatwave of the year, killing more people. Are we going to get anything from the Government? Literally anything?
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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I was on BBC Business Today yesterday on what's happened and what's coming for UK food. 34 million litres less milk this June. Around 60 million pints. Wheat is down 13%. Wholesale potato prices +40%, lettuce +90% We covered a Great Food Transformation: diet, waste, production, communities.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 11/08/2026
"The climate crisis is stretching the fire service long before it makes headlines" - James Rodgers, London Firefighter It should be a national priority to properly equip UK firefighters and ensure their safety as wildfires rage across the country. No more cuts.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Another Canary faints. Are we ready to get out the mine and leave the coal behind yet? "Morocco's sardine landings dropped 46 per cent in 2024 to 525,000 metric tons, according to official data." Research suggests that climate change 😒
independent.co.uk
World’s leading sardine exporter halts frozen supply to rest of world
The African nation will stop exports of frozen sardines due to supply concerns
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
UK faces ‘worst food security crisis in decades’ due to repeated heatwaves ...climate-fueled... “We can’t look to some of the alternative markets that we might have done in Europe in recent years because they are experiencing the same problems that we are”. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Heatwaves threaten Britain’s ‘worst food security crisis in decades’, analysts warn
It comes as drought is declared in nearly three quarters of England
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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I've signed. Will you? Add your name to help make wildfire prevention and climate resilience a national priority, and stand with the communities affected by wildfires. campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk/page/196457/...
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I've signed. Will you? Add your name to help make wildfire prevention and climate resilience a national priority, and stand with the communities affected by wildfires.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I just signed the @stoprosebank open letter Letter to the Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MP @Miatsf. Join me and ask her to #StopRosebank so she doesn't fail the very first test of the UK's climate leadership: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
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Open Letter to the Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MP
Our new Secretary of State for Energy faces the first big climate test for Andy Burnham's new government -- whether or not to approve new North Sea oil & gas developments. Sign the open letter asking ...
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
On Saturday in Hastings MP Watch cofounder Jessica Townsend organised a screening of the @nebriefing.bsky.social film and afterwards a fantastic local facilitator ran some session taking the film's themes and inviting local community groups and politicians to look at themes
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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A massive plastic pellet spill is threatening North Sea wildlife 🌊 Coastal communities are stepping up, but we need action. Join us and ask @andyburnham.bsky.social to launch an emergency response & hold polluters accountable! #NurdleSpill #StopPollution action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tyn...
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Tell Andy Burnham: Save the North Sea from plastic pellet disaster
One of the UK's biggest spills of plastic pellets (or “nurdles”) is flooding the North East’s coastline. It could harm wildlife in the North Sea for decades. Thousands of volunteers – including Friend...
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
So many smart people opining like complete idiots in the face of life threatening climate change for people in this country and across the world. @telegraph.co.uk & @thespectator1828.bsky.social are the climate deniers extraordinary. What a waste of education!
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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
SECURE OUR FUTURE, FOR US www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/secure-our...
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SECURE OUR FUTURE, FOR US
Help us make the new UK’s Prime Minister – Andy Burnham – deliver on climate and nature and Secure Our Future.
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🌊Water shouldn't be a commodity. It should be a public good. Over 160,000 people have signed a petition demanding a referendum on public ownership of water - enough to force a debate in Parliament on Monday 14th September. Help me fill the room: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
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Ask your MP to attend the water debate
People are fed up with privatised water companies letting us down and ripping us off. We deserve a real conversation about public ownership. Can you help build pressure by asking your MP to attend th...
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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I just signed the @stoprosebank open letter Letter to the Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MP. Sign here and ask her to #StopRosebank or fail the very first test of the UK's climate leadership: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
actionnetwork.org
Open Letter to the Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MP
Our new Secretary of State for Energy faces the first big climate test for Andy Burnham's new government -- whether or not to approve new North Sea oil & gas developments. Sign the open letter asking ...
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A letter to the Prime Minister from the #𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗴 experts in today's @financialtimes.com. Please share. Link to a zoomable image: www.nebriefing.org/media With thanks to Business Declares. #TimeToStepUp #NationalRenewal
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Message to @andyburnham.bsky.social from MP Watch’s resident artist.
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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Did you know a barrister is facing jail just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has kept trials fair since 1670. We can't let it be silenced now. Add your name to defend fair trials👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Sign to protect the right to a fair trial
Imagine being called for jury duty, but advised against using your own common sense. ❗A top barrister is now facing contempt of court proceedings, simply for reminding a jury of their rights. If judg...
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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I just contributed with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Help us create a tipping point for climate justice. Contribute here: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
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Support Tipping Point UK to build people power for climate justice
Tipping Point UK believes that only people power will tip the scales towards climate justice. We need to get 20 new donors in the next month to meet our target, can you help?
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mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social @mpwatchsuttoncheam.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Wow @mpwatch.bsky.social nice work.
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
1/7 After @georgemonbiot.bsky.social exposed deep flaws in carbon capture &storage—and the extraordinary sums this Govt is committing to it—CCS industry lobbyists and pro-CCS scientists responded. @sioldridge.bsky.social &I answer them here www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵
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Carbon capture is a fig leaf for fossil fuel expansion | Letters
Letters: The predicted £264bn cost by 2050 could be even higher, plus renewables avoid a far higher total of emissions than can be captured, writes Andrew Boswell, while Simon Oldridge calls out veste...
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