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Robbie Gillett

@robbiegillett.bsky.social
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Anti-advertising organiser with a passion for climate, cycling and railways. Co-founder of @AdfreeCities and @AdblockBristol

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Robbie Gillett @robbiegillett.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
With the IEA warning of global supply shocks to fossil fuels from the Iran War, a ban on advertising for high carbon products would reduce demand for polluting sectors. Policy discussion in Italy as part of Padova Climate Action Week #PCAW2026 www.padovaclimateactionweek.org/it/eventi/tu...
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How to stop adverts fueling the climate emergency
A workshop
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Adfree Cities @adfreecities.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Get outdoor advertising restrictions on the agenda for the local elections this May! Ask local candidates to commit to ending outdoor advertising & addressing its harmful content by signing the Adfree Cities pledge: forms.gle/oGCBKN2Fe2yD... Find out more: adfreecities.org.uk/2026-local-e...
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Robbie Gillett @robbiegillett.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Portsmouth becomes the latest local authority to restrict adverts for fossil fuels, petrol-diesel cars, junk food and gambling on council-controlled sites. We think it's a world-first in ending adverts for single-use plastics as well! #BanFossilAds 👏👏👏 www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...
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Portsmouth bans fossil fuel, single use plastic and junk food ads on council sites
Council-owned advertising in Portsmouth will no longer feature fossil fuels, single use plastics or junk food.
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The Ecologist @theecologist.org · 28/11/2025
Strikes, walkouts and protests are again planned for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend at Amazon sites in 30 countries. theecologist.org/2025/nov/28/...
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Resisting Black Friday advertising hype
Strikes, walkouts and protests are again planned for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend at Amazon sites in 30 countries.
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Badvertising @badvertising.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🚨 Campaign win! 🚨 Mayor Sadiq Khan pledges to review Transport for London's ad policy on polluter ads. 🎉 Here is the brilliant Caroline Russell's question for the Mayor along with his commitment. Scroll on for other key moments from Mayor's Question Time. 🧵 1/7 @carolinerussell.bsky.social
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
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How Labour Negate Progressive Ideas Through ‘Divide and Rule’ | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski
Podcast Episode · Bold Politics with Zack Polanski · 19/11/2025 · 40m
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Badvertising @badvertising.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Polluting oil companies use ads on the underground to lobby Parliament. 📺💨 So we’ve flipped their trick and picked the station closest to TfL's main offices to ask Sadiq Khan to end ads promoting pollution. 😏 3/8
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Revealed: Hundreds of Ad Campaigns by Oil and Gas Companies Have Appeared on London Public Transport Since Mayor’s Carbon Zero Pledge
Sadiq Khan faces calls to ban fossil fuel industry messaging from tube stations and buses.
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Badvertising @badvertising.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
London’s ambition for cleaner air and climate action is getting undermined by ads for big polluters all over the transport system - things like oil companies, SUVs and frequent flights. 🛢️✈️ Find out about the campaign 👇 2/8
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Fossil Ads — Badvertising
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Stop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Just when honest and truthful reporting on climate change is most urgently needed, Ofcom under its current chair has effectively suspended its accuracy rules on this life-and-death issue. /1 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
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Robbie Gillett @robbiegillett.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Calls to up the levels of social housing in the new developments in Fishponds, Bristol : you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop gentrification in Fishponds! Make Atlas Place 50% social housing
Social housing can ease the housing crisis Bristol is in a deep housing crisis. Rents have risen by more than 60%, averaging over 45% of incomes. Higher interest rates have made mortgages more expensi...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
A few people control our power, our public services and our wealth. It's time to take it back. My longer chat with @owenjones.bsky.social about @greenparty.org.uk plans to build on our success. youtu.be/SwZ0JcXsAhM?...
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He’s Got Starmer Scared w/. Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Owen Jones
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This week, a family member going through chemo had to have all her hair cut off because she was self-conscious about it falling out. The hairdresser shut the shop, cut my relative’s hair, then refused to take payment for it. That’s my Britain.
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Cool Down @cooldownnetwork.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🚨BIG news 🚨 Climbing pioneers, rising talents and major orgs have signed an open letter urging climbing federations and other pro climbers to take a stand against polluting sponsorship. 🧵 1/7 Full story. 👇
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Pro Climbers Urge IFSC to Swear Off Fossil Fuel Ties
An open letter associated with the Cool Down network of sports for climate action asks the IFSC and climbers to swear off fossil fuel ties.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Today the BBC reported on asylum seekers relying on home office-funded taxis to get around. But as I heard when I visited Bristol City of Sanctuary, this isn't the reality for many - it's being forced to walk for hours to get to appointments, sometimes with kids, or miss out on essentials.
Graphic with title that says: Carla Denyer MP calls for free bus travel for asylum seekers in Bristol

Screenshot of a letter on parliamentary paper

Quote reading: "We recently attended an event organised by Bristol City of Sanctuary where we heard powerful testimonies from asylum seekers about the lifechanging impact that free bus travel would have on their lives."
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Robbie Gillett @robbiegillett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Curious to see that UK-headquartered fossil fuel giants Shell and BP have the highest number of marketing contracts globally - according to new research from @cleancreatives.bsky.social Major polluters require advertising and PR firms to maintain their social licence to operate.
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Clean Creatives @cleancreatives.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The ad industry has a dirty little secret. Well, actually, it's not little at all. 🌏 💰 Fossil fuels are responsible for 75% of carbon pollution, but less than 1% of global marketing spend.
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Robbie Gillett @robbiegillett.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Sian Berry MP opens today’s #CarSpreading conference in London discussing how we can reverse the dangerous rise of SUVs in our streets. Sian instigated the Campaign Against Urban 4x4s back in 2003.
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Badvertising @badvertising.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
"I think there should be a complete ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship... this is a public health issue. I see the health consequences in my local surgery... When you stop advertising you reduce consumption... Its a low cost high impact intervention." Dr Simon Gopher MP & doctor
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Badvertising @badvertising.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
"We are asking the fossil fuel industry not to dominate our public space with ads that obscure reality" says Jacob Collier MP
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Adfree Cities @adfreecities.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We're live from the Parliament debate on fossil fuel ads: it's good to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social stating that “Fossil Fuel advertising isn’t just misleading, it’s dangerous", and that reducing advertising works to reduce consumption. We hope other members take this on board.
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Adfree Cities @adfreecities.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Live from Parliament: Great to see @carladenyer.bsky.social quote our research on the links between outdoor advertising and inequality, and calling for national interventions on harmful advertising including gambling ads, given local councils' limited powers to address the harms
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Adfree Cities @adfreecities.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
We're live at the debate in Parliament on fossil fuel advertising and bringing you updates as they happen! @jacobcolliermp.bsky.social says of fossil fuel advertising that “We’re now in an era of compliant deception” and points to the harmful positive associations created through sports sponsorship
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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Cars, especially SUV’s, are getting bigger every year – clogging streets, taking up space, and more worryingly putting lives at risk. London must use every tool in the policy toolbox to reverse this dangerous trend - and the Assembly agreed this last week. 📹 👇
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Adfree Cities @adfreecities.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We all want less advertising in public space but outdated planning rules mean the odds are stacked against us in favour of the billboard companies. With your help we can change that. We can change the law so that new ads can be blocked on health and environmental grounds. 👉👉👉 bit.ly/support-NC71
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Better without billboards: change the law for public spaces without corporate advertising
Outdoor advertising, like billboards and ad screens, is unpopular. Intrusive digital screens fill our streets with ads for junk food, gambling, alcohol and all kinds of polluting products. They block ...
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
We banned tobacco advertising because smoking kills . Fossil fuels kill too – 5.1 million people a year according to one study in the British Medical Journal . It's time to ban fossil fuel ads , just 13 days left to sign my petition govpetition.uk/700024
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Robbie Gillett @robbiegillett.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Chris Packham joins the UN, the World Health Organisation and Faculty of Public Health in calling for a ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship. Seeking 100,000 signatures on this UK Parliament petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
With the US trade war escalating, we call on the European Commission to introduce a digital services tax, or ‘Amazon Tax’. Amazon benefits from a double unfair economic advantages in the EU: low tax rates and lucrative public contracts. This has to end now.
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UNI Europa urges EU to impose ‘Amazon Tax’ in response to US trade war - UNI Europa
Amazon continues to benefit from double unfair economic advantages in the EU: disproportionately low tax rates and lucrative public contracts funded by European taxpayers.
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Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The idea that new oil & gas fields are a key lever for economic dynamism in the UK is completely at odds with the reality of the North Sea basin's inexorably declining contribution to the UK's economic & energy security--not to mention the costs of escalating climate change. Some thoughts: /1
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Badvertising @badvertising.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
BREAKING! 🚨 📢 In a first-of-its-kind action, we're challenging the world's largest ad firm, WPP, over their work promoting huge polluters. 👉 head to badverts.org/wpp to learn more!
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Hollywood is on fire , yet still deniers clutch at straws to blame this on anything other than the real problem– climate breakdown . I’m petitioning for a ban on fossil fuel ads to take the fight to the companies who continue to exploit our fragile planet petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it! After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
The first Bee Network service pulls out of a snowy Altrincham Interchange early this morning.
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