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Tom Carter-Brookes

@tom-cb.bsky.social
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Former musician, now a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar looking at sustainable rural transitions and farmer protest through a Human Geography lens at Keele University. Interested in all things environmental politics, post-capitalism, music, wine, books and dogs

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
When even scientists are shocked by extreme weather, the only conclusion to draw: we're in trouble. Must-read story by @eroston.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
As someone in this picture I find it a little odd that @natureportfolio.nature.com chose this image to illustrate the point. We were very careful when choosing a slogan for our signs that it be scientificly defenceable. "Science says New Oil & Gas = Death" is a plain statement of fact 🧵
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
If you’re asking How could such a thing have happened? The answer is that it is all one big garden party, and you absolutely are not invited, ever spectator.com/article/spec...
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Spectator summer party 2026, in pictures
The weather is glorious, England have soared through to the World Cup round of 16 and one Sir Keir Starmer has just weeks left as Prime Minister. So where better to celebrate – or commiserate, if you ...
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Jesus. It's all just one giant laugh to the media/elite class innit. No mention of the huge rightward shift, economic damage etc and all the associated human suffering that those things bring.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Quelle surprise: my comment on the Govt's latest climate commitment (www.gov.uk/government/n... is out of step, at least publicly, with many colleagues: www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react... With expert whitewash on one side & charlatans on the other, an honest climate debate stands no chance.
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Abolish them all
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Looking forward to this in a few months time. @alexheffron.bsky.social and I are presenting a paper revisiting Michael Woods' Politics of the Rural, and exploring it in an era of reactionary politics.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This is a really grim decision alongside Cenk. People often talk about dangerous road we'd go down under a Reform government - this is another clear warning we're down there already. A Labour government doing everything possible to silence criticism of the Israeli Government
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
An absolutely laughable piece of "journalism". Wild that people actually get paid to write this nonsense. Really really worrying that stuff of this ilk gets to set the news agenda
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Such a great thread 🤣
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Matthew Beswick (they/them) @mbeswick.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
One cartoon can't counteract all the targeted attacks over the past decade. Without a formal apology and reparations to trans people from The Guardian this is just insulting. No offence meant to the person who made the cartoon just the audacity of The Guardian publishing it
Transgender - The IOC's decision to protect the female category is a victory for fairness 

4w agoObserved (newsletter sign-up) - the supreme court has carefully rung fenced protections for women. That's all we wantedTransgender - No woman should be forced to change her clothes in front of a male colleague 

1y agoWomen - At last, a moment of clarity - the UK supreme court has upheld the rights of women

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Ella Baron @ellabaron.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Satuday's @theguardian.com cartoon #transrights #EHRC #LGBTQ
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This. This is what the Israeli state is. It's a fascist genocidal state with zero regard for human rights or international law. Aided and abetted by the UKs own government. Absolutely shameful.
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
@carolinelucas.bsky.social @adrianramsay.bsky.social this is what you're asking Greens to stand aside for. Absolutely ridiculous position. Always was, always will be. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham to back Shabana Mahmood’s immigration changes, allies say
Exclusive: Greater Manchester mayor understood to support home secretary’s push to limit legal and illegal migration
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Simon Hannah @simonhannah.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Ecosocialism conference timetable published - come along 30th May to London South Bank or join via Zoom www.ecosocialism-conference.org/ecosocialism...
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Ecosocialism Conference 2026 timetable – Ecosocialism Conference
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Absolutely wild! Solid example of why people voted overwhelmingly for him not to be leader. Also, Burnham has ruled out PR. Wake up and smell the coffee....Labour, Burnham led or otherwise, is neither a progressive party, no a viable force to stop the far right
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Cristi Proistosescu @cristiproist.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Seems rather unlikely that Sustainable Aviation Fuels (e.g. biofuels) are the solution to reduce aviation emissions. Even if we switch ALL current US corn production to SAF we would not even be able to meet *present day* US aviation needs.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026
Immigration make Britain brilliant
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 16/05/2026
The emboldening of the extreme right is terrifying The fact it is happening as the left is demonised, vilified and criminalised is not coincidental and it should terrify us even more as it is where resistance only exists The liberal bulwark was always a fantasy
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Deary me. This ridiculous progressive nationalism agenda needs dropping immediately. Caroline Lucas doing the bidding of a right wing Labour government which kowtows to the far right repeatedly is absolutely wild. We need a new politics, not of the establishment so let's not go supporting it eh?!
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A new far-right terror attack in the UK has been confirmed in court. Alina Burns, then 18, tried to behead an Iranian refugee who was standing outside a barber's shop in Bristol with an axe The attack took place on 2 August 2025 but a judge did not rule on 'terrorism connection' until today
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Wild that out of all of the Labour MPs, only 3 would beat Starmer, who is by far the most unpopular PM in history. Hardly bodes well for Labour does it?!
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Please retweet.
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Deary me this is bad.....like really bad! Even in the US, tackling climate change has majority support. To deal with it, you can't ignore it, you can't 'take the politics out of it', you have to struggle constantly and develop the necessary politics. It's VERY hard. That is why we must carry on.
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This went really well I see
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
YES YOU DO, YOU DO ACTUALLY DO THAT, ESPECIALLY ON LONG FLIGHTS. CHANGING PILOTS DURING A FLIGHT IS A THING THAT REGULARLY HAPPENS, DAVID
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
UK media owners decide they want Reform in power --> Reform gets wall to wall fawning coverage across all media outlets --> media pundits claim Reform has the mandate of the people. Repeat.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
There are antisemites at the Tommy Robinson protests. There is footage of attendees doing N*zi salutes. As Harry Shukman’s book attests, several of the far right groups who support TR engage in antisemitism behind closed doors. I wonder when we’ll get to asking if they should be restricted/banned?
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Another day, another national newspaper publishing a cartoon with Zack Polanski with a massive hook nose. Another day of silence from mainstream politicians self-proclaimed great antisemitism fighters on the antisemitism faced by Zack. Solidarity with Zack and ALL the victims of antisemitism.
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I'm Lead Judge of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, awarded at University of Edinburgh since 1919 and due to be announced this month. But the university is currently withholding 100% of my pay for participating in a marking and assessment boycott. So, at present, there will be no prize.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 03/05/2026
This is so obvious and the fact it's not clearly understood and accepted in public discourse says a lot about the derelict state of our democracy and how it suits those in positions of power
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Reform Candidate tweeted about White people as the Master Race, cheered an asian woman being raped, and unwisely also tweeted pictures of his house and dog to prove it was him.
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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
For those that haven’t seen footage of the arrest that Zack Polanski has criticised and Mark Rowley (and others) thinks is ‘appropriate use of force’ And note, this isn’t a ‘one off’ or because the man was armed. This happens regularly to people who have done nothing wrong bsky.app/profile/skwa...
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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
keir starmer saying that starving palestinians to death is fine:
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Pretty outrageous that the News Agents missed out the next sentence which I said: "Neither are acceptable."
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Genuinely trying to remember if there was ever a senior British politician or media figure who actively stood with Muslims while they were under concerted attack and the answers you come to pretty quickly explain why the press is pushing their bullshit comparisons.
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Jon @jon-snowboarder.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
That mosque has been targeted five times in the little over a year since it opened. I'm sure someone from the government will be along soon to promise extra security funding.
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a man in a suit is holding a jacket over his shoulder
Alt: a man in a suit is holding a jacket over his shoulder looking for something non-existent.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
As Nigel Farage is popping up to denounce antisemitism, maybe worth remembering this from just a few months ago.
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Literally one of the biggest piles of shit I've ever had the misfortune of reading. @thecanaryuk.bsky.social this makes a jokes of your outlet, antifa and the broader left. Seriously, stop with this crap. www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026...
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Polanski bus photo op leaves North East out in the cold
Polanski treats the North East like a photo op backdrop while grassroots Greens and Jamie Driscoll work their arses off to fight Reform
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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"my fine for driving in a bus lane can't possibly be for driving in the bus lane, it must be for the sticker on the back of my car," is some weird conspiracy brain rot. You drove in a bus lane. You got picked up by the cameras for driving in the bus lane. You got a fine. The end.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The dystopia of inequality--that high table for the lords and ladies; the dystopia of violence--all the federal guns suddenly on display; the dystopia of incompetence (they had one job: to keep a shooter out); the dystopia of normalization.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Jewish communities are living in fear amid rising antisemitism, including these appalling arson attacks. We must confront this. At the same time, antisemitism is being weaponised to shut down criticism of the Israeli government. Both are true. Both deeply concerning. Both Antisemitic.
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This 👇
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Doing genocide and running torture-rape camps is apparently fine but upsetting US Christian Zionists is a “moral wake-up call”. Absolute degeneracy.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
NEW | On an odd choice… WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC? A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/why-did-bb...
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Why did BBC Breakfast give Reform UK a special graphic?
A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
One of the very few politicians with any backbone in the UK. Solidarity Zarah
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Zarah Sultana has just been kicked out of the commons for calling Starmer a barefaced liar. Zarah is spot on. Keir Starmer is a barefaced liar. We all know it. And as for Lindsay Hoyle. I'm old enough to remember what a corrupt speaker he is.
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Another example of our brave police keeping us safe 😔 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Daughter calls for investigation into death of man after police contact at Bristol protest
Exclusive: Retired NHS worker Nicholas Stone died after becoming unwell at protest against far-right Bristol Patriots
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Tom Carter-Brookes @tom-cb.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
💯 agree with this. Absolutely bends my mind when I hear academics talking (in reference to qualitative research) about 'how much more data you can analyse' using AI. Erm nope. The amount data AI is able to conduct a reflexive qualitative analysis of, is zero.
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