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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Much of the online support for Reform, other far right parties and their extreme ideas doesn't come from real people, but bots But those bots convince real people that the ideas are more acceptable, more popular and less fringe than they really are And that makes them more attractive
thelondoneconomic.com
Reform figures see social media engagement drop as bot accounts 'fall silent'
The social media engagement on posts from Reform UK figures appears to have dropped in the wake of Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres.
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Rainbow Warriors - The Time Has Come 🌈🌍 @rainbow-warriors.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“If you really think the environment is less important than the economy try holding your breathe while you count your money.” 😢💔🌳
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Becky Gardiner @beckygardiner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Capital’s demands are increasingly incompatible with the needs of ordinary people. We are facing class war from above. The only way to respond is to strengthen people’s power to fight back." @graceblakeley.substack.com for @zeteo.uk on how to fix Britain's broken economy
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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A former tabloid journalist explains why the billionaire media are obsessed with immigration and the culture wars, why the cookie meme is flawless, and why the human species has been so successful.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 15/08/2026
NEW STEWART LEE column The climate crisis requires concerted global opposition to Trump and the fossil fuel industry, not just restrictions on corner shops selling grills www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
We’re banning disposable barbecues, but we’re still drilling for oil? We really are cooked. Stewart Lee on dealing with Trump and the fossil fuel industry
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 21/08/2026
“‘There’s a bitter irony in hearing Reform’s farming adviser talk about the failure of his crops due to extreme weather while his party actively campaigns to weaken climate action,’ said Lily Rose Ellis, climate campaigner at @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social.”
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Advisor to Climate-Sceptic Reform UK Laments ‘Disaster’ of a Harvest
A farming advisor to Reform UK – which would expand oil and gas drilling and scrap net zero targets – has spoken of the “soul-destroying” impact of extreme weather on his own crops. As the UK faces it...
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 25/08/2026
No new North Sea drilling - with or without CCS substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The CCS Escape Hatch for North Sea Drilling
Supporters of CCS technology say we can mitigate the climate impact of drilling in the North Sea. The science says otherwise.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]

JANET:
Ugh...

LIZ:
What's up?

JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!

LIZ:
Have you tried...

AI peas?

JANET:
AI peas?

LIZ:
They're peas with AI!

[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].

LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas

JANET:
What

LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]

Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?

[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]

LIZ:

Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine

[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]

LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!

JANET:
What

LIZ:
Shut up

LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow

From opening the bag of peas

to boiling the peas

to eating the peas

To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.

JANET:
Is it really necessary to-

LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET

[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:

AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.

[Ends]
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 20/08/2026
Could this be the beginning of the end for the billionaire-owned media propaganda blitz? A campaign to free our national press from foreign billionaires like Rupert Murdoch is gaining momentum and attracting big-name support westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/media/c...
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Could this be the beginning of the end for the billionaire-owned media propaganda blitz?
A campaign to free our national press from foreign billionaires like Rupert Murdoch is gaining momentum and attracting big-name support
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
currentaffairs.org
The Massive Climate Lie That Will Destroy Human Civilization
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The arguments trotted out against leaving fossil fuels in the ground are strikingly similar to the arguments trotted out against ending the slave trade, 230 years ago. 1. If we stop trading slaves / extracting fossil fuels, Britain’s economy will collapse 🧵
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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A former tabloid journalist lays out the receipts: BBC News are more or less openly campaigning for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea - under the influence of the billionaire-owned media. 🧵🛢️🍿 Part 1 of 4.
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Nature @nature.com · 14/07/2026
Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact go.nature.com/4wLiPda
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‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized
Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact.
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Russia is inflaming the debate on immigration in Britain as part of “increasing ambitions to disrupt our way of life”, counter-terror police and experts say It has directly and indirectly paid right-wing influencers to spread messages that align with its political goals inews.co.uk/news/putin-i...
inews.co.uk
How Putin is inflaming immigration tensions to spark disorder in Britain
Counter-terror leaders reveal the tactics Russia is using to sow division in the UK
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
London is boiling these days But no matter how hot it gets The priority for the left, liberals and right wing is economic growth that is killing life on this planet BBC newsnight panel were virtually screaming growth growth growth and were not talking about growth of nature
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Useful round up
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Who are the media billionaires who dominate the UK’s democracy?
Almost everything we hear, read or watch in the UK is being shaped by a tiny handful of global media billionaires.
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 30/06/2026
Humanity isn't separate from nature - so let’s stop acting like it 🌍 💚
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The older I get, the more certain I am that the real meaning of existence is love for life. That is, love for the natural world, all of humanity, and advancing coexistence based on true justice, rights, and respect. 🌍
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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...
theguardian.com
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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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Great letter in @thetimes.com today from #brianhoskins from @granthamicl.bsky.social
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Big Oil is buying up podcast ad space to greenwash its image, following Big Tobacco's playbook. “Just as Big Tobacco spent decades muddying the science about the harms of their products, fossil‑fuel interests now push the line that they’re part of the solution.” via @desmog.com buff.ly/kfbqH1u
desmog.com
NYT, WSJ Podcasts Promote Pro-drilling Ads by Top US Oil Lobby API
The New York Times has included dozens of ads pushing looser permitting rules on America’s third-most popular podcast since September, analysis finds.
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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Four years ago, Angus Rose sat outside Parliament for 37 days without food. His demand: all MPs should receive the same climate science briefing that had given Boris Johnson his "road to Damascus" moment. He was prepared to die for his nieces' future. He won.
Angus Rose outside Parliament
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I think a lot about these words of wisdom on voting from the two Rebeccas: “Voting is a chess move, not a valentine.” — @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social “We don’t vote for candidates we admire so much as we vote for the next fight that we want to have.” — @rfkuang.bsky.social
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Lots of low key terrifying stats in the Climate Change Committee's new report on climate adaptation, but this one is particularly eye catching. If you are not worried about food security in an era of spiralling temperatures you are not paying attention. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
You're entitled to your own opinion. You're NOT entitled to your own facts. #BelieveTheScience What he said 💯 👇 👇 👇
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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance explains why we must not tolerate those who are openly intolerant. So did he say we should cancel or even assassinate the intolerant? Absolutely not. 🧵
cartoon explaining Karl Popper's Paradox of Intolerance
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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
15% of fossil fuels extracted each year are used to make fertiliser, run farms, process foods and transport them. In a very real sense our food is made from oil and gas. We are about to feel a very painful food shock. 1/
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 20/04/2026
Thanks to China’s green subsidies, renewables are cheaper than ever. Our subsidised oil companies and arms manufacturers have just pushed us into *another* war - and energy crisis. Politicians in the west keep blaming China for their own stupidity. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...
graceblakeley.substack.com
Who's afraid of the China shock?
While China supports innovations designed to save the planet, the west is still subsidising the companies destroying it.
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Jill 💙🌊🌊💙 @pumpkin061.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The AI boom comes at a cost 😮‍💨⁣⁣ ⁣Behind the AI hype is a surge in energy use, data centre expansion and growing threats to democracy.⁣ Can it still be called progress if it deepens environmental harm, surveillance, and the grip of Big Tech and autocrats on power?⁣ empli.fi/greenpeace/?...
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 10/04/2026
Something is starting to shift. Millions of people are waking up to what the fossil fuel lobby has spent decades trying to hide: clean energy is cheaper, safer and doesn't need a single bomb dropped to keep the lights on.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
A Reddit user has meticulously kept a diary of Trump’s daily victory claims. It should form part of every historical archive on the planet. Brace yourself, here goes 🧵👇
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The Prime Minister of Sweden: "The conclusion for me is quite obvious: We must make Sweden completely nationally independent of gas prices! We must manage our own fossil-free electricity production—both for today's needs and for tomorrow's electrification of cars, trucks, and industries."
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Cost of net zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock. #climate eciu.net/media/press-...
eciu.net
CCC cost of net zero analysis: comment
New analysis by the CCC on the cost of net zero: comment
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Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
PSA: Here's how the anti-net zero sausage gets made: 1. Oil companies fund climate denial groups 2. which incubate fake experts 3. who write policy papers for 'think tanks' 4. which get blurbed by politicians 5. & reported uncritically by right-wing media. Voila! www.desmog.com/2026/01/28/c...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Two things to learn from this. 1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors. 2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
carbonbrief.org
Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time - Carbon Brief
Nearly 100 UK newspaper editorials opposed climate action in 2025, a record figure that reveals the backlash against net-zero in the right-leaning press
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 26/01/2026
This is what happens when you blame migrants instead of billionaires open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 23/01/2026
Bravo @ben-cooke.bsky.social. Brilliant scoop, and hard to imagine a more important one. “This government is hiding the true danger of climate change from the people”. Spooks don’t mess about when they leak. www.thetimes.com/article/4a1c...
The internal version also warned that collapsing ecosystems could motivate acts of eco-terrorism in Britain, as well as drawing NATO into conflicts over remaining breadbaskets in Russia and Ukraine. 
Described as a reasonable worst case scenario the report said that many ecosystems around the world were so stressed that they would soon pass a tipping point after which they were an inexorably degrade no matter what humans did to protect them.  forests in Canada and Russia might pass a tipping point by 2030 as my glacier in the Himalayas that fed Rivers on which 2 billion people dependent the report suggested. Intelligence chiefs warned that the decline of Himalayan rivers would almost certainly escalate tensions between China India and Pakistan potentially leading to nuclear war.Britton which imports 40% of its food including a fifth of its animal feed from South America, which struggle to feed itself unless it made expensive investments in its supply chains the authors said. These investments could include lab grown meat a new crop varieties. “This government is hiding the true danger of climate change from the people” a source close to the development of the report claimed. “We need to have an honest conversation about the risks we face to our prosperity and how to mitigate them.”
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22/01/2026
Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The UK media is a fortress accessible to vested interests but not open to expressing common sense views of the British public like the need to act on biodiversity loss, to get free of fossil fuels or not to support genocides. We need an #honestmedia for an #honestpolitics.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 22/01/2026
As ever, Private Eye sees through the way the usual-suspect media are happy to swallow wholesale and then amplify the BS from Tufton St lobbyists when it comes to net-zero And, as ever, @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org made all these points the moment the coverage landed
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This is us.
A cartoon depicts several dinosaurs on a prehistoric landscape under a blue sky with scattered clouds. In the background, a bright white-orange asteroid streaks diagonally across the sky toward the ground, leaving a glowing trail. In the foreground, a Tyrannosaurus rex stands upright with its mouth open, with a white speech bubble next to its head containing the text: “Oh shit! Just like the scientists predicted.” Nearby, a few smaller dinosaurs look on, standing on a grassy plain with some low vegetation and rocky hills behind them.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Your regular reminder that by throwing away nature, we throw away *everything*.
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 27/10/2025
No matter which party is in charge, the shots are being called by powerful donors, not ordinary voters. No wonder most people feel so cynical about politics – they’re dealing with a cost-of-living crisis, while politicians from both parties are on the take. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Democracy for Sale
A new report from the Autonomy Institute lays bare how Britain’s political and economic elites are entangled.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
This calm, cool decency is dangerously absent from our discourse at the moment. Almost everyone is embracing, normalising or ignoring the 'cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.' We need more Bertrands.
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 15/10/2025
The far right is corrupt to the core #Reform
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