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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The world is at breaking point. Governments must stop new fossil fuel projects & make Shell pay up for the damage they’ve caused. Polluters must be held accountable. 📷🎥 See the full protest: media.greenpeace.org/Detail/27MZI... #MakePollutersPay #ClimateJustice #ActNow

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Just back from Shell’s HQ. We’ve hit breaking point. We turned their London office into an exhibition of climate devastation—displaying flooded cases of typhoon-wrecked belongings from Filipino communities. Then, we smashed them. 🧵👇

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Yesterday we were at Defra handing in our petition with over 1.6million signatures on it calling for a total ban on bee-killing pesticides. action.greenpeace.org.uk/ban-bee-kill...

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Finally, it might be because I visited the US this year but I completely fell in love with Ragtime by E L Doctorow whose every page brings to life the early 20th century in the US. Had never heard of him before, but very grateful to the friend who knows my taste well enough to gift it to me.

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Whilst across the Atlantic Joshua Green takes a cold hard look at how some Democrat politicians have sought to extend the Overton window on the Left, with varying degrees of success. I didn't agree with all the analysis, but it's great research with lots to learn.

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

In politics, there were a couple that really stood out: Citizen Clem by John Bew tells the story of how an extraordinary appreciation of the importance of political pluralism on the Left allowed Atlee to navigate the many conflicts on his own side whilst building the welfare state.

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Two books that were far more unsettling also make the favourite list, both sparsely written character studies. The Door by Magda Szabó and Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal. Couldn't put either down as the faintly threatening worlds they created drew me in to explore the shadows.

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Next, two books I loved for their storytelling. Totally different stories, in totally different contexts, with barely anything to link them except that in describing the depths of what humans are capable of both managed to make me laugh, a lot. James by Percival Everett and The Bell by Iris Murdoch

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

"Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter" I'd been meaning to read Chinua Achebe's essays for years and they didn't disappoint: radical, persuasive and beautifully written. Depressing that so few of the problems described have gone away.

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

For totally different reasons, the other book that I've referred back to loads (not just because of the recipes in it) is Brandy Sour by Constantia Soteriou. Weird, enthralling exploration of war in Cyprus told through lens of the different drinks each of its characters choose in the Palace Hotel.

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The book I've definitely thought about the most in the months since reading was King by Jonathan Eig. Fascinating biography of MLK with tonnes of social movement strategy in there, including lessons on how he navigated tensions between insider and outsider.

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Slightly belated, but that time of year to look back at 2024's reading (in chronological left to right). Always interested in reflections if you've read any of them, or recommendations for new books if you have them! 📖🤓 Top ten from the list in thread below (hard choices had to be made) 🔽

Images of 36 books, arranged in chronological order of reading:

In Ascension - Martin McInnes
Eastbound - Maylis de Kerangal
Breathe - Sadiq Khan
Home and exile - Chinua Achebe
Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf
The Rebels - Joshua Green
Birnham Wood - Eleanor Catton
Change - Edouard Louis
Martin Luther King: A Biography - Jonathan Eig
Mayflies - Andrew O’Hagan
On being unreasonable - Kirsty Sedgemon
Study for obedience - Sarah Bernstein
Leviathan Wakes - James A. Corey
The New Life - Tom Crewe
Citizen Clem, John Bew
All the Sinners Bleed, S. A. Crosby
Rifqa - Mohammed el Kurd
The Sleepwatcher - Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
LaRose - Louise Ehrdich
The beautiful screaming of pigs- Damon galgut
Afterlives, abdulrazak gurnah
Evenings and weekends, Oisin McKenna
The door, Magda Szabor
Brandy Sour, Constantia Soteriou
Lean On Pete, Willy Vlautin
Pond - Claire-Louise Bennett
Abolish the Family - Sophie Lewis
Manchurian candidate - Richard condon
Ice Candyman, Bapsi Sidhwa
Ragtime - E L Doctorow
Living things - Munir Hachemi
James - Percival Everett
Send flowers, Emily Buchanan
Caliban's War - James Corey
The Bell, Iris Murdoch

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

We need your help! Our activists are still prohibited from leaving S Korea. They're under investigation for a peaceful action boarding a tanker loading toxic plastic chemicals. Help us request processes are expedited so #INC5Warriors can rejoin their loved ones. www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

'Incoming' by Eliot Weinberger in this week's @londonreview.bsky.social Time to get to grips with Trump's new cabinet... doesn't make for east reading

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This diagram and chart from the latest @ipbes.bsky.social nexus assessment is amazing for demonstrating the various areas of focus we need when campaigning to restore nature on land. Would love to see the oceans equivalent of this.

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Fantastic @bluemarinef.bsky.social Christmas event, getting the message out to parliamentarians that ocean protection needs to be a priority. Thanks to @annagelderdmp.bsky.social for speaking and hosting.

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Plastics Treaty negotiations end with no deal. news.un.org/en/story/202... From our brave activists climbing on a ship transporting plastic, to those working with delegations, we were clear: Time to stand up to the fossil fuel companies undermining progress. We need a strong treaty in 2026.

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Time to Axe Drax! Ents and Christmas trees outside Dept of Energy and Net Zero now calling for an end to Govt subsidies for this destructive industry.

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

But his respect for environment and protest predates this - such as in 1983 when he swam up the Thames with us @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social to protest nuclear waste dumping. This great picture tells the story of how happy he was to take part.

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

RIP John Prescott. Good hearing stories of his environmental ambition in the obituaries. Along that journey, back in 2005 @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social paid a visit to his house to install some solar panels (without his permission) - seems he also understood the importance of protest.

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Love this as a strategy from @theonion.com Bring some humour and lightness to diffuse the culture wars. on.ft.com/3CujSY7

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Will McCallum @willmccallum.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Kicking off on Bluesky with some action! Today we blockaded Unilever HQ and hung a 13x8m banner on the front. It's the 20th anniversary of Dove's Real Beauty campaign Time for them to show some real leadership on the plastics crisis and end their Real Harm.

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