When the UK establishment wants to squash freedom of speech and peaceful demonstrations against a genocide there are no limits to its ruthlessness. Yvette Cooper is to blame.
When the UK establishment wants to squash freedom of speech and peaceful demonstrations against a genocide there are no limits to its ruthlessness. Yvette Cooper is to blame.
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Yet another capitulation to Reform, when all the evidence shows that following the far right agenda is a disaster for centrist parties. Politics 101, which Starmer has once again entirely failed to grasp.
Gareth Southgate can do this. Why can't Starmer?
Read this op ed from nine former directors of the CDC sounding the alarm on RFK Jr. and how what he's done to the CDC endangers every person in the US.
Police searching campaigners gathered to set up a perfectly lawful protest camp near the Excel Centre in east London. The red epaulette is an inspector, the TSG commander.
"Reports indicate that Israeli officials are planning to detain Greta Thunberg and other flotilla participants in harsh conditions if they attempt to breach the Gaza blockade with their humanitarian aid mission that departed from Barcelona."
Trump turning to RFK JR as the only medical opinion he trusts would truly be the best outcome for everyone involved
Yes I’m afraid the power of the FF companies is dragging us to the cliff of extinction and no matter what other countries do the USA will wake up far to late.
"Some 460 million tonnes of plastic are produced annually, with only around 9% being recycled. This leaves over 90% in use, in landfill sites dotted around the world, or polluting our oceans."
How to hasten the AMOC collapse and make Britain uninhabitable (or at least really miserable).
CHICAGO…
You thought AI was a cool technological development, but ... have you heard about heating up sand?
Margaret Atwood knows.
Either you look at every MP and how they’ve acquired their wealth. Or you look at none. You can’t pick the one that pisses you off the most because they left school with nothing and had a child at 16 and lived in a council house. If you do then you’re just a jealous twat.
I will point out again, Billionaires and their companies own 12 empty homes for every homeless person in the Western World. The richest like Elon Musk could house every homeless person and it wouldn't cost them a single $.
The Trump administration's assault on climate policy is more thoroughly destructive than any previous GOP government, upending scientific research and data collection while simultaneously dismantling regulatory rules and their enforcement.
This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.
"Aerial images shows the devastating impact of a floods in Park View City, Lahore, Punjab #Pakistan that killed eleven(11) since the past two days in Sialkot, Punjab." via Isabel Ebert
We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.
In 1988 the UN GA convened in Geneva after the US refused Arafat a visa So there is precident for it to meet elsewhere
Indeed. The fallacy here is equating "you shouldn't automatically assume someone is right because they're a subject matter expert" (fair enough) with "you should automatically assume someone is wrong because they're a subject matter expert" (laughably absurd).
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
China realised that they needed to change due to the smog that covered their major cities, burning coal and fossil fuelled transport was the problem. Hence the very rapid change. Major heatwaves a few years ago caused extensive blackouts as the grid couldn’t supply the electricity.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
More than 500 UN staff member have urged its human rights chief to describe the Gaza conflict as a genocide. It's been clear for a long time that Netanyahu's regime is genocidal. But our government still refuses to call it what it is and take action to stop it.
Nigel Farage wants to spend more than £10 billion of your money every year deporting people. Why would Reform prefer to waste billions being cruel to people instead of taxing the super-rich properly and making life better for EVERYONE? (Spoiler: Farage is super-rich)
14 years for red paint if you're an activist, writes Prof Richard Murphy. Zero arrests for red paint when it's used to harass migrants. What’s going on?
We have to understand structural adjustment, with its forced privatisation and dismantling of public provisioning systems across the South, as mass-scale dispossession and a transfer of wealth from the world’s working classes directly into the hands of international capital.
As both an angler and a fisheries scientist with 35 years experience in environmental regulation and monitoring, I'm appalled by this. This isn't angling.
Yesterday Lytton 🇨🇦 with over 106F/41C had an higher max. temperature than ANY US station, something extremely rare,happened last (and first ?) time in June 2021 After a break,temperatures will spike again and the Canadian record of September highest temperature will be at stake
🚨 Elon Musk wants a licence to supply UK homes with energy. Politicians warn it’s a national security risk. Join 43,000+ calling on Ofgem to block his plan: 38d.gs/xkpg
It is a tribute to our dysfunctional information environment that right-wingers can basically commit 99% of the domestic terrorism, for *decades*, and that simple fact never penetrates to the public. They pay zero political price.
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
and other extreme weather disasters. Of the 182 FEMA employees who signed the letter, 36 publicly attached their names, while the others withheld their identities out of fear of retaliation.
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
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There. It. Is: "Renewables might now be cheaper than fossil fuel in the vast majority of cases, but this makes them less attractive to capital, not more. Fossil fuels are uncompetitive and highly profitable. Renewables are highly competitive and not very profitable."
"Let me be sure I've got this right: The UK government says it's a terrorism offence for Britons to take action to oppose genocide. But it's fine for Britons to volunteer for the Israeli army as it calls up 60,000 troops to expand the Gaza genocide." www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-decl...
"This 'seawater rice' has been bred to thrive in saline-alkali soils where traditional crops cannot survive. [It] holds immense promise for food security, particularly in coastal regions suffering from soil salinization." via Pedro Bosa Achu www.facebook.com/groups/clima...
Elon Musk is applying for the licenses to sell both gas and electricity in the UK for domestic and business customers. He’s not doing it to make money.
#BREAKING | Top Dutch diplomat steps down after measures against Israel blocked Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp resigned after coalition partners blocked his push for tougher measures against Israel, saying he felt compelled to do more over the crises in Gaza City and the West Bank.
For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products
Time to recirculate this…there’s plenty our govts could do to stop the famine, death and destruction. Wringing hands and issuing strong statements doesn’t cut it.
John Bolton raid shows weaponization of FBI against Patel’s ‘gangsters’ list
Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.” Full statement
Leicester police planned and executed a dawn raid to arrest a man. For sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Zarah Sultana calls out Lammy’s insincerity 👇
If you want to know more about the planned blockade on the first day of the arms fair in London and the growing coalition in support of it, visit thebigone.uk
Elbit, the Israeli company that was Palestine Action's primary target, is close to winning a £2bn MoD contract to train British soldiers. The idea that as genocide continues it's "business as usual" is why thousands plan to shut down the DSEi arms fair on 9 Sept www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-clos...
If you ever needed proof of the damage the far right, it’s politicians and its press has done to the UK, here you go.
If only the reefs could rise up and destroy what is destroying them.
🔥 Where the US has serious problems, the UK is not far behind. One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/an-...
Farmers scramble to recover after severe weather wipes out US crops: 'Biggest total acreage losses we've ever had' Floods also delay planting and harvesting, thereby reducing farmers' yields, which often leads to higher food prices... www.thecooldown.com/sustainable-...
I participated in the Decomp Physical Model, which examined how to restore the Everglades as envisioned in the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan. We had to go through way more planning and assessments for something way less destructive. www.saj.usace.army.mil/Missions/Env...
"About right" via David Taylor
3 of these protests attracted > 150 people. The total outside Nuneaton was about 2000 across 19 places. The median protest was about 50-75 people. It was credulously reported as a wave of large protests before it had happened/did not happen
✍️ An unhealthy alliance One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy By John Hall @johnfromyorkshire.bsky.social
Our future is on the line. Join us in London this September and add your voice! ✊🏽 makethempay.org.uk
Trumpisum at its best!
Palantir isn’t just another software vendor In June 2025, Coventry City Council quietly signed a £500k, five-year contract with Palantir, the US surveillance and military AI giant This deal embedded Palantir into the daily operations of local governance in the heart of Zarah Sultana’s constituency
Israel plans to take over Gaza City. Starmer says their plan is wrong & they must rethink it, but the UK is still supporting Israel with arms sales, training, RAF surveillance flights & more. Sign the petition: tell Keir he MUST end this support: 38d.gs/hwpb?utm_cam...
I just signed the open letter calling on Nigel Farage to make sure he's not stoking up violence and hatred and prevents protests from spilling over into riots. We can’t have a repeat of last summer. If you agree, add your name too.
When a company gets huge contracts to kill & kidnap from the US govt, which drives up the stock, we're left with few options. Palantir is a meme stock. It's retail investors who pumped it all the way up, and if there's any justice in this world, it'll be retail investors who'll drove it right down.
New runways get the attention, but all airport expansions increase emissions. Even without new tarmac, more flights = more damage. We’re going to Parliament on Sept 10 to demand better. ✈️ Invite your MP to meet us: https://action.wearepossible.org/page/172750/action/1?ea.url.id=8205236
"The final betrayal"
"Israel has approved the construction of 3,400 housing units in the E1 area, between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, in the occupied West Bank. The project would split Palestinian territory and block the possibility of a geographically continuous Palestinian state."
Yes, Sudan should be covered more in western media. But perhaps there's a reason why we should be paying more attention to Gaza, like for instance the fact that we're still sending weapons and sharing intelligence with Israel.
North Korea has a 'secret' military base within its own sovereign territory, and US think tanks get hysterical. Meanwhile, how many US military bases are there on the Korean peninsula and Japan? Around 10? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
While the world's eyes are on Trump & Ukraine ... "Israel to seize more control of Palestinian land amid state recognition pledges" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/isra...
Southend council's Labour leader Dan Cowan wants Essex Police to use rarely implemented powers to impose an outright ban on a Palestine solidarity march. This would require the approval of the Home Secretary. Cowan is a member of Labour's Zionist affiliate JLM www.essexlive.news/news/essex-n...
“The Prime Minister promised transparency and accountability in public office. His refusal to allow a public inquiry is the exact opposite of what he promised- in fact it’s an outright refusal to be transparent and accountable”
“The UK is using Brexit to weaken crucial environmental protections and is falling behind the EU despite Labour’s manifesto pledge not to dilute standards, analysis has found.”
As I've previously posted unless bad PR gets too strong Starmer aims to recognise Palestine just as soon as Gaza and the West Bank have been ethnically cleansed ... meme via Durah Ashton
"Keir Starmer-appointed Wes Streeting is selling off chunk by chunk of our NHS to American private companies! Using Margaret Thatcher's tactics of increasing financial pressure on a public service to justify selling the whole thing off; exactly what Thatcher did to British Rail, etc" via Tim Longson
"It is not a war, it is murder" via Petition For Peace - Send UN Peacekeepers To Palestine
Yet another Israeli MP trying to justify the mass murder of babies as US, UK & EU arms keep rolling in ...
"I'm currently joining the biggest mobilisation ever against Norwegian oil, ahead of their defining election in September. Hundreds of activists from all over Europe blocked the country's biggest oil terminal for 36 hours, and more actions await" via Greta Thunberg www.facebook.com/groups/29053...
A reminder: Asylum seekers are in hotels because of a huge application backlog that the gov't must work through. Robert Jenrick - now, bursting with creative solutions - processed applications slowly ***on purpose*** as a deterrent. Here he is, as Immigration Minister two years ago, saying so. ~AA
The Knight Foundation and others are trying to raise $50 million to rescue public radio and TV stations, prioritizing ones that historically received more than 30% of their funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and are among the only sources of information in their communities.
Every cop, every soldier who participates in the Big Balls Goon Show is turned into a thug by this.
They are literally providing fodder for neo-Nazi propaganda
“Can you imagine if a Muslim judge on the Court had said Allah told him to side with Palestine?” For Zeteo, Alonso Gurmendi on the Christian Zionist ICJ judge who keeps backing Israel because “the End Times” are here. She should be removed, or forced to recuse:
Amnesty — “Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip… to deliberately inflict on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction”. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Jenrick can't control who stands in the background of his photos, but he can decide whether to attend protests with a far-right message and a documented history of being organised by the far-right. He knows this. He goes anyway. Once upon a time it would have been a sackable offence.
The research is best done outside the USA. No one wants to work in a dysfunctional society!
94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet. The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.
#MakeBillionairesPay #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare
Climate change is upon us. We’re living it. No more climate denial, or half arsed measures. Make the billionaires and the corporations pay. We need radical change now.
There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
Essential fact checking of a fellow of the @royalsociety.org, something that ‘learned’ body is evidently incapable of doing. A shame, because it used to care about evidence, truthfulness and the application of science to save lives.
Don't forget that Israeli soldiers have been brainwashed in school to relinquish all empathy & humanity and to regard all Palestinians as vermin to have a Dalek mindset of extermination of children, who threaten the purity of 'the most moral army in the world'
Weapons manufacturer paradise! "Gaza has been the testing ground for military assests, that Israel then sells to anyone who will buy. This is what generations of Palestinians have faced. Relentless 247 since October 7th. Now we know, it has to stop. Zionism is nazism" via Hibby Hamid
"James Hansen and his co-authors (including Climate Chat host Leon Simmons) have said that the "Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity" (ECS) is 4.5ºC for a doubling of CO2, while the IPCC's best estimate is 3ºC." www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5jS...
SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company, has most likely paid little to no federal income taxes since its founding in 2002, even as it’s received billions of dollars in federal contracts, according to internal company documents reviewed by The New York Times. nyti.ms/45wGKkn
Question for the 99+% of Americans who, unlike their fellow Americans in DC, enjoy full citizenship rights: ♦️When this comes to your town, will you then decide it's time to do something?