Adam Ramsay

Who’s really shaping this week’s budget? New research shows a third of meetings taken by top Treasury officials are with people from the financial sector: abolishwestminster.com/finance-indu...

What Do We Mean When We Say System Change? Journalist @adamramsay.bsky.social, human rights lawyer & grassroots organiser Jen Ang & Q Manivannan MSP discuss how our most ambitious, radical dreams are connected, and how we can build a sense of public belonging and collective agency to implement them.

When you're asking questions about choices in the Budget this week... #lobbying #UK #treasury abolishwestminster.com/finance-indu...

Here’s @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social as a trade union leader in the 1970s for you all.

Thank the Gods and the people of Brazil for this magnificent comeback.

Oil industry lobbyist worked INSIDE department which approved Jackdaw gas field: abolishwestminster.com/oil-industry... @zackpolanski.bsky.social described it as like “asking an arsonist to put out the fire”.

This weekend, the planet holds its breath.

I literally spent a year investigating how the government props up Shell, and then they do this!

I’ll be launching my book Abolish Westminster at @portybooks.bsky.social on 4 November (a week on Wednesday) with @josielong.bsky.social - join us! www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/adam-...

Diplomats are meant to represent us. But getting the foreign office to give me basic information about their meetings with Big Oil around the world took more than a year. Corporate capture relies on opacity:

Read how Abolish Westminster's @adamramsay.bsky.social spent a year in what felt like an epic ping-pong battle to get FoI answers out of the Foreign Office about embassies lobbying for Big Oil #lobbying #secrecy #BigOil #FoI abolishwestminster.com/year-long-fi...

REVEALED: Parliament 'misled' by UK government over diplomats' oil meetings abolishwestminster.com/parliament-m... - by me, with thanks to @sianberry.bsky.social, on @abolishwestminster.bsky.social

Oil industry lobbyist worked INSIDE department which approved Jackdaw gas field: abolishwestminster.com/oil-industry... @zackpolanski.bsky.social described it as like “asking an arsonist to put out the fire”.

Oil industry lobbyists worked in department which approved Jackdaw: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw... - by me

My local MP as a foreign office minister either through incompetence or intent has misled parliament. Hiding the fact that UK embassy staff had been meeting with BP and Shell bosses in oil rich countries. abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/parliament...

The full report is here, thanks to @adamramsay.bsky.social abolishwestminster.com/long-read-ho...

REVEALED: Parliament 'misled' by UK government over diplomats' oil meetings abolishwestminster.com/parliament-m... - by me, with thanks to @sianberry.bsky.social, on @abolishwestminster.bsky.social

I'm very excited to be speaking about Abolish Westminster at @lighthousebks.bsky.social radical book fair, alongside @qmanivannan.bsky.social and @jena.ng on 8 November, at the Roxy in Edinburgh. Join us!: lighthousebookshop.com/events/what-...

UK diplomats are helping fossil fuel firms lobby to drill new wells, we have discovered, after a year-long Freedom of Information struggle #BigOil #lobbying #EdMiliband abolishwestminster.com/british-dipl...

REVEALED: British diplomats help oil giants drill new fields despite UK ban: abolishwestminster.com/british-dipl... (also, check out our shiny new site)

Read the full investigation here: abolishwestminster.com/long-read-ho...

REVEALED: British Embassy staff in Caracas met with Shell six times in the year before the US-led coup in Venezuela opened the path for the oil giant to take on vast oil and gas drilling contracts: abolishwestminster.com/british-dipl...

super interesting findings from @adamramsay.bsky.social show how the uk govt has been helping BP and Shell pursue drilling rights around the world (just not at home) abolishwestminster.com/british-dipl...

The superb launch story of Abolish Westminster 👇👌

State capture

New investigative journalism site #AbolishWestminster has found that British diplomats are helping fossil fuel firms lobby to drill new wells #BigOil #lobbying #EdMiliband abolishwestminster.com/british-dipl...

“I’m a Zionist, I can’t believe @zackpolanski.bsky.social is calling me racist!” - every obviously racist shitbag commentator in the British press for the next week.

Labour believes everyone holding public office must be a Zionist, and will let Reform take power in local authorities rather than work with anti-Zionist Greens.

Some context: the whole of British politics is structured around deep Islamophobia. The previous MP for Holborn & St Pancras was a prime minister who actively facilitated a genocide against Palestinian people & jailed those who protested against it as terrorists.

New on Critical Takes on Corporate Power: @adamramsay.bsky.social talks about how the UK's legal system, diplomacy and tax regime helps oil companies. Listen here: criticaltakes.org/society-and-...

The British media is currently hosting a debate about whether or not Zionism is a form of anti-Palestinian racism without hosting any actual Palestinians.

My brother just rang with a basic point: if you take the subjectivity of marginalised people seriously, then you have to accept the right of Palestinians to name the oppression they experience. Once we do that, it’s clear that Zionism is racism.

Burnham’s democratic reform proposals don’t go nearly far enough. In some cases, they will make things worse: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw... by me

If you’re going to #gpconf, pick up the launch copy of Green Isles, the exciting new magazine of Green politics & ecosocialism.… and subscribe here to make sure there are more editions: greenisles.uk/donate/

Australian @greens.org.au leadership candidates copy/pasting @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s eco-populism.

Can Andy Burnham deliver real change to our political system?: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

What does socialist politics mean for the Green Party today? Join Natalie Bennett, Adam Ramsay and Russell Warfield for the latest Green Talks, exploring Zack Polanski’s leadership and the Green Party’s relationship with socialist politics. Event: Thursday 24 September, 6.30pm

With more shocking Scottish drug stats out, it’s worth thinking about some of the causes underlying this crisis: novaramedia.com/2025/03/04/w... - me for @novaramedia.com last year

I’m not saying that every ICE officer is a paedophile. I am saying that if you are an American who gets off on abusing children, it would be an obvious career move.

Forth Ports, which has made this decision, is ultimately a publicly owned company - owned by the people of Canada, via their Public Sector Pension Investment Board.

Apart from anything else*, if venue says your friend isn’t welcome on their stage, surely basic friend code says you should walk away too. Sheeran could easily have said “I’m not taking a position on Gaza, but if Macklemore isn’t welcome. I’m not playing.” *actual genocide

All five Green MPs are on the list of people banned from Israel for opposing its genocide in Gaza