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The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Brazil and Serbia, defying rise the tide of autocracy. This is how we do it, everywhere. 🌈

It's time for a change. Vote for leaders like @abdulelsayed.bsky.social and @jocelynbenson.bsky.social who will work every day to make this country better.

👇Spot on!

The biggest and most important win for the environment in years. The pursuit of an end to Amazon deforestation and a fossil fuel phase out will now continue. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

This is a big deal - The first time England has had a severe drought in modern history - 100 years. buff.ly/HuTO0aq

The trade unions resisting a political donations cap in the UK are ragged-trousered philanthropists. Thanks to their delusion that a system allowing limitless donations enhances their power, they're in danger of handing the country to the far-right parties that billionaires support. Burnham must act

I mean it’s not a vetting problem, is it? It’s that it’s a racist party, run by racists, with racist policies, for the benefit of racists. The fact that it turns out to be full of racists is not a glitch

New research from E3G out today once again showing that getting off fossil fuels lowers bills and improves quality of life www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Five hen harrier chicks found dead on a grouse moor had injuries consistent with stabbing . . . YES , stabbing . Email your ‘victim impact statement’ to gamebirds@defra.gov.uk (subject: Call for Evidence) by 1 Nov . It can't go on . raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/10/16/p...

Very strangely the 10 trade unions calling on the government not to approve the Rosebank oil field are getting a lot less coverage today than the one trade union calling on the government to green light more fossil fuel projects. www.businessgreen.com/news/4537337...

This is frightening. Once the planet heats up and the climate breaks down, that's basically it on human timescales. We don't get a do-over. So call your elected officials *today* Tell them it's an emergency and say they must policy to build clean energy AND phase out fossil fuels. It'll help! 2/n

Cry me a river! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Your reminder that Labour runs the economy better than the Tories. shura.shu.ac.uk/27982/8/Alga... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Growth that kills its host isn’t growth. It’s cancer with good PR.

The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why the hostility to protecting the environment? Unbelievable given the extent of scientific evidence of the rapid global decline of nature. “Shadow chancellor to unveil Tory plans to cut taxes and regulations” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The correct answer to hate ♥️

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr... Tice serving up his usual lying bullshit - he's known about the Bill since Feb of this year and specifically about the retroactive element since it was accepted as an amendment by the gov't in July - a full 2 months ago.

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

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UK economy grew by 0.4% in last quarter. Is it trickling down? 1975: workers share of gross value added, 71.9%; now 59.3% Average real wage stagnant since 2008. 25.3m live below minimum income standard. Healthy life expectancy falling. Richest 1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined.

“There is a magnificent initiative called the #NationalEmergencyBriefing - a UK initiative focused on delivering an unfiltered evidence-led expert assessment of the climate and nature crisis” Thank you @mrjamesob.bsky.social Screenings across the UK, and beyond: www.nebriefing.org/screening-map

"Any plan for growth that does not put climate first... can only undermine the future it claims to protect" Ex-government chief scientific advisor Sir David King on how the "shattering" heatwaves are but a foretaste of what's to come if we don't meet net zero www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Temperatures have now provisionally exceeded 37°C 🌡️ Before 2026, the UK had recorded 37°C or higher on only six occasions. This year alone, we've already reached that mark three times.

What will you tell the next generation? That we watched the Amazon and Congo Basin burn because timber was profitable? We are custodians. Let's prove it.

It just keeps on coming… Farage struck deal to return as leader long before Sunak called surprise 2024 vote, so his claim that he wasn’t involved in politics when he got his £5million “gift” is, of course, another grubby lie. The man is garbage. Grifting, lying, cheating garbage. (Sunday Times)

Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops. Food insecurity and higher prices would follow. Poor hit the hardest. Despite warnings, no plan for water shortages. Need reservoirs, water storage, better water management. Companies can't do national planning.

Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels

Here's Nick Bridge – the UK's former special representative on climate change under last Tory govt – on Channel 4 News citing @carbonbrief.org analysis about the extreme and relentless anti-climate action campaigning by some UK newspapers "Some of the media is shocking on this..."

Channel 4 News also has this... “On this episode of The Fourcast, Matt Frei is joined by environmentalist @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, @proflizbentley.bsky.social from the Royal Meteorological Society and Fiona Macklin, Head of Climate at Apolitical.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQat...

The correlation between science denial, racism, and far rightedness is almost a straight collinear line.

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“River levels approach all-time low as drought announcement looms” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Disruption to the biosphere, deoxygenation and acidification of water. All caused by mass release of CO2 leading to extinctions shown in geological record. Happening now.

Snagged this from FB. This may make some people uncomfortable but I think it highlights just how far we've come from what's natural, from our relationship to the Earth that sustains us and our beautiful relatives we share it with.

No biggie. Just another slow, predictable mega catastrophe coming right at humanity that mainstream news and elected officials have decided to downplay/ignore. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Canada is burning.Norway is breaking heat records.This isn’t a natural disaster;it’s a policy failure. While boreal forests turn to ash, policymakers continue to hand out billions in fossil fuel subsidies. We aren't just witnessing a tipping point,we are witnessing state-sanctioned climate collapse.

Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity and happiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.

The refusal by corrupt politicians to ditch all fossil fuels means the coming years will be much worse ... "We are witnessing something beyond any imagination with 220+ countries/territories (>95% of the total) smashing records with insane margins WORLD RECORD can fall next days ..."

Disposable barbecues and fireworks are on my ban list 6/

"Pathetic": I told the Guardian what I think about the Starmer government's plan for nature It's more of the failed politics of the past 40yrs: failing to take public control of the nature crisis & contracting it out to private landowners. Burnham must do better www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ich bin ein binliner!

What is the right wing fascination with guns. The UK is a lot safer with its current ban on weapons. “Restore Britain leader describes Dunblane tragedy as 'one murder'”https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3gdj300lyo

Farage is trying to reset the narrative. The problem is a by election win is no guarantee of that, indeed it could make Qs around his finances more acute. This move is born of wider (and worsening) political weaknesses, dressed as strength. New piece from me open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn... Libdems, Labour and Greens don’t split the vote!

-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information."

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

This is calamitously stupid and short-sighted. And note the coverage: ‘a blow to Ed Miliband’. No: it’s a blow to our children and grandchildren, and in the medium term, the death-knell for a competitive UK car industry.