Sam Knights

Up in flames! The phoenix now, our only hope! Arise, arise! Fickle changelings and poor discontents!

European nations asked to prepare for 3C of climate warming Good luck My suspicion is combined disruption to food production & supply chains, building unusability with heat & flooding, increased migration etc means civilisation as we know it would collapse by 3C www.euronews.com/2026/10/27/e...

Serbia! Brazil! Hope!

Long live Student List! Viva the activist generation that refuses to take any more murderous capitalist crap!

Meanwhile... "the foreign secretary has approved new drilling in the Sea Lion field, which is estimated to hold 1.7 billion barrels of oil and expected to start producing from 2028."

"Pragmatism" would be to announce a serious decarbonisation strategy, not to kowtow to fossil fuel executives during a time of record heatwaves whilst still regurgitating industry talking points. Profound incompetence from a coterie of cowards.

Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

The IPCC, the UN's climate science panel, has failed to agree a timeline for its next next big report. Was due in 2028, but some countries have been pushing for it to be delayed until 2029.

It can sometimes seem like stating the obvious that the Trump regime does things that are evil, but this is evil. There's not another word for it. It is so corrosive and degrading that it will permanently disfigure the society which permits it. It is sheer barbarism.

I’ll not be juggled with.

On the podcast: @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social join @adamshatz.bsky.social to discuss what fascism looks like in the age of AI, and why we have reached a point where tech billionaires declare they are ‘unapologetically on Team Humanity’. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Watched this in the cinema last night, it is a devastating and very important film. Haunting.

As barricades appear in Paris once again - this time, full of overturned wheelie bins and burning lime bikes - resharing a piece I wrote last year about the cultural life of barricades.

After passing the Hillsborough Law, the Government have now announced a consultation on curtailing the work of the Undercover Policing Inquiry. This would be yet another miscarriage of justice. The spy cops scandal must be investigated in full.

Sad to see that the Major Oak of Sherwood Forest has died. Here's a blog post I wrote about it a couple of months ago... "For many centuries after its death, the Major Oak will be standing here too. Stood tall, and still carrying word of Robin Hood."

Let that gut-wrenching wave of anxiety you feel compel you to take action. This is not normal and we cannot continue to pretend otherwise. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As Israeli soldiers massacre Palestinians at aid distribution points, our government continues to provide Israel with military, intelligence, and political support. For Starmer and Lammy, the blood will never wash off.

Keir Starmer's Government's welfare cuts will push 250,000 more people into poverty, including 50,000 children, according to the DWP's own impact assessment

Optimisim always! Utopia always!

"British police arrest environmental protesters at nearly three times the global average rate, research has found, revealing the country as a world leader in the legal crackdown on climate activism." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Not sure if I'm here for good or just snooping. Anyway, here is a tired Che Guevara, photographed by René Burri...