Stuart White

The wrong decisions on Rosebank, Heathrow expansion, heat pumps and EV targets would result in getting on for half a billion extra tonnes of CO2 being added to the atmosphere Truly insane as drought, wildfire, storm and flood continue to hammer the UK www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The name of the POUM, the Marxist anti-Stalinist militia with which Orwell fought on the Aragón front, inscribed by some militia fighter in 1936-37 on the stone of this old farm hut, all of those years ago. Near Tierz, Huesca.

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. I am intersex – and did not find out until I was 26! Intersex people are also impacted by the decision in FWS, but this is much less talked about. Intersex people continue to be subjected to non-consensual medical interventions. Intersex rights are human rights.

Many comments on the great election victories in Brazil and Serbia state that the authorian right is in decline or that voters have rejected far-right authoritarianism. That is a wrong interpretation of what happened. Progressive movements mobilized and beat the authoritarian right. That's different

I have never seen anything like it. I have a few friends there and all I heard the day after the 1st round was despair. Then - a day later - they said “we can still do this”, they went to work at the grassroots, and they never ever stopped till it was done. They are my heroes.

Both of these results today go to show just how antifascists can mobilise. Fascists have an entire apparatus to make their victory feel inevitable. It is not. To crush hope. But hope lives on whilst we keep it alive.

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

Serbia: The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS-EPP) has admitted defeat in today's parliamentary elections. The Student List (SL-*) has won a majority of votes. #Serbia #Srbija #Izbori2026

Reform and Tories have pledged to reverse ULEZ repeatedly.

How it started. How it's going.

From “aristocracy to assetocracy” - Prof Huw McCartney, a colleague at @unibirmingham.bsky.social, explores the make-up and wealth in the House of Lords, which so desperately needs reform: theconversation.com/from-aristoc...

I’m very grateful to @lsepoltheory.bsky.social and the alternatives to capitalism project for organising this workshop on my book, which I enjoyed immensely. Many thanks to @brunoleipold.com for organising, and to the brilliant Anne Phillips and Kate Vredenburgh for excellent comments.

Can’t have free elections, equality under the law, and freedom without that balance of power. Great interview.

We need a “triple bet” then: > wholesale electrification (heat pumps, EVs etc) > decarbonisation of electricity > AND reductions in demand - “by reorganising our economy” I would add that it’s important to distinguish: a) Real *need* b) Economic *demand* (a function of need & ability to pay)

The new Code of Practice on trade union workplace access rights comes into force a week today The Code provides guidance to employers, unions, workers etc on how to implement unions' new legal right to access workplaces for organising. Massive development for unions, & they'll be rushing to use it.

If this death toll was the result of a terrorist attack, the world would be up in arms And remember, this is not the new normal From the perspective of 2100, or even 2050, the summer of 2026 will be one of the coolest www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Forwarded from Mastodon:

nobody stopped Musk before he broke the state monopoly on violence, so now either he goes or the nation-state does

I am furious that the government approved Jackdaw - a gas field that will do nothing for jobs, bills, or energy security. This climate vandalism has to stop. The answer is No To Rosebank.

"Somebody within government would have to agree and authorise a huge settlement to close this claim down without any admission of liability regarding the former prime minister. "At some point the government is likely to have to disclose the amount settled and who authorised it - and perhaps why."

Licensing a new gasfield in a climate emergency is short-term thinking at its worst. This will further damage the living world we care for and rely on. The UK has missed an opportunity to show climate leadership and a clear vision of a clean and just energy system. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Some early morning reading for the Energy Minister #Jackdaw #Rosebank👇

It started as refuelling a few weeks ago, now its a direct intervention. Andy Burnham's first military action as Prime Minister risks dragging him into a quagmire. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Plenty of utter BS from the government and FF supporters being used to justify this monstrous decision Every tonne of CO2 we don't emit counts - and every tonne we do takes 400,000 years to completely remove from the atmosphere Politically inept too www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

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 Guardian's homepage right now... 1. "UK approves Jackdaw gasfield in North Sea" 2. World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says

Government support for drilling at #Jackdaw takes a wrecking ball to any pretence of UK climate leadership & pours fuel on an overheating world - and for what? It’s equivalent to just 2 months of UK gas demand, creates just 27 direct jobs & has *no* impact on energy bills🧵1/4

Look forward to seeing you this Friday!

This is effectively the beginning of the end of the best public media production culture in the world. Brexit destroyed the entire country.

'The music and worldview of the Cabs is resonating again in the current moment. “In society, sadly, those issues are still there,” Mallinder says. “Like ‘Sex, Money, Freaks’, like 'The Crackdown', those things have meaning.” Northern Mantra: #CabaretVoltaire say Goodbye buff.ly/pFRWtWH

Defend Our Juries awarded the Quaker Truth & Integrity Group's 2026 award for its public campaigning and defence of the “right and responsibility of juries to exercise their own judgement and conscience". www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

I am shocked at this news. I was privileged to be interviewed by Vladyslav on radical republicanism (the interview, which he translated into Ukrainian, is here: respublica.social/sotsialnie-r...) Sending solidarity and warm wishes for a quick and full recovery.

My friend @vlstarodubtsev.bsky.social a war veteran and scholar was attacked and viciously beaten by far-right thugs in Lviv while on his way to give a lecture on the history of labor and socialist movements in Galicia for UA’s main democratic socialist org. 20 vs 1. Fucking cowards.

Thought from a bruised and tired, increasingly irrelevant, trans elder: One of the simplest and most defiant things trans people can do right now is to keep on creating, making, dreaming, speaking and thinking … Hell shall pass, and our poetry, art, literature, faith, hope and love *shall* remain

Democrats need to be ready to hold hearings and inquiries into the assault that Musk, Zuckerberg and other tech bros are making against democratic institutions at home and abroad.

Very sorry to report that Douglas Dunn has passed away. He was the finest Scottish poet of the post-war period. Dougie was also someone we knew and loved as a dear friend, mentor and teacher, and he will be deeply missed.

This is inspiring in the way that kids running a lemonade stand to pay for their friend's chemotherapy is inspiring: the kids are amazing but they should never have to do this. if this inspires you at all, let it inspire you to create a real right to vote so they can just vote on campus.

Hard copies have arrived! Everything you know about anarchism is probably wrong. #revisionism #anarchism #overstatememt

Telegraph asked me to comment on 4,102 babies with the surname Smith and 3,772 with the surname Khan being among 558, 988 babies born in England."These new Smiths and Khans will all go to school together in a few years, alongside children with many other surnames" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10...