Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again... 'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Protest only works because it is cumulative. It takes time and energy to engage people and change the conversation. If this went ahead, protest would not work. This Labour government under Starmer is terrifyingly authoritarian.

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds - Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before 🧵 www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

When Reform's Nathan Gill is sentenced for bribery, he will be the third of Nigel Farage's former MEPs to be jailed for being corrupt, after Tom Wise (expenses fraud) and Ashley Mote (falsely claiming benefits). What is it about Farage that attracts crooks?

“Our investigation uncovered that an elected MEP was taking payments to peddle narratives beneficial to Russian interests... This case goes to the heart of our democratic values.” — head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, Commander Dominic Murphy

No.3. How is Starmer and his team so idiotic at every turn. In reality, the UK is so broken due to the never-ending housing crisis. Fix that and most people have more disposable income and other problems become manageable.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

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The media has a great sway over people’s minds.

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Every single time a form of UBI is implemented, it is successful.

Don't be complacent, we saw the numbers at yesterday's event and we know the consequences if we let the Far Right gain more and more power and control of our lives. Watch and share this video and do what you can to support Wednesday's protest against Trump and everything he has become a symbol for

BREAKING🚨: People across the UK are showing up to demand the UK Government #StopRosebank. Rosebank is the UK’s biggest undeveloped oil field, & it’s a bad deal for all of us. Scenes from London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Aberdeen Take digital action now👉 www.stopcambo.org.uk/doa-digital

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The two deadliest wars in history claimed about 70 journalists between them. The ongoing war in Gaza has killed 192 Palestinian journalists in less than two years. History will remember this not as a conflict, but as the mass execution of witnesses.

Sally Rooney dedicates all British book sale proceeds to Palestine Action. Source | The Irish Times @politicsjoe.bsky.social

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Well said, Mo Salah. Suleiman al-Obeid was shot dead by IDF forces whilst waiting for food aid in southern Gaza.

Huge new work in the central Congo peatlands, showing that the peatlands began forming 42,000 years ago. Culmination of around 15 major expeditions over the past decade, and a huge effort by many people.

Democratic Republic of the Congo, again, opens its forests and peatlands for auction for oil exploration. Shockingly reckless. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The business secretary Jonathan Reynolds says the racist protesters intimidating asylum seekers in Epping are "upset for legitimate reasons.” I don't remember any Labour frontbencher saying the same about people protesting the genocide in Gaza. On the contrary, they've criminalised peaceful dissent.

🌍 BREAKING: Climate impunity ends today - by order of the world’s highest court. The International Court of Justice has spoken: ✅ States are legally obliged to act ✅ Inaction = human rights violation ✅ Polluters must be held accountable This is a legal revolution for our planet.

Wonderful thread.

This opinion is a seismic win for climate justice - brought about by tireless organising by young people from frontline communities. Polluting states will be held accountable for the harm they have caused. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The same system that is poisoning our rivers is poisoning our minds. Great line in this video:

"Shell and other leading energy groups have abandoned a six-year-long attempt to define a “net zero” emissions strategy after being told that such a standard would require them to stop developing new oil and gas fields, according to documents seen by the Financial Times."

🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London. We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

Across the UK the police are arresting people for terrorism offenses, but there is no word from the government, police or media about ANY terrorism or any terror being stopped. Everyone knows that the outlawing of Palestine Action is merely a cynical tool to silence criticism of the government.

We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales. This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide. We are doing this and history will never forgive us. Gaza:

BREAKING: Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels signed a declaration of principles in Qatar to end a decades long fighting in eastern Congo that commits them to a permanent ceasefire and a comprehensive peace agreement to be signed in one month.

Being against genocide cuts across class barriers.

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

The video is wild. And of course this will be front page news across the UK about the curbing of free speech. Not.

Haven’t read this, no doubt a thoughtful read. (Suspect there will be no mention/analysis of class, capitalism or colonialism that fundamentally shape the world we live in, including nature and our collective aspirations).

Here's the total attention to 2025 publications on both X/Twitter and Bluesky. Bluesky has two thirds of Twitter's attention with >10 times fewer users.

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

BREAKING 🚨: We've just dropped a massive banner off Westminster Bridge to demand the UK Government #StopRosebank It's time for Keir Starmer make the right choice 👀

Finally something us Brits excel at.

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

DEADLY HEAT WAVE IN CHINA 48 DEGREES Heat indexes >55C in the Shaanxi Province where 14 stations broke their all time records (see list) including the provincial record with 42.8C at Xingping Waterfall of monthly records too Next days it will be much worse:50C dry in the West, THIs 60C in the East

This is so George, making a powerful statement carefully and eloquently.

Read this, even if it hits hard "I was chatting with my teenage daughter the other day when she mentioned climate change. Inevitably, it causes her anxiety. She will probably live to see many coastal cities go under, countries become too hot to inhabit and rich havens shut out climate refugees."

Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.

One of the challenges to understanding climate change is that extremes don't necessarily change in the same way as averages. In Western Europe, for example, the hottest day of the year is warming noticeably faster than the average summer day.

WHAT!

Latest paper on the ongoing discussion on how much reforestation can do for climate, with comment from me.

Trump has kicked out leading climate science institute from their tiny home above a restaurant in New York. More bad news from the US.