Honestly this makes me proud. People won't forgive Vance's disgraceful remarks to Zelensky, threats to the EU & all-round brutality. Even a small town in rural Oxfordshire yielded a 100-strong protest against his visit, with signs telling him to "GO AWAY" and baby Vance meme vans. Best of British !

Uk can swap one migrant for another and pay for both? Surely this is political suicide for starmer, farage will take 10 pts off him in the polls over this

Farage "unhinged and like a giant manbaby." His outburst was one of a "British politician who obviously didn’t want any challenge to his view that he’s a free speech victim,” said Raskin who responded, “This is why we had a revolution against you guys.” 😳 It's really game over at that point IMO.

🧵 1. Starmer says the UK will recognise Palestine unless “Israel agrees to a ceasefire and a two-state solution”. That’s not Recognition - it’s *Ransom*: It treats Palestinian statehood not as a right, but as leverage. This framing is truly flawed: starmer’s logic implies Palestinians can …

🚨 UK approves Project Pure Hope medical evacuation of children from Gaza The Government has approved medical evacuation of 30 children. Garden Ct barrister Raza Halim is a founding member of Project Pure Hope (PPH) & acts as a legal advisor. Watch the Sky News interview 🔽 youtu.be/xIneOtRnMgA?...

While not all declines are due to boycotts, every hit counts! Take that, Pepsi! #nothanks #bds #freepalestine #gazagenocide

UN Office of Human Rights has strongly criticised Labour's ban on #PalestineAction “The decision also conflates protected expression & other conduct with acts of terrorism and so could readily lead to further chilling effect on the lawful exercise of these rights by many people,” shorturl.at/PcaGq

what in the fuck has keir starmer done to this country?

First they came for PIP and the UC Health element. Next up is Education Health and Care Plans (ECHPs) for people with special educational needs & disabilities. #notmygoverment #takingthepip #ehcp #autism #send #education #sendparenting #specialneeds #ehcplan #adhd

We're excited to be featured in The National, the scottish news outlet of Newsquest (the second largest news publisher in the UK) Our interview and article will be available on July 20th. Link coming soon! Like, share, and follow us — now also on Bluesky!

Privatisation broke our water system. Bills are soaring. Rivers are full of 💩 Water companies are drowning in debt-yet still funnelling billions to shareholders. 🤑 Not 1 new reservoir has been built since privatisation, & the system is unprepared for climate change. But there's another way...

"With polling predicting Nigel Farage's party could win 377 seats at the next election, there is a lesson in Clacton for voters hearing Reform’s siren call.

The govt wants to force through an £1.8bn in public subsidies to Drax until at least 2031. 🤯📛 "Burning wood creates 18% more CO2 emissions than coal... Every pound spent subsidising tree burning is a pound not invested in technologies that could actually deliver net zero." #stopburningtrees

Hesitation to announce formal structure and leadership is understandable but @zarahsultana.bsky.social's claim that the 2 main parties offer “nothing but managed decline and broken promises” is dead on. Progressives are crying out for a new political home - and hope.

One team leader: "if you feel threatened, shoot – shoot to kill and ask questions later". The ex-contractor said that each site had CCTV monitoring the activity in the area, & GHF insistence that no one there had been hurt or shot at was "an absolute bare-faced lie." Release the CCTV footage now!

“To equate a spray can of paint with a suicide bomb isn’t just absurd, it is grotesque,” said Independent MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social

Yes, please @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social take the Independent Alliance to the next level - be the voice of compassionate reason and speak for the millions of us who are devastated, dumbfounded and damn angry about what Labour is doing in our name 📛

The proposed legislation is far from addressing concerns of people with disabilities - it still includes: ⚠️ Raised eligibility thresholds for PIP, disproportionately affecting those w mental health conditions, neurodivergence & fluctuating/invisible conditions

The right is coming for reproductive rights! Take 2 mins to write to your MP TODAY to demand that abortion is decriminalised action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...

Swimming in sh*t. Our privatised water system is broken - and water lobbyists have worked hard to shut down alternatives. In July the People’s Commission is launching a people-first vision for our water in Parliament. Your MP needs to hear about it: t.ly/Wxhev

"The idea that the people at the top believe in “the dignity of the individual”, in other words, is looking more threadbare by the day."

#TonyBenn speech in the #UK #HouseOfCommons against the #war in #Iraq is as relevant now with the war against #Iran as it was when it was made 26 years ago. youtu.be/A7ciGW7h7PI?...

Moving day with @vanessahm.bsky.social, 15 cats and 1 dog be like... #moving #childlesscatladies #cambodia #phnompenh #kampot

Seeing the over-60s for the OAPs. "Between 2006–08 and 2018–20, the median wealth for individuals in their 30s decreased by 34% in real terms. In contrast, during the same period, those in their 60s experienced a 55% increase in median wealth. Yet wealth taxation remains beyond the political pale."

"Mapping peat to this level of detail will help us maximise the benefits of peat and massively advances our understanding of the role our peatlands are playing in a changing climate.” Dr Sallie Bailey, @naturalengland.bsky.social ’s chief scientist. #climatechaos #carbon #forpeatssake #keepthepeat

The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Republicans say that judges blocking Trump’s illegal actions threaten judicial independence. You know what REALLY threatens judicial independence? When unelected billionaires try to buy court seats. Or when the Supreme Court has no enforceable ethics code.

"What should other nations do? My strong recommendation to Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the European Union is to join together to create a free trade zone that excludes the United States, imposing at least a 10% tariff on all imports from America." #tariff #chaos

About time! Burning stores of irrecoverable carbon (peatlands) in the climate crisis- mostly on hunting estates so people can more easily shoot grouse- is utter madness. @defraUK please expedite this ban

The kind of leadership we need right now, @labourlewis.bsky.social Our waterways are full of sh*t & the water companies (shareholders) are laughing all the way to the bank. It doesn't have to be this way. Has the shift away from "TINA" (There Is No Alternative) ever been more urgent? #OurWaterOurWay

Just watched @labourlewis.bsky.social's powerful speech on his Water Bill, raising the fundamental question that’s been ignored for too long: who should own our water? It’s time to bring water back into public hands. Watch the debate here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gIOTHnvxEI #weownit

“In my six decades of legal practice, I have never witnessed a trial as unfair as [this] one against Greenpeace…" - Marty Garbus, longtime first amendment lawyer who monitored the trial. But Garbus believes it's not over...

This is ecocide, pure and simple. “Halting a project like that in the middle of the work, that’s an environmental crime,” - Jan Haemers, CEO of another org. that previously worked in Vietnam to clean up Agent Orange in the soil. “If you stop in the middle, it’s worse than if you never started.”

"Conflating “pro-terrorist,” “anti-Semitic,” and “anti-American” activity is an incredibly dangerous step to take. The first one of those three may well render even a green card holder subject to removal. The second and third, by themselves, shouldn’t...

Also worth noting the only constituency that favours Trump are Reform voters. Farage has hitched his wagon to the US President, and before the next election Trump will drag him down too

"Is it any wonder that Trump has been called “America’s Hitler”? And who was it that called him that again? Oh yeah." Me for Zeteo, responding to the VP.

"America is indeed an exceptional nation—exceptional in this current moment for the selfishness and cruelty of its leaders, their willful ignorance of recent history... their rejection of pluralism, and their determination to make 330 million people speak, think, and live as they say." #resist

Flooding the zone with illegality: “So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once,” said David Super, an administrative law professor at Georgetown Law School.

A powerful and incisive defence of science, research, human rights, and our profession of medical journal editors from @bmj.com leadership. 🔥 And a great example of how health & medical institutions must take a stand against authoritarianism.

"Backed by a mostly white, GOP-controlled Legislature, Gov. Reeves signed into law bills to establish a separate judicial system and increase police presence in the majority-Black city.... organizers say it’s an attempt to undermine the authority of Black leadership and voting power of residents."

If you can only share one of my posts, I hope you share the one below. It may seem flippant in how I wrote it, but given what might be about to happen next week, and the huge consequences for the people in at least two nations, it’s actually incredibly important.

Beautiful orchids in bloom at Canvas & Orchids Retreat in Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary, Cambodia.

We finally have an explanation for 2023’s record-breaking temperatures A decline in cloud cover means Earth is absorbing more solar radiation which could explain the 0.2°C of missing heat scientists are struggling to account for www.newscientist.com/article/2458... docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"...But while Stevens has exited stage left, his former employer United Healthcare looms large in the minds of many NHS campaigners in the UK. The company, and others like it, represent a model of healthcare provision which we must do everything we can to avoid."

You've probaly seen various headlines this year about bird flu and the potential for a new pandemic. So I've written a new substack as a simple explainer on what a flu pandemic actually is, why bird flu and what's been going on over the last 3 years. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

"Big oil has been running public affairs campaigns to downplay the dangers of its products just as long as big tobacco, starting with air pollution in the early-to-mid-1950s.” - @geoffreysupran.bsky.social

"The evidence suggests that either the desire to drive audience figures and engagement is now overly dependent upon inviting guests who specialise in generating polarising controversy, rather than engaging in nuanced respectful debate..."

Hands off the deep sea! Let's tell the UK government to ban deep sea mining before it starts. act.gp/3FvLdI9