Make oil, coal and gas corporations pay their fair share for the damage they cause. Introduce new taxes or fines on them to help communities at home and around the world rebuild from climate disasters and invest in climate solutions. Add your name: act.gp/4usPymE #MakePollutersPay

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

🌱 HOPE and a PLAN for Greater Manchester 💚

Clearly Rutte has no self-respect

“if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won’t stop him” 😀 #CountBinfaceForClacton

I really hope this means @greenparty.org.uk won’t be standing like the other main parties too - Farage v @countbinface.bsky.social is the fight we want to see

In ten days time with your help we can cap how much money anyone can personally give to a political cause and any chance millionaires can buy our politics. If you agree share this and ask your MP to co sign the amendment. It’s time we made sure it’s democracy not donations that define our future.

indeed, because of this absolutist property view of women & children, because of their fetishisation of total power over others & valorisation of violent machismo masculinity, we should **expect** the most committed fascists to be rapists & pedophiles

Labour can threaten a £10k charge on migrants and still it’s never enough for the hard right. Perhaps there’s a lesson here? 🤔

Summary of the Home Office Impact Assessment for Asylum Bill is hilarious (if it weren't so depressing). HO analysts say "basically no evidence to suggest *any* of these policies will work *even on their own terms*" (but will probably cost money). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a43e1...

The reason Mahmood has got away with a cruel immigration policy that undermines the rest of the government is that the PM is weak and won't adjudicate disputes. This is why she's gotten further than Braverman or Patel did, no one from an economic department can go "are you bonkers?!" And be heard.

Labour really demonstrating how they are the cruelest, most anti-asylum, government in decades. That isn't to say Conservatives weren't hideous, but Labour are significantly worse on every measure. This is a policy rooted purely in cruelty over anything else. #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Big Tech is saying out loud "You can have a habitable planet or machine generated slop, but you can't have both."

NEW ANALYSIS: UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time What's that you say? Something something demand, something something ZEV mandate? Take a look at the data: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Universal programs are indeed the way to go — combined with taxes.

My strongest memory of Starmer will be his 2024 conference speech, where he said "every child deserves respect", a young activist said "does that include the children of Gaza?", and he laughed and said "he's obviously got a pass to the 2019 conference".

This is indeed a key test. The proposals are morally indefensible, legally questionable, economically self-destructive, and politically delusional. No-one with "legitimate concerns" about migration will vote Labour for pledging to deport care workers. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

I think this is broadly right. We don't have an epidemic of violent crime (on the part of asylum seekers, migrants or anyone else) nor are we torn apart/wracked by racism/antisemitism/Islamophobia, serious issues as they are, and the media, especially the BBC, shouldn't tell us we are.

showyourstripes.info/l/europe/uni... #showyourstripes

I really hope Manchester Greens have been planning the Mayoral campaign for the last month or so 🙂

Churches have a significant part to play in help migrants and asylum-seekers to rebuild their lives, argues Jenny Herrera #Refugee #RefugeeWeek

People don't want fascism. They want change. Labour has two years to show what real change looks like. This is it now. Last chance.

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

Today marks an important milestone. We officially launch the W Social Public Beta in Brussels. A European platform built for real people, real conversations and a better digital future. Watch live at 16:00 CEST: www.youtube.com/@BrusselsPre... Join THE WAITLIST: wsocial.eu #WSocial #Europe

One way to go about universal basic income is to pair it with a consumption tax. This could be in the form of a value-added tax as all OECD nations but us already use, or in the form of a tiny transaction tax on all electronic payments like how Visa/MC work. I consider this as another layer for UBI.

This was a race riot. Families were driven from their homes. People were targeted because of who they are and where they come from. Words matter. Those who fuel hatred and division bear responsibility too. We have more in common than that which divides us.

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.

"For far too long... mainstream media in the UK has failed the public. It has downplayed the rise of the far right at home while helping manufacture consent for genocide abroad." I make the case for why we need Zeteo UK, which launched today and which needs your support, as subscribers:

All referees should refuse to officiate at the World Cup until he's reinstated.

Food prices could rise 170% by 2050 due to the climate crisis. People are already struggling to put food on the table while farmers and workers can't make ends meet. We need urgent action. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

"Two-tier policing" is part of a bad faith effort by the far right to portray white people as oppressed by malign, racially conceptualised forces & ultimately needing to fight back violently. Either Kuenssberg doesn't know this, or she does but chooses not to say so. Either ought to disqualify her >

I’d say that was about right, but the saddest thing about the ‘debate’ was that the Reform talking points - eg that there is two-tier policing, that migrants are a cause of housing shortages - were discussed as though they were important and only mildly rebuffed

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

Activists in Naples unfurled an 82-feet-long cloth bearing the names of 18,457 Palestinian children killed in Gaza since the Israel-Hamas war began.

Wow! UN general assembly vote on climate accountability just in!! 141 countries voted YES. Only 8 voted NO. This is big! As I wrote in my latest Forbes article, the world may now slowly be moving climate responsibility from pledges toward legal accountability. www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...

The Prime Minister described yesterday's migration stats as "great news". In fact, the government's current immigration strategy is both economically damaging and politicallly self-defeating. But there is a better way. Me in @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

This is brilliant...... “Tommy Robinson’s far right march has unwittingly raised over £100k for refugees. “Over 2,000 of you have chipped in to make tomorrow’s far right march the biggest sponsored walk for refugees EVER.”

Ignore the Reform hype – Farage’s party is going backwards. 📝 My election analysis 👇

The European Commission (@ec.europa.eu) has updated the top follow buttons on its web page. Mastodon and Bluesky are in, X is out. commission.europa.eu/index_en

BBC Projected National Share of the vote for the local elections with the change from last year. Despite the fanfare in the media for Reform this echoes their steady decline in the polls. Reform 26% -4 Green 18% +7 Labour 17% -3 Conservative 17% +2 Lib Dems 16% -1

On 7 May 2026, Britain ran a PR experiment: Scottish Parliament: a Mixed-Member Proportional system Welsh Senedd: a (new) Low-Magnitude Party List system Same day, same political context, different outcomes. Which version of PR would be better for Westminster? 🧵

Green Party elections summary: 💚Won 587 total seats (prev record 483 in 2023) 💚Won 11.6% of seats contested (prev record 6.8% in 2024) 💚Net Gain of +398 (prev record +207 in 2023) 💚New total of 1319 council seats 💚2 Senedd members (broke through for the first time)

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Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains.

Wind and solar have now beaten fossil fuels in Great Britain for a record 15 months in a row Just a decade ago, fossil fuels were generating four times more than wind and solar That's now flipped: Since the Iran war, wind and solar generated twice as much as fossil fuels 4/5

The same papers who scream about concocted Green ‘antisemitism’ also publish vile antisemitic cartoons of @zackpolanski.bsky.social Their focus is on creating anti-Green hysteria - not Jewish safety Folks like @mthrjo.bsky.social recognise the cartoons, but are still subtly drawn into the hysteria