On the same day that a poll shows the Green Party in front of the Labour Party for the first time - it's time to take on Reform too. My chat with @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social 👇🏼 youtu.be/XRNB5MD7Ijw?...

Has Trump dispatched National Guard units to Alaska to help with flooding and recovery?

Insurance rates up $2000. Food benefits cut off. Farmers unable to sell their crops. Skyrocketing national debt. $40 billion to Argentina. America First!

Making the case for wealth taxes on @SkyNewsPolitics just now. Rumours that Chancellor might seek yet more spending cuts are horrifying - public services are already on their knees & top 50 richest families in UK now hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population - over 34 million people.

The UK is the only European country to detain people seeking asylum indefinitely. If you are detained, you count up, not down, the days to your uncertain fate. I can't imagine the horror of those circumstances. www.thesun.co.uk/news/3700358...

English councils to remain poorer than 2010 despite funding boost, says report

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

'“Polanski is a real threat,” says a senior source, warning that the old assumption that “these people have nowhere else to go” no longer holds. No 10 believe that the Greens, rather than the faction-riven remains of Corbynism, pose the biggest threat (a prediction that has so far been borne out).'

Labour is protecting the shareholders: "The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is predicting the sharpest drop in living standards since records began. This isn’t a case of prices getting ahead of demand. What Britain faces is profit inflation: prices rising while wages stand still." shorturl.at/T4RCN

In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Honestly, this is the best Trawl Meets yet. ❤️ Anyone who wants to actually hear @zackpolanski.bsky.social without him being interrupted because "he's saying the quiet words out louds", then THIS is the podcast for you. There's so much packed into this episode. PS: join.greenparty.org.uk 💚

The UK Green Party is surging in popularity, breaking the 100,000 member mark over the weekend. Amazing what happens when you take a clear moral and political stance on genocide.

Israeli leaders screamed their genocidal intent at the top of their lungs all the way through. No crime in history has been so confessed to as it actually happened. But almost all Western media outlets suppressed this. Kudos to @scotnational.bsky.social for not being one of them.

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies? By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Looks like the Greens are likely to hit 100,000 members pretty soon. Quite an astonishing growth rate.

UK ministers have for two years constantly defended and underplayed Israel's genocide in parliament. Here's @JennyChapman referring to "allegations" of attacks on schools and hospitals and calling on "all parties" to cease, without mentioning the word "Israel". #DCUKparliament

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Israel’s arms imports from UK hit record high values

The UK Gov’s expert advisers have shown that investing to transiton from expensive gas to clean energy will save the UK nearly £40 billion every year! Most people can’t afford the up-front investment, but the UK absolutely can. Tackling climate change isn’t just about protecting people.

Well that's the trouble. We did. We voted out the Tories, only to get a government that now does the same or worse. It's not hard to see why people feel like giving up on politics.

This is terrorism.

Police: we don't have the capacity for this level of authoritarianism. Labour: bsky.app/profile/geor...

Explaining the strain this is putting on police officers, Police Federation Chair, Paula Dodds said: “Enough is enough. We are emotionally and physically exhausted.”

Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories... "Change", my left foot. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Labour MPs who voted against welfare cuts this Summer have expressed concerns over the government’s plans to change the assessment for universal credit disability benefits www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Impressively big attendance at this year's 2025 Green conference.

"the number of Greens across Great Britain - around 91,000 - is around 50% more than the membership of the Lib Dems" Now is the perfect time to click join.greenparty.org.uk and help us get to 100,000!

Greens ‘on track’ to supplant Labour as favourite party in London, says Zack Polanski

Many thanks 'Kevin'. Now don't you think X might be where you'd feel more at home?

As Russia is discovering, a drone can wreck an oil refinery Not so much a solar farm, since silicon doesn't explode billmckibben.substack.com/p/its-hard-t...

Hmm. With solar energy, the big explosions take place 93 million miles away

NEW: The Nerve @thenerve.news, the new publication launched by former Observer journalists including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, has attracted more than 900 paying subscribers in its first week pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-lau...

Journalist Mario Guevara has been deported. He spent three-plus months in ICE custody after livestreaming a protest, before being flown out of the U.S. on Oct. 3. In a recent post, he wrote: “My dedication to my work cost me my freedom.”

Starmer will hand Britain over to Farage, says Green party leader Zack Polanski

We stand with the Jewish community and everyone affected by the horrific attack at the synagogue in Manchester today. Zack Polanski: “We've seen rising antisemitism for years, as well as rising hate crime more generally. This is about civil society, democracy, and bringing people together.”

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

It seems like every day that Morgan McSweeney wakes up with a new idea about how to detoxify Reform's hideous worldview and Keir Starmer duly executes it for him.

Pope Leo XIV denounced people who deny climate change today, arguing that they are contributing to the destruction of God's creation.

What will the takeover of TikTok by Tony Blair’s funder - Larry Ellison - & his new business partner, Rupert Murdoch, mean? Well watch & learn. Here’s Bibi Netanyahu spelling it out. Social meds is a ‘weapon’ he says. And the most consequential one of all? TikTok.

Tony Blair’s Institute has taken nearly half a billion $ from tech billionaire Larry Ellison. His company Oracle is deeply embedded in Israeli govt & military. Larry Ellison is a personal friend of Netanyahu. 2/

It's going to be down to the generals to refuse these unconstitutional orders When fascism threatens we all have to act with courage and according to conscience

At Labour conference, Steve Reed is handing out MAGA-style "Build Baby, Build" baseball caps to celebrate his government tearing up environmental protections for the benefit of property developers. You can join the @greenparty.org.uk here: join.greenparty.org.uk

Horrific reality: @greenparty.org.uk has long been calling for ALL arms exports to Israel to be stopped. #HumanRights #RuleofLaw www.channel4.com/news/factche...

Labour truly are the nasty party:

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.