East Midlands Green Party Parties, Members and Supporters assemble! go.bsky.app/5c34JWJ If you're not on the list yet and you're in the East Midlands please comment and we can get you added.

Buried news of the day IMO "Government vows to phase out animal tests as alternative methods come on stream with new strategy welcomed as ‘ambitious’ and ‘timely’ by animal welfare & life sciences organisations." Plus new £75 million funding to bring forward new testing methods for health products

Our education system isn't working. Natasha Devon breaks down exactly how we got here in tomorrow's episode of Bold Politics with Zack Polanski. linktr.ee/boldpolitics

The big fiction recommendations from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social, as 2025 draws to a close: Ian McEwan, RF Kuang, Philip Pullman, Hollie McNish, SenLinYu, and... me. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ever...

Rupert Lowe has invited Wayne O'Rourke to parliament O'Rourke pleaded guilty to stirring up race hatred, after calling for people to go on the streets, burn cars, to attack mosques + the "traitors" defending Muslims Judge "You were not caught up in what others were doing, you were instigating it"

🔴 “Every Released Palestinian Has Spoken of Torture, Starvation, or Medical Neglect” Diana Buttu describes a systematic regime of torture inside Israeli prisons, noting how all of the 1,700 Palestinian hostages released recently “have spoken about torture over and over again. There isn’t one...

“Menos yates, más casas.” We went to a small town in Mexico to see how excited people are about Zack Polanski. Turns out, everyone agrees: tax the billionaires, build green homes, and make hope normal again 🇲🇽💚 @zackpolanski.bsky.social Credit: Adam Brichto

The allegation here is that wealthy tourists paid to be able to shoot human beings. Perhaps killing wildlife wasn't enough for them. If true, psychopathic scarcely begins to cover it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

This long read is about a Nottingham man who was failed by most of the institutions he came into contact with. There are a handful of heroes who kept faith with him. #Nottingham #Homelessness #MentalHealrh #Addiction www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades. transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...

Emily Maitlis not a doctor not trans not an expert in this field worked for ideological reasons to get healthcare for kids shut down, paid for by the licence fee - and she complains about ideological capture. Absolutely farcical

Same country flying ISR over Gaza out of RAF Akrotiri almost daily for two straight years talking about complicity?

Fun (or not so fun) fact - the author of the “BBC bias” memo is a lobbyist for the American Pharmaceutical Group. U.S. pharma companies recently threatened to abandon the UK unless the NHS pays more for its medicines. They also donated millions to Trump’s campaign and inauguration

ICE is building a 24/7 social media monitoring program that would scan Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and dozens of other platforms. Private contractors would turn public posts into enforcement leads fed directly into government databases. buff.ly/gXCFJBl

If the Media and its owners don't pay tax in the UK they shouldn't be able to print anything in the UK. "And yeah we don't want the Americans owning our Media, get them out."

Revealing division in my timeline between (1) my insider friends who have lived privileged lives who are very keen that we defend the BBC and think it's important it survives and (2) my outsider friends who feel (at best) ambivalent about the BBC's survival.

"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people" Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->

The European Commission will unveil a “digital omnibus” package later this month to simplify many of its tech laws. The draft document we’ve obtained shows EU officials are planning far-reaching changes to the GDPR to benefit AI developers. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/brus... 

Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms. He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.

Yesterday, Southern Water admitted to losing millions of plastic beads after initially denying it. Helena Dollimore MP now calls for them to clean up the coastline; disclose contents of the beads; fund nature restoration; and investigate how the spill happened. @dirtywatercampaign.bsky.social

Gaza has dropped out of the conversation in many places post ceasefire - similar to Lebanon, subject to daily Israeli attacks all year despite a ceasefire here. But the attacks are ongoing and people continue to die regularly in both places.

In Britain, it is now 100% acceptable to label Palestinian existence as "Jew Hate". I thank my MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social and the Labour party for diligently working to completely invert racism into antiracism and to redefine Jewishness as a mandatory white supremacy that will lead to fascism.🎉

If I had a national institution I wanted to undermine, Hanover Communications are who I’d go to. They’ve been undermining the NHS for years, successfully lobbying for firms to get NHS ££, including US giant United Health, & providing staff to pro-private politicians. It’s just what they do.

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback

"Zealously Pro Palestinian party" Genocide is bad actually.

The right bangs on about mythical no-go zones in our towns and cities. There are now real no-go zones, and the right is responsible.. #Racism #UKPolitics #NHS www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Why the 1970s stagflation myth still misleads our politics youtu.be/OcrGuICZUWc?... In this video, I unpack what really caused stagflation — and why repeating those mistakes today risks another lost decade for Britain.

Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.

Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%. policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...

I have just seen a GP asking about PIP assessor jobs as she has been unable to find employment as a GP.

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The three-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly now exceeds 1.50°C over the pre-industrial baseline, as of November 8, 2025. Are you there, COP 30? It's me, the Paris Agreement.

The woman on TikTok calling the mosques and asking if they’d help her with formula and 100% of them asking nothing but what kind do you want and where are you is the Muslim I am, the Muslim I know. And it really makes the hate that much more unmooring.

If this is true - this should have happened a long time ago. The Green Party alongside campaigners have been calling for this - and it's good to see maybe they've finally listened. Will reserve relief for all children being lifted out of poverty until we know it's happening.

Billionaires and corporations are causing climate breakdown. It's time to tax the rich. www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...

The BBC whitewashed Israel's genocide - and has now capitulated to Donald Trump. It's in crisis - for all the wrong reasons. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/the-bbc-is...

"A [terrorism] definition that relies heavily on executive discretion risks inconsistency, perceptions of unfairness, and the treatment of legitimate protest as terrorism,” said the commission, which heard evidence from more than 200 experts and stakeholders" #PalestineAction #UKPolitics

"A British Palestinian surgeon has told Al Jazeera that photographs he received of Palestinians’ bodies handed over by the Israeli army are “highly indicative of organ harvesting”. #Israel #Gaza #OrganHarvesting www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly. Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer. Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.

Hmmmm… Suspiciouser and suspiciouser.

Let's stop subsidising destruction. This Govenrment need to stop standing on the side of polluters and instead tackle the cost of living crisis. Some of my thoughts on COP 30 👇🏼 bestforbritain.substack.com/p/cop30-must...

Every personal attack. Every attempt to distract or to divide. It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement. Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Astonishing to see people fussing over this as if it's just another bit of internal BBC navel gazing and not the senile emperor of a dying global hegemon enforcing fealty from one of its most loyal satrapies.

This is an excellent explanation of why the govt's headlong rush for airport expansions is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Thank you @flightfreeuk.bsky.social substack.com/@flightfreeu...

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it... I wrote last week about two villains and one hero in the battle between truth and lies. Well here’s another hero - the Sheffield Tribune, one of the Mill stable of independent news sites, had the courage to publish an important story despite legal threats..

Journalist Paul Holden unearths the real story of how Keir Starmer was catapulted to power. Spoiler alert: It involves lies, corruption, law-breaking, covert smear operations, and lobby money. Watch Holden give an overview of his revelations about Starmer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0l...

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

The perfect idea for Davie’s leaving present. Let’s have a whip round to get it framed.

"Despite ... having been led for the last five years by a close ally of the Tories, being overseen by committees of Tory appointees, and Turness's own efforts to skew news story selection to "win over" Reform supporters, the right in this country want to see the BBC destroyed."