More drilling in the North Sea would be a catastrophic mistake for Labour - locking us into high bills, and betraying their climate ambitions. If they’re serious about energy security, the answer is to double down instead on renewables and efficiency - and lower bills for good

Tuesday evening! Hope to see you there 👇

Hundreds of licences granted for new North Sea oil & gas projects under the Tories have so far produced just 36 days’ worth of gas. Yet more evidence, were it needed, that a crisis caused by fossil fuel dependence can’t be solved by drilling for more fossil fuels in the North Sea

Another food crisis report that was buried 🤦 This new one comes thanks to the fantastic work of @rupertread.bsky.social and @ben-cooke.bsky.social in The Times this week. A quick thread 🧵: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

More info: togetheralliance.org.uk/march

Let's do this 💪🏼 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Every minister should read this from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social: “The global food system is systemically fragile in the same way that the global financial system was before the 2008 crash…the same factors that would have brought down the financial system….now threaten to bring down the food system”.

Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now

Great to talk at recent @coveringclimatenow.org briefing about the new report from @climatemajority.bsky.social on how to break the spirals of silence from different parts of the climate majority. Once we see ourselves as a majority, the scope for effective #climate action becomes so much greater

Fossil fuels push the world towards autocracy. Were we less dependent on them, there might have been no President Trump, no President Putin, no ayatollahs, no Netanyahu, no perpetual Middle East wars. Democracy depends on unhooking ourselves. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is a deeply dangerous escalation by Starmer, taking us further into an illegal & unpopular war, and making us a target. When was the vote in parliament??

The Green MPs and Peers have written to Keir Starmer to urge for an end to the UK's involvement in the US and Israel's illegal war. Under international law, the UK is obliged to have no involvement in illegal military action, including the use of UK bases and UK-made weapons.

"It's a question of where’s that money's going? And you've handed over our private patient data to Palantir, a company with far-right connections. If that money was instead going into the front line, we might all have a better chance of having a better NHS" Caroline Lucas on the NHS on #BBCQT

“Trump is a bully and a blackmailer, and he has made absolutely no plan for what an exit strategy looks like. When he asks for our help we should say: Donald, ‘you broke it, you fix it.’” Caroline Lucas speaking on the Iran war on #BBCQT.

“We have a plan to end rip off Britain”- @zackpolanski.bsky.social will set out Green Party proposals to end rip-off rents, bring water back into public hands, bring down energy bills & rebuild our economy so we can weather the storms ahead & look forward to the future with evidence-based hope👇

When in doubt, pretend linear time works backwards.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

🎤 Public opinion webinar alert 👥 @carolinelucas.bsky.social, former leader of England's Green Party, will join CCNow next Tuesday, March 17, at 12pm ET, for a live discussion about the global popularity of climate action. RSVP: buff.ly/rGLQTl6

Looking forward to this 👇

If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one. My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one. #NoBrainer www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

“This war has been no help to the people of Iran. It risks leaving them in a more destabilised country with a worse regime.” Siân Berry discussing the conflict in Iran on #BBCQT.

Such a powerful maiden speech from our amazing new Green MP Hannah Spencer - take a few moments to listen & celebrate that a bit more humanity has entered Westminster & hope is beginning to feel more normal 👇

Helpfully Tim Leunig accepts as a premise that more North Sea drilling won’t make oil nor gas more affordable in the UK. But his arguments about tax and the strategic benefit of allowing more North Sea licensing are flawed in key ways (as well as in ways that James has pointed out). Long 🧵 below:

Awks for Tories & Reform who want to keep us hooked on fossil fuels: new @theCCCuk report shows transition to net zero will cost less than a single oil shock - £4bn a year - as well as delivering health & security benefits

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Today, European Movement UK have launched our petition calling for the UK to join the single market. Europe is the largest trading bloc in the world, and joining the single market would remove barriers to trade, support growth of British businesses and strengthen cooperation with Europe.

"We saw that change in Gorton and Denton – and that result unlocked a new level of confidence for potential Green voters that they can truly vote for what they want and get it." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So pleased to support #AVeryEnglishChat - at a time of division, by bringing individuals & communities together to share their own reflections on national identity, we can discover far more compelling & inclusive stories of who we are & who we can be 👇

If Scotland were to design a modern democratic constitution &, with it, return to the EU, then perhaps England would find a way to follow. My piece for @scotnational.bsky.social ahead of public meetings in Edinburgh & Glasgow next week - makehopepossible.org/tickets

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Zack Polanski, "John Healy won't condemn US/Israel attack on Iran" "I'm worried that the UK will be pulled into another illegal war" Ditto :/

Laura Kuenssberg, "Are the US and Israeli strikes on Iran legal under international law?" John Healey, "We weren't involved in the strikes" Laura Kuenssberg, "Were they legal under international law?" John Healey, "It's for the US to explain the legal basis they're operating under"

US and Israeli strikes on Iran are hugely dangerous: irresponsible, provocative and illegal. Starmer must call out these so-called ‘allies’ - who are acting as rogue states - and use all UK levers to uphold international law.

This year's #ModernCockneyFestival (March 1-31st) features live opera, poetry, theatre, and family fun day events along with online talks. Check out at www.moderncockneyfestival.org.uk Celebrate the culture, heritage, and identity of 'non-posh Londoners'

Hear one of America's leading experts on countering the rise of populism, Prof Joan Williams, author of 'Outclassed - how the Left lost the working class and how to win them back' in free online conversation event at 4pm GMT on Monday March 2. Inspiring and practical lessons from America for the UK

1/2 NEW: This national security assessment, broadcast for the first time after the Government tried to hush it up, makes clear what many have sensed for some time...

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Apologies to all of Hannah's customers! Something exciting is happening. Be a part of it ⤵️

"I really want to encourage more people from backgrounds like mine to get into a system that has always shut us out." Hannah Spencer MP: plumber, plasterer, parliamentarian

What a result!! Huge congratulations to the amazing Hannah Spencer - everyone in Gorton and Denton has just made history. This result shows @greenparty.org.uk can win anywhere, that the politics of hope can win over the politics of hate & there is no longer any such thing as a Labour safe seat 💚

Loved chatting with @zackpolanski.bsky.social in a live @boldpolitics.bsky.social from #Brighton - we covered everything from the climate & nature emergency (obvs), telling better stories of England, hope & despair, & why we often do end of life so badly - give it a listen 👇

Today is the day. Hope vs hate. Green vs Reform. Vote Green in Gorton & Denton.

Ahead of our national demo at RAF Marham, CND Vice-President @carolinelucas.bsky.social has written a guest blog on the importance of protesting against Britain's disastrous nuclear expansion: cnduk.org/britain-must...

There's still time to get involved and join us at Saturday's demonstration to #StopBritishNukeJets! 📆 1:00pm-3:00pm 📍 RAF Marham, PE33 9NP Details and transport: cnduk.org/events/stop-...

Sea levels are rising, the far right are rising. Caroline Lucas on Bold Politics: linktr.ee/boldpolitics

Caroline Lucas on becoming an "end of life" doula

Zack Polanski and Caroline Lucas Premiering at 7pm: youtu.be/HSw620OysHc

Scientists warn our rainfall extremes are decades ahead of models. Prof Rupert Read says our focus should be on nature restoration, flood resilience and community strength as immediate defences against mounting disruption that’s already happening. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @rupertread.bsky.social

Preventing local authorities from pursuing the most ambitious environmental standards that go beyond current, inadequate building regulations for greener homes is shameful & shortsighted, & cheats people out of warm, energy efficient homes👇