Excited to be writing for the brilliant @bylinetimes.bsky.social - this month’s column covers a new book from @rory-stewart.bsky.social celebrating people & place in Cumbria, a new film #PowerStation about the power of community energy, & Keir Starmer’s weird obsession with flags

When politics can provide no real solutions for people's lives, welcome to 'The Carousel of Scapegoats': distracting, psychological projection to make them feel 'better' – because the lives of 'others' can be made worse New Byline Times print edition available in shops / subscribe.bylinetimes.com 👇

This is the logical consequence of Labour’s appeasement of the far right - this is an arms race Labour should never seek to win

Labour’s latest attack on asylum seekers is cruel & counterproductive. How does it help community cohesion to hold threat of deportation over vulnerable people? We don’t need an arms race with the hard right over asylum, we need safe routes & European cooperation #bbclaurak

I wish he'd get off the fence and say what he thinks

“Investing in adaptation isn’t a luxury or an act of resignation. It’s a sober act of realism & responsibility”. Powerful article from @rupertread.bsky.social on the urgency & transformative potential of #climate adaptation👇

We need your help to get the Government to respond to our petition calling for a National Resilience Plan to protect communities from climate change impacts. Sign now (and share with your family, friends and colleagues). petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Meanwhile

"As this report shows, #climate adaptation is a story unfolding in real time, in communities facing floods, farmers navigating droughts, and cities redesigning for heat resilience." @carolinelucas.bsky.social has written the foreword of our new report. www.desmog.com/2025/10/28/w...

💚 Let’s show how culture connects us at #COP30. Add your voice to the call for culture at the heart of climate action. www.wemaketomorrow.global

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

@anthonyslaughter.bsky.social New #NuclearPower at #Wylfa would be nothing but an expensive distraction from the clean, fast and cheap #renewables already available to us And there is still no answer to the safe disposal of #NuclearWaste #NoNewNukes greenparty.org.uk/2025/11/13/w...

Never forget. Never again.

Looking forward to chatting about my book #AnotherEngland at the forthcoming Folkestone book festival - exploring issues of national identity, meaning & belonging feels more important than ever👇

Cutting the insulation schemes that are one of the best ways to permanently reduce energy bills for low income families would be an eyewateringly daft & counterproductive way of seeking to reduce energy bills, as well as driving up emissions & leading to mass job cuts in the insulation sector 🙄

Wonderful interview with the incredible inspiration who is @anthonybarnett.bsky.social - who has taught me and so many others so much about national identity, meaning and belonging. His analysis is more timely & relevant than ever 👇

Very excited to take up this role at @sussex.ac.uk & look forward to working with colleagues & students to help amplify the hugely important work the University is doing on climate, nature and environmental sustainability eg the very first undergraduate degree in climate justice starting in 2026 💚

That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership

For too long, climate adaptation has been sidelined, misunderstood as a concept & deprioritised as a policy. That urgently needs to change. Catch up with our discussion on it with @climatemajority.bsky.social & the Glacier Trust 👇

Review acknowledges young people want more #climate education & that they feel high levels of anxiety, so it’s a missed opportunity not to include importance of teacher training to equip them to help students build emotional resilience needed to turn anxiety into action @climatemajority.bsky.social

The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies Those companies pay billions to their shareholders And then lay off their workers Think that's unfair? Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…

Huge congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on his election as Mayor of New York City from all of us at the Green Party! 🎉💚

Tax wealth. Not work. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Can’t quite believe the Chancellor is seriously considering slashing support for home energy efficiency as a way to cut fuel bills 👀. Locking people into cold & leaky homes which will cost them more to heat & decimating the insulation industry at same time. Total madness 👇

Brilliant piece from @peternewell.bsky.social & @freddiedaley.bsky.social on why we must resist seductively simple proposal to build renewables & delay fossil fuel phase out. It’s a hugely dangerous gamble on a “later” that a warming world may not grant us. Fossil fuels must be phased out *now* 👇

An extraordinary realignment of British politics If you want to see @TheGreenParty take on Reform - this is the moment Join.greenparty.org.uk

You might not agree with every protest you see, but these anti-protest laws could stop you having your say on anything from disability rights, employment rights or even your local library shutting. The government must stop this attack on protest now. --> act.gp/43pAgnt

“Privatisation was the experiment — and it’s failed. We have water companies pumping sewage into our rivers and charging us extra for the privilege.” Zack Polanski says it’s time to bring water back into public hands on #BBCPoliticsNorth.

When we said we don't intend to be concerned or disappointed by the Labour Government - we intend to replace them, we meant it. Yougov have Labours lowest poll ever and Greens highest ever. Keep going everybody. Join.greenparty.org.uk

OUT TODAY: "For too long, climate adaptation — how we live with impacts and redesign systems for resilience— was sidelined and misunderstood." Not any more! Check out our new report - 'Why We Need to Talk About Adaptation'. Grab your copy now. www.desmog.com/2025/10/28/w...

Really enjoyed chatting with @rory-stewart.bsky.social about his brilliant new book #Middleland - a hymn to the beauty of Cumbria, testament to the spirit of its people & powerful call for democratic reform - oh & we covered a new role for the EU & the horror of Trump too @intelligence2.bsky.social

Farage: epic grifter

Delighted to be joining @climatemajority.bsky.social and @theglaciertrust.bsky.social tomorrow morning to talk about climate adaptation & how it offers huge potential to build community resilience & challenge the weaponisation of climate action by the populist hard right. Join us! 👇

Join us for the ‘We Need to Talk About Adaptation 2025’ online meeting focused on the SAFER campaign & building community resilience in a time of crisis. 🗓️ Tue 28 Oct | 8:15–9:45am | Online 🔗 tickettailor.com/events/climatemajorityproject/1875600 #Adaptation #Resilience #ClimateMajorityProject

A new poll puts us in second place! With 7 MSPs we delivered free bus travel under 22s, ended peak rail fares, banned new incinerators, increased taxes on the rich, scrapped school meal debt, introduced rent controls, and much more. Imagine what we could do with double that. 👀

At last! Many of us have been saying for decades that the nature and climate emergency is a security issue not simply an environmental one - look forward to government ministers agreeing ….

This would be a regressive step. Shows a poverty of thinking inside No10 Why? 🧵🧵 1. There are ways of bringing bills down and keeping costs lower whilst continuing to build out clean power. 2. The problems the renewables build out addresses haven't gone away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Make the Government respond to our call for a National Climate Resilience Plan by signing this petition and then sharing it. We need 10,000 signatures. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Dive into How to Save Democracy: Facing Climate Reality — a powerful discussion that shows how confronting the climate crisis is essential to defending our freedom and future. 👉 Watch now: www.youtube.com/live/gAXHfM7...

Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity

🚨 Britain’s democracy on trial in EU's highest human rights court. Former MPs @carolinelucas.bsky.social @benbradshaw.bsky.social @alynsmith.bsky.social ask Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights to rule that the UK investigate elections from foreign interference. Why it matters ⤵️

This is so exciting - and follows the example of many other countries that already have recognition of nature rights in their constitutions. It’s time to give Nature a voice in law! @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

It’s tonight! Hope to see you there 🙂#Brighton #Hove

Pleased to be part of this hugely significant legal challenge. The Boris Johnson Govt first suppressed the Russia report & then refused to act on it. As evidence mounts of Putin’s hybrid warfare, it’s vital that we can be confident in the robustness of our democratic systems

Today we brought our long standing campaign to the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR. Read more about it here:

This five-year legal effort has been funded entirely by the public. Please help us get this over the line and donate to our crowdfunder www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/expose-the...

Really important case - a free & democratic society where people can freely choose their leaders & representatives are core rights protected by the Convention - but unless governments are required to act on them, they remain theoretical. Given increasing insecurity, this couldn’t be more urgent👇

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Bloody brilliant 👇