Steve Isle
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Retired teacher of Philosophy/History. Green activist, humanist and grandad.
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Zack Polanski
2 days ago
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...
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Zack Polanski warns Britainās food system is āclose to collapseā
The Greens have called for a £1,000-a-month basic income for some agricultural workers
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/zack-polanski-food-farmers-supermarkets-b2991343.html
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Charles Keener
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The Green Party of England & Wales
13 days ago
"I think it's pretty grotesque to see him selling the future of our children and grandchildren down the river" - Zack Polanski discusses Tony Blair's latest intervention on Sky News
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Humanity Must Win
25 days ago
Red or Blue both corrupt political parties tricked you. They sold you out. They both work for the Zionist Epstein criminal network (especially after assassination of JFK). Wake the fuck up and start building something new.
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Jon Poole
17 days ago
#SocialistSunday
Reminder While the rich relax in their mansions, millions of workers are worrying about bills, rents, and NHS waiting lists. This system isnāt broken ā itās working exactly as intended for the few. Solidarity is our weapon. Organise. Agitate. š¹ā
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Markvz
19 days ago
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Anton Hur
about 1 month ago
WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."
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High-strength, multi-mode processable bamboo molecular bioplastic enabled by solvent-shaping regulation - Nature Communications
Bioplastics derived from biomass show promise as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical plastics, but their adoption is hindered by their inferior mechanical properties and processability. Here, th...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63904-2
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Saul Staniforth
about 1 month ago
Chris Nineham: "We have, multiple times, asked the Met for corroborated examples of anyone from our demonstrations threatening or in any way causing intimidation to a Jewish person going to a synagogue or otherwise, they haven't been able to provide us with one instance.."
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Dr Paul Dorfman
about 1 month ago
Renewables are now 53% cheaper than nuclear for total system cost - not just generation cost. Each year nuclear adds only as much net global power capacity as renewables add every two days.
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BladeoftheSun
about 1 month ago
Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit. British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit. Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit. It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.
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Good Law Project
about 1 month ago
What these extraordinary numbers make clear is that Reform is less a political party and more a very highly paid public-facing lobby group for oil and gas interests
https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/reform-uk-nigel-farage-millions-donations-fossil-fuel-interests-climate-science-deniers/
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Revealed: Reformās Ā£24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/reform-uk-nigel-farage-millions-donations-fossil-fuel-interests-climate-science-deniers/
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Pantrywoman
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Zack Polanski
about 2 months ago
If you really want to see the Green Party have an extraordinary election - then you have to go out and vote. There's too many close calls where it's Labour Vs Green - time to show Starmer the door and end Rip Off Britain.
greenparty.org.uk/get-involved...
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Saul Staniforth
about 2 months ago
Faiza Shaheen: "I support the Greens.. everyone sees the rot in the political system, typified by Mandelson.. no politician is delivering for people.. lots of people are turning to the Greens.. we want to live in a country where we care for each other, where change does happen"
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Peter Stefanovic
2 months ago
āThe right to trial by jury is an important factor in the delicate balance between the power of the state and the freedom of the individual. The further itās restricted, the greater the imbalanceā Those were the words of Keir Starmer. Now he plans to restrict them
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Natalie Bennett
2 months ago
Why do I have my Private Member's Bill calling for an end to uncontrolled addition of biocides to consumer products? "These uses should be a clear target for AMR prevention."
#PublicHealth
#AMR
phys.org/news/2026-03...
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Antibacterial soaps and wipes can fuel antimicrobial resistance, scientists warn
An international team of scientists is warning that everyday antibacterial soaps, wipes, sprays, and other "germ-killing" products are quietly contributing to the global rise of antimicrobial resistan...
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-antibacterial-soaps-fuel-antimicrobial-resistance.html#goog_rewarded
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Ali
2 months ago
I know it's a bit noisy just now, but remember climate change? Yeah, it's not gone away, it's just getting worse, accelerating, ...and everyone who can do anything about it is ignoring even harder than ever. š there is no planet-b
youtu.be/ir8591BxLvA?...
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North Sea Fossil Fuels: just what we donāt need
YouTube video by Dr Gilbz
https://youtu.be/ir8591BxLvA?si=A2VFd3vtgDb1rAX0
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Peter Stefanovic
2 months ago
Despite a year of warnings that strikes would harm patients, ministers have scrapped 1,000 desperately needed NHS training posts to punish doctors for taking industrial action
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/04/the-...
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The Government Is Punishing the NHS
Despite a year of warnings that strikes would harm patients, ministers have scrapped 1,000 desperately needed NHS training posts to punish doctors for taking industrial action.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2026/04/the-government-is-punishing-the-nhs/
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism
2 months ago
The US has very obviously decided it cannot win and it is going to stop the attack on Iran. It's over. It has lost, badly. It knows it has lost badly. It is now bombing for no other reason than trying to save face; killing people and causing destruction to improve Trumps PR. No other reason.
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Michael
2 months ago
Israel Is Conducting a Campaign to Ethnically Cleanse Southern Lebanon of Shia Residents
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Israel Is Conducting a Campaign to Ethnically Cleanse Southern Lebanon of Shia Residents
Residents of border villages have been abandoned by the Lebanese army as Israeli troops invade.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/southern-lebanon-israel-ethnic-cleansing-shia-lebanese-army-debel
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Trump says heās going to bomb Iran back to the stone age where it belongs. He is completely ignorant of the role the inhabitants of that region had in the development of civilisation.
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George Monbiot
3 months ago
The global food system is systemically fragile in the same way that the global financial system was before the 2008 crash. If it goes it down, weāre looking, as complex societies, at a potential termination event. This week's column. Please read it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Weāre letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out | George Monbiot
The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread ā and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/big-corporations-global-food-system-war-iran
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Natalie Bennett
3 months ago
Fascinating discovery that blows a giant hole in the "we can genetically engineer drought-resistant plants" claim. Water, soil, plants are a complex, integrated system
@gmwatch.bsky.social
#PlanetaryBoundaries
phys.org/news/2026-03...
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Why cultivating drought-resistant plants disappoints: Soil physics may be the real bottleneck
Plants need water, light, and air to thrive. But when they transport water from the soil up to their leaves, they defy gravity. Scientists describe this astonishing phenomenon as "negative water poten...
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-cultivating-drought-resistant-disappoints-soil.html
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Oliver
3 months ago
"Back when the science community used to deny climate change... Human caused climate change was looked skeptically for decades.... then the fact driven data forced all honest science literate skeptics to concede ..."
www.facebook.com/groups/96164...
via The Climate Realism Community
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George Monbiot
3 months ago
Most of the media reflects neither reality nor public opinion. It reflects the views and demands of those who own it: the Oligarch Class. They employ editors and journalists to channel their demands and sell their fictions. Hence the endless attacks on net zero.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rightwing narrative fuelling false belief UK public oppose net zero, study finds
Reform, Tory and some media rhetoric runs contrary to poll showing far more voters for net zero than against it
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/20/uk-public-support-net-zero-rightwing-media-rories-reform-analysis
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Oliver
3 months ago
"UK Government decided not to get involved with Iran War. OKEY - if you want us to believe you, close Fairfied airfield to USA long range bombers & B22s. These are attack planes loaded with massive bombs at Fairfield. No more access to USA bombers in UK soil!" via Halit Ece
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Zack Polanski
3 months ago
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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@joannechocolat.bsky.social
R4 just now, ānovelists have a greater grasp of consciousness than scientists.ā
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Natalie Bennett
3 months ago
Measles rates: Deeply concerning
www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...
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Measles spreading across 50 areas in UK - see cases where you live
Measles infections have now been confirmed by lab tests in every region of England, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed, mainly among children under 10
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/measles-spreading-across-50-areas-36862985
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Reform wailing over animals on banknotes, ignorant of the fact the design is changed every 10 yrs or so to foil counterfeiters.
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David Ho
3 months ago
It doesnāt matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. Itāll never cease to amaze me that people donāt care that itās happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El NiƱo
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/humanity-heating-planet-faster-than-ever-before-study-finds?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu_env
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Alistair Barrie
3 months ago
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from
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The Scales āļø
3 months ago
'A study has found...' suggests we haven't known and ignored this for decades...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El NiƱo
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/humanity-heating-planet-faster-than-ever-before-study-finds
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When did we accept, without question, that Israel has the right to annex parts of other countries?
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Why, BBC, are you platforming Farage as if heās the leader of the Opposition? FYI heās the leader of a minority party which has never been in govt and he has never held Cabinet office.
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BladeoftheSun
3 months ago
I don't think people understand just how BAD it would be if Donald Trump won in Iran. He would invade Cuba. He would invade Greenland. While Israel will invade Lebanon which they already doing, Syria, Jordan and anywhere else they like. Then they will push China into WW3.
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Have we become Airstrip One?
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BladeoftheSun
3 months ago
People are still arguing if the US/Israel strike on Iran was legal or not. It wasn't Under the official rules you are supposed to declare War before any hostile action Even under the 'pre-emptive strike' laws we made up in 2002 for Iraq you need to be under immediate threat
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Labourās Toilet Police
3 months ago
A new study by researchers at Cardiff University shows a massive broadcast media bias (including by the institutionally transphobic BBC) against the Green Party and others and disproportionate coverage in favour of Reformā¦
nation.cymru/feature/why-...
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Humanity Must Win
5 months ago
And the job of Starmer's fake Labour Party is to put in place all the authoritarian tools (ie Palantir) and then hand over to Farage. Its the same billionaire and corporate money behind Labour, Reform and Tory. They put on a different theatrical show but core policies are the same.
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Emin exhibition at Tate: she canāt draw, paint, etch, sculpt or throw a pot, yet the art establishment thinks sheās wonderful. Pathetic.
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Mike Hudema
4 months ago
#ClimateChange
is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions. Weāre causing
#globalwarming
100 times faster than past natural changes We are taking Earthās climate beyond natural limits with carbon dioxide & temperatures levels not seen for 3 million years.
#ActOnClimate
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Alex Callinicos
4 months ago
This is quite a scandal, which shouldnāt be lost in the glare of the Andrew/Mandelson/Epstein drama.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour minister falsely linked journalists to āpro-Kremlinā network in emails to GCHQ
Exclusive: Josh Simons pressed intelligence officials to investigate reporters, in emails described as āMcCarthyite smearā
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/20/labour-minister-falsely-linked-journalists-to-pro-kremlin-network-in-emails-to-gchq?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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These people in the Epstein conspiracy are depraved. The whole lot should be on trial, their crimes exposed and then jailed for life.
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism
4 months ago
Western citizens who have lived through the largest wealth transfer from the bottom to the top in history genuinely believe that an immigrant took everything from them, rather than the hyper-capitalist bastards who really robbed them blind.
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Dr Matt Lodder
4 months ago
Reform will demand a platform at Bangor University which they weren't offered, but repeatedly deny politically-meaningful ones which they were.
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4 months ago
This is the level of disrespect and ignorance about the environment from this government āchancellor, Rachel Reeves, boasted to corporate executives that she has āunblockedā a large housing development in Sussex being held up by āsome snails ⦠a protected species or something ā¦ā
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Enough is enough. The House of Lords is a rolling scandal - sign
@electoralreform.bsky.social
ā¬'s call to demand change. It takes 30 seconds.
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/186062/...
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Itās outrageous that we can't kick out Lords. Sign now to demand an elected second chamber
It takes 30 seconds
https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/186062/petition/1?locale=en-GB&en_chan=bs&ea.tracking.id=BSshare&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_content=House%20of%20Lords%20-%20Handraiser%20-%20Accountability&en_ref=11052315
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Humanity Must Win
4 months ago
Israeli and Russian interference is all part of the same thing. Its transnational organised crime and they play triangulation games.
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Zack Polanski
4 months ago
Pleased to see the jury make this decision. We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries. People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Palestine Action protesters not guilty of defence firm burglary
The group are cleared of aggravated burglary over the alleged raid at an Elbit Systems warehouse.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wxlv99xrjo
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