Nigel Farage currently railing against Parliament being full of "professional politicians". He founded UKIP in 1993 and was first elected as an MEP in 1999, twenty-six years ago. Less than 5% of current MPs (31 to be precise) have a longer career in politics than Farage. ~AA

4th explosion in Kharkiv ‼️ Fuck russia!

The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia. This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give. How are Reform getting away with this? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

WHO’s One Health Day reminds us our health and nature’s health are inseparable. PFAS “forever chemicals” in our water prove the point. #OneHealthDay #ProtectOurWater

This is horrifically, global-historically terrible, idea right?

Explosion in Kharkiv ‼️the city is under russian glide bomb attack right now ‼️

Hannan will definitely know that research evidence is clear: socioeconomic disadvantage, not ethnicity, is the main driver of violent crime disparities in the UK. But that’s no use to an amoral political opportunist whose pals have been running things for decades.

I recently joined and am helping out. Folks couldn’t be more welcoming. Come be a part of something good!

Highly recommend the film Bugonia. Stirring call to action work of art.

Let's make this happen. Together. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/pol...

And book charities become public libraries again.

Teachers are resisting our schools being forced become even more intensive #ExamFactories. Well done teachers. Labour wedded to Victorian ideas of education and seeking to push schools even further into competition www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Absolute perfection. #Reform

What a mess we are making on this #PoisonedPlanet. You cannot throw anything "away". There is no such place apnews.com/article/ewas...

Profoundly important point in article ⬇️ Gov after gov created dizzying blizzards of spin/BS/lies/grift. So potential now for even current tenuous grip on democratic levers, to address ecological crises, slipping out of reach. I'm hoping Green Party can put a fact-floor under democratic collapse.

How Nazi Race Science Conquered the WH, and is Coming for Your Democracy One major ‘Dark Enlightenment’ influencer has stepped into the light, talking of the ‘negro problem’. Nafeez Ahmed explains how the SV broligarchy has resurrected Nazi-inspired eugenics ideology & is putting it into action.

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A self-deprecating financial trader yrs ago made me laugh w his story about screwing up going all in on gold, right at the top of its 2008 run, then selling at its bottom, just before it entered a long rally. Jake Tapper very much reminding me of that trader.

There are difficult questions for our country's ruling institutions still to answer about covering for abusers. The CoE just sacked its boss over this exact same issue. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform.... Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally. It's time for Proportional Representation. www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...

What if we swapped 80% of (entirely justified) outrage posts, with practical planning suggestion posts?

The billionaires don't need to give their money away (to corrupt charities that just syphon the money back to them). It needs to be taken away exactly as it was in the 1970's when the highest tax rate was 90% in nearly every county.

Water companies already have 12,000 criminal convictions. If that doesn’t meet the bar for “not fit to operate”, what does?

Great time to join the climb! join.greenparty.org.uk www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/gre...

I personally don't accuse Nigel Farage of being a paid Russian agent working to Putin's orders. Not at all. But I do wonder, only as a thought experiment, if someone was a paid Russian agent working to Putin's orders, what would they do differently from Nigel Farage?

Snivelling grifter Farage can serve as inspiration for @greenparty.org.uk to be polar opposite, do everything differently. Below is clearest example of importance of politicians not pretending omni-expertise. We must facilitate expertise not bullshit about it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Russia Today

Extreme heat now kills roughly one person every minute, and about 550,000 a year, finds @lancetcountdown.bsky.social's new report. And scientists warn parts of the world may soon hit limits where it’s too hot and humid for people to survive. My latest for @bloomberg.com (free 🎁 link):

Scotland's nature is in crisis. 🌍 Today MSPs will have a chance to vote on Green proposals to force large landowners to restore our nature.

🧵Once in a while, for few hours, press gaf about what happens inside #prison  Those hours prob passed again this time, but anyway. UK prisons - I know a bit about having worked in them - are layers of impossibility stacked on layers of impossibility.

Why The Green Party Doing Well Is Making Me Very Uncomfortable But Also Doesn’t Really Count - a Telegraph article by Hannibal Lecter and Dracula.

“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.

Farage: epic grifter

IMO we have to provide equally convenient broadcasting @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social

If it's Monday, it must be time for Farage across the nation. #sleepwalkingtodisaster

If you do work for the king, the king should pay you for that work. That doesn't seem like a thing that needs over-complicating with layers of bullshit.

His Majesty's Prison Service: '...tens of millions of pounds owed to suppliers who worked on upgrades to three prisons in England.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thursday night online for @greenparty.org.uk members: delighted to be talking about my recent visit to Ukraine with Viktoriya Ball, organiser of feminist youth climate movement Rozviy. An event organised by Green Ukraine Solidarity #StandWithUkraine www.eventbrite.com/e/the-green-...

Truth. Also, I've been in loads of ads. WTF are these loons on about?

Bezos removed books from Amazon on Ghislane Maxwell's trial and Kevin Spacey's trial. Inner City Press is a nonprofit in NYC. They do fantastic work. Fuck Bezos. @innercitypress.bsky.social

"Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with!" Macbeth Act III, iv. 93-5 #ShakespeareSunday

Weakening environmental oversight when Natural England is already under-resourced makes no sense. We need more expertise protecting nature, not less. #Nature #Planning

A reminder that you can't throw anything _away_. There is no such place. Caffeine is a drug. And in our ageing societies the level of pharmaceuticals in wastewater is a serious environmental and human health issue #OneHealth theconversation.com/should-you-p...

The pattern is familiar: get a scheme approved, then apply to remove the social homes. We need stricter rules to stop this and ensure every development delivers the affordable homes communities need. #AffordableHomes #SocialHomes Full text here: bit.ly/4qrKs8J

If I become a politician, my pitch: We can have a yearslong orgy of hating, hurting, killing each other. History records people choosing that. We definitely can. We also know for sure that after, when many of us are dead, all our problems will be worse. This time, shall we skip the hate?

🤬Yana Suvorova, a 21-year-old administrator of the Telegram channel "Melitopol is Ukraine", was sentenced to 14 years in prison by the court of Russia. She was arrested in August 2023 in occupied Melitopol. She was only 19 at the time.

New climate = New risk

Ahead of UN Day, we’re highlighting the #IPCC. The IPCC is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. It was established in 1988 by UNEP & WMO to provide policymakers with regular scientific assessments on climate change - it's impacts, risks & solutions.