We must never forget that 100 years ago the General Strike’s massive working class mobilisation shook the establishment to its core. The Battle of Lewes Road, where 4,000 Brightonians stood in solidarity against police action, well deserves the blue plaque I was honoured to unveil last month.

Ahem www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

Yet more proof that Fred Rogers is The Man (and that red sweater is an ideal antidote to orange hair).

The Quentin Blake centre for illustration opened today in Islington so we went to see the queer comics exhibit curated by Paul Gravette and it’s chock full of funny, snarky resistance with touches of joy and visions of possibility. Loved this Rachel House page

PHEVs are the "low tar 🚬" of the EV market. They need to be phased out! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The Economist is scared of the kids while we’re scared of fascism. Which one of us is out of touch?

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Fossil Fuel Industries should be paying reparations to the entire world for the lies they've spouted for half a century. Every single cent of income that is made should be funneled to natural disaster relied and clean energy, along with atmospheric carbon recapturing

It's a good explainer and update on current thinking.

This was absolutely part of the cultural shift. In the 2000s, the money guys started referring to the work that creative people made as "content" (under the ugly phrase, "user-generated content"), such a grim framing that we pushed back, saying only financiers would think of creativity that way...

Let's have a pact between Labour, Greens, Lib Dems, SNP, Plaid etc to ALL do it at the same time, much like the left parties in Germany have... brusselssignal.eu/2026/05/germ...

This is monstrous and inexplicable. Simply being yourself can't be immoral?!

Live every day like it's World Bike Day.

God, reading about UK politics is depressing. There is a massive, coordinated media attack on Net Zero, led by the RW press (& accelerated by Musk's X). It is *wildly* out of sync with public opinion, but it is slowly working, convincing even labour MPs that the public is more right than it is.

In an era of multiparty politics - first past the post is utterly broken. It is time for Proportional Representation. The climate crisis & our inequality crisis cannot wait for another general election. Failing to fix our democracy immediately will betray future generations.

Just going to join with the many others saying: this is simple courage & humanity & whatever else you think about the race, Steyer deserves enormous credit for it.

Leaving 🇨🇦and going #CarFree? But how will you manage without IKEA when you're movin in? #GreenBrightonLife (I haven't even needed a cargo bike yet 😏)

Glad Dutch media give a lot of attention to the V2G demo of KIA and Hyundai. Using the batteries of cars to SUPPLY energy to the grid during peaks could be a major solution for the "world leading grid congestion" in the Netherlands. nos.nl/artikel/2616...

JFC new IEA report shows: orders for fossil methane plants for data centres are bigger in the US than they for *any other country for any other reason* (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) "if data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026"

Massive new @foeireland.bsky.social report out today confirming that the country's huge data centre load (>20% of total) contributes to significantly higher power prices. Am looking forward to reading the whole thing www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/the-cos...

You don't have to believe all of these problems are "baked in" if we don't change direction. Surely any two of the bad things should be bad enough to push for faster action! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nice to see Brighton make the global news of course, but can't disagree...

Struggling to work in the heat? The government needs to listen to the Climate Change Committee and TUC who are calling for a maximum workplace temperature cap.

A Labour minister unable to condemn Reform's plan for the mass deportations of our neighbours. Cowardly and disgraceful. Labour are incapable of standing up to Reform's divisive nonsense. Only the Green Party have the courage to do this.

Bicycles are hugely space efficient, which is why they make a lot of sense in congested cities. This video demonstrates why there aren’t traffic jams in bike lanes. Just imagine the traffic queues if every bicycle here was a car.

It’s also an effect of running against impossible policies without a media system that points this out. If Trump says “we will raise tariffs and this will lower your gas prices by 400%“ it’s hard to sound better with proposals for EITC changes. Nothing real can compete with “magic ponies for all”

My contempt exceeds the descriptive norms of polite society.

Join me in encouraging @ofcom.bsky.social to show some spine 38d.gs/xz09

Relieved to see the UK government listening to the communities and young people hit by rising costs and making bus travel free for children this summer. Great for young people’s independence & takes pressure off parents. Now to commit to it for the long term.

Lots of heat pump subsidies are not available to landlords. Good to see @hydroquebec.com offer incentives targetted specifically at those whose units are in "energy insecure" areas. Imprecise perhaps but likely to *mostly* help low income tenants. www.hydroquebec.com/residential/...

Change?

car brained: I feel like we could use the money going on this to invest in green energy that would have a longer term effect, including direct consumer subsidies

TIL @reformuk.bsky.social has already cost local taxpayers around £20m in a year. @markpackuk.bsky.social counted 73 Reform councillors elected in 2025 already gone. That's more than one in ten of the 677 seats they won! And a further ten just elected already gone www.markpack.org.uk/176783/how-m...

"How about a 1.0, 2.0, type A, A to B, B to C, or a micro to macro? Because somewhere in this plastic spaghetti, I have them. I have them all. Would you like one? Please, take a cable. I have too many, and it has become a burden, decades in the making. Please. Take a whole shoebox."

UK Energy Performance Certificates never recommend a heat pump. Those who install one often get downgraded. Why? I was on BBC Morning Live to shed light on what is completely counterintuitive as we try to incentivise heat electrification. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTLE...

The proposal is a levy on short haul flights, not a ban. Worth noting that 1m is 8% of UK consumption to put it in perspective.

Oh what a tangled web they weave... Farage now admits he bought the Clacton house, having told everyone last year that his partner Laure Ferrari bought the house.

The fact that Wes Streeting starts his resignation by taking credit for progress in the NHS and says nothing else about labour programs, and that he says nothing about future policy directions should tell you all you need to know about his leadership www.bbc.com/news/live/cw...

The next Labour leader must move decisively away from the status quo to beat Reform. That means giving power and wealth to working class people. It means a democratic revolution, rent controls and public ownership of water. It means someone who isn't Wes Streeting.

No worker should be forced back to work when they’re standing up for their rights on a picket line.

A quick new blog for you all: Anthropic's dirty deal with Elon Musk is not surprising because (a) Anthropic already openly loves pollution-based computer buildings (b) Colossus is VERY far from the worst; the whole industry is moving to gross, bloated megaprojects ketanjoshi.co/2026/05/13/w...

doubt this UK parliamentary petition to block foreign ownership of media and do press reform has legs (only 10k signatures in two months and the most backing in one place is a Plaid constituency with 100 signatures) but it will at least get an on the record answer from the gov

This weeks @_BoldPolitics has some ideas that would have made this Kings Speech a whole lot better to end Rip Off Britain! youtu.be/-LhsxyjO5Mg

The man hoping to be our next prime minister is being funded by cryptocurrency tycoons We all know about the secret £5m donation, but Christopher Harborne has in fact donated a huge £22m to Nigel Farage's political parties over the past seven years...

In two years Keir Starmer’s government has tried to rob Disabled people of help, kept children in poverty, trashed nature protection, restricted peaceful protest, helped arm genocide, and moved to scrap jury trials. He says that Greens exploit despair. He has created it. We offer only hope.

maybe "...wants to strip 12 Americans of citizenship"?

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

Greens turned out in full-force on a perfect day in Goldsmid for our by-election candidate Nadia Barton Ahmad. We know we can win, but we need volunteers to turn out at every opportunity to put in the work! Keep an eye on nadia4goldsmid.uk to get involved