The debate around military conscription in the UK is rising. Forcing young people into service deprives them of choices and would be a colossal waste of funds during a cost of living crisis. Add your name to tell the government to rule it out! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

LeftyMenSing performed again at @friendsofthecam.bsky.social River Rights Festival yesterday. River Cam gets dirtier despite designated bathing area. Public ownership of water now. @terrymacalister.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social @feargalsharkey.bsky.social

Fantastic Bored Stiff punk book launch with Gaye Black (ex-The Adverts) and others. If you want a copy get in touch £16 + £2.50 p&p…Super positive feedback so far!

Thanks Cam Inde! www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/bored-s...

Book launch: Come along: we’ll be talking punk and politics and…https://housmans.com/event/bored-stiff-the-punk-zine-and-scene-that-refused-to-die-an-evening-with-terry-macalister-gaye-advert-and-emilia-elfrida/

Why does Trump want Greenland? I warned about imperial and corporate power in the Arctic in a (very) short book over a decade ago: www.amazon.co.uk/Polar-Opposi...

Patrick Steel and myself are crowdfunding to complete our film about Lou Lancaster and other women climate prisoners: any donations hugely welcome www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/mother-ear...

Are forest cities a load of old greenwash? Me for Byline Times: eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

Gotta love this:

Our message about who should own UK energy systems: part of an event for Estuary Festival this weekend. James Marriott and myself wrote an essay on this…small follow up to our Crude Britannia book www.plutobooks.com/978178680639...

Very well summarised by Terry on sooooo many problems that comes with such rapid growth. Worth getting a video clip of it. At the same time, the Housing Minister should answer this. @terrymacalister.bsky.social

It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Here’s the link for Rob Larter’s talk for @friendsofthecam.bsky.social Another reason why we shouldn’t be pushing growth in the Fens. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-changi...

Who paid the piper? Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package

@Anglianwater produced the largest increase of raw sewage discharge in 2024. 448938 hours of raw sewage dumped: 64% higher than in 2023. @friendsofthecam.bsky.social @terrymacalister.bsky.social @feargalsharkey.bsky.social Nearly 4m hours of raw sewage dumped in England’s waters last year

"Letter: Cambridge growth plan doesn’t endear locals" www.ft.com/content/3669... By @terrymacalister.bsky.social to the @financialtimes.com

Well that’s a headline I did not except to see. Ever.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Jon Davis on how the UK government is tackling the climate crisis

It’s straight from the Trump playbook: Labour is tearing up the machinery of government

Just imagine if China or Russia suddenly announced they would takeover Gaza and forcibly remove the Palestinians…

Labour has completely lost the plot: PM faces growing internal backlash over potential approval of Rosebank oilfield

How astonishingly predictable…Rachel Reeves to soften changes to non-dom tax regime after hearing ‘concerns’

The official definition of madness: Reeves says growth eclipses net zero as Heathrow runway decision looms

⏰The Govt have under 2 weeks to block the bailout of Thames Water. 📑25,000 people have signed the petition to take Thames Water into public ownership. #Thames has failed and shouldn't be rewarded with a £3 billion bailout. Agree? Sign our petition tinyurl.com/yxht3p94

RAF bases are hotspots of ‘forever chemical’ groundwater pollution, MoD documents show..

What impact did Britain’s oil and gas production have on the country over the past half century - and where do we go now? Here’s my view 👇 www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&k...

UK energy prices are much higher than in mainland Europe even though most countries have no indigenous oil and gas: developing the UK North Sea will NOT bring lower costs.

Anyone wonder why Trump wants Greenland? Here some historic context from an ebook I wrote for The Guardian: www.amazon.co.uk/Polar-Opposi...

String of UK peers accepted free trips to authoritarian Azerbaijan…these kinds of oil politics are highlighted in our Crude Britannia book:

@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social Surely worth spelling out Mandelson (as probable US ambassador) comes with huge controversy attached to him? Sacked from ministerial positions for dodgy dealing, vicious attacks on own party leader (Corbyn), friendships with oligarchs (Deripaska) never mind Epstein

How I got sick river swimming - and ITN News explains why www.itv.com/news/2024-12...

This propagandist "media" platform really is the pits: www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

ITN at the Cam today to talk about new river pollution evidence. Should be aired next week..

Any one else think groynes are things of beauty? These off Winchelsea, Sussex, today.

For a few seconds last night I was more transfixed by the pending fall of Thomas Cromwell than I was about the current decline of Keir Starmer.

A statement from Tortoise said: “We hope the NUJ will listen to the growing number of voices on The Observer looking to see it given a new lease of life”. We've been listening to all the voices on the Observer. We're going on strike ✊ www.heraldscotland.com/news/2476474...

"X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies" www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...

Student protestors disrupt today’s graduation ceremony at the Senate House in Cambridge.

defendourjuries.org/16-political... A ray of hope that this disgrace will come to a quick end..my neighbour banged up for “talking” about a climate protest.

Gaza specialist Prof Norman Finkelstein tells audience in Cambridge that Israel has become a consumer society whose citizens don’t want to die bearing arms: instead the military has become a “remote control killing machine”.

Great atmosphere at the Palestine fundraiser at The Junction in Cambridge. Our LeftyMenSing choir sang Children of Palestine by Jim Boyes and other songs.

Anglian Water, which is damaging over-abstracted Cambridgeshire chalk streams by dumping sewage in them, is selling off the public's water just north of here for bottling by private firms. 👇

ICC issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohamed Deif – Middle East live

RIP John Prescott: brought back a taxi ride in Brighton. We laughed all the way to the station. He had a terrific sense of humour..

Well done my old colleagues at The Guardian voting to strike over the sale of the Observer to a tiny media organisation which could have trouble funding the Obs long term existence.

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

Amazing the way Anglian Water is sucking local activists into tiny restoration projects by handing out “grants”. It’s ultimately brown wash as our Friends of the Cam group know: we won’t participate..