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How prohibition-based policies caused a cannabis problem | Letters #EndProhibition www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me: the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Welcome to the Green Party, former Labour and Co-operative MP for Brighton Kemptown, @russell-moyle.co.uk 💚

The EHRC want to exclude women from femal single-sex spaces based on how "female" they look. This is off the scale sexism and misogyny. Millions of women will face harassment as result of this insanity.

Education in Northern Ireland: ✝️ RE written by 4 largest churches ✝️ Collective worship and Christian ethos in all schools ✝️ Church representatives on Boards of Governors 'This in its totality amounts to indoctrination' Our Northern Ireland Coordinator Boyd Sleator speaking facts on ITV 👏

I sometimes feel like I am going mad. Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.

Me, leaning against the time machine; So - richest man ever, people keep piling money on him no matter how badly he fails BUT ALSO he's a laughing stock everywhere, everyone can see he's miserable; he has no love in his life, not even his kids Aesop: slow DOWN lady, my stylus can only go so fast

I think the time has come to ask ourselves what Labour strategists think “winning” actually would be because whatever it is they’re trying to do here, it pretty clearly has little to do with public opinion.

In April, I wondered what a trans toilet ban might look like in practice. Trans people and their cis women allies have been sounding these alarms for years. It now seems clear that the UK government took all these dire warnings as policy proposals. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Maybe im still too Children of Men brain’d but its very “she’s my friend, he’s my neighbour. NO! They’re a gender criminal! Report them to keep Britain safe. See it. Say it. Sort it.”

Cis allies can pair up and call the authorities on each other for being trans in a public bathroom, exhaust due process until medical records are subpoenaed, and tire the cops with it until they complain so much about enforcing it that they stop bothering, like they did for non-crime hate incidents.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we honour the lives of trans and nonbinary people lost to violence, discrimination, and despair. We stand with those who face injustice and prejudice every day. 1/2

Important and welcome that President Connolly's first public words since her inauguration are focused clearly on the climate challenge we collectively face. So much depends on us making major progress to further bring down emissions in these crucial years. bit.ly/47Zb9up

The Supreme Court has ruled that mandatory Christian worship and exclusively Christian Religious Education in NI schools are discriminatory and amount to indoctrination. RE must treat all faiths and beliefs, including non-religious worldviews, with equal respect. 1/3

The non-religious are growing fast in Northern Ireland and especially with young people. Forcing one religious view onto them or risk the stigma of being removed. This is a positive step and should prompt the removal of forced christian worship in schools. humanists.uk/2025/11/19/s...

I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

So Your Party are randomly selected 1,000 people from their sign-up list to attend their conference despite no actual knowledge if those people are capable of attending (an event that's only 10 days away) or would even want to. What world do they live in where they thought this would work?

1/ Social care in Northern Ireland is in meltdown. Care workers were promised a fair pay increase, but the government’s U-turn has destroyed that hope. Thousands are trapped on wages that can’t even cover basics, while vulnerable people lose vital support. 1/5

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

10,000 days of power-sharing, and what do we have to show for it? A legacy of disappointment. Since the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly in July 1998, only three of the seven Assembly terms have been completed without collapse. 1/5

There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million In New York - population 8.5 million - there were 391. London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago. And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Rain, hail or shine, Greens stand up. Belfast turned out for the Global Day of Climate Action today, and so did we. The weather was grim but the message wasn’t. Climate justice can’t wait for a dry day, and neither can we. 1/3

Tactical ketchup. Performance mustard. Weapons grade sriracha.

If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees, either - it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents or - it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

So Wes Streeting allies want him to become Prime Minister - for the Labour Government to tank even faster. We don't have time to play these silly games - people are suffering now. Keep growing the alternative - they need replacing. Join.greenparty.org.uk

And so the takeover of Belfast hospitality by a small cartel continues. Opposed to licensing changes that would open up the market and using their leverage to create a captive market. www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast...

2. Given that locking more people up is NOT a response to rising crime, we could ask ourselves why it has been happening. I see it as one symptom of the rising power of the economic elite, and of its influence over successive governments. 2/8

1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes. On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales. On the right is the UK prison population. 🧵1/8

Given that the far right hates Black and Brown people, hates women, hates immigrants, hates liberals, leftists and greens, hates students and universities, hates civil servants, hates disabled people, hates gay and trans people and hates Jews and Muslims, what is this country it claims to love?

The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act. The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.

Belfast city centre isn’t broken - it’s being kept that way. While empty luxury flats and derelict sites dominate, real people are shut out and green space is just a buzzword. Cllr Brian Smyth calls out the hollow “regeneration” narrative and blighting Belfast’s future. 1/2

COP30 isn’t another climate summit - it’s a fight for survival and democracy. Empty words can’t stop a burning planet. The 1.5°C target is slipping away as rich countries stall real action and finance. Climate colonialism lives on. 1/3

Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.

Michael D Higgins leaves behind a presidency grounded in conscience, culture and courage. He proved public office can be moral, poetic and unapologetically on the side of people over power. That’s a legacy worth protecting. 1/2

Two years ago, I wrote this about how the COP climate summits are designed to fail, and how they could be designed to succeed. Sadly, nothing has changed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Assembly voted no confidence in Education Minister Paul Givan, yet he stays in post. Why? 🤷🏻‍♂️ Mal O’Hara : “Stormont has limited mechanisms for ministerial accountability. A majority of MLAs backed the motion, but it failed because it didn’t meet the cross-community threshold. 1/3

This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Cllr Brian Smyth didn’t mince words in City Hall. Belfast needs an overdose prevention facility. Not debate. Not delay. It’s about saving lives, treating people with dignity, and getting real about harm reduction. It’s time for Belfast to choose compassion over judgement.

So many stories, verified, like this coming out of US about ICE detention right now. Let's just be totally clear, it is not hyperbole to call ICE "Trump's Gestapo", or their detention sites concentration camps. They meet all of the criteria. Anywhere else this would be receiving global condemnation.

Remembrance Day is about honouring all who suffered the cost of war, military and civilian alike. We remember with respect and without division. The best tribute we can pay is working for peace, justice and a future where conflict isn’t the legacy we hand to the next generation.

Keir Starmer has pledged to increase the UK’s military budget to 2.5% of GDP by 2027. "None of this makes us any safer," says Peace Pledge Union. Here, they share ten reasons why the UK should not increase military spending ➡️ buff.ly/yB0dC2y

This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media. Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

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It is with shock and genuine sadness that I learn of the passing of my good friend, long time colleage and just a really kind man, Quentin Willson. He will be sorely missed by many who knew and worked with him.

Ards & North Down Council, pushed by the Department for Infrastructure, wants to charge residents fees just to speak out - while developers and vandals go free. This stifles democracy and punishes communities fighting to protect their homes. 1/3