Senior Labour politicians across London have been privately circulating new data that suggests Labour could drop from first to fourth place in London – losing control of all but two of their councils – with the Greens soaring into first place to take nine. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Brian Allen 🚨 Switzerland just declared US-Israeli attacks on Iran a violation of international law. Switzerland. The country that hasn’t taken a side in a conflict since 1815. An elementary school bombed. A boys’ school. Freshwater desalination plants. Oil refineries blanketed in acid rain.

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

This is insane. Blair is the last person who should be piping up.

"We urge UK govt to reverse decision to support bombing. Use of British military bases to bomb Iran, even under guise of 'defensive' ops, risks escalating conflict & putting millions of lives at risk” "Stability & security are achieved through dialogue & diplomacy & not through threats or weapons”

A new law going through the UK parliament threatens our right to protest yet again. As well as new restrictions on face coverings and protests around places of worship, the government has added a clause to the bill about 'cumulative disruption' This clause undermines our human rights.

“The Met's own statement shows that they were aware that the meeting was for training in nonviolent direct action, so this raid and the indiscriminate arrest of everyone present is shocking overreach."

“Met Police may want to intimidate us into contributing to gov’s closing off of the right to protest” “But Quakers have been accustomed to oppression by the state for over 350y. We will continue to hire space to explicitly nonviolent groups, with appropriate checks in place, just as we always have”

Old news! 216,000 now! Join.greenparty.org.uk

Our successful amendments will shape Oxford's long-term planning strategy, helping make a fairer, greener city as Oxford develops over the next 20 years. 💚 We did all this with just 9 councillors - imagine what we could do with a few more!!! Help make this a reality: join.greenparty.org.uk

In January, Green City Councillors secured BIG WINS in the 2045 Local Plan: 💷 Promoting the Oxford Living Wage for ALL workers across Oxford. 🍻 Securing greater protections for local pubs. ⚡ Supporting local, community-owned renewable energy. 🛝 Creating new playground spaces in our city centre!

And boy is the mainstream rattled. 😏

Tomorrow

“People are fleeing from war and conflict, persecution and ill-treatment, these are not things that can change in 30 months.” Yavuz* came to the UK as an asylum seeker, now has settled status and works at Praxis. *not real name

Why is the Home Sec so intent on copying Reform immigration policy? 🤔 If the Govt is looking for a popular policy that will actually help fix the UK's problems... A #WealthTax is backed by 61% Reform voters 81% LD voters 63% Tory voters 85% Green voters 88% Labour voters

Ella’s Law has been published 👏 No child should have the growth of their lungs stunted because of dirty air where they live and play, yet this is the reality of air pollution in England. Ella’s Law would change this. My thanks to Rosamund and all the hard-working campaigners demanding change.

🚨 The Greens challenged Reform and won with a huge majority in the Stoud council by-election last night📈💚

🚨 BREAKING: The Green Party of England and Wales has hit 215,000 members, since Hannah Spencer got elected as MP for Gorton and Denton! 📈💚 It's not just the Polanski effect, it's the Spencer effect too! 🎉

Shabana Mahmood: the true face of Labour Children may be forcibly removed from the UK in handcuffs to “overcome noncompliance” as part of proposals Home Office is considering to send more asylum seeker families back to their home countries. 😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥

"the measured values suggest that with a hypothetical 1 m of relative sea-level rise, 31–37% more land and 48–68% more people (increasing estimates to 77–132 million) would fall below sea level." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Metropolitan Police has raided the Westminster Quaker Meeting house – again, this time targeting Take Back Power's direct action training. There were 15 arrests

Are you interested in climate & environmental action? Come to our next meeting! 💚All Rebels Meeting💚 Thursday 19 March 7-9pm New Rd Baptist Church Bonn Square OXFORD

"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again". Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means. Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down. news.sky.com/story/greens...

If the Gorton and Denton swing was replicated across Oxford, the Greens would win HALF of all seats - gaining 7 and holding 5. This would make us the biggest group on the council meanwhile Labour would be wiped out, losing 11 councillors.

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

Hi @radio3.es It’s such a pleasure to have a gentle presenter of breakfast music after the frenetic presenter of the last few months. Many thanks.

Even further and faster than I expected. news.sky.com/story/greens...

45 years ago, 36 people - mostly women, some with pushchairs - marched from Cardiff to Greenham Common to protest at US nuclear missiles being stored on UK common land. The march was the first stage of what became a 20 year camp for peace, against all forms of violence,

Israel shuts Al-Aqsa Mosque and bans Ramadan prayer for third consecutive day - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/strikes-pummel-iran-israel-shuts-al-aqsa-mosque-during-ramadan

This is cruel and senseless. It will create more barriers to integration, and more delays to an already broken system. This attack on refugee rights must stop.

Protection should mean the chance to rebuild your life in safety. Refugees have already lost home and community. What they need next is stability. Instead, this government is putting a countdown on their safety - deliberately keeping people in limbo. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

Hope this series does for water what the Post Office drama did for Horizon victims. The scandal of privatised water is even bigger because it affects everyone. The common theme is clear: powerful corporate entities are exploiting us all. Time to bring water back into public ownership.

A government with integrity would provide a justification under the UN charter for allowing the US to use UK bases to bomb Iran The flimsy distinction between 'defensive' and 'offensive' feels like cover for another illegal war that risks escalating a conflict at the loss of more innocent lives

FCNL’s @hassaneltayyab.bsky.social: The horrific strike on the girls’ school in Minab is a “heartbreaking reminder that it is families and children who pay the price for wars of choice.” “If Congress fails to act now, we risk repeating the tragic and costly mistakes of Iraq and Afghanistan.”

At least 108 girls b/w ages 7 & 12 were killed at their school in Minab. An IRGC base is nearby & was likely the target. Initial attempts to deflect US/Israeli blame for the strike by claiming an Iranian misfire hit the school are undercut by vid of the base also being struck. Given the location...

🔥 Might be a good time to drive this over 100,000. Link —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Already over 100,000 but keep signing ⬇️

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran. Iraq lessons must be learned. Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe. Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

And they told us renewable energy was unreliable technology dependent on foreign governments.

Please subject Nigel Farage to this same level of grilling. Thank you. Well done Zack. A leader we can all be proud of. Someone who absolutely deserves to be in that position. A man with more diplomacy skills than every other leader in my lifetime, put together 👏🏼

State TV in Iran reports a bombed oil tanker is sinking in the #StraitOfHormuz. 20-25% of global oil supply & 1/5 of liquified natural gas goes via the strait, connecting Persian Gulf & Gulf of Oman. Environmental impacts of #OilSpill could be devastating timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle...

'The UK has agreed to a US request to use British military bases for "defensive" strikes on Iranian missile sites, Sir Keir Starmer has said' Hypocritical, cowardly, drivel www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC *finally* report on the dozens of Iranian schoolgirls killed — about 32h later.

BREAKING: Keir Starmer gives an update on the situation in the Middle East. The UK has agreed to a US request to use British military bases for "defensive" strikes on Iranian missile sites, Keir Starmer has said tonight

It took just one phone call from Donald Trump for Starmer to jump into yet another Middle East illegal war, failing to learn the lessons of the tragedies of Iraq, Libya and Syria.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/01/green-party-membership-surge-byelection-victory-zack-polanski.

I suppose it's impressive that Starmer managed to maintain the correct moral and political position for all of ten minutes. Some kind of record.