Three cheers for @commonseac.parliament.uk 🎉. They have published 132 responses to their #AirPollution in England inquiry)! Our submission is 34 pages! HT @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social @barrygardiner.bsky.social committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide... and committees.parliament.uk/work/9561/ai...

Trump is threatening further and greater war crimes in Iran: "completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants... and possibly all desalinization plants!". This directly contravenes the laws of war. One day he and his enablers must face justice. ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...

After more than a decade of culling and the deaths of over 230,000 badgers, I welcome reports that the government has committed to ending the cull. I’ve written to the responsible minister asking her to confirm that badger culling in England will end in full.

It's “an absolute scandal that having a bit more money gets you not just a nicer high street – it gets you a longer life expectancy, it gets you cleaner air." We need more MPs advocating for #CleanAir and addressing the inequalities in people's exposure to pollution across communities.

Labour saying Starmer 'keeping Britain out of the war' will be part of their local elections campaign. But it's untrue. There are 27 US B52s at RAF Fairford, launching bombing raids. Starmer has made Britain part of Trump's war. He could have just said no, like Spain's PM.

I’d rather the Leader of the Opposition focus on this Gov’s failure to prepare for the future, rather than desperately trying to chase headlines. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Last time in Gov, you handed out hundreds of North Sea licences at huge cost and environmental damage, for just 36 days of gas. The idea that giving big oil a blank cheque to drill in the North Sea will lower energy bills is laughable. We all know gas is sold on an open international market.

#Cornwall Live: Green Party claims landslide victory as Reform fails to win 3 out of 4 local elections. Two Greens were elected to Penryn Town Council with 74.6% of all votes cast - nearly 3 times the number cast for Reform & Labour combined. www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why? Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia… 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Very proud of my Nursing colleagues and our RCN president 💙✊

Half a million people standing against the far right. Half a million people who care about each other and our communities. Half a million people ready to make hope normal again.

So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...

It's time to see past our differences and remember what connects us. When we realise where our strength lies - in each other - that's when change happens. A powerful message from @mothinali.bsky.social: youtu.be/VPsR1hfTaAA

Greens pile pressure on Ed Miliband to end 'rigged energy system' news.sky.com/story/greens...

Landslide win for Mikey Jones and Rachael Ward in Penryn yesterday! 74.6% of all votes cast, almost 3 times as many as for Reform and Labour combined! #Cornwall is turning Green!

More than £133m went to three media organisations: GB News, the Critic, and UnHerd We need: ✅ a ban on cryptocurrency donations ➡️ media laws to cover digital and social media ➡️ political donations to media organisations disclosed to Electoral Commission www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Labour have been smearing the Greens on our evidenced-based approach to drugs. If the PM won’t listen to us, and he won’t listen to the experts, will he listen to the families at @anyoneschild.bsky.social, who have lost loved ones under the UK’s current negligent drug policies?

🔴 Hedge fund manager Jeremy Hosking has given Reform £1.7m+ Since Iran war, Hosking's fund's energy and fossil fuel investments have risen by more than $25 million Other Reform donors set to profit from the 'war premium' Exclusive by me on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/farages-fo...

The vile antisemitic attack in Golders Green yesterday morning was absolutely horrific.

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

Israeli govt and military officials have made overt comparisons between its plans for Lebanon and its genocidal destruction of Gaza. The UK govt must act decisively to avoid UK complicity in further crimes and to end the impunity which has enabled and emboldened Israel.

I challenged Labour MP Mike Tapp on the government's harmful proposed immigration reforms. In response he tried to tell me what my *own* constituents think about immigration 🤔 Sooooo, I dug up the receipts on what the people of Bristol Central actually think 🧾👀

The govt's ban on new oil and gas licences is just lip service for as long as it plans to introduce ‘tiebacks’. This loophole allows *new* drilling, by connecting new sites to existing ones. This is indefensible when every drop of oil or gas burned puts our future further at risk.

Who in the UK is greedy & cynical enough to use inside info from the Trump administration to make £££ from this illegal & economically devastating war? Maybe a person or persons with close political links to Trump & a record of dishonesty, tax avoidance & taking bungs from dodgy billionaires?

Dear Bluesky, I regret to inform you that over on Twitter, the CEO of Palantir, Louis Mosley is endorsing the coverage of his company in my old newspaper, the Observer. This causes me personal & specific pain. But it should also to you too.

Matt Brittin seems like a bizarre appointment for new BBC DG He doesn't seem to know much about TV or journalism or news or politics - or indeed the BBC or public service broadcasting Am I missing something?

Horrified by the antisemitic attack in our city. Antisemitism is vile and has no place here. Solidarity with the Jewish community in Golders Green - and with our communities across the country who will be feeling this today.

Socialist/Green alliances win in France's two largest cities, while far-right RN fails to win in many target towns (but takes notoriously corrupt Nice). Is Trump's psychotic rampage taking the shine off the far right in Europe? Here's hoping. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This is exactly why so many transparency campaigners are calling for crypto donations to be banned

It really is the point. If a Conservative front bencher is allowed to make a discriminatory Islamophobic argument like this without sanction from his party - indeed with support from its leadership - that represents a major erosion of anti-prejudice norms and indeed of religious freedom norms.

We've just reached 161 million views for our YouTube channel. Very proud that a channel devoted to poems and stories is used so much. Latest stats: 883K subscribers 581 videos 161,013,569 views www.youtube.com/@MichaelRose...

The Prime Minister’s plan to offer rapid routes to settlement for those earning six-figure salaries whilst punishing and making lower-paid workers wait up to 15 years appears to be based on the notion that care workers are “low-skilled” because they are low-paid - its an absolute disgrace

Clean information and clean elections are as important as clean water. But are the regulators up to the job? The way GB News has quietly been allowed to become Reform TV should alarm us all app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72784/...

Another two cllrs defect to Greens www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

Matt Goodwin is said to have quit academia & lurched to the far right in a fit of resentment that he couldn't secure a professorship at a Russell League University. Could this be because these universties still value academic integrity over made-up garbage & garbled AI slop?

"Zack Polanski SHUTS DOWN Nick Robinson" gives a misleading impression of this interview. Zack didn't seek to avoid or "shut down" any of Robinson's questions but challenged the framing of some of these questions, calmly and reasonably, while giving full and cogent answers to all of them.

Israel's recent attacks on Lebanon have killed over 1,000 people - including 118 children and 40 medical workers. Bombing has destroyed civilian structures such as apartment buildings and bridges, and over a million people have been displaced. Halt arms sales. End the impunity.

Political donations in crypto should be banned outright. Why is the government not acting to prevent the further corruption of UK democracy?

And now it seems Iran has fired missiles at Diego Garcia. Starmer has allowed the UK to be dragged into this catastrophic & rapidly escalating illegal war of aggression. Unforgivable.

NEW: This new report, from BBC, is the best takedown of the insanity of Trump you will see anywhere. Calm, coherent and repeating only Trump’s own words. Devastating. Brilliant work once again from Roz Atkins. (🎥 BBC News)

The Green MPs and Peers have written to Keir Starmer to urge for an end to the UK's involvement in the US and Israel's illegal war. Under international law, the UK is obliged to have no involvement in illegal military action, including the use of UK bases and UK-made weapons.

1. One of the things I mention as a secondary issue in this week’s column is a lie so deeply embedded in official narratives that we seldom even notice it: capitalism = “free markets”. In reality, capitalism is *the opposite* of the free market. A short 🧵. 1/8 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This made me realise for the first time that YouGov’s published voting intentions each week are in fact an MRP projection based on the polling figures The underlying polling figures (below) are even better for the @greenparty.org.uk (and worse for Labour)

Peter Thiel's pal James Orr is a slippery shyster of an ideologue. Like Farage, he wants to hand over the NHS to profit-seeking interests, but doesn't have the honesty to say so. Caroline Lucas asks the #bbcqt audience "Do you believe this man?" Clearly, they don't. 👏👏👏

The Green Party leads Labour by 10 points in people's first preferences if we had a ranked preference voting system. In a ranked favourability poll conducted in the days after the landslide Labour victory in 2024, Labour led the Greens by 11 points in people's first preferences...

"It's a question of where’s that money's going? And you've handed over our private patient data to Palantir, a company with far-right connections. If that money was instead going into the front line, we might all have a better chance of having a better NHS" Caroline Lucas on the NHS on #BBCQT

Helen Whateley makes the case for "decisive leadership" (ie doing whatever a deranged Trump wants the UK to do for him) with all the decisiveness of a headless chicken. #bbcqt

“Trump is a bully and a blackmailer, and he has made absolutely no plan for what an exit strategy looks like. When he asks for our help we should say: Donald, ‘you broke it, you fix it.’” Caroline Lucas speaking on the Iran war on #BBCQT.

WATCH: Julia Hartley-Brewer schooled on oil crisis on her own show 👇

I have been disabled by M.E since 2024. It was great to hear M.E., fibromyalgia, and long covid getting a mention on the latest Bold Politics with Zack Polanski interviewing Dr Amir Khan. @boldpolitics.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @dramirkhangp.bsky.social