Just to recap: Calling Nigel Farage “an unflushable poo” = dehumanising hate speech. Calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire = guest of honour at party conference. Bless those non-racist free speech warriors.

What precisely do they expect to happen? 'We sent Miliband to the backbenches, slowed clean energy investment, issued another wave of drilling licenses, and approved some more airports - why haven't energy bills plummeted and why won't all those Green voters come back?'

i remember scientists saying 20 years ago that climate change-fueled wildfires would darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away. but republicans said that was a lie, so now climate change-fueled wildfires darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away every summer

What a dreadful legacy from Keir Starmer.

A reminder that this is the guy we're all now supposed to be listening to on the subject of the safety of MPs

There's no avoiding the conclusion, however much dust the UK government throws into the air. By providing weapons, rhetorical and diplomatic support to the Israeli government as it has committed genocide in #Gaza, Keir Starmer and his ministers *are* complicit in this great crime.

This is why we can't have rich ecosystems and safe food. The farm lobby threatens us all. www.grilled.media/inside-copa-...

And great time to join.greenparty.org.uk

We don't know what the cabinet will be yet, but the mood music is becoming really ominous. A Labour Party subservient to the City of London and harking back to the Blair years would be catastrophic for this country. People simply won't stand for Rip Off Britain any more.

Andy Burnham has failed before he's even started, it seems.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social has said: "Once again — the cost of inaction... At the very least, the Government should stop making things worse!"

Zack Polanski is spot on.

Is Andy Burnham thick? Or bought? Or just a mixture of both. I don't care about the death of the labour party, it's in its last legs anyway, but I do care about my children's and the children's future.

Weird thing is most testing will show you that one of the most vote losing positions Labour could adopt is explicit anti-Net Zero signalling. This is because climate still disproportionately matters to Lab/Green voters while Lab/Reform voters don’t care either way...

Quite right, too.

💡Interesting points from @neweconomics.bsky.social's Danny Sriskandarajah this morning on some of the reforms @andyburnham.bsky.social could bring in to grow the real economy and revitalise local high streets. Read a briefing we made earlier for Labour Party Conference: ffcc.co.uk/publications...

These will be among the iconic images of the global warming era. Such sadness and awe

Massive wildfires burn in Ontario Canada just outside Toronto, giving the city the worst air quality in the world. The fires have been caused by 37c temperatures and high winds.

Every donation, no matter how small, makes a real difference. Twiggys Swift Rescue Sheffield www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/... Warsop Wildlife Rescue Team paypal.me/warsopwildlife Please share if appropriate 🙏

Only 40% of Brits think the recent heatwave was 'very likely' down to climate change. Yet #climate scientists say it was "virtually impossible" without human-caused warming. The link went unmentioned in nearly 3/4 of news stories, so the media is letting us down. #EndClimateSilence

Too often a crucial question goes unasked: is Palantir value for money for Britain? Me in the @theguardian.com on latest investigation from @lucasamin.bsky.social and I on the problems with Palantir in the UK www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For 40 years, politicians of all parties have been telling us that 'benefits are too generous' and 'claimants need a hand up, not a handout'. The result has been four decades of cuts, stigmatisation and bullying at the JobCentre, and still the idea is endlessly repackaged.

Switzerland has a wealth tax. But rich people aren't flocking to leave the country. In fact, they're queuing up to get in.

Crazy leftist idea, I know. But how about getting people off benefits by offering them jobs that pay enough to live on?

#NaturesRights - great work!

Zack is right. As a former member of the Labour Party I take no pleasure in admitting the fact, but it's true. Labour has deserted working people. They'll let the super rich stay that way. For ordinary people, working communities, and the future of our very planet... @greenparty.org.uk

So we do.

"You need a capable chancellor able to take on the Treasury and point the machine in the direction the PM wants. You need that chancellor to be genuinely signed up to PM’s mission. And ideally, you want the chancellor to be an actual friend of the PM. "Only Ed Miliband ticks all of those boxes."

That she’s not Ed seems to be her key selling point. I suspect a lot of her support in the Party is because they fear that Ed might actually deliver the fundamental change to the way the U.K. is governed that Burnham is promising and which would really reduce Whitehall’s power.

True.

my kingdom for a politician who would look at how many people are in work, poor and receiving benefits & realise we already are so close having UBI they could use their huge majority to create something wonderful instead we get this tabloid chasing drivel

Oh fuck off.

The Green Party will tax the super-rich. Not take orders from them.

The extreme weather we have now is not the new normal. It’s going to keep getting worse as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels.

"The concept that it's kicking the rich to ask them to pay a really moderate amount of tax is just such nonsense. Nobody says it's kicking working people when they've got to pay income tax." Millionaires like Julia and @garyseconomics.bsky.social want to be taxed more. The Govt must listen.

The shamelessness of a political party which is led by a man who just weeks ago called for "pure cold rage" on the streets, shortly before migrants were literally burnt out of their homes, now accusing their opponents of "stochastic terrorism" against them, is quite something

23 zettajoules is the latest measure of excess heat into oceans caused by fossil fuel: 23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules Entire human energy production = 1/2 a zettajoule.

One of the largest gatherings of Muslims targeted by far right terrorists and we have close to radio silence... The media, politicians from across the board, pundits... all seem to be taking a minimalist approach... This is how institutional Islamophobia works.

If Burnham buckles to the City in not appointing Ed Milliband… but doesn’t buckle to the millions of disaffected Labour voters in not removing Mahmood from the Home Office, that’ll be about as depressing a start as I’ve prepared myself to expect.

Fruit and veg prices are set to rise 170% by 2050 due to the climate crisis. Millions will starve. That is not a projection. That is a policy choice. autonomy.work/portfolio/th...

Just editing one of those climate stories that makes me think we don't even begin to comprehend how screwed we are.

Long, long time ago, I cautioned my gender critical feminist friends that using biology as a backstop would misfire, and engender all kinds of reactionary absolutism… And lo and behold

I would add tackling the biodiversity crisis. As defence experts have stated, we need to do this to ensure we can grow healthy food here in the UK when supplies from elsewhere are disrupted.

We should start jailing any member of @houseofcommons.parliament.uk who has received any donations from fossil fuel companies; or banks with fossil fuel investments. 1 day in prison for every £1 donation they accepted.

BBC Radio 4's Common Ground just now investigating whether "woke has gone too far." At this point it feels like the national broadcaster is nothing but a threat to democracy.

This is perhaps *the* load-bearing truth supporting the global resurgence of fascism, about which essentially all of our key institutions feign childlike ignorance.

Appalling: Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030 @wildcard.land have run a noble campaign trying to get the CofE to see sense But this demonstrates exactly why Ministers can't rely on landowners to voluntarily support 30by30: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Great timing of the purge of Net Zero story to coincide with chunks of the country bursting into flames, I guess.