Last month I chaired a panel at the Climate and Nature Education Festival (is climate change a working class issue?) I've written some reflections & to share the great points raised by Tahir Latif, Catherine Porritt & Suzanne Jeffrey. Spoiler - of course it is! wccalliance.org/is-climate-c...

BREAKING🚨| IMF warn the UK will be hit the hardest of the G7 economies by the Iran war. Politicians like Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage who initially backed this war, have to answer one question - what the hell were you thinking?

1/4 While taking a lovely walk on the Sussex downs over the weekend, I thought about the Right to Roam - the public's right to access certain land and wander in the countryside, and that we have the working class to thank for being able to do so.

Reform's Zia Yusuf said that the call for reparations was “insulting”. I assume he's also referring to the 1837 Slave Compensation Act that repaid slave owners £20 million, with taxpayers footing the bill until 2015. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My little Buddy enjoying the sun on his banana bed

I reviewed Matt Goodwin’s new book for the New Statesman. Spoiler: it’s worse than you could ever imagine

1/2 This is as disturbing as it is depressing. Out of 3,800 PhD researchers, 71% felt it was acceptable to use them to support their studies. In a survey of 1,041 UK undergraduates published in February 2025, 88% admitted to using AI for assessments. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Join us & Degrowth London on Sat 18th April, 5-8pm at LARC, London. We'll be screening Earth's Greatest Enemy. The doc reveals the U.S. military's role as the world's largest institutional polluter, & makes the link between war, empire & ecological destruction. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/earths-gre...

An insight into a REDD carbon credit deal gone wrong - thanks to US court documents. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/how-a-us29...

Frightening news from Golders Green this morning. London is an inclusive city and anti-semitic hate crime makes us all unsafe. My thoughts this morning with Jewish friends, neighbours and work colleagues.

"Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are at their highest for at least two million years due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels.... An El Niño - on top of the background human-caused warming trend - could push temperatures to new heights into 2027." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Unfortunately, an incredibly challenging funding climate means that we have closed down the campaigning and membership side of the organisation. We’ll be taking a short break to update the website and plan what comes next. Read the statement in full: wccalliance.org/wcca-operati...

Next week on 25 March I'm at East Bristol Books talking about my book Or Something Worse w @wccalliance.bsky.social co-director Sasha Josette Or Something Worse exposes the bleak realities of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. So what are we going to do about it? tinyurl.com/27rvuf84

"One study published in the journal Patterns estimates AI’s global carbon footprint as 32.6 to 79.7m tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2025, and its water use as 312.5 to 764.6bn litres – similar to the global consumption of bottled water." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

As resource scarcity intensifies, access to these resources is increasingly framed as a matter of national security, and the prospect of achieving Environmental Justice appears to be little more than a pipe dream. Read the latest article on our website: wccalliance.org/demilitarisa...

"The Earl of Devon said his family had been in the Lords for 900 years & complained the notice period was less than required in employment law. "I think this House, Parliament, and the public more widely will miss us," he said." We really won't www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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

"It’s hard to come up with any other explanation for the way the ruling class go into panic mode the moment there's any sign of mass mobilisation, and especially mass direct action, and usually try to distract attention by starting some kind of war." - David Graeber

Putting the final touches to my PhD upgrade material that is being handed in on Monday

Just joined UK’s Green Party for a few reasons. Starmer himself suggested ppl like me leave the Labour Party when he assumed leadership. Request granted. But the Greens’ recent success & polling (and more importantly their policy goals!) show them to be robust & viable. join.greenparty.org.uk

Europe is bracing for a surge in energy prices from a prolonged conflict in the Middle East that would put more pressure on the EU's struggling economy and expose its near-total reliance on foreign fossil fuels.

The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits. So, who stands to win? Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵

1/5 The Green Party victory in Gorton and Denton is the most recent reminder that apolitical and centrist approaches to organising, campaigning etc. will never garner broad support from the masses.

Charlie Stayt, "A lot of people think those leaflets are the nasty side of politics" Zack Polanski, "Genocide is quite nasty"

EXCLUSIVE | Zack Polanski writes for the Independent on why the Greens' by-election win marks a seismic shift in British politics trib.al/RzWVaux

If you haven't got a Green Party takeover of UK politics on your 2026 bingo card you might want to think about adding it in

Hello darkness my old friend...

Due to demand we have added an extra date for our interactive workshop about democratising environmental decision-making on Monday March 2nd, 2pm-3:30 pm GMT (over zoom). There's still some spaces remaining - all are welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whose-envi...

"One shock could spark social unrest & riots in the UK according to dozens of the country’s top food experts, because chronic issues have left the food system a “tinderbox”. 80% said large-scale violence caused by a food crisis was possible in the next 50 years." www.theguardian.com/food/2026/fe...

At the Climate & Nature Education Festival (London, Mar 14th) I'll be chairing the 'Is Climate Change a Working Class Issue?' panel featuring Suzanne Jeffrey, @campaigncc.bsky.social Tahir Latif, Greener Jobs Alliance Catherine Porritt, National Education Union All are welcome tinyurl.com/ytvk454s

In the north of Ireland we have some experience of paramilitary terror. If you're in England and tempted to vote Reform, bear in mind that ICE-style gangs will be hard to stand down. They will leave a bitter legacy. You live with it forever.

"We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girls’ talk." tribunemag.co.uk/2023/04/the-...

Clara Paillard, a great comrade to myself and many others is fundraising for a woman in Afghanistan, to develop education workshops for women about environmental issues. Please share round and donate if you can 👇 www.gofundme.com/f/support-mu...

Lizard A or Lizard B

Me submitting a piece of work to my supervisors without realising I'd spelt my own name wrong on it

Unemployment in the UK has risen to 5.2%, the highest level in nearly five years. Unemployment for 18- to 24-year-olds was 14% in the three months to December, the highest rate in five years. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A very sad reflection of society that something like this even needs fact checking.

In the 1950s youth clubs became so popular that in Huntingdon the local Young Tories complained about losing members to places that looked like they were much more fun! The associations were even able to get 400 ppl into the Cambridge guildhall for a ball in 1954. Also, council run centres in 1971.

NEW BLOGPOST: Cambridge’s lost youth centres lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/c...

"Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points & feedback loops, locking the world into a hellish “hothouse Earth” climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Join @wccalliance.bsky.social for our monthly reading group session on Monday 23rd February 6pm-7.30pm GMT (over zoom) about working class storytelling and climate justice. We'll be reading from the Just Transition themed edition of Lumpen Journal. www.eventbrite.com/e/working-cl...

By 2050 1 in 4 UK properties will be at risk from flooding. Currently, a third of railways are at risk of flooding. In less than 25 years this will rise to more than half of the rail network being at risk, according to the government's own figures. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We'll be running this workshop in-person at the Malet Place Engineering Building on 17 February 2026, 2-4.30pm, as part of UCL's 28 Days of Sustainability programme. Please note this is for UCL students and staff only. Book your spot here: 👇 www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/...

"We lived by ignoring. There were stories in the newspapers, but they were all about other women. They were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives. We were the people who were not in the papers."

Working Voices - Monday, February 9, 2026 Working Voices focuses on the issues and concerns of working people and the labor movement including living wages, occupational health and safety, economic inequality, ending race and gender discrimination,wage theft, and also solidarity, unity and organi

How can we make decision-making in grassroots spaces and policymaking more equitable? Join @wccalliance.bsky.social for a workshop (over zoom) about democratising decision-making on Monday Feb 16th 2pm-3.30pm GMT. All are welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whose-envi...

Join us for our monthly reading group session on Monday February 23rd, 6pm-7.30pm GMT (over zoom). For this session we'll focus on storytelling & climate justice, by reading from the Just Transition themed edition of Lumpen Journal. Register your spot 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-cl...

And then we consider the longevity outcomes for different classes: The lower your class, typically, the lower your life expectancy under capitalism. So now we're stuck, predominantly, with fashy, white, bourgeoisie boomers. Boomergeoisie?