This man has just won the #CelebrityTraitors

It’s 2025 and already people can’t tell what’s real because of AI. In 2028/2029 our elections will be dominated by disinformation at a scale that will be impossible to deal with. Instead of acting before it’s too late, our governments are embracing the AI tech bros. This was their response to us:

Buchan said:"I stood for election with the sole aim of working for my community and getting things done for local families. Having had the opportunity to see Reform from the inside, I've concluded that the party doesn't really have the experience or ambition to do that." news.sky.com/story/reform...

UK immigration policy directly undermines its R&D policy. Joined up government? This incoherent policy soup is a shambles.

If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight. Use the Quick Vote option. Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

Reminder: Here's what Nigel Farage tried to take away from you this week...

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Farage's motion on leaving the European Convention on Human Rights failed: 154 votes to 96 All 4 @greenparty.org.uk MPs voted against it, because we believe international agreements on human rights are a good thing. But only 63 out of 401 Labour MPs did: votes.parliament.uk/votes/common...

I looked at UK political parties on Bluesky. Always nice when my party tops a list but fragmentation of platforms may create echo chambers. Follower counts as of last night: Green 23.7k LD 21.5k SNP 11.3k Scottish Green 9.8k Plaid 5.6k Your Party 894 Reform 630 Con 173, and no posts Lab - no account

This is a very interesting post. This fragmentation and social media fatigue apply to personal interactions and political discussions too.

Equinor is determined to develop its toxic Rosebank project at the taxpayer’s expense. But we can still stop this disaster project. Send your message to Keir Starmer demanding he stop Rosebank 👇 actionnetwork.org/forms/the-go...

Come on Labour. What benefit is there to you of continuing to oppose proportional representation? Your members want it. Other parties that have traditionally missed out want it. Seat predictions are v far from %s. A Reform landslide would not at all reflect what the voters in this country want.

The Carbon Budget Delivery Plan due this week is a huge test for this govt. It's a chance not just to take real action to secure a safe future for our children & grandchildren but crucially to show that climate action will make ordinary people's lives better. Me for @huffpost.com:

If I had a shitload of money and wished to hasten the arrival of the Kingdom of God I would simply follow the clearly labeled instructions by housing immigrants, freeing prisoners, and so forth

On 4th November at 7pm, join our live online event with: - George Monbiot - Nafeez Ahmed - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - Nick Lowles Can citizens and journalists unite to hold back authoritarianism and protect democracy? Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope

Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.' We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them. Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse. Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here's a headline I didn't expect to see! www.politico.eu/article/liz-...

More writing on the wall… Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as #ClimateCrisis heats country Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects.

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

This open invitation to the @nebriefing.bsky.social was published in the @financialtimes.com today. Please check whether your MP can make it here: www.nebriefing.org and if not ask them to! We will be briefing on national security, tipping points, food security, nature and more.

"...fossil fuel lobbyists were present at 48% more ministerial meetings during Labour’s first year in power than under the Conservatives in 2023." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Interesting. It's amazing that the approach with so many sports clothes is still "pink it and shrink it". www.independent.co.uk/health-and-w...

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

#NoKings free art. I give anyone who likes it permission to use it.

Yesterday, many Palestinians (some children under the age of 18) who had been held without charge & denied their basic rights by the Israeli government were finally released But thousands more remain in arbitrary detention under appalling conditions and must not be forgotten

🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members! 📈 But we're not stopping there. 💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents. Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time. He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone. Houston, Texas

#HostileEnvironment at the Home Office: a deeply abusive environment www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Weird how immigration dominates every headline. #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime @zackpolanski.bsky.social

What a very lovely thread!

Lord Heseltine, "The number of people aged below 50 who think it was right for us to leave the European Union, is less than 20% "The latest polls tells us 56% now believe it was mistake to leave the European Union" Hands up if you are one of the 56% 🙋‍♂️

It'll be wild when Charlotte Church reveals she's been pretending to be Welsh this entire time #TheTraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors

Great letter from the Bishop of Birmingham, co-signed by representatives of local primary school and representatives of the local Sikh and Hindu community in Handsworth.

One of our committee members at @southglosgreens.bsky.social is a storage software engineer. She's just written a great blog post about some of the risks with the Government's Digital ID plans. southglos.greenparty.org.uk/2025/10/07/b...

The Green Party for the last few days have gained 1000 new members every single day. We've just reached 87,000 members!!!! Let's make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Labour's weird quest to be like Reform could be the very thing that loses their seats to Reform.

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday. Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

Trafford Council's Green group leader, Cllr Hannah Spencer, spoke at the left wing Greens Organise bash last night: "[People] love to tell me that anyone considering voting Reform must be thick, lazy, stupid, or uneducated. I'll tell you now, no one's ever got me on board by calling me thick."

I'm pleased to discover the hashing #finchfriday. I've become a bit obsessed with the goldfinches in my garden. Photo was taken on my phone, through a window so this picture is more a case of quantity, not quality (the most I've seen in my garden at one time was 18).

This is really interesting. These graphics are also a reminder of why it's flawed to lump people into buckets of "left" or "right". Reform voters are generally quite a bit less right wing economically than Conservatives but more socially conservative.

100% agree with my local Green Party @southglosgreens.bsky.social statement on flags 💚 We switched off from UK news in August while visiting my partner's family in Canada. Drove home from Gatwick after an overnight flight and both the motorway and our town was plastered in them. Chilling.

This was such a great speech. So exciting to have a message of hope rather than the division and hate that gets so much airtime. Let's get to work! And if you live in South Gloucestershire come and join us in @southglosgreens.bsky.social.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social is undoing the legacy of @theresamay.bsky.social (& even Boris Johnson) who accepted Net Zero is so essential that she made the Paris Agreement law.

It really is just relentless the constant dehumanisation in this country. Prove you deserve to be here. Prove you deserve to be cared for. Prove your gender. Prove you deserve to have human rights. Prove you deserve to stay after a whole decade. It just chisels away at your humanity

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So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.

For some work, I asked Co-pilot to create me an image of AI in publishing. It's all fine; our benign and cute AI overlords just want to work on their books with a nice mug of tea. Probably they will then retire to their rocking chair with a knitted shawl and a roaring fire.