The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population. How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich? They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.

Growing @greenparty.org.uk membership 📈 Growing the pressure on Labour to tax extreme wealth fairly 📈 Growing the movement to make hope normal again 📈 Join.greenparty.org.uk

It’s honestly disheartening to see a third runway at Heathrow pushed forward when we desperately need less aviation. Communities, climate scientists, and campaigners keep raising the alarm, and decisions like this show just how much work there’s still to do. #Climate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority. People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action. #ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social

Labour’s awful migrant policies are helping pave the way for the racist far right. And they are also building a gold-plated shed at the end of that road - full of tools for a far right Govt to oppress us all. 🕵️ Digital ID database 📸 High St facial rec 👨‍⚖️ Removing trial by jury

London ist mitten in seiner Fahrradrevolution: 50 % mehr Radverkehr in 2 Jahren, gute Luft und gesündere Bewegung, Geschäfte profitieren und mit 34% weniger Verkehrstoten nähert sich London der #VisionZero. In Berlin dagegen Stillstand: Kein Geld und kein Wille für zukunftsweisende Infrastruktur.

Let's #degrowcars and make great cities!

Fliegen ist die schädlichste Fortbewegungsart. Es muss einen hohen Preis haben. Die #Flugsteuer muss bleiben! #Klimaschutz #Umweltschutz ✊💚 aktion.campact.de/s/flugsteuer...

Bitter ist vor allem der Schluss von Thorsten, der seit 40 Jahren bei Volkswagen arbeitet: Werkstolz gibt es nicht, aber als abhängig Beschäftigter hast du keine Wahl, wenn du statt Autos Panzer bauen sollst. Denn dein Job ist ein LEBENSMITTEL, ohne dem du nicht leben kannst. Furchtbar.

“Degrowth invites people to reimagine prosperity altogether. It takes seriously the notion that the economy, a word rooted in the two Greek words eco (home) & nomos (management), should be about managing our collective home.” #Degrowth for Beginners nonprofitquarterly.org/degrowth-for...

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.

Update Further evidence that Germany's welcome fiscal loosening is poorly targeted: taxes on air travel are to be cut. www.tagesschau.de/inland/luftf... Faced on the one hand with the climate crisis, on the other with a debate about financing welfare spending: Make Flying Great Again?

🧵 Trasformare la rabbia in speranza: “l’ecopopulismo” di Zack Polanski, leader dei Verdi inglesi | @mattiamarasti.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/regno-unito-...

This is funny because after the "re-opening" of Friedrichstraße for cars not people, it is the eighth most dangerous road in all of Germany. Because of the car brains in the current government. It is and remains a farce.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

Hundreds of Oxford residents marched across Oxford to demonstrate against racism and in solidarity with migrants in an ‘Oxford Unity March and Rally’. Chants included ‘this is what community looks like’ and calls to ‘fight back’ against racism.

Let's #degrowcars and save children's lives!

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

About 1m Ford diesel cars sold in UK with defective emissions controls. Company knew. Many were never formally recalled or fixed. Companies chase profits by lying, cheating. Yet neoliberals push for deregulation, less consumer rights. Hold execs personally liable.

Das 🇩🇪-Ticket wird bald für 14 Mio. Menschen teurer. Doch anstatt Bahntickets, verbilligt die Bundesregierung jetzt ernsthaft für 350 Mio. €/Jahr Flugtickets. Diese Regierung ist sozialpolitisch eine absolute Zumutung & klimapolitisch ein Totalausfall. Wie kann man nur so schiefe Prioritäten haben?

30 years COP - do your job!

Sogar in Großbritannien erzählt man sich kopfschüttelnd von der Auto-zentrischen Politik der Berliner CDU und ihrer Bereitschaft, für immer mehr Blech in Berlin die Bevölkerung zu spalten und zu radikalisieren: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Die Kürzung der Ticketsteuer fürs Fliegen führt zu Mindereinnahmen von 350.000.000 Euro im Bundeshaushalt. Das ist genau der Betrag, um den die Bundesförderung für das Deutschlandticket gekürzt worden ist. Prioritäten. So wichtig.

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You know what Weber will do now though. Act contrite, row back a bit, say he cannot control how the populist right will vote. Do it politely. People in Brussels and Berlin will forgive him, attributing it to being "pro business". And then he'll do it all over again. (Weber is a nasty little shit)

Axing the cycle-to-work scheme might seem like low-hanging fruit for a cash-strapped Treasury, but it would be a big mistake. Particularly with expensive kid-carrying cargo e-bikes, it's one of the most effective modal shift levers out there. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Das Lieferkettengesetz ist mit heute tot 🚨 Die #ÖVP hasst den Green Deal so sehr, dass sie dafür sogar mit der #FPÖ paktiert. Die Brandmauer ist gebrochen und die FPÖ freut sich. Aber warum machen die @neos.eu da mit? 👀😳

Look behind you? “Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for luxury leisure.” Says govt source. Will that apply to the £4bn a year in fuel duty freeze costs, which go to drivers on the highest incomes the most?

Dammbruch im EU-Parlament: Erstmals beschließt eine Mehrheit aus Konservativen und Rechtsextremen - also auch CDU, CSU und AfD eine Gesetzesposition. Damit werden u.a. Kinderarbeit und Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Lieferketten gefördert. Vollkommen verheerend. Schämt euch, CDU und CSU.

Renewables don't just replace fossil fuels, because things like AI and the general push for economic growth, is massively increasing energy demand, and as I explain here, unless you eliminate the extravagance of the top few percent, we are heading towards catastrophe. bsky.app/profile/steb... 5/

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

Berlin muss sich endlich wieder in die Zukunft bewegen! Hier geht's lang :)

Taking the fight to the right requires a renewed left "You can’t reach an accommodation with an ICE agent when he’s kneeling on your neck. Climate chaos does not come with a moderate option. An oligarch is not interested in your pitiful attempts to strike a deal." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Deutsche Bahn is selling SNCF Tickets from France to Italy! This is great news for #crossborderrail. And they're even affordable for once! Excited and looking forward to more simple ticketing thanks to DB, after all they have the best timetable lookup @jonworth.eu @seatsixtyone.bsky.social

🚨 @greenparty.org.uk are absolutely soaring among the youth, polling at an incredible 40%, according to YouGov. 📈 The Greens are 19 points above Labour, the governing party. 💚💥

So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform.... Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally. It's time for Proportional Representation. www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...

I'll be giving a talk on Tue 4 Nov, 15:00–16:30 CET. “Political Ecological Economics & the nature of growth.” It will revolve around why growth persists (surplus extraction, cost-shifting) and how to move beyond it. Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/8854726631...

How does wealth inequality impact climate change? Alongside my brilliant colleagues @morrison-james.bsky.social & @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social we attempt to answer this in a new article @climate-policy.bsky.social We identify four mechanisms through which wealth inequality impacts carbon emissions

The Congestion Charge went live today - so it's a great time to talk about a book (published this year) I recently finished reading. Did you know JRR Tolkien wrote a short satirical fantasy about how cars and congestion were ruining Oxford in the 1960s? Congestion has plagued Oxford for decades. 🧵

🗳 Greens could win Oxford East from Labour! 🤯 The latest @yougov.co.uk national poll has us on 16% - for seat projections from @electionmaps.uk this would mean @greenparty.org.uk winning 51 seats! 📊 Want to see and share the projections for your constituency? Read on!

🌿 From what grounds and inspires us to how we act together 🌿 We’re deepening our transnational organising for justice and solidarity. Building connections, sharing knowledge, and planning concrete action across borders. The work continues. ✊

The Spectator and others have chosen (deliberately I suspect) to interpret this article as a desire to stop a future Reform UK government from legislating. My purpose is to stop *any* government crushing our fundamental rights. It’s just more urgent now. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Transport Planning & Post-Growth? Does it work, or not? Which tensions surface, and what are trade-offs to discuss? 'To Transport or Not to Transport: Post-Growth Avenues for Transport Infrastructure Planning' in Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy 📖 doi.org/10.1002/jci3... #postgrowthplanning

Degrowth infrastructure doesn't wait for permission—it gets built from below. Get to know Berlin's repair hubs transforming empty shops into mutual aid spaces. Open daily, community-funded, preparing for when institutions fail.👇

Gute Vernetzung in der Community, soziales Engagement und ein "linksgerichteter Soft-Patriotismus" - das waren die Erfolgsrezepte von Catherine #Connolly bei den Wahlen in #Irland. Ein Kommentar @nd-aktuell.de die-zukunft.eu/irland-wird-...

Privatisierung tötet - privatisation kills! From British railway maintenance to German rail disasters, Greek derailments and Roman escalators privatisation again and again not only fails to deliver but costs lives - we need to stop this madness!

Great piece from @garethdennis.uk about the failure of rail privatisation in the UK!

„Fragen Sie mal Ihre Töchter“, sagte Kanzler Merz, als er gefragt wurde, was er mit seiner Stadtbild-Aussage meine. Alles klar, haben wir gemacht. 🎙️ Alle Stimmen lest ihr wie immer ohne Paywall auf 🔗https://taz.de/Stadtbild-Debatte/!6119202/