environmental journalist nearing end of life calls for honesty after decades of seeing “apparently intelligent politicians failing yet & yet again to have the courage to implement the decisions necessary to tackle the ever more imminent danger of climate change.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

At today’s National Emergency Briefing, Chris Packham delivered a clear message: act now. Decision-makers must step up and tackle the climate crisis before it’s too late. Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer. #climatecrisis #neb2025 #netzero www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-keir

UK folk : I’ve just booked to see this. It will be good. As are the folk who will be standing trial. If you enjoyed the play Kyoto then this too is for you. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/in-... @healthxr.bsky.social

The British government's ban on pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation amounted to an authoritarian restriction on protest, lawyers representing a co-founder seeking to overturn the ban argued on Wednesday. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Terrorism? Really? Now they've also changed the judge at the last minute for the Judicial Review and keeping it a closed hearing. Very disturbing behaviour by our Gov.

I am a terrorist. I used to be a school teacher. I watched parliament proscribe Palestine Action and it shocked me that they casually allowed an authoritarian law to pass just to protect a foreign state committing actual genocide. We take a stand now or our children will be next. I made my choice.

Opposing genocide is not terrorism. Make your choice. www.wedonotcomply.org

Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...

BBC problems aren’t due to the panorama edit. They’re due to Trump & those who drive him being stinking rich, litigatious & corrupt, & corporation leaders & government running scared (if not complicit). @rutgerbregman.com 🙏 for speaking truth to power. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

"What makes Sudan's crisis even more alarming is its invisibility. The world is not watching closely enough" The Sudanese civil war is creating the world's worst humanitarian disaster with 12 million people now displaced This 🧵traces the deep connections b/w this conflict & the #ClimateCrisis 1/n

Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes.

Now over 68,000

Thanks to @bps-social-psych.bsky.social for bringing my notes together from the event that @merveozturkey.bsky.social & I organized. Reflections came from the responses of: @profjohndrury.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social Dr Rim Saab and Dr Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir www.bps.org.uk/news/rising-...

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

The evidence from Farage and the people that surround him screams that there is really no two sides to this story or slipper definitions - not that you’d be able to tell with just how much smoke is being blown around this. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/deep-dive-...

Anticipatory obedience in the face of authoritarianism. Understandable given Trump’s power & money, but being understandable doesn’t make it right : it’s one of the things we are warned against if, as we surely should, we want to resist fascism www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

NEW: This is worth your time. @thenerve_news has the receipts. A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott. Please read & share.

Laying politics aside I can't help but warm to Zack Polanski as a person. I wish more of our politicians were as genuine as him. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Good episode on what went wrong in the pandemic. ⬇️. Now it’s time for an episode on this week’s Westminster scientific briefing on climate & nature. We must stop the same mistakes that are being made on a bigger & even more lethal scale. www.nebriefing.org/open-letter @zero-hour.bsky.social

Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names. "Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond." Please share with your MP. #NEB2025

How can progressives challenge far right populism? Can psychology help? This new paper suggests: 1. be transparent 2. share control 3. reclaim pride 4. root new visions in old traditions 5. be authentic & clear 6.harness emotion to mobilise hope. globalfuturefoundation.com/wp-content/u...

The extent to which intelligent people can twist their brains in knots to avoid the obvious never ceases to amaze For those willing to confront reality: The IPCC is perfectly clear on the need to strand the majority of fossil fuel assets in order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement

Ignored warnings. Optimism bias. Chaos behind closed doors.🚪🤫 @rory-stewart.bsky.social reveals what was going on inside government during COVID. New episode out now - link in the replies 👇

Will your MP be at the National Emergency Briefing on climate + nature on 27 11? If not,why not? @sioldridge.bsky.social explains why attendance is essential. @zero-hour.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social @nebriefing.bsky.social westcountryvoices.co.uk/the-national...

Devastating report of the litany of abject failures of Tory so-called leadership. Yet the current government’s response is incredibly mild. Where’s the outrage? And meanwhile ‘too little too late’ is a mega understatement for the bigger crisis of climate& nature. www.the-guardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Time for real change: democracy and climate justice www.totnespulse.co.uk/time-for-rea...

“Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests.”https://centralbylines.co.uk/politics/a-new-survey-reveals-negative-attitudes-to-reform-uk-ltd/

This is it … www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Spoiler alert: it matters. “Finally, we need to mobilise political agency. This is not a technocratic exercise. The fight for truth is a political struggle: against oligarchic media owners, corporate capture, and authoritarian impulses.”

🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier. The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12

Are you interested in reflecting on and expanding your ability to be an inclusive leader? Then this event in January is for you . Looks like a rare opportunity and not to be missed www.bps.org.uk/event/explor...

“…disturbing escalation in the assault on the BBC should be incredibly alarming to anyone who cares about truth, accountability & democracy.”Trump & his mates must be stopped. Well said @eddavey.libdems.org.uk www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Well said @zackpolanski.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Panorama made a stupid editing mistake. But compare this to the deliberate and systemic attempt, sustained across years, to ensure that BBC output aligns ever more closely to the demands of economic power. Against your straw of bias, I raise you a haystack.

That ICJ ruling was world changing. It’s starting to bite. So the backlash will be already building. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Forced to resign over how a video shown on the BBC of Donald Trump over a year ago was edited. Please remind me who runs the BBC. Because it looks like it's the USA.

The unbalance of our so-called democracy is blatant. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A seriously important paper about the links between health and climate change in Polar regions ⬇️ This really is an urgent call #Arctic #COP30 #ClimateChange

State of the Cryosphere Report 2025 "Recent evidence suggests the AMOC is weakening more quickly than previously thought, raising serious concerns about an irreversible threshold being crossed..." - @iccinet.bsky.social iccinet.org/statecryo25/

Report by leading scientists “describes how a combination of melting polar ice sheets, vanishing glaciers, & thawing permafrost will have rapid, irreversible, & disastrous impacts worldwide.” The warm words blah blah blah aren’t what’s melting the ice, but they’re not - yet - stopping fossil fuels.

“The pithiest reminder of the need for collective action came from Zimbabwe’s environment minister, Evelyn Ndlovu …: “The climate crisis is not a competition. There is no winner or loser. Either we all win or we all lose.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings ..”. 💕Ursula le Guin. Skip the intro by a man and start 5 mins in youtu.be/s2v7RDyo7os

Some men are good, sure enough, with António Guterres among them, so if we had many more women in power (as well as some more men with his clarity, vision, care, & courage), the world would be in a better, kinder, safer, more fully human, and less corporate, techie, monied, dehumanising state.

Speaking of women in the workplace, one time on a plane, the flight attendant announced that we were on an "unmanned flight" because the pilot, co-pilot, and all flight attendants were women. I'll take more of this, please and thank you. 👩‍✈️🛩️✊

Guterres is right. Even a temporary overshoot could unleash far greater destruction and costs for every nation. It could push ecosystems past catastrophic and irreversible tipping points. Fossil fuel companies are deceiving the public and obstructing progress. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We still hold the power to prevent the worst outcomes of climate change if we act decisively to end our dependence on fossil fuels. But that window is closing fast. Humanity needs to get their heads out of the sand before it is too late to stop climate change!

What can come out of today’s pre-COP meeting? As we run up to the Brazilian COP I’m reminded of our 2021 petition, signed by over 12,000 people calling for leadership with common purpose. We still want that. 1/2 c.org/jqBxXRRnHg

Structural problems are turned to personal misery and blame. The fundamental attribution error (blame the victim) is hard to shift. “All the time people are looking for a scapegoat.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...