Looking at the way Reform and the far right are trying to leverage rural resentments against solar farms. Given that most farmers are concerned by climate change – does this actually make Reform anti-farmer? Enjoyed writing this with @tom-cb.bsky.social theconversation.com/you-cant-eat...

Looking at the way Reform and the far right are trying to leverage rural resentments against solar farms. Given that most farmers are concerned by climate change – does this actually make Reform anti-farmer? Enjoyed writing this with @tom-cb.bsky.social theconversation.com/you-cant-eat...

“Effective green policy must ensure that green transitions benefit those doing the work or opposition will grow.” ‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war - @alexheffron.bsky.social theconversation.com/you-cant-eat...

My latest article, with the fantastic @alexheffron.bsky.social has just been published. Looking how Reform UK are trying to turn placement of Solar Panels on farmland in a rural culture war and wedge issue. theconversation.com/you-cant-eat...

A memorable night ruined by a racist thug. I was invited to speak at the EuroAsia Curry Awards on Monday night, it should have been an exciting opportunity. But on my way there, outside Earl’s Court station, I was subjected to an Islamophobic hate crime. I have now reported it to the police

Very weak. What I hear from this is that Polanski backs European imperialism and isn't actually anti-imperialist at all. Sorry but this is basically the most important point for British anti-imperialists – at a time when the UK and Europe are engaged in genocide and constructing Fortress Europe.

Just one of the many genocides the British empire conducted

What we must all remember from the Gaza genocide is that the international system is rotten to its core and needs to be completely replaced. We cannot accept a system where Western governments and leaders can commit genocide and war crimes with total impunity.

Football fans that are actually fascist ultras who chant things like "kill all Arabs" and intimidate local Muslims and people of colour. Good chance of violent war criminals. It's not about their religion.

If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc

UK energy standing charge plan could backfire. Exorbitant standing charges hurt low users. Regulator plans a new tariff - low standing charge & higher cost of each unit. That won't do. Energy companies made £514bn operating profit since 2020. Better to end profiteering, nationalize energy.

British.

Very good article this. Need to reflect on it more but there are def some interesting parallels to the Reform strategy of using anti-solar panel sentiment as a wedge issue amongst farmers to push back on renewables. (as @tom-cb.bsky.social and I have just pitched as an article to The Conversation!)

If you're attending #POLLEN26 then check out our panel below

Say it with me everyone: "Why won't Labour get out of the race!? They're enabling Reform!"

It's important to remember that despite Reform leading in the polls that Nigel Farage is not popular - and this hasn't changed since the general election.

The thing about solar geoengineering is that once you start you cannot stop *ever* unless somehow you have already removed all the multi-billions of tons of carbon emitted since the day you started. If you stop at the higher CO2 concentration you get virtually instantaneous catastrophic heating.

Polanski was excellent here I thought. Angry bigots like Malone want to make out they're the majority – they're not. They're a (often very wealthy) minority.

📣New Interview📣 'Neoliberal ideology builds the structure, the structure rewards domination, and from that, both misogyny and microfascism take root.' @imrobwalker.bsky.social and Kay Sidebottom discuss neoliberalism, microfascism, and misogyny in classroom settings. reacpol.net/misogyny-fas...

Call for papers for POLLEN26: Returning to the Agrarian Question in the North Any questions get in touch!

Submissions invited for #POLLEN2026 for the panel: Colonial histories and climate futures: critical perspectives on vulnerability. We are particularly interested in papers that draw together themes of climate-induced im/mobilities & vulnerabilisation. nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

When I think of A.I. I think of asbestos. To begin with everyone thought Asbestos was amazing, folk used it in everything. Then they started learning it was dangerous, research was done, they stopped using it, thou for some the damage was already done. Stop using A.I and limit the damage it's doing.

This will be really good: "The green digital transition is underway. But what does this transition look like when dictated by the energy and resource demands of monopoly tech? How has this situation come to be? And where is it being resisted?" www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...

Brilliant short blog post on ideologies of degrowth: "It is then also high time to put aside utopian purist ideologies and look for sideways alternatives, remixing the ingredients for yet-to-be-seen combinations." degrowth.info/en/blog/neit...

One of those days where coffee is life

PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

Still time to get your abstracts in for this..... hopefully has the makings of a great session

Sophia and I wrote this for the new Seeding Reparations booklet – considering anti-fascist food sovereignty by challenging white theories and histories of fascism. Click through to read the second half of the article: seeding.org.uk/wp-content/u...

we got jumped last night (me and wife) by a group of lads calling us “lefties“ - it didn’t come to punches but got quite close - so I guess we are approaching the “having to fight on your way home from the pub” level of fascism

This is what is left of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

"There is a quote often attributed to Chico Mendes... “ecology without class struggle is gardening.” In the case of the current Brazilian government, it is not only the class struggle that is absent, but also the gardening." - @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemma/

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

I've been on the fence with the new left party and greens - going back and forth variously. The whole debacle of YP is off-putting and @zackpolanski.bsky.social is winning me over through his efforts in the media. The idea of a reheated Corbynism doesn't appeal to me.

Good man. Dont back down. Don't let these thugs intimidate you.

Another Call for Papers for #BISA2026 (3rd-5th June, Brighton), this time for a panel I'm organising with @tom-cb.bsky.social. Deadline 24th Oct. Gender and resistance in environmental politics: This panel will explore how gender relates to resistance against env harm AND resistance to transition.

"The Tarajal massacre is the paradigm of Europe’s southern borders: bullets fired at people for simply trying to move. The Tarajal paradigm can be summarized as follows: the intentional, calculated, and murderous enforcement... mronline.org/2025/06/18/t...

Sophia Doyle and I made a contribution to Seeding Reparations new booklet. We take a loot at the current conjuncture of rising fascism, through the lens of food and farming in the UK, and think with Aimé Cesaire’s concept of the ‘imperial boomerang’. Free pdf here: seeding.org.uk/wp-content/u...

And what we need to make clear and struggle against is that this will break down along imperialist, colonial, racial lines. This is why Fortress Europe is being constructed. It's why we must fight like hell against militarisation, bordering and the demonisation of immigrants and Muslims.

Fun reading for the afternoon

The left currently rewards the sharks, snakes and charlatans and until this is confronted the left will get nowhere. The imperative we face is to ingrain a new ethic and new structures and new ways of working together. For as long as we're dominated by privatised egos we'll get nowhere.

22yo student Zhang Yadi, an activist with 华语青年挺藏会 ChineseYouthStand4Tibet who's supposed to begin her MA study at SOAS, has been detained while visiting family in China & charged with "inciting separation" www.instagram.com/p/DOy4rwViEk...

I agree we need "public banking for public need not profit" - 100% that's the aim. I'm a bit nervous of these big claims being made of a banking collapse as being something imminent, due to climate change, without sufficient evidence to back that up. Climate politics has overused this tactic.

New post: On the need to create state-owned/supported alternatives to supermarkets, as is becoming a typical popular demand across the world in response to price gouging and rising food insecurity. It could also help fix farming systems. thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/democratic...

"it exposed the fact that Israel remains a dependent colony whose ability to launch and sustain military campaigns is almost entirely reliant on the uninterrupted flow of arms, munitions, and money from the West." mondoweiss.net/2025/09/isra...

"The time has come to suspend Israel. Clubs everywhere must refuse to play Israeli teams, current players everywhere must refuse to play against Israeli teams." Éric Cantona for #Palestine, Wednesday evening at the Together 4 Palestine event.

When will the left stop going weak at the knees for a white bloke with an accent saying something vaguely socialisty at times? And when will the white left get real about racism and fascism and stop doing the whole left behind narrative that is partly to blame for this growing fascisisation?

I have no idea if it will work out but now is the chance for the party to break away from Labourism and the cliques and wrong uns that surround Corbyn

Sally Rooney unable to collect award due to threat of arrest for supporting Palestine Action The Normal People author can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest, her publisher stated at the Sky Arts awards ceremony last night. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Fuck Corbyn. Whenever he's had a chance to make the right choice, he's made the wrong one and fucked the left.

Labour minister being a war criminal sounds about right though actually