A belly full of natural gas and other fictions of self-sufficiency: Does a greenhouse full of peppers and tomatoes bathing in the warmth of natural gas and fed a diet of fertilisers really represent food security and self-sufficiency? thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/a-belly-fu...

This is one of the reasons why I've been cautioning against trying to tap into the food security discourse – they'll use it to justify abominations like intensive poultry units: (see image in next post to see how gov justifies it) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On Tuesday April 21, I'll be hosting an in-person (non-recorded) one-day symposium on "Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question" at Durham University. Details in the images, booking link below. All welcome!

I'm recruiting for my PhD research, please share with anyone who you think maybe be interested 👌

I wrote about whether the UK really is 60% self-sufficient in food production (spoiler: it's not). But rather than making the currently very favourable move of saying We Must Produce More – I question whether self-sufficiency has much valence at all: thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/is-the-uk-...

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

The US is engaged in imperialist war at a world scale and Starmer is very happy to support that (thus the UK is also engaged in imperialist war at a world scale)

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

Abajo con el imperialismo, abajo con el estados unidos, solidaridad con el pueblo de Venezuela

“Dreams of a ‘fair price’ for farmers is not a realisable demand due to the inherent contradiction that exists between food production & the profit motive.” Agroecology as revolutionary, anti-imperialist, class struggle - @alexheffron.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thestrug...

Really interesting food for thought (pun intended) from @alexheffron.bsky.social....embedding sustainability produced local food as a universal basic right is a great way to start imaging a transition away from global agribusiness

@mikegrunwald.bsky.social brings fresh energy to an everlasting idea: To reduce agriculture's environmental impact, we need to make "more with less." New episode of Landscapes: "More with Less" plinkhq.com/i/1552882054

New post: Zarah Sultana recently said we need to nationalise the entire economy. What I put forward here is a brief plan for a People's Food Service, which both supports farmers and tackles food poverty. thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/nationalis...

New post: Zarah Sultana recently said we need to nationalise the entire economy. What I put forward here is a brief plan for a People's Food Service, which both supports farmers and tackles food poverty. thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/nationalis...

Showing this to my 6 year old

BREAKING: Quesser Zuhrah is taken to hospital after crowds gathered at HMP Bronzefield following her rapid health deterioration after 46days of hunger strike. There are seven more hunger strikers currently facing critical health deterioration. Support them by visiting PrisonersForPalestine.org

New Substack: 'Perhaps we became so enamoured with our own gardens we retreated from the wider world, and in doing so neglected to contest the future for everyone.' thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/agroecolog...

DK Renton argues that David Lammy’s proposal to severely cut the number of jury trials is another authoritarian step by Labour. revsoc21.uk/2025/11/30/i...

New post where I push a little bit further on my previous writing on agroecology being a project of class suicide and why this means small privately-owned farms are not the vehicle of change for agroecology as too often supposed thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/towards-an...

‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war By @alexheffron.bsky.social and @tom-cb.bsky.social buff.ly/eine9eg

We really need to defeat these fascist pigs - cos they're coming for us

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