Energy bills are soaring; the King is making profit at our expense. King Charles says he cares about the environment, so you’d expect him to stand behind cheap, clean power. I’ve signed the petition to demand the Crown Estate lower fees on seabeds & make wind farms more affordable to build. join me?

Have you noticed the blanket coverage in mainstream media of those eight peaceful protesters currently starving to death in British jails having been incarcerated without trial for more than a year?

news.sky.com/liveblog-web... Such a brave and selfless act, hope he recovers quickly.

Good! Now get him to The Hague! #ArrestNetanyahu

At least independent journalists bother to investigate stuff. Turns out my suspicions are not unfounded. open.substack.com/pub/councile...

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

You can help vulnerable men and women in Gloucestershire get mobile on bicycles by gifting GARAS bike bits you no longer need, bikes in need of repair and cash. Annie and all of them will help. Please click on the link to find out more. gofund.me/fa5734f76

This was the position at midday Wednesday using the Wikipedia Poll of Polls - my projections en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion... Please read ALT txt Thanks to #Icantthinkofausernames for graph and others for updating

Gill is right @simonforstroud.bsky.social You do need to push your Labour colleagues hard.

Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today: www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

America's NatSec strategy is an expression of weakness, borne out in its record, 0 from 3, of trying to force a pro-Russian surrender on Ukraine. It has been Europe's strength that prevented this. Much remains to be done, but we should avoid the counsel of despair. open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

This is the best analysis I’ve read about Trump’s alignment with Putin, and the future for Ukraine and Europe And it accords with my optimism. On the ground, Ukraine and Europe can resist the globalist oligarchs arthursnell.substack.com/p/americas-w...

People should be reminded of this 👇👇👇 every time the benefits Bill is mentioned

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation. In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills. Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors. No end to nightmare without public ownership.

New analysis shows: That there are now more people alive in the UK that voted Remain in 2016 than those who voted Leave in 2016. The "will of the people" expressed by direct vote in 2016... has changed.

B is a filmmaker working on a feature documentary about the Filton 24 case and the misuse of terrorism laws in the uk … He needs £30,000 more to finish the film. This is the fundraiser link: chuffed.org/project/oper...

A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow | Kate Raworth youtu.be/Rhcrbcg8HBw?...

It’s time to voice an ugly truth: I’ve been talking recently {privately} with ecologists, with very senior figures in the environmental NGOs, with activists and lawyers. What they say - privately - is stark: >This Govt is even worse on nature than the Sunak & Johnson Govts<.

B is a filmmaker working on a feature documentary about the Filton 24 case and the misuse of terrorism laws in the uk … He needs £30,000 more to finish the film. This is the fundraiser link: chuffed.org/project/oper...

2/ But neoliberal economics has proved massively destructive to the fabric of society, and environmentally suicidal. The real madness is *not* to question it and look for something better. I wrote about economic paradigm shifts for @bylinetimes.bsky.social last year. bylinetimes.com/2024/10/18/k...

1/ Listening to @rory-stewart.bsky.social talking economics with @zackpolanski.bsky.social reminded me of this from the greatest economist of the 20th century, JM Keynes. The economic paradigm that's held sway for the past 50 years is so engrained that questioning it seems to some like madness...

Huh. Turned out to be a nuanced, well-researched piece. Also, why haven't folk been making more use of this? - "Bloomberg New Energy Finance calculates that e-bikes are already cutting worldwide demand for oil by a million barrels per day, or four times as much as all the world’s electric cars."

Big donors and fossil fuel interests also need a cap on how much time they get with ministers.

It’s great that national Green Party fundraising is doing so well — now over £200k Stroud District Green Party @stroudgreens.bsky.social need funds for their great work locally Please click to make one-off or ongoing donations here stroud.greenparty.org.uk/donate/ 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Do ask for more info.

A great critique of the budget 👇

Almost no one is affected. As Dan Neidle says, "There will be inefficiencies and unfairnesses, as with all taxes, but the basic concept is right: ending the anomaly that someone in a £10m home pays the same council tax as someone in a £1m home – and only twice that of someone in a £400k home."

A source for that quote: taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/11/27/m...

Brilliant

Why won’t so much of the left believe in the sovereign power to make money? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...

Each polling co uses different ways to sample & to poll. We won't know which is best until a GE.
 
A poll of polls may give a better idea of trends:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion... this shows: R: now declining L: cont decline C: slow growth G: growing fast LD: cont decline Please see ALT txt

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

Stop big donors buying political influence Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a louder voice in politics. We need a cap on how much any person can donate, so we all have the same say. Add your name to demand change. action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...

Robbie Gibb said if he doesn't get his way, he'll blow the BBC up. It's ridiculous that a man like that has a spot on the BBC's board. Our public broadcaster MUST be independent. Agree? Sign to get Gibb sacked:

😢 Why are we forced to pick between cheap & polluting and expensive & sustainable? ✈️ Airplanes: subsidies & MASSIVE tax breaks. 🚄 Trains: tax on energy, VAT on international travel & high track access costs. 💚 Low emissions & low cost should be the priority.

'Legacy of Brexit can’t be measured only in declining trade volumes when so many of the politicians who campaigned for it gleefully align themselves with a US adminstn that despises rule of law and is blowing up foundations of the US’s constitutional republic' 🎯 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Every 11 minutes, a woman is killed somewhere in the world. Women must be protected against gender-based violence & this is what the Istanbul Convention does. 🇪🇺 Five EU member states have yet to ratify it: Bulgaria, the Czechia, Hungary, Lithuania & Slovakia.

What is the equivalent data for the UK?

Goodnight everyone

Keir Starmer continues to arrests more pensioners by the Thought Police as a favour to his Israeli handlers

Politics Joe interviews Zack Polanski youtu.be/NYzp3UcxIGg?...

And it was brilliant. Essential listening for anyone wanting to understand farming/farmers/policy/food security/rural livelihoods/land use etc etc - and anyone who loves reading and understands the value of books in our lives.

I love this. Making the same demand as Patriotic Millionaires shows we’re listening & making sensible decisions based on facts. This inspires active hope that we can reclaim our country & our communities from the grasp of the greedy, corrupt, exploitative minority. This Green team is a dream team.

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

As a S Asian person, I can call these USEFUL IDIOTS for what they are so that you don't have to: Uncle Tom's Coconuts Bounty Black and brown faces, hired for high places, to close doors Like millions of ppl who look like me, we hate them with every fibre of our being, every waking hour Traitors!

Over in US, ppl in various states, such as Georgia, have noticed unexpected SHARP INCREASES in their bills (even they use less energy) They all have one 1 thing in common: These states have seen an HUGE spike in data centres opened and due to lack of investments, ppl experience huge power cuts

Good 👇👇👇

Some grim polling here for Labour from Ipsos beyond the headline figures -69% think Britain is heading in the wrong direction -Starmer's satisfaction rating at -66 -50% of the public want "radical change" yet only 4% believe Labour will deliver it.

This 👇 was true for my granddaughter and to some extent still is