Huge news!! Anyone who wants to help push us onwards, it's easy: join.greenparty.org.uk

I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.

“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 and city center in 2021.”

Keir Starmer has written to all Labour MPs attacking the Green Party for embracing "divisive" and "sectarian" politics I'm picking up concern among Labour MPs about how this letter will come across to people who have voted/are tempted to vote Green, as it could risk further alienating these voters

We are ‘not a multicultural country’? Fuck right off.

'In May last year, Keir Starmer said: “Every area of the immigration system, including work, family and study, will be tightened up so we have more control. Enforcement will be tougher than ever and migration numbers will fall.”' www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Just bad from Starmer. Your opponent took 40% of the vote. At the very least, for Labour folks, this is a "we hear you, we got it wrong, we will change," moment, even if he doesn't mean it.

Just watched first episode of this. Even if you've been close to the details this is pure cold fury. A crystallised portrait of the scandal which has been inflicted on us and our environment at the hands of corporate scam artists and their political enablers. www.channel4.com/programmes/d...

Opinium constituency poll suggests three parties could win the Gorton and Denton by-election on Thursday. - Green tactical squeeze messsage to Lab/undecided voters - GM Labour more get vote out experience on the day - Reform if can get vote out + edge 3-way split despite 2/3 hoping they lose

In just 25 hours, the U.S. has had four tariff regimes: 1. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) 2. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) - IEEPA tariffs 3. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) - IEEPA tariffs +10% 4. Liberation Day Mark_II_re-revised_(final) - IEEPA tariffs +10% + 5%

"This is Europe’s new reality: under water in winter, withered in summer. Yet even as the weather extremes worsen, the voices of denial have grown louder and more influential." #SayNo2SizewellC www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

A British woman who got detained by ICE declared "....that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that”." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Clearly, it's not safe to travel to the US.

Every time Labour created a modern parliament – Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, London – they chose proportional representation writes MP, Jenny Riddell Carpenter. Why is Westminster the exception? If PR is good enough for devolved Britain, it’s good enough for the UK. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Just mind-boggling that climate breakdown isn't even mentioned in this piece Despite the fact that it is driving more powerful storms, higher sea level, bigger waves and more intense rainfall People - apparently even the reporting journalist - still don't get it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trevor Phillips tying himself in knots while trying to trip up Zack Polanski. Phillips gets everything embarrassingly wrong, clearly not done his homework and is roundly outclassed by Polanski

Nice write-up of interview with me and my colleagues about our Energy Champions voluntary work in #Eastbourne, much of which deals with #fuelpoverty. www.energisesussexcoast.co.uk/engaging-wit...

The Trump administration has repealed the endangerment finding, eliminating federal limits on greenhouse gases. “This move is poised to break the law and the thermometer.” This rollback defies science, international law, and public health. Read CIEL’s statement: bit.ly/46MPJ2g

After the Russian authorities restrict access to popular messaging app Telegram, one Russian MP calls the measure ’Defence of the information frontline…one of the components of the battle between Russia and Nato.’ The restrictions are widely reported in today’s Russian papers. #ReadingRussia

📌 ICYMI — The End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer’s Departing Chief of Staff As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborne’s exclusive Byline Times… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/08/the-end-of-morgan-mcsweeney-peter-oborne-on-keir-starmers-departing-chief-of-staff/

Self Management UK now endorses our book 'Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World' amzn.to/2JIpu41 In US amzn.to/2JGyCWT Available via your GP as part of #ReadingWell Books on Prescription scheme. Pls RT. #mindfulness #ArtOfBreathing

This by @davidallengreen.bsky.social is SO good. Just recommended all my 2nd year BritPol students read it. First three weeks cover 'The constitution', 'Parliament', & 'The executive'. I confess they're hardly my top three topics but the events of the past week or so have seriously spiced them up!

Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency. She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.

This is the key point that is lost in so much Westminster bubble talk on net zero. It is popular. It’s hugely popular with Labour’s base and with the progressive voters it needs to vote tactically to defeat Reform. And it’s even popular with Tories who Labour needs not to switch to Reform.

Wonderful guide on how to move away from big US tech companies that use your privacy to get richer. Great examples: - Inoreader [BG] to replace Feedly AND a good Read It Later service ! - Infomaniak [CH] as cloud service with online document collaboration (they integrate OnlyOffice).

🚨🚨1000 % this. "What the fuck is this....? The paedophile's ball??" 👇👇 #epsteinfiles #princeandrew #woodyallen

What would be the cost to consumers of decarbonising UK food production? @zackleather.resolutionfoundation.org explains that even if all the costs were passed on to shoppers, it would increase food prices by less than 1 per cent – the equivalent of around 50p on a weekly shop.

"Populist politics, online disinformation, cyber warfare, & cryptocurrency were all just scaffolding for his work as a financier and sex trafficker. A way to destabilize the global order, make connections with the world’s elites, and continue enriching himself and preying on vulnerable young girls."

Elon Musk was itching to go to Epstein’s parties, and excited about all the ‘girls’ that would be there, *five years* after Epstein pleaded guilty to *procuring a child for prostitution*. What on earth did he think went on at these parties?

We're proud to be a community partner of the Eastbourne Farmers Market, which resumes on Saturday 7th February, & where you can buy fresh organic produce from local farmers whose regenerative agricultural practices help ensure local food security & resilience in the face of rapid #ClimateChange.

RHS unveils plans to protect UK gardens from future water shortages Environmental charity to prioritise water capture and storage as it urges gardeners to prepare for ‘new normal’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Labour’s privatisation failure is turbo-charging an AI data centre water crisis The UK already faces a projected daily water deficit of nearly 5 billion litres by 2050, a challenge exacerbated by climate change and population growth. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

A great short talk by Earth Systems prof @jamesgdyke.info here (I haven't yet listened to the others) - 10:40 to 15:20 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBCl...

Ahhh... The Three Minute Breathing Space meditation:

The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution. This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American. They must be released immediately.

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.

Total nightmare for Nigel Farage. He's spent years desperately trying to distance himself and his various parties from this far-right crim - and now look what's happened.

This is as good as everyone says it is:

The fact that this individual is allowed to remain a member of the Conservative Party while going around saying dangerous and frankly bonkers stuff like this is one indication of how far it has to travel before being ready to resume power.

The right-wing American Enterprise Institute’s view of the US dollar. "Termites are slowly feasting away at the foundations of the dollar’s dominance Chomp chomp chomp…” www.ft.com/content/0933...

Far right extremist Tommy Robinson endorses Matt Goodwin. A vote for Reform is a vote for division, hate, and all that goes with it.

As a former resident of (the then not at all hipster) Levenshulme, I read this with great interest. It’s a brilliantly detailed and subtle analysis of the forthcoming by-election - especially good on the complexities of the left ‘bloc’ and the perils (for Reform) of Goodwin’s candidacy.

❌ ‘The longer we accept this as normal, the greater the damage it does’ Our Chief Analyst @statspeter.bsky.social gives an overview of the numbers in #UKPoverty2026 of children, working-age adults and pensioners living in poverty, and what the lack of progress means for society 🔽

Grok is so much worse than you think.

Good luck with that UK developers believe in a pile 'em high, sell them dear approach. The worst quality housing stock in Europe Any green space, or even decent sized gardens, translates into less profit Starmer even refused to make a £30 swift box compulsory www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just a reminder of one of Suella Braverman's greatest ethnonationalist hits: "I will never be truly English: here is why", Telegraph, 26 February 2025 (Source: www.suellabraverman.co.uk/news/i-will-...)

Just the latest devastating news on the climate breakdown front And make no mistake, we WILL see 2C by 2050 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In case you missed it, Utrecht, Netherlands has begun building the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21.5K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge.

“The transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietly—& quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency ‘coronapistes’ or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”