Mothin Ali highlights government hypocrisy over hunger strikers www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

On Monday, Trump ran roughshod over intl law - the UK took no action. On Tuesday, Trump threatened a NATO ally - the UK took no action. Today, the UK supported Trump's military operation in the North Atlantic. When will this govt stop appeasing Trump and stand up for the rule of law?

To my friends that haven't joined yet, what's stopping you? The Greens urgently need your support, to stop Reform and bring real hope to your community.

"The government’s own guidance for holding people on remand is six months. These people have been in custody for as much as nearly two years."

Great that the Greens lead this poll among NEU members but worrying that 6% plan to vote Reform. I wouldn't want a Reform voter teaching any of my grandchildren.

Big news in Greenwich, where Labour councillor Lakshan Saldin has defected to the Green Party and becomes the first councillor to switch to the Greens. This is just months after Tamasin Rhymes won the party’s first seat from Labour in June. @londongreenparty.bsky.social

The only target for the number of people killed on the road should be zero. With its Road Safety Strategy, the Government has massively overlooked key actions to cut traffic and achieve safer and slower vehicle speeds, which are truly effective at saving lives and essential to reaching this goal.

Love, Anger and Betrayal. Jonathan Porritt talks about Defend our Juries Jonathan Porritt visited Sheffield in December to launch his new book, Love, Anger and Betrayal. Jonathon was influential in my joining the Ecology (now Green) Party back in the early 80s, and his first book, Seeing Green,…

George Monbiot on the Hunger Strikers. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A third Labour councillor in Southwark has defected to the Green Party. Reginald Popoola who joins the Greens, said: “The Green Party offers a message of real hope and change.” He's been a councillor for Nunhead & Queen's Road and is a former Deputy Cabinet Member. @zackpolanski.bsky.social

🚨 A third Labour councillor has joined Southwark Green Party. “The Green Party offers a message of real hope and change.” – Cllr Reginald Popoola Reginald will be a candidate for Rye Lane in the May election.

The Green Party are polling at 17%, remaining in joint-second place, above Labour.

It's really silly how the right often portrays people who want renewables as lettuce munching wokie pinko hippy beatniks when a hard-nosed and pragmatic national security argument for them also exists right in front of their noses. Shackling ourselves to capricious foreign dictators to own the libs.

Two Palestine Action Hunger Strikers at Risk of Imminent Death. novaramedia.com/2026/01/06/t...

Great news from Sheffield Greens. Nearly £1 million has already been raised from the Green Bonds scheme, which can now be invested in solar panels for school roofs. Something TelltheTruthSheffield has long campaigned for. sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/2026/01/06/g...

McDonald's, you are not wanted! sheffieldgreenparty.org.uk/2026/01/06/n...

2025 has been a historic year for clean energy in UK, with renewable project approvals reaching a record-high 45 GW — nearly double of 2024. This surge was driven by an exceptional rise in battery storage capacity, which almost doubled to 28.6 GW, alongside strong growth in offshore wind & solar.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... A huge 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis.Making people aware that their pro-climate view, the majority could unlock a social tipping point and help push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed.

Climate breakdown driven extreme weather getting started early in 2026 It's going to be a long, hot, deadly year www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

No one is asking Wes Streeting to be a commentator. Asking him to be a government minister when the whole world can see Trump breaking international law whilst threatening Greenland next, and the Cabinet (with Nigel Farage) seems perfectly fine with it.

Appalling response to Ellie's question.

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

Of course Maduro and his wife were kidnapped but BBC journalists aren't allowed to say it.

"What’s happening right now is not ‘normal’. It’s off the scale of morally unconscionable abnormality. So how should we all, one way or another, recognise and respond to that abnormality in 2026?" jonathonporritt.com/matters-of-c...

December: Thanks to the efforts of @peopleandplanet.bsky.social eight more UK universities cut recruitment ties with the fossil fuel industry. A cultural shift, driven from below: students & staff challenging the normalisation of fossil fuel careers inside public institutions ✊🎉

So the US is bombing Venezuela? No surprise there then. This thirst for oil will kill us all. #KeepItInTheGround

If your best friend turned out to be a kidnapper, how long would it take you to turn him in to the police? No matter what our "special relationship" is, Starmer must stop supporting Trump, he should call him out as a warmonger, pirate and kidnapper.

The Green Party continue to make good progress. 2026 is going to be a very interesting year politically.

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

I've signed the Dartington Declaration global-tipping-points.org/the-dartingt...

Immoral companies like Palantir should have no place in the NHS by Graham Wroe A letter to the Sheffield Star Julia Armstrong reports in the Star (2.1.26) that a local doctor, Rory Gibson, objected at the Council’s Health Scrutiny sub-committee concerning a £330 million contract that was awarded…

Shocking but unsurprising: "Amount poorest households have left over after bills & essential spending has fallen by 2.1% since Labour came to power. The most affluent households have seen their discretionary incomes rise by 10.3%" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Flood risks are increasing and building on Greenbelt makes matters worse.

Israel’s ban on 37 humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, from entering Gaza is another war crime. The Green Party condemns this decision and calls for immediate international action to protect humanitarian actors.

Scary stuff.

A great encouraging thread from Aaron Thierry.

Here's to putting people and planet first in 2026. Happy New Year from all of us at the Green Party.

"The area has more than 800 people – about 250 of them children – who are in the poorest 10th of the population of England" Knocking down 400 homes to build 250 😮 This beggars belief Spend the money on bringing existing homes up to standard, you idiots www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

1/4: “What plastics do to human organs is subject to intense study. When scientists add microplastics to human tissue samples in the laboratory, it can result in cell death, immune reactions and tissue damage. And hundreds of studies have exposed animals —

Happy New Year #HopeisHere

The forces behind the dangerous anti-science movement | I discussed my book w/ @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege, with @ethanelkind.bsky.social of @npr.org / @kalwradio.bsky.social #YourCall radio: www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...

It's deeply immoral for people to be help in prison for so long without trial. Release the hunger strikers on bail now. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Tell the Truth Sheffield, Review of 2025 by Graham Wroe As 2025 draws to a close, it's good to review what TelltheTruthSheffield.org has achieved in the last 12 months. It's been a year of steady growth for the blog, with increasing numbers of subscribers (if you aren't one yet, please click the…

“Mum, dad, what did you do when CO2 levels were higher than they’d been in millions of years? When the world was hotter than it’d been in 125,000 years? When scientists warned of 3C by 2050, & risk assessors said this would cause societal collapse & kill 4 billion people?”

The age of misinformation.

Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our world is becoming uninsurable. Without insurance our society will collapse.

In the Bleak Midwinter. youtu.be/8irYmn1NSh8?...

A Christmas message from Zack Polanski premieres tomorrow at 3pm here youtu.be/lopMMkz0law?...