Manufacturing culture wars allows Republicans to sound faux populist without having to address the practical problems faced by most Americans — lack of paid sick leave, unaffordable child care and elder care, stagnant wages, and inadequate housing. Don’t fall for it.

Are you rich & don’t like paying taxes? Buy land!! Keir Starmer has decided to only charge inheritance tax to agricultural landowners on estates over £2.5million However if your only asset is a family home, you start paying inheritance tax at £325,000 What’s the point of this labour government?

Can you imagine if we were as strict on MPs expenses and billionaires tax avoidance as we were on Disabled People? The money would be raining down.

Yesterday, wind produced 59.6% of Britain’s electricity - almost five times more than gas. Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, every unit of clean renewable energy we produce is delivering U.K jobs, energy security, and a brighter future of our children.

This man’s ego is a Black Hole. It has to absorb every particle surrounding it. His narcissism is insatiable. Every attempt to satisfy it only fuels his overwhelming need for yet more flattery. Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You know what I’m loving? Seeing the meltdown from the hunting community. These people have had it all their way for so long. Cannot wait for their pastime to be consigned to the history books for good. Tick tock!

'Rewilding' presented as merely another investment opportunity. Capitalism is like a highly corrosive acid, relentlessly seeking to corrupt and neutralise everything that offers ways out of the dead end nightmare IT is creating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reform UK have repeatedly said that Kent is their "flagship" council and "the shop window" for how they intend to run things. When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA

In a joint statement, the prime ministers of Greenland and Denmark urged the US to show respect, saying annexation is not an option. Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen and Greenland’s Jens Frederik Nielsen stressed that Greenland belongs to its people, not the United States.

Nigel Farage fighting for the right for the working class to hunt foxes on horseback. He works for the Lords, he works for the billionaires. He won't ever do anything for you.

Gannets have just one chick a year and a group of men club them to death for "tradition"

Major bourbon maker shutters James B. Beam plant in 2026 Exports have been curtailed to major trading partners; Canada has been boycotting American spirits since March in retaliation for Trump’s ongoing trade war US whiskey sales down more than 60% through October share.google/M7fGx4LLVmV8...

"When we ask people whether #Brexit has been a success or a failure, 62% to 11% say failure. And that really rockets up - when you ask people who did vote Labour last year and people who are still intending to vote Labour - that figure goes north of 85%." ~AA @pimlicat.bsky.social

Compiling a list of good things that happened in 2025 and what's striking is that "bad news sells" while stuff like this can get missed almost altogether wmo.int/media/news/s...

This is wholly unsurprising but absolutely appalling. This is like concluding a coin always lands on heads because every time it lands on tails you discard the result. And, I am afraid, yet again, this is a symptom of volunteer Magistrates just not getting it.

Boxing day hunts to be thing of the past with trail hunting set to be banned www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Great opportunity for the right person!

Please please please actually make sure this goes through though! www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Do both. And if solar parks are built near villages or towns, then offer the people who are potentially affected free electricity to offset their concerns. Solar panels are not nuclear power stations. They can be removed with little environmental impact and can actually benefit biodiversity.

“We have sacrificed our national success because of our fear of immigration. And now, if Farage has his way, we'll do it all over again” Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...

England water company CEO says long-term water security is under threat. Customers already paid, companies didn't build reservoirs, dumped sewage in rivers, neglected investment, paid dividends Now want to charge customers again, not raising capital from shareholders. End the scam. Nationalise.

I think this is called "a cry for help" 1/3

“Historically, the North Sea was crystal clear - unrecognisable compared to today’s muted waters. Trillions of oysters were filtering the waves, each cleansing 200 litres of water every day.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Closing the year with one of our highest ever polls. Thank you everyone so much for your support and determination this year. We're all just getting started. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Reform voters: the life you ruin may be your own.

Every major warmongering authoritarian in the world today is propped up by the fossil fuel industry. The U.K and Europe are leading the way in decoupling from this poison, which is why X pays global warming deniers and rogue state agents to attack renewables 24/7. It’s psychological warfare.

“The most basic question any prospective ruling party must be able to answer is: which side are you on, exactly? Do you choose your own country every time, over foreign actors – in Moscow or in Washington DC – seeking to destabilise it for their own ends?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's almost as if people have contrived to turn immigration into an obsession

Mosses aside, there are at least 4 different species of epiphytic plants on less than metre of this birch tree. From top down: 1. Polypody fern 2. Broad buckler fern 3. Wood sorrel 4. Hay-scented buckler fern This is rainforest.

If you want your city to be a great place for everyone, especially children, older and disabled people, to get around safely and conveniently, then don’t invite in a load of driverless cars. You’ll just be landed with a new source of congestion and serious extra chaos if there’s a power cut.

“At present, hares are shot for their meat, for fun, and because some landowners in the countryside believe it is overpopulated with the animals.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Thick as mince and thick as thieves. A column about the absolute idiots European legislators have made of themselves over the naming of food, at the behest of meat lobbyists. You laugh and then you weep. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

All I will say about 'efficiency' savings, apart from them being complete BS. Is that we never hear billionaires, MPs, Water Companies, Energy Companies or the Royal Family being forced to make them do we? I think it's time, don't you?

Check out the the CEO salaries of academy trusts in education. How we have a system where teachers salaries are controlled by the state, but the CEO salaries are controlled by themselves is anyone’s guess.

"Planting even small pockets of native vegetation can be a boon for wildlife seeking refuge in our cities." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

First day of winter floods down on Athelney. It’s important to know the future can be better. www.somersetwildlands.org

The worst, most dishonest prime minister we’ve ever had, rocks back and forth in his Daily Mail cubbyhole spewing out idiotic bilge to kid himself that he and his disastrous Brexit weren’t an almighty national fuck-up. A deeply pathetic threat from an abject failure of a man.

‘I can’t think of a place more pristine’: 133,000 hectares of Chilean Patagonia preserved after local fundraising

There are no public footpaths, roads or houses near our woodland. Only four humans ever visit it To be completely ignored by the visiting but familiar deer is the greatest compliment a human can get. Our badgers even wander during the day It means we have earned their trust

Yet another crap video from another Labour MP (Josh Simons) attacking me and "lefties." Showing us exactly who they are. They serve only power & weath. 2026 - the year of people power. Join.greenparty.org.uk

A late but very strong entry for "Least Surprising News of the Year". It was always going to be thus.

It is beyond laughable that an MP whose party rule books say it is a “democratic socialist party” goes out on their social media attacking “lefties”. I hope their base deserts them in droves. I already have.

This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that? The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.

A THREAD, which I am calling 'Some Of The Many Reasons Lichen And Moss Are Fucking Brilliant'. 1. They make public seating super comfy. bsky.app/profile/dj-a...

Wow @thetimes.com, that’s impressive An entire article about “freak heat” in the Dolomites causing mayhem amongst skiers without once mentioning climate change…🤷🏼‍♀️ 🧵 1/5

Fujitsu boss to face grilling from MPs over the Post Office Horizon compensation. Public purse footing the bill. Fujitsu and its execs, PO execs, lawyers, accountants benefitted from false prosecutions, haven't paid anything. No one charged for the scam which destroyed lives of innocent people.