Today: activist and humanitarian, Greta Thunberg, was arrested outside the offices of Aspen Insurance in London. Aspen Insurance is a global speciality insurer that provides services to Elbit Systems to enable them to make weapons in Britain. Did you notice Greta’s sign? 3/4

I thought I was doing the right thing when I joined the Labour Party. I knew I was when I left.

Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"

People are SO sick and dejected by cruelty, greed, corruption and crime being celebrated, rewarded, normalised or ignored while decency, tolerance, kindness and compassion are ignored, scorned, spurned...

And we go back, almost full circle, to 2016 and Boaty McBoatface. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I had to drag the Mayor this year to even describe what's happening in Gaza as a genocide. We were told a Labour Govenrment working with a Labour Mayor would be the game changer - but this Government is still trying to drag everyone down with it. www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-...

Visited Wistman's Wood today & was excited to find 4 new fenced exclosures have just been installed, protecting naturally regenerating saplings from grazing Great work by Duchy of Cornwall + their tenant farmer + Natural England to help restore this temperate rainforest @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

The IEA got everything they wanted and believed in when Liz Truss came to power, and her government and their ideology didn't survive two months of contact with reality before being totally exposed and collapsing. Total frauds, but still screaming that they need to be the ones in charge.

Freedom of speech, in the liberal ideal, was about limiting the power of the elites. Now, in this twisted form, it is about forcing us to listen to elites and silencing the masses.

Oh and now she's on Radio 4 complaining again about being cancelled so I've had to turn it off. The BBC is such a disgrace.

So tired of these clowns going to universities to provoke young students and then running off like cry bullies for more media attention when the students exercise THEIR free speech rights on THEIR campus

Protest is not a privilege – it’s our fundamental right. But the Government’s Crime and Policing Bill will give police powers to shut down protests and criminalise people for taking to the streets. JOIN US in opposing this: https://secure.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/180398/action/1

Leaving aside the comedy value of an MP in Starmer's Labour Party complaining about division, this is also just nonsense. The interests of the extremely rich are at odds with those of the rest of the population. Objectively. The division is real, material, structural. You can't just wish it away.

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

Monaco based tax-exile Jim Ratcliffe businesses received up to £70m UK subsidy in last 4 years. More promised. Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken. Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth to be £17bn. Benefit cuts for the poor, free cash for corporations/Rich.

Poorest Britons lose right to financial privacy. The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit. No court order needed. No right of appeal.

2025: Boris Johnson, "If Labour MPs try to reverse Brexit they will be walking into a hail of machine gun fire" 2019: Boris Johnson, "We must all be clear that violence and intimidation anywhere is wholly unacceptable in this country"

Indeed. I don't believe the phrase "three pints of wifebeater please guv'" originated in one of the cultures Kemi likes to call "not equally valid". I mean, maybe she meant that culture, or the one that gave us Fred West and Harold Shipman, but I don't think so somehow.

I'll hear a lot of arguments why Polanski shouldn't lead the country, but the idea he's seeking to divide like Farage is dishonest. Especially as this Labour government can't go a week without demonising migrants. It feels like we now have three nasty parties in the UK

Merge the Treasury and the Home Office and create a pit of awfulness so dense it rips a hole in space time and opens up exploration of a new dimension - thus making Britain great again.

We spoke to Resident Dr @andrewmeyerson.uk about why he's out on strike this week: "It's shocking; we have the longest waiting list in history at the same time that we have historic levels of Dr unemployment. That's unacceptable; and it's why we're fighting back." www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWTc...

"When I hear that Ukraine is supposed to hold elections, I respond that Russia should also commit to holding free and fair elections, which they haven't had for 25 years. We need to shift the focus to where the real problem lies." - Kaja Kallas.

You honestly think opposing that makes me like a Reform voter. Christ, this is what's wrong with tribalism in politics. You see criticism and concern for the most inhumane policies as "supporting the other side". You want to stop Labour getting bad coverage? Get them to stop making bad policies.

At some point you have to accept that Labour isn't "combatting Reform" they are actively enabling Reform's growth by embedding Reform's narrative in the public consciousness, and setting the precedent for a potential Reform government to go even further.

MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’. UK bullied to pay billions more for NHS drugs produced by US companies, importing US beef, accept steel tariffs and more, without any reciprocity. Can't trust Trump. US wants dominance, not partnership. Rejoin the EU.

1. This short thread is about what I see as a serious breach of journalistic ethics, in the making of Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s online documentary Greenwashed. She interviewed me for the film, but neither before, during or after was I given any idea I would be its target. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU...

To smear Dale Vince the BBC deliberately omits the appalling Netanyahu comments he responded to: “Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antisemitic fire. It rewards Hamas terrorists. It emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.”

The time politicians spend wilfully misinterpreting those trying to unpack the causes of the appalling rise in anti-semitism would be better spent (better for those who care about their Jewish family and friends and colleagues) unpacking those causes. Because that's the only way to address them.

Comparing MPs pay with Doctors. Isn't it amazing, austerity for everyone except Billionaires and MPs. What a coincidence.

Again and again, the optimal position when legally threatened by Trump is to be resolute in defence and prepare for court. You will likely not then have to go to court, as he will fold or settle. But if you seek to settle from the off, he has got you and he will crush you.

Welcome to the Green Party, @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social, Former Mayor of the North of Tyne Combined Authority 💚

A mini-story to cheer you up this morning. The other day my teenage son returned to his locked bike to find the back wheel nicked. We went back yesterday to rescue it - and found this note taped to the frame. We have the wheel again. A very happy Xmas to Ollie and his note-writing other half.

The posh kids could do that through Turing or private funding. Erasmus is important to extend tge opportunity: "Inclusion is one of the main priorities of the Erasmus+ programme and one of its goals is to ensure equal opportunities for participation." www.erasmusplus.is/um-erasmus/e...

British politics is a mess. Food, energy, housing are all too expensive. Major parties are all flogging the dead horse of trickle down. So I’m joining the Green Party. Britain needs an economy that works for workers, for small businesses, and future generations. @greenparty.org.uk

I've written this open letter to Keir Starmer & @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social because, though I am desperately worried about NHS patients over the next 5 days, I know this strike by resident doctors is a desperate act of last resort. Please read.

Upton’s ordeal didn’t end in court. There, Cunningham referred to her repeatedly as a man. Though technically permitted in cases where the respondent’s gender is at issue, the judge remarked that “in other contexts [this] could be held to be harassment under the [Equality] Act”.

Upton spent Christmas morning sobbing with a senior colleague, who put her in her car home. She complained about Peggie’s conduct, and Peggie was suspended for 3 months. Peggie sued – and for the following two years, the woman she harassed was put through the media wringer.

In his judgement, Judge Kemp lays out how Peggie waited to catch Upton alone, asked her what her chromosomes were and compared her to trans woman rapist Isla Bryson. It also indicates that Upton apologised repeatedly – despite, the tribunal found, being entirely blameless.

On the much more substantive point, that the NHS & Dr Upton harassed her, Peggie’s argument failed entirely. In fact, the judge found *Peggie* harassed Upton. In fact, he also found that *Peggie’s lawyer* may have harassed her.

Last week, the media declared a “partial victory” for Sandie Peggie, who sued the NHS for letting a trans colleague use the women’s changing room. In fact, the case was a flop. The gender-critical movement might be persuading journalists, but it’s failing with judges 🧵

Just been laughed at by an entire vet’s waiting room when the receptionist loudly welcomed me and ‘ASTEROID DESTROYER!’ to the building. Look guys. She’s even in her space suit. They will be laughing on the other side of their labradors when she RULES THE WORLD!!!! ✊😾 👩‍🚀 ☄️🐈‍⬛

You lot need Dick Van Dyke singing Let's Go Fly a Kite on his 100th birthday more than you know.

“People have every right to own property, but we must balance that with the demands of burglars to steal that property and sell it.” Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while you’re at it. Cheers. Ta. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is what a statesman and President writes

Sounds about right.

People have had enough of Labour. They can change leader but the problem is the hundreds of corporate lobbyists who are Labour MPs. More and more people joining the Green Party every day! www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

NEW: The Israeli military’s repeated attacks on reconstruction-related equipment and other civilian facilities in southern Lebanon throughout 2025 violate the laws of war and are apparent war crimes. Read more from HRW:

Most Brits want climate action but think their neighbours don't. Most Brits support renewable energy but think their neighbours don't. This is the work of relentless misinformation by our right-wing press and the oiligarchy.

I subscribe to the school of thought that says platforms which get overrun by the far right should be left to collapse. You don't see people making the argument that liberals should join Truth Social. X is no different.

And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech. If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.