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New UCL report: The Climate Implications of New Oil and Gas Fields in the UK – An overview of the evidence Report finds that aligning with the Paris goals requires granting no further licenses or development consents for new oil and gas. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju... @uclpolicylab.bsky.social

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We urgently need higher motor taxes and parking charges for SUVs and other larger vehicles. They cause enormous damage to both human and our environment. This must be reflected in the cost of owning an SUV.

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🚨🕙 TOMORROW: Do regulatory efforts to counter disinformation undermine free speech? @mchangama.bsky.social joins the UN Human Rights' Expert Workshop on Disinformation to explain why international human rights standards for free speech must be considered.

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Al Gore said in 2023 "the UK Government is seemingly in the pocket of the fossil fuel companies" www.youtube.com/shorts/NkDMU... I hate to say it—as I had hoped for better with Labour—but this new @bylinetimes.bsky.social article shows that Big Oil's grip on the UK Gov remains as strong as ever👇👇

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Brexit has shattered confidence in Britain’s economy, slashing it almost in half between 2015 and last month. www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

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ALERT‼️ Mass Lobby of Parliament on 9 July! Please come to ask your MP to 🌍 Fund communities hardest hit by climate crisis here & overseas 💸 Cut bills, back jobs, & secure greener, fairer future for all 🌳 Restore nature to create a safer, healthier future @green-alliance.org.uk @oxfamgb.bsky.social

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We need coordinated - and more honest strategy- not party driven campaigning. @ed milliband lead your party and country to a better place. Support stalled cross-party #CANBILL . Alternative push voters to Reform as they are sick of Westminster “spin”.

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@the times - Lie on and on ……

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If you want to see what is really happening in LA - not the misleading $£ clickbait mainstream media serving check out @baratunde.com who was a on the ground.

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Some little heard truthfulness. Find out more - stripped of both “left” and “right” rhetoric and self-serving half truths. www.penguin.co.uk/books/455478...

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This is just one of the consequences of continuing to burn fossil fuels and keeping too much livestock. The Amazon rainforest has a tipping point, beyond which there's no saving it. Scientists don't know exactly when we'll cross it. 🚨We need emergency action now🚨

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Every party: The current Council Tax system is absurdly broken @scottishgreens.org: Table a proposal to fix it Every other party: That would upset some (really rich) people, so no

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A Gwent council has become the last of Wales’ 22 local authorities to back a call for control of the Crown Estates land and seabed assets to be devolved to Wales

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‘We’re all under pressure to churn out endless non-stories just to satiate the editors’ unhinged bugbears.’ Journalist describes working at the Telegraph, via @privateeyenews.bsky.social

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#ThinkAgainRachel #Chancellor #SpendingReview Revealed: The £264 billion Price Tag of the UK’s Carbon Capture Strategy - @bylinetimes.bsky.social “a colossal waste of money that actively worsens the climate crisis even with carbon capture”. Read more 👉 scrapcc.org/BYLINE

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We were outside parl’t this morning, ahead of this afternoon’s Comprehensive Spending Review. Unfortunately, the gov’t is expected to announce a raft of cuts to public services. This is a political choice. They should make the super-rich pay their fair share of taxes instead.

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@teamlabouruk.bsky.social you watching?

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🚨 TOMORROW 🚨 📢 BOOK NOW! 💰 #RachelReeves poised to sink more money into #CarbonCapture 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We demand the Govt stops fuelling the climate crisis & takes #CCS out of the Climate plan ✅ Join our free webinar on writing and speaking with your MP 🔥 Sign up 👉 scrapcc.org/WEBINAR-EV

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Nearly two dozen Labour MPs have launched a campaign for parliamentary staff to receive the same paternity leave as MPs In a letter to Commons Leader Lucy Powell and IPSA, shared with PolHome, the MPs say the current rules put "Parliament many steps behind top employers across the country"

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74%! of participants supported a congestion charge in a recent Citizens' Assembly on transport in Oxfordshire. There is really useful info from this consultation for our future transport policies. oxfordclarion.uk/citizens-ass...

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One of the most privatised education systems in the world - and this would entrench privilege even more. A two-tier system - bloated edifices for the rich and the rest can go to Scrapheap High. Appalling

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We need coordinated climate and nature plan , putting real people at the center of such plan. Chasing siloed issues just allows status quo to continue. Support stalled #CANBILL in the UK. @zero hour

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I can't help worrying that a future history book about this Starmer Government will be titled 'Squandered'.

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BBC oversight needs to be taken out of political party ( and their funder) domain and given independence to ensure public service is provided. Leaving political parties to govern this is putting fox in chicken coop. How do we think it will turn out? @appgfairelection

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Ahead of the government's comprehensive spending review tomorrow, Tax Justice UK interim Executive Director, Aleema Shivji, has her say. You can read it here: taxjustice.uk/blog/tj-uk-c...

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Cleaning up BBC governance is part of @appgfairelections.bsky.social programme if UK democratic health is to be improved.

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Brilliant from @annpettifor.bsky.social “investment in social housing is not a cost, but a strategic choice that strengthens public finances over time. Failing to act now will only compound the problem for families, councils & the wider economy” @sheltercharity.bsky.social 👇

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Labour is desperate, clinging to power - ignoring huge section of public who do not support UK state complicity in Israeli indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinians.

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Öffentliche Institutionen wie Bibliotheken oder Schwimmbäder sind unser gemeinsamer Luxus. Hier zeigt sich Staatlichkeit von ihrer besten Seite: als emanzipatives Demokratisierungsprojekt, das mehr als nur das bloße Überleben gewährleistet. Interview für den BVÖ: www.yumpu.com/de/document/...

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➡️ Fossil fuel interests are winning, as we fail to take enough climate action ⬅️ We can solve it, but we need millions more to demand action 👇 #climateaction #comedy #davidcross #trump #cleanenergy @climatescibreak.bsky.social

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Ein Europäischer #Bürgerrat schlägt „Zehn demokratische Wege zur Krisen-Vorbeugung“ vor. www.buergerrat.de/aktuelles/ze...

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This is as transgressive as it is gratuitous.

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Another excellent Start the Week - Hidden spaces and dangerous places - chaired by the indefatigable @tds153.bsky.social featuring @adelewalton.bsky.social @atossaaraxia.bsky.social @dannydorling.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #StartTheWeek #Crises #OnlineSafety #Freeports

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📣 Publication alert! Check out “Grappling with “Good Enough”: Selection and Recruitment of Citizens for a Global Citizens’ Assembly”, a piece by Reema Patel and Claire Mellier of @iswe-foundation.bsky.social, about our April 23 co-convened workshop. ⬇️ participediaproject.medium.com/grappling-wi...

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There are numerous alternatives to full nationalisation to endure this critical service monopoly best serves the people and economy of the country ( just look around the world!!). @CliveLewis’s #WaterBill is a good start. Keeping the status quo is not sane option.

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Yes. One of 3 main points of @appgfairelections. Your MP regardless of party should be supporting.

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Instead of swallowing politicians half-truths/lies they spin to get your vote, it is time to look at facts- no right nor left “interpretations”. www.penguin.co.uk/books/455478...

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🚨 New: 'Shocking' scale of Labour’s Big Tech ties In its first 6 months, Labour ministers and top officials met with tech giants an average of six times a week. We’ve got the documents. 🧵 New on Democracy for Sale with @lucasamin.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-s...

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In honour of #NIHM2025, we’re spotlighting a different story every Friday in June. First up: a Participedia case. 📚 iskwewuk e-wichiwitochik: Indigenous women leading family-centred advocacy ➡️ participedia.net/case/13457?l... More info below! ⬇️

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What if the answer to national decline isn’t top-down reform, but bottom-up power? Communities aren’t broken, they’re just waiting to be trusted. Stephen McNair takes a look at a new report. #PowerShift #PoliticalRenewal

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For #IndieNewsWeek, Bylines Network wants your say on what a diverse, representative media should look like @bylinesnetwork.co.uk will host an event to put a key question about the future of the media to the public #NoNewsIsBadNews @publicinterestnews.org.uk www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

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We need coordinated Climate and Nature plan, putting people at the centre. Continued party power games is only serving rich and powerful.#CANBILL . Leadership courage, and humility [email protected]

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Parteipolitik bringt uns nicht weiter! Nur mit der kollektiven Intelligenz, und Wille der breiten Gesellschaft , haben wir eine Chance eine bessere Zukunft fuer viele zuschaffen. @mehr demokratie

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🚨 Brighton & Hove Greens are hiring! We're looking for an Organiser to join our team. 💷 £30,803-£36,488 (pro rata) 📆 28hrs a week (0.8 FTE) 💻 Permanent, must be in Brighton & Hove two days a week More info at: greenparty.org.uk/get-involved...

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There is so much research confirming worsening damage associated with UK poverty levels. It his even acknowledged by conservatives acknowledging economy2030.resolutionfoundation.org/wp-content/u... So why is Labour government tweaking individual issues instead of coming up with coordinated action?

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🌍 BIG NEWS! Ecosia—longtime supporters of the Climate and Nature Bill—are generously match funding the next £5000 in our Crowdfunder! 💥 Donate 👉 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/realchange 🌱 Can't donate now? You can install Ecosia—it’s free, easy, and helps fund global reforestation. 👉 ecosia.co/ZeroHour

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Banning bonuses for failing water company bosses is important, obvs - but it’s hardly the best we can do? 👀 If we’re serious about ending pollution for profit, water needs to be brought back into public ownership now. The fact that Labour Govt won’t even allow it to be considered speaks volumes

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Il en va exactement de même pour la crise climatique. Tu as 3 options : • de repousser • de renforcer • de ne rien faire Option 2 & 3 auront le même résultat, + ou - . medium.com/@kairos.soci...

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