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This is the Green Party I recognise. This is the Green Party that is growing. This is the Green Party of Environmental, Social, Racial & Economic Justice. Solidarity.

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

Starmer is making a huge mistake - ignoring voters who want real action on the climate, a fair tax system, investment in our economy, support for disabled people, action to lift children out of poverty, global leadership to end the bloodshed in Gaza... www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/698...

submitted 42 days ago • 17 comments

Appearing on #politicslondon in his capacity as a member of the London Assembly, Zack Polanski thinks the mayor of London should have the power to tax the super rich.

submitted 43 days ago • 11 comments

It's an honour to hold elected office for the last 4 years & to continue this with our 4 new MPs for the last 10 months. I'm ambitious about taking on a failing Labour Party and sending many more Green MPs to Parliament. Join our campaign at backzack.com

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

what could possibly be driving this plunge in people wanting to visit the US right now?

submitted 61 days ago • 16 comments

This isn’t happening in a theocracy or a far-flung dictatorship. This is happening in the European Union. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 102 days ago • 35 comments

Labour's economics are all about growth, but for whom? Certainly not the poorest. The best economics lift people out of poverty, not push more into it. Reduced poverty means healthier people, better educated kids, happier workers, a richer more peaceful society. How did Labour lose its way so badly?

submitted 101 days ago • 12 comments

A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 101 days ago • 215 comments

500 years ago. "Feudalism's not going to work anymore they are going to come cut our heads off." "Lets change the scam, give ourselves all the money, change the name to Capitalism and then pretend we worked really hard to get rich" "No that w... actually they are that stupid."

submitted 129 days ago • 2 comments

Donald Trump in the White House: a relationship with a dishonest sexual predator and convicted criminal isn't a relationship. It's abuse centralbylines.co.uk/opinion/it-i...

submitted 135 days ago • 26 comments

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submitted 134 days ago • 2 comments

Labour will kill your granny and cut off their winter fuel payments. But it won't dare tax a non dom. Entirely bought & paid for by the super rich.

submitted 154 days ago • 18 comments

Imagining the brutal takedown Rachel Reeves in Opposition would have delivered had a Tory Minister planned what Rachel Reeves in Government plans.

submitted 158 days ago • 53 comments

Punchy stuff from @octopus.energy on the UK's £22bn investment in CCUS - saying it would be better spent on renewables. “Some of the stuff we’re doing is the equivalent of trying to defend the abacus industry once calculators had been invented." www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

submitted 154 days ago • 16 comments

The journalists' job (very seldom discharged) is to hold power to account, regardless of the nature of that power. But when I criticise the failings of this government, I get widely told to leave it alone for fear of letting in the Tories/Reform. Sorry. Accountability is the essence of democracy.

submitted 153 days ago • 76 comments

Must-read story on how a private equity group cornered the fire truck market, doubling prices, causing massive delays and leaving departments across the county — including Los Angeles — without the resources needed to combat fires.

submitted 154 days ago • 115 comments

Today I pushed for MPs to have a vote on the Climate and Nature Bill because the issue is simply too important to kick into the long grass. We have a vanishingly small window of opportunity to prevent climate catastrophe - govt needs to act now. #CANBill

submitted 156 days ago • 14 comments

This is against international law. This is the very worst of humanity. This is evil. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 155 days ago • 36 comments

Prediction: -Calls like this will be ignored for the next five years -Labour will lose seats -Labour will do some soul searching to understand why they lost seats

submitted 155 days ago • 7 comments

Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy

submitted 154 days ago • 5 comments

The same politicians who fought for Britain's "sovereignty" are now trying to sell us to Musk and Trump. They have never cared about you. It was always a con.

submitted 154 days ago • 1 comment

Here's my thoughts on the latest round of discussion about the slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation. It's a bit nerdy - but the short summary is: in my view the balance of evidence strongly suggests that the #AMOC has slowed since the late 19th C. 🌊 www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

submitted 155 days ago • 14 comments

Stopping the climate crisis demands phasing out production and use of fossil fuels, not support for Heathrow expansion. Reeves promised to be a green chancellor, but she's clearly failing. For a real green chancellor, we have to vote Green! www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 155 days ago • 2 comments

Nearly two-thirds of Britons say very rich have too much influence on politics. They fund political parties, legislators; get access to policymakers to shape laws. Capital gains, dividends taxed at lower rates than wages We are voting fodder in a sham democracy www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

submitted 155 days ago • 35 comments

Rachel Reeves is now taking the failure of her economic policies out on the sick and disabled. A desperate coward. I remember the days when we were called naive by people insistent Labour were only posturing right to win an election, and they’d do good things once in government. How is that going?

submitted 155 days ago • 8 comments

I am planning to use this account to let researchers, builders, retrofitters, enablers, makers of #regenerativeconstruction be heard directly. Whatever this may look like, I am open for suggestions. Do you want to follow me on this? Thank you for your support so far.

submitted 156 days ago • 7 comments

🚨 Bad week for climate action 🛫 Labour backing airport expansion! 🚫 Landmark climate and nature legislation blocked! Want to be part of the solution? Join the only party fighting for real action on the climate crisis below ⤵️ https://join.greenparty.org.uk/

submitted 156 days ago • 13 comments

Poverty is political Despite economic growth since 2010, 5.2m UK children live in poverty. Govts imposed two-child benefit cap. Due to lack of good food, housing, healthcare, UK children upto 7cm shorter than comparable Europeans. Must reset political discourse leftfootforward.org/2025/01/labo...

submitted 157 days ago • 23 comments

🚨 Rabbi Zarbiv's Crimes in Gaza: The HRF filed a complaint with the ICC demanding the arrest of Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv for war crimes & crimes against humanity in Gaza. Zarbiv admitted to destroying homes, targeting civilians, and obliterating entire neighborhoods like Jabalia & Rafah. bit.ly/4ax9GLu

submitted 158 days ago • 6 comments

#UPDATE 🚨 Major General Ghassan Alian’s Vatican Meeting Cancelled After HRF Complaint Against Him at the ICC. The legal action by the Hind Rajab Foundation against Major General Ghassan Alian in #Italy 🇮🇹 had a significant impact. >

submitted 156 days ago • 3 comments

Capping political donations is free, popular and the right thing to do to protect British democracy from Elon Musk and his fellow travellers. So why won't Keir Starmer act? democracyforsale.substack.com/p/trump-and-...

submitted 158 days ago • 39 comments

"Fossil fuels are losing their grip on EU energy. At the start of the European Green Deal in 2019, few thought the EU’s energy transition could be where it is today; wind and solar are pushing coal to the margins and forcing gas into structural decline" Big new @ember-energy.org report on EU energy

submitted 158 days ago • 262 comments

A reminder that when you give voters an actual choice about taxes and cuts, nearly two thirds back taxing the rich more and only 1 in 10 want spending cuts prioritised (TUC polling, Oct 24)

submitted 158 days ago • 2 comments

Countries who aren’t part of the World Health Organization: - Liechtenstein - The United States Countries who are part of the World Health Organization: Literally everyone else

submitted 159 days ago • 261 comments

Donald Trump has cancelled the $35 a month Insulin cap. Prices are expected to almost instantly go back to $1500 a month. Insulin costs $2 to make.

submitted 159 days ago • 304 comments

“This is about being accountable to the law.” The Hind Rajab Foundation is using Israeli soldiers’ own social media footage in Gaza as evidence for war crimes investigations aje.io/cihcb4

submitted 170 days ago • 21 comments

🚨The HRF and the Palestinian Community in #Catalonia filed a legal complaint in #Barcelona against Israeli soldier Mori Keisar of the Israeli Defense Forces. Evidence shows Keisar targeted a UN school w/ a grenade launcher, demolished civilian homes, and indiscriminately fired on civilians in Gaza.

submitted 162 days ago • 9 comments

Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole theonion.com/trump-c...

submitted 158 days ago • 387 comments

If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT. If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.

submitted 158 days ago • 46 comments

MAGA wants to deport a US-born clergy citizen for giving a sermon they didn't like. Remember when Republicans used to support the First Amendment?

submitted 158 days ago • 152 comments

Trump, the man who said he wanted to execute drug dealers, just pardoned… a drug dealer.

submitted 159 days ago • 174 comments