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Graham Wroe
@tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social
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Climate and Nature activist, Blogger and writer for Sheffield Telegraph and Sheffield Star. Born at 316ppm. Formerly @GrahamWroe on Twitter.
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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 19d
Police waste £3m arresting climate protesters while the real criminals continue to overheat the planet.

By Graham Wroe In August 2024, Reclaim the Power was organising a climate protest camp near Drax Power Station, the UK’s single largest carbon emitter. But it never happened as police arrested…
Police waste £3m arresting climate protesters while the real criminals continue to overheat the planet.
By Graham Wroe In August 2024, Reclaim the Power was organising a climate protest camp near Drax Power Station, the UK’s single largest carbon emitter. But it never happened as police arrested many of the organisers before it began. The protest camp was to involve “six days of workshops, communal living and direct action to crash Drax’s profits”. Following the arrests, the camp was cancelled because the police had seized the necessary equipment.
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 3h
BREAKING🚨: @Equinor has resubmitted its application to open the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK - Rosebank.

In the next weeks, the UK gov will decide to reject or approve this disaster project.

Equinor hasn’t given up, and neither will we. We’re stepping things up.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 2h
More evidence that the #climate emergency affects *everything* - it should be front & centre of ALL government decisions. As well as serious adaptation (petition here petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7300…) Govt must urgently stop making things worse eg greenlighting high carbon airport expansion
UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told
Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 4h
The far right is corrupt to the core #Reform
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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 1h
Carbon sinks are weakening as Carbon in the atmosphere leaps. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 1h
Well done, powerful women. www.citizensarrestnetwork.org/press/2025/1...
BREAKING NEWS: Citizens arrest of Anglian Water CEO, Mark Thurston, made in London for Public Nuisance - CAN - Citizen’s Arrest Network
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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 16h
Off their heads is putting it very mildly!
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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 18h
Please tell me how many UK born and bred citizens have A level standard English???
What even is A level standard English???
They’re off their heads, aren’t they?! 😤
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Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK www.bbc.com/news/article...
Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK
The tougher rules will come in force in January as part of wider plans to cut immigration.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 16h
This Sunday!
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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · 19h
BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview

www.thenational.scot/news/2554271...
BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview
ZACK Polanski will be interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg after the BBC received complaints from the public for the lack of coverage of the Green Party…
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globaljusticesheff.bsky.social @globaljusticesheff.bsky.social · 18h
The UK is being sued — for halting a coal mine in Cumbria!

📣 Join us to learn how we fight back:
🎙️ Cleodie Rickard
🗓️ Wed 22 Oct, 7PM
📍 Central United Reformed Church, Sheffield, S1 2JB
💬 Free

🔗 groups.globaljustice.org.uk/sheffield/ev...
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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 19h
Flooded street in Sheffield due to a burst water main that has caused supply problems to half the city. Caption says "Yorkshire Water has gone down the drain. (even if the water hasn't) Nationalise our Water. Sheffield Green Party
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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 1d
This is a massive scandal that has given insulation a bad name. When done properly insulation saves you loads of money on your heating bills and also keeps your home much cooler in a heat wave. But to avoid damp and mould problems it does need to be done very carefully.
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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 1d
Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds: Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp Almost all the external insulation fitted under the previous government’s energy efficiency schem...
Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds
Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds: Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp Almost all the external insulation fitted under the previous government’s energy efficiency schem...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2d
Climate activists make us feel bad because they remind us of what we wish to ignore.

So we punish them for it.

But only fools get angry at a fire alarm when their house is on fire 🔥
‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert
Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2d
Because what we need as our climate falls apart, and extreme weather threatens to bring down society and economy, is not to build our resilience but.....

.....to have more growth and more roads

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK ministers take control of £10bn Lower Thames Crossing
Exclusive: National Highways Agency stripped of oversight with project handed to DfT amid Labour government drive for growth
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 2d
"Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science" | Great review of #ScienceUnderSiege by @danfalk.bsky.social for the @buckscountybeacon.com: buckscountybeacon.com/2025/10/book...
Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science - Bucks County Beacon
“Science Under Siege,” by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez, is an impassioned manifesto against attacks on science.
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Chris Williams @chrisw100.bsky.social · 4d
I joined Zack Polanski in Handsworth today 👏

Guess what...he met an incredible and integrated community 🙏
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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 4d
Composting brilliance! nowthenmagazine.com/articles/hop...
"Hopefully we can prove this is a better solution": Sheffield's compost revolution-in-the-making
Compost Connection is helping local communities prove there's a better way to handle our food waste than shipping it off to industrial facilities.
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 5d
On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 5d
As a lifelong hate-watcher of #BBCQT it's been incredible to see the tone shift in last night's prog with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on. It should have never been that hard to call for common sense - and actually popular - policies. Someone is actually doing it.

Quick 🧵
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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 5d
Cradle to Grave: The Health Toll of Fossil Fuels and the Imperative for a Just Transition

by Dr Karine Nohr Whilst practising as a doctor, the imperative to provide evidence for any intervention was always forefront. So it was with great interest that the report just published by the Global Health…
Cradle to Grave: The Health Toll of Fossil Fuels and the Imperative for a Just Transition
by Dr Karine Nohr Whilst practising as a doctor, the imperative to provide evidence for any intervention was always forefront. So it was with great interest that the report just published by the Global Health and Climate Alliance on the Health Consequences of fossil fuels laid bare, with overwhelming evidence, what many of us already know: that there are severe health impacts from fossil fuels.
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Graham Wroe @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social · 5d
How are the South Yorkshire Mayor and Councils preparing for the UK’s biggest security threat? 

Sheffield City Council declared a Climate Emergency back in 2019. But in those 6 years there has only been slow progress in reducing emissions so we are not on target to reach Net Zero by 2030. Some…
How are the South Yorkshire Mayor and Councils preparing for the UK’s biggest security threat? 
Sheffield City Council declared a Climate Emergency back in 2019. But in those 6 years there has only been slow progress in reducing emissions so we are not on target to reach Net Zero by 2030. Some policies, such as re-opening Doncaster Airport, will dramatically increase emissions. Yesterday in London, due to the lack of attention to the UK’s No.1 National Security threat (
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 5d
Farage is saying all teachers are Marxists. They're not. They just teach that we should care for one another. But that offends his fascist instincts. The result is he is turning on a profession that teaches about compassion and empathy - because he loathes it. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
Nigel Farage’s declaration of war on teachers is a war on compassion, empathy and kindness
According to The Guardian, Nigel Farage, speaking at an event at a private Christian college in Michigan, USA, has accused teachers in the UK of “poisoning our kids” and predicted that they would go o...
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Rejoin Campaign @rejoincampaign.bsky.social · 6d
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 5d
“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT
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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 5d
How much longer will the BBC, ITV, Sky, C4 and C5 hide AMOC collapse from the British people?

Campaigners were at City Hall today to demand London Assembly members start planning for the UK being plunged into a far colder, drier climate which would decimate agriculture. 🧵
AMOC campaigners with the AMOC bomb outside London's City Hall
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