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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13h

Join.greenparty.org.uk

If reform can rocket through the polls with a politics of despair, then it's time for the green party to do the same thing but with a politics of hope.

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Patrick Harvie MSP @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 1d

Glasgow has a proud record of giving sanctuary to those who need it. That's what the asylum system is for.

To support UK government decisions which deliberately make asylum seekers homeless, and call compassion "grandstanding", is sickening.

Labour should be ashamed, but of course they won't be.

Record Politics @politics.dailyrecord.co.uk · 2d

A Scottish Labour MP has accused the SNP of turning Glasgow into a "sanctuary" for asylum seekers as a homelessness crisis in the city worsens.

Labour MP accuses SNP of turning Glasgow into a 'sanctuary' for asylum seekers

EXCLUSIVE: Joani Reid said the Nationalists were "taking the biscuit" after Stephen Flynn accused the UK Home Office of "letting down" Glasgow.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Gordy Stewart @amfearuaine.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds wonderful! I’ll look this up when I’m back at the bookshop! 💚

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Gordy Stewart @amfearuaine.bsky.social · 6d

Another depressing milestone in our journey through into the ongoing climate emergency but one that should galvanise us into action, not despair.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 14d

From: THE LEET BIBLE
Image of George Monbiot speaking. Text:

"We should never underestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices."

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The Wedale Bookshop @wedale-bookshop.bsky.social · 13d

With authoritarianism on the rise, book bannings through political censorship, minorities targeted, it’s never been more important to stand up for writers, communities and the books which have been challenged. Join @indexcensorship and booksellers in #bannedbooksweek.
Read.
Read banned books.

Under a sign reading "Banned Books Week UK", a selection of banned books are arranged on a table inside The Wedale Bookshop.

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Catriona @catrio.bsky.social · 15d

Another good article by @neilmackay.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Nationalists are now out in front in all four home nations… what comes next?

The SNP, Plaid Cymru, Sinn Fein and Reform are all nationalist parties and all in the lead. Our Writer at Large Neil Mackay says this reveals major…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 15d

There is no time to wait. We need more climate ambition not less.

#ActOnClimate #PanelsNotPipelines @MarkJCarney

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Gordy Stewart @amfearuaine.bsky.social · 15d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is completely correct. The Brit parties aping the Far Right for the last 2 decades has added fuel to their fire. Look at where we've ended up in Brexit Britain. Thankfully off to a brilliant start: great stuff from @greenparty.org.uk

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer will hand Britain over to Farage, says Green party leader Zack Polanski

Leader tells party’s conference he is ready to take the fight to Labour and speak out in support of immigration

www.theguardian.com

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Gordy Stewart @amfearuaine.bsky.social · 21d

"Planned or not, Trump and Putin – like-minded, amoral, authoritarian apex predators – are working together, or at least in parallel, to undercut European democracy, security, prosperity and progressive values. It looks like a concerted pincer movement..."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump and Putin are threatening to carve up Europe between them. Suddenly, it all feels a bit 1939 | Simon Tisdall

Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problem, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisd...

www.theguardian.com

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Gordy Stewart @amfearuaine.bsky.social · 23d

Very, VERY excited - and so lucky - to have received a proof copy of this new novel by #DouglasStuart from the Booksellers Conference.
One of the perks of being a bookseller is seeing bestsellers of the future before they appear in bookshops.
This book is published in May 26. Sgoinneil!

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Gordy Stewart @amfearuaine.bsky.social · Sep 17

More south-west tranquility in Wigtownshire - such a beautiful part of Scotland.

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Gordy Stewart @amfearuaine.bsky.social · Sep 16

A few days of peace and tranquility in the south-west.

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Gordy Stewart @amfearuaine.bsky.social · Sep 11

Astonishing. The gall of this self-serving shower! Tories adding more insult to a never-ending line of injuries.
And this ridiculous medieval Gilbert and Sullivan-esque pantomime of a country, this creaking, unjust, unequal state, simply allows it.
Fuming.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Almost £10m of public money spent on subsidies for former PMs

Annual cost of allowance has more than doubled in recent years because of quick turnover of prime ministers

www.theguardian.com

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Gordy Stewart @amfearuaine.bsky.social · Sep 11

Idiots.

As dangerously thick as they are repugnant.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Reform council to ‘rescind’ climate emergency declaration

Kent council condemned by opposition parties, which say county is ‘at the forefront of climate impacts’

www.theguardian.com

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · Sep 11

For all the smug columnists who have decided to rehabilitate the violent extremism of Charlie Kirk's ideology.

Children gunned down in schools? A sacrifice for the second amendment.

Gay people? Maybe they should be stoned to death.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/06/dona...

Donald Trump shares stage with rightwing activist who's discussing stoning gay people to death - LGBTQ Nation

Trump has repeatedly attended and spoken at Charlie Kirk's rallies despite his extreme anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric.

www.lgbtqnation.com

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is absolutely unhinged from Johnson and others. Kirk was a proponent of Great Replacement Theory who called for gays to be stoned and public lynch mobs to murder trans people. He is the definition of a right-wing extremist. The cowardice, avarice and opportunism of Johnson knows no bounds.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Sep 11

We don’t yet know who killed Kirk or why. Not that you’d know it from the endless numbers of accounts on X with huge follower numbers, including British politicians, making as yet unknowable claims about the motivations behind the murder.

Exhibit A. Extraordinary stuff.

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Stand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social · Sep 10

Join the counter protest called by SUTR Scotland on 20th September at Buchanan Galleries Steps at 12 noon!

Poster for 20th September counter demo - no to the far right in glasgow, Buchanan galleries steps, 12 noon

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Stand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social · Sep 2

📣 Join us at the counter-protest on 20th September to say NO to the far right in Glasgow!

Buchanan Galleries Steps
Sat 20th Sept, 12pm

We showed them in July and we will show them again: Glasgow is ANTI-FASCIST ✊✊✊

@lghr.bsky.social @standuptoracismuk.bsky.social @uniteagainstfasc.bsky.social

Images of protesters with loudspeakers holding placards that say “no to racism, refugees welcome”, and details of date and meeting place as included in the main text

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Gordy Stewart @amfearuaine.bsky.social · Sep 10

Utterly loathsome.

www.thenational.scot/news/2545452...

LIVE: Israel’s president Isaac Herzog meets with Keir Starmer in UK visit

Isaac Herzog has arrived in the UK for a three-day visit, where he is meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other government ministers ...

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 10

I think we're well beyond "asking questions."

Arrest him.

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Streeting demands answers from Herzog as British Green Party leader calls for Israeli president’s arrest during UK visit

LONDON: Senior UK government ministers and MPs have clashed over whether Israel’s actions in Gaza amount to genocide ahead of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to London this week. Health Secreta...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 10

With respect to the candidates, it really doesn't make a difference who the next deputy of the Labour Party is.

The party is so fundamentally broken - it seeks only to protect the wealth of it's donors.

I spoke to The Indepedent 👇🏼

youtu.be/sTes4wqlOBQ?...

Exclusive: Multiple Labour MPs considering defecting to Green Party

YouTube video by The Independent

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Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is yet more evidence that incomes in the UK do not adequately cover the cost of food.

Ministers know that the most significant way it can support families on the lowest incomes is to scrap the two-child limit to Universal Credit.

They must do this in the forthcoming Child Poverty Strategy.

Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social · Sep 10

🚨 BREAKING: Over 14 million people faced hunger in the UK last year.

That’s 2.5 million MORE people, compared to 3 years ago.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · Sep 8

This by @johnharris1969.bsky.social crystallises the feelings of dread I've been having about the prospect of a Farage government. Think about what it'd mean for the NHS, state education, the BBC, climate change.

But then pick yourself up and *fight like hell.*

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Angela Rayner’s exit proves it. Unless Starmer is able to meet this moment, Reform is on the path to power | John Harris

The prime minister increasingly looks like a man next to a burning house, offering to buy a new bookcase and rug, says Guardian columnist John Harris

www.theguardian.com

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