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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 4h

Tim Crosland offers a first-hand account of his recent treatment by police and reflects on what these escalating clampdowns mean for democracy and justice in the UK.

- @BylineTimes

youtu.be/VeGEKQ1SLRI

Meet the Ex-Goverment Lawyer Arrested under the Terrorism Act...

YouTube video by Byline TV

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Over a thousand people gather in Trafalgar Square to oppose genocide and the Palestine Action ban.

Police have already started arresting peaceful protestors under the Terrorism Act for silently holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Zero Hour for the Climate & Nature Bill @zero-hour.bsky.social · 6h

🗓️ On 27 November, top UK experts will brief MPs and leaders from business, culture, faith and the media on the escalating climate and nature crisis.

📍 Is your MP attending the @nebriefing.bsky.social? Use the postcode checker at www.nebriefing.org to check—and if not, email them to ask.

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

www.nebriefing.org

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7h

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5h

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7h

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Zero Hour for the Climate & Nature Bill @zero-hour.bsky.social · 10h

🌿 Residents in Romsey met with Caroline Noakes MP to discuss the Climate and Nature Bill. It’s great she's agreed to send the #CANBill constituency letter to Ed Miliband and Emma Reynolds calling for new legislation to tackle the climate-nature crisis!

🐝 action.zerohour.uk

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 10h

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cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social @cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social · 13h

One of the stupidest things about this Government (and there are many) was how they've committed 22 billion to carbon capture while spending the whole time fretting about a 22 billion financial black hole.

I've not heard a single one of our geniuses in the news & politics media notice this idiocy.

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 A vital new report 🚨

Clear evidence of how the UK Govt has been CAPTURED by O&G interests

Time for MPs to challenge this in Parliament
@labourlewis.bsky.social
@mpwatch.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@adrianramsay.bsky.social
@dalevince.com
@fionaharvey.bsky.social

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John Ranford FB99% @johnranford.bsky.social · 13h

This needs to be put into a short video format

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism.

The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.

The Greens say enough is enough.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

🚨New report: how the fossil fuel industry duped successive UK governments into pumping money into costly CCS schemes to ensure continued reliance on oil and gas.

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 1d

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

influencemap.org

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 1d

There's good reason why the oil and gas industry lobbies so hard for carbon capture - because it's the one 'climate solution' that wouldn't necessarily require shutting down the oil and gas industry

But it doesn't work. They need to be shut down

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 1d

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

influencemap.org

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 1d

Fossil fuel industry is behind the UK's CCS push, but while oil & gas firms are pro-CCS in public they're sceptical in private 😈 revealing the wider "strategy to lock in a policy model based primarily on incentives and subsidies without regulatory accountability or science-based emission reductions"

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 1d

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

influencemap.org

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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 1d

➕🚗🏭 new calculations show that if all new gas plants with CCS currently proposed by industry were to go ahead - even at a 90% capture rate - they could emit 2.4-5 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions annually, the same as adding 1.3-2.6 million petrol cars per year in the UK.

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 A vital new report 🚨

Clear evidence of how the UK Govt has been CAPTURED by O&G interests

Time for MPs to challenge this in Parliament
@labourlewis.bsky.social
@mpwatch.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@adrianramsay.bsky.social
@dalevince.com
@fionaharvey.bsky.social

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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 1d

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

influencemap.org

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HyNot @hynotnw.bsky.social · 2d

#BigOil behemoth and #HyNet #CCS partner #Eni has been fined €336million for rigging fuel prices. In 2022, it leaked 80,000 litres of oil into the #IrishSea. Eni isn't a fit and proper company, yet its pocketing huge taxpayer subsidies. Why #DESNZ?

Eni among six oil companies fined €936mn over fuel price collusion

Italy’s competition watchdog imposes one of biggest penalties by a national regulator in Europe

www.ft.com

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 3d

I'm glad Greta Thunberg is out of that Israeli prison. I think with pain and rage of all the Palestinians who remain in that prison because Israel wants to erase them from their own land.

Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 3d

"The alleged abuses included sleep and medication deprivation, beatings, having automatic rifles pointed at their heads, dogs set upon them, having to sleep on the floor, being subjected to insults & made to watch footage of the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Gaza flotilla members allege beatings and insults in Israeli detention

Some of those held say guns were pointed at them, they were threatened with dogs and deprived of sleep

www.theguardian.com

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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 3d

"The alleged abuses included sleep and medication deprivation, beatings, having automatic rifles pointed at their heads, dogs set upon them, having to sleep on the floor, being subjected to insults & made to watch footage of the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Gaza flotilla members allege beatings and insults in Israeli detention

Some of those held say guns were pointed at them, they were threatened with dogs and deprived of sleep

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 3d

7/ A crucial paper by Isak Stoddard, @kevinclimate.bsky.social, @stuartjritchie.bsky.social @wimcarton.bsky.social et al. stress that a key reason for past climate inaction is a lack of sufficient societal action on carbon reduction is the 'scarcity of plausible imaginaries'.

Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?

Despite three decades of political efforts and a wealth of research on the causes and catastrophic impacts of climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise and are 60% higher ...

www.annualreviews.org

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 3d

Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently?

Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on!

So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 4d

Once again the Govt show they are loosing the argument and expose the utter fragile insanity of their intransigence to do the right thing on #Gaza (stop arming the genocide)

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?

We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d

After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I've come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there's something even worse. 🧵

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