Glenn Vowles
@enviroman.bsky.social
For equality, fairness, sustainability, humanism. Opposing over-exploitation of people & planet by the super-rich & rich. Bristol based. Open University Tutor, Environment, 25+ yrs. Green advocate 45+ yrs. https://conserverliving.blogspot.com/
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Glenn Vowles
@enviroman.bsky.social
· Aug 10
Humanism means: using #evidence based #reason to form your views; developing your own and others wellbeing; being concerned for others; drawing meaning from connections and experiences, with other people, with the environment...
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2020: David Lammy, "Criminal trials without juries are a bad idea"
2025: The Times, "Jury trials to be scrapped except for alleged rapists and killers"
2025: The Times, "Jury trials to be scrapped except for alleged rapists and killers"
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
2020: David Lammy, "Criminal trials without juries are a bad idea"
2025: The Times, "Jury trials to be scrapped except for alleged rapists and killers"
2025: The Times, "Jury trials to be scrapped except for alleged rapists and killers"
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Part of keeping going for the long haul is pausing to reflect. Part of it is moving forward in community. Please join us at Multisolving Institute to do both of those at a live, virtual gathering just a few days before the solstice. Dec 18 12pm EST. Register here: bit.ly/multisolvingm...
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Part of keeping going for the long haul is pausing to reflect. Part of it is moving forward in community. Please join us at Multisolving Institute to do both of those at a live, virtual gathering just a few days before the solstice. Dec 18 12pm EST. Register here: bit.ly/multisolvingm...
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Millionaires want a wealth tax!
Delighted to host Gary Stevenson in Parliament to talk about his work with MPs.
We discussed how raising annual revenue through wealth taxes is the most important thing Govt could do in the budget to cut inequality and raise living standards.
Delighted to host Gary Stevenson in Parliament to talk about his work with MPs.
We discussed how raising annual revenue through wealth taxes is the most important thing Govt could do in the budget to cut inequality and raise living standards.
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Millionaires want a wealth tax!
Delighted to host Gary Stevenson in Parliament to talk about his work with MPs.
We discussed how raising annual revenue through wealth taxes is the most important thing Govt could do in the budget to cut inequality and raise living standards.
Delighted to host Gary Stevenson in Parliament to talk about his work with MPs.
We discussed how raising annual revenue through wealth taxes is the most important thing Govt could do in the budget to cut inequality and raise living standards.
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Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion.
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Rachel Reeves will freeze fuel duty to dodge ‘political suicide’
The chancellor will also highlight a rise in the minimum wage and plans to cut energy bills as she tries to win over voters by focusing on cost of living
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion.
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Austerity 2.0. Attacks on disabled people. Arming genocide.
The Labour Party has turned a fundamental corner — and I don’t see it coming back.
Watch my full interview with @newstatesman1913.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vw...
The Labour Party has turned a fundamental corner — and I don’t see it coming back.
Watch my full interview with @newstatesman1913.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vw...
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Austerity 2.0. Attacks on disabled people. Arming genocide.
The Labour Party has turned a fundamental corner — and I don’t see it coming back.
Watch my full interview with @newstatesman1913.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vw...
The Labour Party has turned a fundamental corner — and I don’t see it coming back.
Watch my full interview with @newstatesman1913.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vw...
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Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism.
It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack.
Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.
It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack.
Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
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Criminals will be stopped from “gaming the system” by choosing trial by jury in order to increase the chances of proceedings collapsing, the courts minister has said, promising to enact radical changes to limit jury trials by the next election.
Drug dealers and career criminals were “laughing in the dock” knowing cases can take years to come to trial, Sarah Sackman told the Guardian, saying inaction would be a road to “chaos and ruin”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism.
It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack.
Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.
It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack.
Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.
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Great to spend time today with firefighter watch at Poplar Fire Station.
Always an absolute honour to spend time with people who spend their lives keeping us safe.
Thank you. ✊🏼
Always an absolute honour to spend time with people who spend their lives keeping us safe.
Thank you. ✊🏼
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Great to spend time today with firefighter watch at Poplar Fire Station.
Always an absolute honour to spend time with people who spend their lives keeping us safe.
Thank you. ✊🏼
Always an absolute honour to spend time with people who spend their lives keeping us safe.
Thank you. ✊🏼
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Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge 'Dark Money' Climate-Denial Lobbyist
EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
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Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge 'Dark Money' Climate-Denial Lobbyist
EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
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Labour’s awful migrant policies are helping pave the way for the racist far right. And they are also building a gold-plated shed at the end of that road - full of tools for a far right Govt to oppress us all.
🕵️ Digital ID database
📸 High St facial rec
👨⚖️ Removing trial by jury
🕵️ Digital ID database
📸 High St facial rec
👨⚖️ Removing trial by jury
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Labour’s awful migrant policies are helping pave the way for the racist far right. And they are also building a gold-plated shed at the end of that road - full of tools for a far right Govt to oppress us all.
🕵️ Digital ID database
📸 High St facial rec
👨⚖️ Removing trial by jury
🕵️ Digital ID database
📸 High St facial rec
👨⚖️ Removing trial by jury
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Zack Polanski has joined other MPs and young campaigners gathered outside of Parliament to protest the Chancellor’s expected refusal to bring in wealth taxes on the super-rich
Zack Polanski joins protest outside Parliament over super-rich wealth taxes
www.thenational.scot
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Zack Polanski has joined other MPs and young campaigners gathered outside of Parliament to protest the Chancellor’s expected refusal to bring in wealth taxes on the super-rich
'In a review by the BBC of its own economics coverage in Nov 2022 it outlined that #nationaldebt is not like personal debt...' & that the comparison can mislead.
Yet Kuensberg questioned @zackpolanski.bsky.social as if personal debt is like national debt. share.google/LDNPvWtXv27Z...
Yet Kuensberg questioned @zackpolanski.bsky.social as if personal debt is like national debt. share.google/LDNPvWtXv27Z...
Economists call out BBC over Rachel Reeves interview
ECONOMISTS have spoken out after the BBC broadcast an interview where the Chancellor compared government funds to a household budget - despite the…
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November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
'In a review by the BBC of its own economics coverage in Nov 2022 it outlined that #nationaldebt is not like personal debt...' & that the comparison can mislead.
Yet Kuensberg questioned @zackpolanski.bsky.social as if personal debt is like national debt. share.google/LDNPvWtXv27Z...
Yet Kuensberg questioned @zackpolanski.bsky.social as if personal debt is like national debt. share.google/LDNPvWtXv27Z...
Open letter from 1000+ UK Scientists to MPs - like mine Kerry McCarthy in Bristol East (who I have emailed, urging her to attend).
#NationalEmergencyBriefing #Climate #Nature
www.nebriefing.org
#NationalEmergencyBriefing #Climate #Nature
www.nebriefing.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Open letter from 1000+ UK Scientists to MPs - like mine Kerry McCarthy in Bristol East (who I have emailed, urging her to attend).
#NationalEmergencyBriefing #Climate #Nature
www.nebriefing.org
#NationalEmergencyBriefing #Climate #Nature
www.nebriefing.org
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A fair society isn’t built on wishful growth targets. It’s built on redistribution, climate responsibility, and ensuring every household has sufficient resources for a decent life.
#EconomicJustice #Budget
#EconomicJustice #Budget
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
A fair society isn’t built on wishful growth targets. It’s built on redistribution, climate responsibility, and ensuring every household has sufficient resources for a decent life.
#EconomicJustice #Budget
#EconomicJustice #Budget
'...asked about the claims, #Farage responded: "Have I said things 50 yrs ago that you could interpret as being banter in a playground, that you can interpret in the modern light of day in some sort of way? Yes." '
His way admitting his #racism?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
His way admitting his #racism?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nigel Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody'
The Reform UK leader was responding to reports he made racist remarks to his peers in school in the 1970s.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
'...asked about the claims, #Farage responded: "Have I said things 50 yrs ago that you could interpret as being banter in a playground, that you can interpret in the modern light of day in some sort of way? Yes." '
His way admitting his #racism?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
His way admitting his #racism?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'...the UN climate summit #COP30 ...has ended with a deal that contains no direct reference to the #fossilfuels that are heating up the planet.'
To say that #COP has been unsuccessful in reducing emissions & global warming is a gross understatement.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
To say that #COP has been unsuccessful in reducing emissions & global warming is a gross understatement.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
COP30: UN climate talks fail to secure new fossil fuel promises
Nearly 200 countries attended COP30, which aimed to commit the world to take more action on climate change.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
'...the UN climate summit #COP30 ...has ended with a deal that contains no direct reference to the #fossilfuels that are heating up the planet.'
To say that #COP has been unsuccessful in reducing emissions & global warming is a gross understatement.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
To say that #COP has been unsuccessful in reducing emissions & global warming is a gross understatement.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Andy Haldane, former Chief Economist, Bank of England called @zackpolanski.bsky.social economics 'la-la land' on Kuensberg. No surprise. He's steeped in current economic orthodoxy, that's increased inequality & destroying our climate & biodiversity. He resorted not to solid evidence but lampooning.
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Andy Haldane, former Chief Economist, Bank of England called @zackpolanski.bsky.social economics 'la-la land' on Kuensberg. No surprise. He's steeped in current economic orthodoxy, that's increased inequality & destroying our climate & biodiversity. He resorted not to solid evidence but lampooning.
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🌱 Another whipped vote from Govt against climate,
clean air and nature. 😱
🚨 Lords must step up and make sure new Mayors have to take action.
💚 Thank you to every MP who backed the campaign!
How did yours vote?
hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025...
clean air and nature. 😱
🚨 Lords must step up and make sure new Mayors have to take action.
💚 Thank you to every MP who backed the campaign!
How did yours vote?
hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025...
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🌱 Another whipped vote from Govt against climate,
clean air and nature. 😱
🚨 Lords must step up and make sure new Mayors have to take action.
💚 Thank you to every MP who backed the campaign!
How did yours vote?
hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025...
clean air and nature. 😱
🚨 Lords must step up and make sure new Mayors have to take action.
💚 Thank you to every MP who backed the campaign!
How did yours vote?
hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025...
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The City & the elites are apparently worried about me.
The people who bankrupted this country are spooked.
Won't someone think of the billionaires?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The people who bankrupted this country are spooked.
Won't someone think of the billionaires?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
UK Greens’ Populist Tilt Worries City With Disregard for Markets
Green Party leader Zack Polanski is winning over voters with his pledge to tax the wealthy and unleash borrowing to plow money into Britain’s ailing public services. His inequality-busting ideas are a...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The City & the elites are apparently worried about me.
The people who bankrupted this country are spooked.
Won't someone think of the billionaires?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The people who bankrupted this country are spooked.
Won't someone think of the billionaires?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Andy Haldane, former Chief Economist, Bank of England called @zackpolanski.bsky.social economics 'la-la land' on Kuensberg. No surprise. He's steeped in current economic orthodoxy, that's increased inequality & destroying our climate & biodiversity. He resorted not to solid evidence but lampooning.
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Andy Haldane, former Chief Economist, Bank of England called @zackpolanski.bsky.social economics 'la-la land' on Kuensberg. No surprise. He's steeped in current economic orthodoxy, that's increased inequality & destroying our climate & biodiversity. He resorted not to solid evidence but lampooning.
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Some of the most important words ever written: 'Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.' – Charles Darwin, 'On the Origin of Species'. It was published #OnThisDay 1859.
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Some of the most important words ever written: 'Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.' – Charles Darwin, 'On the Origin of Species'. It was published #OnThisDay 1859.
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Great news! Hotwells Primary School will NOT merge with a Church of England school and will remain open as the neighbourhood’s only non-faith school option. Well done to all the parents who led this campaign – phenomenal work!
humanists.uk/2025/11/24/v...
humanists.uk/2025/11/24/v...
Victory! Plan to close only non-faith school in Bristol neighbourhood rejected
The proposed merger of the only school of no religious character in Hotwells, Bristol, with a Church of England school, has been rejected by the Department for Education (DfE). Humanists UK, which…
humanists.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Great news! Hotwells Primary School will NOT merge with a Church of England school and will remain open as the neighbourhood’s only non-faith school option. Well done to all the parents who led this campaign – phenomenal work!
humanists.uk/2025/11/24/v...
humanists.uk/2025/11/24/v...
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Two children have been killed every day in Gaza since the so-called ceasefire began.
Why has this disappeared from the headlines?
The genocide never ended — and our government is still complicit.
End all arms sales to Israel, now.
Why has this disappeared from the headlines?
The genocide never ended — and our government is still complicit.
End all arms sales to Israel, now.
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Two children have been killed every day in Gaza since the so-called ceasefire began.
Why has this disappeared from the headlines?
The genocide never ended — and our government is still complicit.
End all arms sales to Israel, now.
Why has this disappeared from the headlines?
The genocide never ended — and our government is still complicit.
End all arms sales to Israel, now.
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When it comes to religion in schools, pupils deserve an objective, pluralistic, and objective approach to learning. It's not about removing Christianity from a new curriculum, it's about not indoctrinating children through religious instruction in any new curriculum.
soundcloud.com/humanistsuk/...
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Christianity's privileged place in RE curriculum 'needs to stop' | Northern Ireland Humanists
Northern Ireland Humanists Coordinator Boyd Sleater featured on BBC Talk Back to discuss the implications of the Supreme Court Ruling that RE and collective worship in Northern Ireland education amoun
soundcloud.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
When it comes to religion in schools, pupils deserve an objective, pluralistic, and objective approach to learning. It's not about removing Christianity from a new curriculum, it's about not indoctrinating children through religious instruction in any new curriculum.
soundcloud.com/humanistsuk/...
soundcloud.com/humanistsuk/...
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Debate today with a Labour MP on the economy.
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Is Labour being outflanked by Polanski and Farage? Reeves budget debate
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Debate today with a Labour MP on the economy.
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...