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Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?
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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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Why would a government want to scrap juries?
Is it so they can pass sentences that the gov wants, but the people object to?
Feels very 1984 to me…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@defendourjuries.bsky.social
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
@lawyersfornature.bsky.social
Is it so they can pass sentences that the gov wants, but the people object to?
Feels very 1984 to me…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@defendourjuries.bsky.social
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
@lawyersfornature.bsky.social
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Why would a government want to scrap juries?
Is it so they can pass sentences that the gov wants, but the people object to?
Feels very 1984 to me…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@defendourjuries.bsky.social
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
@lawyersfornature.bsky.social
Is it so they can pass sentences that the gov wants, but the people object to?
Feels very 1984 to me…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@defendourjuries.bsky.social
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
@lawyersfornature.bsky.social
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Community assemblies are the new frontline of class conflict: the administrators vs the administered. They’ll try to derail the common will with “engagement” and pompous speeches, but change is coming.
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why community assemblies will change British politics forever
Systemic change requires people power
www.newstatesman.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Community assemblies are the new frontline of class conflict: the administrators vs the administered. They’ll try to derail the common will with “engagement” and pompous speeches, but change is coming.
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
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My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"The world can either prioritise universal human rights by sharing resources...
Or it can attempt to protect a small, wealthy minority through walls, mass deportations and border violence on an unprecedented scale."
Which will our governments choose to do? 🤔
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
Or it can attempt to protect a small, wealthy minority through walls, mass deportations and border violence on an unprecedented scale."
Which will our governments choose to do? 🤔
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
November 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"The world can either prioritise universal human rights by sharing resources...
Or it can attempt to protect a small, wealthy minority through walls, mass deportations and border violence on an unprecedented scale."
Which will our governments choose to do? 🤔
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
Or it can attempt to protect a small, wealthy minority through walls, mass deportations and border violence on an unprecedented scale."
Which will our governments choose to do? 🤔
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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Tehran is a 7 thousand year old city that will soon become ruins because of a climate mega drought.
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Tehran is a 7 thousand year old city that will soon become ruins because of a climate mega drought.
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I think one of the Naomi Klien books points out that, starting in the mid 90s, it was projected to cost about 1% of global gdp per year for only 30 years address climate change. If the world had committed to that back then we'd be finished already. Imagine.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I think one of the Naomi Klien books points out that, starting in the mid 90s, it was projected to cost about 1% of global gdp per year for only 30 years address climate change. If the world had committed to that back then we'd be finished already. Imagine.
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The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
Orwell's Ministry of Truth in action
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Orwell's Ministry of Truth in action
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The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain through the looking glass: my dead goldfish is now a registered waste disposer | George Monbiot
Algernon Goldfish is long gone, but I was able to sign him up. No wonder so many crooks are illegally dumping and ruining our environment, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our govt is adapting to the impacts of climate change. And it's opposite to the transformative adaptation we need.
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
This is a great article from @theconversation.com
@climatemajority.bsky.social
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
This is a great article from @theconversation.com
@climatemajority.bsky.social
How the rich world is fortifying itself against climate migration
Climate change is already linked to mass deportation – and the worst is still to come.
theconversation.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Our govt is adapting to the impacts of climate change. And it's opposite to the transformative adaptation we need.
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
This is a great article from @theconversation.com
@climatemajority.bsky.social
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
This is a great article from @theconversation.com
@climatemajority.bsky.social
This video shows how utterly ludicrous the ban on Palestine Action is. If these people holding cardboard signs are really dangerous terrorists, surely the police would make sure they arrest all of them, not just a handful??
BREAKING - Police FAIL to arrest dozens of “terrorists” today.
Police left most sign-holders in Truro with “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” signs.
No arrests in Edinburgh, and many were not arrested in Oxford.
Sign up to Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
Police left most sign-holders in Truro with “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” signs.
No arrests in Edinburgh, and many were not arrested in Oxford.
Sign up to Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This video shows how utterly ludicrous the ban on Palestine Action is. If these people holding cardboard signs are really dangerous terrorists, surely the police would make sure they arrest all of them, not just a handful??
Seven in ten people think papers regularly publish false information.
Sounds like we need a #MediaRevolution
Sounds like we need a #MediaRevolution
The public perceives serious ongoing problems in journalistic practice.
Seven in ten people think the papers regularly publish false information – we need to improve press regulation
The public perceives serious ongoing problems in journalistic practice.
tcnv.link
November 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Seven in ten people think papers regularly publish false information.
Sounds like we need a #MediaRevolution
Sounds like we need a #MediaRevolution
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We are all one war, one hurricane, one military coup, one wildfire, one drought, one economic collapse away from becoming an "asylum seeker".
November 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
We are all one war, one hurricane, one military coup, one wildfire, one drought, one economic collapse away from becoming an "asylum seeker".
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It’s actually mad that me and the far-right have exactly the same take. No notes.
They're openly telling us in advance what's going to happen
November 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It’s actually mad that me and the far-right have exactly the same take. No notes.
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There is no such thing as "illegal" asylum seeking, yet the British press continues to make this very basic error. On behalf of whom?
Shabana Mahmood has vowed to end Britain’s “golden ticket” for asylum seekers by forcing people arriving illegally to wait 20 years before they can apply for permanent settlement
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
There is no such thing as "illegal" asylum seeking, yet the British press continues to make this very basic error. On behalf of whom?