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Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · 1d

The moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot 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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Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · 12d

Imagine your favourite beach crowded with oil rigs and spills 😢 I just signed a petition to stop drilling in the Baltic - let’s keep our seas clean and safe for wildlife, climate, and our future! 🌊💚 action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-10...

Keep the Baltic Sea clean and safe!

Imagine your favourite beach crowded with oil rigs and spills 😢 I just signed a petition to stop drilling in the Baltic - let’s keep our seas clean and safe for wildlife, climate, and our future! 🌊💚

action.wemove.eu

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Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · 12d

"..People in Britain must know: this has been a disaster from which it will take us years to recover.”
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Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty

The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · 14d

“to be this age and still not know yourself”. So true!
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Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik

This unapologetic trawl through a doomed campaign reveals a celebrity-obsessed party high on its own supply. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 22d

The world’s people are demanding action and at #COP30, leaders have a chance to answer. Greenpeace head @madsflarup.bsky.social argues during this #ClimateWeek that it’s time to let the majority decide at UN Climate Summits.

Read more >> www.climatechangenews.com/2025/09/22/i...

It's time for majority voting at UN climate summits

The head of Greenpeace argues that the climate crisis demands urgent UN reform to facilitate an accelerated global response

www.climatechangenews.com

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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 20d

🍽️ New exposé by Greenpeace Brazil reveals: beef raised in violation of Indigenous rights in the Amazon may have reached plates in Europe‼️

#StopEUMercosur #StopBigAg #RespectTheAmazon

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European shops imported beef newly linked to illegal cattle ranching on Indigenous Amazon lands - Greenpeace European Unit

Beef from cattle illegally raised on protected Indigenous land in the Amazon rainforest may have ended up on the plates of European consumers after entering the supply chains of Brazilian beef giant J...

www.greenpeace.org

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 21d

[STATEMENT] "Thankfully, the rest of the world knows that climate change is not a 'con job' and that the real danger is climate denialism and fake news"

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Climate change is here, world leaders must now close the 1.5°C ambition gap - Greenpeace International

New York, USA – World leaders meeting at the UNSG’s Climate Ambition Summit must urgently signal their intention to close the 1.5°C ambition gap by accelerating the phase out of…

www.greenpeace.org

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Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · 20d

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✍️ ADD YOUR NAME: Phase out fossil fuels

Emissions reduction targets won’t solve the climate crisis if they’re built on fiction. It's time for the government to tackle the biggest source of carbon emissions in Australia – fossil fuels.

nb.australiainstitute.org.au

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 24d

80 years ago the UN was founded on the spirit of peace through cooperation, human rights and a rules-based order.

But the rules are being flouted, human rights ignored and cooperation replaced with economic and military force.

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Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · 23d

"...and a famished child peers through a bullet-hole in a wall."
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Carol Ann Duffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about Trump’s UK state visit

Exclusive: Former poet laureate has reader contrasting pomp and ceremony of banquet with ruins left by war

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Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · 28d

‘Direct evidence of genocidal intent’: the UN commission of inquiry’s report on Israel’s actions in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

‘Direct evidence of genocidal intent’: the UN commission of inquiry’s report on Israel’s actions in Gaza

Legal analysis has accused Israel of committing genocide in four out of five categories as defined by 1948 convention

www.theguardian.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 29d

Nationwide Protests Saturday (9/20).

Shut down billionaires. Fund our future.

Shut down fascists. Protect migrants and the global majority.

Shut down polluters. Defend Mother Earth.

Trump and billionaires are setting the world on fire. It’s time to #MakeBillionairesPay. Find a protest near you:

Make Billionaires Pay

www.makebillionairespay.us

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Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · 29d

Inspiration...
‘There’s a basic decency among British people’: Hope Not Hate’s Nick Lowles on how to defeat the far right www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘There’s a basic decency among British people’: Hope Not Hate’s Nick Lowles on how to defeat the far right

Lowles has spent his entire adult life organising against fascism, facing countless threats as a result. He discusses the street confrontations of the 80s, foiling a murder plot, Nazi satanists – and ...

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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · Sep 10

The Global Sumud Flotilla is a courageous act of solidarity with Palestinians who are struggling to survive under the Israeli government’s cruel and unlawful aid blockade, ongoing genocide and man-made famine in Gaza

The flotilla must be protected

#stopthegenocide

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Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · Sep 8

"does @Keir_Starmer presence at the top help or hinder the onward march of the darkest forces to have ever been so close to taking control?"
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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

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Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is yet another sad reflection that the UK is still an grossly unequal society. Angela Rayner is, and will remain, an inspiration. For the sake of the country - I hope she returns soon.

Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · Sep 5

Angela Rayner has resigned as Deputy Prime Minister but will remain as Labour Party Deputy Leader.

Bet the right wing press & elites are popping the champagne bottles but this is a truly sad development.

#AngelaRayner

Page 1 of Angela Rayner resignation letter.

Page 2 of Angela Rayner resignation letter.

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Andy Rowell @andy-rowell.bsky.social · Sep 5

Shell, the corporate coward, is trying to run away from its responsibilities in Nigeria ... #shellguilty

Amnesty Business & Human Rights @amnestybhr.bsky.social · Sep 5

Amnesty International responds to the recently published letters from seven UN Special Rapporteurs to Shell, and other oil companies, regarding divestment and remediating historic oil pollution in Nigeria.

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Nigeria: Shell remains responsible for cleaning up and remediating historic oil pollution despite divestment

Responding to the recently published letter sent by seven UN Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights to Shell, Eni and other oil companies as well as the governments of the companies’ home countries and N...

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Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · Sep 5

www.europeanmovement.co.uk/keep_uk_in_e...

Open Letter: Keep the UK in the ECHR

Sign the European Movement UK's open letter now if you agree that the UK must remain in the ECHR.

www.europeanmovement.co.uk

Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · Sep 4

pull "the heartstrings of a country that retains a sense of justice, of dignity and of fury towards the predations of an economic elite."
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Labour has succeeded only in strengthening Farage. The way is now open for Zack Polanski’s Greens | George Monbiot

By caving to the hard right and corporate greed, Labour has left a gaping hole the new Green party leader is best placed to fill, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · Sep 3

Finally! An EU Head of State speaks truth to power!
‘You need solidarity and consistency’: Pedro Sánchez on the EU, Trump and fighting the far right'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Pedro Sánchez: Europe’s response to war in Gaza has been a failure

Spanish prime minister says double standards over Gaza and Ukraine threaten to undermine the west’s global standing

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · Aug 29

I just signed this! 🚨West Africa’s top court ruled that cutting girls’ genitals is torture and told Sierra Leone to ban it. But the president’s hesitating. Locals are asking us to help push him to act. Will you join me? secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Stop Cutting Girls

West Africa’s top court just ruled that FGM is torture -- and ordered Sierra Leone to ban it! From around the world, we call on the president: Keep girls safe!

secure.avaaz.org

Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · Aug 28

Plastic is flooding our oceans, bodies, and babies – and recent treaty talks failed to stop it. While leaders plan their next move, we have a critical window to push for an end to the Plastic Era. Add your voice now! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-08...

End the Plastic Era!

Plastic is flooding our oceans, bodies, and babies – and recent treaty talks failed to stop it. But the fight isn’t over. While leaders plan their next move, we have a critical window to push for an e...

action.wemove.eu

Paul Horsman @thehorsman.bsky.social · Aug 20

"We can’t curb pollution unless we curb production"
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Still no Plastics Treaty: How the fossil fuel industry keeps polluting negotiations - Greenpeace International

It’s time for world leaders to confront the elephant in the UN Global Plastics Treaty negotiation room: Big Oil.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Aug 20

While the UK police arrest disabled pensioners for protesting genocide, British racists have apparent free reign to engage in stochastic terrorism and violence on an almost daily basis.

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · Aug 20

Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters.

Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters

Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park

www.theguardian.com

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · Aug 20

ICYMI

Ministers have put new nuclear power at the centre of their green energy revolution. But problem of what to do with 700,000 m3 of radioactive waste, plus from new reactor programme, has yet to be solved

An underground dump? Cost could soar to up to £54bn

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Treasury criticises ‘unachievable’ plan for underground nuclear waste dump in Cumbria

Assessment suggests cost of project to store 700,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste could reach £54bn

www.theguardian.com

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