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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 6h

Oh yeah, it's a global thing - I don't know of anywhere where the politicians are taking an appropriate level of action.

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 8h

It's inevitable, really. Unless we start taxing wealth, everything will go this way in due course.

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 9h

A lot of people are getting upset about this, but I don't know if it's generally realised that the big guys are coming for the housing market?

A lot of older people are accidental landlords and make a bit from it, but that's not the future.

www.standard.co.uk/business/bla...

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 10h

Labour are gradually morphing into Reform.

Maybe if the Greens get popular enough they'll get a move on and reform themselves into something worth having.

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 12h

Maurice Glasman has repeatedly talked about wanting to reduce immigration *and* of (his belief in the) importance of appealing to right/far right groups.

I think this may be both ideological and performative.

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 14h

What if their motivation isn't to neuter the far right - what if they're doing it because they want to?

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 14h

Yes! Amazing.

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 14h

Ok, something good, great to see 👍🏻

Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 14h

Ed Miliband has approved the Tillbridge Solar Farm in Lincolnshire, set to become the UK’s largest solar project - generating enough to power 300,000 homes 🏡🔋

Even in regions where support for renewables has faced headwinds, this project shows the UK’s commitment to a cleaner future 🌍 💪

Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site

Tillbridge solar farm will be built in county where Reform UK’s anti-renewables agenda has rising support

www.theguardian.com

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 14h

Just reading people scoffing at the Greens for talking in broad aspirations, while supporting a party that got in on a slogan of "Change".

Snark aside, if we're going to honestly evaluate any political party we have accept that slogans and headlines are always going to be ankle deep.

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 14h

Hey, anyone who's out there, I'd like you to think about one thing…

Big changes are possible. We can fix things. We can make things better. Hard problems, wicked problems even, can be resolved, if we have sufficient resolve.

Don't dismiss the difficult as impossible.

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 14h

All of this confusing, seemingly counter-productive stuff follows the "Blue Labour" playbook quite closely.

It's tempting to assume that they're merely copying Reform, but I'm starting to think they're using Reform as cover to enact a very weird philosophy.

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 14h

At least back as far as Cameron there have been attempts to weaken (and, in due course, destroy) Britain's fragile abortion rights.

These weirdos have had tremendous success with their attacks on trans rights, thanks to some truly appalling politicians, and now they're coming for abortion.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15h

Trans people have been warning about these people for *years*

Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social · 1d

This is a huge story but massively under the radar in the UK.

A US Christian legal org called the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is working to roll back abortion rights here using the same playbook it used in the US: briefing politicians, watching, waiting.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 15h

Again, our political class should be taking action on this front.

They locked up the Insulate Britain crowd rather than confront the problem.

Frequent extreme weather is creeping up on us and we're woefully underprepared.

Katharina Lange @katharinalange.bsky.social · 15h

UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told

Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate

www.theguardian.com

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 15h

This is useful advice for people in flood-prone areas…

…but it's one of those things that really needs dealing with at a political level.

We should be spending big on best-practice approaches to flood management, because this is only going to happen more often and more severely.

Katharina Lange @katharinalange.bsky.social · 15h

Doors, drains and paving perils: protecting your home from flooding

Climate breakdown and crumbling defences mean more homes in England are at risk – but you are not completely defenceless

www.theguardian.com

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 15h

It's pretty obvious, really, isn't it?

We're well past the point that fossil fuel growth is a net economic benefit.

We're destroying the very fabric of the economy.

Dagmar Fischer @dagmarfischer.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

www.theguardian.com

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 15h

Best of luck, fella!

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 15h

It would be lovely if this was true, that sweet, good-natured protest did the trick. History tells us otherwise.

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 15h

It's really something that JKR's toxicity has become a consideration for even the most remote places.

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like somebody overdosed on capitalism.

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like the transphobes among your number at the Guardian succeeded, eh?

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, "race debates".

Dreadful that they're "toxic".

Still, the Guardian is relaxed about trans rights being discussed away, so maybe that applies to all rights 🤷🏻‍♂️

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

There it is… the science of this stuff is pretty solid, we could save a lot of towns from being gradually drowned. But our politicians just aren't interested in real, hard problems.

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

Yet another infuriating example of something that we absolutely know how to deal with, at least in a lot of places, but the political resolve just isn't there to make it happen.

Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 1d

Insurance companies don’t care if you don’t believe in #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect we're at the point where any protest can be shut down.

There's enough overlapping vagueries in the rules to find an excuse if the right people demand it, anyway.

Incredibly illiberal. A real threat to what little democracy we have.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. 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

www.theguardian.com

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Gavin Deichen @gdeichen.bsky.social · 1d

I guess we knew this was coming.

Abortion is not a right in the UK. I can see Blue Labour dragging their feet over better laws, laying the ground for Reform.

abortionrights.org.uk/abortion-law/

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