Walter Menteth
@waltermenteth.bsky.social
Architect, planner, writer, London - views my own (he/him)
People, #culture, #politics, #environment, #climate, #justice, #sustainability, #democracy
People, #culture, #politics, #environment, #climate, #justice, #sustainability, #democracy
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Walter Menteth
@waltermenteth.bsky.social
· Sep 27
As 1 of the 5 permanent members of the UN security council the UK should be calling for its urgent reform.
The Veto on international action by UNSC member states has been THE major block on action for Gaza.
The UNSC is no longer credible.
The Veto on international action by UNSC member states has been THE major block on action for Gaza.
The UNSC is no longer credible.
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The United States and Russia continue to sanction and threaten ICC judges.
Just disgraceful.
Just disgraceful.
December 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The United States and Russia continue to sanction and threaten ICC judges.
Just disgraceful.
Just disgraceful.
The US has had such difficulty sanctioning Russia effectively for invading Ukraine. But ICC Judges who define genocide by its ally - nah.
Disgusting! Justice in the US has completely disappeared!
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Rubio announces sanctions on two ICC judges
www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419567
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Rubio announces sanctions on two ICC judges
www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419567
Rubio announces sanctions on two ICC judges
US imposes sanctions on Georgian judge Gocha Lordkipanidze and Mongolian judge Erdenebalsuren Damdin in response to their support for the fforts to arrest Israeli officials.
www.israelnationalnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The US has had such difficulty sanctioning Russia effectively for invading Ukraine. But ICC Judges who define genocide by its ally - nah.
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"If this shift represents an excursion into a new normal, our future could be hotter faster than expected."
A year after this insightful study was published, the albedo and net flux over the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude oceans keep decreasing:
www.science.org/stoken/autho...
A year after this insightful study was published, the albedo and net flux over the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude oceans keep decreasing:
www.science.org/stoken/autho...
December 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"If this shift represents an excursion into a new normal, our future could be hotter faster than expected."
A year after this insightful study was published, the albedo and net flux over the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude oceans keep decreasing:
www.science.org/stoken/autho...
A year after this insightful study was published, the albedo and net flux over the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude oceans keep decreasing:
www.science.org/stoken/autho...
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Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
Not only was yesterday's Arctic sea-ice extent a record low for the day, yesterday's extent beat every year prior to 2024 by over half a million square kilometers.
The Arctic currently has a streak of 21 straight days of record low sea-ice extent.
Code Yikes!
Not only was yesterday's Arctic sea-ice extent a record low for the day, yesterday's extent beat every year prior to 2024 by over half a million square kilometers.
The Arctic currently has a streak of 21 straight days of record low sea-ice extent.
December 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
Not only was yesterday's Arctic sea-ice extent a record low for the day, yesterday's extent beat every year prior to 2024 by over half a million square kilometers.
The Arctic currently has a streak of 21 straight days of record low sea-ice extent.
Code Yikes!
Not only was yesterday's Arctic sea-ice extent a record low for the day, yesterday's extent beat every year prior to 2024 by over half a million square kilometers.
The Arctic currently has a streak of 21 straight days of record low sea-ice extent.
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Israel's cheerleaders should just be honest.
They want to criminalise all speech condemning Israel's behaviour.
They want Israel to be able to slaughter as many Palestinians as it wants, and for it to be a criminal offence to oppose that.
That's their actual intentions!
They want to criminalise all speech condemning Israel's behaviour.
They want Israel to be able to slaughter as many Palestinians as it wants, and for it to be a criminal offence to oppose that.
That's their actual intentions!
December 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Israel's cheerleaders should just be honest.
They want to criminalise all speech condemning Israel's behaviour.
They want Israel to be able to slaughter as many Palestinians as it wants, and for it to be a criminal offence to oppose that.
That's their actual intentions!
They want to criminalise all speech condemning Israel's behaviour.
They want Israel to be able to slaughter as many Palestinians as it wants, and for it to be a criminal offence to oppose that.
That's their actual intentions!
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Excellent Barry Gardiner MP letter re UK political prisoners on #HungerStrike after being remanded unconscionably in custody, some for over 1 yr. to the disgraceful authoritarian #DavidLammy. As UK slides into a full blown police state under #Labour
December 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Excellent Barry Gardiner MP letter re UK political prisoners on #HungerStrike after being remanded unconscionably in custody, some for over 1 yr. to the disgraceful authoritarian #DavidLammy. As UK slides into a full blown police state under #Labour
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Fossil Fuels Fall Below 1% of Canadian Employment
->The Energy Mix | #fossil fuel #climate change | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
->The Energy Mix | #fossil fuel #climate change | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
Fossil Fuels Fall Below 1% of Canadian Employment
Fossil fuel employment has fallen to less than 1% of the Canadian work force, while growth in global energy jobs outpaced the wider economy for the third year in a row, according to two reports released over the last several...
www.theenergymix.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Time the UK had a Gov. that represented the people,
Not a foreign state.
Not a foreign state.
The scale of the alienation being doled out by Starmer and his dismal little crew is creating an ever more unbridgeable gulf with progressive voters. We are being lost to the Labour Party forever and all time, living on completely different moral continents thousands of miles apart
Starmer calls for police crackdown on pro-Palestine marches
December 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Time the UK had a Gov. that represented the people,
Not a foreign state.
Not a foreign state.
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"The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies and democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency."
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
A landmark report on global inequality shows that
the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else
continued to expand this year
www.commondreams.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies and democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency."
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“We have been living in a farm thinking we were queuing up for our paycheques, when all this time we had been queuing up for slaughter”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
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How The World Ends
When a society is hijacked by parasites, it is only a matter of time before it breaks down.
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“We have been living in a farm thinking we were queuing up for our paycheques, when all this time we had been queuing up for slaughter”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
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palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/588/0/OX449L... Please ask your councillor to pledge for Palestine and share
@maniisnala.bsky.social @humanitymustwin.bsky.social
@maniisnala.bsky.social @humanitymustwin.bsky.social
Councillor Pledge for Palestine
palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk
December 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/588/0/OX449L... Please ask your councillor to pledge for Palestine and share
@maniisnala.bsky.social @humanitymustwin.bsky.social
@maniisnala.bsky.social @humanitymustwin.bsky.social
I know who I stand with.
It's not that warped Zionist.
It's not that warped Zionist.
December 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I know who I stand with.
It's not that warped Zionist.
It's not that warped Zionist.
And not just those described
ALL OF THEM
Political overreach
ALL OF THEM
Political overreach
December 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
And not just those described
ALL OF THEM
Political overreach
ALL OF THEM
Political overreach
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The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
In a landmark UK case Philippines 'typhoon #Odette' survivors take Shell to court over #climate damage.
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
Philippines typhoon survivors take Shell to court over climate damage
The landmark case against the UK’s biggest oil company argues that it contributed to climate change. And they say this made typhoon Odette
www.thecanary.co
December 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
In a landmark UK case Philippines 'typhoon #Odette' survivors take Shell to court over #climate damage.
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
PALESTINE ACTION BAN THREATENS ALL OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES
Pouring paint on a plane is hardly 9/11. Non-violent protesters are not terrorists.
www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...
Pouring paint on a plane is hardly 9/11. Non-violent protesters are not terrorists.
www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...
Palestine Action ban threatens all our civil liberties
Pouring paint on a plane is hardly 9/11. Non-violent protesters are not terrorists.
www.declassifieduk.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
PALESTINE ACTION BAN THREATENS ALL OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES
Pouring paint on a plane is hardly 9/11. Non-violent protesters are not terrorists.
www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...
Pouring paint on a plane is hardly 9/11. Non-violent protesters are not terrorists.
www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...
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Eight people are on hunger strike, several apparently at imminent risk of dying, because our law punishes more harshly those opposing genocide than those supporting it. (And under a so-called Labour Government.)
How on earth did we get here? www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...
How on earth did we get here? www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...
The hunger strikers are in mortal danger. But the conditions they’re being kept in are already critical.
How the government and its prisons ignore strikers' basic rights and demands.
www.vashtimedia.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Eight people are on hunger strike, several apparently at imminent risk of dying, because our law punishes more harshly those opposing genocide than those supporting it. (And under a so-called Labour Government.)
How on earth did we get here? www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...
How on earth did we get here? www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...
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‘How can you not know?’: Sister of Palestine Action hunger striker hits back at Lammy - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-can-you-not-know-sister-palestine-action-hunger-striker-hits-back-lammy
‘How can you not know?’: Sister of Palestine Action hunger striker hits back at Lammy
Kamran Ahmed's family has been kept in the dark about his condition after he was hospitalised in prison
www.middleeasteye.net
December 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
‘How can you not know?’: Sister of Palestine Action hunger striker hits back at Lammy - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-can-you-not-know-sister-palestine-action-hunger-striker-hits-back-lammy
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This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding
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Solidarity with the hunger strikers.
It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction.
All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.
It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction.
All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.
December 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Solidarity with the hunger strikers.
It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction.
All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.
It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction.
All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.
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Hamas is calling for greater international pressure on Israel before agreeing to the next phase of the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire. Hamas says Israel must open key border crossings, halt military strikes and home demolitions, and allow far more humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave.
December 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Hamas is calling for greater international pressure on Israel before agreeing to the next phase of the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire. Hamas says Israel must open key border crossings, halt military strikes and home demolitions, and allow far more humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave.
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A so-called Labour PM trying to roll back human rights. Enough of the man. Get him out asap.
Fury as Keir Starmer urges European leaders to curb core human rights
THE UK Government is in "moral retreat", Amnesty International has said, after Keir Starmer urged Europe’s leaders to rehash how a major…
www.thenational.scot
December 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A so-called Labour PM trying to roll back human rights. Enough of the man. Get him out asap.
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I think about this quote from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a lot:
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
We are being poisoned every day, so why do we keep voting for more pollution? Ask a lobbyist | George Monbiot
The dirty industries that dominate politics deceive us into accepting dangerous pollutants such as ammonia as part of life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I think about this quote from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a lot:
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”