James Harvey
@jamhar.bsky.social
Eco-zealot, cyclist, cat called Gideon, bushcraft, activism, that sort of stuff.
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Now
(1) #Keir Starmer should resign
(2) #Yvette Cooper should resign
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
And time to #VoteGreen
@zackpolanski.bsky.social has been right on this all along - and should be PM
(1) #Keir Starmer should resign
(2) #Yvette Cooper should resign
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
And time to #VoteGreen
@zackpolanski.bsky.social has been right on this all along - and should be PM
UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Now
(1) #Keir Starmer should resign
(2) #Yvette Cooper should resign
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
And time to #VoteGreen
@zackpolanski.bsky.social has been right on this all along - and should be PM
(1) #Keir Starmer should resign
(2) #Yvette Cooper should resign
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
And time to #VoteGreen
@zackpolanski.bsky.social has been right on this all along - and should be PM
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Reverend Sue Parfitt became a symbol of the Lift The Ban campaign after her arrest in July. She shares her thoughts on the proscribing of Palestine Action.
“It’s the duty of all of us to resist.”
This video was filmed prior to the announcement that the ban is unlawful.
“It’s the duty of all of us to resist.”
This video was filmed prior to the announcement that the ban is unlawful.
February 13, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Reverend Sue Parfitt became a symbol of the Lift The Ban campaign after her arrest in July. She shares her thoughts on the proscribing of Palestine Action.
“It’s the duty of all of us to resist.”
This video was filmed prior to the announcement that the ban is unlawful.
“It’s the duty of all of us to resist.”
This video was filmed prior to the announcement that the ban is unlawful.
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Labour’s vote is collapsing everywhere.
In Peterborough last night, as in Gorton and Denton, voting Green is the only way to stop Reform.
In Peterborough last night, as in Gorton and Denton, voting Green is the only way to stop Reform.
Fletton & Woodston (Peterborough) Council By-Election Result:
➡️ RFM: 29.4% (New)
🌍 GRN: 27.6% (+16.2)
🌳 CON: 21.8% (-11.8)
🌹 LAB: 16.8% (-31.2)
🔶 LDM: 4.4% (-0.7)
No TUSC (-1.9) as previous.
Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2024.
➡️ RFM: 29.4% (New)
🌍 GRN: 27.6% (+16.2)
🌳 CON: 21.8% (-11.8)
🌹 LAB: 16.8% (-31.2)
🔶 LDM: 4.4% (-0.7)
No TUSC (-1.9) as previous.
Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2024.
February 13, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Labour’s vote is collapsing everywhere.
In Peterborough last night, as in Gorton and Denton, voting Green is the only way to stop Reform.
In Peterborough last night, as in Gorton and Denton, voting Green is the only way to stop Reform.
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 13, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Seems like a good time as as any to share this again.
One can dream right?
One can dream right?
WHAT IF? (subtitled) - the mini-sequel to THE AGE OF STUPID set in a parallel universe
YouTube video by Spanner Films
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Seems like a good time as as any to share this again.
One can dream right?
One can dream right?
New Blog post: Rage Is a Rational Response
Despite the image, it's not about cats. This week I challenge why we're letting a tiny group of the super rich, immoral mostly older white men, drive us towards collapse. The only way out of this may be Revolution ✊
selfpropelled.life/2026/02/05/r...
Despite the image, it's not about cats. This week I challenge why we're letting a tiny group of the super rich, immoral mostly older white men, drive us towards collapse. The only way out of this may be Revolution ✊
selfpropelled.life/2026/02/05/r...
Rage Is a Rational Response
It’s February, and I’m still consumed by rage – with a generous side-order of despair – at our direction of travel. Are we really this stupid? Are we genuinely going to let a tiny propo…
selfpropelled.life
February 5, 2026 at 7:53 AM
New Blog post: Rage Is a Rational Response
Despite the image, it's not about cats. This week I challenge why we're letting a tiny group of the super rich, immoral mostly older white men, drive us towards collapse. The only way out of this may be Revolution ✊
selfpropelled.life/2026/02/05/r...
Despite the image, it's not about cats. This week I challenge why we're letting a tiny group of the super rich, immoral mostly older white men, drive us towards collapse. The only way out of this may be Revolution ✊
selfpropelled.life/2026/02/05/r...
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British activist Peter Tatchell arrested for carrying ‘intifada’ placard.
The 74-year-old campaigner said his arrest in central London amounted to "an attack on free speech".
news.sky.com/story/britis...
The 74-year-old campaigner said his arrest in central London amounted to "an attack on free speech".
news.sky.com/story/britis...
British activist Peter Tatchell arrested for carrying 'intifada' placard
The 74-year-old campaigner said his arrest in central London amounted to "an attack on free speech".
news.sky.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:39 PM
British activist Peter Tatchell arrested for carrying ‘intifada’ placard.
The 74-year-old campaigner said his arrest in central London amounted to "an attack on free speech".
news.sky.com/story/britis...
The 74-year-old campaigner said his arrest in central London amounted to "an attack on free speech".
news.sky.com/story/britis...
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
(You could be in a court room some day)
Over the last few years, when juries have heard evidence of why people have taken direct action to advance climate or racial justice, or to stop genocide in Gaza, they have repeatedly found the accused not guilty.
(You could be in a court room some day)
Over the last few years, when juries have heard evidence of why people have taken direct action to advance climate or racial justice, or to stop genocide in Gaza, they have repeatedly found the accused not guilty.
February 1, 2026 at 3:12 PM
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
(You could be in a court room some day)
Over the last few years, when juries have heard evidence of why people have taken direct action to advance climate or racial justice, or to stop genocide in Gaza, they have repeatedly found the accused not guilty.
(You could be in a court room some day)
Over the last few years, when juries have heard evidence of why people have taken direct action to advance climate or racial justice, or to stop genocide in Gaza, they have repeatedly found the accused not guilty.
A blog post on the previously suppressed Government report on ecosystem collapse and the threat to national security. It is all a bit Don't Look Up, or King Cnut - in fact, with a little rearrangement, that surname could apply to many world leaders and tech bros.
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selfpropelled.life/2026/01/20/d...
Don’t Look Up: When the Government Finally Admits the Planet Is Breaking
The Government has finally published a report it previously suppressed, calmly explaining that biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse pose a direct threat to national security. Which is nice of t…
selfpropelled.life
January 20, 2026 at 10:55 PM
A blog post on the previously suppressed Government report on ecosystem collapse and the threat to national security. It is all a bit Don't Look Up, or King Cnut - in fact, with a little rearrangement, that surname could apply to many world leaders and tech bros.
selfpropelled.life/2026/01/20/d...
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Wow, pretty stark to see this graph of how the media are pushing net zero scepticism... just when we really really need the opposite.
@carbonbrief.org
@nebriefing.bsky.social
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
@carbonbrief.org
@nebriefing.bsky.social
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Wow, pretty stark to see this graph of how the media are pushing net zero scepticism... just when we really really need the opposite.
@carbonbrief.org
@nebriefing.bsky.social
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
@carbonbrief.org
@nebriefing.bsky.social
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
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BREAKING: White House says stop arresting protestors for supporting Palestine Action
Extremely embarrassing for Keir Starmer, this exemplifies how the ban & arrests for holding paper signs have made the UK an anti-free-speech outlier on the global stage
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Extremely embarrassing for Keir Starmer, this exemplifies how the ban & arrests for holding paper signs have made the UK an anti-free-speech outlier on the global stage
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Stop arresting Palestine Action supporters, White House tells Britain
Sarah Rogers, Donald Trump’s free speech tsar, says ‘censorship does more harm than good’
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 5:21 PM
BREAKING: White House says stop arresting protestors for supporting Palestine Action
Extremely embarrassing for Keir Starmer, this exemplifies how the ban & arrests for holding paper signs have made the UK an anti-free-speech outlier on the global stage
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Extremely embarrassing for Keir Starmer, this exemplifies how the ban & arrests for holding paper signs have made the UK an anti-free-speech outlier on the global stage
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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Some people say Keir Starmer has been dealt a bad hand.
We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is.
We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.
We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is.
We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.
When Trump says "one way or another we're going to have Greenland" - we should sit up and listen.
Time for British leaders to stop burying their heads in the sand.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Time for British leaders to stop burying their heads in the sand.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Trump's threat to Greenland must be a wake up call for Britain
For too long our politicians have toadied to a dangerous president
www.newstatesman.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Some people say Keir Starmer has been dealt a bad hand.
We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is.
We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.
We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is.
We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.
Oi, Jenrick. MP for Newark — this isn’t The Traitors.
Being an MP isn’t about scheming in the shadows.
If you’ve lost public trust, do the decent thing: resign and trigger a by-election.
Let Newark decide.
#Traitors #PoliticsIsNotATVShow #Accountability #ByElectionNow #Democracy #Newark
Being an MP isn’t about scheming in the shadows.
If you’ve lost public trust, do the decent thing: resign and trigger a by-election.
Let Newark decide.
#Traitors #PoliticsIsNotATVShow #Accountability #ByElectionNow #Democracy #Newark
January 15, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Oi, Jenrick. MP for Newark — this isn’t The Traitors.
Being an MP isn’t about scheming in the shadows.
If you’ve lost public trust, do the decent thing: resign and trigger a by-election.
Let Newark decide.
#Traitors #PoliticsIsNotATVShow #Accountability #ByElectionNow #Democracy #Newark
Being an MP isn’t about scheming in the shadows.
If you’ve lost public trust, do the decent thing: resign and trigger a by-election.
Let Newark decide.
#Traitors #PoliticsIsNotATVShow #Accountability #ByElectionNow #Democracy #Newark
New blog post, the Trio of Tyranny, reflecting on Trump's invasion of Venezuela. Team America, World Police, in action. F*ck Yeah 💥😥
selfpropelled.life/2026/01/03/t...
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The Trio of Tyranny
I just listened to Trump justify the US invasion of Venezuela, and the kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. To give him credit, at least he didn’t bother hiding his intentions…
selfpropelled.life
January 3, 2026 at 6:22 PM
New blog post, the Trio of Tyranny, reflecting on Trump's invasion of Venezuela. Team America, World Police, in action. F*ck Yeah 💥😥
selfpropelled.life/2026/01/03/t...
selfpropelled.life/2026/01/03/t...
Happy New year, feeling quite a lot of rage, motivated by love and the need for more kindness, empathy and justice in the world, and basically just fuck the patriarchy - selfpropelled.life/2025/12/31/h...
#Resist #TakeBackPower @takebackpower.bsky.social @thetrawl.bsky.social
#Resist #TakeBackPower @takebackpower.bsky.social @thetrawl.bsky.social
Happy New Year
Here’s to hoping 2026 is full of more kindness, empathy, and positive change than 2025 ever managed. Yeah. A likely fucking story. Fuck this shit. The Labour government in the UK has been a betraya…
selfpropelled.life
December 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Happy New year, feeling quite a lot of rage, motivated by love and the need for more kindness, empathy and justice in the world, and basically just fuck the patriarchy - selfpropelled.life/2025/12/31/h...
#Resist #TakeBackPower @takebackpower.bsky.social @thetrawl.bsky.social
#Resist #TakeBackPower @takebackpower.bsky.social @thetrawl.bsky.social
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Front page of today’s iPaper.
The Green Party are the only party able to hold this government to account and take the fight to Reform.
Join us today to help shape 2026.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The Green Party are the only party able to hold this government to account and take the fight to Reform.
Join us today to help shape 2026.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Front page of today’s iPaper.
The Green Party are the only party able to hold this government to account and take the fight to Reform.
Join us today to help shape 2026.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The Green Party are the only party able to hold this government to account and take the fight to Reform.
Join us today to help shape 2026.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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BREAKING: Major Insurers drop Elbit Systems
Following a sustained direct action campaign, initiated by Palestine Action before the group was proscribed, Allianz and Aviva no longer insure Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.
Direct Action gets results. 🧵1/4
Following a sustained direct action campaign, initiated by Palestine Action before the group was proscribed, Allianz and Aviva no longer insure Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.
Direct Action gets results. 🧵1/4
December 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
BREAKING: Major Insurers drop Elbit Systems
Following a sustained direct action campaign, initiated by Palestine Action before the group was proscribed, Allianz and Aviva no longer insure Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.
Direct Action gets results. 🧵1/4
Following a sustained direct action campaign, initiated by Palestine Action before the group was proscribed, Allianz and Aviva no longer insure Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.
Direct Action gets results. 🧵1/4
Time to boycott Morrisons I guess. This is a growing trend with businesses, and doesn't make sense to me. Ironic that it will mean they go out of business sooner due to not having food to put on their shelves, due to harvest failures from climate breakdown. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Morrisons becomes first UK supermarket to delay net zero targets
Britain’s fifth-biggest grocer postpones goal by 15 years to 2050, saying revised plan will now cover entire supply chain
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Time to boycott Morrisons I guess. This is a growing trend with businesses, and doesn't make sense to me. Ironic that it will mean they go out of business sooner due to not having food to put on their shelves, due to harvest failures from climate breakdown. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Stuck on remand for over a year, political prisoners' demands for bail and a fair trial are concessions the government could make today. Yet it's entirely possible this callous government will risk the lives of those who are not convicted of a crime and who – unlike Elbit – pose no threat to anyone
Tomorrow's front page 📰
'The UK is letting these people die'
'The UK is letting these people die'
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Stuck on remand for over a year, political prisoners' demands for bail and a fair trial are concessions the government could make today. Yet it's entirely possible this callous government will risk the lives of those who are not convicted of a crime and who – unlike Elbit – pose no threat to anyone
New blog post inspired by the TV series - The War Between the Land and Sea - in which there was a passage of dialogue that really struck home. I don’t understand the world anymore. We’ve officially lost the plot.
selfpropelled.life/2025/12/10/w...
selfpropelled.life/2025/12/10/w...
Why Aren’t They Listening?
The War between the Land and the Sea Salt, Sea Devil ambassador: “These are the words of a politician, vetted and craven and hollow. You would answer.” Barclay, Ambassador for human-kind: “Be…
selfpropelled.life
December 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
New blog post inspired by the TV series - The War Between the Land and Sea - in which there was a passage of dialogue that really struck home. I don’t understand the world anymore. We’ve officially lost the plot.
selfpropelled.life/2025/12/10/w...
selfpropelled.life/2025/12/10/w...
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This is so racist it needs a new category of racism to describe it but it's also stupid and pointless. You simply cannot purge the celebration of Black people and their accomplishments from this country in favor of celebrations of a dying pedophile. It's literally not a thing he's capable of doing.
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is so racist it needs a new category of racism to describe it but it's also stupid and pointless. You simply cannot purge the celebration of Black people and their accomplishments from this country in favor of celebrations of a dying pedophile. It's literally not a thing he's capable of doing.
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🎄 INEQUALITY IS SHIT
We have just delivered a 💩 gift for the Ritz, depositing it below their iconic Christmas tree.
Take Back Power demand the UK gov establish a permanent House of the People with the power to tax the rich and fix Britain.
Sign up: takebackpower.net
We have just delivered a 💩 gift for the Ritz, depositing it below their iconic Christmas tree.
Take Back Power demand the UK gov establish a permanent House of the People with the power to tax the rich and fix Britain.
Sign up: takebackpower.net
December 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🎄 INEQUALITY IS SHIT
We have just delivered a 💩 gift for the Ritz, depositing it below their iconic Christmas tree.
Take Back Power demand the UK gov establish a permanent House of the People with the power to tax the rich and fix Britain.
Sign up: takebackpower.net
We have just delivered a 💩 gift for the Ritz, depositing it below their iconic Christmas tree.
Take Back Power demand the UK gov establish a permanent House of the People with the power to tax the rich and fix Britain.
Sign up: takebackpower.net
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"To be quite honest, this country's going to shit"
After delivering their 💩 gift to the Ritz Hotel this morning, the Take Back Power supporters sat outside to talk about why they took action today.
Sign up: takebackpower.net
After delivering their 💩 gift to the Ritz Hotel this morning, the Take Back Power supporters sat outside to talk about why they took action today.
Sign up: takebackpower.net
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"To be quite honest, this country's going to shit"
After delivering their 💩 gift to the Ritz Hotel this morning, the Take Back Power supporters sat outside to talk about why they took action today.
Sign up: takebackpower.net
After delivering their 💩 gift to the Ritz Hotel this morning, the Take Back Power supporters sat outside to talk about why they took action today.
Sign up: takebackpower.net
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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🔥 The UK is sleepwalking into a major energy mistake: co-firing hydrogen with natural gas in NEW gas power stations
Like this one on Humberside just going to national planning
keadbynextgen.com
Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST, summary in 🧵 below
🔥 The UK is sleepwalking into a major energy mistake: co-firing hydrogen with natural gas in NEW gas power stations
Like this one on Humberside just going to national planning
keadbynextgen.com
Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST, summary in 🧵 below
Keadby Next Generation Power Station
keadbynextgen.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🧵 1/
🔥 The UK is sleepwalking into a major energy mistake: co-firing hydrogen with natural gas in NEW gas power stations
Like this one on Humberside just going to national planning
keadbynextgen.com
Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST, summary in 🧵 below
🔥 The UK is sleepwalking into a major energy mistake: co-firing hydrogen with natural gas in NEW gas power stations
Like this one on Humberside just going to national planning
keadbynextgen.com
Read my Substack analysis:
👉 scrapcc.org/KEADBY-RR-SST, summary in 🧵 below