Lynnette Green
@lynngreen.bsky.social
Retired engineer, lifelong environmentalist. Interested in wildlife conservation and climate change.
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"#Ecocide shifts the burden from vulnerable communities to decision-makers"
Kate Mackintosh makes the #humanrights case for #ecocidelaw in a new guest blog.
Full piece here: www.stopecocide.eart...
#StopEcocide UCLA Promise Europe
Kate Mackintosh makes the #humanrights case for #ecocidelaw in a new guest blog.
Full piece here: www.stopecocide.eart...
#StopEcocide UCLA Promise Europe
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"#Ecocide shifts the burden from vulnerable communities to decision-makers"
Kate Mackintosh makes the #humanrights case for #ecocidelaw in a new guest blog.
Full piece here: www.stopecocide.eart...
#StopEcocide UCLA Promise Europe
Kate Mackintosh makes the #humanrights case for #ecocidelaw in a new guest blog.
Full piece here: www.stopecocide.eart...
#StopEcocide UCLA Promise Europe
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Scottish Palestine activists accused of 'terrorism' are being offered £100 fines instead of a trial ...
'It feels like the Scottish criminal justice system is exploring imaginative ways to avoid handing some of us terrorist convictions', one said ⬇️
www.thenational.scot/news/2565626...
'It feels like the Scottish criminal justice system is exploring imaginative ways to avoid handing some of us terrorist convictions', one said ⬇️
www.thenational.scot/news/2565626...
'Like a parking ticket': Scottish activists face £100 fines for 'terrorism'
SCOTTISH prosecutors face claims they have reduced terrorism to the level of a parking ticket after asking activists accused of supporting a…
www.thenational.scot
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Scottish Palestine activists accused of 'terrorism' are being offered £100 fines instead of a trial ...
'It feels like the Scottish criminal justice system is exploring imaginative ways to avoid handing some of us terrorist convictions', one said ⬇️
www.thenational.scot/news/2565626...
'It feels like the Scottish criminal justice system is exploring imaginative ways to avoid handing some of us terrorist convictions', one said ⬇️
www.thenational.scot/news/2565626...
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“Just three companies – DMG Media, News UK and Reach – control 90% of UK national newspaper circulation, a 20% increase in market concentration since 2014. Newsquest and National World – control 51% of the UK’s 882 local newspapers and local news websites”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims
Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media ownership affect political decisions
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“Just three companies – DMG Media, News UK and Reach – control 90% of UK national newspaper circulation, a 20% increase in market concentration since 2014. Newsquest and National World – control 51% of the UK’s 882 local newspapers and local news websites”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Rachel Reeves’ 2025 Budget has already collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. In this video, I explain why tax rises on ordinary people, baseless growth forecasts, and a refusal to tax wealth fairly mean this Budget will fail. youtu.be/xvdFsOT6WPk?...
Why Rachel Reeves just failed the British public
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Rachel Reeves’ 2025 Budget has already collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions. In this video, I explain why tax rises on ordinary people, baseless growth forecasts, and a refusal to tax wealth fairly mean this Budget will fail. youtu.be/xvdFsOT6WPk?...
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The good, the bad and the ugly of the Budget:
The bad: the Budget contained no significant tax reforms, and almost nothing in the way of pro-growth measures. The capital allowance change will reduce business investment - it's positively anti-growth.
The bad: the Budget contained no significant tax reforms, and almost nothing in the way of pro-growth measures. The capital allowance change will reduce business investment - it's positively anti-growth.
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The good, the bad and the ugly of the Budget:
The bad: the Budget contained no significant tax reforms, and almost nothing in the way of pro-growth measures. The capital allowance change will reduce business investment - it's positively anti-growth.
The bad: the Budget contained no significant tax reforms, and almost nothing in the way of pro-growth measures. The capital allowance change will reduce business investment - it's positively anti-growth.
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Budget 2025.
Household energy bills could be cut by £154, green levies shifted to general taxation.
No abolition of VAT on domestic fuel.
No curbs on energy company profiteering/dividends.
No change in the Ofgem pricing formula, which gives us one of the most expensive electricity in the world.
Household energy bills could be cut by £154, green levies shifted to general taxation.
No abolition of VAT on domestic fuel.
No curbs on energy company profiteering/dividends.
No change in the Ofgem pricing formula, which gives us one of the most expensive electricity in the world.
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Budget 2025.
Household energy bills could be cut by £154, green levies shifted to general taxation.
No abolition of VAT on domestic fuel.
No curbs on energy company profiteering/dividends.
No change in the Ofgem pricing formula, which gives us one of the most expensive electricity in the world.
Household energy bills could be cut by £154, green levies shifted to general taxation.
No abolition of VAT on domestic fuel.
No curbs on energy company profiteering/dividends.
No change in the Ofgem pricing formula, which gives us one of the most expensive electricity in the world.
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You're complicit in genocide and the attacks on migrants.
A devastating message to Labour MPs from @zackpolanski.bsky.social
A devastating message to Labour MPs from @zackpolanski.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
You're complicit in genocide and the attacks on migrants.
A devastating message to Labour MPs from @zackpolanski.bsky.social
A devastating message to Labour MPs from @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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World top soils store 45% more carbon than previously thought, making them a better sequester of carbon but also a bigger threat is soil degradation is allowed to continue
earth.org/soil-is-bigg...
earth.org/soil-is-bigg...
Soil Is Bigger Carbon Sink Than Previously Thought: Report
The world’s soils store 45% more carbon than previously estimated, making them a powerful, largely untapped carbon sink.
earth.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
World top soils store 45% more carbon than previously thought, making them a better sequester of carbon but also a bigger threat is soil degradation is allowed to continue
earth.org/soil-is-bigg...
earth.org/soil-is-bigg...
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A partnership for the NHS, run by Tony Blair’s son alongside Palantir. What could possibly go wrong?! 🚨🚨🚨
Here’s the link to read my latest piece…
jujuliagrace.substack.com
Here’s the link to read my latest piece…
jujuliagrace.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A partnership for the NHS, run by Tony Blair’s son alongside Palantir. What could possibly go wrong?! 🚨🚨🚨
Here’s the link to read my latest piece…
jujuliagrace.substack.com
Here’s the link to read my latest piece…
jujuliagrace.substack.com
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'We're going to make excuses for Trump until we have our own destruction.'
Phillips O'Brien and @mrjamesob.bsky.social discuss how pro-Trump sectors of the media are failing to recognise the 'pantomime of him protecting Putin'.
Phillips O'Brien and @mrjamesob.bsky.social discuss how pro-Trump sectors of the media are failing to recognise the 'pantomime of him protecting Putin'.
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
'We're going to make excuses for Trump until we have our own destruction.'
Phillips O'Brien and @mrjamesob.bsky.social discuss how pro-Trump sectors of the media are failing to recognise the 'pantomime of him protecting Putin'.
Phillips O'Brien and @mrjamesob.bsky.social discuss how pro-Trump sectors of the media are failing to recognise the 'pantomime of him protecting Putin'.
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AI offers huge potential for tackling global crises, but its rapid growth also carries major environmental costs.
Ahead of #UNEA7, where leaders will discuss emerging issues like AI, explore how we can balance its benefits with its planetary footprint: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Ahead of #UNEA7, where leaders will discuss emerging issues like AI, explore how we can balance its benefits with its planetary footprint: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
AI offers huge potential for tackling global crises, but its rapid growth also carries major environmental costs.
Ahead of #UNEA7, where leaders will discuss emerging issues like AI, explore how we can balance its benefits with its planetary footprint: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Ahead of #UNEA7, where leaders will discuss emerging issues like AI, explore how we can balance its benefits with its planetary footprint: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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It is very hard to overstate the evil of the fossil fuel industry.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
U.N. climate talks fizzle out 10 years after Paris accord
Nearly 200 countries at the U.N. climate summit reached a deal that didn’t include a road map to curtail use of fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It is very hard to overstate the evil of the fossil fuel industry.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
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The number of millionaires in Britain is growing ten times faster than the number of millionaires leaving the country. Not that you'd know that from commentators propagating the 'wealth flight' myth.
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The number of millionaires in Britain is growing ten times faster than the number of millionaires leaving the country. Not that you'd know that from commentators propagating the 'wealth flight' myth.
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Or to put Camilla Tominey's point another way, 99.7% of millionaires haven't left Britain
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Or to put Camilla Tominey's point another way, 99.7% of millionaires haven't left Britain
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The more Labour moves to the right, the lower it sinks in the polls. Surely it can't be long before its election-winning genius strategists put two and two together?
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The more Labour moves to the right, the lower it sinks in the polls. Surely it can't be long before its election-winning genius strategists put two and two together?
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Highlighting the surging inequaility between the super-rich and everybody else isn't 'exploiting divisions'. It's simply pointing the divisions out.
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Highlighting the surging inequaility between the super-rich and everybody else isn't 'exploiting divisions'. It's simply pointing the divisions out.
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Britain's utility, water and rail privatisation provide proof that only one outcome is possible when you put your cats in charge of a jug of cream
November 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Britain's utility, water and rail privatisation provide proof that only one outcome is possible when you put your cats in charge of a jug of cream
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Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
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British five-year-olds are up to 7cm shorter than children of the same age in Europe, with experts suggesting poor nutrition is responsible. Yes, it bloody well is time the two-child benefit cap was scrapped.
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
British five-year-olds are up to 7cm shorter than children of the same age in Europe, with experts suggesting poor nutrition is responsible. Yes, it bloody well is time the two-child benefit cap was scrapped.
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🚨 SCOOP: Toyota and Aston Martin secretly lobbied a Conservative cabinet minister to weaken Britain’s climate policy.
We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...
We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...
Victory! We’ve won major legal battle exposing car industry lobbying
After two years we can finally reveal “backdoor channels where corporate money hijacks our democracy.”
democracyforsale.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🚨 SCOOP: Toyota and Aston Martin secretly lobbied a Conservative cabinet minister to weaken Britain’s climate policy.
We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...
We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...
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Child Poverty %
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Child Poverty %
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
Denmark 2.4%
Finland 3.2%
Norway 3.6%
Sweden 3.6%
The UK 32.1%
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History will remember we banned Palestine Action for putting graffiti on planes.
But never stopped supplying Israel with bombs to drop on children.
But never stopped supplying Israel with bombs to drop on children.
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
History will remember we banned Palestine Action for putting graffiti on planes.
But never stopped supplying Israel with bombs to drop on children.
But never stopped supplying Israel with bombs to drop on children.
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The Conservatives & Johnson were compromised by Russian money & influence over years.
Reform obviously are.
Is Labour too? Could that be why Starmer won’t investigate?
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/2022/ju...
Reform obviously are.
Is Labour too? Could that be why Starmer won’t investigate?
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/2022/ju...
The Moscow moves: how Mandelson’s firm helped Uber reach Russian elite
Leak shows how the former Labour minister used his access to pro-Kremlin oligarchs, including some now under sanctions
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The Conservatives & Johnson were compromised by Russian money & influence over years.
Reform obviously are.
Is Labour too? Could that be why Starmer won’t investigate?
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/2022/ju...
Reform obviously are.
Is Labour too? Could that be why Starmer won’t investigate?
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/2022/ju...
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The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...