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Olivia Williams's powerful reading of an open letter to Sir Keir Starmer and the national broadcasters calling for a televised emergency briefing. Full version here: www.youtube.com/@nebriefing
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#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
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December 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Olivia Williams's powerful reading of an open letter to Sir Keir Starmer and the national broadcasters calling for a televised emergency briefing. Full version here: www.youtube.com/@nebriefing
Please add your name: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
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#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
“Gaza is being pushed into smaller and smaller corners of what is left of home, the rest of the world moves on as if this fragmentation is normal.”https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/07/plestia-alaqad-trapped-inside-gaza-world-shrinking-palestinians
Whether trapped inside Gaza or out, the world is shrinking for Palestinians | Plestia Alaqad
Sometimes I feel like the world is more afraid of me as a Palestinian refugee than it is afraid of the genocide and wars that create refugees in the first place
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
“Gaza is being pushed into smaller and smaller corners of what is left of home, the rest of the world moves on as if this fragmentation is normal.”https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/07/plestia-alaqad-trapped-inside-gaza-world-shrinking-palestinians
My piece on COP30.
labourhub.org.uk/2025/11/28/c...
labourhub.org.uk/2025/11/28/c...
COP30 – is failure baked into the Paris Agreement?
Martin Franklin assesses the recent conference in Brazil. Science warns us that we are on the brink of climate ‘tipping points’ which destroy ecosystems, cause increasingly extreme weathe…
labourhub.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
My piece on COP30.
labourhub.org.uk/2025/11/28/c...
labourhub.org.uk/2025/11/28/c...
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Opposing genocide is not terrorism.
Make your choice.
People who have challenged the outrageous banning of Palestine Action explain why they had to break this illegitimate law
www.wedonotcomply.org
youtu.be/N5nXJAdFBQY?...
Make your choice.
People who have challenged the outrageous banning of Palestine Action explain why they had to break this illegitimate law
www.wedonotcomply.org
youtu.be/N5nXJAdFBQY?...
Lift The Ban - Defend Our Juries
From November 18th to 29th, Defend Our Juries will launch the most widespread mass civil disobedience across the UK in modern British history. Find out more and get involved here. Following intensive ...
www.wedonotcomply.org
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Opposing genocide is not terrorism.
Make your choice.
People who have challenged the outrageous banning of Palestine Action explain why they had to break this illegitimate law
www.wedonotcomply.org
youtu.be/N5nXJAdFBQY?...
Make your choice.
People who have challenged the outrageous banning of Palestine Action explain why they had to break this illegitimate law
www.wedonotcomply.org
youtu.be/N5nXJAdFBQY?...
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Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge 'Dark Money' Climate-Denial Lobbyist
EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
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The enemy does not arrive in small boats.
Asylum seekers and refugees are not to blame for Britain’s problems.
We do not want the story of our country to be one of fear and exclusion.
Recall these dehumanising new asylum reforms. NOW
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
The enemy does not arrive in small boats.
Asylum seekers and refugees are not to blame for Britain’s problems.
We do not want the story of our country to be one of fear and exclusion.
Recall these dehumanising new asylum reforms. NOW
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
Dear Home Secretary
The enemy does not arrive in small boats. Join the open letter calling for compassion – help stop Shabana Mahmood’s cruel asylum reforms!
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November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Sign/share
The enemy does not arrive in small boats.
Asylum seekers and refugees are not to blame for Britain’s problems.
We do not want the story of our country to be one of fear and exclusion.
Recall these dehumanising new asylum reforms. NOW
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
The enemy does not arrive in small boats.
Asylum seekers and refugees are not to blame for Britain’s problems.
We do not want the story of our country to be one of fear and exclusion.
Recall these dehumanising new asylum reforms. NOW
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
Media bias mediabiasmeter.com/framing-gaza...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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As we witness UK Labour attempt to beat their opposition by becoming them, here is a proven antidote that is both morally *and* electorally sound. When you echo your opposition, you simply feed hunger for their scapegoating masquerading as solutions.
Seems like a good time (again) to share the guide I developed with @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social, which tells you how to talk about refugees and asylum in a way that actually convinces the undecided - based on testing 🧵 www.freedomfromtorture.org/changing-the...
Changing the Conversation on Asylum: A Messaging Guide
Our new messaging guide looks at the methodology and messages that can help us carve out a new approach that will be successful in persuading the public that seeking safety is a fundamental human righ...
www.freedomfromtorture.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
As we witness UK Labour attempt to beat their opposition by becoming them, here is a proven antidote that is both morally *and* electorally sound. When you echo your opposition, you simply feed hunger for their scapegoating masquerading as solutions.
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At COP30 in Belém do Pará, more than 50,000 people made history with a clear, unified message:
“It is time to bury fossil fuels and build a clean, just future.”
Today, we symbolically laid fossil fuels to rest. ✊
“It is time to bury fossil fuels and build a clean, just future.”
Today, we symbolically laid fossil fuels to rest. ✊
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
At COP30 in Belém do Pará, more than 50,000 people made history with a clear, unified message:
“It is time to bury fossil fuels and build a clean, just future.”
Today, we symbolically laid fossil fuels to rest. ✊
“It is time to bury fossil fuels and build a clean, just future.”
Today, we symbolically laid fossil fuels to rest. ✊
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Shameful and outrageous
Falk, who has investigated Israeli abuses, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
Former UN special rapporteur Richard Falk interrogated for hours in Canada
Falk, who has investigated Israeli abuses, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Shameful and outrageous
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“The BBC’s coverage of Israel’s genocide is one of the great journalistic crimes of our age.”
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @owenjones.bsky.social flame the BBC for its pro-Israel bias and vent at right-wing gaslighting over the outlet’s “liberal” slant.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @owenjones.bsky.social flame the BBC for its pro-Israel bias and vent at right-wing gaslighting over the outlet’s “liberal” slant.
November 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
“The BBC’s coverage of Israel’s genocide is one of the great journalistic crimes of our age.”
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @owenjones.bsky.social flame the BBC for its pro-Israel bias and vent at right-wing gaslighting over the outlet’s “liberal” slant.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @owenjones.bsky.social flame the BBC for its pro-Israel bias and vent at right-wing gaslighting over the outlet’s “liberal” slant.
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It's no surprise that governments and fossil fuel companies are trying to stall the green revolution: energy is power.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/were-proud-to-be-pioneers-inside-spains-community-energy-revolution
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/were-proud-to-be-pioneers-inside-spains-community-energy-revolution
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It's no surprise that governments and fossil fuel companies are trying to stall the green revolution: energy is power.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/were-proud-to-be-pioneers-inside-spains-community-energy-revolution
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/were-proud-to-be-pioneers-inside-spains-community-energy-revolution
The International Panel on the Information Environment found that “inaccurate or misleading narratives” in the media about climate breakdown create “a feedback loop between scientific denialism and political inaction”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The International Panel on the Information Environment found that “inaccurate or misleading narratives” in the media about climate breakdown create “a feedback loop between scientific denialism and political inaction”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Farage’s unhealthy alliance www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The real Reform voters have been revealed – it’s a slapdash coalition Farage will struggle to hold together | Aditya Chakrabortty
This is no single bloc marching under one ideology, or even a mass of ‘red-wall’ voters. What unites them is a desire for something different, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Farage’s unhealthy alliance www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This whilst COP 30 is going on. A clear message to the global south (and everyone else) that they have to such up climate breakdown.
Australia's opposition party just dropped its target to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, specifically citing the 'abundance agenda'
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This whilst COP 30 is going on. A clear message to the global south (and everyone else) that they have to such up climate breakdown.
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Australia's opposition party just dropped its target to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, specifically citing the 'abundance agenda'
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Australia's opposition party just dropped its target to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, specifically citing the 'abundance agenda'
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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"GLP’s 27-page complaint filed last month about Policy Exchange, a charity co-founded by former justice secretary Michael Gove in 2002, alleged that it was in breach of charity law by showing 'an unhealthy obsession with trans issues.'" www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/charity...
Charity Commission opens case into Policy Exchange
www.civilsociety.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
"GLP’s 27-page complaint filed last month about Policy Exchange, a charity co-founded by former justice secretary Michael Gove in 2002, alleged that it was in breach of charity law by showing 'an unhealthy obsession with trans issues.'" www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/charity...
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Voters want both: homes built and wildlife protected.
MPs should listen to the public, not a false "nature vs growth" narrative.
If nature loses at this stage, it will be because they chose not to protect it.
Tell your MP to back nature: action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 📢
MPs should listen to the public, not a false "nature vs growth" narrative.
If nature loses at this stage, it will be because they chose not to protect it.
Tell your MP to back nature: action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 📢
Help stop the Planning and Infrastructure Bill tearing up nature protections
I've just emailed my MP and asked them to vote to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Voters want both: homes built and wildlife protected.
MPs should listen to the public, not a false "nature vs growth" narrative.
If nature loses at this stage, it will be because they chose not to protect it.
Tell your MP to back nature: action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 📢
MPs should listen to the public, not a false "nature vs growth" narrative.
If nature loses at this stage, it will be because they chose not to protect it.
Tell your MP to back nature: action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 📢
Polanski ahead of (what I hope) is the new curve.
Wow!!
"This energy!!!" 👏👏👏👏
Zack Polanski joins Rizzle Kicks out on stage in Bristol
Zack Polanski joins Rizzle Kicks out on stage in Bristol
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Polanski ahead of (what I hope) is the new curve.
...be careful what you wish for; before you join in the celebrations of Auntie’s demise, have a look at who you’re joining at the party: Trump, Boris Johnson, Badenoch, Nigel Farage, Kelvin MacKenzie labourhub.org.uk/2025/11/12/w...
What the right-wing offensive against the BBC is really about
By Tim Lezard The BBC is so left-wing that since 2010 its biased reporting has resulted in the election of four successive Conservative governments and, last year, of the most right-wing Labour adm…
labourhub.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
...be careful what you wish for; before you join in the celebrations of Auntie’s demise, have a look at who you’re joining at the party: Trump, Boris Johnson, Badenoch, Nigel Farage, Kelvin MacKenzie labourhub.org.uk/2025/11/12/w...
COP is taking place in a political climate unfavourable to positive changes to halt global heating and its consequences. We need a new politics that prioritises the wellbeing of people and planet, not fossil fuel driven ‘growth’.
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C3S data shows that every year since the Paris Agreement has ranked among the 10 warmest on record.
C3S data shows that every year since the Paris Agreement has ranked among the 10 warmest on record.
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
COP is taking place in a political climate unfavourable to positive changes to halt global heating and its consequences. We need a new politics that prioritises the wellbeing of people and planet, not fossil fuel driven ‘growth’.