🚨 The UK is unprepared for the growing impacts of extreme weather. That’s exactly why the Climate and Nature Crisis Caucus is putting adaptation firmly on the political agenda. We can’t afford to keep reacting after the damage is done. 👉 thecncc.org
Meta is logging its workers’ every keystroke to train the AI that will replace them.
Extract what workers know. Model it. Cut the workers.
This is happening because governments are letting it happen. On this. On Palantir. On facial recognition.
Inaction is still a choice. And someone is making it.
I have signed a letter to the Foreign Secretary about the escalation of deadly Israeli settler violence in the West Bank and Israel’s systematic demolition of Palestinian homes.
The letter urges the government to make diplomatic interventions and impose sanctions on Israeli settlements.
Glad to see that government are now seriously considering this. This would not be happening without the pressure that has been put on them to have a rethink, including through this motion.
Now they just need to move from consideration to action.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Workers must have a voice in shaping the industrial changes coming as a result of the climate and cost of living crises.
That’s why I’m co-sponsoring a motion to give ‘future-proofing’ union reps the rights, time and training they need and to ensure they’re involved in planning for decarbonisation.
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These calls to gut welfare in the name of security deserve to be seen in exactly that light - as the work of people fighting the last war, at the expense of our ability to fight the one that may or may not actually be coming.”
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The French state almost bankrupted itself building a fortification based on the lessons of the First World War. As the generals congratulated themselves behind their new defences, Germany developed the tank and drove around them.
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Hostile actors don't need to fire a shot if a society is already fracturing from within. Cutting disability benefits to buy more drones is not a defence strategy - it is a recruitment poster for our enemies.
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The usual siren voices are giving us Maginot Line thinking for a blitzkrieg world
Hybrid warfare - the kind we actually face - works by exploiting inequality, division and social breakdown. Disinformation finds purchase in communities that feel abandoned.
EDM 3059: Decoupling the price of gas from electricity
I have backed a motion urging the Government to break the link between gas prices and electricity costs, so households aren’t hit by global gas price spikes.
With so many already struggling, it's time for a fairer pricing system that reflects the true cost of cheaper renewable energy.
This Bill isn’t law yet. It now returns to the Lords, and this fight is far from over. (5/5)
One of the most authoritarian political parties in modern British history is leading in the polls.
As I said when the government proscribed Palestine Action - a progressive Labour government should be building firewalls for our democracy, not tearing them down and pitch-rolling for Reform. (4/5)
Protest is supposed to be disruptive. That’s the point. From the suffragettes to the anti-apartheid movement, it was cumulative, persistent, inconvenient protest that changed this country for the better. (3/5)
They knew this wouldn’t survive proper scrutiny - so they denied MPs the time to give it any.
I supported the cross-party motion to oppose the cumulative disruption amendment. The government used its majority to force it through regardless. (2/5)
The right to protest isn’t a gift from government. It’s a democratic principle, hard-won and easily lost. Last night the government tried to smuggle through a “cumulative disruption” power that would let police ban protests simply because other people had protested in the same area before. (1/5)
The East India Company director who described his enterprise as a sponge was at least honest about what he was doing. The question before us is whether, two hundred years later, we are equally clear-eyed about what is happening - and whether we retain the will to respond. 🧵 5/5
The challenge that we face – of securing sovereignty, accountability, and economic resilience in this new landscape – isn’t technical, it’s political. It concerns the shape of power in the 21st Century, and whether democratic institutions retain the capacity to exercise it. 🧵4/5
Yet the UK, like many countries, relies on a handful of global tech firms that answer not to democratic institutions, but to their shareholders - and sometimes to foreign governments. 🧵 3/5
Cloud computing, data systems, AI, and software platforms are no longer peripheral tools. They are the operating system of our economies and democracies. 🧵2/5
I have written the foreword to the brilliant new Open Rights Group report "Tech Giants and Giant Slayers: The Case for Digital Sovereignty"
The report addresses a simple but profound question: who controls the infrastructure modern societies now depend on? 🧵 1/5
The system is broken. Public ownership is the only solution.
That’s why I’m backing the Sewage Campaign Network’s petition for a referendum on water ownership. If you agree we should all have a say on bringing water into public hands, add your name here:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
Privatisation in a nutshell.
Five UK water companies funded by your bills spending millions just so they can raise those bills even higher.
It will feel like a slap in the face for Norwich residents to see that Anglian Water are one of the worst offenders.
Read here: www.ft.com/content/0094...
And support my campaigns - including public ownership of water - here: actionnetwork.org/forms/we-can...
Graphic with pipes dumping sewage in a river and overlay text: "Sign the Petition: Hold a Referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership
Most of us want to see our water back in public hands, but never actually had a say.
That’s why I’m backing the Sewage Campaign Network’s petition for a referendum on water ownership.
Let’s reach as many people as we can: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review!
We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵
Today your water bill is rising again, after a 26% hike last year on average.
This is because the regulator is allowing extractive private companies to rinse the public.
In Parliament I'm calling to end the failed experiment of water privatisation. Time for public ownership.
The government is reportedly considering triggering the break clause in Palantir’s NHS data contract.
It's a no-brainer - this break clause is an exit ramp and the government should take it.
