Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Six Just Stop Oil supporters acquitted of disrupting key national infrastructure after Waterloo Bridge slow march – Just Stop Oil Six Just Stop Oil supporters were acquitted at Southwark Crown Court today, two and a half years after slow marching on Waterloo Bridge to demand an end to new oil and gas licensing. [1] On 8th Novemb...

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I gave the Green Party a donation to help fight Gorton and Denton and the hope the Green Party gave me by winning (and seeing Labour get hammered) made it worth every single penny.
I've just done the same for the local elections. I want to feel that hope again on May 8th

"During the five day trial, the judge denied the defendants all legal defences including reasonable excuse and necessity and ruled that agreed facts on climate were 'irrelevant'."

The jury delivered their not-guilty verdict today after approximately six hours juststopoil.org/2026/04/17/s...

Zany Zack Polanskis green party are selling a future that nobody sane would choose

That future: Lower bills. Tax billionaires. End Rip off Britain.

Who's in?

Palestine Action activists defeat Starmer regime's attempt to criminalise them (again) Palestine Action activists, Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner and Leona Kamio, defeat criminal charges again over incident at Elbit Systems site

Palestine Action activists, Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner and Leona Kamio, defeat criminal charges again over incident at Elbit Systems site

@skwawkbox.org

We will not be gaslit!

Country that lectures Iran on democracy arrests another 523 people for peacefully protesting The absurdity surrounding the UK’s treatment of Palestine Action and its supporters has reached new lows.

Country that lectures Iran on democracy arrests another 523 people for peacefully protesting
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Image of Netanyahu with a raised fist and the quoted statement “we will hunt down anyone who mocks our country online.”

He’s gonna be busy.

Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja arrested at Palestine protest Robert Del Naja is arrested on suspicion of showing support for a proscribed organisation.

Massive Attack frontman Robert Del Naja has been arrested on suspicion of showing support for Palestine Action.

The 61-year-old sat among hundreds of fellow demonstrators with a sign that read "I Oppose Genocide, I Support Palestine Action".

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BREAKING: Police immediately begin wrongful arrests as over 500 people defy the unlawful ban on Palestine Action.

Protestors are being arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding signs which say "I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action".

Meridionally consistent decline in the observed western boundary contribution to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Western boundary observations in the Atlantic suggest a meridionally consistent decline in the ocean overturning circulation.

New study finds the "canary in the coal mine" for the #AMOC: a consistent decline of the western overturning circulation, down from 20 to 15 Sv during 2004-2023 at 26° N. 🌊
AMOC "could be at or near a critical tipping point, potentially leading to its collapse".
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

RAF Lakenheath shut down by protesters at both gates The action comes amidst growing public backlash over the the use of RAF Lakenheath to facilitate illegal US-Israeli bombardment of Iran

RAF Lakenheath shut down by protesters at both gates

The action comes amidst growing public backlash over the use of RAF Lakenheath to facilitate illegal US-Israeli bombardment of Iran
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

We're on the verge of a genocidal, nuclear war that our supposed "ally" has said he's ready to unleash.

Would it be too much to ask for the Prime Minister to have something to say about it? Or do?

Suspend US bases on UK soil now.

The US military has 22 sites in the UK.

Every day long range US bombers are taking off here to drop bombs on Iran.

This is a rogue state carrying out war crimes, and threatening more.

The UK Government must grow a spine - and stop our bases being used for this war.

Screen grab of a Mirror article with a photo of Zack Polanski in a suit and white shirt speaking and looking active, with text: Green Party leader Zack Polanski speaking at the launch of the Wales (PA) Green Party plans to reduce the speed limit on Britain's motorways to 55mph One major change under the party's new plans is reducing the speed limit on our motorways from 70mph to just 55mph - a decision that will split opinions between both motorists and non-motorists

The many media outlets calling @greenparty.org.uk transport policy a “war on motorists” should try talking to bereaved families and seriously injured survivors of road crashes rather than ignoring the trauma and pain left when people drive without considering the harm they may cause at the wheel.

Two arrested during peace protests outside RAF Lakenheath More than 100 protesters create a blockade outside RAF Lakenheath during a six-day peace camp.

Two arrested for "suspicion of obstructing a public highway" during peace protests at the frontline against British complicity in another illegal war – outside the "RAF" base in Suffolk where USAF planes leave to bomb Iran www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK is very much involved in the war against Iran.

Ed Miliband has sold us all out.

The climate movement, the environmental sector - and most importantly - our future generations.

No longer can Labour claim to have the odd minister who "gets it."

They're bought and paid for.

Drilling for more oil & gas in the North Sea won't lower bills, it won't make us more energy independent and it won't insulate us from price shocks.

A Labour backslide on this would be a huge betrayal.

Double down on renewables. Insulate every home. Lower bills, permanently.

Zack Polanski meets unions in attempt to get them to switch party funding to Greens Leader understood to have spoken to 10 trade unions after party claimed working class voters are turning to them

This is the best way of pressuring Labour. It's a win win for @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @greenparty.org.uk. Either Labour make the changes unions want to see or they go to the Greens. Or Labour shifts their policy platform leftwards and the country is better off anyway. Unions now have a choice.

Polanski talks up teacher pay rises, scaling back exams and fighting far right - taxing the rich to pay for it all.

Fair play from the Mail.

I said what I said.

The Daily Mail's definitely real interview with Polanski's family is backfiring If the Daily Mail hates you then you must be doing something right - as Polanski found out after the right-wing rag tried to come for him

If the Daily Mail hates you then you must be doing something right - as Polanski found out after the right-wing rag tried to come for him

Green Party MPs and Peers have written to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ed Miliband, urging the government to decouple the price of electricity from volatile global gas markets to "protect households and businesses from another devastating surge in energy bills."

Code FUBAR for Everything! Moving beyond "Code Red for Humanity"

My latest on SubStack, Code FUBAR for Everything!

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BREAKING:

A group of peaceful signholders have gathered outside New Scotland Yard, the offices of the Met Police, holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” signs.

This comes just days after the Met U-turned on their policy not to arrest people for this act.

A man with his wife, displaced from Beirut's southern suburb of Dahiyeh, shelter from the rain inside a tent along the coast in Beirut. [Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo]

A displaced family sits next to a bonfire in a temporary encampment, amid escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, as the US-Israeli war on Iran continues, in Beirut. [Raghed Waked/Reuters]

A man checks a destroyed building that was hit in an Israeli air strike in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon. [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]

Yasmin holds her brother Ali, both displaced from Beirut's southern suburb of Dahiyeh, as they shelter from the rain inside a tent along the coast in Beirut. [Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo]

More than one million displaced by Israel’s evacuations in Lebanon https://aje.news/tgedzo

The spectator. Zacked off. A pretty ludicrous image of Zack with Hannah and Mothin chopping down trees and harassing badgers!

Erm....

Are these people ok?

I don't think they're ok.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Met issues revised position on Palestine Action support Anyone showing support for the group is likely to be arrested.

Although the High Court ruled the banning of Palestine Action is unlawful, the Metropolitan Police has decided not to wait on the outcome of an appeal and to pretend the government has already won it. Officers will restart arresting people under the Terrorism Act news.met.police.uk/news/met-iss...

A comment following my interview with Rob Cooper climateuncensored.com/the-climate-... was: "It would be good to occasionally hear a climate expert that doesn’t spout all the other left wing axioms ... more chance of convincing right wing policy makers." An important point with my reply attached.