Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law. Join me and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent.
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I am taking the flight free challenge for the seventh consecutive year. Could you join me? #FlightFree2026 @flightfreeuk.bsky.social www.flightfree.co.uk
“the global pace of progress on climate change is currently below the bottom end of Shell’s forecasts from 2016” according to Shell’s former CEO. So #BigOil never imagined we would be so dumb as to ignore the emergency like this www.ft.com/content/c6d7...
A large SUV with private jet wings
A group of campaigners holding "Tax Private Jets" signs.
Did you know you pay more fuel tax on a single car journey than a billionaire does on a private jet flight?
Right now the gov is subsidising tax breaks, when they could be using that tax to generate billions for public services.
Help us change this: https://bit.ly/43NAeFN
This cause is close to my heart. It's like compensating slave owners for their loss of free labour: the money should be going in the opposite direction. Please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
Jacqui Hames, featured in #TheHack, is calling on the Prime Minister to put the public ahead of Murdoch, and act now to end corruption and abuse in the press.
Back her petition now:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
This is from #Hansard the day after Heseltine's 'necessary to act in secrecy and with speed' intervention, and shows the heavy hand of authoritarianism echoing down the generations
A few 10s of us students took a bus to #Molesworth on 17th Feb to express ourselves. #BillyBragg was there, still only a #JohnPeel cult figure at the time, and without his guitar. Last week we were both outside the Royal Courts of Justice (on different days) bsky.app/profile/defe... #plusçachange
It was 40 years ago tonight… that Michael #Heseltine sent 1,000s of soldiers to destroy a camp of a few 10s of #quakers, #CND and #peace campaigners at #Molesworth cruise missile base. The next day he paraded in his 'combat' jacket image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/G...
This is very small potatoes, but I've been making micro-loans via kiva.org for 20 years or so - it provides a way to support the aspirations of people in difficult circumstances, such as this contribution to a young person's higher education www.kiva.org/invitedby/da...
Britain’s crackdown on climate protest is setting “a dangerous precedent” around the world and undermining democratic rights, the UK director of Human Rights Watch has said.
Labour government ‘hypocrisy’ over human rights and international law:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I am taking the flight free challenge for the sixth consecutive year. Could you join me? #FlightFree2025 @flightfreeuk.bsky.social www.flightfree.co.uk
"Indeed, STEM has long been used as tool to commodify education, channel workers into economically desirable, non-unionised jobs and reduce funding for humanities subjects."
I hadn't though about STEM in this way before.
(from How the Railways Will Fix the Future by @garethdennis.bsky.social )
I have an email dated 02008-09-18 from Meetup titled Welcome to Long Now London!, so I think we joined Meetup earlier than 02010. The first meeting was in a pub in Clerkenwell (The Peasant, I think) on 2 October 02008, with Alexander Rose and Brian Eno attending.
Enjoyable afternoon at #KairosLondon for the first Reading Room www.kairos.london/event/sunday.... I dipped into On the Emergence of an Ecological Class by Latour and Schultz, The Leaderless Revolution by Carne Ross, and Orbital, which is Friday's book club choice www.kairos.london/event/book-c...
Thanks, but that's Gareth, not me - I'm unlikely to be posting images of myself anytime soon.
Not just for trainspotters, this podcast with @garethdennis.bsky.social by @novaramedia.com has at least one jaw-dropping fact or perspective in every 5 of its 95 (!) minutes, starting off with why the Victoria Line is worth 10 six-lane motorways www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3af...
