The government talks of “mainlining AI” into the economy. Yet reports suggest the promised investment may be little more than shaky accounting and phantom figures.
Energy is precious. It must serve the public good — hospitals and vital services — not endless AI slop.
#EnergyPolicy #AI
Scrapping jury trials is an affront to the very foundations of our democracy.
From the moment this government was elected, it has come after the civil liberties we all hold dear.
This is yet another outrageous assault on our fundamental freedoms. I will be voting against it.
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A glimpse of UK democracy
The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on bank accounts of benefit recipients.
The poor, old, sick have no financial privacy.
The same does not apply to enablers of tax abuse schemes.
We are all equal, aren't we?
Definitions of Islamophobia exist, almost unanimously accepted by all Muslim organisations, there's even an APPG one!
The new definition falls short in providing protection for British Muslims, at a time when Islamophobic hate crimes are skyrocketting
We just need to implement what we already have
Anti-Muslim hate incidents surged to record levels last year, a 43% increase on 2024. Now that we have a definition agreed by government, I am desperate for the conversation on Islamophobia to move towards a clear roadmap for action. I asked the government how soon this will happen.
“I was working hard in the voluntary sector, but the decisions were made by the people who put their hand up and voted. I realised we needed to be there too.”
As we look ahead to the local elections, Green Party peer Jenny Jones spoke to Green councillors about what first inspired them to stand.
Sarah Sackman: "The British governments position is clear, we want to see a de-escalation of this conflict"
.. and that's why we're allowing the US to use British military bases to bomb Iran!
Sackman & the govt are treating us like fools.
The science of racism with Professor Keon West
I *love* this.
The leader of a major UK political party being unafraid of showing their true human self to the world.
It really is time we tried *this*, instead of the dishonesty, bigotry, and grift we currently endure.
So I've just joined the Green Party.
Sorry Labour, you had your chance..
It really is mad, in the run up to the last election labour sycophants told us we were Tory enablers for not voting for Starmer. After 14 years of Tory government in a lot of ways it’s actually worse under labour 😭 never again 💚
Very excited to be appearing at Wembley Arena tomorrow night as part of Trans Mission.
100 per cent of the profits raised will be split between Not a Phase and the Good Law Project.
www.transmissionlive.uk
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Today, we published the annual @forbes.com World's Billionaires list. There have never been so many billionaires as there are today, and they have never been as powerful as they are now. www.forbes.com/billionaires/
We’re growing in numbers and in strength every day! Join a positive, inclusive and progressive alliance and we can overcome the rise of hatred, division and intolerance which the regressive far right bring.
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Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.
Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK junk food ad ban so diluted it may be largely ineffective.
It is because govts succumb to pressure from corporations and hobbyists. How many legislators on industry payroll?
Game of impression management. Exceptions manufactured to create ineffective laws.
Disabled people being pushed into poverty.
People with disabilities need support, not benefit cuts.
Requirement to score 4 points for an activity leads to loss of PIP support.
Govts attack human welfare whilst promoting corporate welfare.
We are all one event away from needing disability support
Adult social care privatised since the 1980s. Local councils spend 70% of budget on it.
83% of social care controlled by private equity, 20%-40% profit margin.
Will Govt end profiteering, ensure only not-for-profit entities, including local councils, provide care.
Watch the Minister's reply.
Bombs falling on Iran will not bring democracy. They will only endanger the brave Iranians who have already risked their lives protesting for freedom.
We must not repeat the mistakes of Iraq and Afghanistan by blindly following Donald Trump’s America into another dangerous war.
"Utterly failed"
@rachelmillward.bsky.social lays out the reality of privatised water - explaining why water must be returned to public hands.
Image is a screenshot of a reasoned amendment to the Courts and Tribunals Bill. It is signed by Siân Berry, Hannah Spencer, Carla Denyer, Dr Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay. It reads: That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Courts and Tribunals Bill because it is an inadequate and dangerous response to the challenges faced by the courts; it does not provide the correct solutions to the chronic backlog of cases in the Crown Court; it would not address the long-term underfunding that has led to the degradation of court systems, infrastructure and buildings; it would limit the crucial civil liberty and constitutional protection of trial by a jury of one’s own peers by removing defendants’ right to elect the Crown Court for all triable either-way offences; this change would cover a range of protest-related offences, and because protest rights and free speech, which act as safeguards against authoritarianism, have already been eroded by this Government and should not be limited further; jury trials build public trust and confidence in the courts and act as a space of shared civic responsibility that builds social cohesion; more effective interventions could be implemented that do not roll back fundamental rights, including expanding the use of ‘blitz courts’, increasing the number of sitting days, removing from the system cases that are no longer in the public interest to prosecute, increasing investment in legal aid, improving court case management technology, and bringing in more efficient processes to ensure defendants are brought to court and to the dock on time; and removing rights to judgment by one’s own peers may have the unintended consequence of increasing court backlogs through a rise in appeals.
🚨We have tabled an amendment to reject the Government’s sinister attempt to remove jury trials including for many protest related offences.
Our civil liberties have already been eroded by this Govt and should not be limited any further.
Greens are standing up against Labour's toolkit for tyrants.
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Labour's attempt to remove our right to a jury trial in thousands of cases - including protest related offences - is a serious attack on our civil liberties.
That's why the Green MPs have tabled an amendment to reject it.
The Green Party says no to Labour's toolkit for tyrants.
I wasn't intending to turn this into a thread, but it seems to have happened anyway.
It's about the great plague on our lives: the extreme wealth of a tiny number of people.
And what to do about it.
Lets' brace ourselves...
Our cost of living is about to rise. Again.
Food.
Petrol.
Mortgages.
Why?
Because Trump needed a distraction from the Epstein files and another opportunity to make himself and his billionaire mates even richer
And the result?
Farage squawked endlessly about sovereignty during his destructive Brexit campaign. Now he seems very keen not only on bad-mouthing his own country to a foreign power, but to do all he can to make sure Britain throws sovereignty away in obeisance to Trump
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
Just suppose this was a Tory plan. Or imagine that Margaret Thatcher had come up with the notion at the time of the miner's strike.
But it's now a *Labour* government that proposes to abolish an 800 year old human right.
We mustn't sleepwalk into this...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In this catastrophic war of choice, it is Tehran fighting a rearguard action to restore geopolitical sanity. If Iran loses, god only knows where Israel and the US will drag the world next.
Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-in-...
This.✊
#EpsteinFiles
#EpsteinWar
#Iran
#Lebanon
#Palestine
#Venezuela
