Inequality in Britain is rampant, writes @pollytoynbee.bsky.social, and has become so with the help of our electoral system.
Our new research paper, 'Lifting the Lid', links our fragmenting voting system to mass regional deprivation, and regional deprivation to the all-powerful nature of FPTP.
Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.
A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.
Quit ChatGPT now! Your subs is bankrolling authoritarianism!
'great boycotts of history did not succeed because millions of people suddenly became heroic activists. They succeeded because . . . the small act, repeated at scale, becomes a political earthquake.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Global economy must not pander to “frivolous and destructive demands of the ultra-rich”.
They fund political parties, profit from socially and ecologically destructive growth.
UK example - deregulation, regressive taxation, concentration of wealth, inequalities, sewage in rivers.
The govt must do more than express concern over the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and settler violence in the West Bank - they must take action.
Ban trade with illegal settlements and impose new sanctions on Netanyahu and all responsible for this violence.
Solidarity, Mothin 💚
03.03.2026 15:46 — 👍 603 🔁 200 💬 19 📌 18
You just know that if Starmer had given permission for Trump to use our bases for the initial attacks, Hunt would have been saying he was Trump's poodle
Utterly without credibility, like all Tories
#BBCR4Today
💚 'Every age-group under 50 now has the Greens in the lead'
03.03.2026 14:35 — 👍 34 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Dear Prime Minister, In recent days we have seen a deeply concerning escalation in conflict in the Middle East following a series of illegal and dangerously irresponsible airstrikes on Iran by the United States and Israel. You have now confirmed that UK bases will be used by the US for their operations in the area. This is a significant concession to President Donald Trump and one which risks drawing the UK into a dangerous conflict. During your campaign to be elected leader of the Labour Party, you spoke compellingly about learning the lessons of the Iraq war. In particular, you set out legislation you would pass as Prime Minister, ensuring that military action is only taken if: • The lawful case for it is made • There is a viable objective • Consent is given by the House of Commons. We agree that such legislation is needed to prevent the UK from being dragged into destructive, illegal and dangerous wars abroad, and so we have today tabled the Armed Conflict (Requirements) Bill. The Bill requires that 1. Before armed forces may be deployed for armed conflict, a Minister of the Crown must publish a statement setting out the reasons for the deployment, an assessment of its compliance with international law, the objective of the deployment and an assessment of the viability of that objective, and 2. Any such deployment must be approved in advance by a resolution of the House of Commons
I invite your support to pass this bill. In an increasingly unstable world, it is more important than ever that decisions about the UK’s involvement in military action abroad are taken carefully, soberly, and with the best interests of the British people at heart. We believe this piece of legislation would ensure that. Yours sincerely, Dr Ellie Chowns MP
Today I tabled a bill which would require any UK military intervention to have a lawful basis, viable objective, and approval by MPs - legislation the PM once said he himself would pass when he was running for Labour leader.
He supported it then, and he should support it now.
It's not usual to produce a manifesto outside an election period. You can email the press office to get the costings although I thought they were at the back of the manifesto, at least the long version
03.03.2026 13:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🧨“The Government’s refusal to look at Proportional Representation is dangerously short-sighted.”
Brendan O'Hara MP eloquently warns of the possibility that Reform may win majority power in 2029 on barely 30% of the vote if #FirstPastThePost stays.
#ElectoralReform #Democracy
Photo portrait of Hannah Arendt
'If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer
And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind
And with such a people you can then do what you please'
Hannah Arendt
Sectarianist!
03.03.2026 10:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again".
Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means.
Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down.
news.sky.com/story/greens...
New YouGov polling shows Greens in 2nd place for first time, closing in fast on Reform.
The Gorton & Denton by-election will go down as the most momentous in recent history. Hannah Spencer's win there has completely changed the game
Our policy is made by the Party, not the leader, and you can find details in our manifesto from 2024:
greenparty.org.uk/app/uploads/...
As former external communications coordinator I wholeheartedly agree!
But I also think we're seeing the support for the Greens that has been suppressed by first-past-the-post expressing itself
China’s latest energy data offers a signal worth paying attention to. In 2025, emissions from energy and industry fell by 0.3%, modest, but notable, even as total energy consumption rose by 3.5%.
The key driver? A continued surge in solar power capacity.
Who would have guessed that offering hope and responding to people's needs and concerns could be so popular?
03.03.2026 07:13 — 👍 39 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0Hope won 💚
02.03.2026 15:23 — 👍 1131 🔁 244 💬 40 📌 30
Emergency protest at ‘RAF’ Fairford: No to War on Iran!
Demonstration and peace vigil at FairfordSaturday 7 March, 1pm – 2.30 pm
More info: dronewars.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Hannah Spencer being sworn into parliament as an MP
Three very cool and impressive ladies in Parliament yesterday
Can't wait to see what Hannah's going to do
📜 The House of Commons just debated the Representation of the People Bill
💥 Great to see more Labour MPs joining the call for a National Commission on Electoral Reform
📺 @patrickhurley.bsky.social @catsmithmp.bsky.social @chriscurtis94.bsky.social & @jamesnaish.bsky.social
🌹 #Labour4PR
Aw, what a nice polite chat 😊
02.03.2026 17:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A government with integrity would provide a justification under the UN charter for allowing the US to use UK bases to bomb Iran
The flimsy distinction between 'defensive' and 'offensive' feels like cover for another illegal war that risks escalating a conflict at the loss of more innocent lives
"The Westminster system is crumbling. Labour must rebuild it – or we will find ourselves under the rubble."
✍️ Beccy Cooper MP & Tim Roca MP
🌹 #Labour4PR #ElectoralReform #Democracy
@drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social @timrocamp.bsky.social @politics.co.uk
www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...
Rollback risk
The EU's retreat from climate action means some companies are - quite rightly - kicking off about investments made in good faith on the back of climate policy
"those very policies are precisely the ones that can attract new investment and create jobs"
www.ft.com/content/1f60...
How can Starmer have allowed us to be drawn into this war of aggression by the US and Israel?
Without any legal justification or debate in Parliament!
A shockingly bad decision
Yes, and the Labour candidate in the Gorton and Denton by election
01.03.2026 13:11 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shocking failure by the BBC to challenge fascist comments from Guto Harri on Broadcasting House this morning
Democratic rights in the UK are based on citizenship not place of birth
And why only ask about people born in Pakistan? Many British voters were born in other countries
