He also lobbies for U.S. Big Tech companies that have donated millions to Trump
11.11.2025 14:40 โ ๐ 136 ๐ 62 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1@waltermenteth.bsky.social
Architect, planner, writer, London - views my own (he/him) People, #culture, #politics, #environment, #climate, #justice, #sustainability, #democracy
He also lobbies for U.S. Big Tech companies that have donated millions to Trump
11.11.2025 14:40 โ ๐ 136 ๐ 62 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Net zero is one of the many areas where commentators are out-of-touch with public opinion in Britain. There is still broad support for cutting carbon emissions - except from among Reform supporters, who are the outliers.
11.11.2025 10:50 โ ๐ 309 ๐ 125 ๐ฌ 18 ๐ 7A US aircraft carrier strike group with more than 5,000 service members has joined the eight US warships, nuclear submarine, and F-35 aircraft positioned in the Caribbean near Venezuela.
11.11.2025 16:50 โ ๐ 83 ๐ 56 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 5Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
11.11.2025 08:37 โ ๐ 3875 ๐ 1172 ๐ฌ 233 ๐ 119'We Will Not Be Silenced': Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike Over UK's 'Complicity in Genocide'
Remand-held activists against Elbit Systems launch open-ended hunger strike for bail, fair trials, and deproscription of Palestine Action
Search: Prisoners for Palestine
www.ibtimes.co.uk/imprisoned-u...
What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The government spends ยฃ2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies
Those companies pay billions to their shareholders
And then lay off their workers
Think that's unfair?
Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers insteadโฆ
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a countryโs population, we have a very serious problem.
Overt US Bully Tactics.
Whose going to be next in Central & South America?
This is staggering
www.railjournal.com/regions/asia...
Bank of England chief warns of โworrying echoesโ of 2008 financial crash.
Dash to the next crash:
Post-2008 crash laws mostly repealed.
No regulation of shadow banking
More deregulation.
Bankers collect rewards for speculation, people fund bailouts.
โDo you really think if 20% of current active users of Facebook & Twitter deleted their accounts tomorrow, fascism would be over?โ
Yes, I do, maybe not instantly, but it would be like asking if the frog in the lidded pot with the fire under it is alive.
Hoy 12 de octubre los fascistas de Falange Espaรฑola han realizado un ยซacto autorizadoยป en Gasteiz con la protecciรณn de un enorme dispositivo de la Ertzaintza.
El antifascismo vasco los ha recibido de esta manera contundente.
Saldo final: 19 detenidos y decenas de heridos. ๐๐ผ
"Press Update as of 17:09 Gaza Time, October 8, 2025. All the humanitarian vessels (Conscience and the eight Thousand Madleen sailboats) were attacked starting at approximately 4:30 am local time, and are currently being brought to Ashdod" freedomflotilla.org/category/new... Gaza time now is ~18:17
08.10.2025 15:16 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Leaders of Western democracies, including the UK, urgently need to re-evaluate their approach to Trump. They cannot continue to pretend that any of this is in any way normal, or that appeasement of fascism is going to help in any way.
08.10.2025 15:19 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A bold black-and-white Green Party graphic with the slogan โREAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.โ at the top. The main message in large capital letters reads โEND ALL ARMS SALES,โ with โENDโ highlighted in green and underlined. The Green Party logo and name appear at the bottom.
As revealed by Channel 4 Newsโ documentary, UK arms exports to Israel have hit record highs โ ยฃ408,000 in June and ยฃ316,000 in September.
The government says itโs restricting sales, but the data says otherwise.
The UK must end all arms sales to Israel now.
Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.
My secret evil plot to โdestroy Britainโ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.
If I donโt know better Iโd say weโve got them entirely rattled.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
EXCLUSIVE: Robert Jenrick should lose the Tory whip for 'racist' comments he made, an MSP has told The National
07.10.2025 12:28 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1British arms exports to Israel have reached record highs during the genocide. These arms exports are illegal under British and international law and constitute war crimes. Such arms exports make Israelโs genocide possible.
07.10.2025 10:18 โ ๐ 103 ๐ 54 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 8After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I've come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there's something even worse. ๐งต
03.10.2025 10:43 โ ๐ 1239 ๐ 411 ๐ฌ 55 ๐ 21An average of 100 people in Gaza are still being killed by the IDF every day, according to UNWRA. The Health Ministry also reported last week that 453 people, including 150 children, have died of starvation because of Israel's blocking of all aid.
07.10.2025 10:30 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0When the 'Plan for Drivers' gets out of hand.
07.10.2025 10:05 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Football fan now banned from Brighton FC for FIVE YEARS for wearing Palestine shirt
Initially Brighton FC gave Roger Wade a five-game ban in August - but he challenged it, and they've now made it five years
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
BREAKING: Reports of spontaneous protests erupting in European cities tonight in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was illegally attacked by Israel an hour ago.
Demonstrations have been seen in Berlin๐ฉ๐ช & Rome๐ฎ๐น - and these are the current scenes in Brussels๐ง๐ช ๐
Catch me in the @theguardian.com today, on the history of high-rise housing. We need to remove the distorting goggles of prejudice in order to understand Britainโs extraordinary high-rise heritage. Consider looking up afresh! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
01.10.2025 10:28 โ ๐ 48 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0So Baroness Mone didnโt just connect PPE Medpro to the governmentโs VIP lane. She took an active role lobbying for the company:
01.10.2025 10:44 โ ๐ 405 ๐ 163 ๐ฌ 29 ๐ 3Mass senior resignations from UK Labour continue. Labour spin is not enough
labourhub.org.uk/2025/09/30/m...
Congratulations to Moldavia for voting against being a Russian vassal state. From the UK a vassal of the US , denied such a vote
29.09.2025 21:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Example: a โso calledโ Labour Statesmen-
There can be no doubts this is with the current UK PMs agreement. It is fascist, undemocratic, ongoing colonialism, exploitative & racist.