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For more than 15 years, the oil & gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda dependent on carbon capture and storage & continued reliance on fossil fuels
New from @influencemap.bsky.social ‡οΈ
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Big pharma companies already make huge profits from the NHS.
Even more money will now flow into the pockets of super-rich shareholders, likely at the expense of other parts of the health sector. This is a disaster for the UK.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
βWe have kicked up enough of a stink and they have given in. This is the price you have to pay post-Trump for global pharma to continue to play in the UKβ
Big Pharma gloating that, with Trump, they seem to have forced the UK to give in on NHS pricingπ§΅
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
A new report from the STUC on behalf of Tax Justice Scotland shows a meagre 2% tax on the 10 richest families in Scotland raises almost Β£500,000,000
Scotland belongs to us all. Not just the wealthy.
Join our calls for a wealth tax now.
www.stuc.org.uk/resources/st...
Join Scottish Detainee Visitors for the National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention: Saturday 18 October 2025.
Details below π
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GOOD NEWS π: For the first time in history, renewables have overtaken coal as the worldβs biggest source of electricity.
Solar and wind met 100% of new global electricity demand in the first half of 2025 and even helped cut coal and gas use.
Our colleague, and Global Justice Nowβs activism manager, Guy Taylor takes a personal look at the the prime ministerβs ID card proposal and its links to the US-UK tech deal.
www.globaljustice.org.uk/blog/2025/10...
π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ Who owns Scotland's offshore wind assets?
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects β and who stands to benefit
Highlights in π§΅
Explore the map π www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
We've updated the route and timings information for the #ScotlandDemandsBetter march and rally!
www.scotland-demands-better.com/march-and-ra...
Big pharma thrives on domination, bullying and exclusion. The NHS was built on exactly the opposite principles. Letβs take this opportunity to extend the values with which we administer our medicines to the way we produce them.
By our @nickdearden.bsky.social ‡οΈ
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NEW: Edinburgh has become the first city in Scotland to boycott Israel
25.09.2025 18:31 β π 188 π 73 π¬ 5 π 6
"We have an authoritarian US president using every weapon in his arsenal to win power and wealth for his friends in the oligarchy.
"Tying ourselves closer will prove politically unpopular and economically short-sighted", our director Nick Dearden writes π
www.globaljustice.org.uk/blog/2025/09...
What leaders do between now and 2030 will shape our collective future. A Fossil Fuel Treaty offers a clear, coordinated plan to transition away from fossil fuels, addressing the worldβs dangerous dependence on them while ensuring a phaseout that leaves no worker, community or country behind.
22.09.2025 13:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As a fossil fuel producer itself, Colombia recognises the economic and environmental risks of continued dependency and is committed to leading the charge by hosting the First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in 2026 π₯³
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π¨ Breaking news
Colombia will host the 1st International Conference on the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026
π Building on the success of previous diplomatic summits on air pollution and Palestine, its aim now is to facilitate a planned, just and sustainable global phase-out of fossil fuels
π¨New survey finds oil & gas workers want decisive action from the UK government, Scottish government and industry to support the transition β but they arenβt getting it.
Hereβs what workers want: π§΅
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2547...
Palestinian statehood is the right of Palestinians β not a bargaining chip.
Starmer needs to recognise this isnβt a war between equal parties, but an occupation and a genocide.
www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/palesti...
The recognition of Palestinian statehood is long overdue, but without meaningful action to hold Israel to account, the UKβs actions are insufficient.
The UK has leverage: it must impose comprehensive, Russia-style economic sanctions and ban arms sales.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Arms embargo and full trade sanctions on Israel NOW.
21.09.2025 08:51 β π 7 π 6 π¬ 0 π 1Thanks to everyone who came, and everyone who was part of making it happen!
We will keep resisting Trump β and the politics of Trumpism internationally.
Donald Trumpβs UK ambassador holds investments in the companies set to develop flagship tech projects across the country.
What would previously have been regarded as outright corruption is now just business as usual in Trumpβs White House
www.desmog.com/2025/09/18/d...
Trump is dead wrong.
Oil and gas wonβt lower bills or provide secure energy.
Heβs peddling a dangerous lie that only benefits his oil industry backers.
Hereβs why π§΅
New stories show how old investment treaties still roll out the red carpet for investors to sue EU countries over sanctions against aggressive regimes, national security, climate laws, tax policiesβ¦
This secretive #ISDS system puts profits above democracy.
Time to end it 10isdsstories.org
Today was the biggest climate mass lobby in the history of the Scottish parliament π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ Hundreds of people came from across Scotland to meet their MSPs and demand more action on climate change πͺ
18.09.2025 19:41 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Set up and ready for the climate mass lobby of MSPs today π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ Hundreds of people are travelling to Edinburgh to make sure their MSPs are in no doubt about the public support for action on climate change
18.09.2025 08:31 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Trump is driving his own country down a deeply authoritarian path. Who's using tools of economic warfare against friend and foe alike."
Our director @nickdearden.bsky.social on Sky News this morning ππ½
So Starmerβs tariff deal with Trump was not what it appeared. And yet weβve signed another one π€¦ββοΈ
Iβm in the Guardian explaining why the Tech deal is even worse. Handing more power to US tech barons is not the answer to our problems. 1/3
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"It's bad enough that the UK .. has failed to restrict trade with Israel or end arms exports, despite mounting evidence of war crimes. But for champions of direct-action tactics to face the risk of jail [as] the prime minister plays host to ..Trump, is a disgrace"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Zoe Gardiner, "The saddest thing I've heard about Trump's visit, is that he is going to get his golden carriage ride, but in private, because the great British public would have given him the rotten tomato treatment if he dared to show his face in public"
16.09.2025 07:10 β π 808 π 262 π¬ 53 π 29β14,700 people have so far called on the UK government to sanction the state of Israel over it's genocide in Gaza. We need to keep the pressure up. 4/4
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