Amy Clancy

NEW EPISODE: Why the right wins online - and what the left need to learn

Why are right-wing influencers so successful? What does the left need to learn? What do we do when biggest platforms are owned by billionaires?

Ayeisha is joined by Dunya Kamal & @will-davies.bsky.social 1/2

Nigel Farage is wrong about the European Convention on Human Rights | Good Law Project The Reform leader is unveiling legislation to leave the ECHR. His arguments are wrong – and that move would be a disaster.

On its 75th anniversary, here's a reminder:

The ECHR defends your rights to speak out, to live freely, to be treated fairly.
When politicians attack it, they’re attacking us.
We need to fight back
https://goodlawproject.org/nigel-farage-is-wrong-about-the-european-convention-on-human-rights/

Scotland’s offshore wind should power a fairer future - not just profits for distant shareholders.

The wind belongs to all of us. We should all have a stake in our energy future. 🧵

Don't trust the dodgy data saying wealthy people are fleeing the country because of higher taxes.

NEF chief exec @dhnnjyn.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk Cross Questions.

Now this is the kind of news I like waking up to! 🎉

We used to own our essential services, like water, energy, and transport. Not anymore.

This week @kmilb.bsky.social, co-director of @abundance-org.bsky.social, joined the New Economics Podcast to talk Radical Abundance: how to win a green democratic economy.

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‘Much fairer’: all profits from new Orkney windfarm to benefit locals Construction due to begin in 2027 on what is expected to become UK’s largest publicly owned windfarm

Orkney Council has confirmed all profits from its new wind farm will go into local services - wealth will circulate locally, not flow to distant shareholders.

It's a glimpse of what community benefit from renewables can look like. But how typical is this?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Who owns Scotland's offshore wind assets?

Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit

Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

🚨 NEW: We’ve been told for years that private finance will fix Scotland’s nature crisis. Our new research shows why it won’t – and sets out a bold public-led alternative.

Highlights in 🧵
Read full report 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/publications...

NatureScot may raise ‘more than £100m’ in private investment for conservation Investors in talks about supporting up to 15 government-backed nature restoration projects in Scotland

“In a new report, Future Economy Scotland said relying on investors such as banks, pension funds and asset managers was wasteful and counterproductive.”

Our report on why private finance won’t fix the nature crisis is covered in @theguardian.com 👇

Yesterday, Rachel Reeves spoke of the choices facing the UK at the next Westminster election.

But Scotland’s choices come sooner - with the Holyrood election in May 2026.

We've set out 11 priorities for a fairer, more resilient Scotland. Now it’s up to the parties to take note.

The only people who benefitted from PFI were the private companies that made billions in profit from public money, while the public sector faced extraordinary bills, hospitals in special measures and mothballed schools. 1/2

🍓📙🚀 Standing room only at tonight's sell-out book launch!

Grab a copy of the book and a ticket for events in Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Norwich and Sheffield while you can 👇

🍓 www.in-abundance.org/latest/radic...

New Economics Podcast, Why is the UK in such a mess? With Faiza Shaheen, Tax Justice UK, and Alex Chapman, NEF. Out now.

Episode one of the latest series of the New Economics podcast is out now!

@faizashaheen.bsky.social and @alchap.bsky.social join Ayeisha Thomas-Smith to discuss where it's all gone wrong for Labour and why so many people are turning to Reform?

Fantastic opportunity to join NEF's brilliant economy and environment team!

NEW: Scotland is at a crossroads of crises. The 2026 election must be a turning point towards transformative action.

Our new briefing sets out 11 bold, practical ideas to tackle the country’s biggest challenges.

It’s time to move beyond business-as-usual 👇

[Your salary]* x 122 = Average CEO pay.

That’s not talent, that’s inequality baked into the system with a cherry on top.

* Average full-time worker

We must protect the right to dissent, not criminalise it.

NEF's Chief Executive @dhnnjyn.bsky.social on the arrests during the national march for Palestine that took place in London, last weekend.

I was on Syros last week. A quiet, lesser-known Greek island.

It seems even the quietest places know when silence becomes complicity, and when simple actions can speak volumes.

🏠 Scotland’s rents have surged by 32 % since May 2020.

This means tenants are paying an average of £245 more per month - in a cost-of-living crisis.

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Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future (available to preorder) Jun 25, 2025

Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future, by our founding co-directors @bertrussell.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social, and @kaiheron.bsky.social.

Release date: 20 September 2025.

Available to pre-order now from @plutopress.bsky.social (via link below).
in-abundance.org/latest/new-b...

In times of extreme water shortage ...which taps should be turned off first?

"Rivers of sewage, mountains of debt, and the danger of repeating past mistakes"

In our new blog, @bertrussell.bsky.social and @kmilb.bsky.social set out why, to truly serve the public, Thames Water must be brought under social control.

📖 Read Beyond Bailouts: www.in-abundance.org/latest/beyon...

The #SpendingReview may appear 'fiscally prudent', but it’s taking place in an era of uncontrolled billionaire wealth. This @equalitytrust.bsky.social report equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas... underlines how wealth is a profound societal issue that demands both moral and policy attention.

"New Labour took 14 years and billions of pounds worth of policies to lift half a million children out of poverty.

Keir Starmer could do the same overnight with one policy costing just a fraction of that."

NEF's @maxmosley.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk calling for removal of the two-child benefit cap.

No more "Bullshit Abundance".

The proofs are in.

Pre-order your copy of Radical Abundance now:
www.plutobooks.com/978074535135...

By @kaiheron.bsky.social @bertrussell.bsky.social russell.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social

Blaming the blackout on net zero won’t keep the lights on The blackout in Spain and Portugal is a reminder of the complexities involved in modernising our energy systems. Rather than retreating from net zero we need to rise to the challenge.

Today, various pieces of coverage have tried to pin the blame for the blackout on net zero. In this blog for the @neweconomics.bsky.social, @chaitanyakumar.bsky.social explains why this completely misses the point. I recommend giving it a read. 2/2

neweconomics.org/2025/04/blam...

Around this time yesterday, under the glow of candlelight, listening to a crackling wind-up radio, I was counting the contents of my child's money box - trying to work out how much we had to spend on essentials if the blackout continued (spoiler: not enough). 1/2

Text: [Redacted] number of people who will move into work as a result of benefits cuts. Accompanied by bar graph showing no data , only questions.

This government says they're cutting benefits to encourage people to work.

But the DWP & OBR between them haven't yet been able to forecast any impact on employment outcomes.

They're causing huge hardship without any analysis of whether it will even help meet their goals.

Cutting benefits to meet made-up fiscal rules is a choice.

A harmful and shortsighted decision that is not necessary, and it is not likely to succeed.

Other options exist, and should be pursued. #wealthtax