Tom Carter-Brookes

Nigel Farage on Russia Today.

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

Sophia Doyle and I made a contribution to Seeding Reparations new booklet.

We take a loot at the current conjuncture of rising fascism, through the lens of food and farming in the UK, and think with Aimé Cesaire’s concept of the ‘imperial boomerang’.

Free pdf here: seeding.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Really nice piece that mate

Good god I saw this last night and thought it was a genuine onion post....just seen that it's actually real 😳

Yes it does! (Had to ask my wife!)

Ha you're drawing me in! Maybe next year. Agreed it'd be good, I've good some hilarious and depressing AI tales already 🙈

I think that you should consider this Fuck AI CFP too!

We are putting out this Call for Papers for BISA2026 in search of people who are researching the connection between gender and resistance in the field of environmental politics. This call comes at a time of (at least) two forms of gendered resistance: 1. Growing resistance to measures that combat climate change and environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is often masculinised 2. Ongoing resistance against environmental destruction, a form of resistance that is both discursively constructed as feminine and that manifests as a form of burden that is often borne by women and other marginalised peoples Against a backdrop of the target of 1.5 degrees warming looking increasingly unlikely, and a ‘green’ transition currently reliant on new geographies of environmental and human harm and exploitation, any meaningful progress towards global environmental targets is stalling. Resistance to these forms of harm and efforts to transition away from fossil fuels are at a critical juncture. At the same time, there is a surging right-wing politics globally, part of which acts as a defence of industry and environmental harm. This form of resistance is directed at transition itself. We invite papers which explore the intersections of gender and resistance in relation to environment or climate politics. Approaches might include ecofeminism, political ecology, and feminist political economy. Some papers which participants might engage with: • Petro-masculinity: Fossil fuels and authoritarian desire (Daggett, 2018) • Feminist approaches to environmental politics (Lawrence et al, 2025) • ‘Gender and climate change’: from impacts to discourses (MacGregor, 2010) • Colonial erasures in gender and climate change solutions (Resurrección, 2024) Please send your 200 word abstracts to t.n.brookes@keele.ac.uk and weatherillck@outlook.com by 24th October along with your name, affiliation, career stage and geographical location.

Another Call for Papers for #BISA2026 (3rd-5th June, Brighton), this time for a panel I'm organising with @tom-cb.bsky.social. Deadline 24th Oct.

Gender and resistance in environmental politics: This panel will explore how gender relates to resistance against env harm AND resistance to transition.

The EU frogmarched into ridicule by the intensive farm lobby. The European Parliament has voted through the Veggie burgers ban.

As the world burns, we make symbolic gestures to show we want to burn it faster.

Err ...YES!!!!

Academic milestone day.....my first ever CFP, alongside the fantastic @ckweatherill.bsky.social We're putting together a panel looking at Gender and resistance in environmental politics for the @mybisa.bsky.social conference next June. Please share away and get in touch if it's of interest

🚨Emergency Protest🚨 Stop the far right in Whitechapel! 📆8 October from 5pm 🏢Town Hall, 160 Whitechapel Rd, E1 1BJ The Pink Ladies (far right group who say immigration causes safety concerns for women and girls) have called a demo outside of Tower Hamlets Town Hall to protest a motion calling for action over the far right. Their call out has been retweeted by Tommy Robinson. As Tower Hamlets Council workers, we know refugees don’t make us unsafe - the rise of racism is the real threat. We work with residents affected by poverty and we need to make clear that austerity has made living conditions worse, NOT migrants! Join UNISON on the steps in front of our workplace from 5pm (or earlier if you want to help us leaflet)

🚨Emergency Protest🚨
Stop the far right in Whitechapel!

📆8 October from 5pm
🏢Town Hall, 160 Whitechapel Rd, E1 1BJ

"overthrowing our tolerant society" Ah yes, the Daily Express....true bastions of tolerance 🙈

Good to see Zack just challenging this stuff head on

If like me you feel torn between submitting to an environment panel or a colonial, postcolonial, decolonial panel, this Call for Papers is for you.

Work being done at this intersection is vitally important, and I'm really grateful that CPD have joined with us for this.

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

It's the ability to say this stuff with a straight face that gets me. Like my politics are as far away from the rights as it's possible to be. But honestly, the lack of ability to post stuff like that would be my greatest barrier to becoming a right wing grifter!

Greta:

"I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil. That you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades of oppression and apartheid.”

Source: Global Sumud Flotilla via X

The BBC

• Refused to interview Zack Polanski after he was elected leader in September.

• Cancelled a Zack Polanski interview after his Conference Speech.

Every other elected party leader of other parties got both a post election interview and a conference interview.

I need to move beyond 3....recently got back into it, I used to juggle daily in years gone by

While being arrested for holding a placard, one protester recites a poem by 9-year-old Fatema Saidam who was killed, along with her entire family, by an Israeli airstrike on October 17, 2023.

@defendourjuries.bsky.social

Zack on Bold Politics podium

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

Ha the strain it's putting on police officers. Poor little lambs. Maybe look for an alternate job then?

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

I wonder if they'll be applying this to the repeated protests that are taking places outside hotels housing refugees on a weekly basis? 🤔 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

More from our brave boys in blue. Thank you to this officer for keeping the public safe from this terrorist

The met defending us from dangerous terrorists again. Totally proportional use of force that 🖕

Yeah it's tricky to navigate, not least as I don't really come from a traditional route into academia either! I'm trying to avoid using it when I'm presenting my stuff on the UK farmer protests....it's a steep learning curve!

An absolutey fantastic piece. It's something that I struggle with lots as a very junior (PhD student) figure in academia. My research touches on various right/far-right oppositions to climate change and I'm often surrounded by work (in various settings) which uses 'populism' incorrectly.

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).