An extraordinary realignment of British politics

If you want to see @TheGreenParty take on Reform - this is the moment

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Yeah, OK it's an 80m tall timber TRÆ,

but look at the facade,

it's #circular reused metal roofing.

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The value of public R&D

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...

Large text reads: Greens polling second nationally. Screenshot of Tweet reads: RFM: 32% (=) GRN: 17% (+2) CON: 16% (-1) LAB: 16% (=) LDM: 12% (=) SNP: 2% (=) Via @FindoutnowUK, 29 Oct. Changes w/ 22 Oct. Picture of Zack Polanski with speech bubble saying: “It’ll go higher.”

The Green Party SECOND in a national poll for the first time ever!

There’s no way we’re stopping there.

A memorable night ruined by a racist thug.

I was invited to speak at the EuroAsia Curry Awards on Monday night, it should have been an exciting opportunity. But on my way there, outside Earl’s Court station, I was subjected to an Islamophobic hate crime. I have now reported it to the police

🚨 BREAKING | Greens hit 10% in poll average for the very first time, an all-time high for the party.

This is the first time in the party's history that they have hit double-digits in polls, and comes as the party stands within touching distance of 100,000 members.

NEW | Electricity generation from fossil fuels fell in China and India in the first half of 2025 🔥📉

This marks a reversal from previous trends.

Simultaneously, there was a small uptick in the US and in the EU.

A thread 🧵

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

An Anti-immigration Push Won’t Solve Japan’s Cost of Living Woes Blaming foreigners may be politically convenient, but it distracts from one of the true culprits behind inflation: climate change.

Instead of blaming foreign workers, Japan's new PM must recognise climate change as one the main culprits of rising costs of living--and deliver climate action "as an act of love and necessity."

350.org Japan's Masayoshi Iyoda writes for
@thediplomat.com

thediplomat.com/2025/10/an-a...

I'm very concerned about all the #GlobalSumudFlotilla detainees, but especially Hannah Schafer, who seems likely to be held in extended detention in Israel. Israeli armed forces have committed grave and multiple breaches of international law in attacking the flotilla and mistreating its crew.

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

there's a very good reason Labour, run by Tufton Street, don't directly attack Reform, run by Tufton Street, and instead attack Zack Polanski, can you think what it might be?

How to tackle (and not tackle) migration: lessons from Italy [FREE TO READ] Successive British prime ministers have destroyed trust with a millefeuille of falsehood about asylum seekers

My Trade Secrets today. Govts often do an immigration sleight-of-hand, demonising a tiny minority esp asylum-seekers as cover to admit workers.

Giorgia Meloni can still pull this trick off and is issuing 500k non-EU work permits. Keir Starmer is so scared & UK public trust so damaged he can't.

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Auch cool, WBS70 retrofit mit Holz Laubengang.
Bild: Hütten und Paläste
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Crew on a bus all smiling!

Bold Politics starts on the number 38 bus!

Thank you everyone. What a day!

(Few more interviews to do!)

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The Green Party Has Finally Picked a Side | Novara Media With three leftists winning the landslide victories in the Green leadership election, the party has stopped trying to bridge its centrist and socialist factions and committed to a radical path, writes...

The Green Party has decided - overwhelmingly - to stand up and fight against the powerful:

Me on @zackpolanski.bsky.social, @mothinali.bsky.social and @rachelmillward.bsky.social’s victory:

novaramedia.com/2025/09/02/t...

Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’

When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Are we really going to drown in six inches of water?
The central far right claim - that our problems are caused not by those with power and wealth but by utterly powerless people (asylum seekers etc) - is obviously and pathetically wrong. Yet millions, once more, are floundering in that puddle.

Robert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

I'll be speaking at this emergency demo tomorrow night.

Government ministers are touring the TV studios refusing to say that starting an illegal war is wrong.

If they won't use their voices to condemn America & Israel's actions - we shall all do it for them.

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

Since 2010-11, in real per capita terms, core spending power of local authorities is down nearly 20 per cent. The effect of the austerity years on local government has been well documented, and the 30 per cent fall in real terms per capita core spending power from 2010-11 to 2017-18 puts this in sharp focus

Local government core spending fell sharply during the austerity years and has not yet recovered.

While there has been some recovery in core spending power since the mid-2010s, this has been primarily driven by increasing Council Tax - which is highly regressive.

Email from DHS revoking parole, unnamed recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 1

Email from DHS revoking parole, unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 2

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?