Nadia Inha

ExxonMobil to slash 2000 jobs US supermajor will cut up to 4% of its global workforce

The gutting continues. Big Oil has been slashing jobs for years and is continuing this year. It's automating work, because computers are cheaper than humans, and it's consolidating.
Job growth = renewables (ditched by Big Oil)
Job loss = fossils
www.upstreamonline.com/people/exxon...

France is to recognise Palestine as a state, Macron has announced.

The decision will be formalised at the UN General Assembly in September.

“There is no alternative”.

Photo of thousands of people with placards and flags packing Parliament Square. Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

BP’s climate u-turn set to cause 72,000 extra heat deaths BP’s recent scrapping of its 2030 interim target to reduce production is estimated to cause 72,000 additional heat deaths by the end of this century driven by increased emissions from burning more oil...

BP’s climate u-turn set to cause an extra 72,000 deaths from extreme heat

A few weeks ago, BP scrapped its 2030 production target

Now our analysis shows the increased emissions from this U-turn will likely cause tens of thousands more heat deaths by 2100
globalwitness.org/en/press-rel...

Shell plans more cuts to costs and spending but hands CEO bigger bonus Increase in pay package comes despite fall in profits and as oil company watered down pledge to cut emissions

🚨 NEW: Shell's CEO has bagged a pay rise - pocketing an obscene £8.6 million.

After a year of unprecedented climate disasters & soaring energy bills.

Planet-wrecking oil firms like Shell should be paying climate damages, not cashing in on our misery.
gwitness.org/4iJMWLw

Every time Labour makes it harder for people to access benefits, education, healthcare, food, energy - the far-right can capitalise on scarcity narratives. This is what we mean when they say that the riots of August were not taken seriously at a policy level. It's not rocket science.

From Berlin to Tokyo, the fears of a new nuclear arms race Washington extended an atomic umbrella over its allies. Now some feel it may be time to seek their own weapons

The Trump experiment: let's make the world more dangerous in every possible way and see what happens! www.ft.com/content/1a7c...

Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say

Hamdan Ballal was badly beaten by settlers and then bundled into van by the Israeli military - his whereabouts are now unknown.

Horror after horror after horror - how long can the world stand by & let this happen? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

“The majority of people who are forced to come to our food banks are disabled.. there is an incredible level of hardship out there & we are appalled the government looks at that situation & appears to be deciding to make huge cuts to the support people get"

Helen Barnard @trusselluk.bsky.social

"Palestinians are struggling to survive as Israels total blockade of the strip enters its 12th day. No food fuel or medicines have been allowed in"

This is collective punishment, a violation of intl law & a war crime. Meanwhile the UK govt continues to support & assist Israel

The theme of IWD was set in 1911: socialist feminist revolution!

In 2024, the UK’s billionaires increased their collective wealth by £35 million every day. Corporate profits are soaring. Instead of trying to balance the books on the backs of the poorest both in the UK and abroad by cutting welfare and aid, it's time this government started taxing wealth fairly.

UK’s richest can boost climate action but need to cut outsized emissions – study Study finds wealthy have larger carbon footprints but are uniquely positioned to have positive effects

Study finds the wealthiest could cut their disproportionately high emissions but largely don’t want to. Flying makes up a big part of those emissions.

This research is a strong argument for regulation & progressive fiscal measures (eg a frequent flyer levy) to prompt behaviour change.

Shell shareholder wealth soars to £18bn during year of record-breaking heat In year of record-breaking heat, Global Witness analysis reveals Shell has paid out £18 billion to shareholders since June 2023

It’s a choice Starmer is making right now - to take money from the poorest people in the world. He doesn’t have to make it.

He could be taxing oil firms & billionaires. globalwitness.org/en/press-rel...

Good on Anneliese Dodds for resigning.

It’s morally repugnant that Starmer is cutting the aid budget.

The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary say there is no genocide in Gaza.

It is now clear this contradicts the government's own "long-standing policy" outlined below. When will they retract their denial of genocide?

Is BP acting in good faith by saying it's lowering its (already very low) renewables ventures and throwing an additional $10 bn at oil and gas production that will render our futures untenable? No

But is it least returning value to shareholders? Also No

Wow – amazing news this morning. Getting to net zero will be even cheaper than we previously thought & could save households £700 a year on bills, with more savings from switch to EVs. This is win-win-win for people in the UK and govt must commit to making it happen.

BP shifts course, boosting fossil fuel investments and cutting renewables BP said on Wednesday it would increase annual oil and gas investment to $10 billion, returning the focus to fossil fuels, as part of CEO Murray Auchincloss' efforts to boost returns and improve financial performance.

The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stone.

Society has changed before at the scale we need it to today: but that change was never catalyzed by presidents, PMs, or CEOs of the richest companies of the time.

The fossil fuel age won’t end until we ordinary people demand it does.

# Nine in ten six-figure earners say they are not wealthy, new survey reveals SAMUEL NORMAN AN ANNUAL income of £213,000 has been declared the benchmark for "wealthy" according to new research from HSBC. HSBC UK's new report 'Your Money's Worth: Defining Wealth in 2025' revealed nine in 10 high earners do not consider themselves wealthy, with only one per cent of the population identifying as so. The top four per cent of earners identify an income of £724,000 as necessary to consider themselves wealthy. Speaking to City AM, HSBC's head of premier wealth Xian Chan said there was a "perception gap" around wealth. "One of the things that the study has shown us is that there is one part of the income statement, obviously how much you earn. "And then there is the other on how much you spend." Chan explained the reason behind the perception gap was "lifestyle inflation," where spending rises with increased pay. "You may be earning a lot of money, or a significant amount of money, but you're probably also spending a significant amount of money."

This is, quite clearly, mad

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

https://propub.li/43487Tj

More than 900 Labour figures decry party’s migration and asylum policy Joint statement accuses government of copying Tories’ ‘performative cruelty’

"Anti-migrant politics will not build a single house, staff a single hospital or raise anyone’s wages. Instead, by echoing its rhetoric, the government is simply fuelling the rise of Reform UK"

Well done to these Labour MPs, trade unionists, and members. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour's Reform copycat strategy plays into Farage's hands Migration is good for this country – and it’s time more politicians had the guts to say it.

Labour's disgusting deportation stunt this week wasn't just morally bankrupt, it was politically stupid. Politicians need to find the backbone to be honest about the real source of our problems: the wealthy elite draining money from our communities

metro.co.uk/2025/02/11/l...

The Tories know people are struggling and looking for someone to blame so they’re trying to point the finger at those with the least recourse to fight back - the ppl we all clapped, the ppl who actually keep the UK going.

Labour should be opposing this toxic and hateful nonsense.

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

now that's how you write a headline

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

This piece is so good - very worth your time.

Keir Starmer's Government Votes to Block UN Plan to Tackle Global Tax Avoidance The UK has joined with the United States and a handful of other rich nations in rejecting the UN push

Hilarious, absolutely HILARIOUS how we are told we can’t tax the richest in the UK as they’ll all leave…

And we also block UN efforts to clamp down on tax avoidance by the rich internationally 😅😅😂😂😭😭😭

We are SUCH suckers bylinetimes.com/2025/02/04/k...

Tax on Europe’s frequent flyers could raise €64bn a year – study Levy rising by €100 for each return flight after the first in a year could cut emissions by 21%, report says

maybe it’s all the faraway beach holidays I’m seeing on my Instagram stories right now but I’m massively in favour of this - a good way to reduce excessive flying amongst the most well-off & fund lower-carbon travel like trains www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

For liberals, Biden was supposed to be a ‘return to international norms’ after Trump. Instead, he armed and defended Israel’s war on Gaza—overseeing the most blatant breaches of that ‘liberal order’ in decades.

Biden did not restore human rights or American status in the world. He destroyed it.

I feel this deeply - it is beautiful to see people in Gaza celebrating the ceasefire, but heartbreaking to realise this deal could have been signed months ago - to think of all the lives that could have been saved.