Richard Fleming

Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’ Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid

Our letter condemning the genocide in #Gaza and calling for an immediate ceasefire. A great crime is being committed, and we cannot stand by.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

I watched this conversation last night, and it was just *brilliant*.

Neoliberal capitalism is killing off life on Earth, yet its name is almost never spoken, most people have never even heard of it.

If we are to have a future, that MUST change. Watch this talk, then read 'The Invisible Doctrine'.

It is quite insane to fish - rich in animal protein - in order to feed to chickens or salmon to produce ... animal protein. Every way you turn capitalism makes money out of wrecking the planet. Capitalism is not the only way

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.

Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.

While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant of £10tn.

That's how privatisation 'works'.

The interesting thing about capitalism is that it's entirely incompatible with the future, so we've just decided to get rid of the future and keep capitalism for a short while

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. Angela, next time you're lobbying Rachel Reeves... HOW ABOUT CALLING FOR A WEALTH TAX? Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

So we hear Angela Rayner has been giving Rachel Reeves ideas on how to change the tax system...

Here's one: how about a wealth tax on the super rich?

The UK's 50 richest families hold more wealth than 50% of the population. No more cruel cuts. It's time to tax wealth fairly.

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. METRO "Every day of obstruction costs more lives and leaves Britain complicit in the most appalling atrocities. It's time to act." Carla Denyer MP, Green Party Co-leader MP for Bristol Central Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

"The Government [must recognise] the actions of Israel in Gaza as genocidal acts. We must suspend all arms exports to Israel, and ground the surveillance flights being carried out by the RAF over Gaza"

@carladenyer.bsky.social‬ writes in the @metro.co.uk‬

📷: Mohammed Ibrahim

The Sunday Times Rich List 2025 revealed A record fall in the number of billionaires and a sprinkling of Hollywood stars: who’s up, who’s down — and who’s new

The Sunday Times' Rich List is another wake-up call: 50 of the UK's richest families hold more wealth than half the UK population. While millions can’t afford food or heating, a tiny minority of the super-rich thrive. We need a fairer tax system to tackle extreme wealth and build a fairer society.

It's great news that this profoundly selfish landowner has been beaten in court, and many congrats to the National Park and those supporting it. But wild camping is a fundamental right that we should be able to exercise in many parts of England, not just Dartmoor. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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By the way - this is the Tories horror story so why is SOfS Steve Reed and PM Keir Starmer trying to protect their hideous legacy??

#askingforafriend

Fascinating. I always thought mature woodland was resistant to fire, but wasn't 100% sure.

Confirmed.

It could spur interesting debate re natural, hands-off rewilding vs accelerated ecological succession by planting oak, etc.

Any rewilding is better than nothing!

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Why ridiculous? Tell me why UKGE invited fishermen to supply elvers and wait for payment until they were sold? They didn't get a permit and the EA made them put them back, as you know, and posing as the saviours of the Severn is so much hogwash.

You didn't mention that those eels were caught in the hope of getting a permit to export them to Belarus, but the EA forced Peter Wood to put them back. So much for the Severn Saviours baloney

Greens need to fall on the right side of the coming pylon wars The energy transition will need major infrastructure. It's vital Greens don't oppose it.

'there is a special place in hell for politicians who object to solar farms & other renewable projects. But perhaps the hottest part is reserved for those who seek to slow pylons and other forms of electricity transmission, they keep us on course for a burning world. bright-green.org/2023/11/07/g...

After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.

Your posts tire me out with their torrents of nonsense. I shall have to block you unless you post proper evidenced arguments and stop the abuse

Where are you trying to get by posting all this rubbish? I can't see the point, unless UK Glass Eels is asking you to help attack SEG. I am nothing to do with SEG.

15 years on, 230,000 badgers dead, and no meaningful reduction in bTB in cattle. Lets end the cull now, not years down the line.

Sign the petition govpetition.uk/700317

The world is NOT richer - the rich people are richer but the planet, and the poor, are poorer. Capitalism steals from the poor and from our future.----

Absolutely NOT the role of the librarian to critique your book choices - not, at least, in a democracy...

A fair few replies to this along the lines of "Sycamore may be an invasive species, but that tree was still iconic."

Would they say the same about an old rhodo, for eg? We should hope not.

But my main point was how people are more incensed by obvious damage to one tree than mass, outright ecocide.

Corbyn almost declares new left challenge to Starmer Jeremy Corbyn was speaking at a Conference of Resistance in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire

I would support a left coalition while heartedly..it's the only way forward for a decent society
socialistworker.co.uk/news/corbyn-...

Plain nuts.

The classroom eels are released after a period in schools. They are not eaten. IGOR will say anything that he thinks effective; whether it is true or not does not seem to bother him.

For your campaign to have any chance of success, people need to know who you are, if you campaign for your own small interests or for the genuine public good, and what you are actually campaigning for. None of this is clear, so we must assume this venom is the last twitching dying of UK Glass Eels

Might be interesting to know who you are.

I don't want to block you but if you keep up this ridiculous attack I may have to.

If you have an issue with SEG why don't you address it with them? I am nothing to do with SEG.

Salmon is not that great - salmon farming is hugely damaging to the environment and particularly to wild salmon.