“Children are not naive. They know when they are in a school that is lacking funding.”
🏫 With fifteen years of chronic cuts, an entire generation of children has had fewer opportunities and resources in school.
💷 It’s not because we can’t afford better— it’s because governments have chosen not to.
Zack Polanski’s video went viral and took on far-right narratives head-on.
I spoke with the filmmaker @JeremyClancy to unpack why it worked and how we can use similar tactics to resist the far-right.
🚨 BREAKING: 145 civil society groups have called on @Ed_Miliband to lock fossil fuel lobbyists out of the UK’s delegation to COP29.
Big polluters should have no place at the year’s most critical climate talks ⬇️⬇️
BP’s BTC oil pipeline is 1,099 miles long and has devastated villages in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.
It has capacity to transport 1.2 million barrels of crude oil everyday, from the Caspian to the Mediterranean sea.
David Lammy is right that climate change is a ‘more fundamental’ threat than terrorism.
So why would the government invest £870 million on a gas pipeline in Mozambique? asks @JoeBrindle_
BREAKING: MPs just voted to cut winter fuel payments for pensioners.
Shouldn’t we be taxing energy companies instead of making cuts? #WinterFuelAllowance#WinterFuelPayments
🔴 NEW 🔴
The BBC has been producing adverts(!) for major polluters, including fossil fuel firms and petrostates with a history of persecuting journalists.
As an ex-BBC journalist, I was pretty staggered when I discovered this.
📝 @DeSmog report 👇
https://t.co/hDJrmLaNDW
I have been informed by the Chief Whip & the Labour Party leadership that the whip has been withdrawn from me for voting to scrap the two-child benefit cap, which would lift 330,000 children out of poverty.
I will always stand up for the most vulnerable in our society.