📢 I have a message for @RishiSunak ahead of the #G20India summit this weekend: seek the release of British citizen, Jagtar Singh Johal, who has been unlawfully detained for almost six years. 📢 Will you join me? https://t.co/0BD00ZnnNW
A healthcare technology entrepreneur has donated £5m to the Conservatives.
He has already been invited on several
Government trade missions in the past.
Wonder what else the Government will give him in return?
https://t.co/tkhxnk4CgW
🚨 The regime in Iran - with increased cruelty - are currently engaged in intimidating the families of girls they killed during the uprisings to dissuade people from taking to the streets in the planned protests Sept 16th.
For more than a week now 16 year old #Helia_Kia is still detained with no accusation of a crime. She is the sister of #Hanane_Kia the 23-year old shot in the head last Sept by security forces for refusing to wear a headscarf (both pictured).
News reports from Iran say authorities have even arrested the mother and uncle of #MahsaAmini
I wanted to write that soon the people of Iran will be free of the petty, small minded, unwashed, uneducated, ignorant men of the “Islamic” republic who will account for every one of their crimes against humanity in the last 44 years. But that’s too personal. So I’ll say:
We demand the release of these innocents who have suffered enough.
#Sept16 ⬇️
Our planet has just endured the hottest summer on record.
Climate breakdown has begun.
We can still avoid the worst of climate chaos. We don’t have a moment to lose.
https://t.co/PCETCQFsqW
Our Heroes shall never be forgotten.
Let us keep the Defenders of Ukraine in our prayers.
RIP - Volodymyr Holub, Georgian fighter David Kuchukiani, Denys Puzyr (23), Hryhoriy Semiletko (55)
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row...
#ArmUkraineNow
I am calling on Belarusians abroad to prioritize their safety. Don't return due to an expired passport & risk persecution, as the regime is now denying renewal of passports at diplomatic missions. No document is worth your freedom. We're working to solve this issue - stay safe!
My country, Congo, does not have to go round the world begging for compensation for the ecosystem services that its forests offer the world. Everyone knows that Congolese people have to live and adapt to climate change, and this is impossible without money. #ClimateFinanceNow
1/2 It is not normal for a country that is considered to be the lungs of the planet to have a poor population, as is currently the case in DRC. More than 27 million people are living in food insecurity, Not roads built... Yet every year the world talks about climate finance.
Breaking: Iranian journalist Nazila Maroufian, who interviewed Mahsa Jina Amini’s father, has been sexually assaulted.
Now on a hunger strike in protest of the violence and sexual abuse by suppressors, Nazila shares a voicemail from prison detailing her mistreatment by the Islamic regime.
Arrested four times in under a year, she posts unveiled photos after each release, declaring that Iranian women will not be silenced.
#WomanLifeFreedom
Jesus. Bulgaria is under water now. 14 people have perished. More bodies will doubtless be found soon. Why does this keep happening? How many more people must die?
My Administration is canceling all remaining oil and gas leases issued under the last administration in the Arctic Refuge and proposing to protect 13 million acres in the Western Arctic.
There's more to do, but we’re taking action to meet the moment for future generations.
Three truths to lead to action:
1. We are fucked by multiple crises, climate being the most lethal.
2. Things will never improve at the hands of the current political class.
3. The only way to make change is civil resistance — and our lives depend on it.
I've just challenged the Tory Education Secretary over the Government's repeated refusal to fund the £66m repairs needed in Leeds schools.
The Council is given just £6 million a year by the government to tackle this.
The Tories simply don't care about kids in state schools.
I just voted in Parliament for the Tories to publish the papers about what Rishi Sunak and others knew about school safety when he cut the funding for school repairs.
But the Tories voted to cover up the truth.
What are they trying to hide? The public has a right to know!
Yesterday I met with scientists campaigning for what the science makes clear is needed to avert climate catastrophe - no new oil and gas fields.
I back their campaign and spoke with them about my Parliamentary Bill which would ban MPs from taking money from oil and gas giants.
Massive thanks and respect to @RichardBurgon for taking the time to discuss climate breakdown with the scientists yesterday #NoNewOil please visit https://t.co/3TQerKK1Al