Tom Allen

Former International Development bod, now focused on environmental challenges - these views are mostly mine. @ me with an intro when you follow!

[Tom Allen @geecologist]

I ask the question in light of the @UKLabour leader's speech this week that included echoes of Enoch Powell and The Brexit Leave Campaign. And how much media is pressuring Labour to pander further right. The data says the threat to Labour comes from supporters defecting left.

[Tom Allen @geecologist]

@tweeter_anita #Immigration has been manufactured into a convenient boogeyman, by conflating everything from skilled migrants legally (and desperately needed) immigrating as Surgical Consultants, through to the small numbers of people coming here illegally by boat from France.

[Tom Allen @geecologist]

So fundamentally can the country afford this preference against foreign-born people that a few people hold? And if we frame the question in that far more honest way, is that really what any majority want?
Spoiler alert: every poll I've seen says not. So why keep up the pretence?

[Tom Allen @geecologist]

@BBCAnyQuestions Why will no one mention the elephant in the room that huge corporate supermarkets are killing farming industry, just as they are fishing, and other sectors. Tax big companies that are making a killing #bbcaq

[Kris Griffiths @KrisGriffiths]

I followed Nigel Farage on and off for 10 years.

When all's said and done about his standing in Clacton, milkshake incident etc, he remains at the end of the day one of the most repugnant shameless liars in UK history.

Some of his standout lesser-known lies I've compiled FTR 🧵

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

Some disasters don't make the news, because they happen every single day. We've become accustomed to these catastrophes, even though they're often (much) worse than even the worst news on the front pages.

Case in point: the tobacco industry. /1

[Hugh Grant @HackedOffHugh]

For anyone who has been interested in my lawsuit against the Sun, the news is that  I’ve had to settle my claim out of court before it gets to trial. A 🧵…

[Tom Allen @geecologist]

This is such an important point, because words mean things! They didn't 'lose their house', the bank took it when they missed a payment. Let's say what we mean:
"Mass biodiversity destruction, causing many permanent extinctions, for short term corporate profit"

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Wild how we call it biodiversity "loss" instead of biodiversity destruction. Biodiversity is not just spontaneously disappearing.

[Tom Allen @geecologist]

Someone was telling me about this good samaritan geezer, out of that Bible. Talk about virtue signalling #wokerati!
I hear even the Pope wears a dress now (or 'robe' he calls it). Bloody lefties...
Wait till I tell the @DailyMailUK

[Tom Allen @geecologist]

@kevinjgsmith I heard Millbank has become less aggro, but look out for Matthew Parker St. Only Reform would be worse!

[Tom Allen @geecologist]

Incompetence is rife in this government. No wonder they still see Liz Truss as 'popular'

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

Evan Davis schools the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Laura Trott, on debt to GDP.

ED: This is really basic... I'm amazed you don't know that debt is rising

LT: I've got different figures

#bbcpm

[Sam Bright @WritesBright]

Zinger from Private Eye

[Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive]

The footage of Israeli soldiers torturing and humiliating detained Palestinian men in Gaza is horrific.

We’ve seen terrible images like this from genocides throughout history. We know what this leads to. Never again means never again for anyone.

[Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative @fossiltreaty]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS FROM #COP28! 🚨

#Colombia just became the tenth country to join the call for a #FossilFuelTreaty! 🇨🇴

"I have no doubt which position to take: between fossil capital and life, we choose the side of life." 🔥 - @petrogustavo

https://t.co/FHvP8tecYA🧵

[Tom Allen @geecologist]

A new plot to mine the unexplored deep ocean seabed is currently being foiled by some amazing activists in the Pacific.

Huge respect to them.

Hopefully we'll be able to study and learn about these ecosystems, rather than destroy them.
https://t.co/3IVgYTifMD
#stopdeepseamining