Annet Gardner

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[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

A lot of people hate Zack because he asks awkward questions. I’m all for it.

[Chris Williamson @DerbyChrisW]

Not a peep of condemnation from Sir @Keir_Starmer about Israel launching daily air strikes & drone attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, killing tens of thousands of human beings, yet he "unreservedly" condemns Russia for a wayward drone strike in Romania that caused minor injuries to two people and killed no one. Yet it's not even been established that it was a Russian drone. The double standards are off the scale.

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

Email leaks revealed that Johnson lobbied for Harborne. Both Farage and Johnson started lauding crypto around the time they received millions from him. Harborne is suing Ben Habib for suggesting Johnson and Farage colluded in the 2019 election. But they were both in his pocket

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Phew.

For a moment there I thought we might take a structural approach & understand these problems as symptoms of an extractive economy, shaped by deep cultural & technological forces.

Thank the lord we’ve opted instead to bring in a multi-millionaire to sort it all.

[Mrs Gee 💚🇵🇸🎒 @earthygirl011]

While our fearless media are busy asking launderettes about Zack Polanski's laundry, Zack himself is asking questions of the Govt about matters of public interest concerning potential corruption in office. But *he's* the 'threat' to 'national interest'? We're in the upside down

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

So, I have a friend who works at the BBC.

Yesterday, they told me the Tony Blair Institute basically selected the entire panel for @bbcquestiontime — hence why there was no balance and it was essentially dangerous big tech propaganda. Loads of staff pissed off, but silenced.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I, together with ICC judges and Palestinian HR defenders, need your help to counter US admin's abuses.

Please sign and share the petition.

The EU must not ignore its responsibilities toward us!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The point of these attacks is twofold:

1. Flood people with nonsense until it feels true.

2. Grind people down until they lose hope.

We know the answer to that: fight back - with hope & a plan for change.

There is absolutely no way they win this.

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

BREAKING NEWS:

FREE THE 15....... THE 15 HAVE BEEN FREED

Steph Spyro @StephSpyro and the @Daily_Express have saved the penguins which are currently being held captive in the basement of the London Aquarium. 👏👏👏

Huge, huge, huge achievement. Hip hip hooray.

A brilliant, brilliant example of nothing more than having a clear vision, a strategic objective coupled with the guts, the ambition and determination to deliver it. Huge round of applause.

Mighty I suggest that others, especially those within the eNGO charity sector will want to take note.

https://t.co/qgrzsHdupV

[Adam Smith @adamndsmith]

Amazing how Tucker Carlson, of all people, can succinctly sum up what happened with Jeremy Corbyn in a way that the media and political class here will still ardently deny

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It would be bad for public confidence if there was a suspicion that large corporate interests are buying access to the Government via the Tony Blair Institute.

My letter to the cabinet office. 👇🏼

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Whilst we're on the subject of entitlement when out in nature.. this kind of thing sickens me, and it's all too common.. 🤬

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

On the flip side, I keep getting messages from people I've not seen or heard from sometimes in decades so reconnecting has been lovely!

[Ellie @artymesia]

@ZackPolanski You've got them rattled Zack. Have they staked out your home yet? JC had scumbags camped outside for five years - stay strong bruv!

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

@artymesia Yes. I've had them parked outside my house sometimes all day and knocking on the door bothering my housemates. As well as knocking on my mum and dads doors.