Who do the public REALLY want to lead the UK? Boris, Priti & Gove? Nope, #DavidAttenborough Greta Thunberg & MR14 People care about 🌏 &👶 & a better future for all. Enough of this #EtonMess, Politics is broken⏲️ for a #CitizensAssembly xrb.link/Ub0F1m16uF0

With the Climate Emergency Intensifying & Democracy Crumbling, an Inquiry into Murdoch has Never Been More Urgent – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2020/10/16/wit…

With ⁦Good Law Project⁩, I’m taking legal action over secret #Covid contracts If this were just about misuse of public money, it’d be bad enough. But it’s also about ministers being accountable to MPs over biggest public health crisis in a century👇 metro.co.uk/2020/10/28/tak…

On a rapidly heating planet, there are no more presidential cycles to waste. We're entirely out of margin. newyorker.com/news/annals-of…

Read the thread. Farage’s World4Brexit was explicitly set up to fundraise for Brexit from US & overseas (who? We have no idea). It’s now projecting anti-lockdown messages on parliament. It’s exact same transatlantic dark money grift we’ve seen before. It’s dangerous. And it works

I'm giving a talk next week on what Cultural Studies has to offer to the study of climate denial & climate politics at large. Guests from other institutions are welcome to join!

It's hard to overstate the dysfunctionality of the British state at this point. There is a *4 day* window to apply for contracts worth £43bn - more than 3 x the entire policing budget for England & Wales. ft.com/content/07f76b…

This statement is bone-chilling. The government “is not responsible for the supply of food and drink to the population in an emergency”. What the hell is government for, if not for this? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I’ve joined over 60 MPs & peers urging Home Secretary to cancel the planned deportation flight to Jamaica Some of those being deported came to UK as children & are being split from their own children We need to end the #hostileenvironment #stoptheplane #Jamaica50

This should be all over the front pages. The government's terminating our right to protest, through amendments sneaked into the Police Bill at the last minute. It's the biggest assault on democracy in 70+ years, and hardly anyone seems to know. My column theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Whilst most attention has been paid to Allegra Stratton and the Number 10 Christmas parties, the Nationality and Borders Bill has passed. The legislation allows for the Government to remove citizenship without warning, to turn back asylum seekers and criminalise their passage.

The Government Just Took Away YOUR FREEDOM George Monbiot

📢 if you have time, please take a few minutes to use the DigitalRebellion templates to phone, email or tweet one or more of the listed Lords I've just emailed all of them on the list and it would be great if, before the vote, they had a bulging inbox digitalrebellion.uk/policingbill

Really looking forward to this event. There is so much every social scientist can and must contribute outside and within academia - join us to find out how Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) Anna Pigott Dr. Aaron Thierry Samuel Finnerty @Catherine_Whitt

He faces a lengthy prison sentence if found guilty, and any support for him and his codefendants with expenses during the lengthy trial will be very gratefully received. gofundme.com/f/help-fund-hp… #ClimateCrisis

Current recruitment at ARG-tech: new vacancies for a 48-month senior postdoc position plus a PhD studentship. Postdoc: arg.tech/SSEN0407 (£42k-£50k)  PhD: arg.tech/PHD202201 (£15,609 tax-free plus payment of UK-student fees) Closing date for both posts 04 March 2022.

I joined #USS 8 years ago. Was told I'd get 17k a year in retirement-not rich but comfortable. These cuts plus inflation mean by the time I'm 80 I'll get 9k a year. I've just been told my heating bill will be 3k this year. I'm not sure people realise just how catastrophic this is

Full day of IPCC interviews yesterday (🙏 to the journalists & the incomparable Aïcha Besser of Suisse Climact who coordinated it all). The question I was asked most often: "Scientists have been raising the alarm for so long, and no one does anything. Why another report?" 🧵