Fraser is always essential reading on the big practical challenges of achieving a #justtransition in Scotland ⬇️

Energy and “net zero” needs a mindset shift: from viewing citizens and communities as a barrier to overcome, to active partners in a massive technological and societal transformation.

Some thoughts on engagement on the energy transition: fraserjfstewart-17.medium.com/no-transition-…

Shocking footage shows unimaginable destruction in📍 #Gaza city, including our health centre.

+70% of civilian infrastructure- including homes, hospitals & schools- have been destroyed or severely damaged.

84% of health facilities have been affected by attacks.

Nowhere is safe.

People have gone without meals to pay for these profits.

Have the people who want well-funded public services or fair wages ever considered simply springing it on the Prime Minister, perhaps in a novelty birthday cake

It’s not that there isn’t any money left: we’ve just systematically transferred masses of it from public to (a very small number of very wealthy) private hands

Here is a list of the names we know from the more than 11,500 Palestinian children killed during Israel’s continuing war on Gaza ⤵️

Know their names: aje.io/06omb

‘It’s the cost of survival. It’s not a cost of living [crisis], it’s just getting by.’

Melanie shares her experience as a single parent with Channel 4 News as our #UKPoverty report finds millions of people would need to double their income just to escape poverty.

“It didn’t start on the 7th of October” thank you South Africa

'The first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something.'

Blinne Ni Ghralaigh at the ICJ in the Hague

Adila Hassim, a lawyer presenting South Africa’s Gaza genocide case at the ICJ, describes Israel’s 'unparalleled and unprecedented killing' of Palestinians.

A day of interesting threads - here's one on the significant merits of community-owned energy (I particularly like how such schemes are likely to embed much more than just narrow energy supply).