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@SteB777
May 22, 2021 • 11 tweets • 11 min read • Read on X
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Let us Swiftly address the biodiversity crisis and to reverse the declines in biodiversity. We need to start now, in a big way. No more tokenism. #BiodiversityDay @IPBES @GretaThunberg @HollyWildChild @GreeneIndy @GreenFGeorge @BBCSpringwatch @ChrisGPackham @MeganMcCubbin

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Jun 29
'One senior NHS figure said they were seeing “medieval” levels of untreated illness in some of Britain’s poorest communities'

Could this be why there's been a big increase in those claiming sickness and disability benefits?

1/🧵theguardian.com/society/2025/j…
We were told by members of Rishi Sunak's cabinet, and now Keir Starmer's cabinet, that there was no reason why the numbers of those claiming sickness and disability benefits were increasing.

Whilst, actually, there is a crisis of poor health in the UK's poorest communities.
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We keep getting told by those taken in by the right wing Tory Press, that this increase in sickness and disability isn't occurring elsewhere in Europe, but here's the evidence of sickness being higher in the UK.

3/theguardian.com/society/2025/j…
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Jun 29
I admit to having made a huge error. In my time commenting on the Guardian, I thought I had explained enough about the climate and ecological crisis, to straighten out many of the misconceptions about it. But obviously I hadn't.
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I know much of my commenting was well read and influential. It was not a guess. Just before the pandemic, the former editor of the Guardian Environment section, the late John Vidal, invited me to his Nature Festival in Oswestry, because he told me he wanted to meet me.
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He told me that he and the current Guardian Environment Editor Damian Carrington were very impressed by my arguments. George Monbiot was very complimentary, and referenced me in some of his articles.
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Jun 26
There's a necessity to understand big picture thinking, joined up thinking, the overview.

All the things I've been commenting about, the climate and ecological crisis, politics, the genocide in Gaza, the pursuit of economic growth, neoliberalism, are all highly interlinked.
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The interlinking theme, is humanity and social justice. As @GretaThunberg has explained, she is a climate activist, because of the threat to humanity. It is entirely mistaken to see climate activism, as somehow apart from other social justice issues.

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If we do not urgently address the climate and ecological crisis, it will cause massive impacts, starvation, and the likely collapse of our civilization. This, and other social justice issues, all have one major cause.

3/theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Jun 26
"Alexander brushes off criticism of Morgan McSweeney over welfare bill, saying he helped deliver 'historic' election victory"

Let's kill off this myth of the "historic election Victory" which was actually crafted by Rishi Sunak.

1/🧵theguardian.com/politics/live/…
This election victory was by default. The Tories had made themselves very disliked. Polling just before the general election showed no great enthusiasm for Keir Starmer. He just wasn't a Tory, or so people mistakenly thought at the time.
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The election wasn't a resounding success for either Keir Starmer or Morgan McSweeney. People wanted the Tories gone, and who else could they vote for?

Any other interpretation is bizarre.
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Jun 26
There is something seriously wrong with Keir Starmer, and if the Labour Party, don't eject him, their reputation is going to be trashed.

I suppose Starmer thinks that supporting, denying and apologising for genocide is progressive.

You have to look at the whole big picture.
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It's not just choosing to hammer the sick and disabled, supporting the horrendous genocidal, murderous behaviour of the Israel regime. But there is rowing back on climate action, and supporting fossil fuel industry greenwash, and far more.
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There is locking up peaceful climate activists and giving them long prison sentences, the way he has overseen oppressive action against protestors, protesting against the genocide in Gaza.

Then there is sucking up to Donald Trump and being sycophantic towards him.
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Jun 25
"Billionaires’ wealth surged $6.5tn over past decade, Oxfam reports

Real-terms gains of $33.9tn for world’s richest 1% ‘enough to end annual global poverty 22 times over’"

Just let this sink in. Poverty, is a choice the rich impose on the world.

1/🧵theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/…
Modern shyster politicians (manipulative gaslighters), like the UK PM, Keir Starmer, convince the public with lies, that the vulnerable, such as the sick and disabled have to suffer cuts, because there is no money. What a massive lie.
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The very rich pay a fraction of the tax they used to pay. In the 1950s and 1960s, the top tax rate in both the US and the UK, was 95%. Now, billionaires often pay a lower percentage in tax, than nurses. How did this come about?
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