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Extinction Rebellion, The Big One and the Labour Movement

Rob Marsden writes: Extinction Rebellion’s “The Big One”, a long weekend of climate actions, pickets and demonstrations in London last…

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Genetic Technology Act passes into law but still much to fight for

From Thin Ice GM Freeze, Thin Ice, 5 June 2023 On Thursday 23 March, the deeply flawed Genetic Technology (Precision…

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Nine questions for Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer

From Urban Ramblings, a very topical piece which raises some important questions. In the week that the sky all along…

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Starmer urged not to U-turn on new North Sea oil and gas ban

Following yesterday’s post, we have another Guardian article urging Labour to stand by its radical energy and decarbonisation proposals… Starmer…

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Labour’s oil and gas ban shows it’s ready to fight the next election on climate issues

The announcement by Keir Starmer, detailed in the Guardian article below, that he will ban all new gas and oil…

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Labour: Stand firm in opposition to oil & gas

Please sign this open letter to Keir Starmer. Dear Sir Keir Starmer, CC: Angela Rayner MP, Rachel Reeves MP and…

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The European eel – a critically endangered species on the menu of top European restaurants

Alan Thornett (pictured with a trophy eel in 1949) writes: The most disastrous consequence, of today’s environmental crisis, is the…

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Open up public participation in local government with Digital Democracy

From Birmingham Against the Cuts One of the key issues facing the WMCA, Birmingham City Council and all the other…

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Brexit is destroying what’s left of the UK car industry

Alan Thornett writes about another Brexit chicken coming home to roost with a vengeance. The electric vehicle (EV) multinational Stellantis…

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Great British Energy – a significant step forward – perhaps

Sean Thompson reports: In case you haven’t come across it before, We Own It is an excellent organisation established in…