RT: @Chrisviews43 @ZackPolanski is absolutely right on this.

We pay for the @BBCNews to inform us, yet if Farage says something about migrants, the BBC and Sky News can spend days treating Reform’s fantasy politics like it is the biggest issue facing the country.

Meanwhile, climate change, one of the biggest threats to our national security and our future, barely gets anything like the same attention.

And here is the irony. The media constantly tells us to fear migration, but if we continue ignoring climate change, we could see migration on a scale never seen before. This time it might be us looking for somewhere safer to live.

I am sick of being fed a divisive narrative simply because Farage says something and the MSM decides it must therefore be important.

Zack is right to call this out. Journalism should be challenging nonsense and informing us about the real threats ahead, not helping one politician decide what the country should be angry about this week.

RT: @domdyer70 Not great timing Andy @andyburnham

RT: @kimmoneihum Zack Polanski, Thomas Piketty: How we build an economic future for all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_83pFubGvQ

RT: @gaoblai Saw @ZackPolanski speak today in Edinburgh in conversation with Iain Dale. You only had to compare the crowd reactions (multiple LOUD rounds of applause and cheers) to the previous talk with Wes Streeting (a few muted chuckles) to see that there's so much hope for the greens.

RT: @MickCoffey2 Evidently true.

RT: @implausibleblog French economist Thomas Piketty to Zack Polanski,

"This neoliberal turn of the 80s has not been a huge success for the middle class and for average living standards"

"The big promise that was made in the 80s by Reagan and Thatcher was, look, we are going to kill off progressive taxation, maybe inequality will rise, but the size of the pie is going to grow so fast like you've never seen."

"Average wages, average income are going to grow like you've never seen. And so everybody will be happy."

"30 years later, 40 years later. When I look at Brexit or when I look at the Trumpist United States, I don't see, very happy people."

"And I think partly because of the failure of this promise and this is why right wing parties in these two countries, the Republican in the US and the Conservative and now Reform Party in Britain, have turned anti migrant toward identity politics because they have not delivered on the economic front and on living standards"

Wildfires. Floods. Droughts.

This is not the new normal - it's the beginning of what will get worse.

We need to invest now to protect people from future years of even more extreme weather.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/zack-polanski-gdp-ann-widdecombe-trump-wildfires-b1292792.html

RT: @ScotNational NEW: Green leader Zack Polanski has criticised 'absurd' editorial decisions from the BBC – and said that the broadcaster gives Nigel Farage’s Reform much more coverage than his party

RT: @declassifiedUK Ten trade unions, including the UK’s largest union UNISON, have called on UK prime minister Andy Burnham to revoke permission for US air strikes on Iran launched from RAF bases.

Read the full release at @TransitionSec:
https://transitionsecurity.org/update/iran-war-cost-of-living/

RT: @GlassJet Polanski is spot on here, it is unassailable logic, we've just been brainwashed otherwise.

Society will look back at fossil fuel companies - assuming we get the chance to look back - and they will make the tabbaco companies seem like cases of moral probity.

I went to Paris to speak to Thomas Piketty - one of the world’s leading thinkers on inequality.

We talk about why wealth keeps concentrating at the top, the case for public investment, and how to build a fairer economy.

A fascinating conversation.

https://youtu.be/d_83pFubGvQ?is=4A3tfthnoK2n2gps

RT: @Feargal_Sharkey So while 26 million people in England and Wales are living under a hosepipe ban last night this is happening on a golf club in north London.

What am I missing?

RT: @DavidMcNab17 This is the most significant shift in economic thinking in my lifetime - and i’m getting on a bit. I’ve lived under the same economic system for my entire life. It’s failed us.

I hope to god @ZackPolanski succeeds in changing the economic record. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

RT: @AnsellEade Good that the Greens gave a platform at their press conference this week to emergency service workers who have been dealing with crises during the heatwave.

RT: @chrisw100 Green WIN in Surrey over Reform and the Tories!

Congratulations to Nick Abear and @EastSurreyGrns 🎉💚

RT: @BylineTimes 🔴Reform UK converted a £630,000 loan from deputy leader Richard Tice into a donation to the party, raising further questions about the origins of the party’s funds.

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/08/07/reform-uk-accounts-raise-fresh-questions-about-origins-of-richard-tice-donations/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

RT: @lowerformofwit It's ludicrous that we have an OFCOM regulated media channel that is allowed to call itself "News" while blatantly pushing fossil fuel anti climate change propaganda

RT: @Vonni2 Profiteering over life itself, not anymore. More people care about our planet than their greed. The strength of feeling in general is beyond politics we need real solutions. #Peopleandplanetfirst

RT: @William_E_Bird Andy Burnham would rather have the whole UK burn than hurt the oil industry. They’re always the same, always with the same priorities; money and another 5 years in No.10

RT: @TransitionSec Our Co-Director @KhemRogaly told @guardian:

“Allowing American strategic bombers to strike Iran from Gloucestershire could well make Britain complicit in war crimes. It also enables a war that makes life more expensive for all of us.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/07/unions-andy-burnham-uk-cost-of-living-crisis-donald-trump-iran-war