Thanks @BBCRadio4 for an especially good listen this morning
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002xh09

Listening to @BBCRadio4 I hear that UK Prime Minister chooses to 'deplore violence' in Northern Ireland using the social media channel owned by a chief instigator of that violence. #UKPolitics #Xitter

"India’s Gen Z population – the largest such cohort in the world – has only seen the rule of Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP. Critics say the government has criminalised dissent, with India slipping in multiple democratic indices since Modi rose to power in 2014"
Appreciating the spread of contributors to this report #resistingtheright
#journalism
https://aje.news/nbojxz

"...fears that Israel is increasingly attempting to surveil top US officials. The aim is allegedly to understand internal White House deliberations about ending the war"
Well they would, wouldn't they? #WorldatWar
https://aje.news/lbemri

Craziness of this year's FIFA World Cup unfolds! Let's remember the Barcelona People's Olympiad, "conceived as an anti-fascist protest event against the 1936 Summer Olympics being held in Berlin, which was then under control of the Nazi Party". halted by outbreak of civil war.
Any remotely similar #solidarity in the face of USA warmongering? Only hearing stories of visa restrictions and increasingly insane amounts of air travel.
#solidarity #footballisbigbusiness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Olympiad

Some favourite quotes from today's #Ecosocialism conference here in London (strapline 'Kill capitalism before it kills us'):
"its a myth that people are tired of Green policies, it's capitalism they're tired of"; "denialism isn't always active; often it's passive acceptance of an increasingly warped way of living"; "climate organising must be about solidarity, not individualism"
#GreensOrganise #climateandnatureEmergency
https://www.ecosocialism-conference.org/links-and-networks/

Bound to be more complicated than this, but didn't Rubio's parents flee from the US-backed right-wing dictatorship of Batista, before the socialist revolution?
And isn't the US detention centre Guantanamo Bay on the island of Cuba?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/22/marco-rubio-doubtful-diplomacy-cuba-trump-renews-threat-military-action?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Just seen appalling ecobollocks outside #UCL - as noted by @sellathechemist and @helenczerski
These planters simply sit on tarmac and are mostly filled with rubble. I give the young trees 6 months max. Was this funded by the 'Planning and a Sustainable Camden' committee?
@LBCamden @thegreenparty

Generally reported as 'deportation' - kidnapped then released #gazaflotilla
"The Global Sumud Flotilla had set sail from France, Spain and Italy with the aim of breaking Israel’s blockade of Gaza and delivering humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged Palestinian territory"
https://aje.news/7z3lwl

Unspeakable #climateviolence wreaked on the poor by the wealthy - we must take #climateaction seriously. #UKPolitics have shrinking global meaning but still matter - overnights aren't great, but holding on for today's counts #thinkglobalactlocal @thegreenparty
https://aje.news/x96elx

"...no declaration of evacuation zones or ‘kill zones’ absolves Israeli and US forces from the absolute legal responsibility to determine that each individual person or civilian facility targeted by drones, jets, and gunfire is, in fact, a military target.”
https://aje.news/9a77lk

Follow-up to #EdSciFest fun with #BritishPhycologicalSociety - cribsheet for the popular photosynthesis game! With thanks to @sellathechemist (any remaining howlers my responsibility:)
https://www.susiarnott.co.uk/photosynthesis-game/

Careless waste is still such a huge contributor to #globalheating and #climatebreakdown
#methane
https://aje.news/dwnc17

"Security and surveillance are a sticking plaster. The real solution is connection and allyship – not just warm words but real, tangible action"
- with story of allies resisting antisemitism and islamophobia together:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/02/moderate-majority-fight-against-antisemitism-british-jews

What're the chances? Bypassing legal scrutiny by citing an emergency they've brought about, US warmongers profit from death and destruction #evilempire
https://aje.news/fdn9w3

Lovely turn of phrase about batteries from @ketan comes to mind: this ice-house moved energy across time, until electrical refrigeration replaced hay and ice from (sometimes man-made) lakes. #ViadegliDei #walkinginItaly
(Stone cylinder extends 12m below ground!)

Hadn't realised progressive Zionism is so well organised and has a book due out:
"Last year, while addressing a rally for Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, Baginsky and Levy were booed off stage after calling for an end to the war and the establishment of a Palestinian state"
#Palestine #Israel
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn

UK's single biggest source of CO2 emissions, subsidised by taxpayers (and responsible for deforestation and toxic pollution in North America, even before they set fire to anything... ) Good clear article in advance of AGM. Protestors always show up, but sounds like the board will give it a miss this year #StopBurningTrees #AxeDrax #UKPolitics
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/04/27/drax-avoid-agm/

"The most recent attack was a strike on al-Zein well in northern Gaza last Monday, when water engineers were working inside" - restricting access to water and sanitation; another nasty way to kill people #Israel #Gaza #genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/27/israeli-attacks-gaza-clean-water-shortage-crisis-disease-palestine

#lifeduringwartime - lyrics and edge still cut it 47 years later #DavidByrne #coachella
https://youtu.be/Kn1vsMJk260?si=lOfxQuWv94G5QpfV