Catherine Read
@cathread.bsky.social
💙NHS, Welsh, worried about climate change.🌍Born at 321ppm. 🏳️🌈2024 Parliamentary candidate💚Guardian of Folly Wood🦇🐝🌿Former Radiographer
How would a government, whose leader was racist, transphobic, mysoginistic and tended towards facist behaviour use these new powers?
This is an erosion of our right to free speech and protest against those in power.
#DemocracyUnderFire
#ProtectRighttoProtest
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
This is an erosion of our right to free speech and protest against those in power.
#DemocracyUnderFire
#ProtectRighttoProtest
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Civil society groups condemn ‘dangerous’ plans for more anti-protest powers
Dozens including TUC join force to oppose ‘wide-ranging’ move to increase police powers in England and Wales
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:01 AM
How would a government, whose leader was racist, transphobic, mysoginistic and tended towards facist behaviour use these new powers?
This is an erosion of our right to free speech and protest against those in power.
#DemocracyUnderFire
#ProtectRighttoProtest
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
This is an erosion of our right to free speech and protest against those in power.
#DemocracyUnderFire
#ProtectRighttoProtest
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Reposted by Catherine Read
Clips from Professor @mikebernerslee.bsky.social's powerful opening & closing statements at the National Emergency Briefing.
"We are asking for a WW2 level of leadership. Leadership, as if the survival of our society depends on it... because it does."
#NEB2025 #NationalEmergencyBriefing
"We are asking for a WW2 level of leadership. Leadership, as if the survival of our society depends on it... because it does."
#NEB2025 #NationalEmergencyBriefing
January 11, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Clips from Professor @mikebernerslee.bsky.social's powerful opening & closing statements at the National Emergency Briefing.
"We are asking for a WW2 level of leadership. Leadership, as if the survival of our society depends on it... because it does."
#NEB2025 #NationalEmergencyBriefing
"We are asking for a WW2 level of leadership. Leadership, as if the survival of our society depends on it... because it does."
#NEB2025 #NationalEmergencyBriefing
Reposted by Catherine Read
It’s time for a televised emergency briefing on the threats from climate & nature breakdown - and opportunities if we take urgent action.
Gov did it with Covid. This is an even greater threat.
Please ask your MP to join the call 👇
Gov did it with Covid. This is an even greater threat.
Please ask your MP to join the call 👇
Please ask your MP to watch the 9 expert briefings on the climate & nature crisis, and then add their name to the Parliamentary Call for a televised emergency briefing.
More info: www.nebriefing.org/take-action
Full talks: www.youtube.com/@nebriefing
Clips of all nine talks below 🧵1/10👇
#NEB2025
More info: www.nebriefing.org/take-action
Full talks: www.youtube.com/@nebriefing
Clips of all nine talks below 🧵1/10👇
#NEB2025
National Emergency Briefing
Take Action on the Climate and Nature Emergency | How to engage after the National Emergency Briefing and support science-led solutions
www.nebriefing.org
January 11, 2026 at 8:54 AM
It’s time for a televised emergency briefing on the threats from climate & nature breakdown - and opportunities if we take urgent action.
Gov did it with Covid. This is an even greater threat.
Please ask your MP to join the call 👇
Gov did it with Covid. This is an even greater threat.
Please ask your MP to join the call 👇
Apologies, that’s three different countries, including tax havens.
Why?
Why?
Our water provider in Wiltshire is made up of 12 different companies registered in two different countries and a British Isle. Let’s take back control of our essential services 💧
#PublicallyOwnedWater
#PrivatisationHasFailed
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
#PublicallyOwnedWater
#PrivatisationHasFailed
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Wessex Water bosses handed £50,000 in extra pay despite Labour government’s bonus ban
Utility admits parent company paid CEO Ruth Jefferson and CFO Andy Pymer but denies bonus payments
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Apologies, that’s three different countries, including tax havens.
Why?
Why?
Apologies, three different countries, including tax havens.
January 11, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Apologies, three different countries, including tax havens.
Our water provider in Wiltshire is made up of 12 different companies registered in two different countries and a British Isle. Let’s take back control of our essential services 💧
#PublicallyOwnedWater
#PrivatisationHasFailed
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
#PublicallyOwnedWater
#PrivatisationHasFailed
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Wessex Water bosses handed £50,000 in extra pay despite Labour government’s bonus ban
Utility admits parent company paid CEO Ruth Jefferson and CFO Andy Pymer but denies bonus payments
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Our water provider in Wiltshire is made up of 12 different companies registered in two different countries and a British Isle. Let’s take back control of our essential services 💧
#PublicallyOwnedWater
#PrivatisationHasFailed
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
#PublicallyOwnedWater
#PrivatisationHasFailed
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Vehicles already get the lions share of public space. So let’s get obstructing pedestrian pavements banned.
#PedesttianSafety
#FairShareofPublicSpace
#PedesttianSafety
#FairShareofPublicSpace
Just ban it. Stop this being socially acceptable FFS 🤬
January 10, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Vehicles already get the lions share of public space. So let’s get obstructing pedestrian pavements banned.
#PedesttianSafety
#FairShareofPublicSpace
#PedesttianSafety
#FairShareofPublicSpace
“In particular, a failure to act on Musk’s behaviour will only embolden those who seek to exert political influence over science and scientists and erode its foundational principles”
We all have a moral duty to take a stand when something is wrong. Few actually do but these are the good ones.
We all have a moral duty to take a stand when something is wrong. Few actually do but these are the good ones.
In light of the Royal Society's continued inaction on Elon Musk, it seems appropriate to share this again.
I wrote it last March when I resigned my position as associate editor at a Royal Society Journal.
Things haven't got better since then.
I wrote it last March when I resigned my position as associate editor at a Royal Society Journal.
Things haven't got better since then.
Why I’m resigning my editorship at a Royal Society journal
It’s time to take a stand, small as it may be, and to distance myself from the Royal Society
kityates.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:23 AM
“In particular, a failure to act on Musk’s behaviour will only embolden those who seek to exert political influence over science and scientists and erode its foundational principles”
We all have a moral duty to take a stand when something is wrong. Few actually do but these are the good ones.
We all have a moral duty to take a stand when something is wrong. Few actually do but these are the good ones.
Have a great day. Thank you.
January 10, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Have a great day. Thank you.
The super rich use their fair share of carbon budget in three days! So for the rest of the year they will be taking everyone else’s share. The greedy behaviour of the rich is literally killing us.
#TaxWealth
#BanPrivateJets #BanFossilFuels
#FairerSociety
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#TaxWealth
#BanPrivateJets #BanFossilFuels
#FairerSociety
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam
Richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget, study shows
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:13 AM
The super rich use their fair share of carbon budget in three days! So for the rest of the year they will be taking everyone else’s share. The greedy behaviour of the rich is literally killing us.
#TaxWealth
#BanPrivateJets #BanFossilFuels
#FairerSociety
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#TaxWealth
#BanPrivateJets #BanFossilFuels
#FairerSociety
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The Princess of Wales recognises the importance of nature to health and healing. Access to nature should be available to all. We all should have a right to walk riverbanks and stroll in the countryside.
#RightToRoam
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
#RightToRoam
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Princess of Wales says nature ‘helped me heal’ in 44th birthday video
Catherine says she feels ‘deeply grateful’ in final instalment of Mother Nature series, a year on from cancer treatment
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
The Princess of Wales recognises the importance of nature to health and healing. Access to nature should be available to all. We all should have a right to walk riverbanks and stroll in the countryside.
#RightToRoam
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
#RightToRoam
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Reposted by Catherine Read
⚡2026 is a turning point. UK #climate & environmental activists face both crisis & opportunity.
Fascism rises, the #climate agenda is under attack, & political representation is urgent.
🧵A longish thread on why we must unite behind @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the @greenparty.org.uk 💚
Fascism rises, the #climate agenda is under attack, & political representation is urgent.
🧵A longish thread on why we must unite behind @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the @greenparty.org.uk 💚
January 8, 2026 at 9:46 AM
⚡2026 is a turning point. UK #climate & environmental activists face both crisis & opportunity.
Fascism rises, the #climate agenda is under attack, & political representation is urgent.
🧵A longish thread on why we must unite behind @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the @greenparty.org.uk 💚
Fascism rises, the #climate agenda is under attack, & political representation is urgent.
🧵A longish thread on why we must unite behind @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the @greenparty.org.uk 💚
“They’ve also been banned from prison jobs for “security reasons”, denied books, newspapers, library and gym visits and subjected to “non-association orders”
I thought we had moved on from Victorian levels of cruelty.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I thought we had moved on from Victorian levels of cruelty.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:01 AM
“They’ve also been banned from prison jobs for “security reasons”, denied books, newspapers, library and gym visits and subjected to “non-association orders”
I thought we had moved on from Victorian levels of cruelty.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I thought we had moved on from Victorian levels of cruelty.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
These young people have not been convicted nor been to trial. What justice is this? Let them out on bail or bring forward their trial date. This is an inhumane way to treat anyone. I always thought we had innocent until proven guilty-yet they are in prison!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Health of Palestine Action hunger strikers deteriorating, supporters say
Heba Muraisi having muscle spasms and Kamran Ahmed losing hearing, with both ‘well into critical phase’
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:48 AM
These young people have not been convicted nor been to trial. What justice is this? Let them out on bail or bring forward their trial date. This is an inhumane way to treat anyone. I always thought we had innocent until proven guilty-yet they are in prison!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
A lost opportunity to make roads safer by reducing speed limits.
Wales has shown by introducing 20mph, which is simple, quick and cheap to implement, saw big reductions in road deaths and injuries immediately.
#20sPlenty #VisionZero #SaferRoads
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Wales has shown by introducing 20mph, which is simple, quick and cheap to implement, saw big reductions in road deaths and injuries immediately.
#20sPlenty #VisionZero #SaferRoads
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Government signals tougher motoring rules to reduce casualties on Britain’s roads
Eye-tests for older drivers, automatic emergency braking in new cars and crackdown on drink-driving among new proposals
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:31 AM
A lost opportunity to make roads safer by reducing speed limits.
Wales has shown by introducing 20mph, which is simple, quick and cheap to implement, saw big reductions in road deaths and injuries immediately.
#20sPlenty #VisionZero #SaferRoads
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Wales has shown by introducing 20mph, which is simple, quick and cheap to implement, saw big reductions in road deaths and injuries immediately.
#20sPlenty #VisionZero #SaferRoads
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Following a report of tree obstruction and broken stile to #WiltshireCouncil, both issues have been resolved. Trees removed and stile and steps rebuilt. It's a good feeling to know that I can make a difference for my community and the system works.😊
January 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Following a report of tree obstruction and broken stile to #WiltshireCouncil, both issues have been resolved. Trees removed and stile and steps rebuilt. It's a good feeling to know that I can make a difference for my community and the system works.😊
Reposted by Catherine Read
I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.
January 5, 2026 at 12:27 PM
I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.
“What’s going on inside Trump’s head? A benign interpretation is that in matters of war and peace, he has no idea what he is doing – no strategy, no clue – and makes up policy as he goes, depending on how he feels”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Today an illegal coup in Venezuela, but where next? Donald Trump talks peace but he is a man of war | Simon Tisdall
The world will be anxious, and rightly so. For a man so bent on a peace prize, Trump appears to revel in conflict, writes Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:01 AM
“What’s going on inside Trump’s head? A benign interpretation is that in matters of war and peace, he has no idea what he is doing – no strategy, no clue – and makes up policy as he goes, depending on how he feels”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Catherine Read
Here's to putting people and planet first in 2026.
Happy New Year from all of us at the Green Party.
Happy New Year from all of us at the Green Party.
January 1, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Here's to putting people and planet first in 2026.
Happy New Year from all of us at the Green Party.
Happy New Year from all of us at the Green Party.
It wasn’t all doom and gloom in the climate sphere as @thierryaaron.bsky.social lists 12 important wins.
#KeepCampaigning
#FossilFoolsWillOut
#HopeisHere
💚
#KeepCampaigning
#FossilFoolsWillOut
#HopeisHere
💚
This year has been brutal for the #climate movement.
Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven.
Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025.
Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️
Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven.
Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025.
Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️
January 1, 2026 at 9:33 AM
It wasn’t all doom and gloom in the climate sphere as @thierryaaron.bsky.social lists 12 important wins.
#KeepCampaigning
#FossilFoolsWillOut
#HopeisHere
💚
#KeepCampaigning
#FossilFoolsWillOut
#HopeisHere
💚
Encouragement from the EU to take up decarbonisation techniques for cement, steel and other high carbon goods.
🚛
#DecarboniseIndustry
#GreenerIndustry
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🚛
#DecarboniseIndustry
#GreenerIndustry
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
EU’s new ‘green tariff’ rules on high-carbon goods come into force
The ‘border adjustment mechanism’ aims to create a level playing field while also encouraging decarbonisation
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Encouragement from the EU to take up decarbonisation techniques for cement, steel and other high carbon goods.
🚛
#DecarboniseIndustry
#GreenerIndustry
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🚛
#DecarboniseIndustry
#GreenerIndustry
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“One set of companies profits by making populations obese; another now profits by promising to reverse it, at least for as long as people can keep paying and injecting.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The WHO learned to love ‘anti-obesity’ jabs in 2025. I don’t fully agree, but I get it | Devi Sridhar
While GLP-1 drugs promise an easy fix, our bodies still need what they have always needed: healthy food and regular exercise, says chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, Prof De...
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“One set of companies profits by making populations obese; another now profits by promising to reverse it, at least for as long as people can keep paying and injecting.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Catherine Read
This stark warning from a senior British army General could hardly be more serious👇
MPs: please listen to him and then add your name to this Parliamentary call for a televised emergency briefing.
Because the public deserves to know.
www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...
#NEB2025
MPs: please listen to him and then add your name to this Parliamentary call for a televised emergency briefing.
Because the public deserves to know.
www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...
#NEB2025
December 31, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This stark warning from a senior British army General could hardly be more serious👇
MPs: please listen to him and then add your name to this Parliamentary call for a televised emergency briefing.
Because the public deserves to know.
www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...
#NEB2025
MPs: please listen to him and then add your name to this Parliamentary call for a televised emergency briefing.
Because the public deserves to know.
www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...
#NEB2025
Oops, Joe, not Jack. Apologies.
December 31, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Oops, Joe, not Jack. Apologies.