Hilary Neve
@hilary-neve.bsky.social
GP, climate activist, medical educator.
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The @observeruk.bsky.social spent a week with the brave women taking on the water bosses... and they couldn't hack it long enough to meet Mark Thurston.
Stake outs & Southend sewage pipes, what it takes to hold the biggest polluters to account: observer.co.uk/style/featur...
Stake outs & Southend sewage pipes, what it takes to hold the biggest polluters to account: observer.co.uk/style/featur...
My week with the clean-water warriors | The Observer
Some of the Just Stop Oil activists have moved on to a new campaign: citizen's arrests of CEOs. We join them on a stakeout
observer.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The @observeruk.bsky.social spent a week with the brave women taking on the water bosses... and they couldn't hack it long enough to meet Mark Thurston.
Stake outs & Southend sewage pipes, what it takes to hold the biggest polluters to account: observer.co.uk/style/featur...
Stake outs & Southend sewage pipes, what it takes to hold the biggest polluters to account: observer.co.uk/style/featur...
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Breaking: Group of women place CEO of Anglian Water under Citizen’s Arrest for one hour outside Coulsdon South Station this morning with evidence the CEO may be committing crimes of public nuisance.
When British Transport Police finally turned up they escorted Thurston away, but did not arrest him.
When British Transport Police finally turned up they escorted Thurston away, but did not arrest him.
October 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Breaking: Group of women place CEO of Anglian Water under Citizen’s Arrest for one hour outside Coulsdon South Station this morning with evidence the CEO may be committing crimes of public nuisance.
When British Transport Police finally turned up they escorted Thurston away, but did not arrest him.
When British Transport Police finally turned up they escorted Thurston away, but did not arrest him.
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"Do health professionals have a special duty to speak up against the genocide? I think we do."
Fiona Godlee explains why she protested against events in Gaza and the government's proscription of Palestine Action
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Fiona Godlee explains why she protested against events in Gaza and the government's proscription of Palestine Action
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
September 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"Do health professionals have a special duty to speak up against the genocide? I think we do."
Fiona Godlee explains why she protested against events in Gaza and the government's proscription of Palestine Action
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Fiona Godlee explains why she protested against events in Gaza and the government's proscription of Palestine Action
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Doctors peacefully protesting the climate emergency face harsher sanctions than doctors who are sexual predators. Medical regulation needs urgent reform 🚨👇
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Doctors’ tribunals are in need of urgent reform | Letter
Letter: While doctors found guilty of sexual misconduct have been allowed to return to work, others who participated in peaceful climate protests have faced prolonged suspensions, write Prof Hilary Ne...
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Doctors peacefully protesting the climate emergency face harsher sanctions than doctors who are sexual predators. Medical regulation needs urgent reform 🚨👇
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The Royal Society has met to discuss Elon Musk – and they’re NOT removing his fellowship. They are criticising him publicly, but stopping short of actual removal.
This feels like the kind of compromise that will please *absolutely nobody*.
This feels like the kind of compromise that will please *absolutely nobody*.
October 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Royal Society has met to discuss Elon Musk – and they’re NOT removing his fellowship. They are criticising him publicly, but stopping short of actual removal.
This feels like the kind of compromise that will please *absolutely nobody*.
This feels like the kind of compromise that will please *absolutely nobody*.
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Asking my hairdresser to provide unlimited haircuts for less than £3 a week, including online booking & an immediate response to emergency shave at 1min before closing
That’s a NO😂😂
Meanwhile the GP practice - Wes says you must do all that & more
That’s a NO😂😂
Meanwhile the GP practice - Wes says you must do all that & more
September 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Asking my hairdresser to provide unlimited haircuts for less than £3 a week, including online booking & an immediate response to emergency shave at 1min before closing
That’s a NO😂😂
Meanwhile the GP practice - Wes says you must do all that & more
That’s a NO😂😂
Meanwhile the GP practice - Wes says you must do all that & more
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“We now need…the royal colleges, the GMC, the BMA & the NHS to fully support their members who feel compelled to take action. And we need them to raise their own voices loudly & clearly against the genocide & our government’s complicity in it”
Powerful piece in @bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Powerful piece in @bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
I was arrested for peacefully protesting against genocide—why our medical leaders need to speak up
I have never been arrested before, but I went to London’s Parliament Square on 6 September with that as my sole objective. I am now one of over 1400 people, including at least 25 current and former UK...
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September 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
“We now need…the royal colleges, the GMC, the BMA & the NHS to fully support their members who feel compelled to take action. And we need them to raise their own voices loudly & clearly against the genocide & our government’s complicity in it”
Powerful piece in @bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Powerful piece in @bmj.com
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Our letter calling for urgent reform of medical regulatory proceedings in @theguardian.com today.
It cannot be right that doctors who peacefully protest about the climate catastrophe face harsher disciplinary action than doctors found to be sexual predators.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
It cannot be right that doctors who peacefully protest about the climate catastrophe face harsher disciplinary action than doctors found to be sexual predators.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Doctors’ tribunals are in need of urgent reform | Letter
Letter: While doctors found guilty of sexual misconduct have been allowed to return to work, others who participated in peaceful climate protests have faced prolonged suspensions, write Prof Hilary Ne...
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Our letter calling for urgent reform of medical regulatory proceedings in @theguardian.com today.
It cannot be right that doctors who peacefully protest about the climate catastrophe face harsher disciplinary action than doctors found to be sexual predators.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
It cannot be right that doctors who peacefully protest about the climate catastrophe face harsher disciplinary action than doctors found to be sexual predators.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Aaaand they’ve just covered it up.
Which is just another layer of irony…
…given that this is state action against protest about state action against protest.
Which is just another layer of irony…
…given that this is state action against protest about state action against protest.
September 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Aaaand they’ve just covered it up.
Which is just another layer of irony…
…given that this is state action against protest about state action against protest.
Which is just another layer of irony…
…given that this is state action against protest about state action against protest.
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BREAKING: 857 total arrested for sign holding yesterday
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One of the biggest acts of civil disobedience in British history, sending a clear and powerful message to new Home Secretary.
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One of the biggest acts of civil disobedience in British history, sending a clear and powerful message to new Home Secretary.
September 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
BREAKING: 857 total arrested for sign holding yesterday
Sign up for October - wedonotcomply.org
One of the biggest acts of civil disobedience in British history, sending a clear and powerful message to new Home Secretary.
Sign up for October - wedonotcomply.org
One of the biggest acts of civil disobedience in British history, sending a clear and powerful message to new Home Secretary.
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After 4 hours the police moved in, selecting an individual placard holder and, in groups of 12 or more, surrounding and arresting them. All 14 current and retired health professionals were arrested in turn, including Dr Fiona Godlee, previously Editor of the @bmj.com
September 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
After 4 hours the police moved in, selecting an individual placard holder and, in groups of 12 or more, surrounding and arresting them. All 14 current and retired health professionals were arrested in turn, including Dr Fiona Godlee, previously Editor of the @bmj.com
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Health workers sat in solidarity with Gazan health workers, 1400 of whom have been killed since the current crisis began. They sat behind a banner which read “Medical Duty > Terror law” citing the Geneva Conventions and UN Security Council Resolution 2286.
👉 healthforxr.com/6th-sept-202...
👉 healthforxr.com/6th-sept-202...
September 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Health workers sat in solidarity with Gazan health workers, 1400 of whom have been killed since the current crisis began. They sat behind a banner which read “Medical Duty > Terror law” citing the Geneva Conventions and UN Security Council Resolution 2286.
👉 healthforxr.com/6th-sept-202...
👉 healthforxr.com/6th-sept-202...
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Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage.
Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants.
Don't fall for it.
Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants.
Don't fall for it.
August 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage.
Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants.
Don't fall for it.
Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants.
Don't fall for it.
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Aug 26, 1965 - “Climatic Change appears to be underway” – the commencement speech that should have rocked the world
Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee;
"CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely”
allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...
Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee;
"CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely”
allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...
“Climatic Change appears to be underway, in fact.” - the 1965 commencement speech that should have rocked the world. - All Our Yesterdays
Sixty years ago today, n Thursday August 26th 1965, Carl W. Borgmann stood in front of hundreds of young Americans in Knoxville. Borgmann, who was the director of the Ford Foundation’s Science and Eng...
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August 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Aug 26, 1965 - “Climatic Change appears to be underway” – the commencement speech that should have rocked the world
Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee;
"CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely”
allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...
Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee;
"CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely”
allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...
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When he was running to be Labour leader Keir Starmers campaign video boasted that he had stood up for protesters when the full force of the state was against them.
Today his govt is arresting a disabled blind man for holding a placard.
Today his govt is arresting a disabled blind man for holding a placard.
August 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
When he was running to be Labour leader Keir Starmers campaign video boasted that he had stood up for protesters when the full force of the state was against them.
Today his govt is arresting a disabled blind man for holding a placard.
Today his govt is arresting a disabled blind man for holding a placard.
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1🧵Today, UK health workers formed a health block in Parliament Square as part of protests against the government’s proscription of Palestine Action. Our central message: Medical duty must take precedence over unjust terrorism legislation - healthforxr.com/9th-august-2...
August 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
1🧵Today, UK health workers formed a health block in Parliament Square as part of protests against the government’s proscription of Palestine Action. Our central message: Medical duty must take precedence over unjust terrorism legislation - healthforxr.com/9th-august-2...
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4🧵Emergency Nurse Leigh Evans, who has worked in the Palestinian territories including Gaza and who is participating in today's protest added that: “We are not servants of nations — we serve humanity. Our duty to care knows no borders, no politics.”
August 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
4🧵Emergency Nurse Leigh Evans, who has worked in the Palestinian territories including Gaza and who is participating in today's protest added that: “We are not servants of nations — we serve humanity. Our duty to care knows no borders, no politics.”
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Adani is the world's largest private coal developer and its corporate abuses are legion
Yet somehow @sciencemuseum.org.uk sees fit to launder its reputation by letting it sponsor its 'Green Futures' exhibition
Yet somehow @sciencemuseum.org.uk sees fit to launder its reputation by letting it sponsor its 'Green Futures' exhibition
Adani! I don’t want to say I told you so but … Actually yes I do. I told you so! | First Dog on the Moon
The Adani coal mine has been operating for three years and has paid zero corporate tax. I for one am shocked
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August 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Adani is the world's largest private coal developer and its corporate abuses are legion
Yet somehow @sciencemuseum.org.uk sees fit to launder its reputation by letting it sponsor its 'Green Futures' exhibition
Yet somehow @sciencemuseum.org.uk sees fit to launder its reputation by letting it sponsor its 'Green Futures' exhibition
x.com/kennardmatt/... This is brillant
Matt Kennard on X: "Important https://t.co/ZxmFfdSyw1" / X
Important https://t.co/ZxmFfdSyw1
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July 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
x.com/kennardmatt/... This is brillant
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The the times they are a changin.
Veggie option 10,09€/kg
Climate change option 12,38€/kg
Veggie option 10,09€/kg
Climate change option 12,38€/kg
July 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The the times they are a changin.
Veggie option 10,09€/kg
Climate change option 12,38€/kg
Veggie option 10,09€/kg
Climate change option 12,38€/kg
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The ban on international media to enter Gaza continues.
The livestream of horrors from #Gaza goes on despite the ban, for 650 days.
No one can claim they didn’t know.
UNRWA teams work although they themselves are starving and exhausted.
Lift the siege, allow UNRWA to bring in supplies.
The livestream of horrors from #Gaza goes on despite the ban, for 650 days.
No one can claim they didn’t know.
UNRWA teams work although they themselves are starving and exhausted.
Lift the siege, allow UNRWA to bring in supplies.
July 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The ban on international media to enter Gaza continues.
The livestream of horrors from #Gaza goes on despite the ban, for 650 days.
No one can claim they didn’t know.
UNRWA teams work although they themselves are starving and exhausted.
Lift the siege, allow UNRWA to bring in supplies.
The livestream of horrors from #Gaza goes on despite the ban, for 650 days.
No one can claim they didn’t know.
UNRWA teams work although they themselves are starving and exhausted.
Lift the siege, allow UNRWA to bring in supplies.
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What idiot in No. 10 thought making martyrs was a good idea
"Some arrested across the UK are already being released. Arrested, accused of 'terrorism', carted away in police vans, then released hours later without charge - is this what Labour want their legacy to be?
Lift The Ban"
wedonotcomply.org
"Some arrested across the UK are already being released. Arrested, accused of 'terrorism', carted away in police vans, then released hours later without charge - is this what Labour want their legacy to be?
Lift The Ban"
wedonotcomply.org
July 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
What idiot in No. 10 thought making martyrs was a good idea
"Some arrested across the UK are already being released. Arrested, accused of 'terrorism', carted away in police vans, then released hours later without charge - is this what Labour want their legacy to be?
Lift The Ban"
wedonotcomply.org
"Some arrested across the UK are already being released. Arrested, accused of 'terrorism', carted away in police vans, then released hours later without charge - is this what Labour want their legacy to be?
Lift The Ban"
wedonotcomply.org
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LIFT THE BAN
www.wedonotcomply.org
Watch as this young man explains in 30seconds why the de-proscribing of Palestine Action is a democratic and moral imperative.
This is the reason hundreds are willing to risk absurd “terrorism” charges for holding simple truthful signs.
www.wedonotcomply.org
Watch as this young man explains in 30seconds why the de-proscribing of Palestine Action is a democratic and moral imperative.
This is the reason hundreds are willing to risk absurd “terrorism” charges for holding simple truthful signs.
July 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
LIFT THE BAN
www.wedonotcomply.org
Watch as this young man explains in 30seconds why the de-proscribing of Palestine Action is a democratic and moral imperative.
This is the reason hundreds are willing to risk absurd “terrorism” charges for holding simple truthful signs.
www.wedonotcomply.org
Watch as this young man explains in 30seconds why the de-proscribing of Palestine Action is a democratic and moral imperative.
This is the reason hundreds are willing to risk absurd “terrorism” charges for holding simple truthful signs.