Mel Carrington
@melcarrington.bsky.social
Activist, retired environmental consultant & economist, gardener, mum. Arrived at 313.83 ppm. Is it time for a cuppa?
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‼️ TAKE BACK POWER
The super rich are killing us. They pocket billions while the rest of us struggle to get by.
We demand a permanent House of the People with powers to tax the rich and fix Britain.
Sign up now: takebackpower.net
The super rich are killing us. They pocket billions while the rest of us struggle to get by.
We demand a permanent House of the People with powers to tax the rich and fix Britain.
Sign up now: takebackpower.net
December 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
‼️ TAKE BACK POWER
The super rich are killing us. They pocket billions while the rest of us struggle to get by.
We demand a permanent House of the People with powers to tax the rich and fix Britain.
Sign up now: takebackpower.net
The super rich are killing us. They pocket billions while the rest of us struggle to get by.
We demand a permanent House of the People with powers to tax the rich and fix Britain.
Sign up now: takebackpower.net
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🎄 INEQUALITY IS SHIT
We have just delivered a 💩 gift for the Ritz, depositing it below their iconic Christmas tree.
Take Back Power demand the UK gov establish a permanent House of the People with the power to tax the rich and fix Britain.
Sign up: takebackpower.net
We have just delivered a 💩 gift for the Ritz, depositing it below their iconic Christmas tree.
Take Back Power demand the UK gov establish a permanent House of the People with the power to tax the rich and fix Britain.
Sign up: takebackpower.net
December 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🎄 INEQUALITY IS SHIT
We have just delivered a 💩 gift for the Ritz, depositing it below their iconic Christmas tree.
Take Back Power demand the UK gov establish a permanent House of the People with the power to tax the rich and fix Britain.
Sign up: takebackpower.net
We have just delivered a 💩 gift for the Ritz, depositing it below their iconic Christmas tree.
Take Back Power demand the UK gov establish a permanent House of the People with the power to tax the rich and fix Britain.
Sign up: takebackpower.net
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"To be quite honest, this country's going to shit"
After delivering their 💩 gift to the Ritz Hotel this morning, the Take Back Power supporters sat outside to talk about why they took action today.
Sign up: takebackpower.net
After delivering their 💩 gift to the Ritz Hotel this morning, the Take Back Power supporters sat outside to talk about why they took action today.
Sign up: takebackpower.net
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"To be quite honest, this country's going to shit"
After delivering their 💩 gift to the Ritz Hotel this morning, the Take Back Power supporters sat outside to talk about why they took action today.
Sign up: takebackpower.net
After delivering their 💩 gift to the Ritz Hotel this morning, the Take Back Power supporters sat outside to talk about why they took action today.
Sign up: takebackpower.net
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A second prisoner held on remand for alleged offences relating to Palestine Action has been hospitalised after refusing food for nearly three weeks.
Teuta ‘T’ Hoxha was hospitalised on Thursday 27 November due to her rapidly deteriorating health
novaramedia.com/2025/11/28/s...
Teuta ‘T’ Hoxha was hospitalised on Thursday 27 November due to her rapidly deteriorating health
novaramedia.com/2025/11/28/s...
Second Palestine Action Prisoner Hospitalised | Novara Media
Exclusive: Teuta ‘T’ Hoxha has been taken to hospital after 20 days on hunger strike, following the hospitalisation of Kamran Ahmed earlier this week. Harriet Williamson reports.
novaramedia.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A second prisoner held on remand for alleged offences relating to Palestine Action has been hospitalised after refusing food for nearly three weeks.
Teuta ‘T’ Hoxha was hospitalised on Thursday 27 November due to her rapidly deteriorating health
novaramedia.com/2025/11/28/s...
Teuta ‘T’ Hoxha was hospitalised on Thursday 27 November due to her rapidly deteriorating health
novaramedia.com/2025/11/28/s...
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Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
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Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge 'Dark Money' Climate-Denial Lobbyist
EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
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In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014.
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014.
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COP30 BREAKING NEWS
The presidency has just dropped a new package of texts including the "global mutirão" cover, which makes no mention of fossil fuels or roadmaps
Here's my snap analysis (pic)
unfccc.int/sites/def...
The presidency has just dropped a new package of texts including the "global mutirão" cover, which makes no mention of fossil fuels or roadmaps
Here's my snap analysis (pic)
unfccc.int/sites/def...
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 AM
COP30 BREAKING NEWS
The presidency has just dropped a new package of texts including the "global mutirão" cover, which makes no mention of fossil fuels or roadmaps
Here's my snap analysis (pic)
unfccc.int/sites/def...
The presidency has just dropped a new package of texts including the "global mutirão" cover, which makes no mention of fossil fuels or roadmaps
Here's my snap analysis (pic)
unfccc.int/sites/def...
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I did read this in a cab on the M4 at half five this morning so I was primed to be grumpy admittedly, but seriously - who the fuck cares what Richard Tice, Karol Sikora and Lord bleedin' Frost think of the covid inquiry? How are they relevant? The decline of the Telegraph is quite incredible
it's not useful, it's the Mail. but that is how they've reported the covid inquiry report. it's better than the Telegraph which is "three of our columnists think it's a waste of money" for a thousand words before they even mention its actual findings. Get more news from the Beano.
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I did read this in a cab on the M4 at half five this morning so I was primed to be grumpy admittedly, but seriously - who the fuck cares what Richard Tice, Karol Sikora and Lord bleedin' Frost think of the covid inquiry? How are they relevant? The decline of the Telegraph is quite incredible
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The regulators are asleep at the wheel on the normalisation & disinhibition of unlawful racist abuse.
Ministers have yet to make the obvious link between their rhetorical disapproval of the slurs of the 70s/80s and their policy responsibility to do something about drivers
bsky.app/profile/sund...
Ministers have yet to make the obvious link between their rhetorical disapproval of the slurs of the 70s/80s and their policy responsibility to do something about drivers
bsky.app/profile/sund...
Have we entered a racism timewarp?
Why does X routinely defend the racist abuse that it has a legal duty to remove?
A binary choice: must we tolerate the use of "paki" as a racist slur in the Britain of 2025 - or will government act to Make Twitter Lawful Again?
www.easterneye.biz/uk-racism-nh...
Why does X routinely defend the racist abuse that it has a legal duty to remove?
A binary choice: must we tolerate the use of "paki" as a racist slur in the Britain of 2025 - or will government act to Make Twitter Lawful Again?
www.easterneye.biz/uk-racism-nh...
‘Social media ignores return of racial hate’
Expert slams online platforms for letting trolls get away scot-free
www.easterneye.biz
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The regulators are asleep at the wheel on the normalisation & disinhibition of unlawful racist abuse.
Ministers have yet to make the obvious link between their rhetorical disapproval of the slurs of the 70s/80s and their policy responsibility to do something about drivers
bsky.app/profile/sund...
Ministers have yet to make the obvious link between their rhetorical disapproval of the slurs of the 70s/80s and their policy responsibility to do something about drivers
bsky.app/profile/sund...
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It's sad to see that the Trump regime has - for now - succeeded in bringing down the @noaa website reporting on atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa since 1958. Now via the government shutdown, but it was already under attack by selling its building and scrapping jobs too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
It's sad to see that the Trump regime has - for now - succeeded in bringing down the @noaa website reporting on atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa since 1958. Now via the government shutdown, but it was already under attack by selling its building and scrapping jobs too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/c...
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One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power.
The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.
But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.
But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power.
The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.
But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.
But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
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One year ago after the narcissist was elected Just Stop Oil supporters targeted the US Embassy in London. In January this year the two of us were found not guilty of committing criminal damage
November 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
One year ago after the narcissist was elected Just Stop Oil supporters targeted the US Embassy in London. In January this year the two of us were found not guilty of committing criminal damage
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Why do billionaire media constantly trumpet most toxic expensive energies?
Another £4.6b taxpayers money wasted trying to handle toxic waste on just one CLOSED nuclear power station.
Lab/Reform/Tory obsession with nuclear is attack on future generations
www.constructionenquirer.com/2025/10/31/s...
Another £4.6b taxpayers money wasted trying to handle toxic waste on just one CLOSED nuclear power station.
Lab/Reform/Tory obsession with nuclear is attack on future generations
www.constructionenquirer.com/2025/10/31/s...
Sellafield awards £4.6bn hazard reduction mega-framework
New deal brings together AtkinsRéalis, Altrad, Amentum, and Westinghouse
www.constructionenquirer.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Why do billionaire media constantly trumpet most toxic expensive energies?
Another £4.6b taxpayers money wasted trying to handle toxic waste on just one CLOSED nuclear power station.
Lab/Reform/Tory obsession with nuclear is attack on future generations
www.constructionenquirer.com/2025/10/31/s...
Another £4.6b taxpayers money wasted trying to handle toxic waste on just one CLOSED nuclear power station.
Lab/Reform/Tory obsession with nuclear is attack on future generations
www.constructionenquirer.com/2025/10/31/s...
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Sheffield Hallam University appeased China Govt to protect its income from Chinese student enrollment.
It shut down research into forced labour and human rights abuses, intimidated academics, suppressed academic papers.
Outrageous. Universities functioning as corporations. Must be investigated.
It shut down research into forced labour and human rights abuses, intimidated academics, suppressed academic papers.
Outrageous. Universities functioning as corporations. Must be investigated.
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Sheffield Hallam University appeased China Govt to protect its income from Chinese student enrollment.
It shut down research into forced labour and human rights abuses, intimidated academics, suppressed academic papers.
Outrageous. Universities functioning as corporations. Must be investigated.
It shut down research into forced labour and human rights abuses, intimidated academics, suppressed academic papers.
Outrageous. Universities functioning as corporations. Must be investigated.
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🚨 BREAKING: STONEHENGE SPRAYERS NOT GUILTY
🧯 A jury has found the two people who sprayed cornstarch over Stonehenge, plus the person who drove them, unanimously not guilty.
➡️ Press release: juststopoil.org/2025/10/31/t...
🧯 A jury has found the two people who sprayed cornstarch over Stonehenge, plus the person who drove them, unanimously not guilty.
➡️ Press release: juststopoil.org/2025/10/31/t...
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🚨 BREAKING: STONEHENGE SPRAYERS NOT GUILTY
🧯 A jury has found the two people who sprayed cornstarch over Stonehenge, plus the person who drove them, unanimously not guilty.
➡️ Press release: juststopoil.org/2025/10/31/t...
🧯 A jury has found the two people who sprayed cornstarch over Stonehenge, plus the person who drove them, unanimously not guilty.
➡️ Press release: juststopoil.org/2025/10/31/t...
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More outrage over a ban on Israeli football hooligans than there is over Israel wiping Gaza from the face of the earth.
The world turned on its head.
The world turned on its head.
October 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
More outrage over a ban on Israeli football hooligans than there is over Israel wiping Gaza from the face of the earth.
The world turned on its head.
The world turned on its head.
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Yes the CO2 rise 2023-2024 was faster than we predicted at Mauna Loa and was a record rise there - now the WMO confirm the global mean rise was also a record
Also the rate of CO2 rise is now above the IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5C
www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
Also the rate of CO2 rise is now above the IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5C
www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
October 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Yes the CO2 rise 2023-2024 was faster than we predicted at Mauna Loa and was a record rise there - now the WMO confirm the global mean rise was also a record
Also the rate of CO2 rise is now above the IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5C
www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
Also the rate of CO2 rise is now above the IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5C
www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
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Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot
The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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🧵🚨
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
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Yep, that's great. Just fantastic. We were told that Starmer would lay out the patriotic case for diversity today. What we got was an article in the Telegraph, behind a paywall, about how the left failed to tackle immigration and now we all have to have ID cards www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...
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www.telegraph.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Yep, that's great. Just fantastic. We were told that Starmer would lay out the patriotic case for diversity today. What we got was an article in the Telegraph, behind a paywall, about how the left failed to tackle immigration and now we all have to have ID cards www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...
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Gatwick expansion blows another huge hole in the UK Government's already perforated climate commitments.
New article on Gatwick expansion with my @tyndallcentre.bsky.social colleague Dr Lois Pennington @loispennington.bsky.social
climateuncensored.com/gatwick-expa...
New article on Gatwick expansion with my @tyndallcentre.bsky.social colleague Dr Lois Pennington @loispennington.bsky.social
climateuncensored.com/gatwick-expa...
Gatwick Expansion: A Direct Assault on Climate Commitments - Climate Uncensored
Comment on UK Government announcement of Gatwick Airport expansion by Professor Kevin Anderson and Dr. Lois Pennington, of Tyndall Centre, University of
climateuncensored.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Gatwick expansion blows another huge hole in the UK Government's already perforated climate commitments.
New article on Gatwick expansion with my @tyndallcentre.bsky.social colleague Dr Lois Pennington @loispennington.bsky.social
climateuncensored.com/gatwick-expa...
New article on Gatwick expansion with my @tyndallcentre.bsky.social colleague Dr Lois Pennington @loispennington.bsky.social
climateuncensored.com/gatwick-expa...
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Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
September 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?