Sam Alston

@moosealston.bsky.social

Working in energy advice, qualified teacher former youth worker, suffering follower of England Cricket, Liberal Jewish Green Party Member. Treasurer of Acorn Oxford, Iffley Road Residents association, and Secretary of Jewish Greens

“There is no basis to the govt’s response that the decision to impose sanctions against Jewish terrorists is an expression of antisemitism.” Signees include: Ehud Olmert, former Israeli PM Dan Halutz, former IDF and IAF chief David Harel, president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

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This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?

Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

bbc.co.uk

Economist Laffer a voice from the past coming out with something impressively bizarre. USA economy going well. UK economy has lower growth rates post 2009 due to a tax rise from Gordon Brown era that was abolished over a decade ago (2007 financial crisis and Covid did not feature) #r4today

We just reached peak madness on Radio 4 where Ed Miliband was asked if he was going to synagogue for Rosh Hashanah and then told that as he wasn’t he didn’t understand Jewish concerns. Ed Miliband understands the ethical core of Judaism far better than the Chief Rabbi, however long the latter prays.

Today is a great day to remember that 75% of British Jews see Israeli settlement expansion as a "major obstacle to peace" and 68% said they have a "sense of despair" every time further expansion is approved. (2015 survey)

Miliband says the UK wants a continued good relationship with ‘Green-line Israel’, but such an entity doesn’t exist and the Israeli gvt opposes it coming into existence. Eventually the UK will have to sanction the actual regime which claims all the territory between the river and the sea.

If you think Israel's actions in Gaza do not amount to genocide, because they do not involve the deliberate wholesale massacre of all Palestinians in Gaza, the key qualification should be "so far". Just listen to what's coming out of the Israeli government every single day. 1/

By not taking Kahanism seriously as the new Israeli hegemony Anti-Zionists fail to understand the moment's gravity, even after 3 years of a war of destruction against the Palestinian people Zionists refuse to come to terms with Israel's depravation and genocidal trajectory

It's not often you can pinpoint real, positive change a journalist has caused. But as Turkmeni sources state, @dpcarrington.bsky.social's persistent and probing coverage of this issue has been critical to a change of policy, with massive implications. Big congrats www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks

Secretive state begins repairs on ageing facilities after being revealed as worst country for leaks of potent greenhouse gas

theguardian.com

It's plug-in solar day! You can now buy your own balcony/garden solar set-ups in GB (not NI) and install them without an electrician, provided the devices are 'compliant'. Let me know if anyone here is planning to do it and how you get on

This report has been presented as a serious attempt by the centre right to engage with climate policy. Replacing the fumbling around for what might be popular under the Sunak regime, the trump vibes under Truss, and commitment to Corporatism and industrial climate leadership under Boris.

Factcheck: 10 flaws in the Conservative report on ‘cheap power’ - Carbon Brief

In a new report, the opposition Conservatives argue that UK electricity prices are too high and that it would be…

carbonbrief.org