Phil Webber
@philwebber.bsky.social
PhD Physicist. Author London After the Bomb. Co- Chair SGR - www.sgr.org.uk. An independent membership organisation promoting responsible science and technology. eg. low carbon, demilitarisation, ethical career choices.
The government has launched a consultation on guaranteed hours. Sign this petition asking them to stand firm on their pledge to tackle insecure work and ban exploitative zero-hours contracts. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stamp out zero-hours contracts: protect all workers from exploitation
The government has launched a consultation on guaranteed hours. Sign this petition asking them to stand firm on their pledge to tackle insecure work and ban exploitative zero-hours contracts.
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' “Every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous, and our world less secure,” Guterres said' FFS @andyburnham.bsky.social Pay attention. As I have said - the climate doesn't recognise - or reward - pragmatism www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling
Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns
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To cover up 1 high level report into nature collapse & national security looks odd. To cover up 2 looks like a pattern. Episode 2 of my @therestpolitics.bsky.social pod explores a hidden DEFRA report on UK vulnerability to food shocks & asks how confident we can be in our ability to feed ourselves
Britain's Ticking Time Bomb: The Food Security Crisis
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 23 July · 16min
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Is anyone even surprised by this anymore? The only thing that is surprising is that we are allowing this disaster to continue 90% of countries on earth - including Scotland - don't have to deal with this because they run their water in public ownership Public ownership of water NOW.
Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Britain's Juries
Juries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries.
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Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press. Journalists asked to write anti regulation articles after the Grenfell fire. Anything not for sale to super rich and corporations - political parties, press, think-tanks ... Who checks corruption?
Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press
Exclusive: Guardian investigation of CT Group uncovers practice that appears to seek hidden influence over public opinion
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Maybe a nuclear winter is the government's answer to global warming.
Declassified UK@declassifieduk.org · 3w agoGovt says it's spending £26bn on turning three naval bases into "warfighting-ready facilities". This includes Britain's Trident nuclear base at Clyde. Is this a deliberate message to the world that the UK is readying its nuclear arms for war-fighting? www.gov.uk/government/n...
🚨 Burnham to back North Sea oil as one of his first acts as PM. ❌️ Approving new oil and gas licences won't deliver energy security and it won't lower bills. ❌️ But it will fuel the #ClimateCrisis. ✅️ Join.greenparty.org.uk
Blimey... Save the Children, third biggest charity in the UK, accusing Starmer of complicity in the killing of 21,000 children in Gaza "To the next Prime Minister: what will your plaque say?"
It’s not actually anything to do with party politics; it’s that the creation of this child safety software sector was the goal of the legislative slate. Not child safety itself, the marketplace for vendors. I wrote this last year. internet.exchangepoint.tech/the-dog-that...
The Dog that Caught the Car: Britain's 'World-Leading' Internet
Billed as a “world-leading” child-protection law, the UK’s Online Safety Act has instead normalized surveillance and ID checks. “Tech policy wonk" Heather Burns writes that the model is spreading acro...
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Exactly. You understand it when it's Tory ministers handing out favours in expectation of a later quid pro quo (Covid PPE, ...) - they know what they are doing and they know the guy runs a pub and the company has £100 capital. But Labour? Are they as corrupt? #Rhetorical
SafeToNet - unsafe, unauited, ideological. No way should government ministers be promoting.
Martin Calladine@uglygame.bsky.social · 3w agoThey have subsequently credited God with ‘fully funding’ the company, making its software work and bringing it commercial partners. They have also had a meeting at the White House, met the Pope at the Vatican and have collaborated with several US Christian charities. 10/
🚨Exclusive🚨 Two ministers filmed a video for a child-protection software firm that lost £17m in three years, made just *£112* in the UK in 2024 and gets 90%+ of its income from overseas subsidiaries that haven't cooperated with auditors for three years. 1/ theuglygame.wordpress.com/2026/07/15/p...
Prophets without profits
The government’s favourite provider of child protection software, SafeToNet – a perpetually loss-making firm run by recently born-again Christians – has finally filed its long-delayed accounts. The…
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Govt says it's spending £26bn on turning three naval bases into "warfighting-ready facilities". This includes Britain's Trident nuclear base at Clyde. Is this a deliberate message to the world that the UK is readying its nuclear arms for war-fighting? www.gov.uk/government/n...
Record £26 billion investment to transform UK naval bases' docking facilities and waterfront infrastructure
MOD is investing £26 billion over ten years to modernise HMNB Clyde, HMNB Devonport and HMNB Portsmouth.
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England is the home of 85% of the world's chalk streams, a crucial part of the UK ecological system. Despite criminal convictions, water companies continue to destroy it by dumping raw sewage. I asked the Minister to revoke their licence to operate. Watch the Minister's reply.
Thames Water increased its bonus payouts to £4.1m for senior managers. It has £19.7bn debt, fleeces customers, dumps sewage in rivers, loses billions of litres of water to leaky pipes. Numerous criminal convictions, licence not revoked. But bosses rewarded .. for what? Govt/Ofwat do nothing.
Thames Water increases bonus payments to £4m despite uncertainty over future
Annual results show struggling firm’s net debt has risen to £19.7bn, up from £17.7bn a year earlier
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Evidence that Palantir in the NHS is not value for money, creates unacceptable lock in - ie loss of access across platforms, over sold & marketed to gullible decision makers.
Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · 3w ago“I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all” @petergeoghegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why does Britain have a large military? It “gives us the lead on defence in Europe, ensures US respect and guarantees our high standing in the world more widely”, Blair adviser John Sawers wrote in June 2001. Sawers would go on to become chief of MI6. www.declassifieduk.org/huge-cost-of...
‘Huge’ cost of aircraft carriers meant ‘less scope’ for funding health and education
“Vulnerable” aircraft carriers are about Britain “counting for something in the world” and being an “effective ally” of the US, declassified files show
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Finally!!! The penny is dropping But it will take a lot more than such 'small steps' to even begin to address the climate-driven mayhem that's coming @andyburnham.bsky.social you really need to do so much more than this - as a matter of priority www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Britons urged to take ‘small steps’ to prepare for potential national crises
Government to launch campaign to help people cope with events such as weather emergencies or cyber-attacks
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Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 3w agoWould be marvellous if you could spread the word 🙂 👍 @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @rupertread.bsky.social @nickharkaway.com @fionaharvey.bsky.social @anthonyhorowitz.com @ghostpanther.bsky.social @matthewtodd.bsky.social @stuartgoldsmith.bsky.social @xrglobal.bsky.social @peterstefanovic.bsky.social
CCS - an even more expensive con than I thought.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4w agoDespite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yvette Cooper wants us to think the problem is not declaring gifts & donations from the super rich, rather than taking gifts and donations in the first place. Understandable when you remember Cooper herself took over £200,000 from a billionaire to fund staff in her office
Good to see that Green policies and ideas are still strong in Kirklees, where I was fortunate to work with a great team of local council workers sadly decimated by austerity from 2010.
The Canary@thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 4w agoThe Green Party's local group leader and deputy leader in Kirklees tell the Canary about their bold ideas for the borough by @ososabio.bsky.social
”5-year-olds 7cm shorter than children of the same age in Europe.” 😳 #MakeBrexitWork 🤡
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · last mo.UK has a high rate of infant mortality compared with peer countries. 5-year-olds 7cm shorter than children of the same age in Europe. 1m children in England referred to mental health services. Child poverty results in economic loss of £40bn a year. Yet no govt plan to eradicate poverty.