Fascinating to see these high-profile anti-woke right-wingers tying themselves knots to blame the tragedy-exploiting pissed-up racist rioting on everything from the police to multiculturalism to the poor poppets are just misunderstood. For complete and utter fucks sake.

Alternatively: this is what happens when racist fuckwits have a day out.

1. Faces of peaceful climate protest They follow the science Motivated by love In prison right now 2. Faces of violent racist protest They follow social media misinformation Motivated by hate On our streets right now To protect children, target the real threat #ClimateBreakdown

It's crucial to recognise that, by legitimising xenophobia at every possible opportunity, the mainstream British media and political class have manufactured the white supremacist terrorism we are now seeing.

Britain is a place where a young climate activist can be jailed simply for being on a Zoom call about a peaceful protest, but a wealthy politician can incite extreme white supremacist violence across the country without fear of consequences.

It was not the police who initially protected the people inside the hotel from the violent mob, it was a group of Bristol people, who lined up to face them down. The police arrived later x.com/cez_thomas/sta…

The 'hotels' asylum seekers are in aren't really that and it's not helpful to use the term. The building the nazis went to in Bristol *used* to be Mercure but they no longer run it. You don't get martinis & room service: it's just a shell where the council can put lots of people.

We need to have some clarity about the causes of the rioting over the past few days. A 🧵about the rioters, the instigators (two fairly distinct groups of people), and the processes leading to the current unrest. 1/21

The fact that Ted here can't understand the climate crisis is a cultural problem at least as much as one requiring his know-all techno-policy fixes shows what a deeply unserious and blinkered man he is.

Info on the cops today: They have 200+ officers out today, they will be deploying in riot gear, dogs, horses, drones, 'liaisons' and other evidence gathering teams will be also be out. They will be surveilling everywhere as they have no clear intel. Places of interest 2/2

England's had this sickness a long time: always with someone like Farage or Yaxley-Lennon who'll exploit it, boneheads who thrive on it, and good people who stand up to it #UKRiots

From the 'party' whose 'leader' went to Harrow (pretty much = Eton), which is funded by a Sunday Times Rich List millionaire, and whose brand of weirdo right-wing populism was so, ahem, popular that the party lost its deposit last time he stood.

Nigel Farage says it upsets him when people call the far-right violence 'The Farage Riots'. So people should definitely not do that

1/16 🧵Does this congratulatory @YorkshirePost feature about the controversial power plant Drax look real? It’s not. It’s an ad. And it’s drawn criticism that the paper enables “greenwashing.” For @NowThenMag, I investigated Drax’s influence on the paper. What I found = a lot.

BBC with its finger on the pulse as always🤨 "King Charles is not currently planning to pay any visits or make any official statements about the wave of rioting and unrest." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Peaceful climate protesters have just been sentenced to years in jail. And they’re appealing. Join me in telling the new government to scrap Tory anti-protest law now and #StopJailingTruthTellers secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/uk…

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. theguardian.com/world/article/…

So the supposedly progressive UK govt is pushing hard to retain repressive legislation set up by *checks notes* Suella Braverman, despite High Court finding it illegal. (And fresh from approving further airport expansion too.) 🐺 in 🐑 clothing. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Unpopular opinion (?) Your favourite TV naturalist and eco-warrior doesn't need to travel with a whole bloody film crew to Iceland just to gaze wistfully out to sea and be all pensive about climate change.

So why were billions of the poorest people's lives and livelihoods undermined? In no small part, because people in rich countries cared less about that than they did the chance to fart about on foreign beaches. Nice work guys 👏 theguardian.com/news/article/2…