As MPs arrived at Parliament this morning they were met by Extinction Rebellion groups sitting in the entrances.
The escalation of disruption followed the tabling of the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill on Tuesday when the bill was put forward by Caroline Lucas MP.
Read MoreXR has announced a series of actions today throughout the UK. From an ‘elephant in the room’ roadblock in Bristol to a boat called Lightship Greta sailing from Brighton to London, to a feed-in of nursing mothers and older children the actions will be planned on a regional basis.
Read MoreA group of well-known medics have written to the government to demand more action to tackle the spread of anti-vaccination misinformation on the major social media platforms.
Former junior doctor turned bestselling author, Adam Kay, Dr Ellie Cannon, Dr Phil Hammond, and former star of Embarrassing Bodies, Dr Dawn Harper have co-signed a letter to Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden MP, Home Secretary Priti Patel MP, and Health Secretary Matt Hancock MP, calling on the Cabinet members to introduce legislation “to prevent dangerous lies about health and medicine being spread to millions.”
Read MoreFormer Trump advisor Steve Bannon has been arrested on charges of fraud. He is alleged to have been one of a group of four people who defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with the “We Build the Wall” campaign, which raised $25m (£19m). He has pled not guilty and will stand trial.
He is – of course – not the first Trump associate or advisor to fall foul of the law. The art of the grift has a strong seam running through the current US administration, with ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort , ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, ex-deputy campaign manager Rick Gates, political operator Roger Stone and ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn all having faced charges.
Read MoreThe World Transformed (TWT) – the festival of arts and ideas launched initially by the Corbyn-supporting group Momentum has announced a month-long online festival of events throughout September.
Now an established part of the Labour Party conference experience, TWT is now independent of Momentum, though their ties remain close and you can expect to see many senior Momentum members throughout the programme.
Read MoreThe University and Colleges Union (UCU) has raised over £100,000 fighting fund as their current round of strikes comes to an end.
The fund supports those in hardship due to lost wages during strike action.
Read MoreSince 2010 more than 9,300 jobs have been shed at the Metropolitan Police says the GMB union.
This is based on analysis of Home Office headcount data. The numbers are separate from cuts in the number of police officers. These staff roles include custody officers, 999 call handlers, scene of crime investigators, and technical and administrative support jobs.
Read MoreNearly 200 women staged a breastfeeding sit-in outside Downing Street Thursday as part of the ongoing Extinction Rebellion protests.
A spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion said “This is an action that shows that at the heart of this is the most basic of instincts: to protect our young, the protect the most vulnerable – the next generation.”
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