Melanie Smith

@revd_melanie
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Woke progressive Christian minister in the Ununited Kingdom. Trying to speak truth to power through pulpit and pen. Green Party supporter.

With Thumps latest environmental lies, it smacks of a plot line out of 1984. It is necropolitics.

According to Wikipedia, “Necropolitics is a sociopolitical theory of the use of social and political power to dictate how some people may live and how some must die.”

Can people of goodwill change this to a Kairos time, a defining moment, to defeat necropolitics and be midwives to life in all its fullness?

Nigel Farage demanded Angela Rayner resign over a £40,000 stamp duty dispute. She resigned.
Nigel Farage - be a good boy now, please.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9y1pvy8e1o?

Nigel Farage inadvertently breached MPs' financial rules 17 times, says watchdog

The parliamentary commissioner for standards said Farage had apologised after missing the deadline for registering interests.

BBC News

My objection to Maccabi Tel Aviv playing in Aston Villa was always about the football. Specifically, the hypocrisy of complaining about not letting fans in whilst the destruction of safe spaces for Palestinians are being threatened.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrz0j9p5jqo

Palestinian football pitch faces Israel demolition ultimatum

The football club is ordered to remove the pitch, which Israel says was illegally built, or have it torn down.

BBC News

A small community working together with nature. Thank you!

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-wivenhoe-old-king-george-tree/

Save Wivenhoe's Old King George Oak tree

I am a local resident and a mother whose family regularly uses the playground that these trees provide shade to. I am professionally an Architect and sustainability and climate change specialist.

CrowdJustice

Meet my grandmother, Ursula. Behind the glamorous granny is the dark secret that, after her upbringing in Hitler's Germany, she held a life-long hatred for Jews, anyone who wasn't white, disabled people... the list went on. She would call people 'dirty' with a sneer, and used to cross the road to avoid people.

She is the reason why I take the rise of the far-right so seriously and personally. It wrecks lives.

We need to stand together against fascism.

#hopenothate
#GreenParty
#MakeHopeNormal

Depressing and interesting in equal measure. Hardly surprising that some of the poorest countries in $$$ terms are closest to having sufficient measures to meet globally agreed targets.

https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/uk/

United Kingdom