Robert Schopen

How did we sink to this, without a word of protest from the west.

🚨 An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has revealed the shocking scale of 'mega-dairy' farms across the UK. Beef and dairy farming are responsible for 75% of the most serious agricultural pollution incidents - yet intensive livestock farms still face far weaker regulation than other polluting industries. River Action is calling for environmental permitting to be extended to beef and dairy farms, but regulation alone is not enough. We also need policies that support farmers so they are not forced to intensify in the first place. It’s time for proper oversight, accountability, and urgent action to protect our rivers from #agripollution. thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-0…

The UK’s tax code lets the richest pay less than workers. It’s time to close the loophole. Equalising Capital Gains with Income Tax would finally tax wealth like work. Our very own Joe Wright breaks down why right now the maths, and the morals don’t add up, on GB News.

YET MORE chaos from South East water. During soaring temperatures, households in Kent have had to endure 3 days of water outages. This is the inevitable outcome of a system where water companies are emboldened to bend and break the rules for profit. @sojanuk will you stand up for your constituents by signing our open letter to Ofwat, and rejecting Thames Water's attempts to set a new low for the entire water industry? 90 MPs have already signed.

If England can hit 35°C in May in 2026, imagine July 2036. The concerning part isn’t just the heat itself…it’s that little or no serious planning is being put in place for what’s coming. Cities, housing, schools, healthcare, infrastructure… all dangerously unprepared.

Sir Keir Starmer government's must not remain silent about the latest judicial manouevre against the most popular opposition party, as well as more repressive actions against civil society #Democracy #RuleofLaw theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A Labour minister unable to condemn Reform's plan for the mass deportations of our neighbours. Cowardly and disgraceful. Labour are incapable of standing up to Reform's divisive nonsense. Only the Green Party have the courage to do this.

The IDF has removed Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, the military prosecutor who leaked footage of guards raping to the media. She is also being prosecuted and the military is considering lowering her rank. In Israel rape and war crimes are fine. Exposing them is an unforgivable crime.

Yet another financial story that is buried by the media If this was Angela Rayner the story would run for months on various front pages......

A month ago I wrote to the BBC asking for corrections to Panorama's Antisemitism: Why British Jews Are Afraid, which misused police data to portray Palestine solidarity as an incubator of violent hatred towards Jews. The reply doubles down on the programme’s one-sided narrative. See it below, with my critique. jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/panora…

Political corruption. @Jacob_Rees_Mogg party - the Conservatives @michaelgove and the unlawful VIP PPE lane. The long-awaited independent report concluded that almost 90% of the staggering £10.8bn lost to Covid fraud, error, and botched contracts cannot be recovered.

Wind energy cut the wholesale price of electricity by 31% from where it would have been without them last year, following a 25% reduction in 2024. Ministers urgently need to ensure this is passed on to consumers. eciu.net/media/press-re…

NEW: Colombian private military contractors, apparently hired by a United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based company, transited through UAE military bases before being deployed to Sudan to support the abusive Rapid Support Forces (RSF). This is further evidence indicating that the UAE is assisting or otherwise substantially contributing to the Rapid Support Forces’ capacity to commit war crimes. Read HRW’s full investigation. ⤵️ hrw.org/news/2026/05/2…

This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week. As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that. First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence. And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous. In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event. Here's the bottom line: Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news. The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world! But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it. That’s the opportunity this reporting missed. bbc.com/news/articles/…

@SfgRaiders1 @mehdirhasan The cause is 78 years of foreign occupation, your land stolen from you, being killed, imprisoned & tortured, treated as a second class citizen in your homeland under an Apartheid system. You wouldn’t stand for it for a second but you’re too much of an uncaring bigot to admit it.

@Schopen @mehdirhasan Where is the humanity of the people placing military targets next to civilians and launching rockets, knowing full well the opposing force is going to launch right back at the site the rockets were launched from. Stop blaming the result and start blaming the cause!

Imagine being someone in the West who denies this is happening or, worse, actively supports it?

Climate justice is social justice.

Today is now the hottest day in May on record with Heathrow and Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 35.0°C Until yesterday the highest temperature in May was 32.8°C, but we've now exceeded that record on consecutive days by a full two degrees Celsius 🌡️

@SfgRaiders1 @mehdirhasan What kind of person looks at a month old baby with his foot blown off and immediately looks to justify it with any feeble excuse? I felt physically sick when I saw that video. Look in the mirror and have a search for your humanity.

@Schopen @mehdirhasan Hamas is in Gaza, same thing. Also, Hamas is still, during the ceasefire, firing rockets at Israel. When those launches occur, Israel will strike the site they were launched from. If I saw military setting up and launching, I would take my family and leave the area, wouldn't you?

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence. And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide. A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage. But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide. But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide. It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words. But there does need to be a clear intent. And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there. A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here. Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership. Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements. And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it. But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world. But reality cannot be denied. So yes, it is a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024 - Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

890 killed during a 'ceasefire'.

Funny how @BBCWorld website always forgets to mention he is a war criminal with an arrest warrant issued by the Hague. You'd have thought it might be considered relevant information? "Netanyahu says Israel will intensify strikes against Hezbollah" bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…