Rupert Read

Rupert Read is a member of the XR national Political Circle. He is the author of the pamphlet Truth and its Consequences (July 2019), and of ‘This civilisation is finished’. He is an XR Spokesperson.

I’ll no longer be a source for Murdoch’s empire of lies

We must boycott Murdoch until the truth about the eco-emergency is put on the front page

By Rupert Read

/ 3 Oct 2020

I’ll no longer be a source for Murdoch’s empire of lies

2025 no more? The Tory victory, XR, and the coming storms

There’s no chance of Boris Johnson’s government implementing any of Extinction Rebellion’s “three demands” to save the climate and biodiversity. So what now?

By Rupert Read and Frank Scavelli

/ 16 Jan 2020

2025 no more? The Tory victory, XR, and the coming storms

XR UK: Telling the truth through targeted disruption

XR should focus its pressure on disrupting the government, and on polluting companies and the banks that fund them.

By Rupert Read and Dario Kenner

/ 29 Nov 2019

XR UK: Telling the truth through targeted disruption

One useful thing Parliament could do now to protect us from a Trumpian trade deal

The government is trying to kill its own trade bill, after Parliament insisted on adding more democracy as a bulwark against secretive negotiations using the Crown prerogative.

By Rupert Read, Victor Anderson and Jenny Jones

/ 2 Oct 2019

One useful thing Parliament could do now to protect us from a Trumpian trade deal