Pretty sure first is Caen Hill, Devizes; I'd guess fourth is somewhere on the Grand Union, as there appears to be a paired lock to the left (from the 1950's modernisation?) but even as self-professed canal nerd, I'm stumped by the others!
Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.
Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds
These fascists are the people whose views on trans Labour is choosing to align with, indeed to promote.
Almost all the cultural spaces and restaurants I've been in recently have switched to gender neutral toilets. It's indicative of how Labour's rabid hatred of trans people feels bizarre to so much of civil society which is asking itself, 'what drugs is Labour on, and how do we ban those?'
Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.
Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.
Glad you enjoyed your trip to The Shire - we're even better wne the sun shines!
Geneva Convention 1977 Protocols:
“It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as... drinking #water installations & supplies and irrigation works... for any other motive.”
www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/b...
The desalination plant is seen next to the coastline of Qeshm Is.
For context, Tthe US has bombed the desalination plant on Qeshm Island, Iran, disrupting water supply to 30 towns.
These plants are protected under international law, specifically the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit targeting infrastructure indispensable to the survival of civilian populations.
Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.
A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.
‘Expecto Opprobrium’
This 'correction' from @lewisgoodall.com regarding accusations from Reform and the Conservatives that the Greens engaged in sectarianism, deserves to be widely read.
#c4news
Wow, that must be a world first (bless 'em) :-)
These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.
*30%* ffs. I wonder what that figure would be by now if our media weren’t still almost exclusively populated by intellectually indolent wankers too pompous to admit that they never had the first idea what they were encouraging everyone else to vote for. (With a side of plums who deployed ‘balance’.)
That was my immediate thought as well!
If you think it's about to get warm and it might be safe to put some plants out soon, think again.
Here is a map of expected date ranges for the last-frost date:
www.plantmaps.com/interactive-...
#UKGardening
Playgrounds would become crack dens if greens were in power policing minister says.
Drug deaths have risen every year for 13 years.
That’s 13 years of a failed “war on drugs”.
Labour should be looking at legalisation, control and regulation - not playing politics with people’s lives.
This is a public health crisis. Treat it like one. Not a game.
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An infographic from Our World in Data titled "Global land use for food production" uses a series of stacked horizontal bar charts to visualize the distribution of Earth's surface and the disproportionate land requirements of livestock. The first bar shows Earth's surface is 71% ocean and 29% land (141 million km²); the land surface is then broken down into 76% habitable land, 10% glaciers, and 14% barren land. Of the habitable land, 45% (48 million km²) is used for agriculture, while 38% is forests and 13% is shrubland. The agricultural land bar reveals a major disparity: 80% (38 million km²) is dedicated to livestock (meat, dairy, and textiles) including grazing land and cropland for feed, while only 16% is used for crops for direct human consumption and 4% for non-food crops. Finally, two smaller bars at the bottom contrast this land use with nutritional output, showing that while livestock uses 80% of agricultural land, it only provides 17% of global calories and 38% of global protein, whereas plant-based foods provide 83% of calories and 62% of protein.
80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein.
16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.
Is it just me, or does the head/neck resemble a Carnyx (Iron Age battle trumpet)?
Agreed - ideally somewhere not at risk of flooding - I seem to remember Birmingham is on a plateau ...?
83% of 16-25 year olds would vote to rejoin the EU. Savanta for ITV Youth Tracker, Sample Size: 1,040 UK based 16-25 year olds, Fieldwork 4-9 February
A recent poll by Savanta on behalf of ITV Youth Tracker found that 83% of 16-25 year olds would vote to rejoin the EU. Young people are the future - it's time we listen to them and ensure that future generations are not held back by the disastrous decision to cut our ties with the EU.
Matt Goodwin said in a post on X: “Welcome to the UK. Where you go to prison for 18 months for anti-immigration tweets. This is insane.”
No. What is insane is shrugging off incitement to racial murder.
Put this man in the bin, not the House of Commons.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Very interesting article here on why we’re seeing so much rain.
Is our government prepared to do what’s necessary (and spend the money) to help our communities deal with increasingly extreme weather?
It doesn’t feel like it.
theconversation.com/britains-rel...
Aldi, Asda, Co-op and Waitrose have pledged never to stock chlorine-washed chicken.
Iceland, Lidl, M&S, Morrisons, Ocado, Sainsbury’s and Tesco have not.
Yet.
We do not want low-quality, poor-welfare meat flooding our supermarkets and undercutting our farmers.
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/commit-t...
Well said!
@elliechowns.bsky.social: "Reform, and before it the Brexit Party, and before it UKIP have been busy for many years fomenting his idea that immigration is the problem in this country.
"It's completely untrue."
Europe and the UK should come closer together – on security, on economy or on defending our democracies.
Ten years on from Brexit, our futures are as bound as ever.
So, it is in our common interest to be ambitious about our partnership.
Saw the first lambs of the year this morning (Shropshire, UK) - always a welcome sign that the year is turning :-)
