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.
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As last, this story has made it on to the BBC News website. I don’t understand why Israel still is getting away with nearly no criticism for this attack.
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This framing is incredibly helpful and must be repeated until we are sore in the face
Primark increases wages to LESS than the living wage for all retail staff
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It's official: #moths deserve just as much attention as #butterflies! 🦋We chat to Dr Richard Fox, head of science @savebutterflies.bsky.social about #moths, the 2025 #BigButterflyCount & how #gardeners can better support them 👉https://tinyurl.com/Organic-Gardening-Podcast #OrganicGardeningPodcast
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
a picture of a huge, low, heavy cloud of black oil over Tehran
This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2
NZ released the COVID inquiry (phase two), with four main lessons and recommendations calling for better integration of disease surveillance systems, expansion of epidemiological modelling capability, and more structured decision-making frameworks during a crisis theconversation.com/covid-inquir...
This is what ecocide looks like.
Photo of a cluster of small white flowers of hairy bittercress plus buds and immature seed heads, with out-of-focus green leaves as background.
Cluster of five primrose flowers with background of primrose leaves and soil. Flowers have creamy-yellow petals and deep yellow centres.
Hairy bittercress and primrose, today, Wilmslow, Cheshire, UK. #WildflowerHour
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“Royal Society statement on the US Administration’s repeal of the endangerment finding”
Sounds like the Board of Peace should be investigating.
It seems to have been largely ignored by the world’s English-language media too, with the exception of some organisations in Ireland. Just searched the BBC news app and still nothing there.
![The former diplomat Carne Ross observed in September 2015 in The New York Times:[181]
For a former diplomat like me, I found it confusing: I kept looking for a hierarchy, the singular leader, or signs of a government line, when, in fact, there was none; there were just groups. There was none of that stifling obedience to the party, or the obsequious deference to the "big man"—a form of government all too evident just across the borders, in Turkey to the north, and the Kurdish regional government of Iraq to the south. The confident assertiveness of young people was striking.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qdzhpxeql7myqv5j3jynm5ru/bafkreiclq5hchrsydntvycey35kx5p55y4f6r42tix5rgvgdyh7aaapmfq)
The former diplomat Carne Ross observed in September 2015 in The New York Times:[181] For a former diplomat like me, I found it confusing: I kept looking for a hierarchy, the singular leader, or signs of a government line, when, in fact, there was none; there were just groups. There was none of that stifling obedience to the party, or the obsequious deference to the "big man"—a form of government all too evident just across the borders, in Turkey to the north, and the Kurdish regional government of Iraq to the south. The confident assertiveness of young people was striking.
region's administration has also been accused by partisan and non-partisan sources of authoritarianism, media censorship, forced disappearances, support of the Ba'athist regime, Kurdification, and displacement. At the same time, DAANES has also been described by partisan and non-partisan sources as the most democratic system in Syria, with direct open elections, social equality, respecting human rights within the region, as well as defense of minority and religious rights within Syria. DAANES has widespread support for its universal democratic, sustainable, autonomous, pluralist, equal, and feminist policies in dialogues with other parties and organizations.
In March 2017 the "United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria" was unable to find evidence to substantiate claims about ethnic cleansing, stating: Though allegations of "ethnic cleansing" continued to be received during the period under review, the Commission found no evidence to substantiate claims that YPG or SDF forces ever targeted Arab communities on the basis of ethnicity, nor that YPG cantonal authorities systematically sought to change the demographic composition of territories under their control through the commission of violations directed against any particular ethnic group
God its so funny how hard Turkey+the US tried to do a smear campaign accusing Rojava of authoritarianism and ethnic cleansing to justify attacking them
but then the UN/human rights orgs investigated and are like "...this is a bunch of anarchists who are almost neurotically obsessed with equality"
Just like Liz Truss, Blair seems to have no awareness of when it’s a good idea to stay silent.
Telegraph: Blair rebukes Starmer of failure to back Trump's war
Mail: Blair delivers a stinging blow to PM over war
Man who dragged Britain into an illegal war in the Middle East scolds other man for not dragging Britain into an illegal war in the Middle East.
RTE are reporting this story. How about something from the BBC?
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If the BBC has reported it, I have missed it too!
Don’t look here!
ITV expose of the suppressed - redacted - government report on national security threat of biodiversity loss.
Ummm isn’t it their job to keep us safe?
🚨Quite an embarrassment for IPSO here.
IPSO rejected our complaint about a Daily Mail article with misleading claims about the cost of petrol cars & EVs, ruling that the article was fine as the public “would not be misled” by it.
So we asked the public - and they were misled by a margin of 4 to 1…
In all, this crisis again exposes how the UK food system is simultaneously dependent on imported gas, imported fertiliser and imported food. And how firmly we still assume that global markets will always deliver.
This week we have been debating the Crime and Policing Bill, at report stage, in the House of Lords.
It is quite astonishing that Labour has not only kept Tory restrictions on protest - but expanded them. Making peaceful protest harder it not the change people were promised.
This should be headline news around the world.
Image shows Sian Berry stood to the left of campaigner Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, and surrounded by a group of clean air campaigners. All of them are smiling and holding a copy of Ella's Law - the Clean Air (Human Rights Bill).
Image shows Rosamund Adoo-Kiss-Debrah sat next to Sian with a copy of Ella's Law on the table in front of them. They are both reading the Bill that is named in memory of Rosamund's daughter Ella who died aged nine due to exposure to air pollution.
Ella’s Law has been published 👏
No child should have the growth of their lungs stunted because of dirty air where they live and play, yet this is the reality of air pollution in England. Ella’s Law would change this.
My thanks to Rosamund and all the hard-working campaigners demanding change.
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Again, Farage, Badenoch and their fellow travellers on X are wildly out of touch with the public on Iran.
Even the majority of Reform supporters oppose their position.
I'm delighted with my heat pump.
But my experience getting it installed taught me what’s been stopping many more people from getting one (so far).
I wrote for @politicshome.bsky.social on the hurdles that government needs to think about as it implements the Warm Homes Plan. 👇
I'm dismayed by rumours govt may scrap the windfall tax on oil and gas giants
With energy bills still driving cost of living pressures, it's senseless to cut taxes for highly profitable polluters, who already receive £2.7bn per year in tax breaks
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