While the EU requires advanced treatment of urban wastewater, the UK has no legal obligation to monitor microplastics or antimicrobial residues.
If others have better protections, we should follow them.
#DirtyWater #PublicHealth
It really is something to see politicians, commentators and media outlets whose whole identity is based on being so-called ‘patriots’ frothing with excitement as they line up to back a deranged megalomaniac who consistently attempts to belittle and bully the country they claim to love
The playbook is always the same: control women, protect power.
This International Women’s Day, we want a system that actually protects us. We’re fighting back for Nina, for Liv, and for every woman the courts have silenced.
Join the movement 👇
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The cover of Rebel Women between the Wars by Sarah Lonsdale featuring a pen, mountains and a spanner
The cover of Wildly Different: Five women who reclaimed Nature in a Man’s World by Sarah Lonsdale
Wishing everyone a happy International Women's Day. To celebrate I'm giving away a pair of my books which recover pioneer women's voices and engineering, exploration, journalism, politics, and conservation to a school, or library, or teacher. I'll pick a winner from replies. Please repost!
Agapanthus stalks and “skeletons” against a blue sky.
Before you cut everything back to make the garden look “neat” — pause.
Right now in Ireland and the UK, many insects are still overwintering inside last year’s hollow stems.
Most don’t emerge until temps are regularly above ~10–12°C (often late March–April).
“Tidy” can mean destroying shelter. 🌱🦋
“Legitimate concerns” has become a euphemism for endorsing racism and a cynical attempt by governments to hide from their own responsibility and failure.
It is the slogan of cowards.
The excuse for bigots.
And it blocks our path to an honest national debate on immigration. Shame on all who use it.
I guess Starmer’s not interested in getting back into the human rights game again, then.
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
Speaking to the Guardian on the day before the byelection result, Mahmood urged her colleagues to acknowledge that the UK public had “legitimate grievances” about the unfairness of allowing people to arrive in small boats and the strain on public services from excessive immigration.
Compare and contrast Starmer calling Green's "extremists", "divisive" and "sectarian" with Mahmood repeating false Reform claims about "legitimate concerns" and "strain on public services". It isn't a choice between Reform and Labour when end result is the same.
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The spiralling cost of rent is causing real hardship and risks pushing people out of our city, so it was great to see the motion from councillor @alexmace.bsky.social pass at this week’s full council meeting.
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No escape on this #PoisonedPlanet, for any species of animal, including us
#PublicHealth #NovelEntities #ForeverChemicals
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Labour doesn't have the cover of claiming their hostile policies are "what the public want" now. All they have is just straight up admitting that they want to push hostile, dehumanising, policies which harm marginalised community and undermine the country. It's a choice they have made. 2/
Now's a great time: join.greenparty.org.uk
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Zack Polanski, "Keir Starmer is never going to appease the right by slowly moving to the right"
"They just get worse and they drag the government with them"
"I wouldn't be bothered except they're the government of this country and they're dragging us all down with them"
Keir Starmer's attempt to paint the Greens as extremists yet again reveals his intolerance of political difference. His instincts are illiberal and authoritarian.
Zack on the phone on the train
EXCL:
Zack Polanski overheard speaking loudly on his phone on a train saying there's shit loads of new green party members.
And the Greens are going to win elections right across England and Wales in May.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
"I really want to encourage more people from backgrounds like mine to get into a system that has always shut us out."
Hannah Spencer MP: plumber, plasterer, parliamentarian
Now watch the billionaire media throw all the dirt it can at the Greens, who could thwart its dream of a Farage government.
So pleased that Hannah Spencer won the Gorton and Denton by-election; but blimey, the reactions from Reform and Labour have been quite something to behold. Islamophobia from the former and ugly mud-slinging from the latter.
If you didn’t know that Worcester has been home to a variety of amazing, intrepid and trail-blazing women, join us on our International Women’s Day free walk-and-talk event on 8th March to hear all about them!
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If you want concentration camps in the UK, people being grabbed off the streets, or murdered on them, five year olds being separated from their parents and locked up #VoteReform
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It's clearer than ever that it's Green vs Reform in Gorton and Denton.
A vote for Hannah Spencer is the only way to stop Reform's hate and make hope normal again.
"People want change"
5 days until voters decide the future of Gorton and Denton.
Two choices- a Green MP who'll fight for local communities, or an out of town extremist bussed in for a career opportunity.
Green is the only vote to stop Reform.
Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️
The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
Surprise!! Ditching books for laptops has made schoolchildren, despite having access to more information, "less cognitively capable" than their parents. A massive experiment on young brains has gone catastrophically wrong.
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Farage “wants to distract people into thinking their problems are because of women or equality and diversity policies, or immigrants. Like Trump, it shifts the discourse and that’s v dangerous”
Women must turn Farage’s problem with women into a problem for him.
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Plenty have clocked how Nigel Farage talks to women journalists — pure condescension: “listen, love,” “go write your silly little story.” Know your place.
No shock from a man who praises Andrew Tate.
The real surprise? It’s only being called out now.
This is really bizarre. Reminds me of the man who used to sell the South Wales Echo outside Cardiff market when I was a kid. (Never saw anyone buy one! 😆)
A table full of things like cardboard boxes, bottle tops and bottles of poster paints overlaid with text that reads ‘Children’s Junk Modelling Workshop’ and a picture of Councillor Katie Collier is included in the corner.
Weve got a great half-term children’s activity next week! Join play specialist, Mum and creativity queen Councillor Katie Collier at Kyndfolk in Gheluvelt Park on Tuesday afternoon. For details and to book, please go to actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve...
A government enthralled to men and corporations drunk on power is the rot at the centre of the Mandelson scandal.
Of all seven of the Nolan principles, openness can help build back the most trust.
Every MP, like me, should release logs of all lobbying meetings.
