Sorry to burden you with another jaw-dropping scandal. But what the government intends to do to chemicals regulation in the UK is chilling. Its consultation was slipped out so quietly that most of us missed it. When I read it, I saw why.
This week's column:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Climate change and health: the next challenge of ethical AI: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Four days after posting record profits over £1 billion, NEXT
closed its only unionised factory in Sri Lanka – and fired 1,416 workers via WhatsApp.
Workers were fired without consultation, without notice, and in clear violation of NEXT’s agreement with the trade union.🧵
I'm excited to announce this new paper we have in The Lancet Planetary Health.
We show that the world is not moving towards a just and ecological future for all.
The graph is at globalinequality.org/global-incom..., where you can also explore other metrics: pre-tax income, post-tax income, wealth, all in either MER or PPP, with data from the excellent World Inequality Database.
No matter how often I see this data, I always find it shocking. Of all the massive growth in output produced by the world's workers since 1980, more than half of it has been captured by the richest 1%. This is what happens when capital controls production.
Holding up a copy of ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad
One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad is very much worth your time.
Funny what people reserve their outrage for.
A. Children getting blown to bits in cold blood?
B. Scootering into an RAF base to spray some paint on a plane?
Decisions, decisions ....
🌐From #Bonn #SB62 “Over the next 2 weeks, Govs must protect people’s #Health by laying the groundwork for #JustTransition away from fossil fuels – this must be matched by adaptation that promotes health & underpinned by adequate finance” - @jessbeagley.bsky.social theclimatewatch.com/health-secto...
The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It doesn't seem to be possible to stop Google doing its AI overview altogether when you search - but you can at least do things to stop it being shoved in your face. Some tips here that work and mean you're back to using at least some of your critical capacities.
www.tomshardware.com/how-to/block...
Our political & economic system is enabling injustice – from Israel's genocide of Palestinians to extreme inequality.
These crises are connected – to challenge them, we must be too.
Join our event on Saturday 14 June to turn resistance into real power👇 secure.waronwant.org/page/172030/...
This @moreperfectunion.bsky.social short doc is really well worth your time. Featuring @keshaunpearson.bsky.social among others.
The fact that Musk had to build what is effectively a new ultra-polluting fossil power station to run a chatbot is just nuts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT...
Imagine gunning down 30 starving people during a genocide & total blockade. This is what happens when operators with arms distribute aid, instead of the UN & aid agencies. #Israel continues to use food as a weapon to control, dehumanise & exterminate #Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Letters and Opinion piece titled 'Cambridge brings science to politics'
Thank you to Cambridge Independent @cambridgeindy.bsky.social for publishing a smashing piece about our action to Bring Science to Politics
Science is political.
For those who believe it isn't, just ask the scientists in the USA now.
New Editorial—Gaza has been failed by silence and impunity tinyurl.com/58a4yn5t
Sad reality in the US today
This is one of the toughest articles we have published to date
“The whole world left us alone to die” – one family clings to life in Gaza
As Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel will ‘take control’ of all Gaza, we look at what his military campaign has done to ordinary people
A small thing, but lovely to share a work break with so many bees in the @lstmnews.bsky.social urban garden.
Thank you for hosting a friendly space to test out some science & advocacy related poetry!
The BBC is still failing to #ConnectTheDots here
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Books aren’t just escapes—they’re anchors, mirrors, lifelines.
To the readers who find themselves in stories & the writers who breathe life into them—you’re part of something sacred.
We don’t just read books. We live in them.
#AuthorSky #BookSky
The Global North is increasingly unsafe for global health meetings
This cartoon is frighteningly close to current realities!
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it
1🧵Breaking: Emergency Climate, Agriculture and Food Press conference announces a transformation of UK farming to tackle the rising epidemic of diet-related ill health, unsustainable emissions, and the environmental impact, of current farming methods - youtu.be/k_zyjnP6Z48
Are you a scientist? Want evidence-based policies, for climate, Nature and, ultimately, survival?
Then join 150+ including @mikebernerslee.bsky.social to "Bring Science to Politics" on Tuesday
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🔥 A Climate of Lies – Join Mike Berners-Lee, Fiona Shaw, Simon O’Brien & the Shift Network to expose the truth about the climate emergency.
The planet is burning. Denial is deadly. Action is urgent.
🌱 Be part of the movement 🌱
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