NZ🇳🇿 Covid wrecks your health!
Stark warning in new wave.
RNZ (Radio New Zealand)
10 March 2026
www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbei...
11.03.2026 22:03
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NZ🇳🇿 Covid wrecks your health!
Stark warning in new wave.
RNZ (Radio New Zealand)
10 March 2026
www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbei...
The message is correct. I would only specify secure firm fitting N95s and that influenza and RSV too are also or can be airborne.
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It was great to hear HT’s, who had put #CleanAir into their schools, talking about the improvements in attendance and indoor air quality.
Really worth watching this webinar from last year. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
And almost everything applies to workplaces too
The numbers speak for themselves - investing in Net Zero pays dividends, avoiding the billions in climate damages that we would face as the cost of not acting, while also giving us warmer homes, cheaper bills, cleaner air and healthier lives for us and future generations.
This report makes a compelling case: that cutting carbon emissions makes sense for our economy, as well as for the safety of our climate.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Last week, it was announced that some people seeking asylum will lose support and accommodation.
Forcing people into destitution or sleeping rough won't fix the system. Instead, it will shift costs to local authorities and the NHS, making cases harder to resolve
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
If Scotland were to design a modern democratic constitution &, with it, return to the EU, then perhaps England would find a way to follow. My piece for @scotnational.bsky.social ahead of public meetings in Edinburgh & Glasgow next week - makehopepossible.org/tickets
European Movement UK has launched a petition calling for the UK to join the EU single market. Six years outside our largest trading partner has meant more barriers, more costs and lost growth for British businesses. It is time to repair the damage. Sign the petition and demand a reset with Europe. Sign the petition.
Today, European Movement UK have launched our petition calling for the UK to join the single market. Europe is the largest trading bloc in the world, and joining the single market would remove barriers to trade, support growth of British businesses and strengthen cooperation with Europe.
We’re growing in numbers and in strength every day! Join a positive, inclusive and progressive alliance and we can overcome the rise of hatred, division and intolerance which the regressive far right bring.
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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/...
Competition regulator allows additional 2% -4% increase in England water bills on appeal.
Regulators side with industry.
Companies to collect more money from captive customers, dump sewage in rivers, pay dividends, exorbitant exec pay.
Rip-off continues. Who protects people?
Disabled people being pushed into poverty.
People with disabilities need support, not benefit cuts.
Requirement to score 4 points for an activity leads to loss of PIP support.
Govts attack human welfare whilst promoting corporate welfare.
We are all one event away from needing disability support
Adult social care privatised since the 1980s. Local councils spend 70% of budget on it.
83% of social care controlled by private equity, 20%-40% profit margin.
Will Govt end profiteering, ensure only not-for-profit entities, including local councils, provide care.
Watch the Minister's reply.
UK junk food ad ban so diluted it may be largely ineffective.
It is because govts succumb to pressure from corporations and hobbyists. How many legislators on industry payroll?
Game of impression management. Exceptions manufactured to create ineffective laws.
A glimpse of UK democracy
The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on bank accounts of benefit recipients.
The poor, old, sick have no financial privacy.
The same does not apply to enablers of tax abuse schemes.
We are all equal, aren't we?
Ed Davey speaking to a young carer in Parliament.
Ed Davey listening to young carers
Ed Davey with two young carers laughing together on a beach
Ed Davey with young carers singing at Number 10
Today is Young Carers Action Day.
I know just how challenging it can be to take on caring responsibilities so young, and I’m always struck by the way young carers keep going, when so much is asked of them.
They deserve far more support, we're fighting to make sure they get it.
All that is left from our efforts to bring fresh air into schools… is a sign on the wall saying windows must be opened.
That’s it. That’s the effort being put in to protect our kids.
The windows are not usually open….
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Never has the UK needed a Government that will build Houses, Renewable Energy, Water Treatment and Hospitals more than it does now
But due to privatisation our Government does none of these things, because they have been sold to billionaires
It's time to undo Thatcher's poison
2nd poll within the week puts Greens in second place, well ahead of both Labour and Tories (the first was YouGov's weekly poll that had Greens on 21% with Tories/Lab on 16% and Reform on 23%).
We've just hit 215,000 members.
More than 2,000 people a day have joined us since our historic win in the Gorton and Denton by-election. Come and be a part of the movement which is making hope normal again. Join us 👇
You can read it online here including its glorious Clause 1:
“Everyone has the right to breathe clean air and the Human Rights Act 1998 is to be read as though this were a separate Convention right.”
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
Image is a screenshot of a reasoned amendment to the Courts and Tribunals Bill. It is signed by Siân Berry, Hannah Spencer, Carla Denyer, Dr Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay. It reads: That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Courts and Tribunals Bill because it is an inadequate and dangerous response to the challenges faced by the courts; it does not provide the correct solutions to the chronic backlog of cases in the Crown Court; it would not address the long-term underfunding that has led to the degradation of court systems, infrastructure and buildings; it would limit the crucial civil liberty and constitutional protection of trial by a jury of one’s own peers by removing defendants’ right to elect the Crown Court for all triable either-way offences; this change would cover a range of protest-related offences, and because protest rights and free speech, which act as safeguards against authoritarianism, have already been eroded by this Government and should not be limited further; jury trials build public trust and confidence in the courts and act as a space of shared civic responsibility that builds social cohesion; more effective interventions could be implemented that do not roll back fundamental rights, including expanding the use of ‘blitz courts’, increasing the number of sitting days, removing from the system cases that are no longer in the public interest to prosecute, increasing investment in legal aid, improving court case management technology, and bringing in more efficient processes to ensure defendants are brought to court and to the dock on time; and removing rights to judgment by one’s own peers may have the unintended consequence of increasing court backlogs through a rise in appeals.
🚨We have tabled an amendment to reject the Government’s sinister attempt to remove jury trials including for many protest related offences.
Our civil liberties have already been eroded by this Govt and should not be limited any further.
Greens are standing up against Labour's toolkit for tyrants.
Today I asked ministers to deny* that the number of jury acquittals in protest cases was a factor in the Government’s dangerous attack on jury trials.
*They did not do this
And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
Explainer: UK government has announced a suspension on student visa applications from nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan. Details here www.gov.uk/guidance/vis...
"More North Sea drilling will not shield households, building domestic green energy will
"More drilling will mainly boost oil company profits
"Once built, sunlight or wind is free. Prices are stable. Green power is an insurance policy against geopolitical risk"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
