youtube.com/watch?v=MCCV... Quite an in-depth interview with #CountBinface by a journalist who didn’t know who he was

1,000-year-old Major Oak in Sherwood Forest dies 😢😔 In 2017, I worked with Nottinghamshire campaigners to stop petrochemicals company INEOS from fracking Sherwood Forest. But the climate crisis got to the Major Oak in the end: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

💸 New blog: The Hidden Bill ffcc.co.uk/conversation... 🌿 In a new blog, FFCC’s Chief Executive @suepritch.bsky.social explores why food industry lobbying & spending remains so difficult to track, and what that means for transparency and public trust.

Happy 40th Birthday to the (possibly) best record of all time. #TheQueenIsDead

Entrenched positions, binaries and excessive focus on technical and infrastructural barriers are getting in the way of the valuable intangibles needed for food system change - another promising looking event from @rootandreason.bsky.social #FoodStudies

The UK imports most of its fruit and veg. Sustain is now working with Defra to change that. 🔽 Read more about the Horticulture Sector Growth Plan and what Sustain is calling for here: www.sustainweb.org/news/may26-d...

I guess they got the non-woke president they were looking for.

Back under some blankets after a soggy day at Warleigh nature reserve. We killed thousands more Himalayan balsam, clearing two huge areas I didn’t think we’d get to this soon. First up, solar-powered electric strimmer on the track edges. Take that!

The Sex Pistols appeared at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall on this day 1976, inspiring the city's punk scene. Most sources say only about 40 attended, though many more later claimed to have been there. Audience included Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner and Steven Morrissey.

Don't think people realise quite how deeply split by age current voting intention is. This is the latest YouGov for under-50s: Green: 26% Lab: 18% Reform: 14% Tories: 12% LD: 11% And over 50s: Reform: 36% Tory: 22% Lab: 16% LD: 12% Greens: 9%

The economics of Brexit, 10 years on. My summary. ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-ten-y...

Excellent article in The Atlantic about what's going on at NSF. Share with people in your circle--too many aren't aware!

Tech billionaires should not be able to tilt British democracy from Silicon Valley boardrooms. Here’s how we could legislate to stop social media platforms amplifying the Far Right for profit or political influence. 🧵

Fabulous clarification in today's Observer. Stonehenge!

‘The nine big retailers account for 94.5% of all retail food. That’s nine companies, using just 131 distribution centres. In drone war, that’s a sitting duck.’ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

#TonightsGig Dave Formula and Noko playing songs of #Magazine

Great tonight to catch the most excellent Dave Formula at the Manchester Academy, covering all three early Magazine albums #LockDownTipple was a Colleys One Red Candle 5.2% hoppy red ale, at the Molly House Cheers 😉🍺👍 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

40+ scientists (incl. me) warn that new methane accounting metrics such as "no additional warming", "temperature neutrality” are being used to grandfather high emitters, penalise developing countries, and undermine the Global Methane Pledge. Full statement: methanescience.org

🚨 I’ve now submitted my South Norfolk SEND Report to the Government’s Education White Paper consultation. Parents, teachers, TAs and governors told me clearly: rural England needs a SEND system built around children, not bureaucracy. Read the full report: bengoldsborough.co.uk/send-report

Read our latest digest: 'The case for food system resilience is getting stronger'. Our Roadmap argued the UK food system faces intensifying disruption, requiring transformational change. Since then, three developments have tested that argument… 👉 tinyurl.com/y8t6n8sf

Driving sustainable farming: new guidance for CAP 2028–2034 agriculture.ec.europa.eu/media/news/d...

This was also a high point of government delivery. Yes, because of Michael Barber, but also because Blair made sure there was a team in place working on delivery which could not be distracted by events/his own piss-poor decision-making on foreign policy.

Hedge funds bet on biofuels to profit from Iran oil price shock ft.trib.al/sWxdRaw

The quality of the commentary, analysis and journalism on BBC Wales #MadeInWales today has been excellent. Civilised, thoughtful and something to be proud of

There was nothing in the pollen to suggest this would happen

Ahead of the local elections tomorrow, a reminder of my cut-out-and-keep guide to how best to assess the results as they come in. Of course, from Friday, I'll be sharing updated versions of the charts - and more - to help put the results into perspective.

Our latest release — Orban Wallace's OUR LAND that looks at land ownership, access, and the @righttoroam.bsky.social is in UK cinemas from Friday 8 May. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Guardian ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Little White Lies ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Scotsman Find a screening (+ a hidden walk!) near you: www.metfilmstudio.com/distribution...

Neither plausible nor sensible for any "new leadership" to "adopt a more fiscally expansive mandate" if that means "borrowing more to avoid difficult tradeoffs".

Peace Makers is out today! Here’s a last preview🧵. Mrs Heather Thomsett, née Auchterlonie, joined the FO in 1943. After the typing pool, she was a secretary in Anthony Eden’s office, and went with him to Yalta and the US. It was a great privilege to interview her in her 100th year. 1/6

EU agriculture 2040: no easy fix for environmental and socio-economic aspects A new JRC study offers three “what-if” scenarios to help inform the policy debate on shaping the future of the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP). joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

'While other countries were talking about new approaches for bringing intelligence to bear on the unprecedented challenge of climate change, the UK was actually doing something about it' -Prof. Bill Clarke, Harvard More about the Tyndall Centre + its launch 2️⃣5️⃣ yrs ago: tyndall.ac.uk/about/

It’s #EarthDay 🌍 The theme "Our Power, Our Planet" reminds us that the people sustaining our food system must shape its future. At Root and Reason, we embed lived experience in decision-making so that change happens with people, not to them. 🤝 rootandreason.org.uk

I went to a viewing of this film in Pembrokeshire last week. I recommend getting along to a viewing if you can.

And we're off ... AFN Network becomes Root and Reason - the food resilience collective !

It shouldn’t take a war for Britain to wake up to the need for food security | Tim Lang

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... Implications of Hormuz blockade over two weeks, six weeks and six months

🚨🚨In the wake of the #EUCO drama a major news is that #Norway has again commenced the political debate on joining the #EuropeanUnion. NB; Norway is due to its EEA membership already applying most EU single market rules.🧵 www.politico.eu/article/norw...

The first-ever Land Use Framework for England has been published. I think it is the most far-sighted plan for England's land since the Second World War. Here's my thoughts on what it does (& doesn't) do: 1/ www.gov.uk/government/p...

#undersaltmarsh is a weird combination of murder mystery and estuarine hydrology

A fantastic resource, especially if you need a break from the doomscrolling

George Osborne and Ed Balls have used the latest @polcurrency.bsky.social pod to call out @instituteforgovernment.org.uk (among v distinguished company) for our "technocratic obsession" with a single fiscal event a year. Guilty as charged.

Are @ec.europa.eu proposals for #CAP for the period 2028–2034 fit to drive the scale of environmental and climate action Europe now needs? Read our latest briefing to find out 👇

I really wish announcements about new schemes from public funders like the ESRC weren't made via paywalled articles...

📚 New research out today ‘Potential Pathways and Solutions to Acute Food System Crisis in the UK’, examines how a serious food crisis could happen in the UK, and what can be done to stop it. Read in full here: www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/18...

“None of the important issues facing the food system can be adequately addressed without strong underpinning social science.” In this guest feature✍️ @profneilward.bsky.social emphasises a crucial role for social science in transforming the UK’s food system. ➡️ acss.org.uk/transforming...

Defra has quietly published what should be one of the most significant reports on UK food security in years: a national security assessment of global biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse. Read our digest 👉 tinyurl.com/53tmhcaa

“When I am dead and gone My Vibrations will live on In vibes on vinyl through the years People will dance to my waves” Mark E. Smith 5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018

"The UK does not have enough land to feed its population and rear livestock: a wholesale change in consumer diets would be required." re: the challenge of food security under nature collapse. from a UK govt national security assessment out today… assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...