When experienced teachers leave, pupils lose expertise, stability and leadership. Ministers should publish their assessment of teacher losses across school types and the impact of settlement agreements and confidentiality clauses. #EducationPolicy #Schools

#GoodNews on #biodiversity. Because we all need some www.bbc.com/news/article...

A new study warns UK winters are becoming significantly wetter — with rainfall rising 7% for every degree of warming. Yet Reform dismiss the scientific consensus and want scrap action to stop the climate crisis.

Useful to know about the Reform Party's new head of policy thetab.com/2026/02/11/c...

Disturbing results: with 2-degree increase "noticeably fewer beneficial mycorrhizal fungi, which left plants less able to acquire nutrients or buffer themselves from environmental stressors like freezing temperatures & drought" #OneHealth #SoilHealth #Fungi theconversation.com/warming-wint...

"Widespread monocultures of genetically uniform crops.... have contributed to environmental degradation & increased plant vulnerability to disease." We could - and must - break up these monocultures. In #biodiversity is resilience theconversation.com/coffee-crops...

About that supposed private sector "efficiency" and "good management"? #Outsourcing #Privatisation www.building.co.uk/news/problem...

One more UK government IT disaster. (£) Let's start being realistic about what can be achieved, not starting grand certain failures. And rethink the disastrous model of #Outsourcing. And what can we learn from others? "Pakistan did theirs for one-third of the price" www.ft.com/content/186f...

Brighton Dome capacity is 1700! And we've only got a couple of hundred tickets left for this Monday in Brighton with Caroline Lucas. Join us for a live @boldpolitics.bsky.social brightondome.org/whats-on/LT0...

A life bravely and well lived. RIP Jesse Jackson www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I'll be there on Sunday - hope to see you there!

Trialling automatic voter registration through systems is common sense. With millions missing from our democracy, it is welcome to see the government taking steps in the right direction on this. #Democracy #VotingRights | @UnlockDemocracy | @ElectoralReform

And the records were locked up for decades. There's an alternative history of the world to be written,a very different last 40 years, if that hadn't happened www.bbc.com/worklife/art...

Allegations of glyphosate spraying by Israel over south Lebanon demand careful assessment of environmental and human health impacts. The Government should provide clarity on its assessment and whether it has talked with Israel on this issue. #EnvironmentalJustice #InternationalLaw

Beware the risk of drowning in #AISlop: all generated at great environmental cost www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Does UK government understand this? "Rubio more sophisticated & strategic than Vance. But as dangerous, if not more, because it lowered transatlantic temperature & may have lulled Europe into false sense of calm, temptation may be to press snooze" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I joined MPs from across parties in writing to the Pensions Minister, urging the Government to reconsider its decision on compensation for women born in the 1950s. The Ombudsman found clear injustice. An apology is not enough. Those affected deserve fair redress.

BBC headline utterly failing. ‘The saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos’ It’s not the rail line that “keeps causing travel chaos” its the shifting climate with more prolonged and intense rainfall and more frequent storms leading to landslips and the sea wall being washed out.

It’s the Government’s duty to protect all communities - including trans people. They’re failing to do that. Trans people deserve safety and dignity. www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...

Local government elections in England are now back on again. #Shambles #NoWayToRunACountry #LE2026

Government is considering, reviewing and consulting ... well that is something. Although meanwhile the planet, and country, is further choked with #PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

If plastic is labelled as recycled, it must genuinely be recycled and produced under proper environmental and labour standards. The Government should assess the EU proposals carefully — and match them to protect people and planet. #Recycling #EnvironmentalStandards

Great to see two new innovative courses out from @nsota.bsky.social. If you want to see the world critically, differently, and find solutions, it's a great place to learn www.nsota.org

Irony alert. Now reading a UK commentator on 1940s US: "The ideology of the American anti-colonial campaign ... was a set of principles that most Americans upheld. The essence of it was the belief that colonial subjects had the inherent right to become independent and to rule themselves."

Yep, you guessed it. Already banned in Europe. We don't want to import terrible US food standards here #PublicHealth #PoisonedPlanet

#Biodiversity - under threat in so many ways

MUST READ: The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪 Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.

My latest history, biology & politics: The Congo's tragic history and present; living with the spirits in late antiquity; deep-sea fishes dispel another “rule” of biology; human chins prove less unique - lots to #Unlearn nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...

Yes After Wolfgang Streeck: #corruption is a symptom of financialised capitalism in globalised world #TooMuchFinance unherd.com/2026/02/pete...

Wild to see wealthy Reform politician "explaining" to poor people they don't understand their own experience. Let's make sure every single person in Gorton & Denton (and the country!) knows exactly that Reform is bankrolled by dodgy donors. Mask is off. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...

A new style of the US trying to force regime change. Unlikely to end any better than the military version www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Finally, starting to think about #microbiotoxity. We are holobionts, and we need to think a great deal more about our #microbiome: be #probiotic www.earth.com/news/more-th...

If you like tardigrades. Or rotifers or moss. Lovely Sunday read about the teeming #biodiversity we so rarely consider. Why don't we design cities for far more? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”. Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law. Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.

Well that's clear enough: Marco Rubio in Munich - it is world domination for our definition of "Western civilisation" we're after, and you're either with us or against us foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/14/r...

What was my reaction to Sir Keir Starmer's criticism of the Green Party from the Munich Security Conference today?

In Bristol today we said: No to racism. No to anti-migrant hate. No to anti-Muslim hate. No to anti-Jewish hate. No to any and every form of hate that's directed at people whether it's to do with where they come from, the god they worship, or the colour of their skin. We stand up for one another.

Munich Security Conference - in this insecure world, we need to consider security holistically, not just defence, but also diplomacy, aid and support for multilateral institutions

Hope to see you there!

The Guardian editorial today reflects the reality for millions. Bills soaring. Wages stagnant. People pushed to the brink. We don’t have to accept this. It’s time to do things differently. join.greenparty.org.uk

#Pesticides are far from romantic - yes, a risk to the recipient, but even more to the workers growing them and their communities www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Middle section of this episode of excellent @hansardsociety.bsky.social podcast explores the mess the Starmer government's legislative programme is in, particularly the lack of draft bills undergoing pre-legislative scrutiny www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliam...

Our current voting system leads to: 🐎 narrative of two horse races 😨 fear tactics don’t vote for this or you’ll get that 🗳️ gaming the system with tactical advice I’m elected to @londonassembly.bsky.social We’ve had proportional voting for 25 AMs to represent Londoners for 25 years. It works.

The Green Party. Good for your dating life too. 💘 Join.greenparty.org.uk

So-called AI - not up in "the cloud", but very much down to earth and causing massive damage to #PublicHealth and environmental damage www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Together with cross-party Parliamentarians I have written to the Home Secretary calling on her to accept today's ruling on Palestine Action. Instead of criminalising those protesting genocide, the govt must examine its own complicity and work to support justice for Palestinians.

Cooperation in nature - the more we look, the more we find. Biology is messy and sopisticated: reductionist approaches are profoundly misleading. #Unlearn phys.org/news/2026-02...

Today's ruling on the EHRC's interim guidance is a disappointing, confusing and mixed picture. A trans woman who is a customer in a café can use the women's toilets, but if she works there she might not be able to. Once again everyday life is being made a legal labyrinth for trans people.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n