Shocked by this

“Professor Cath Noakes, lead author of the Class-ACT study, reported finding that classrooms with air cleaners had over 20% FEWER STUDENT ABSENCES than those without” northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

yes YES .. & if clean air prevents virus transmission (COVID, flu, RSV, measles, TB etc) in schools, then it can prevent virus transmission in hospitals, care homes, workplaces, transport, hospitality, & every other building right? #science not #politics

London plan to improve air quality in schools by installing indoor air filters “Children & adults can be triggered [& INFECTED] by particles in air such as dust mites, mould, pollen, animal dander, pollutants & VIRUSES” airqualitynews.com/headlines/ai...

5 years late, but as obvious and cheap a solution you could not hope for more. Protects everyone 🙂 @prifweinidog.gov.wales

Instead of increasing the Retirement Age why don't we lower the wealth limit? To say £100m. This would affect only 4,200 people. But would raise nearly £1.5tn

Interesting @thewhn.bsky.social event with some big names in the 'clean air world' (though the panel gender balance was perhaps a little less than balanced!) youtu.be/EXaP-1jkUvM?...

Zack Polanski says some Labour MPs have spoken to him about defecting, and that he's also talking to Zohran Mamdani's team in NY

"Privatisation is a failed experiment which takes all our money and pays it out to shareholders." Do we pay enough tax for good Public Services? Can you see the problem? They are not Public, so they will never be good no matter how much you spend.

A podcast worth following. Excellent points made by @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social of @europeanmovement.co.uk @bylinetimes.bsky.social in discussion with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on disadvantages of #Brexit and whether we should return to the #EU podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

"The real challenge now is to find ways to live not just in alignment with planetary limits – but with limits that have already been breached." Check out my latest #Substack reporting from the #GreenParty conference. rupertsreads.substack.com/p/from-elect...

Make the Government respond to our call for a National Climate Resilience Plan by signing this petition and then sharing it. We need 10,000 signatures. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

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The Greens are surging ahead of Labour. It's on! @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Good job bellends 🙌

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.” Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

Zack Polanski labelled ‘breath of fresh air’ after Question Time performance https://www.inbella.com/1317803/zack-polanski-labelled-breath-of-fresh-air-after-question-time-performance/ UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski has been praised for how he grilled Reform’s Zia Yusuf on BBC Question …

Let's make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Lanky , leggy , and beautiful ! Your #FoxOfTheDay shared by @mawgdn

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent. Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income. We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Here's a Youtube link of Violet Affleck's full speech about COVID and clean air at the United Nations:

To get clean air infrastructure everywhere, we need as many governments, states, cities, nonprofits, schools, businesses etc. to sign on as possible. Please read the pledge, share it, and push your local orgs to join! Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...

Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right. Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!

people.com/violet-affle... Violet Affleck is an amazing ambassador for young people. There are alot of leaders who should listen to this young lady. #CleantheAir

AI companionship From the new Private Eye, out now.

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

Today Nick Ferrari asked if treaties like the ECHR & the Refugee Convention that were drawn up in the wake of WWII are still relevant to modern Britain. I said the context of racial hatred towards Muslim immigrants now echoes the hatred of Jewish immigrants in the 20th century. We need these laws.

🚨 Just 24 hours left to vote in the Green Party leadership & executive elections! 🙌🏼 Vote for Bold Leadership - rooted in our communities, cutting through nationally. 💚 Vote for me as your #1 preference. 🗳️ Ballot: ballot.greenparty.org.uk

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …

🎴Greens WIN in Grangetown (Cardiff) council by-election. 🟢 GRN: 24% (NEW) 🔴 LAB: 23% (-33.4) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 PC: 19% (NEW) ➡️ REF: 15% (NEW) ⚪️ PROPEL: 10% (+7.4) ⚪️ IND: 5% (NEW) 🔵 CON: 4% (-5) 🟡 LDEM: 2% (-3) No TUSC (-2.1) or Common Ground (-29.5) Total: 3411 Chgs w/ 2022 Election.

Llongyfarchiadau Matt Youde! Grangetown's new @walesgreenparty.bsky.social councillor. People are tired of old 'Business as usual' politics and are voting for real hope and real change. Next, it's time to #GetGreensElected to the Senedd in 2026.

🚀 Following Thursday's election we've reached a new record high 859 councillors on 181 councils! 💚 The Green Party is the only party offering a real alternative to the tired old parties. Join the Green Party today to help us keep delivering real hope and real change ⤵️

There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

www.redlineforgaza.org.uk/takeaction/s... “Now is the time to act” Starmer. Now. Not before. Jeez 🤷‍♀️😶

As a Jewish person, I know that never again means never again for everyone. End the genocide. My keynote speech to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Conference: youtu.be/ZBDrCtrJsUc?...

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain recognise the state of Palestine?" Sarah Champion, "Yes" Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain call this a genocide?" Sarah Champion, "I can't see it as anything other than a genocide"

🚨BREAKING🚨 ICJ ruling that a healthy environment is a human right could be a real turning point in setting out governments’ legal responsibility to tackle #climate crisis 👇

Israeli forces kill 67 Palestinians seeking aid in northern Gaza, Hamas-run ministry says

Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag

Someone on Twitter recently reposted this article (but Jessica has since changed publishing platforms), so sharing a working link here for this 🎯 article by @jessicawildfire.bsky.social: You May Be Early, but You're Not Wrong: A Covid Reading List www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/you-may-be...

The Big Death Bill has passed. The GOP willingly chose to kick millions off health insurance, close hundreds of hospitals, nursing homes, & reproductive health clinics, leave millions of families without enough food & kill thousands of people. This is the biggest assault on health in recent history.

Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all

A must read, devastating, Report by Francesca Albanese (UN Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967) on the global economic foundations of the Palestinians' genocide: THE ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE. Please share! www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

Forests are places with specific meanings. They are also often sites where those meanings are contested. These conflicts and struggles over meaning are key to forest fates. 🌎 🧪 #geosky open.substack.com/pub/benlockw...

Will you be asking Will Ed Davey be PM next week? @channel4.bsky.social because LibDems have 14x number of MPs and only got 1% fewer votes at GE. We demand to know? Has our petition ever been more important? Fair coverage now! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... www.channel4.com/programmes/w...

“New wealth of top 1% surges by over $52.4 trillion since 2015 – enough to end poverty 22 times over.” Just once would do… if they bothered. theaimn.net/new-wealth-o...

"Polanski's aim, he told me, is to “make Labour more scared of losing votes and seats to the Green Party than to Reform”...issues such as a wealth tax, the war in Gaza and the NHS..framing the economic divide as “the 99 per cent vs the 1 per cent”. www.newstatesman.com/the-politics...