Great piece of research. Words have consequences. "Alienation (defined as language that alienates or implies that another individual or group does not belong or fit in, i.e., uses ‘us vs. them’ framing) consistently emerged as the single most reliable predictor of violent outcomes."

Former Ramallah Friends School student, Shadi Khoury, has been sentenced by an Israeli military court to 32 months in prison and a 12,000-shekel fine. https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/shadi-khoury-sentenced-to-32-months-in-israeli-military-prison

Nice to have a good news story to share!

Green Party Leader Zack Polanski Highlights Funding Challenges in Fuel Poverty Support & Selce's Service at GLA

Two days - two defections! Huge welcome to the Green Party to Cllr Lakshan Saldin in Greenwich. Green Party keeps growing! 💚🚀 greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/01/07/g...

I have the privilege of being a director & co-chair of @seloncommenergy.bsky.social so I see 1st hand the incredible support provided to households in Greenwich, Lewisham & Bromley struggling with their energy bills. Gov data suggests 2/5 households are experiencing fuel poverty - help us to help.

Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

Selce's Formula for Successful Retrofit 🏠 In mid-October, the news was full of stories about poor quality retrofit work installed under the ECO4 or GBIS schemes. 💡 How we minimise the risk of poor installation, and maximise the number of people that can benefit. selce.org.uk/selces-formu...

Reading comprehension not high on Elmo Musk's list of priorities. The "hard men of Gondor." Weakened and corrupt, obsessed with past glories and barely able to function as a nation. A couple Hobbits had to save their collective asses.

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Share offer update: we've already reached 25% of our target! 🎉 Our 4th solar share offer aims to fund solar at Invicta Primary in SE3, & is projected to save the school £100k over 20 years. We encourage members to get their investments in soon, or risk missing out: www.selce.org.uk/shares

Invest in community. Invest in supporting local people. Invest in a cleaner, fairer future. Invest in solar at Invicta Primary School in Blackheath. Projected to save the school more than £100,000 over 20 years. www.selce.org.uk/shares

In London, hate will never win.

Does Labour have a plan for getting out the vote at the next election? This guy is my local councillor, very hardworking and always out delivering leaflets and knocking on doors. He seems to have been deselected for objecting to Starmer's "country of strangers" speech. Who will be left to campaign?

3 lesser known facts about solar, from Jason's 10 years' experience in renewable energy across all scales and technologies. Join us on 13/9 at Growing the Alternatives - inc Jason's renewables workshop 🎟️ bit.ly/foca-selce

Amid escalating violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, many fear Israel is moving towards annexation. It is more urgent than ever for the UK government to act on the International Court of Justice's ruling that the occupation of Palestine is illegal. Read more: tinyurl.com/end-occupation

A year ago, the International Court of Justice reaffirmed that Israel's occupation of Palestine is illegal and must end immediately. We join charities, faith groups, and unions in calling on the UK government take urgent action. Read the letter here: waronwant.org/resources/uk...

If the Rosebank oil field goes ahead, the UK public will cover 84% of the cost of developing the project. That means we'll give Rosebank's owner Equinor & Ithaca Energy billions in tax breaks to build this disaster project. Equinor made £24bn in profit last year. How is this fair? #StopRosebank

1/🧵 It’s not dysfunction. It’s design. The GOP uses a ruthless disinformation playbook to confuse, divide, and exhaust the public. They don’t want you informed—they want you disoriented. Here’s how their machine works—and how we expose it. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

The surgeon I saw wasn't born in the UK. My dentist wasn't born in the UK. Many of my neighbours weren't born in the UK. Several of my children's teachers weren't born in the UK. They're not strangers, they're neighbours, friends and tax paying public servants. They hold the country together.

We’re proud to lend our support to the chorus of voices standing against Part 4, including the High Court and the UN. 🕯️🙏

What do customers think of Simon, AKA the Heat Doctor, and the help & support he provides residents in SE London? “Your character & work ethic is an asset to Selce and all customers like ourselves who have the opportunity & pleasure to meet you & witness your exceptionalism in everything you do.”

Selce - shining a light on people power, in @salamandernews.org

This really really hurts. Quaker Meeting Houses are not consecrated ground, but they are places of sanctuary, prayer, quiet contemplation and peace. 20 police officers breaking down the door of a place of worship is simply not acceptable. Will we be safe to worship on Sunday? How will we know?

🚨New paper🚨Tune in to the prebunking network! Development and validation of six inoculation videos that prebunk manipulation tactics and logical fallacies in misinformation 1/17 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?

Don’t miss the next event, this Sat 15 March 1-4pm at the (very same) St Alfege Church in Greenwich. With solar and funding workshops, homeowner discussions and retrofit tips and tricks sharing… last chance to book - bit.ly/FestofRetrof...

So.. I told my students about Mahmoud Khalil at the end of class today and assured them that in case I disappear, I will leave plans for their class with the department head. I, too, am a green card holder. I, too, publicly oppose the genocide in Palestine. I, too, fear disappearance. 1/n

This should be changed asap. If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...

There have been MASSIVE protests this week across the country. If you took any videos or photos from the protests, or have seen great videos or photos of them online, post them below! Let's show the world that the pro-democracy community is just getting started!

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

❌ Food banks shouldn't need to exist. ✔️ We should all be able to afford the essentials we need to survive and live with dignity. Repost if you agree!

Singing flashmob calls on British Museum to drop BP funding, with new version of #SpaceOdyssey theme! #climateaction #choir #flashmob #Strauss #britishmuseum #fossilfree #protest #BP #artnotoil #decolonise

Today in SE3: through talks, roundtables, demos & lots of brilliant discussion - how we work together to retrofit homes & communities fit for the future 🏠💡#festivalofretrofit

Today is Carers Rights Day 2024 - and this year’s theme is recognising your rights. The UK has 5.7 million unpaid carers, with 12,000 more being added per day. ❤️ Find out more here: