Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

It is with great sadness that we have been informed of the passing of the remarkable Dr. Jane Goodall, age 91, who died of natural causes in Los Angeles, CA while on her speaking tour in the United States. Photo credit: Marko Zlousic #jane #goodall #JaneGoodall #drjanegoodall #wildlife #nature

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

The Planning & Infrastructure Bill puts nature up for sale, handing power to developers and silencing communities. It’s a direct threat to our wild places and puts Amber Valley at massive threat of uncontrollable urban sprawl, in which we’d have no say in it. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

⚠️ The Planning and Infrastructure Bill undermines the protection of our rarest habitats and species. It’s an open door to irreversible environmental damage. Without stronger safeguards, protected nature sites are at risk of destruction: freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/respons...

3/6 The Tony Blair Institute is already controversial. It has received millions from Saudi Arabia. It also takes money from tech billionaire/Trump supporter Larry Ellison and has ties to oligarchs. This is not neutral funding. It reflects troubling priorities

The Tony Blair Institute is behind the push for digital ID. Read here how the TBI is effectively an arm of Oracle after getting £257m from Larry Ellison. Ellison wants countries "unify all their data so that it can be consumed and used by the AI model." democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

The Guardian, as usual is missing crucial differences between the EU’s ID cards and Starmer’s proposed Brit card, why? Because they are shockingly ill-informed. Thread www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

1/ Whatever you think of digital ID, the process matters. And in 2025, this is still how we make big public policy. 👇

I for one don’t want Peter Thiel and Palantir having my data so I signed this petition. #DigitalIDCards petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

National flags sparked tensions. Families, children and neighbours responded with something far stronger: a city’s solidarity. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social

Privatisation. Did Sid win after all? Privatisation facilitated suppression of wages (see🧵). The British public has paid nearly £200billion to the shareholders who own key British industries since they were privatised. @northeastbylines.co.uk

I'm watching this one a bit like I watched the reverse brexit one. Already at almost 400k. Your move Starmer. 😂 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I have just submitted an FOI to the Home Office demanding FULL TRANSPARENCY on Palantir’s role in tomorrow’s “Brit Card” mandatory digital ID scheme 🚨 WHY THIS MATTERS: Palantir already has its surveillance tentacles deep in UK infrastructure with 24+ government contracts including: Thread

The home has been judged inadequate, with serious and widespread failures.

The River Cam should flow with pure chalk spring water. Instead, it runs on sewage outflows laced with phosphorus, and it's killing life in the river. Read the full story for this week's #BigRiverWatch ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Joined the Green Party.

Sussex at breaking point: Water woes threaten our future We need urgently to address our water shortage and pollution crisis @sussexbylines.co.uk

I am beyond disgusted and angry about Trump’s visit to the UK. Here’s why: - UK journalists should be asking him detailed questions about the UK-US post-Brexit trade deal, which is basically Trump putting the UK over a barrel. Thread

"UK council tax is based on 1991 property valuations, grouped into eight price bands and paid by tenants. It is probably the world’s most unfair property tax: the poorest pay the highest tax as a percentage of property value and the richest the least."

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Downing Street is drawing up plans to reduce household energy costs and is considering scrapping VAT on fuel bills www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The house always wins—unless we change the rules. 🎲 I’m backing a new Gambling Act to protect lives, not profits. First step - let’s end “aim to permit”. #GamblingReform

Your occasional dose of good environmental news www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.

Polanski, Sultana, and Corbyn are giving hope to hundreds of thousands of people in the UK. They are talking about what's needed for everyone, they are exposing the genocide, and the greed of predatory corporations, while campaigning to tax the wealthiest in society. 1/2

Ruling classes hate a working class girl who does good....

Tim Whiting left school at 16 to train as a cabinet maker. Today he’s one of only a handful of millwrights in Britain, leading prestigious projects that keep some of our finest windmills and wind-pumps working. Read his story here ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Let the Labour Party know that you do not want your villages, towns, cities, public services privatised by predatory corporations like US Blackrock, Palantir, and hundreds more. My petition calls for a complete transparency review of all deregulated free zones. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Want to study in Europe as a UK student? Since Brexit, it’s harder than ever. With visa fees and lost Erasmus+ funding, the barriers are piling up. Many simply can’t afford it. Read one student's personal account 👇

While UK citizens were told Brexit would "take back control," the government was quietly handing £27bn of public money to American corporations every single year. open.substack.com/pub/european...

Robert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.

UK police arrested hundreds today at protests over the Palestine Action ban. Absolutely bonkers quote from the police here: “It will take time, but we will arrest anyone expressing support for Palestine Action." Just to reiterate: Simple written or verbal expressions of support are illegal.

It’s claimed a single ChatGPT query can use half a litre of clean water. AI is powerful but is it sustainable? What are the real environmental costs of artificial intelligence? Stephen McNair reports

Why Reform UK’s conspiracism should worry you Reform UK appear to embrace conspiracism as an ideology to gain power but it brings an underlying threat to UK democracy | Dean Conway @centralbylines.co.uk

A slow-burning environmental disaster: “As prey became scarce, blue whale vocalisations dropped by nearly 40% alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations. ‘It’s like trying to sing while you're starving,’ Ryan adds. ‘They were spending all their time just trying to find food.’”

BIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK! A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

If, like me, you feel that pang of guilt every time you don't donate to a Palestinian on here, maybe just give regularly to this?

#ContraAI 🤖 The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize went to Geoffrey Hinton, a Physics Professor in machine learning via artificial neural networks. He warned of the misuse by autocrats & self-authorisation of these machines: “We have no idea whether we can stay in control” www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

“There is no case since World War II of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled”

“this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined”

Dr. Nick Maynard has been traveling in and out of Gaza for 15 years. He's been recording diary entries exclusively for CNN, providing a firsthand look at the humanitarian crisis unfolding inside Gaza's hospitals.

Hard to listen to, but must be faced by our Govt. Dr Nick Maynard on the gunshot & quad cop injuries to young teenage boys in Gaza. “It’s almost a game being played: that they’re deciding to shoot heads today, necks tomorrow, testicles the day after.” #SilenceIsComplicity x.com/bbcr4today/s...

The number of times sewage is discharged by water companies will be halved by 2030, the environment secretary has pledged. Steve Reed's vow marks the first time ministers have set a clear target on the issue, following public outcry over the pollution incidents www.bbc.com/news/article...

Up to 50 #Swifts screaming above the junction of The Avenue with Bradford Road, #Lewes, this afternoon!

Water companies have ‘cheated us out of £84 billion’ – Feargal Sharkey www.channel4.com/news/water-c...