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All politicians should have to wear their sponsors' names, like footballers or F1 drivers

This is exactly why we have Pride. Because a few years ago this would have just been a hateful fringe figure - but this is where our politics is heading with a Government that kertows. We will resist. And bring hope (*and* electing progressive politicians.) We will win. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

It seems the govt is considering exempting online games from the U16s social media ban. Yet online games are already exempt from scam ads regulations due to come in next year and scams are rife there. The two do not work together. STOP THE SCAMMERS!

A coding agent is only useful if it can run whatever code the task demands, but a tool that runs arbitrary code is just as dangerous as it sounds! So how do you stop an agent from making mistakes you can't easily undo? Read more at: tidydesign.substack.com/p/help-my-co...

Because a combination of short term thinking, climate change denial and multiple billions being taken out as profits by privatisation is a toxic blend that leads to chronic underinvestment in what the country needs to prosper.

Our latest report on children and young people's mental health and wellbeing launches today.

Cricket, warm beer and excess mortality are the markers of national character. This week's column is about the ignorance, snobbery and cruelty in the billionaire press, triggered by last week's heatwave. And about the grim condtions children now face in schools. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Let's take a look at this claim as "revealed" by the Daily Mail. TLDR - It's taken them a reeeeeally long time to "reveal" this law 😜 So what's the reality behind this headline? 🧵 1/23

This is remarkable.

The Netherlands has introduced a €49 monthly ticket for unlimited nationwide train travel—a bold political response to soaring energy costs. When prices at the pump rise, you can either double down on car dependency, or give people attractive alternatives. The Dutch are (again) choosing the latter.

Pensioners have been forced into debt, bank charges and financial uncertainty by the civil service pension crisis. Despite these failures, Capita has been awarded a £370 million contract. It's time to bring Civil Service pension administration back in-house. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...

Good background on what appears to be a shady practice youtu.be/JFI1CfnDJxY...

This #PrideMonth we're celebrating the impact of our Data First Aid volunteer match for the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ We matched the centre with PBE volunteer, Kelly Yeo, to help them turn feedback from visitors into a short report demonstrating their impact. pbe.co.uk/impact_stori...

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Not only are there more cars on the road, they are rapidly growing in size. No wonder you can never find a parking space! 😏

The trend in supersized SUVs isn't unique to US - cars are growing in the UK too. 60% of UK car sales are SUVs. Research shows children are 77% more likely to be killed if hit by an SUV than a smaller car. For kids under 9, the risk is 3 times higher. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence

“Conclusion: In the case of a crash, SUVs and LTVs cause more severe injuries to pedestrians and cyclists than passenger cars. This effect is larger for fatalities than for KSIs, and the fatality effect is particularly large for children.” Via @bmj.com. injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/32/1...

🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10

Coding agents like Claude Code feel like magic but they’re really a bunch of tools in a trenchcoat. This week I build a working coding agent in R, starting from just three tools. I’ll add some extra tools to make it safer and more efficient. tidydesign.substack.com/p/a-coding-a...

"Research shows that loneliness is increasing among young people," according to our friends at the Marmalade Trust

New @pbe.co.uk note on non-profit pay trends shows charity employees are earning £3,500 less today than if their pay rises had kept pace with the private sector's. Stems from inflation exposure and highlights the need for new 'shock absorbers' in the sector's income model pbe.co.uk/insights/pay...

The nine wellbeing domains for people with learning disabilities. 💡 When we measure wellbeing, we look at different wellbeing domains, e.g., health, work and finances.

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero...” What if your city actually MEANT #VisionZero?

There's a lot of discussion in the news at the moment about the safety of children on the internet. Yet the very real physical harm done by cars to children, on a regular basis, rarely gets attention. Echoes of Wimbledon here 😕

A disaster like Grenfell must never happen again.

Coding agents like Claude Code are great at general-purpose work. Posit Assistant is built specifically for data: #RStats / #Python session access, plots in the chat, and specialized data analysis capabilities. Post + video: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

How can the Spectator write an article about Palantir, without revealing that its owner, Paul Marshall, has a major stake in the company? Just complete self-interested deception

The video you didn't know you needed. A complete in-depth review between the new Lego Road Bike, and my actual bike. Plus, whether my wife approves my new purchase... www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMvk...

What really matters when it comes to children and young people's mental health and wellbeing? The word cloud below shows what organisations working with children and young people say is important for children: things like health, confidence, skills, and wellbeing.

Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.

Our latest report on Children's Services uncovers a system out of balance: annual costs in England reached a record £14.7 billion in 2024/25, but 82% of spending between 2011 and 2025 went to late intervention.

Last week we gathered policymakers and funders to share the findings of our Porticus Trust-funded work on children and young people's mental health and wellbeing.

RIP Anthony Head, loved him in Buffy

How Musks incitements, payment systems and embracing of bots and paid foreign influencers distorts any trend you’ll ever see on his site

👀 In London's heatwave last week, @cityoflondoncorp.bsky.social took the temperature - same day & time - in 2 nearby public squares. The difference is green infrastructure. Urban tree canopy & vegetation are vital for coping with the climate crisis. That's why we're planting 🌳🌳 across LDN

Starmer is absolutely right about this, but he would also have been right about it had he said it two years ago. Why has it taken him so long and why is his Government still using X as its primary message delivery platform? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.

No, @zackpolanski.bsky.social , you must *not* listen to Reform voters’ concerns. The opposite. You must challenge them. Fight them. Oppose them. Stand up for the truth and for what’s right. Don’t make the same mistake Labour did. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

By 1990, even the Conservative Secretary of State John McGregor acknowledged that the polytechnics were "put simply... one of the country's major education success stories". I've always wondered if the Tories dismantled them because they were a Labour idea.

As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21

For people with disabilities, these heatwaves aren’t about being uncomfortable – they’re about being safe | Frances Ryan

Obsidian 1.13.0 Desktop (early access) obsidian.md/changelog/20...

“There were an estimated 1,556 fatalities in reported road collisions in GB in 2025” “Last year, 29,911 people were seriously injured or killed” “with 127,870 casualties of all severities.” Yet, “e-scooters” 👀 (While source of harm stares us in the face). www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Tooting desperately lacks shade and shelter. Neither TfL nor Wandsworth Council have addressed this, so far. #HealthyStreets #ClimateChange #LiveableCities

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There's a week left to apply for our volunteer opportunities with: - Climate Majority Project - ADHD Action Network - Signal Family Support - Rethink Repayment Deadline: Midday, Monday 1 July