Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most By John Hall @johnfromyorkshire.bsky.social

Very excited to take up this role at @sussex.ac.uk & look forward to working with colleagues & students to help amplify the hugely important work the University is doing on climate, nature and environmental sustainability eg the very first undergraduate degree in climate justice starting in 2026 💚

A quarter of Britain’s native plants are now at risk of extinction The first update in two decades to a “red list” of plants found a substantial increase in the number of threatened species www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Tax wealth to address the extraordinary levels of inequality in our society OR punish people still struggling with the increasing cost of living? The chancellor must make the right choice in the budget. @dhnnjyn.bsky.social writes for the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm so happy to see this video. 😍

A small win for the general public. 🏥👍

We’ve joined almost 300 organisations in an urgent plea to politicians and the UK government to stop scapegoating the country’s human rights framework.

"I’m pleased Keir Starmer is going to COP — but Rosebank’s emissions are equivalent to 28 of the lowest-income countries combined, and this government still won’t rule it out.” Zack Polanski calls for real leadership from the government ahead of #COP30.

I agree with that. In this respect, the LibDems are in a similar situation to the Greens. LDs give the impression that all the things they want can be paid for by windfall taxes on energy companies, banks & social media giants. Its Leftwing cakeism.

This is a fabulous conversation. I can't wait to read the book. 🔶️

Lines from the Greek poet Sappho. 📚💙

'The secret mysteries of a Divine Life...cannot be written or spoken, language and expressions cannot reach them...A Painter that would draw a Rose, though he may flourish some likenesse of it in figure and colour, yet he can never paint the sent and fragrancy'. Ralph Cudworth, (1647).

1/2 While there's no doubt Mamdani run a firmly Leftwing campaign, I'd argue that the dispute at its heart wasn't between Capitalism or Socialism. It was between 'stupid Capitalism' & 'intelligence Capitalism'. Stupid Capitalists extract in ways that endangers future profitability.

1/2 Liberals as a matter of axiomatic commitment, shouldn't be eternally attached to one set of economic methods. Liberals should be in the business of freeing people from hierarchies, permitting greater initiative, & self-organisation. If that means resisting the dominance of Capital, so be it.

This is absolutely appalling. "The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit." Absolutely pathetic. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'There are millions of worlds below & above ours, Man’s mind is tired of this great search. It cannot reach the end of His vastness. How can the Infinite be reduced to the finite? All attempts to describe Him are futile He alone knows how great He is, None.” (Guru Granth Sahib)

NEW: Our latest analysis suggests strict conditions faced by people in receipt of benefits are forcing them into low quality jobs. This risks undermining the government's employment targets, as people forced into low-paid, insecure jobs are less likely to stay in work.

1/2 I have been relatively lucky with the jobs I've had. But one job in particular was absolutely awful. I felt undermined, bullied, & unsupported. I often felt sick to my stomach some mornings. Nothing I did was ever good enough. The job was making me ill. It turns out despair is bad for you.

💬 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "Why are we calling it Hurricane Melissa? It should be called Hurricane Shell or, at this point, Hurricane Labour." ‼️ Labour must rule out more oil and gas in the North Sea. #COP #ClimateCrisis

Happy Guru Nanak Gurpurab to all Sikhs celebrating today 💚

Good message Greens 👍🌻

Huge congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on his election as Mayor of New York City from all of us at the Green Party! 🎉💚

Can’t quite believe the Chancellor is seriously considering slashing support for home energy efficiency as a way to cut fuel bills 👀. Locking people into cold & leaky homes which will cost them more to heat & decimating the insulation industry at same time. Total madness 👇

I found this old post of mine. A not so succinct theological critique of #monarchy.

Well have you? If not, here's where: zohranfornyc.com/vote

The silent activists who brave Cardiff City centre in all weathers to take a stand on climate change. journalism-school.cardiff.ac.uk/thecardiffia...

"Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting– over and over announcing your place in the family of things." (Mary Oliver) 🍁

I absolutely loved this interview. I was moved to tears at various points. Thanks for posting @nordic-animism.bsky.social.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: worn-out doors in old garden walls are one of my favourite things in the entire world.

For balance, I should say that the Greens suffer from a version of this problem re. no difficult choices over tax. Even if you come up with a regime that successfully captures enormous amounts of asset wealth (I support this), the scale of green-proofing couldn't be covered by the top 10% alone.

At least in theory, the LibDems have used these pots of money a couple of times already, with bank levies variously earmarked for lower energy bills & reversing inheritance tax relief on agricultural land. Taxes on tech companies have been earmarked for youth mental health and/or Ukraine.

This vague opposition to tax rises is not credible. If the government is going to invest in the NHS, social care, mental health, SEN, climate action--all LibDem commitments, this cannot all come from bank levies & a Digital Services Tax. The position should be: "We'll tax wealth, not work".

🚨 @greenparty.org.uk are absolutely soaring among the youth, polling at an incredible 40%, according to YouGov. 📈 The Greens are 19 points above Labour, the governing party. 💚💥

Being a Brit on BlueSky means seeing 1000x more messaging about an election in New York than your local council. Might as well message Zohran about my bin collection.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, On Love and Happiness, p. 25

I'm involved in a new project. Watch this space. 💻🔶

The head of our Order, Eimear Burke. 🕯🙏 #OBOD

'Without contradiction, there would be no life, no movement, no progress, a deadly slumber of all forces' (Schelling)

The ECHR is 75 today. Like many elderly people, it is in danger of being taken for granted, and not being listened to anymore. So, happy birthday ECHR, please step forward into the spotlight and explain your history to us younger people here.

📢 40+ NGOs have written to the PM urging him to uphold the Aarhus Convention – the cornerstone of environmental justice The Convention protects your right to: ✅ Access environmental information ✅ Have a say in decisions that affect nature ✅ Seek environmental justice affordably

Roman snake bracelet with a medallion of the goddess Selene, circa 1st century AD.

✍️ Climate change – the world after tomorrow Records of chaos following historical climate change offer a warning to contemporary global society By Dr Pam Jarvis @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @drpam.bsky.social

The best of luck to Zohran Mamdani today in the New York Mayoral Election!!! 💙🗳️🗽🇺🇸

Reflection on Glastonbury Tor.

This is such a fabulous video. 🇮🇪🍀

The challenge of our lives was articulated by A.N. Whitehead: 'The art of progress is to reserve order amid change, & to preserve change amid order'. We must preserve the best of our art & science, our politics & culture, while exchanging a civilization of combustion for one of wise conservation.

'Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth' (The Dhammapada).

We must ensure polluters, not the poorest, pay for climate action. Ahead of COP30, we have written to the Prime Minister, urging him to ensure that those most responsible bear the cost.

'We need #myths that will help us to identify with...our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our...national or ideological tribe. We need myths that help us to realize the importance of #compassion, which is not always regarded as...productive...[in our] world' (Karen Armstrong) 💜

Our Land, a new documentary, interrogates the connections between land, power and a sense of belonging following the Right to Roam movement in England and Wales. It captures the tension between public campaigners fighting for greater access to nature and landowners.