"This energy!!!" 👏👏👏👏 Zack Polanski joins Rizzle Kicks out on stage in Bristol

Worth remembering that freezing fuel duty, which could well happen again, costs about 30x more than the cycle to work scheme per year.

🚨ASH's updated Tobacco Dependence Treatment Services Calculator is now live🚨 This tool estimates the impact of implementing NHS inpatient services modelling demand reduction and the associated cost savings. ashresources.shinyapps.io/TDTS_Impact/

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

"Attend to what love requires of you, which may not be great busyness" #wisdom

Commercial determinants of active travel: a crucial but overlooked barrier to health and sustainability but NOBODY oppposes physical activity? oh but they do this is very good www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Ooh - these are wise words…..

Unlike politics, there’s no such thing as public health centrism. It’s evidence-based radicalism. It’s all about change towards health justice and equity, not tinkering around the edges trying to keep everyone happy. Such notions, my friends, are rather radical and there’s no shame in that.

Great cross-party support for a levy on tobacco manufacturers, spearheaded by Lord Young who made a compelling case for why the polluter should pay, and not the taxpayer. 🚭💰

BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty. “They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”

Marsden and Slaithwaite are officially advertising for a new Vicar. Beautiful place to live, a church which loves God and neighbour: they're looking for a priest to lead them further... Contact @billbraviner.bsky.social or @canonrachel.bsky.social for info, pls share #CofEPeeps @leeds.anglican.org

CNN Speaker Johnson I don’t know montage

Over 25% of older renters in England live in non-decent homes 🏠 Too often older renters can't afford properties suited to their needs or of a higher standard because of unaffordable housing costs. Join our calls for change:https://www.independentage.org/campaign-with-us @crisis-uk.bsky.social

Food banks provide help when people need it most. But real change means ending the need for them altogether. Repost if you agree 💚

If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight. Use the Quick Vote option. Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving: $100 billion Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%: $100 billion One is decried as "welfare." One is not. Why?

The Hijab Series: 'What if' (2014) by Yemeni photographer Boushra Almutawakel #womensart

“The Long-term monitoring by @bas.ac.uk led to the early discovery of the Ozone hole, saving the UK…£6.1bn in reduced crop damage and skin cancer cases” Wow!

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

📢 Over 1,200 public health professionals have written to health spokespeople from all parties, urging swift passage of the Tobacco & Vapes Bill - a historic chance to protect future generations. 🚭✨ ✉️ Read the letter: shorturl.at/4Miyl

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

The NHS just had a record summer. That’s despite resident doctors striking in July. But no one is talking about it! 4 impressive stats:

I explain why we should ban cigarette filters, which are pure "healthwashing", rather "greenwashing" option of banning plastic ones in favour of "biodegradable" ones, which are still hugely polluting. Let's not let #BigTobacco get away with this! www.openaccessgovernment.org/ban-the-butt...

We welcome the Renters' Rights Bill's passing. For years, we've called for a better deal for older renters, and it’s good to see parliamentarians taking action. What the Bill won’t address is the quality and affordability of rented homes. This must change. www.independentage.org/news-media/p...

When someone seeks to bring me down (had a bit of a rough time on twitter today) I have a strong urge to channel the grimness & angst into something positive. So, here’s a photo I took of some things I grew-really hope it makes your brain feel good🌿

The fact that people are allowed to store their cars in the street is really weird - after all, a car is an individual's own private property and their responsibility. I can't think of a single other item you can store in public in this way.

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires theconversation.com/one-of-the-b...

Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, & homelessness is now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if political ideology doesn’t stand in the way. ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...

“Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.” Here’s the article by @carltonreid.com HT @sciam.bsky.social

Dr Chris on “filters”. Time to get rid of this highly successful tobacco industry marketing tool

Difference between ‘refugee’, ‘asylum seeker’, ‘immigrant’ & ‘migrant’👇🏽 There’s a reason why right wing press uses ‘migrants’ most frequently. Because they mean all of the above. They’re not just talking about the asylum seekers.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Yesterday, the APPG on Smoking and Health held an event on this very issue.🚭 Parliamentarians gathered to take action on the ‘litter & lies’ of cigarette filters. @katieeast.bsky.social shared her research on the health harms, and Dr Bas Boots explained the environmental problems caused by filters🌍

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

Theres soon to be a test on whether those who opine about screening actually understand the principles on which screening programmes are based Get your revision done In the meantime here is a masterclass from Prof Baum (More advanced classes are available)

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Next week, the Green Party will defend Worcestershire Councillor Hannah Robson in the High Court. The Reform UK candidate is hoping to overturn our election win! Can you help us defend Hannah and democracy from this attack? Please donate if you can 🙏 donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/make-sure-we...

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

Keeping a system that ensures parliament doesn’t reflect the country’s wishes is a political choice. buff.ly/jXOoZKP

On #WorldHomelessDay, the Government announced an extra £84m to help people facing homelessness this winter. St Mungo’s welcomes this vital support — and calls for a long-term plan to end homelessness for good. Read more: https://bit.ly/3J1ApGx

The first change we should make - and one that can't be easily undone - is a move to PR. Anything else would be legally simple, if procedurally slow, to change back if Reform do get a majority. But PR would deny them both that, and the ability to make sweeping changes.

🎙️Listen to @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social on BBC Breakfast discussing the Government’s call for evidence on a retail licensing scheme for tobacco and vapes. 🚭Currently, you don't need a license to sell tobacco. This will make it easier for enforcement to take take action against non-compliant retailers

The results of the study show that beavers can improve habitats for many species on both immediate and legacy timescales. The removal of beavers from much of the northern hemisphere disrupted the balance - but their return offers a rare opportunity to restore it.

This is quite beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.

OTD 1807: Liberal philosopher Harriet Taylor Mill Co-author of iconic Liberal text On Liberty with her husband John Stuart Mill (He credited her as co-author, but for some reason hardly anyone else did at the time – or even 166 years later. Wonder why? Hmm, it’s a mystery)

When will @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social start reporting on this?

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

It's true! When I studied economics, I was stunned by the ROI of social programs. Every dollar spent on childcare returns about $2.80 to the economy, and healthcare delivers even greater returns with broader social impact. A universal basic income is simply smart fiscal policy. Why the reluctance?