As the year draws to a close, the winter holiday offers a rare and precious pause. A chance to slow our pace, to step back, and to breathe. My first blog post holistichumanities.org/2025/12/19/t...

Ahead of tomorrow's @cyclinguk.bsky.social "glow rides" calling for safer streets for women, we look at the role the bicycle has played in liberating women. www.norwichcyclingcampaign.org/fear-freedom...

Launching website and would welcome feedback on how it could be improved holistichumanities.org

Are you a wild water swimmer, paddle boarder or kayak fan? Bank Holiday Monday morning, the number of folk getting into River Wensum at Cow Tower will be counted as part of Cow Tower Dippers application for Designated Bathing Water Status. Have your say on consultation (see 🧵) too.

Consultation - Have your say on bathing water designation at Cow Tower gettalking.norwich.gov.uk/cowtower/sur...

Charity rowers mistaken for asylum seekers, and now children at a scout camp mistaken for immigrants. Ministers using unashamedly inflammatory language, whipping up hatred towards migrants, is fuelling a racist atmosphere being whipped across the country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

WhoFi sounds like some next level Orwellian surveillance techxplore.com/news/2025-07...

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

The elusive purple emperor butterfly has been spotted back at Sheringham Park. The Park was believed to be the location of a breeding colony in 2018, but after the last sighting in 2021 things appeared to have “gone quiet” until this summer. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

The 2025 Global Electoral Integrity Report is now out! This year we focus in on those countries which saw rises and declines in electoral integrity. Read here: static1.squarespace.com/static/58533... Join the discussions at our free conference next week: electoralintegrityproject.com/ieip2025

Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches 8 June 2025 – Gloucestershire: Exhibition shines light on River Wye pollution. 7 June 2025 – Bidders demand Thames Water granted immunity over environmental crimes. 3 June 2025 – Failing water sector needs stronger regulation, says damning review.

With Sir Keir Starmer announcement that the UK will purchase 12 F-35A fighter jets and formally join NATO’s Dual Capable Aircraft (DCA) nuclear sharing mission, it means US nuclear warheads are likely to be stored on British soil once again.

This cartoon by Ella Baron feels particularly pertinent

Nuclear hypernormalisation. Well, glad to hear people's holidays won't be interrupted by nuclear war, and for less than the price of a cup of coffee per passenger. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

“When Reform are unfortunately managing to sell the lie that tackling climate change is somehow going to be bad for ordinary people, it’s really important that we Greens challenge that – and I am worried the Labour government is backsliding on climate policy,” says @carladenyer.bsky.social

Norwich had some fantastic candidates: In Sewell ✅ Jenny Knight In Bowthorpe ✅ Tony Park In Mancroft ✅ Serene Shible and ✅ Ian Stutely ⏰ Polls are open from 7am to 10pm. Please remember to take your voter ID.

This week, I dived into the secret world of GAG pooling More MATs are choosing to pool school budgets to smooth funding inequalities and send more money to academies with the greatest need But public information doesn't clearly show how this cash is divvied up - so I took a closer look...

Change is possible www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/12/air-pollution-paris-health-cars/

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Green corridors are crucial and projects like this are inspiring. Local, regional, national and international biodiversity networks, are possible. www.europeangreenbelt.org

🟢 Meet Mary Page, Green Party candidate for the West Of England Mayor. 🟢 Mary will champion all our communities in the West of England with a Nature, Nurture and Needs plan, shifting the balance of power back into your hands.

The latest poll for the West of England mayoral contest looks hopeful for Mary Page who is currently polling at 27% I hope we can mirror this in the East of England for next year's first Mayoral election. @mayorslayer.bsky.social yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

The Blackbirds in Gardens project begins in May and is an important citizen science project due to the Usutu virus. The Usutu virus is a mosquito-borne disease that affects blackbirds and negatively impacting blackbird numbers. www.bto.org/our-science/....

🚨 Petition: SAVE THE NORWICH WALK-IN CENTRE (again)🚨 With no new funding for the NHS under Labour austerity, the Rouen Road Walk-In Centre is threatened with closure yet again. The NHS is on its knees - we cannot let our walk-in centre disappear.

'Manifest destiny' rooted in American nationalism and exceptionalism, was used to justify the forced removal of Native Americans and take their land. I will be using this map visualisation to open up discussion with students. #HolisticHumanities

Shell profits are $24bn, and under Nigerian law, the operating company is responsible for cleaning up oil spills from its facilities, even if the spill is the result of third-party action. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

New govt report out... “Tooth decay remains the most common reason for hospital admissions in children aged between 5 and 9 years." It’s still hard to find an NHS dentist is some parts of East Anglia. 🧵

This #NationalNestboxWeek, remember not all birds nest the same way! Here's a few options to get you started... 🧵👇 Robins and Wrens like to keep hidden, tucking their nests away in dense cover. An open-fronted box placed low down and out of sight is just their style. (1/4)

What if solar farms could save wildlife? A new study finds that well-managed sites across The Fens are a lifeline for threatened birds. Could renewables help reverse biodiversity loss? Pau lCasciato reports

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

The future of City Hall survey opened today. How should City Hall and the surrounding area be improved? With a focus on creating a space that is more accessible, adaptable and one that can better respond to changing demands in the future years. gettalking.norwich.gov.uk/cityhall

When will Govt learn you can’t out-Reform Reform - you end up simply legitimising their toxic narrative. To see off populists, Labour needs to invest in public services & local communities, making a real difference to people’s lives - levy a wealth tax & use it to improve people’s lives *now*

My two pennies' worth on the new Macdonalds plans "Drive-throughs such as this can encourage people to drive short distances to buy potentially unhealthy food. This can also clog up both roads and their arteries, especially around the retail park."

Oh, hello... This *adorable* Long-Tailed Tit would like to remind you to submit your #BigGardenBirdwatch results before 23 Feb! Every count, counts 👉 https://buff.ly/4gXUE3y

Today, the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board sets the #DoomsdayClock at 89 seconds to midnight. "The world depends on immediate action." Read the full statement below.

In 2024 the Doomsday Clock was set at 90 seconds to midnight. This is the closest humanity's been to a global catastrophe. Today at 3pm (GMT) the Doomsday Clock gets reset: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqif...

"A Thousand Kisses” exhibition in Lowestoft honours eight Kindertransport children, including Otto Lichtenstein. Celina Blędowska @celinawords.bsky.social recounts their courage, and gives details of the events marking Holocaust Memorial Day this year.

"Removing" the Holt Road connecting path now covered by the Evening News. Worth pointing out that the path doesn’t “cut through the allotments”, it’s simply re-instating a path that was already there (that runs alongside the allotments). www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2487192...

Keir Starmer wrote in the Daily Mail attacking a Green campaigner. He replied: "I don’t virtue signal. I’m doing this for my grandchildren. Starmer is virtue signalling to the Daily Mail and the fossil fuel lobby.” Starmer is so awful at all of this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#Starmer #Reeves attack on nature 💚 of the issue "The planning system does not secure our carbon budgets .. or stabilise the climate for our grandchildren" @drandrewboswell.bsky.social on his legal challenges to high carbon roads & carbon capture projects WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiY7...

It's not every day that you receive a direct attack from the Prime minister I did today Here is the local #Norfolk coverage of it archive.ph/BuPja and below is my quote People did not elect Starmer and Reeves to reduce protections for nature. The attack on me says more about them than me.

Its cold now, but over the coming months there are ways of supporting song birds in gardens. One thing to consider is planting shrubs that offer fruit nuts and berries and don’t forget the seed eating birds, these will feed on all sorts of seed heads, even dandelions in and around the garden.

How to Build a Swale Knowing How to Build a Swale Is An Important Gardening Skill In Many Countries. It Needs To Be Better Understood In the UK. www.bitesizedgardening.co.uk/how-to-build...

I recall the Political Compass got a lot of criticism when they initially released this assessment of where British political parties ideologically sit. Now that the Labour government are bedded in, I wonder what peoples views are now? www.politicalcompass.org/uk2024

In Sep CAAT released a report highlighting the arms industry’s close relationship with the government, it was titled: 'From revolving door to open-plan office: the ever-closer union between the UK government and the arms industry' bsky.app/profile/caat... caat.org.uk/publications...

Musings on Britain's largest weapons company, BAE Systems Tussell's 2024 Strategic Suppliers Report gives pause for thought with regards to the UK's Government's Strategic Suppliers. It is noteworthy that the fastest-growing was sector is Aerospace & Defence. www.tussell.com/strategic-su...

1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

I was at an incredibly moving and upsetting session in the House of Commons today where MPs heard from a group of professionals including doctors, nurses and humanitarian organisers describing their first hand experience of the abhorrent situation in Gaza 🛢️ 1/...

These are times of deep global instability. The need for building resilience has never been greater.

Beneath Antarctica there are over 400 subglacial lakes, where liquid water can exist above the lower melting point of ice under high pressure. These lakes exist total darkness, but amazingly still have ecosystems and have been described as our planet's largest wetland.