"London’s commitment to reducing air pollution under mayor Sadiq Khan has yielded a 40% drop in pollution related deaths... Imperial College team also find that pollution has worse health impact than previously understood" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Laura Kuenssberg, Andrew Neil, and the BBC apparatus which gave Cambridge Analytica a chance to undermine @carolecadwalla.bsky.social’s investigation before it was published, called law breaking ‘rule breaking’, demeaned her as a mad cat lady, and fluffed Farage, deserve all the ignominy of history

#USDemocracy #Pinks

If Nigel Farage is so concerned about - the safety of women and girls - the abuse received by MPs why has he never been a defender of Diane Abbott who, 'received almost half of all the abusive tweets sent to female MPs'? (maybe because she's a black, socialist woman - Farage's worst nightmare!)

A huge victory for these incredible women - and kudos to David Lammy. #VAWG

Orban and Farage both collapsing would be magnificent

«I said nothing when they came for Laurence Fox, I said nothing when they came for Russell Brand, and I said nothing when they came for Andrew Tate, and I remain perfectly comfortable with all of those decisions»

This is the man who Nigel Farage has held up as "speaking up for men" btw. All these far-right guys are like this. The far-right keeps associating itself with rapists because this is what they are.

What does it say when you have to learn about a large protest in London from a foreign media outlet? Not a single mention anywhere from the BBC or the corporate print and broadcast media. Democracy dies in darkness. #BBCLaurak

Five years on... We need to remember again just how bad and corrupt the Tories were, and still are. Can you also imagine what would have happened if the blatant crook Farage and his #UKIP / #ReformUK had been in government? We would all have died. #Covid #Johnson #bbclaurak #Clacton #ukpolitics

#bbcLaurak Kemi and Tory party Anti-Net Zero listen to this by @carolinelucas.bsky.social

#bbclaurak Kemi Badenoch is a liar!

Italy just sent 32 people to prison for killing 43 people in 2018 with a dodgy bridge. In the UK 0 people are in prison or even on trial for killing 72 people with illegal cladding in 2016.

Sadiq Khan is meant to care about the environment and climate change. It’s clearly been something he has been keenly behind as London mayor. I expect he will throw his weight behind stopping this… no?

I wonder if anyone has undertaken a proper safe systems approach to looking at the A1 here. I know folks have talked about average speed cameras, but safe speeds is only one piece of the jigsaw and even if it were taken down to 40mph, that's still a heck of a closing speed. 1/21

Let's be absolutely clear: there is no amount of new drilling in the North Sea that Burnham could approve which would be consistent with our climate goals. If we are to avoid complete climate breakdown, we need to turn all effort to clean renewable energy - not doubling down on dirty fossil fuels.

Embroidered book covers, fashionable in the 16th and 17th century and saw a comeback in late 19th-century England, from the Arts and Crafts movement in Europe. #womensart

Amazing to see Donald Trump establish the polluter pays principle.

Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) French Post-Impressionist painter who often included her ginger tabby cat, Raminou, in her paintings #Womensart

New York, 1954, by Vivian Maier (1926-2009), critically acclaimed US street photographer #WomensArt #July

The work of contemporary embroidery artist Elise Chu Miow Lin, aka Fukanō Kanō #Womensart

Contemporary Cornish artist Liz Cleves (UK), who depicts her local landscapes using both abstract and semi-abstract techniques #womensart #saturday #summer

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

Congresswoman AOC has introduced a bill that would ban Supreme Court Justices from accepting lavish gifts from the ultra wealthy. Love that, but what I find insane is that this isn’t already illegal.

"Reform UK platformed and celebrated a woman who publicly called for hotels full of asylum seekers to be set on fire. Yet the moment Nigel Farage is on the receiving end of hostile language, we're suddenly told words matter after all." via Truth Against Hate

I've signed @zero-hour.bsky.social's petition calling on Andy Burnham to Secure Our Future—to meet the UK's climate and nature commitments, pass the Nature + National Security Bill, and reject all new oil and gas. Will you join me? www.zerohour.uk/andy

Reform did not get an unprecedented result in 2024. They got 5 MPs, 13 predicted. Recently, Reform haven't won 8 by elections. My city council have no Reform councillors. They lost to Labour, Greens and Lib Dems.

AIM Origins — Warrior Women Project www.warriorwomen.org/aim-origins

"Europe's booming solar fleet has saved €20 billion in gas imports since Iran war, finds new analysis" As oil and gas prices remain high due to the Iran war - solar power is cushioning the impact across Europe, investment needs to continue though. www.euronews.com/2026/07/16/s...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "We know if we taxed 1% on assets of £10m or 2% on assets of £1bn or more, we could be raising between £15-£24bn.. & just as importantly, we would stop the hoarding of assets. Its that hoarding of assets that's creating the inequality in this country" 🎯

A 3-year-old girl watched ICE murder her father yesterday. We all watched Sebastian Guerrero’s final moments through our phones. We can scroll away — but Sebastian’s 3-year-old daughter cannot.

An excellent but depressing read. Fuck traitorous Starmer and I don't have much hope for Burnham.

can you see why when starmer talks about ‘leaving the country in a better way’ people want to throttle him

Making Mahmood chancellor shows Burnham ‘subservient to City’, claims Polanski – UK politics Green leader says expected appointment shows new PM ‘won’t challenge the power of the bankers, or tax their wealth’

[gbpol] I quit Labour pretty much immediately after Starmer became leader and absolutely everything he did confirmed it was the right decision. And now Burnham is ensuring I won’t be returning.

No Labour MP deserves to be welcomed at Pride. Your party is directly responsible for the segregation of trans people in the UK.

@nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/fier... An unspeakable crime by the state. By your party. Utterly inhumane, callous, gleefully cruel. Evil, even. Your party.

I am worried for the kids with support at home - many have already dropped out of school, losing their chance of a happy childhood, losing their access to education. I am worried for the kids with unsupportive homes - any chance of school safety is being removed.

3. Share information on your risk register to everyone with power and responsibility. Refuse to sit quiet while children's lives are being completely destroyed. Speak up. Rebel loudly. Centre child safety. Refuse to be complicit in actions that will lead to children's deaths.

2. Start a risk register with the risk of trans child death at the very top. Document the enormous harm. Document explicitly the serious risk to life. Document the risk to children dropping out of education. Document the increased violence. Document clearly how acute harm is caused by policy.

Three things they can do: 1. Call it what it is. Call it segregation & discrimination. Tell the trans kids who are facing it that what they are facing is overt discrimination. Don't sugar coat the overt violence.

My feedback to the school: There is no way to follow this policy with ANY safety for trans kids. There is no way to smooth the edges of the violence. The violence is intentional, at the heart of this cruel and vicious school policy.

Shocking

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

1/8 15 July 1943 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born. In 1967 she discovered #pulsars.🔭 🧪⚛️ The 1974 Nobel Prize went to two men. Not to her. As of 2025 data, women are just 2.2% of Physics Nobel winners. J. B. Burnell isn't an exception. Her case is still the rule. #histsci #WomenInSTEM

These books made environmental and physical sciences accessible, encouraging a generation of early American women to become field botanists—including Eunice Newton Foote, the woman who first discovered the greenhouse effect. Phelps was born #OTD in 1793 & died #OTD in 1884. #WomenInSTEM

She wrote: + Familiar Lectures on Botany 1829: completely altered how science was taught; went through ~40 editions, selling >375K copies + The "Beginners" Series, 1833-1837: published for younger students, incl Botany for Beginners, Geology for Beginners & Chemistry for Beginners. (2/3)