The state of higher education in the UK, in a photo

Social Life developed our Community Dynamics data - predicting how people feel about the places they live. We believe the data and the approach have fresh relevance today. Read more: www.social-life.co/blog/post/ma...

Social Life developed our Community Dynamics data - predicting how people feel about the places they live. We believe the data and the approach have fresh relevance today. Read more: www.social-life.co/blog/post/ma...

Social cohesion, belonging and neighbourhood quality have become urgent topics, as fracturing community cohesion generates increasing concern and debate. Social Life developed our Community Dynamics data - predicting how people feel about the places they live www.social-life.co/blog/post/ma...

Today we launch the new World Cities Report ! New data. New realities. New priorities. This is one of the key global references on urbanisation — shaping how governments, cities and organisations think about: - housing - inequality - climate - urban growth If you want to understand where cities a

Second day at #WUF13 was exciting with sessions at the UK Pavillion with Policy Lab, Global Planners Network @rtpiplanners.bsky.social

Arrived at Baku, Azerbaijan for the 13th session of the World Urban Forum #WUF13 Exited to chat about cities, housing and youth, get in touch! @unhabitatyouth.bsky.social

Super excited to see Pullens Yard, my workplace, a finalist for best neighbourhood from the @academyofurbanism.bsky.social!

Hello May 👋 Lots to look forward to this month as we get the ball rolling on the #UrbanismAwards assessment visits, publish a new e-journal and hear from our 2025 YU Small Grants Scheme recipient, Hal Mellen - also, double bank holiday… For more info and registration visit theaou.org/events

Wow. According to this analysis, 98% of the environmental commitments from meat & dairy companies involved some degree of greenwashing. 98%. We need to do much better, folks. journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Homophobic and anti-LGBTQ literature in the North Edgebaston Ward, Birmingham - what a bunch of opportunists

There's two basic problems with Labour's Ed Balls. 1) He hates the left. 2) He has a very thin skin.

Why #VoteGreenInBrum in the local elections on May 7? To bring hope back to Birmingham. birmingham.greenparty.org.uk/why-vote-gre...

Vote Green!

So disappointing to see the lack of political will now in Birmingham for safer streets. After questions from Babiker Yahia, whose 4-year-old daughter Mayar was killed by a driver in April 2024, only one candidate (after quite a pause) backed 20mph limits on all residential streets.

Beautiful statements from our neighbours in the Civic Square's planning application!

Zack Polanski calls for UK to withdraw trade agreement with Israel after strikes on Lebanon www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🚨 First time in British history that a party to the left of Labour have topped a national poll. 💚 Hope is here. It's all of us. ✊🏼 Reject hateful, divisive politics - and let's make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk

What the f does that mean, this is occupation of a sovereign country and a blatant land grab! WTF is going on, they literally got a blank permission after the international failurein Gaza to do whatever the f they want, disgusting www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Awks for Tories & Reform who want to keep us hooked on fossil fuels: new @theCCCuk report shows transition to net zero will cost less than a single oil shock - £4bn a year - as well as delivering health & security benefits

Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?

Heartbreaking

Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the governments jury trial reforms Every Labour MP should listen to her incredibly powerful and brave statement in parliament today

Truly unbelievable stuff. Just up there shamelessly lying his ass off

Loved visiting Edith Neville Primary School! Almost a third of Londoners consider the city to be an unsuitable place to raise children. We need steps taken towards making our cities child friendly & tackling affordability. Our London Assembly report: www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...

El lider que tiene algún sentido moral www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

What happens to people who go in the Home Office that they morph into the most obvious caricature of mundane evil...

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The Green Party has over 200,000 members. More members, more councillors, more MPs. The Green Party just keep growing. Join us ⤵️

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail. Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Jeremy Bowen: "The word preemptive has been used. Now that's a word that suggests there was an imminent threat, that is an imminent attack before these strikes started. There's no evidence of that. It looks very much as if this is a war of choice that Israel and the US have done"

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Our party has just come third in Gorton and Denton, a previously safe Labour seat - an area where we haven't lost an election since 1931. It is those running our party who are to blame. We need change at the top and serious lessons need to be learnt:

you know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe

What a result!! Huge congratulations to the amazing Hannah Spencer - everyone in Gorton and Denton has just made history. This result shows @greenparty.org.uk can win anywhere, that the politics of hope can win over the politics of hate & there is no longer any such thing as a Labour safe seat 💚

BREAKING: A wonderful speech from Green Party's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election. Congratulations!

In a battle between hope and hate, hope won out. Why voters rejected the hateful politics of Reform and instead embraced the "Green Menace" in Gorton and Denton bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

GREEN PARTY FTW! We can have a nocer world if we want to!

Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.

Now there is hope! It's no longer a choice between grim and grimmer. We can vote for who we want and win. Anywhere. It's just one constituency, but the Green victory in Gorton and Denton is an electric shock to our political system.

No shit, to be racist is shitty rnough, to be racist in a country that is reliant on immigrants is batshit crazy! Reform are vile, self serving people and everyone pandering to their agenda is making us all worse... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Everyone of these powerful people already knew their names were in the Epstein files. The panic isn’t about the files. It’s about the public finally getting to see them.

Exclusive The European Commission has requested that the EU’s anti-fraud agency investigate Lord Peter Mandelson’s actions while he was serving in Brussels as the British commissioner for trade between 2004 and 2008.  www.ft.com/content/85b9...

If this was happening in China, Western governments wouldn’t shut up about it. But because it’s in the United States, they’re silent about the violations of human rights.

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨The most important graph in the world has another year of data, and it doesn't look good!🚨 NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space. The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled!