The UK Energy Research Center, a working group by 13 UK universities, based at Imperial College London. ukerc.ac.uk/news/drillin...

Remember the injunction that Oxfordshire County Council got against the flag-raisers? Well, there's a part 2...

UK to provide £23 million to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to support Palestinian refugees and deliver humanitarian assistance in Gaza and across the region.

Introducing our new short film starring our President Janet Ellis! #AllWeHaveIsEachother explores making sense of the world through reason and evidence, and how humanists find meaning and purpose in the one life we know we have. Watch the full version today! humanists.uk/janetellisfi...

Fyi the 'doesn't all this need a bit more detail' commenters this morning

At least seven firms have collectively donated £485,000 to Reform UK while on the brink of being dissolved, struck off, or otherwise in apparent distress, @bylinetimes.bsky.social analysis has found bylinetimes.com/2026/06/29/t...

Content warning: discussion of suffering at the end of life. “She would have 100% chosen when to go.” Despite receiving the best hospice-care, Poppy watched her mum die a drawn-out death from pancreatic cancer. She is now fighting for change in her mum’s memory.

I, for one, am hugely surprised that something that was utterly predictable and, in fact, predicted, has happened

Public procurement is pretty much a racket, a continuing series. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

It shows the poor state of uk journalism that Kwartang- the man who catastrophically failed as chancellor under Liz Truss, demonstrated lack of insight, crashed the economy,& ruined Uk citizens’ finances -is repeatedly given credence & a platform to pass judgement on others bsky.app/profile/levi...

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science at the University of Oxford

Raneem Oudeh and her mother called 999 four times the night they were murdered. No one came. This week we trebled the number of domestic abuse specialists now in 999 control rooms across 17 police forces, honouring her memory as part of Raneem's Law.

Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov

Find out more about the Armed Forces Covenant here, especially useful for employers who might want to sign up onto the Bronze scheme and work their way up through Silver and Gold, so that not only can they help support veterans, but also get the benefits of their exceptional skills & dedication

Let's boost my petition today which calls for stronger regulation of all our news media through the creation of a single, powerful regulator across broadcast, print and online news, with powers to action on misinformation and the blurring of fact and opinion! Currently at just over 2700 signatures!

Leading security, military and academics have joined forces with the government to boost the UK’s preparedness for the security impacts of climate change.

Ukraine’s resilience and recovery will receive a $1 billion boost through UK-backed funding

Many years ago aclassmate in school uniform was dragged into alleyway by American airman. Unluckily for him it was by a pub. Her screams led to a group of men rushing out “Run home, missy & tell your dad we’ve sorted it”. Wonder what story he told back at base www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

40 years after Britain built our last long-duration electricity storage, we’re building again. With a new generation of cutting-edge batteries & pumped hydro, we’ll store more clean power, reduce waste, protect families from fossil fuel price shocks so we can drive down bills.

Despite what you've heard this week, we're delivering on our manifesto with over 4,600 teachers recruited into where we need them most – secondaries, special schools and colleges. That's alongside more teachers in training, more rejoining and more staying in our schools.

This is remarkable.

It’s not a future problem. It’s now **“This event would not have been possible in June without climate change”** “…without urgent climate action, future heat conditions wld get even more extreme & the current summer could seem relatively cool in retrospect.” 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

An investigative journalist tore Karl Stafanovic's Tommy Robinson puff piece to shreds. The interviewer has since been sacked by his network.

It's just one long stream of BS from these fossil fuel-backed clowns. Adopting their policies would destroy a million jobs (see next post) while creating almost none in return. Total environmental and social vandalism. The absolute state of "conservatism". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How the jobs figures pan out. Net zero: massive new employment. Return to fossil fuels: mass unemployment. Don't ever let these grifters persuade you they have your interests at heart. They dance to the tune of their funders. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

❗️Please see below a joint statement I have signed with fellow MPs following the publication today of Donna Ockenden’s report into serious failings in maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

📺 TODAY: Labour MPs debated Proportional Representation and called for a National Commission on Electoral Reform. 👇Watch Euan Stainbank, @gordonmckee.bsky.social & @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social discuss how a fair elections are key to strengthening public trust, policymaking and political culture.

Energy Secretary announces that government has secured £100 billion of private clean energy investment.

The UK will support Gazan students to take up places at British universities and continue efforts to medically evacuate critically ill children for treatment in the NHS.

"Solar is moving fast. Really fast. Batteries are moving faster." "Solar is already creating the fastest shift in electricity generation..." reneweconomy.com.au/solar-is-alr... #energysky

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Andy Burnham is being urged by business & economists to consider reversing Brexit Frontier Economics study: Rejoining EU could unlock £92 billion: a minimum 3.6% GDP boost. Much more than current “Re-set”. And benefiting the north & the midlands the most.

I visited Lands End in 1991. 35 years later I managed to get to the other end of the country at John O Groats. Beautiful weather with views to Orkney

A clear message from the National Emergency Briefing is that extreme weather is not a future threat, it’s happening NOW, as we can see this week. The film lays out the problems and solutions. Screenings are all over East Anglia soon. See the map for one near you. Link in article. By Mark Popay

This is a useful summary of when/why Starmer became unpopular, and its all the lurches to the right - 'things will get worse', benefit cuts, free glasses, anti migrant "island of strangers". Only thing missing (as ever) from this list is Gaza, a key cause of fragmenting Labour coalition

A&E will overflow with strokes, heart-attacks, asthma and (especially if the football goes wrong) domestic violence incidents and other sequelae of heatwaves. And that's just the human impacts. Gaia help all the other animals. Fafocene, isn't it? www.nhs.uk/live-well/se...

We’re gonna talk a lot of trash on the UK this week I’m sure but let’s recognize that their energy transition is really a model for the anglophone world www.bbc.com/news/article...

A shorter drive out today, with a visit to #FortAugustus, at the junction of the Caledonian Canal and Loch Ness

Two-thirds of EU citizens back UK rejoining EU : www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

HI @pollymackenzie.bsky.social - good newsletter on adaptation. Here is a report @rosahodgkin.bsky.social and I wrote for @instituteforgovernment.org.uk on getting govt to take adaptation more seriously a couple of years ago www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

An evening walk with Foxy by the River Peffery and Cromarty Firth

Hear hear! 👍😊 Good to see policy proposal & positive economic argument “Britain’s essential sectors cost more than comparable alternatives not because they deliver more, but because they are organised to extract more. Working people pay the price.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why Does a Suspected Anti-Muslim Attack Barely Make the News? open.substack.com/pub/zeteouk/...

A circular tour of Wester Ross, taking in part of the NC500, via Lochcarron, Kishorn, Sheildaig and Kinlochewe

If you have a few minutes to spare over the weekend, why not check out Nigel's Notebook - my new blog where I speak directly to the British people without the biased media distorting what I say. open.substack.com/pub/parodypm...

A trip out on part of the North Coast 500 to Ledmore, via Ullapool, before heading back via Bonar Bridge, stopping at Corrishalloch Gorge on the way out and the Falls of Shin on the way back

Reform misogyny is endemic "Andrew Baggott made comments that he hopes female Labour councillors aren't on the game to make up for the loss of their allowances following the election. Mayor, Chief Executive & Monitoring Officer laugh(ed) while those comments were being made" via Cllr Gavin Callaghan

Major changes to home buying announced along with support for supply chains and more trade deals. It’s been a good few days for our Labour Gov under a Keir Starmer. #DoingTheMediasJob #FixingBritain #LabourAchievements

After a dismal morning the weather cleared up, so we took a short drove to the rather lovely #RogieFalls