📌 ICYMI — From Coal Tip to Clean Energy: The UK Projects Turning Former Mines Into Renewable Powerhouses Solar farms, wind turbines and geothermal heat pumps are breathing new life into former collieries. So why don't we hear more about them?

‘NOT THE NHS AGAIN!’ We debunk Palantir in the #NHS Email your MP to ask them to come to the April 16 debate on Palantir & the FDP 👇🏻 www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/pa... Full episode here youtu.be/Uosu3R4Q5gY?...

Our Polly Sweeney speaks to @thetimes.com about the government’s proposed SEND reforms. See the full article here: www.thetimes.com/article/264a... #education #send

The Government’s proposals for reform to the Special Educational Needs and Disability system in England - would take away the legal rights of children & young people. If you can please do something to stop this Write to your MP! Respond to the consultation! Demonstrate on May 9th!

If you want to organise or support a #saveourchildrensrights protest near you on May 9th, with support from the NEU, you can sign up here forms.gle/7N3ze7mT93KV...#saveourchildrensrightsPlease share this with anyone you know who might be interested

#NotInOurName JOIN US: Sat May 9 DEMONSTRATION to #SaveOurChildrensRights from Government SEND reforms. DO NOT take away our children’s legal rights London | Birmingham | Liverpool | Bristol | Leeds | Isle of Wight. Event Sign up: www.facebook.com/saveourchild...#NotInOurName

The Labour government has told a parliamentary inquiry that clearance time for new personal independence payment (PIP) claims has not “exceeded” 16 weeks in more than three years, just as new departmental data has shown waits reach 20 weeks. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-tells-in...

🚨The UK government is quietly dismantled NHS price controls to please Trump and Big Pharma. Snuck out at 5pm before Easter weekend, with no parliamentary vote & no debate. They're embarrassed. They should be. ⬇️

#AdoorableThursday Berkeley castle, UK #blueskyartshow #openings

So clear in this article how the government causes homelessness 😡 -The benefits given don’t cover rent. -The online systems too complex for people to use -The healthcare doesn’t come soon enough -You can’t claim benefits if you have no fixed abode.

Only 5% of the population are blue badge holders - but that hasn't stopped the AA and right-wing rags demonising disabled people By @rachelcdailey.bsky.social

NEW: Today I’m announcing plans to deliver at least one new late-night youth club in every London borough - the biggest investment in youth clubs ever made by a Mayor. We’re bringing youth clubs back. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The US military has 22 sites in the UK. Every day long range US bombers are taking off here to drop bombs on Iran. This is a rogue state carrying out war crimes, and threatening more. The UK Government must grow a spine - and stop our bases being used for this war.

We're on the verge of a genocidal, nuclear war that our supposed "ally" has said he's ready to unleash. Would it be too much to ask for the Prime Minister to have something to say about it? Or do? Suspend US bases on UK soil now.

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

Five United Nations experts have again written to the UK government to condemn Keir Starmer’s “unnecessary and disproportionate” attack on the rights and freedoms of UK citizens to speak freely and protest publicly against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

www.theguardian.com/society/2026... This is DEEPLY, DEEPLY shocking!! We NEED doctors!! These young people have HUGE loans! Stop using their futures as a bargaining chip Wes Streeting/Labour!!

This!!!! This needs our attention 😭

Labour wants you to believe ADHD and other conditions are overdiagnosed to engineer consent for when they strip vulnerable people of benefits.

#Eggs at #Easter relate to ideas of new life in the #Spring. Painted eggshells by artist Ruby Silvious #WomensArt

'Low-income renters of all ages are being left behind.' Local Housing Allowance 'has been frozen for eight out of the last 15 years'. Older private renters "are sometimes forced to wash in cold water, or just heat one room in their home in the depths of winter so they can afford to pay their rent"

A reminder today that the Nazis claimed that disability was fake, they said everybody could work, they demonised people who couldn't forcing children to calculate their 'cost'. Then they murdered them all.

To understand the current media obsession with Trans+ people, often routed through its coverage of legal cases, we must look at the past.

New cuts to UC for ill & disabled people: 'According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 50% of people receiving the Universal Credit health top-up are [already] either unable to heat their home, behind on bills or have low food security.' 'the change...made an "unjust situation even worse".

Private equity entity deceptively named Family First Group closed Hackney Day Nursery and Preschool. PE devours, usual story - high prices, lack of investment, assets sweated. No long-term commitment How long before a block of flats appears on the site? Child welfare shouldn't be a profit centre

🚨More than 3,200 lawyers including 300 top barristers and retired judges have called on the government to drop its plan to restrict the right to trial by jury It’s not too late for the government to change course. CONTACT YOUR MP NOW www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1/7 I’m a Green Party councillor for City Ward #Sheffield. It’s a densely populated urban ward. I’m going to talk about digital advertising screens, which doesn’t sound exciting, but please bear with me. I want to explain why I spend time objecting to so many of these. Since 2023, I’ve …

GP Partners are receiving emails from Operose Inviting them to look at succession planning with Operose taking over their practices Plan: 1. Starve NHS GPs of £ 2. Continuous poor contracts 3. Appoint former CEO in DHSC 4. Use NHSE data base to contact partners 5. Takeover Is this the grand plan?

Horrific abuse of 15-year-old girl at illegal children’s home in Yorkshire. Investigation by @tbij.bsky.social www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

If this Government really wanted to help the disabled people who might be able to work into work , then this Access to Work scheme is absolutely key and should be invested in. Yet they are stealthily cutting it. I’m glad there might be legal action. bsky.app/profile/john...

I want to take the point a step further: Government is actively losing disabled people jobs. People who are already working, and have always worked, lose their jobs when their Access to Work is reduced or delayed. That's not an organisation that's going to help out of work disabled people at all.

Disabled campaigners are hoping to take legal action over government cuts to the Access to Work scheme, a campaign event has heard. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-c...

The disability minister has once again ducked questions on the Department for Work and Pensions' covert programme of cuts to the Access to Work disability employment scheme. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/timms-contin...

Fossil fuel giants, arms dealers, banks and big tech are set to make eye‑watering profits off the illegal war on Iran. We must say no to profiteering, protect people & break free from fossil fuels. Act now: bit.ly/4m3H7ej

New poverty statistics have been published. 4.5 million private renters (34%) and 4.1m social renters (36%) are in poverty. Poverty rate for private renters is fairly static, slightly down for social renters (21-23 to 24/25), and slightly up for those buying with a mortgage.

Many disabled people are “suffering intensely” and face the threat of destitution because they cannot meet the government’s deadline for moving onto universal credit from their existing “legacy” benefits, campaigners have warned a minister. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/claimants-fa...

Self-employed disabled people who seek support through the government’s Access to Work scheme are facing delays of up to 19 months for a decision on their claim, months longer than MPs were told in a Commons meeting earlier this month. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/self-employe...

Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Maybe the Sec of State could give up 2 days every few weeks (as I just have) to try and make some kind of order in my son's university accommodation. Not just 'mess' - complete inability to estblish or keep any form of organisation due to his ADHD.

The #PublicHealth costs of this #PoisonedPlanet are growing: #PlasticPollution out of control #ForeverChemicals #phthalates www.cnn.com/2026/03/31/h...

This is my local hospital. I too have #SevereMecfs, and this is absolutely terrifying. These are the people we're supposed to go to when we need help - doesn't even have to be something #mecfs related - what if we need surgery, have a heart attack, get cancer? This is what happens to us.

Towards the end of her life (she died in 1967), my grandmother told my dad, "I went to school in a pony and trap, and now they're sending men into space. I've lived quite long enough." Nearly 60 yrs later, her great grandson is still waiting for step-free access at our local railway station.

My response to the Prime Minister's statement this morning. (subtitles in video, text in thread)

Scotland is already generating huge amounts of cheap, clean, green renewable electricity. It's cheap to generate, but it's not cheap to consume because of the way the UK Government chooses to regulate energy prices. They need to break the link between electricity and the international gas price. 5/6

Seriously impressive www.lifesabeach.org/eric-torring...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc This really matters. 'Between 2010/11 and 2022/23, local government spending on youth services fell by 73% (a £1.2 billion real-terms cut) with more than 1,000 youth centres closing and over 4,500 youth worker roles being lost.'

Darren Parkinson (@greendarrenshipley.bsky.social) says #LongCovid has “completely devastated” his life. His body feels “poisoned”, the fatigue is 24-7 and overwhelming. He spends most of his time lying down and can only shower once a week.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​