Bart, I don't want to alarm you but coffee futures are at the highest level in more than four decades ☕🚨 📈 Arabica bean prices are surging due to drought in Brazil, supply concerns in Vietnam, and logistical challenges 💰 The move threatens to boost costs to consumers

Today three times I crossed a zebra crossing across queuing traffic. And all three times there was a stationary car across the black and white lines. Why? What’s wrong with these drivers? It costs them nothing to wait, and make it safer What’s the big deal? Too many people are dying on the roads.

The UK – the world's biggest enabler of tax dodging – just voted AGAINST the #UNTaxConvention. The UN Tax Convention is a game-changing UN proposal that could tackle tax dodging & force the super-rich & big corporations to pay up around the world. ✅125 countries backed it ❌9 opposed

Sweet and gentle Dusky Pademelons are vulnerable from hunting, #palmoil and #mining #deforestation in #WestPapua/#NewGuinea. They have no known protections. Help them to survive and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife in the supermarket! via @palmoildetect

Jacob Bethell in first class cricket for Warwickshire in 2024….. 16 innings Four 50s Zero 100s 53rd most runs in div1 6th most for Warwickshire Only 7 wickets. Doesn’t feel worth a test debut to me. Which means he’ll probably get a debut century!

#JonStone #InstitutionalCorruption

The UK is now arming suspected war criminals who have been indicted by the world’s pre-eminent criminal court, the ICC. The government must end ALL arms sales NOW. www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-isra...

Upcoming prayers in early #2025

Watch this 👇🏼 www.aljazeera.com/program/witn... #palestine #peace #freepalestine

I feel seen

World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert. Another example of the utter failure of the #FreeMarket. If corporations can make money by passing on the costs of dealing with pollution to the rest of us, then they WILL. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The climate crisis and all the evil in the world drives me to despair #Climate

If you actually, genuinely want to house the #homeless... - just give them money. #BasicIncome in every study done ends up cheaper than the endless interventions required when people live on the street: all of the police, courts, ambulance and hospital... www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Born 130 years ago today, Herbert Sutcliffe still has the highest Test batting average (60.73) of any England player to have a career of any lengHerbeth. His success came from determination and an ice-cold temperament rather than brilliance and he always put the team first

It’s all very well Liz Kendall sounding off about people’s “self-diagnosed” mental health issues, but does she have any idea how nigh on impossible it is these days to get in front of someone qualified to diagnose complex / youth MH, ie a psychiatrist? Even very ill people often being fobbed off.

The Riverbank at Petit-Gennevilliers, 1875

Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun), 1891

Still Life - Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, 1889

Just incredibly bleak that when a Labour government is finally in power, disabled people still have to wake up to front pages calling them a blight on society.

Watch this film youtu.be/Iq6J7Q6L0yw?... Gets deep into the underlying narratives motivating mainstream Israeli (and Jewish-American) society.

Street art perfection!

Be aware

Choose one alive or human

Thanks to all who came out to say No to the Telford Arms Fair 🕊 Very moving street theatre by the Red Rebels, and the beautiful peace dove. Quakers joined @caatuk.bsky.social XR Brum @wmpsc.bsky.social and others to say No to Arms and Yes to Peace. Get involved: peacehub.org.uk/themes/stop-...

It is a tragedy that will have bloody consequences for generations for states like Britain and the US if they blatantly use fabricated allegations of “antisemitism” to protect the leadership of the Apartheid State of Israel from being brought to justice

“Permafrost thaws across the globe are destroying housing and infrastructure, and disrupting ecosystems. These slumps are also harbingers of a cascading environmental catastrophe: there is twice as much carbon locked up in permafrost as in the atmosphere.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The ICC’s arrest warrants are long overdue. The Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary must immediately endorse this decision. That is the bare minimum. Will the UK government now, finally, honour its international obligations to prevent genocide and end all arms sales to Israel?

Labour must stop outsourcing austerity to local councils like Birmingham. Join the next lobby of Birmingham City Council, outside the Council House, Tuesday 3rd December, 12-2pm. 📣 Call for a moratorium. 📣 Stop the cuts. 📣 Save our services. 📣Fund our council.

THIS WEEK: A new report from the Network for Greening the Financial System suggests climate change could reduce global GDP by one-third by 2100. LISTEN NOW to the full episode with @meadwaj.bsky.social 👇

The £2 bus fare cap has been a lifeline. Raising it to £3 will hit commuters hard, deepen financial hardship & push people away from sustainable travel. I’ve written to @richardparkerwm.bsky.social urging him to take a page from @andyburnham.bsky.social & protect the £2 cap through 2025.

Yes! Rich farmers shouldn't get an exemption, they should pay tax like everyone else. They are already subsidised to produce meat that no one in the UK wants to eat. Their protests shouldn't get news headlines when thousands marched for Palestine and the climate. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Unbelievably Telford hosts an annual arms fair, selling death and destruction to anyone who wants. Not what our world full of conflicts needs. But happily plenty there to resist it. #stopsdsc #stoparmingisrael

DECLARED EXTINCT: The Slender-billed Curlew, a migratory shorebird once bred in western Siberia and wintered around the Mediterranean. It was last seen in northern Morocco in 1995. Listen to its song, weep. #ExtinctionIsForever

In court, the government admitted UK-made F-35 parts risk being used in violations of international law & Israel isn’t committed to complying to international law. Yet the government has continued arms exports, breaching legal obligations & exposing itself to criminal liability.

Stirchley says no to the clown! And no to negative impacts on our environment, our health and our culture of a McDonalds drive-through

The climate crisis in charts: how 2024 has set unwanted new records #Climate

Join us in Telford tomorrow - 🚫 no to war, 🕊 yes to peace! Peace Hub will be closed tomorrow (Weds 20th Nov) as we join in witness against the Telford arms fair – join us! 11am- 4pm, programme incl. street theatre, drumming, speakers and faith contributions. sites.google.com/view/stop-sd...

🚨 BREAKING: Corporations and the super-rich dodged £388 billion to tax last year — and the UK enabled £102 billion of this. Tax abuse by corporations and the super-rich is out of control — but the UN is trying to change this. Read on to find out more⬇️

Ilan Pappé A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict www.hive.co.uk/Product/Ilan...

The Pave de Chailly, 1865

My good turn for the day, rescuing a worm from the road. #snow #worm

What I woke up to! #snow