Foodbank Fortnight has begun - let's give together in Dorset - find out how to get involved. #DorsetTogether @DorsetCouncilUK @NHSDorset

Praising carers, hospice staff and NHS workers, Zack Polanski says "showing compassion is the most patriotic thing I can think of"

Israel gets away with it. Badenoch thinks if you ignore climate breakdown it will go away. Far right say *Starmer* is inciting violence. People think it ok to be horrible about an MP’s baby. And that’s before 10am. I’m off for a walk, on which I will remind myself it’s not me that’s mad…?

Kemi Badenoch has vowed to repeal the UK’s Climate Change Act, a move so reckless it demands more scrutiny than polite debate. This matters not just for polar bears or coral reefs, but for our people, our economy, our very future. #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thanks. It probably doesn't come as much surprise that it's an element in my motivation to focus on road safety. My sister is in the video on the landing page for RoadPeace, a really important charity for supporting victims of road violence, as well as wanting it to end. www.roadpeace.org

In the case of the killer of my sister's husband, the father of my wonderful youngest nephew, it was as little as 9 to 16 seconds of inattention.* Possibly not even phone distraction, a colleague in another work van was alongside. *As determined by the courts, thanks to third-party dashcam footage.

At the southern edge of Dorchester (DVRNOVARIA) in #Dorset lies Maumbury Rings, a #Roman amphitheatre, constructed from the remains of a late #Neolithic henge Built around 2400 BC, the henge was older to the Romans than the Romans are to us 🤯 📷 Sept 2025 #RomanSiteSaturday (also #HengeWednesday)

Welsh people and government at national and local level should be very proud of their record in reducing urban/village road injuries and fatalities by 25% in the last 2 years by implementing the national default 20mph limit. Well done Wales, saving life and lives. bit.ly/4ppl030

There ARE decent people in politics, and Ming Campbell seemed to be very much one of them.

Planetary Boundaries are being breached, as humanity lives beyond Earth's ability to cope We're already exceeding Climate Change, Land System Change, Freshwater Use, Novel Entities (chemicals, plastics) & others To that list we can now add Ocean Acidification www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Almost 1.5m homes could be built on brownfield sites in England, report finds

this exists it is called thinking

Very interesting thread about what’s actually going on, rather than what’s being ‘reported’

2 years of default urban/village 20mph in Wales has resulted in over 1,000 fewer killed or injured. The data shows a 25% reduction in casualties on the 20/30mph roads. Drivers gain with damage risk, crashes and premiums down. Well done Wales. bit.ly/4ppl030

Things we provide for drivers for when drivers make mistakes: Airbags Seat Belts Crumple zones Soft interiors 20mph limits Things we provide for pedestrians for when drivers make mistakes: 20mph limits #20splenty ...making all our places better places to be

More 20mph limits being rolled out in Dorset. The installation of new signage is scheduled for September and October in Child Okeford, Winterbourne Kingston, Cheselbourne, Okeford Fitzpaine and parts of Wimborne.

25% reduction in injuries on Welsh Roads since introduction of 20mph. @20splenty.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stand up to tanks. Hypothecate the tax to councils for filling potholes and planting street trees to improve air quality and road safety for our kids.

More from Starmer, on Channel 4 News. Feels like a real sense of change from where we were Sunday morning.

Proof, if proof were needed, that current climate is the result of organised, sustained disinformation. "Official figures indicate net migration is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974." ~AA www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Two very important graphs. Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved. The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers. Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Looking forward to the usual riveting mix of nostalgia, history, analysis and implications for the future from @steverichards.bsky.social, when this arrives tomorrow (hopefully) from the excellent @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social | uk.bookshop.org/p/books/tony...

On mornings like today, I wonder what my grandmother aged 36 thought of the news in 1939. Not knowing what would happen next, but probably worrying that foolish but powerful men would cause the rest of the world untold suffering, as they did ‘last time’.

This #WorldSuicidePreventionDay25 I’m supporting SoBS to challenge harmful language. “Committed suicide” is outdated, rooted in crime, and fuels stigma. Join thousands urging Oxford & Cambridge dictionaries to drop it from print editions: shorturl.at/75AYT #StopSayingTheCWord

The sheer scale of #carspreading in our cities is staggering! Our latest @cleancitiescampaign.org analysis out today 👇 TLDR: SUVs in the UK now take up as much space as an entire city - that’s tarmac we could be using for homes, parks, or safer streets... 1/10 🧵 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Loved this. #humanity #kindness #orkney app.thestorygraph.com/books/8f5dcb...

As @steverichards.bsky.social often mentions, we’ve seemingly lost a cadre of politicians who can explain and teach. On this evidence though, Polanski could be a teacher, and boy does Britain need it. Stuff is complex and the electorate need to understand the choices we have.

Timeline cleanse

This episode made me wonder if I wouldn’t have been better born in 1947 than 1972. No concept of what it really means to be human and what the point of being alive is.

"We did a review of all of the studies globally, which included half a million road traffic injuries, and that found that if you are hit by an SUV compared to being hit by a passenger car you are 44% more likely to be killed. Among kids it's higher - it's 82%” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Children are ***82%*** more likely to be killed when hit by an SUV than by a regular passenger car. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m happy to pay for news that I know is written by real journalists not AI drivel.

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds #Climate

Heatwaves, wildfires and the hot summers that could change how we holiday #Climate

There is no need for these fashion accessories. ‘Analysis has found drivers in the tallest cars could not see children as old as nine when they were directly in front of the vehicle.’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is my flag.

We need to stop pussyfooting around and/or being legalistic about this and say simply: it is good and right that our law prevents our government from sending men, women, and children abroad to be tortured and killed. The Human Rights Act should be the minimum framework of a humane immigration system

I think I must have missed the referendum on AI. I’d have voted to Take Back Control.

📈 Staggering new BBC report shows scale of community spaces being lost to pay council debt 🏫🏚️ £2.9bn of public assets have been sold in the last two years, from care homes to sports clubs to nurseries to youth centres to pubs. 1/ 🧵

e.g. Trinity Community Arts (Bristol), Historic Coventry Trust (Coventry), The Mansion (Totnes / Devon), Chichester Community Development Trust, b inspired (Leicester). What are your shout-outs of councils leading this charge? 💫 3/ 🧵

✨ Meanwhile, there's another story: of councils around the country transferring assets to community organisations ✨ This helps ensure neighbourhoods retain and revive spaces for evolving local needs, with economic benefits reinvested locally 🎨 🏡 🍲 2/ 🧵

Please stop calling online events 'fireside chats'. They are nothing of the sort. They are online conversations. Don't demean the fireplace! #21stcenturygripes

Why the smell of my new timber water butt (a former whisky barrel), is so nice, and why we love chocolate… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fascists can't claim the flags that defeated fascism. The armies that won the world wars had the ethnic and faith diversity as the Britain of 2025 rather than that of the Britain of 1945 or 1915

Vandalism isn't patriotism: it shows no pride in place. Racism isn't patriotism: it shows no knowledge of the history of our country nor our flags,

Turning off the crappy AI summaries in the otherwise very useful @thestorygraph.com has made me feel ridiculously pleased. One small victory against creeping artificial insanity and degeneration of language.

I wonder if we / our media may have lost all perspective?

Had a lot of conversations about this since our return (with a case of heat exhaustion for the teen) but I do wonder if it’ll have an impact on behaviour and action beyond holiday choice. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...