Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

A few quotes from Carter on international affairs. On US's role in the world: "I would like to see our country be the champion of human rights and every American embassy looked upon as a haven for anyone who suffers from human rights abuse. I'd like our country to be the most generous on Earth."

I’m signing off the year with a look back at all the things that went right in 2024. Because plenty did. From “mind blowing” medical advances to tumbling renewables records, here are the good news stories you may have missed in the mainstream media www.positive.news/society/what...

Delighted that my latest piece for @inews.co.uk is the ‘most popular’ yarn on the site. It’s a people power story about the frustrated West Country commuters who are taking on rail giants to run trains for themselves: inews.co.uk/news/frustra...

10 nuggets of good news to end your week, including a solution to microplastic pollution, China’s 1,800-mile ‘green wall’, and some animals doing funny things www.positive.news/society/good...

🔴Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass? Media outlets condemn climate campaigners as “middle class” protesters causing “chaos” while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners @josiah.writes.news reports

I had a surprisingly good time with some plane-spotters last weekend when I could have been at home eating eggs in my dressing gown. I wrote about the preconception-shattering experience - and the eccentrics I met at #Heathrow - here: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/...

10 nuggets of good news to kick off your weekend, including the UK ‘reaching peak petrol’. Me via Positive News www.positive.news/society/good...

Elon Musk doesn't seem to have grasped the population size of the UK.

10 nuggets of good news to kick off your weekend, including a rival metric to GDP that accounts for housework, childcare and the health of our planet. Me via Positive News www.positive.news/society/good...

“This is a watershed event in the history of international justice. The ICC has never, in over 21 years, indicted a pro-Western official. Indeed, no international court since World War II has done so." Our story on the ICC warrant just issued for Netanyahu: www.dropsitenews.com/p/icc-netany...

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Delighted to get a splash in The i Paper this weekend about 'sponge cities'. Places like #Rotterdam (and, closer to home, #Mansfield) are embracing nature-based architecture to fend off flooding. It not only looks pretty but makes us feel better, too. inews.co.uk/news/world/s...

10 nuggets of good news to kick off your weekend, including a ‘quick’ climate win, ‘world building of the year’, and progress on poverty. Me via Positive News www.positive.news/society/good...

It's like using Twitter without my contacts in, but I'm totally down with it.