This week is a busy one and requires 3 hours driving a day I always underestimate how much it impacts the rest of my day Needs must and all that, but very much not ideal (Miss living in a city with great public transportation!)

3D depiction of rainfall distribution across Great Britain. England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem. With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.

I am likely to be writing about House of Lords (lack of) reform this week. Would love to hear from anyone with useful information or experience, including any peers who follow. Also let me know if you have read/seen anything interesting on this. DMs open.

My 5 & 7yo have never watched: • Scooby Doo • Inspector Gadget • Bananaman • Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines What deprivation I’ve caused! Time to make amends. 😂🤦‍♂️

I read this and I found myself choking – really confronted by – the honesty of the young people talking. “It seems so daunting ” said one young woman ….”to even look into it”

I’m a bit of a broken record on the book below (which I’m still reading) It is sooooo good for trustees and charity boards in general Hoping all our board and senior exec team read it over the next six months so we’re singing from the same song sheet 🤞👍 @dsc-charity.bsky.social

Who’s your sporting hero and why?

Apple. iOS 26.0. When I turn the WiFi off, I expect it to stay off. And remain so until I turn it on. End of. Off means off. 😤

I’d have assumed a strong correlation between Bluesky usage and BBC Radio 4 listening And I find it interesting to note that I hardly ever listen these days. But it’s not due to Humphreys. It’s because of my young kids: I hate them hearing about the wickedness and destitution in the world.

A tribunal issued a decision with full written reasons, but stated under the decision title “without full written reasons”. I.e. “without” should have been “with” A month has passed with no correction, nor additional full written reasons issued. Have full written reasons been issued or not?

The Scottish government is consulting on the Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill They ask the following 11 questions (the last of which is a catch all that allow any additional comments to be made): Deadline: 22 Oct 2025 yourviews.parliament.scot/sppa/freedom... #FOI #bill #Scotland

UK “too timid” in defending vulnerable undersea cables from attack, Committee finds 19 Sept 2025 committees.parliament.uk/committee/11...

👀 Spotted an #octopus off the #SouthWest coast? #Fishermen & #divers, we want to hear from you! 🐙 Take part in this survey (closing Sun 21 Sept) & help us study this year’s unusual #CommonOctopus bloom: 🎣 Fishers: survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/... 🤿 Divers: survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90886025/...

A glorious lunch, as ever, at Kyowa Sushi in Plymouth My family’s favourite sushi restaurant by far www.facebook.com/kyowaplymouth/

Just learnt that my new sport of choice - wheelchair rugby - used to be called murderball. Massively reframed my thinking about the game! 😂

For those interested in #beneficialownership transparency, @transparencyuk.bsky.social have published new guidelines on how to provide effective access to this data, building on previous standards from FATF, @openownership.bsky.social, the EU and UK www.transparency.org.uk/sites/defaul...

Gov uk guidance on where you can and can’t fly a flag, and what sort of flag. Last updated 2021. www.gov.uk/government/p...

New 'Risk of flooding from surface water' datasets for speed, hazard and model origin environment.data.gov.uk/support/anno... new flood mapping layers from the Environment Agency (for England) #floodrisk #geospatial #opendata

Gov uk guidance on where you can and can’t fly a flag, and what sort of flag. Last updated 2021. www.gov.uk/government/p...

If you see an organisation you value posting here on Bluesky, please help them and this platform by liking and/or responding to their posts. The more we do so, the more value they'll see in engaging with people here. An obvious suggestion I know, but something I frequently forget to do!

NHS Wheelchair vouchers Is the system elsewhere as ridiculously convoluted as here in Devon? I've spoken to 6 NHS departments and ended up being sent back to the first one I called (my local NHS Mobility Centre's wheelchair service) - whose website states they deal with wheelchair budgets Grrrr

Just learnt that my new sport of choice - wheelchair rugby - used to be called murderball. Massively reframed my thinking about the game! 😂

Military folk + the Armed Forces Covenant. What's the best guide you've read that really explains the Covenant, how it works, its strengths and its limitations? Looking for an independent analysis of it in detail. #AFC

Where is a good, not too expensive for coffee but very central place to work? Somewhere near Soho?

Delighted to be part of Earth Haven Climate Festival in #Edinburgh🌳 📍 The Heart of #Newhaven Community, EH6 4HY ⏰ Thurs 25th Sept,7pm 🆓 tickets at 👉https://buff.ly/DJMCqNI We'll be joined by the fantastic @2050climategroup.bsky.social & #ECCAN discuss #Climate🌍

If you see an organisation you value posting here on Bluesky, please help them and this platform by liking and/or responding to their posts. The more we do so, the more value they'll see in engaging with people here. An obvious suggestion I know, but something I frequently forget to do!

An engaging morning at #SVS2025, opening with an address by the Minister for Public Health and Women's Health, and a host of fantastic speakers on technology innovation, co-design, lived experience, and inclusive communication. More to come this afternoon!

TickTick introductory videos: recommendations please for those first starting out with the system. For non-users, TickTick is an organising system a bit like Trello/Asana/others that a contact says is the best organising system he's used. ticktick.com/home

I assumed the benefits two-child limit exempted all children conceived through rape, but only learnt today that’s not always the case. I hope this case succeeds on legal grounds as ethically, for me, it’s a slam dunk of a case.

Thoughts or experiences of crypto currencies that you’d be happy to share with BBC Radio 4? If so 👇

When a company’s home page still has a banner at the top about their 2020 Covid restrictions… …not a great first impression about how on it they are as an organisation!

Call for Papers, 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit Research on systemic risks from technology that affects information streams or the amplification or monetization of disinformation. www.linkedin.com/pulse/call-p...

this is a helpful guide although yours looks more entertaining! Directory of Social Change - Key Guides: Charitable Incorporated Organisations share.google/xRwnvIgQxHNf...

Reposting my question for the Sunday morning crowd: Best book for trustees to learn about doing a better job in the role = ? #trustee #learning #UK #charity

Reposting my question for the Sunday morning crowd: Best book for trustees to learn about doing a better job in the role = ? #trustee #learning #UK #charity

Our national broadcaster should be reflective the whole country, not a mouthpiece for Nigel Farage. The BBC must provide fair, balanced and representative journalism.

This is fun, and quite the musical education! youtu.be/WRfsibwR5x4?...

“Voters often accuse politicians of fiscal sleight of hand, but… are complicit in presuming ever larger pension cheques can be conjured like rabbits from a hat. At some point, both groups must confront mathematical reality.” Pensions meets maths meets demographic reality. But politics wins.

If you know a wannabe barrister, tell them about this. FRU work is excellent work experience, the perfect way to develop skills of case analysis, case preparation, and advocacy.

Children’s TV theme tunes is both a gloriously niche topic and something affecting millions of kids every day and a topic - particularly their learning from and reflection of changes in society - that most of us would never have considered without Dion going their first Bravo!

Interesting article: “The irony is obvious. Having accused Democrats of appeasement, weakness, or distraction, the very voices who most loudly demanded confrontation with China are now either engineering retreat or completely silent.”

Awww, thanks so much, Charlie! (would add 'affecting millions of kids and their parents who wind up absent-mindedly singing them to themselves in public').

I’ve got to that stage of life where I bother to put an extra number plate on the bicycles we’re towing Only took 20+ years of driving…

Children’s TV theme tunes is both a gloriously niche topic and something affecting millions of kids every day and a topic - particularly their learning from and reflection of changes in society - that most of us would never have considered without Dion going their first Bravo!

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

👁️‍🗨️“CourtWatch has given me a lot to think about.” One month on from the end of the project, our volunteer courtwatchers have been reflecting about what they learned from their courtwatching experiences; the good and the bad, and what they might do differently going forward. #CourtWatchLondon

For anyone interested in Fordham's Judicial Review Handbook, the 5th edition (2008) is available on archive.org and searchable at: archive.org/details/judi...

UK legal people: request for help finding a judgment R v Governors of Bacon's City Technology College, ex p. W [1998] ELR 488 Reason for interest: reasons duty arising under policy guidance

If you are here on Bluesky engaging in whatever capacity you can, you are making a difference. Engagement motivates people to action. Do not be silent. Silence is acquiescence!

Call for chapters: Ethical Review in Practice, edited by Lucy Pickering and me. Do you have a particularly good, bad, or mixed experience with a research #ethics approval body that you would like to share? If so this call may be of interest: helenkara.com/writing/ethi... please share widely!