Ann Pettifor on why there is always money for War (of course!).....but why there is never any money for programs to help people.

The Green Party takes a holistic approach to health. So when considering the NHS you also need to consider housing, air quality, water quality, food quality, social care etc. We'd also fund it properly and run it for patients not profit. The Policy is being updated at the moment. So more to follow

What's happening in the NHS?

The @greenparty.org.uk under @zackpolanski.bsky.social know that the nature and planetary health crisis is a social crisis of inequality. They are not separate issues. This understanding is how we win against the Right.

“I don’t know what the majority of our artists at ActionSpace have got, Idon’t know any clinical diagnosis. And I don’t want to know, because they’re people.” Eventually the clinical healthcare approach will catch up to the arts approach…Eventually. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Biodiversity is *crucial* to our wellbeing. We need to stop treating it as expendable. share.google/pKw8odZguEG8...

Read this. It is absolutely cretinous that this ‘Labour’ Govt refuses to renationalise water. Millions of us are now at grave risk, when increasingly likely climate-extreme events are incoming. www.ft.com/content/97e4...

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season. TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible. christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

‘It is peculiar, to say the least, that Israel is being given, in a “peace deal”, land that it has not managed to capture militarily.’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Nature connection needs to be part of healthcare infrastructure.

SLT Research idea - how can SLT’s design nature-based interventions via social prescribing? Oh wait, that was my dissertation… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

SLT dysphagia research idea - the effects of enforced starvation on the suck-swallow-breathe mechanism for infants and their mothers.

Family abolition is about asking why families are expected to do everything alone. Asking why housing, food, medical care, love, education and even basic safety, are things you earn through the “right” kind of family. Why family can be the pretense by which these things are denied to people.

For climate activists, adaptation has been a dirty word. In this piece today I ask whether a new UK-based proposal from the Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social has legs. @cityatlas.bsky.social @anne-urai.bsky.social www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

After decades of tension between Dartmoor sheep farmers and environmentalists, a legal challenge seems the only way through deadlock. Headage payments + £32m in HLS schemes haven’t changed practices. Commoners have shown they are ideologically entrenched in not changing. The hubris of inheritance?

I just signed a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

‘Criminal laws exist that can and have been brought against its actions. But it is this very course of justice that the proscription aims to impede.’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action, from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

All the right people are crying over Zohran’s victory. They’re going to monster him and all the billionaire money will be used to oppose him in the general but this is a moment of real hope in dark times

The avoidance by livestock of the central Molinia-dominated areas also places more pressure on the peripheral areas commons, preventing the recovery of the heaths and driving the poor condition of the protected areas. www.dartmoornature.org.uk/post/sssicon...

On the central high moor, its dominance is unlikely to be due to falling livestock numbers in the 2000s as some commoners regularly claim. It had a hold before this ... here's a picture from the Dartmoor Archive taken near Cut Hill in August 1992

“The devaluation of Aboriginal graphic writing systems reflects a broader colonial bias that equates written language exclusively with alphabetic systems.” theconversation.com/aboriginal-m...

THANK YOU 🙏 ❤️ Very familiar and well-articulated. And necessary, like many personal AuDHD testimonies. The more the better, I say, bring an army of them. Also need more from working class/non-white perspectives. P.S the tyranny of the linguistic and the verbal will be defeated from within.

Pope Francis appreciating multimodal communication and the freedom of a non-verbal child #SLT moment www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."

Thankyou for standing up for wildlife @craigbennett3.bsky.social against the gov+developer obtuseness. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Every week, every year. Total impunity, no accountability. Backed by the police, backed by the army, backed by the state. Ultimately -- backed by the US and backed by us. An ongoing, never-ending, moral disgrace. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Restricting car use prevents diseases (and reduces ecological threat)

I can’t stop thinking about how courageous this was and in the best traditions of radical Christianity.

Every word…

The Western (neo and proto) is having a moment on the streamers. America is reckoning with its identity and violent origin story during a period of deep political polarity. Taylor Sheridan mainlines conservative mythologies, but drops enough complexity to counterbalance. 1883 is good storytelling.

Starmer does not understand the natural world. I hope the ecologists who supported him now understand that his Labour Party hates you.

Discovering the work of Michel Pimbert and Sagari Ramdas on the co-opting/greenwashing of agroecology has been a real highlight of ORFC25 pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Agroecology is a social movement, a political demand says Anuka De Silva, not an agricorporate marketing strategy. #ORFC25

Fund the providers of community care, not just the signposting.

Excellent. Does Hesiod crop up? Would love a Working Classicist treatment of ancient agricultural and ecological ideas cf Hesiod and Virgil.

Current mood.

James Rebanks is a real piece of work. Pretending that no-one knew or did anything about soil health until he and the NFU tractor men came along to save the day through ELMs etc

On 19 November, the Times ran a ‘news’ piece on the demonstration in Westminster by farmers opposed to changes to inheritance tax. Obviously reporting the news is good, but reading such a one sided piece made me think it belonged in the comment pages www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Anybody interested in finding out out more about why @theguardian.com journalists are striking next week to save the Observer can find out all the latest at @gdnobsnuj.bsky.social. Please follow, share and encourage others to if you care about the future of journalism. Thanks loads

"Oh, but this just shows the nerdy, detail-obsessed nature of Japanese people," you say. Perhaps. But these publications can't exist without a distribution system (i.e., newsstands). And those newsstands can't exist without *dense walkable neighborhoods.*

"If the dominant structures of the world are breaking up, there’s at least the chance to fight for alternatives within that." THIS WEEK: @meadwaj.bsky.social takes a look at China’s $2 billion bond sale in Saudi Arabia, and what it tells us about the shift towards a multipolar world. LISTEN NOW👇

“Let’s design for pluralism instead of putting us through a soul-chipping accommodations process that, at best, patches over bad design driven by “artificial economies of scarcity”.”

We all need to become eco-populists. That means championing policies that significantly lower daily costs while lowering emissions. Heat Pumps for All, alongside much more robust tenant rights; free and better public transit; price caps on green energy; make polluters pay for the transition. (4/8)

Nice. The designed environment is a healthcare issue. Town planners are healthcare workers.

How do you drive this BlueSky thing…?

Growing, land stewarding, is very rewarding if done right. More people should be able to do it on land they are connected with, not just those who inherited. Maybe create a land rights campaign, call it, I dunno, The Right To Grow. Plenty of land sitting near me, neglected, badly cut, badly grazed…