☀️ As temperatures soar, it's a timely moment to revisit our earlier report on how wealth inequality amplifies heatwave risks. Based on an expert roundtable, it shows how inequality increases vulnerability to extreme heat, and what can be done about it. 🔗 fairnessfoundation.com/inequality-k...

The stories (not) told about places: A second guest post by Charlie Chan, Director of United Communities, on the importance of knowing a community from the inside and of working with communities rather than doing things for or to them www.faircomment.co.uk/p/the-storie...

”A new study finds old-growth forests in Sweden store far more carbon than the industrial tree plantations that are rapidly replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference. Protecting undisturbed areas could do more to mitigate climate change than previously thought.”

A study of soils around the Arctic and boreal forests has found that some wildfires are releasing carbon stored over millennia, meaning higher CO2 emissions than assumed

This is evil collective punishment.

...and the far right claim everyone else is obsessed with ideology and identity politics. Safe water is a lot more important than singing national anthems

NEW: The Crypto Connection. @thenerve.news brings you…Part 1 of The Harbourne Receipts. A forensic examination of the cryptobillionaire’s donations & Farage’s crypto announcements. And guess what? There’s a pattern. Starting with the now infamous £5m gift. www.thenerve.news/p/investigat... 1/

Support our legal challenge to Trump's attack on our NHS! We are taking on the government's pharma deal with Trump in the courts. www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-nh...

Following my doctor’s advice, I am taking some time away from work for health reasons. My office will be functioning as usual and my staff are there to support all my constituents who need help, so please don't hesitate to get in touch. See my full statement below.

Rangers Kasereka Valyathire Baraka and Munguakonkwa Mihigo Jacques were killed during an armed assault in Virunga National Park. With more than 200 ranger deaths over the last century, officials are calling for an urgent investigation into the attack. David Akana reports for #Mongabay.

We've joined @bettertransport.bsky.social and 15 other orgs in calling on the PM to set a national mode shift target, invest in buses, rail and active travel to give people affordable alternatives to driving, and reducing reliance on volatile fuel prices. bettertransport.org.uk/wp-content/u...

#ElanValley peatland restoration survived despite being surrounded by recent fire. Thanks for photo Elan Valley Trust. It shows your impactful work restoring wet peatland habitat as part of #WalesPeatlandAction efforts Funded by Welsh Government @natreswales.bsky.social @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social

Our #RewildTheGhostWoods campaign has amassed 146,000 signatures on a petition fronted by Dame Judi Dench, and this week we rallied our band of colourful slugs to help us deliver it right to the doors of DEFRA. Find out more about the campaign over on our website: www.wildcard.land #Rewilding

👍 for an evidence-based solution.

Depressing but predictable motornormativity.

I’m amazed anyone needs reminding of this, but local government spending power per person fell by 18% from 2010 to 2024 (would have been 26% but for increases in council tax). At the same time, social care pressures on local govt have grown a lot. The decay of the public realm is NOT a mystery

ICYM - Airline emissions in Europe top pre-Covid levels despite pledge to decarbonise - Promises to cut emissions and use more fuel-efficient planes fail to stop rise, with Ryanair’s carbon footprint 50% up on 2019 #climatecrisis #aviation www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We’re suing the government to protect the NHS! We are challenging the government’s unlawful power grab over NHS drug price controls – and we need your help to take them to court. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

1/2 Approaching 1/2 the world's countries are now taking emergency measures arising from the energy disruption from the Iran war Put simply, there are fewer fossil fuel molecules that can be burned. Someone has to stop doing things they were doing before www.ft.com/content/f636...

"Scientists surveying the area found three times more seabed organisms and twice as many species compared to nearby unprotected waters" news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

England's High Speed 2 railway expected to cost over £100bn, many years late Result of changing political priorities, & "bespoke, highly engineered design" It's not the fault of some rare bats getting in the way, as you'd think listening to senior members of UK govt www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So much about this has me screaming into my motonormativity cushion. Why further subsidise all the wealthy people who drive? Why NOT subsidise the poorer people who don't drive?

Immigration make Britain brilliant

If they were at the other march in London today, the pro-Palestine one, they would be immediately arrested. This makes no sense.

Morning. If any National Union of Journalists or Society of Authors members have lost Instagram or Facebook accounts due to wrongful Meta suspensions & account deletions please get in touch. This censorship appears to be happening to a lot of people. We are seeing what we can do through a union.

Again, not these Reform politicians aren't being suspended for supporting Nazism, they're being suspended for being *caught* supporting Nazism. Let's not also forget that they took their cues from Farage.

BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought £1.4m house in cash shortly after receiving £5m personal gift from crypto-billionaire Christopher Harborne. Reform says the "offer and process" of buying the property commenced before gift. Intriguing story by @alifortescuenews.bsky.social

I was not prepared for what we just heard in parts of Naz Shah MP's speech as she launched the debate today. Absolutely fantastic!

And inevitably the resignations of people who turn out to be vile racist misogynists begins - a Reform UK councillor has resigned days after being elected, after he allegedly celebrated the rape of a Sikh woman in the Midlands, declared white people the “master race” and called Muslim people “rats”.

It's never been more clear: The First Past the Post voting system is not working. It's time to end this chaos. I've added my name to this letter calling for Proportional Representation. Add yours too. actionnetwork.org/petitions/en...

It's never been more clear that the First Past the Post voting system is not working. It's time to end this chaos. Add your name to the open letter calling for Proportional Representation here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/en....

Look at that growth 😍 💚 From 164 councillors in 2016 to 1319 in 2026 - a 704% increase! We're not stopping here. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

Sodium-ion technology has been a teaser for quite a while now. It promised significant advantages over Li-ion for energy storage. This announcement by CATL for volume production seems to be a game-changer.

Hope to meet you in London on Thursday at futurebuild.co.uk at the ACAN stage. Also looking for #strawbuilding volunteers on 20.-22. May who want to learn to prefabricate panels for a #strawhouse on Uni Westminster Campus.

A NYC pop-up just opened displaying all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files. The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room is open as a public installation featuring 3.5 million pages of released and partially redacted Epstein files, printed and bound into 3,437 volumes.

If you'd like to find out more about Palantir please listen to our critically acclaimed podcast, The Shadow Contract.

Wes Streeting wants new laws to force your GP to share your medical records. The bill was not in Labour's Manifesto and Palantir has explicitly said, under a new Government, it would be happy to use medical data for other purposes. Be afraid.

If you like data, here is something interesting for you: Bridget Phillipson interview on LK: 9m 40" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 31 Richard Tice interview on LK: 8m 23" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 9

This is the best cycling advert ever, especially because I’m in it. It beautifully shows that cycling is for everyone, no matter who you are or where you come from. Bikes bring people together and remind us that cycling is one of the best ways to improve our health and wellbeing.

Very interesting

See also: school teachers. Like, wtf have we done now?? (Whatever it is, we’re clearly in cahoots with Zack Polanski and scientists… so whatever it is we’re doing, and whoever it is we’re upsetting, it’s right! 🤓)

We are going to see a great deal of this over the next few weeks and months. Even Farage doesn't really know what he's done. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Excellent analysis from my BBC elections team colleague and YouGov data guru @patrick-pme.bsky.social on what the local elections data tells us about whether Labour is losing more to Greens or Reform. Spoiler alert: its the Greens open.substack.com/pub/patricke...

Oil and gas “investment into low carb technologies and projects” is not really part of fossil-energy R&D — it’s a line item in the industry PR budget. If they don’t need to greenwash — to pretend to care about climate in order to extend their social license to operate — they don’t spend the bucks.

In Wigan, Reform won 96% of seats on 46% of the votes. In Westminster, the Conservatives won a majority on 35%, while @greenparty.org.uk won 18% of the votes without gaining a single seat. We can’t let this happen in 2029 The time to change the voting system is *now* @makevotesmatter.bsky.social

Unless we change the voting system, we will see this at the next general election as well. With votes split across five or more parties, power can be won on as little as 25% of the vote. This needs to be a wake-up call.

In 2021, 65% of elected councillors had majority support. This used to be the norm. Now the vast majority are being elected on well under 50% of the vote, often less than a third. All other votes are being ignored. This should not be normalised.

"The people of Hackney own Hackney and its time to take it back. That's why one of my first acts is to do a full investigation into who owns.. its buildings, its land, to begin getting these spaces back to the communities.. to get the basics right" Great speech by @zoegarbett.bsky.social

Here’s a poem called ‘Life of a Naturalist’.