That proud dad feeling... when your son publishes his book of gorgeous photos of our local peatland, Lindow Moss in Cheshire: www.joelnormanphotography.co.uk/product-page...

Please sign an open letter to Sir Keir Starmer and the UK broadcasters calling for a televised emergency briefing on the #climate & #nature crisis. www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... Highlights from actor Olivia Williams' powerful reading. Full version link below. #NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp

“I’ve been amazed by the groundswell of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to this....everyone is affected by this, the opposition has been across the political spectrum. A lot of people don’t see the benefits coming from AI and feel they will be paying for it"

I live in a tri and sometimes quadri-lingual context, so I use tools like deepl and google translate quite often. Please beware, deepl has a new AI translater that just makes up crap, in my case a petition with a link that goes to a fishing website. Avoid at all costs.

I see the PM is being very rattled and very untruthful about the Greens again in the papers. He couldn’t say this stuff in Parliament because he would be lying to the House - both about what our popular, evidence-based policies are, and about him believing this guff. Trumpian

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

So it was🪆, 🪆,🪆... "Three more British MEPs from Nigel Farage’s bloc are alleged to have “followed the script” given to a colleague who was being bribed by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors, as a police investigation into the affair continues." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

When you made a manifesto pledge to reduce energy bills, but also made a series of foolhardy promises to build new nuclear power plants

Red Clover in our meadow, oblivious to the foul December weather. Love getting really up-close-and-personal with this one, as the tiny flowers are almost orchid-like in their design #wildflowerhour

Olivia Williams's powerful reading of an open letter to Sir Keir Starmer and the national broadcasters calling for a televised emergency briefing. Full version here: www.youtube.com/@nebriefing Please add your name: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... #NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp

After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X. Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This is why we need to cap political donations - do sign the petition! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

I missed this in the budget!! “She announced a further £891m further public money going into what the government contends will be a privately financed solution” for the Lower Thames Crossing - the vast new motorway tunnel linking Essex to Kent. 😫 Just the PFI consultancy is costing £24m!!!!

Nigel Fraud is no threat to the status quo or austerity, we need real status quo demolitionists! #VoteGreen 💚

FIFA President Gianni Infantino Wins Inaugural "Football Climate Impact Prize"​ 🏆 As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵

AI is a crisis for the climate. @naomiaklein.bsky.social

It's World Soil Day #WorldSoilDay HOW IMPORTANT IS SOIL? Check out our Guide for Teachers bit.ly/MEEWorldSoil...

Free training Dec 11: Tools for digital campaigning, storytelling & movement-building in Europe & Central Asia. For activists, & digital organizers working in shrinking civic space. Offered in collaboration with UNDP. Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

It's awfully ironic that this was Lord Whitehead's answer, as at the @nebriefing.bsky.social Prof. @kevinclimate.bsky.social told the attendees in no uncertain terms that the 1.5C goal was now out of reach and 2C will soon be too! That many dont know this yet shows the need of a government briefing

this story isn’t going away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Lots of news coverage this morning about £28 billion investment approved to upgrade the UK's energy network. BUT: The majority of the spending – £17.8 billion - announced today is to maintain Britain’s gas networks rather than build new transmission lines.

"The media should stop burying their heads in the sand.” @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Why are @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social sidelined on mainstream media? Why does this story still get avoided?

This ongoing toxic discourse has multiple real-life, everyday consequences It leads to the man sitting next to me on a bus not accepting I'm from Manchester as I have 'dark skin' Declaring, while gesturing around the bus- 'you can fool all of them, but you can't fool me' It permits open racism

This is wonderful. I want an adult commuting version in which we all follow Dom Whiting belting out drum and bass www.youtube.com/@DomWhiting

Did you know that a return flight to New York causes the same emissions as driving a car for an entire year? Let's stop sweeping the climate impact of flying under the rug 🌎

It's interesting how this article uses an image of wind turbines and a cyclist (blame them!) yet the second paragraph (which most people won't read) says: "Most of the money will go towards maintaining gas networks..." 🤔🫠 #NetZero

England’s most important nature sites are being failed.❌ Protected sites can and should be driving nature’s recovery. But today’s OEP report exposes the real problem: years of weak delivery, underfunding and political drift have left them unable to do the job the law intended.

A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

Political parties should be focused on voters not donors. For as long as mega donations like this are permitted, voters will rightly suspect that their interests come second to those of wealthy donors. A donations cap would show that politics can’t be bought. www.ft.com/content/db73...

CAMPAIGN WIN 🎉 The UK is withdrawing funding from a massive gas power plant in Mozambique. Funding this carbon bomb would have been a climate and human rights disaster. Thanks to campaigners keeping up the pressure, today we can celebrate this huge win www.reuters.com/business/ene...

We've created a simple tool so you can find out whether your local NHS trust is using Palantir's software and asking them to resist Wes Streeting's push to sign up for it. goodlaw.social/zr8w

Sounds like a lot. Except £500M over two decades is a measly £25M a year, further eroded by inflation- which at the current 4% means the year 20 value is equivalent to around half of year 1’s.

Thanks to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for highlighting corporate courts in his column today for @theguardian.com The UK is being sued by coal financiers and a Russian oligarch in these shadowy tribunals. Get angry and join our campaign! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.

“This Mozambique gas project is a huge carbon timebomb, linked to serious human rights abuses. It should never have been given UK taxpayer-funded support in the first place.” - Asad Rehman, the chief executive of Friends of the Earth. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

#GazaGenocide, 1 Dec 2025 Over 56,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents, creating one of the largest wartime orphanhood crises in modern history. #NetanyahuWarCriminal #TrumpWarCriminal #IsraeliOccupation #FreePalestine

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Not too late to join our FREE webinar this Wednesday lunchtime! Hear from Cllrs @edwardlamb.bsky.social and @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social on actions councils are taking to restore children's freedom, as well as 'big picture' stuff from us. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...

A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.

Upcoming event: Winter has its pleasures: a winter poetry workshop, Saturday December 6th. Acclaimed poet Jo Bell leads a seasonal writing session at Tegg's Nose Country Park, on the western edge of the Peak District. Get your tickets ASAP. https://bit.ly/48tyh2Z

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

‘The Climate Crossroads: Why Haven’t We Changed — and How We Do Now.’ Looking forward to this webinar on Tuesday, Dec 2nd (from 4pm UK time) with @billmcKibben.bsky.social and Brian McLaren, moderated by John Izzo. Register now 👇 eldersaction.org/event/podcas...

For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million

BREAKING: An attack by Israeli settlers on a water well east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank has cut off the water supply to several Palestinian towns, according to the Jerusalem Water Authority. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5equzi

Parts of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Bengaluru, India’s largest cities, are slowly sinking, mainly due to overextraction of groundwater, according to a recent study, reports Mongabay India’s Manish Chandra Mishra.

#NCFC are my club but there are many #Canaries around the world.

A hugely-successful model that other countries could copy (even if it’s not the largest in the world as the headline claims).