On World Cancer Day, I’m proud to support the APPG on Cancer. We must remember that while more people are living with cancer, access to timely diagnosis and high quality care remains unequal. Everyone deserves the right care, treatment and support for their needs, no matter who they are.

⚠️ “Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like #cigarettes than #food” – study #UPFs are made to encourage #addiction and consumption and should be regulated like #tobacco, say researchers from Harvard, the University of Michigan and Duke University. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

#ItsNotOK www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/news-hub/new....

Ireland 🇮🇪 'Legislation to abolish the three-day waiting period for abortion on request has been introduced in the Dáil'. Read more below ⬇️ Reminder - this is a medically unnecessary 3 day waiting period! 🫩

Insightful paper on #ReproductiveViolence theconversation.com/how-reproduc...

🇺🇸 #Trump’s new #aid rules risk lives, #EU says Trump administration seeks to restrict NGOs, governments and agencies in receipt of U.S. funding from promoting not only #abortion but also “ #gender ideology” and “discriminatory #equity ideology” www.politico.eu/article/dona...

We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org. www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...

Poverty is deepening. 🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning. People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people. This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Palantir is using medical records to help ICE target its victims in the US. And Wes Streeting is pitch-rolling for Farage to do the same in the UK.

POLIO. Deadly, crippling, preventable. My first tricycle was passed on by the next door neighbours, whose kid couldn't ride it any more because of polio. I was three years younger, caught the vaccine window.

Returns policies are fundamentally important when the #TextileIndustry contributes more to global #CarbonEmissions than aviation and shipping combined.

Science and truth jettisoned at both US state and federal levels in relation to #mifepristone www.guttmacher.org/2025/12/weap...

This piece was prompted by my experience watching people sharing misinformation in the wake of the arson attack on the IPAS centre in Drogheda. The people sharing didn't care about the facts and the facts didn't shift them a bit. This piece explains why >>> theconversation.com/why-people-b...

📢 Really pleased to see the findings from our qualitative survey of experiences of pain in SRH procedures published today in BMJ SRH with my co-authors @julieriddell.bsky.social & @marigreenfield.bsky.social srh.bmj.com/content/earl...

The US has some of the world’s best climate scientists (and more of them than anywhere else) & has contributed disproportionately to understanding the climate system. It’s idiotic for the US to withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change & the IPCC but it’s on brand for this regime.

New piece in Feminist Legal Studies - open access 🧚

Is your local NHS trust using Palantir software? Find out and tell them what you think ⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/ql1k

In case you need another reason to not drink bottled water…

NEW: "...we urgently need a mainstream #climate more-than-movement, a wave of wider mainstreamed action. If we are to have a future." A major piece for @resilience.org to end the year, calling for the end of the inane rule of climate ‘optimism’. www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software. Palantir’s founder openly despises the NHS. You can push back – use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir https://goodlaw.social/658abc

À #Zanzibar, les "mamans solaires" électrifient des villages isolés fr.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

Let's choose kindness in 2026. youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

China to hike tax on condoms in attempt to boost falling birth rate

"As we invent the future of healthcare, we must assert that patients are not data clouds, care is not computation, and that to care is human." A call to abolish the business logic of surveillance capitalism taking over healthcare #BMJChristmas www.bmj.com/content/391/...

It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.

THREE satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles disappear in suspicious circumstances in England, Wales & Scotland - two tags had been cut off. Press release from Isle of Wight WTE Project Team & additional commentary from me ⬇️⬇️ #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/17/t...

This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley

#BournemouthUniversity ranked in 6th place among 147 British universities for environmental and ethical performance in 2025/26 People & Planet University League.

Terrifying that Wes Streeting continues to try and pressurise hospitals into giving patient data to Palantir. Take action here: goodlawproject.org/campaign/sto...

60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity. Top 10% earn more than the other 90%. They control govts, means of production; inflict civil strife, deaths; thwart possibilities of democracy. Tax the rich.

If we are to survive what is coming, let alone to flourish, then we desperately need the kind of strategic adaptation that false optimism leaves unfunded or even sneered at. As a small gesture towards such adaptation, please sign and share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... Thank You…

Sexual and reproductive health and rights is at the edge—restoring it will require courage. Some reflections with @pascaleallotey.bsky.social and Prof Sofia Gruskin www.bmj.com/content/391/...

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

If the National Emergency Briefing had been able to squeeze in another briefing Plastic and other Pollution would have been my top picks. Here’s why. Two other contenders would be Misinformation and the Psychology of Action. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Celebrities including Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley urge Keir Starmer to drop plans to alter ECHR

The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software. Its founder openly despises the NHS. You can push back: use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir https://goodlaw.social/658abc

My write up on the @nebriefing.bsky.social here, please consider signing the letter calling on Kier Starmer and media heads to televise a briefing to the country: theconversation.com/what-we-told...

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

Here is an excellent summary of last week's National Emergency Briefing in London. Well worth a watch and please sign the letter to the Prime Minister linked at the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7... #climatechange #impacts #energy #health #tippingpoints #nationalsecurity #foodsecurity

MISSING: Closing tax loopholes for private jets, taxing airplane fuel, a frequent flyer levy. Why does the Chancellor have such a blind spot for anything that might tackle the excesses of the aviation industry? #Budget

BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels. 🧵

Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names. "Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond." Please share with your MP #NEB2025

Let’s never forget rationing ventilators and Zoom funerals. Boris Johnson and his cronies partied while our loved ones lay dying alone. COVID-19 was the worst public health crisis in a century. We should have locked down earlier. To some of us, PPE was not a get-rich-quick commodity.

"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot” within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?" Some thoughts from Johan Rockstrom & me 10 years after Paris Agreement. theconversation.com/the-world-lo...

I really loved this conversation with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - I've thought about it lots ever since. Hope you enjoy it too! youtu.be/3xx6lNFx8tI?...

Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. For shame, Mr Johnson and the team you pretended to lead. Preventable deaths on your hands. They will not return to us. You live on, rich and vainglorious. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

1/ How does the COVID Inquiry's Module 2 report align with what we said in @independentsage.bsky.social at the time? A 🧵on Transparency, Early & Decisive Action, Scientific Advice, Integration of Social & Economic Harms, Communication and Behavioural Science, Governance, Data and Preparedness