The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…

Autumn vibes

Now all we need is for Britain to ban bottom trawling across supposedly protected waters

Pesticides are harmful to all insects, including bumblebees, butterflies & other pollinators. Pesticide residues also move up through the food chain to harm birds & mammals, and they end up in rivers. Four more things to avoid in nature-friendly spaces: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/what-…

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.

Russia attacked the Ukrainian people with over 600 drones and missiles last night.

And that, folks, is why I don't own any Dyson products.

Well this broke up the doom scroll

The Forestry Commission’s primary duty, set in 1919, is timber production. A proposed improvement to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill would update its remit to protect nature & climate. #ProtectNature #ClimateJustice

🚨WHOA!!! What a powerful moment. "I'm your host, Stephen Colbert, but tonight we are all Jimmy Kimmel."

Windsor Castle Tuesday night. Four of us arrested for 'malicious communications'. Now released. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...

Workers in Kyiv are still cleaning up and repairing damage to several buildings in my neighborhood after Russia’s August 28th massive missile and drone attack on the Ukrainian capital. But many of the businesses damaged have reopened.

NEW: I take a look at the rise of AI as a - genuinely very important - tool for managing increasingly complicated electricity grids. I'm not sure the energy transition can happen fast enough without it! www.thereengineer.pro/p/like-prote...

I was scolded for "don't give them ideas" when I wrote that analysis, and I thought "sweet innocent child, they don't need me to point this out, they know already and are preparing".

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Is sharing this image a crime?

First group of injured children from Gaza arrive in the UK www.channel4.com/news/first-g...

£1,005 raised of 3.5K in 4 days! Thanks everyone who has donated so far ❤️ We’re on a mission to print thousands of posters and stickers—and distribute them FREE across Birmingham—because together, we can overwhelm our city with positivity and stand strong in the face of hate. gofund.me/a3f2fd4df

Benedict Cumberbatch reciting powerful words by the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish at the Together for Palestine concert at Wembley, London. Happening right now and live streamed (link below).

Billie Eilish, Finneas, Cillian Murphy, Joaquin Phoenix, Annie Mac, Peter Gabriel, and more come together for Palestine in new video. It precedes the Together For Palestine benefit concert taking place today. @popcrave.com x.com/PopCrave/sta...

Kudos to @ledbydonkeys.org 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #LedByDonkeys

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

> @cnbc.com 🇬🇧

Labour MPs today call for new legislation to extend a right of responsible access to more English landscapes, and for the right to swim and wild camp to be enshrined in law @righttoroam.bsky.social inputted to this new report from the APPG for access to nature: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More from Starmer, on Channel 4 News. Feels like a real sense of change from where we were Sunday morning.

Do you recognise any of these people? Wanted by the Met after the violence on Saturday news.met.police.uk/news/appeal-...

This is so lovely - a town in Wales has put up loads of different flags. Shall we all try and do this xx www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

“European cities, like Paris, were smart to focus on air pollution rather than climate change. Air pollution is more real for people. You can see it, smell it. People liked what @annehidalgo.bsky.social did.” — My comments on leadership & urban transformation To be clear, cities should do both.

Why in this Mandelson saga are we ignoring the elephant in the room? That we’re about to welcome and honour a man who was a great pal of Epstein and who continues to lie about that every day?

What do people think - no need for heat loss surveys, just size heat pumps based on historical energy use in a property?

He massively admires Tommy Robinson... He was with Tommy Robinson the previous evening... Tommy Robinson gave him the flags... But this is a grassroots movement apparently

"It was the first time in the history of NATO that alliance fighters had engaged enemy targets in allied airspace, officials said" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/w...

Reports of an attack, allegedly by a drone, on a vessel in the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), while anchored outside the port of Sidi Bou Said in Tunisia. The below video shows the moment of the incident. Keep it in mind when you read the next post. www.instagram.com/reel/DOXaR_M...

✨ Community in action! On Saturday we joined Archbishop Tenison’s School to celebrate the amazing improvements they’ve made to their buildings – including our newly installed solar panels ☀️⚡ #CommunityEnergy #Croydon #SolarPower #YouthInAction #RenewableEnergy #CommunityPower

Researchers measured air temps around parked vehicles and found: Air above a black car = up to 3.8°C hotter than the asphalt. Air above a white car = neutral or slightly cooler in some spots. The colour of your car literally changes the microclimate.

Bad news for cities. 🚨 Cars are parked 95% of the time, eating up valuable street space. Now, new research from Lisbon shows parked cars are also intensifying urban heat: by as much as +3.8°C. 🌡️ 🧵

They're on the front of this month's Monocle, for starters. In Spain, a whopping 63% of households now own a Rolser shopping bag and they’re becoming popular with younger, urban audiences. Monocle just covered this brilliantly: 🔗 monocle.com/the-weekend-...

NEW What Banksy's RCJ mural maybe gets wrong Judges are not to blame for protest laws promoted by the executive and passed by parliament and implemented by the police and prosecuted by the Crown By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/what-banks... Own blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/09/what...

Oh HELL yes

NEW: Some cities used to be far better at shading windows and doors to keep buildings cool in summer... I spoke to one designer who has looked to the past for climate adaptation ideas. www.thereengineer.pro/p/the-big-co...

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A ahocking state if affairs. Windermere too. What will it take for water quality to become a top priority for policy makers? Too little for way too long. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

An excellent intro to the 7 co-operative principles from @coopevolution.bsky.social 💚

Dam Removal Day Wed. Oct 8 2025: a global awareness raising event that gathers river practitioners in celebration of free-flowing rivers. Bring your community to the sites along rivers where barriers were removed and highlight the benefits of restored natural flow. www.linkedin.com/events/damre...

Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.

Let's be clear. This is nothing. Demonstrations with thousands or even tens of thousands are frequently entirely ignored. That the BBC chooses to put this on the front page of their news website is a political decision as to what positions to push.

We fully support the Energy Saving Trust's latest report, which calls on government to fully commit the £3.3 billion promised for the #LocalPowerPlan. The report outlines 6 key recommendations for scaling up #CommunityEnergy. 🔌💡 Read the full report 👉 buff.ly/4fr2A7V #NetZero #Renewables

Still some time to apply for this new MSc in Energy Policy. Spread the word!

📣Community centres can apply for grants up to £4,500 towards energy saving measures! So far, this programme has awarded over £224,000 nationally, saving a combined estimate of 94 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. 🤯 Find out more and how to apply 👇 #NetZero #CommunityEnergy