A biodiverse world outside creates a healthy microbiome inside. The same conditions that let wildlife thrive also keeps people healthy. Fascinating article from @phoebeweston.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet. If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S. Read this in @bloomberg.com👇 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

'Rather than addressing the fundamental problems with existing verification systems, the Britcard threatens to digitise and amplify the very hostile environment policies that created these problems in the first place' blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

NEW The government is considering plans to weaken a law protecting England’s national parks, in a move criticised as “outrageous” and “devastating”. Story 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...

Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’

For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.

EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge. 750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thank you for this beautiful piece @pollyrowena.bsky.social I remember hating this book and other nature cure narratives as my dad died prematurely from a terminal cancer. Nobody I knew had spent more time walking in the great outdoors than he had.

“Europe is risking its political soul. It has put itself in a situation in which leaders cannot say publicly what they are actually trying to do. That is a recipe for distrust and a poison for democracy” on.ft.com/3HH41Ze

My dad died two years ago today. He died of industrial disease caused by asbestos. But he was an accountant. I wrote about how this happened -- and why so many others are still at risk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

My dad died two years ago today. He died of industrial disease caused by asbestos. But he was an accountant. I wrote about how this happened -- and why so many others are still at risk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

They've managed to criminalise legitimate protest and undermine anti-terror laws in one move. They should be goddamned ashamed of themselves.

An astonishing story

My friend was expecting the 17-year-daughter of her friend to arrive from France last Thursday. The plan was for her to practise her English, go to a few West End shows and soak up British culture. But at British border control at Lille she was asked what she planned to do in the UK... 1/3

This is bizarre... everyone I know who went into teaching via this route is still teaching 15 years later

- PFAS forever chemicals above proposed safety limits in nearly all English rivers, lakes & ponds, study finds - levels of internationally banned PFOS in fish were 322 times above proposed safety limits on average Our new article out now: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

But it is good he's U-turned on this @charlottehelen.bsky.social

The morning "hire expensive consultants for ethnic cleansing planning" read: #Gaza #Israel #Palestine

‘“because the models are not set up to solve problems, or to reason, but to predict the most plausible-sounding sentence based on the reams of data they have hoovered up, a better word for their factual hiccups is not “hallucinations” but “bullshit”.’ #AI www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Missing my dad this Father’s Day. Still encouraging people to read this piece.

Reform and the Conservatives have a joint campaign that London is a crime-ridden hellhole. (Yes, it’s code for their typical racism.) So here’s the truth.

👏🏾 Over 150 medical professionals have sent a letter to leading European Commission officials, urging them to support a full phase out of PFAS #foreverchemicals, including in the healthcare sector 👉🏼 chemtrust.org/medical-prof...

In a new paper, 22 scientists—including Professor Ian Cousins and Associate Professor Marlene Ågerstrand at Department of Environmental Science @stockholm-uni.bsky.social —defend the current definition of PFASs established by the OECD. #PFAS #Chemistry www.su.se/department-o...

This happened for decades with asbestos: industry lobbied to deem certain types safer than others, delaying a ban that would have saved countless lives

I loved this book by @drlornagibb.bsky.social . I came late to languages, which I like to blame on poor teaching, but it was likely my own poor attitude. But now I’m learning Korean and German and how much a language holds. This book is a kaleidoscope of knowledge about language, culture and life.

Brilliant review, and so well deserved ❤️

A new report paints a worrying picture for media freedom in the #UK: 🗞️Most journalists face personal threats for doing their jobs 🗞️Nearly half believe the truth is being shaped by those in power Index’s Mark Stimpson breaks down the worrying findings: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/06/uk-j...

So good @mariahblake.bsky.social

Congratulations are in order to Banu Mushtaq, author of Heart Lamp, and Deepa Bhashti, who translated the winning collection.

Plants produce more nectar when they hear bees buzzing... 🐝 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’m from an immigrant family. This piece by @iandunt.bsky.social is balm for the soul amid all the endless “cost-benefit analysis” of migration. The latter is necessary for policy, but this piece is necessary for our hearts.

Poem by Michael Rosen - Island of Strangers www.culturematters.org.uk/island-of-st...

On the day that EVP Séjourné attends @europarl.europa.eu ENVI committee, check out our new briefing: Persistent pollution: 10 reasons why a ban only on #PFAS in consumer products won’t cut it corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05/c... 10 reasons coming up ⬇️ with thanks to @cartoonralph.bsky.social

💯- today’s rhetoric was truly revolting

Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment. inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

WOAH. A new review in The Washington Post calls They Poisoned the World “riveting and horrifying,” a “deft chronicle of one of the greatest moral scandals of our time,” and “a book that none of us can afford to miss.” I'm beside myself... #PFAS @CrownPublishing wapo.st/42VKsTl

“We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped.” This is the main lesson we need to be reflecting on for VE Day. But of course, this will be forgotten in favour of tedious jingoism.

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

ASIAN HEAT WAVE The extraordinary heat is moving East. Records in MONGOLIA and SIBERIA Minimum of +11.8C at Olgi 1700m asl in Mongolia highlands. Maxes up to +31C in Siberia ! Next days insane unbelievable heat in CHINA with 40/42C in the North and nights up to 30C

My piece in morning's New York Times about the unlikely activists who are fighting to turn off the tap on forever chemicals— and making serious headway, even as the Trump camp is dismantling environmental regulations. #PFAS @crownpublishing.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/o...

NEW!: 3 UK military bases have been marked for investigation over fears they may be leaking toxic forever chemicals into drinking water sources and important environmental sites. In the US, billions of dollars has been spent on military site contamination. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Total failure of politicians to protect their constituents.

And, shockingly, @charlottehelen.bsky.social's article reveals not only are we failing to protect construction workers, we're increasingly seeing teachers, nurses, even students develop mesothelioma from working in buildings in a state of disrepair.

Immensely powerful, and damning story. So sorry about your dad

well this is horrifying

I LOVED this book. And yes I feel they should have at least rounded to 100.

Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive” Theft is not a valid alternative.

If this were an *actual* war this opportunistic photoshoot would be a violation of the Geneva Convention.

Thank you - much appreciated, from someone who knows. It was 25 years ago in April. I often think about how dreadful those months were for her. Apart from an industrial cancer she was exceptionally fit and healthy. She faced indignity, pain and dying with great grace, generosity & committed atheism!

Thanks for having me on the prospect podcast @ellenhalliday.bsky.social & @aloner.bsky.social to talk about my article & the asbestos scandal. I was in parliament on Monday at a public hearing on the legacy of Cape in Britain. This story is so far from over... open.spotify.com/episode/2NFR...