I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

Somebody just walked into our front room and said looking round. 'Bluemoose Bookshop?' 'No.' 'Oh, I thought you were a bookshop.' 'No, we're a publisher.' She looked at the TV and our confused dog. 'Not a bookshop then.' And left our middle terraced house.

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.

You really should read the USA's analysis of the deal. I expect their negotiators can barely walk from laughing so hard. ustr.gov/about/policy...

One of the things people don’t realise is that only about 15% (at most) of food price paid at the till goes to the farmer in the most ‘advanced’ versions of this food system There is some evidence that on average farmers actually subsidise such system with their free or sub cost labour

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... this wide-ranging conversation is oh so good. Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social is able with great, grounded eloquence to say it as it is. If You think #wendellberry is good - listen to this. Not sure about everything in Rajan’s concluding summary but generally good.

There was a lack of focus on the environment and cost of living crisis in today's budget speech. Not investing in nature is short-sighted. We need nature. We ARE nature. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Raiding the Warm Homes Plan to find the money for a one-off cut to energy bills is utterly perverse when the Plan exists precisely to insulate homes & thus keep bills lower in perpetuity- this simply isn’t serious #budget2025

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social please give our #SaveRestoreWalshawMoor campaign and Parliamentary Petition a shout out! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73.... We're trying to #DoTheRightThing by #blanketbog, and to enourage #CalderValleyMP @joshfg.bsky.social to do so as well.

Here are #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill questions @joshfg.bsky.social needs to ask in HoC before it’s too late, plus a link to @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social latest email to send to MPs. Please send it to your MP. saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/p...

Putting humans in two decades-long limbo is the sign of a government that has completely lost its moral compass, but how many other Labour MPs will have the courage to say “not in my name”?

When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.

What is the point of these politicians? Apart from trying to thrill Morgan McSweeney, I mean?

Even the Blairite right hates what Blue Labour Mahmood is doing. Having jettisoned its left and killed off its soft left, seems all the shell of a Labour Party knows how to do is go to fight a vicious internal war between different right wing factions. Which fought on the backs of ordinary humans.

What's missing from the immigration debate - apart from any shred of compassion or decency - is the fact that Brexit ended the system which enabled returns to other countries in Europe. Along with lack of safe routes, Brexit is the biggest driver of small boat crossings. Please remind the Brexiteers

More Labour MPs starting to express public unease at these proposals. Lots more saying so privately...

We need more Council houses in towns and cities, but instead Labour will concrete over the countryside to build more unaffordable mansions If you care about our green spaces, our green belt, and our green fields, then you have to vote Green www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here is Ban the Burn's response to #WestYorkshire #LocalNatureRecoveryStrategy consultation, today is the last day it's open. Anyone is welcome to take what you like from our response for use in your own. saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/w...

@thegreenpost.bsky.social @calderdalebadgers.bsky.social @calderdalegnd.bsky.social @calderdalegreenp.bsky.social

A few things you can do now to help protect #peatland. #SaveRestoreWalshawMoor

@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social @michaelshanksmp.co.uk @marycreagh.bsky.social YES to onshore wind for a green transition NO to windfarms on protected #peatland

Looks as if @joshfg.bsky.social has a fair amount of explaining to do - Constituents gutted by #CalderValley MP's votes against nature protection amendments to #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/c...

"This world belongs to everyone": Climate campaigners set to march in Leeds www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/environ...

"The science is evolving quite rapidly and time is running out to do anything about it because the tipping point may well be quite close," says PIK's @rahmstorf.bsky.social in this piece on Iceland declaring the potential collapse of #AMOC a national security risk. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1op...

Brilliant, place-grounded essay from @sachahilhorst.bsky.social about Reform powering on through its seemingly irreconcilable contradictions

Serious concerns were raised when Tory stooge Robbie Gibb (whose brother was a Tory minister duh) was appointed to the BBC board in 2021. Do politicians, their SPADs and staff not bother to read beyond the headlines? I thought it was their job to know what was going on....

@joshfg.bsky.social why didn't you speak up for #BlanketBog yesterday like other Labour MPs in #chalkstream constituencies spoke up for the Lords' chalkstream protection amendment to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill, and also abstained from voting to reject it? So disappointed in your silence.

Seems like a good day for us to remind ourselves about some of the donations that Wes Streeting has received….🚨🚨🚨

If you're able, please do read. A wonderful book by a brilliant writer.

Blue Labour think caring for nature is middle class toss, a character weakness; or worse, code for being Tory. Blue Labour would love nothing more than a return to concrete brutalism of the 1960s, when progress meant environmental destruction without any concern for the consequences.

@joshfg.bsky.social @richardburgon.bsky.social @chrishinchliff.bsky.social @philbrickellmp.bsky.social @katedeardenmp.bsky.social please vote 4 Lords amendments 49 and 130 and call for government amendment to protect blanket bog saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/d...

As the indicators of rapid and disastrous climate change (such as polar ice loss) are flashing red, and with the world meeting at #COP30 to thrash out more urgent action.... oil and gas prices drop dramatically today.... because of a worldwide production glut. Hell and Hand Basket come to mind.

and the key person coordinating the attack from within, is BBC board member Robbie Gibb.

BBC Board chair Samir Shah's letter to the Culture Select Committee is here www.publicnow.com/view/ED1D4E5.... Strangely no mention of the incessant attacks on the BBC from the right/far right here & in US, & their very transparent agenda to destroy the BBC as a source of relatively impartial news.

Many thanks to all the brilliant booksellers @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social For their continued support of Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com @nybooks.com @nytimes.com

@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social @michaelshanksmp.co.uk @marycreagh.bsky.social @joshfg.bsky.social @katedeardenmp.bsky.social

Well well well. Finally, in the light of the resignations of DG and BBC news CEO, the BBC is reporting about the entryists on its own Board, and their agenda to force the BBC's editorial position to the right, even the far right. Step into the spotlight, Robbie Gibb. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Desperately seeking Ministers' support for #blanketbog protection amendment to #PlanningInfrastructureBill saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/d...

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

Couple of new #CalderdaleEnergyPark developments as the Applicant gears up for the Statutory Consultation and Preliminary Environmental Information Report in January saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/c...

“Panels installed flat against the roof, in particular, fared well. Some rooftop solar owners have taken to removing their panels ahead of strong winds. Many were already back online.”

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

No government defeats in the Lords last night in the final night of report stage for the Planning & Infrastructure Bill. Even swift bricks didn't manage to get over the line (vote below). Next is Lords Third Reading on 10 November

We are asking @joshfg.bsky.social to vote for Amendment 130, the chalk streams amendment and also to ask @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social to extend the chalk streams amendment to #blanketbog saverestorewalshawmoor.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/p...

🔔 Nature is at risk, but your voice can help. The Planning Bill is nearly law. An amendment passed by the Lords yesterday offers vital protection - but it needs MP support to stay in. 📢 Tell your MP: please back Amendment 130. wtru.st/49ch28z

Should have made front pages everywhere, instead struggled to even make the inside pages. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521345...