Inge Panneels
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Artist and academic- #mapping, #circular economy, #place, #making , #regenerative, #design #craft #createch Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Europe
So much of the discourse around the fiscal cost of welfare is just totally disconnected from reality
Resolution Foundation@resolutionfoundation.org · 2h agoIs welfare spending ''out of control''? It's estimated to be 11.1 per cent of GDP this financial year. That's just 1.1 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen by 0.9 per cent of GDP since 2012-13 ⤵️
40 years of the Headington Shark! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heading...
Headington Shark - Wikipedia
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Chris Hohn, billionaire hedge fund manager: ‘All these people who say we can't afford net zero - they're completely misunderstanding the gravity of the situation.' www.thetimes.com/article/de38...
Map showing major flood risk due to sea level rise vs screenings of the People's Emergency Briefing. Areas in east England face severe threats. House prices will tumble long before areas have to be vacated. But so many still aren't aware. How to host a screening: www.nebriefing.org/host-the-film
We are witnessing a tipping point. Boreal forests that stored carbon for 1000s of years are now CARBON EMITTERS. Heatwaves make wildfires. Wildfires make more heat. More heat makes more fires. This feedback loop is what scientists warned you about.
Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s #pesticides law - High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife By @zdboren.bsky.social @grilledmedia.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife
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People from under-represented backgrounds in the UK’s creative industries are experiencing “increasing pressure” from rising living costs, technological change and uneven access to opportunity, a Creative Access (CA) report has found.
Creative workers from under-represented backgrounds under strain, report warns - Arts Professional
People from under-represented backgrounds in the UK's creative industries are experiencing "increasing pressure" from rising living costs, technological
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You really should read this. I'm not usually a huge fan of stories about stories, but this is more than that - a story of a real conspiracy, of those whose stated mission is to hold power to account silenced or cowed by that power until it's too big to ignore. Epic @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 3w agoNEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇
US ambassador had journalists removed from an EU event for asking a question he didn't like. This is why we need independent media. Meet @eurcorrespond.bsky.social — non-profit, pan-European, no billionaire owners. Follow them. Support independent journalism. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
#independentmedia #europeancorrespondent #pressfreedom #digitalethics #mediareform #journalismmatters | Andrew Hart | 20 comments
Many people are finally waking up to the huge amount of bias and framing in our mainstream press, and I'm slowly working on an article about alternative sources — giving a little background into each ...
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Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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The Trump administration decides to directly fund a whole host of UK right-wing groups to the tune of $12 million. This is US direct interference in UK politics & public life. There are laws against this but will the UK govt dare to act? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young
Exclusive: Controversial grants are part of package criticised as misuse of public money to influence European politics
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Powerful interests tried to silence Gisèle Pelicot, Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Sarah Wynn-Williams. Their memoirs were published anyway. Kate Maltby on what those books reveal about male power—and those who enable it
Inside Bluebeard’s castle: Wynn-Williams, Roberts Giuffre and Pelicot
Three recent books—by Sarah Wynn-Williams, Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Gisèle Pelicot—open a door on male power and its abuses
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Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans
Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soyb...
Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result that nobody had written into the engineering plan.
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Dear Andy Burnham: it’s time to scrap First Past the Post. Our voting system only breeds instability and chaos, and poisons our political culture. We know you agree. Now is the time to fix our democracy. Sign the open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/an...
Dear Andy Burnham: it's time for a fair voting system
Dear Andy Burnham: it’s time to scrap First Past the Post. Our voting system only breeds instability and chaos, and poisons our political culture. We know you agree. Now is the time to fix our demo...
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www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... “motion was inconsistent with the church’s legal obligations and responsibility to ensure “long-term capital growth”. And therefore “missed an opportunity to show moral leadership by failing to support the 30by30 motion” …🤷♂️
Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030
Campaigners criticise C of E for failing to show moral leadership as one of country’s biggest landowners
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Totally agree, I’m a tree inspector and I spend much of my time defending the existence of trees and promoting the need for far more. There is such resistance to more and bigger trees from everyone. I could scream but that changes nothing. I know no other way than to keep turning up sticking with it
Gregory Norminton@gregorynorminton.bsky.social · last mo.The lack of urban trees across the UK is a public health emergency. We need vastly more green shade (and we need to nurture it through ever more brutal summers).
Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Who’s Really Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? Taxpayers
To judge by the way many people discuss the energy transition, we’re engaged in a fight between green idealogues in government and academia on the one hand, and a more realistic private sector that re...
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Trump’s 2025 financial disclosure: $2.2 billion in personal income for his first year back in office — more than triple his 2024 total of ~$600 million. Here’s where the money came from, and why it matters. A #SheShed 🧵
Labour's Stella Creasy has launched an amendment to introduce a £100,000 cap on political donations. Now the Q is whether Andy Burnham will back it Olly Buston of Clean Up Westminster: “If your MP doesn’t back Stella’s amendment then they are basically saying they think politics should be for sale"
Well done Milan! #NaturesRights - it means thinking differently, and hearing different voices H/T @annieleymarie.bsky.social www.euronews.com/2026/07/02/p...
Milan’s animal parliament gives voice to city’s ‘invisible creatures'
Should animals have a say in urban planning? Milan’s quirky animal parliament gives pigeons, foxes and bugs a voice.
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Bearing witness to atrocities and war crimes:
Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · last mo.🚨URGENT: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s life is in immediate danger, Physicians for Human Rights Israel & his lawyer warned Saturday, after a prison visit revealed the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital bearing fresh, severe injuries to his head, eyes, ears & neck, so disfigured his own attorney initially...
“Scottish Water is absolutely something that UK gov't could learn from. It was established quite deliberately as a public corporation. There are upsides and downsides to that - it's not beyond criticism. But compared to privatised English companies, it has been a stable model that's performed well.”
Quiet Riot@quietriotpod.bsky.social · last mo.🏴 B-SIDE: The Scotland Lab 👨🏽🎓 Can Burnham learn from Scot devo? 🪨 What might his plans mean for Scots? 🌹 Should Scot Labour split off? @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social with @ipprscotland.bsky.social's @stephenboydippr.bsky.social 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/7555... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
The obvious win win solution here is - it costs around £100 a foot for new pavement or a cycle path, the delivery robot has saved the company around that after...12 hours of work? Just build their own lane.
Adam Tranter@adamtranter.bsky.social · last mo.Humans should not be forced off pavements by delivery robots, but that's exactly what's happening. The people who pay the price are those with the least room to give it up.
Because, whatever we call it, this derangement that Labour and Democrats alike exhibit, is a deadly bug in liberal systems.
“This is Labour’s reset moment when we can consign to the past some of the appalling language used by politicians to describe refugees: ‘invaders’, ‘an island of strangers’, ‘tearing our country apart'." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs
Exclusive: Veteran Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child attacks ‘performative cruelty’ of Shabana Mahmood’s policies
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