Our Backin' Birkenhead Community Sessions begin on Saturday with a Walking Conversation around town. The question of the day is, "What does Birkenhead feel like to you?" We'll start out from MAKE around 10:30 @thewilk.bsky.social
Prosocial Place
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Urban & landscape design, planning & research | Psychology | Public Mental Health | Wellbeing | Co-production of places Ours is an anti-fragile approach, mixed with a little disrupting of the status quo Graham Marshall + Prof Rhiannon Corcoran
It's taken some time building up the Backin' Birkenhead Town Team, but we're ready to start conversations now on the future of the town. Everyone with an interest in the town is invited to come along, join in, and help get things moving...
The body of a disabled man was found in his flat in distressing, squalid conditions, just weeks after the Department for Work and Pensions wrongly removed his disability benefits because he had failed to return a claim form.
Disabled man dies in poverty and squalor after DWP removes his benefits, just as Labour cuts PIP by £4.5bn
The body of a disabled man was found in his flat in distressing, squalid conditions, just weeks after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrongly removed his disability benefits because he h…
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Trying out a simple logo for the community Town Team Reflecting the Laird town grid, Dock Branch cutting and Grade 1 listed Hamilton Square, with a play on words @davidr-regen.bsky.social @cathypalmer.bsky.social Does it work for you?
@britwarmemorial.bsky.social We're currently looking at the Blitz Memorial in Anfield Cemetery - would appreciate any advice you could give
Understanding evolutionary psychology is essential if we are to understand ourselves and where we are going www.facebook.com/share/p/14X2...
This is tabloid reporting from the BBC @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social what do you think Developer contributions can not be spent on maintenance - BBC should know that Active travel intervention may be the best "road improvement" option here. Road shouldn't = car www.bbc.com/news/article...
Funding for road improvements in Barnsley spent on active travel
Residents left 'frustrated' after road's condition deteriorates but developer's contribution spent.
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Morning all. Photograph by John Murray. Two women chatting while they sweep the pavement outside their Dundee homes, Scotland, June 1955.
I thought bonfire night was a celebration of the foiling of the gunpowder plot We've just had a re-enactment of a Somme barrage over Liverpool, and the 'dads' aren't event home for their tea yet Braced for riduculosness in an hour!
"So a system that was meant to help farmers, keep Europeans fed and the land well cared for, has turned into one that trashes the environment; enriches big landowners and leaves poor farmers struggling; delights retailers but costs money for consumers" amp.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Welfare for the rich’: how farm subsidies wrecked Europe’s landscapes | Farming | The Guardian
The steep and stark environmental decline was not supposed to happen under the common agricultural policy
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If a Labour government with a massive majority and commitments to zero carbon can't put fuel duty up after *14 year freeze* - is this now a politically toxic tax that no chancellor will ever touch?
Sunset over Liverpool Friday evening... was too slow to catch the illumination of the chimneys and gable ends
Who would want to be a member of this Labour Party! amp.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Don’t do it again’: Miliband condemns £30,000 Labour breakfast with minister | Labour | The Guardian
Party offered company bosses event with business secretary, but Ed Miliband says Jonathan Reynolds knew nothing of it
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Just checking on our home security of Streetview Foxhound on high alert - Rottweiler giving broody shade!
chng.it/p6PfLC9x9r Please sign this petition. Eels are seriously endangered, which is why the EU, banned their export, but DEFRA is contemplating allowing the e port of millions of elvers from the Severn
Sign the Petition
Stop export of baby eels from UK to Russia
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"Twice as many new homes have been built in London in the past decade as the number of households added to the city’s population, yet average property values in some areas have almost doubled." amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theg...
Yimbys hear this – simply building more homes won’t solve our housing crisis | Housing | The Guardian
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This is an appalling secret - glad it is out & perhaps another pit of corruption can be closed forever. We're a quarter of the way into the 21stC already I wonder why the Conservatives/LibDems didn't throw this on the bonfire of the Quangos too? amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theg...
More floods are coming to Britain, but you ought to know this: the system that should protect us is a scandal | Flooding | The Guardian
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Norway recently implemented a weight tax on all vehicles (including electric!!) NOK 12.5 per kilogram over 500 kilograms. EV lobby groups and big car companies that have been aggressively bloating EV models for years are *very* pissed off about it.
Nå kommer det store bil-sjokket: Avgiftseksplosjon
Ekstra avgift innføres for elbiler. Og når elbilene skal bli dyrere, blir alt dyrere.
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The government has set out to crush one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, and an entire field of science supports this vandalism. This week’s column is about the *exploitation mindset* and how it corrupts almost everyone. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A wondrous fish has made a miraculous return to UK seas. Why are ministers so keen to see them all killed? | George Monbiot
We should be celebrating the revival of the bluefin tuna – but a ravenous fishing industry is already licking its lips, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Prof Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip. youtu.be/FPCztlID3Q0
Professor Kevin Fong testifying at the Covid Inquiry Module 3, Sept 2024
YouTube video by Christina Pagel
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Good grief - even the Peak District isn't immune from our destructive behaviours I thinkl that its probably time to remove all redundant weirs from all rivers, and perhaps have a buffer zone from bank edges back to agriculture where wildlife can thrive www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wildlife trust's urgent appeal to 'save' river River Derwent - BBC News
It says the river's health is in rapid decline and creatures living in it are at risk.
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"Keir Starmer failed to declare £16,200 in clothing gifts from Labour peer, Lord Alli" Very poor judgement from a PM More than a little something to remember him by & not a gift in any normal sense My professor wife feels bad about receiving cards from students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Keir Starmer's clothes row frustrates Labour insiders, Laura Kuenssberg writes
Sir Keir Starmer's top team have learnt the hard way that in politics, perception matters.
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Laptop Help! Bought HP Spectre x360 - intermitently (left)shift zxcv keys don't work Gave it to a guy a couple of years ago to repair. Came back with new HD installed - £200 - didn't work He took HD out, gave thorough clean - didn't work - he then disapeared Can it be anything but the keyboard?
“We don’t have a specific goal [to reduce driving]. Of course, we would like to get more people on public transportation and bikes. But that is more something that cities work on.” (and something governments have constantly undermined) www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts
Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options.
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A shout out for Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin today, and all the other women in the world with suppressed voices en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia...
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - Wikipedia
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