A whole load of farmers where I grew up are absoloutely up in arms about Chris Packham, and other people looking at farming sustainability, suggesting they'll have to change their model due to climate change. I do wonder at what point this year will cut through and make them change their minds

Brynley Heaven@brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 7d ago

what politics will emerge from this? who can say? the denialists are going to have a hard time. No doubt they will think of something. Could there be a backlash against rewilding? Never have solar farms in fields seemed like a better way of paying the bills

Not just wildfires impacting our way of life. 'Low Danube river levels force Romania to shut down both of its nuclear power reactors' www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Low Danube river levels force Romania to shut down both of its nuclear power reactors

Romania will shut down its ‌second nuclear reactor on the Danube river, the energy ministry said on Wednesday, three days after decades-low river levels forced it to shut down the first.

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++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

Housing costs, housing costs, housing costs, housing costs, housing costs, housing costs.... www.standard.co.uk/news/london/... #london

London's first 'real' population fall for 37 years as 420,000 quit capital

The drop in London’s population is the first decline since 1988 outside of the Covid pandemic

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And that's half a million more children nationwide given a free meal at the start of the day this year. No child should go to school hungry.

Back from holiday & delighted to join Cllr Susan Masters to celebrate the completion of latest phase of Newham Council's Romford Rd safety scheme: 🚲bike lanes 🚦signalised junctions 🚶‍♀️ped crossings 🌳street trees, planting & drainage Great partnership working with TfL team

What an extraordinary and long overdue transformation for the Romford Road - and we can’t wait to see the next big junction at Woodgrange Road which will be Newham’s FIRST Dutch style protected intersection!

Will Norman@willnorman.co.uk · last wk.

Back from holiday & delighted to join Cllr Susan Masters to celebrate the completion of latest phase of Newham Council's Romford Rd safety scheme: 🚲bike lanes 🚦signalised junctions 🚶‍♀️ped crossings 🌳street trees, planting & drainage Great partnership working with TfL team

“I firmly believe access to nature is an issue of social justice” - ten years of ambition to clean and open up London’s precious waterways. Everyday bold ambition from @london.gov.uk and @metecoban92.bsky.social launched at the West Reservoir www.london.gov.uk/mayor-launch...

Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.

The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

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🏡50,000 new affordable and council homes. Brownfield first. Priority for GM locals. Action on bad landlords, rip-off rents and HMOs.

It is actually quite a compelling theory though it’s also close to unfalsifiable so pretty metaphysical. It falls down, though, if you say there are hard physical limits on computational power, which there probably are.

The final diesel bus from First Bus’s Hengrove depot has been donated to Circular ArtSpace in Bristol, becoming a mobile arts venue. The move marks the depot’s transition to a fully zero-emission fleet while supporting free community creativity. news.firstbus.co.uk/news/final-h...

Final Hengrove diesel bus donated to Bristol community arts project | First Bus UK News

The last diesel double-decker operating from Hengrove depot in Bristol has been donated by First Bus to Circular ArtSpace, helping bring an innovative arts project to life.

news.firstbus.co.uk

Squidge is a great communicator. Any teachers out there? This is how to do it! (I know lesson plans, Ofsted ..)

Squidge Rugby@squidgerugby.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dave Rennie's New Zealand are officially up and running: A third consecutive win as they bowled over Ireland. So, how did the All Blacks shut the Irish down, what got their slick attack moving, and what how far off are Farrell's team? youtu.be/bx_oij6Er2E

Gutted to hear of Kevin Keegan’s death. One of the greats, who I was privileged to see in his prime at Anfield for Liverpool growing up. Deepest condolences to his family and friends.

Whoever is writing captions for the Guardian seems to have run fresh out of fucks.

Very good @neweconomics.bsky.social blog from @pollybillington.bsky.social on why an Andy Burnham-led Labour Government should be leading the energy transition away from oil, gas and coal at home and internationally neweconomics.org/2026/07/ener...

Energy security in an age of conflict

Why the UK must lead a global clean power alliance

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Absolutely agree with this.

Andrew Sissons@acjsissons.bsky.social · last mo.

If I were in government I'd be scoping an announcement to have solar, batteries and air conditioning (heating and cooling) in every school and hospital by 2030

Our Director and US Principal Economist argue in an essay for @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social that the solution to Britain’s compounding crises is the Productive State — that owns, invests and provides essentials to make life affordable. www.mainstreamlabour.org/updates/new-...

NEW PUBLICATION - The Productive State: A Framework for Manchesterism

Today, Mainstream publishes our first major research publication, The Productive State: A Framework for Manchesterism.

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Incredible - dramatic improvements in air quality in London are linked to a measurable impact on Londoners' health: 9.3% drop in heart-related emergency admissions 5.1% drop in hospital admissions of all illnesses and health conditions Cleaning up our air protects our future.

Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests

Imperial College scientists analysed health records before and after introduction of air pollution reduction zones

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Will Farage, Musk etc be condemning white people in general for the actions of this violent white person, and advocating rage or violence in response? Will the BBC be laundering their 'legitimate concerns' about those white folks?

Joy@joybe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Alina Burns, 19, of Lynton Road in Bristol, admitted attempting to murder Mohammed Mahmoodi, outside a barber's shop in Bristol. Burns approached Mahmoodi from behind and swung the axe at his neck. He was able to wrestle the weapon away from her before she could strike him again.

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are helping make London's streets safer and enable more people to walk & cycle. Great to see more being made permanent - with extensive urban drainage systems & planting to help prevent flooding & boost biodiversity.

"I think of Englishness as being mainly an ethnicity." And here I am watching Emilio Gay, Grenadian father, Italian mother, born in Bedford, representing England admirably in the Test. What a load of rubbish from Matthew son of Godwin. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The deeply contentious debate around what it means to be English

The debate about English identity has been a perennial one but has now taken on a harder edge

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Absolutely. This.

Anthony Painter@anthonypainter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The problem isn't that we are in hock to the bond markets. The problem is that we are in hock to idiosyncratic public accountancy rules. Build. More. Council. Housing. www.ft.com/content/0aef...

Reading this discussion on AI and remembering back to the search for the "killer app" for mobile phones probably late in the last century which we've now largely forgotten...

Andrew Sissons@acjsissons.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very interesting @jburnmurdoch.ft.com piece this morning - how much value AI is creating is exactly the right question. The evidence from coders here suggests it’s so far creating a lot of extra output - 290% more files, 30% more software releases - but no extra valuable outputs (app downloads)

I am the son of two police officers so I admit I am hardly unbiased here but I feel like the fact British policing has been hollowed out by massive budget cuts over a decade ought to be a larger part of the discussion than "DEI"

Harsh, but… #Clegg

LeithMotive@leithmotive.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yes. It is ultimately his fault as much as Cameron and Osborne. Never grasped his role was to veto the bad stuff and take credit for the good stuff instead of eating posh boy shit like he was back at public school.

Well done @iandunt.bsky.social for not letting Reform cllr Alex Wilson take the high ground for what Farage did.

Stephen Lawrence was killed by six men. It took 19 years for two of them to face justice. Four never did. Henry Nowak's killer has been convicted and jailed within six months of his death. The two cases *are not the same*. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...

Our ‘pure cold rage’ should be at Farage and Robinson

The police made a terrible mistake with Henry Nowak. But deliberately stoking racial tensions for personal advantage is despicable

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Read and follow Sarah Martin, she’s doing great work www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hanson and Joyce bill taxpayers for flights to private events on luxury cruise ship hosted by Rinehart

Exclusive: Parliamentary records show the One Nation MPs claimed travel expenses for fundraising events on exclusive cruise liner where mining billionaire owns an apartment

theguardian.com

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.