With emotive warnings on social media about aggressive drunk wasps, there are ways we can live with wasps, as Vanna Bartlett explains. Humans must learn to live with wasps - an insect in serious decline & very crucial to a healthy ecosystem. Here's how 👇

Uninvited but indispensable: how to live with wasps

Wasps, once a common summer sight, are now in decline yet they remain vital pollinators and we must learn to live alongside them

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They told us to worry about the economy. The planet IS the economy.

Good piece on England’s completely avoidable water crisis. “At the moment, we're using world-class drinking water to cool data centres, to irrigate our golf courses.”

The race to stop England running out of water

Who is to blame for the summer drought, and can England future-proof its water supplies?

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All creatures great and small deserve kindness.

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint

If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.

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A liveable future means no new oil and gas. Andy Burnham must say no to Rosebank and Jackdaw.

School children should not be party to killing hares by their school masters - utterly sick posh people’s so called ‘sport’ is psychopath training at best..

Hunt Saboteurs Association @huntsabs.org.uk · 2d ago

❌𝗦𝗵𝘂𝘁 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝗴𝗹𝗲𝘀! Today the Hunt Saboteurs Association can exclusively reveal the full footage that led to the recent conviction of Stowe School Beagles Kennel Huntsman Philip Kennedy for killing a hare in November 2025. Read more 👇 www.huntsabs.org.uk/shut-down-th...

Britons taking “Plan 2” student loan need to earn £63,600 a year to reduce debt. Plan 2 graduates with an average loan of £52,100, and earning £39,039 would see loan balance actually increase by £1,692 a year. England student debt £294.6bn, UK £324bn Median UK employee wage is £31,500. Madness.

Release home - Student loan forecasts - earnings

Ad hoc experimental statistics publication presenting analysis of earnings and lifetime repayments forecasts for England

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The majority of the British people want to let the Thames Water parasites go bust and taken back into public ownership… The privatisation project has failed..

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d ago

Large part of UK’s water network was installed 130 to 150 years ago. Thames Water infrastructure has average age of 79 years; industry average 56 yrs. 40% of TW assets are over 100 years old. Its IT systems date back to the 1980s. Since privatisation, water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends.

Why is @news.rte.ie describing this as a "natural disaster", when all the experts say it was largely due to human-caused climate collapse? This sort of messaging is a big part of the problem. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 356

Entire villages swept away after glacial collapse triggers flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims

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I have written to the Cabinet Secretary to seek assurances that the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, who was lobbying for the privatised water industry until recently, has had no involvement in talks about the future of Thames Water.

This definitely should make investors think about the dangers of excess investment and the risks associated with pursuing the most optimistic projections. Worth remembering that the fiber optic investment boom was followed by a wave of high profile corporate bankruptcies.

The companies responsible for the 17-tonne nurdle spill that is polluting England’s north east coast seem to have given up, as they stand insurer-funded clean-up teams down, leaving volunteers and council teams to keep going.

Nurdle fury as clean-up team cut back and volunteers 'exploited'

Volunteers who have devoted thousands of hours to clearing plastic pellets from the North East's beaches after July's nurdle spill are furious after it emerged

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Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · 6d ago

A new press release from the volunteer nurdle community on England’s north-east coast, a month after the plastic spill, as official, insurance-funded teams are being prematurely laid off while nurdles are now being found on North Yorkshire beaches. docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Reform is a clownshow of racist, misogynistic, islamophobic, fascistic, corrupt, grifting, incompetent, hateful halfwits. Beyond ridiculous that they think they can lecture us all on values and how to conduct our personal lives. Sit down. Have a big think. And get your own houses in order.

As I board the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki, I’m reminded yet again of three things about the EU: 1) You don’t sacrifice any of your national identity or culture by being part of the EU. Estonia remains Estonia. Finland remains Finland 2) Schengen is great. 3) Brexit was and is shit.

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

So the ultra-rich will continue to own our politics, and our country. Disappointing to say the least. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors

PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour

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Nature is not a resource. It’s the operating system of life. When we destroy forests, wetlands, and oceans, we delete our own survival code. Protect ecosystems = protect ourselves. #Biodiversity #NatureBasedSolutions

Campaigning starts with the first - signature on a petition - letter to an MP - shared social media post - join a local group - going on a march ... meme via Fulco Verachtert

I real enjoy every one of these mini-tutorials on economics and finance. Every one is a master class in effective communication. Well worth the few minutes it takes to read and absorb each module. I wish my own university lecturers had been even half as good at communicating as this.

Richard Murphy@richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 4d ago

Is £3 trillion of national debt a problem, or a sign of success and the finance sector's confidence in the government? I wrote this infographic. AI created the image.

American Food Crime Against Humanity.

Symptoms of the climate crisis have hit us all summer, yet SNP and Labour politicians want to drill for more oil and gas! It's time to take action for people and planet. No new fossil fuels.

Israel murders first child under 'kill for kites' order Within hours of the kill order, Israel's occupation forces slaughtered four-year-old Hassan Al-Qatraoui and other members of his family

Israel murders first child under 'kill for kites' order

Within hours of the kill order, Israel's occupation forces slaughtered four-year-old Hassan Al-Qatraoui and other members of his family

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This is very worrying. The idea that carbon capture can compensate for #Rosebank emissions suits the oil industry and must sound appealing to Gov. But it’s total BS for a number of reasons. Please read and share Andrew Boswell’s explanation below. 🙏o

#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell)@drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 5d ago

🧵1/ Very grateful to @graceblakeley.substack.com for this guest blog on how promoters of carbon capture and storage (CCS) are trying to give Andy #Burnham a deceptively neat-looking get-out-of-jail-free card to drill Rosebank and Jackdaw. This thread explains its flawed carbon accounting

A key political test for new UK PM Andy Burnham is whether to approve Rosebank & Jackdaw oil & gas fields New academic research shows economic damage caused from CO2 produced would be between £119bn and £336bn, compared with estimated £28.7bn economic benefits www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows

Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK

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From now on, Canadians will refer to the United States as Epstein Island.

Took a bus into the centre of Plymouth today. Previous diesel had been replaced by a new electric model. What an improvement - quiet, no vibration and really smooth ride. Can’t wait for my regular bus into Exeter to go electric.

Andy Burnham in Kyiv: "Ukraine has been Europe's protector. Not a drain on our security, but a front line of keeping Europe safe. On behalf of everyone in the United Kingdom, днем незалежності україно, Happy Independence Day]... We are with you in this struggle, all the way, heart and soul."

🟢 @zackpolanski.bsky.social sets out three things that Andy Burnham must do: 🏘 Rent controls 💰 Wealth Tax 🌱 Invest in nature ❓️Will he act?

CANADA HOLD LOTS OF CARDS: ♠️♥️♣️♦️♥️♣️♦️♠️♥️♣️♦️ Here’s just one You import 4 million barrels of oil a day from Canada / you also import 9 billion cu ft of natural gas / day and electricity that lights millions of your homes … Buckle up 🇨🇦💪