An adopters perspective: Social workers and judges are between a rock and a hard place. Take a child too early, and it severs family relationship, too late and the harm caused is prolonged and much harder to mitigate through trauma-informed parenting. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rise in babies in care proceedings raises fears of unnecessary adoptions, experts tell BBC

With better support, many babies may not have needed to go into care, File on 4 Investigates is told.

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Renewables don’t spend their lives spilling pollution into rivers ‘UK oil refinery broke toxic pollution limits dozens of times, documents reveal’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK oil refinery broke toxic pollution limits dozens of times

Pollution was spilled into local rivers and protected sites, documents shared with the BBC suggest.

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Actual investors have some thoughts on the Tory deregulation plans.

There are so many climate policy conversations in so many places around the world on "pragmatism", "realism", "compromise" etc How many of them include this end of the equation?

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2d ago

"A series of deadly heat waves from May to August overwhelmed Germany’s healthcare and emergency response systems and led to an estimated 16,000 heat-related deaths during the summer, the most heat mortalities ever recorded in the highly developed country."

Why does it feel like this is the story of everything?: "TalkTalk began as a challenger to BT in the broadband market. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange, but was taken over by private equity in 2021. Since then, the firm has built up debt..." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The idea of Nepo Bolsonaro winning in Brazil is just so depressing. The thought of him re-starting the full scale destruction of the Amazon is so bleak.

This would be a utterly insane change that both entirely misunderstands the issues we have with housebuilding and tne role of the EA/Natural England. Particularly given the huge additional responsibilities we've just given the latter. Hammer blow for nature and the enviroment for no good reason

James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 2d ago

The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Lol. Someone at CCHQ coms really does have an absolutely raging boner for Rayner.

General Boles@generalboles.bsky.social · 3d ago

Did you weave Angela Rayner in? Sure did boss, real cool and relatable just like you asked for Great....wait what? #CPC26

My favourite chart from the @IEA special report on electrification. Electricity is only 23% of Final Energy (No big deal), but it's 37% of Useful Energy (What?) and delivers 46% of GDP (Wow!) And it's going clean, fast. Still think there's no transition? iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/1c696...

Ever seen 6,000 Croation kids riot? You’re gonna.

French teenagers are revolting.

Mujtaba Rahman@mijrahman.bsky.social · 5d ago

The violent school protests which closed 900 (one in four) lycées and led to 2,000 arrests on Thursday have invaded the French presidential campaign. The high-school students say their anger is justified. The government claims manipulation by the Far Left, including Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s LFI 1/

🎵 Don't be suspicious🎵 🎵Don't be suspicious🎵 🎵Don't be suspicious🎵 #CelebrityTraitors

Ed Gamble’s suit is a choice

Ross Kemp’s paranoia is mad. How did the cartels not kill him?!

God, I love the ridiculous campness of Claudia on the Traitors

I know this isn't LinkedIn... but Pinwheel, the climate company I co-founded, has just placed 77th in Sifted's Europe 250 fastest growing start-ups and I'm delighted. I promise to keep this shit to a minimum going forward. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

This is just further proof of the bent nature of the sponsorships. No regular sponsor would threaten to sue the Prem for the reputational damage of a report they arent even named in. They would just cut ties with the club www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Seeing a few ex-pro footballers saying they feel sorry for City players. They chose to play for a nation state. They chose to go to City - with a salary that likely dwarfed other offers and didn't wonder how it was possible. This has been in the public domain for years. They turned a blind eye.

To hell with everyone involved in that Slipknot tour.

Imagine doing an interview in a national newspaper announcing how much of a see you next tuesday you are. Wild.

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · last wk.

Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires

Nation states shouldn’t be allowed to own football clubs.

Yes, you read that right. NINE times cheaper.

Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 2w ago

NEW – Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK ✍️ Written by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/VpxOLE5

The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago.

Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3w ago

This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.

The warnings about how awful Britain is for rich people would sound a little better not coming from a betting shop owner and Jim bloody Ratcliffe. Their argument has the least sympathetic spokespeople imaginable.

The highlight of this match so far had been Jon Marks on commentary saying “test Tickle”.

I'm quite enjoying the liberal, genteel nerds of Bluesky going full military invasion nut over the Piddington stunt. I fear recruitment offices are going to be inundated with skinny, anaemic signups with minus 8 eyesight.

On the CCC Heathrow advice. Firstly, it is good advice but narrowish lens of UK carbon budgets is key to understanding it. Also, the people behind it at the CCC are truly expert, and excellent. At the very least Government should implement the advice in full if it greenlights Heathrow expansion.

Evanescence were good, but my god the upper deck seats at the o2 are high. Was holding on to the seat for dear life. Seats shouldn’t be higher than the roof lighting.

The role lynx can play in woodland regeneration and ecosystem repair should be a key consideration for the UK Government's ambitions for nature. Thanks to @joshnewburymp.bsky.social  for raising this issue: https://f.mtr.cool/uqz0sqdcdt

I think it’s important for the media to distinguish carbon capture from carbon removal.