I checked this too.

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In local election purdah.

This is not normal. At all.

Jeez. Labour MP’s have just voted to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state.

No protest movement has ever brought about change through one single march or action. How did it come to this?

UK faces biggest hit to growth from Iran war of major economies, IMF says The financial body cuts its growth forecast for the UK and warns the war threatens to throw the global economy

Wouldn’t it be nice if the UK had invested in a faster green energy transition? More independence from geopolitical shocks would be rather useful
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They’re already widely used in other countries - saw lots in Germany last summer. Makes solar accessible for flat dwellers with balconies who want to reduce their rising energy bills. Hope Scotland legalises these quickly too

Dry dock by River Clyde in Glasgow. The Glasgow Science Centre Tower is in the background.

New paper from the GALLANT project examines the potential of applying the #DoughnutEconomics framework in Glasgow – considering social and ecological wellbeing simultaneously.

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Great news that @adr-scotland.bsky.social was awarded 5 years of @ukri.org funding – enabling @moragtreanor.bsky.social @nickbailey37.bsky.social @serena-pattaro.bsky.social to conduct data-driven research aimed at improving lives across the UK.

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Report cover - Policy Modelling for Health logo top left Text reads Policy Impact Assessment: Autumn Budget Statement 2025 UK-Wide Distributional Analysis 2026-2030

How will the Autumn Budget 2025 affect poverty, inequality, and household incomes across the UK?
Using UKMOD #microsimulation - modelling to simulate behaviour and interactions - our new report assesses winners, losers and fiscal impacts from 2026–2030. www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_1246769_smxx.pdf

ScotRail fares to be frozen for the next year First Minister John Swinney says the move is part of the government's

Welcome news for people and planet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Still amazed at the silence from BBC and other UK news outlets.

Scotland just made history by passing a world-first Community Wealth Building Bill.

It will ensure public money works harder to benefit local jobs, local businesses and local communities.

Here’s why it matters. 👇

Yes, It’s Fascism Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

This is the last call for the "Ah, but…" people. Applications will be closing soon
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Nigel Farage, has proposed a mass deportation plan called "Operation Restoring Justice," which includes creating a "UK Deportation Command" modelled on the U.S. ICE.

Don't vote Reform unless you want innocent blood on UK streets like we see in the USA.

Didn’t believe this was true but have checked and am told it was sent to the Norwegian government yesterday.

Petition: Amend the 28-day rule for the Carer’s Allowance for carers giving hospital care Amend the Carer’s Allowance rules so unpaid carers continue to be paid their allowance after 28 days if they are still providing essential care in the hospital and require NHS trusts to confirm in wri...

Once a carer, always a carer.

Care is vital - yet not paid or valued.

Disabled people are disproportionately vulnerable in hospitals.

It's scandalous that carers allowance is withdrawn after 28 days in hospital.

As if we haven't got enough on our plates.

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And I’m sure the BBC is tripping over itself to cover this in great detail, interview all major Green politicians on prime time news and in all political debate shows.

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

Private donations, election interference and risk to the democratic process. I've just signed this petition from 38 degrees. Sharing in case it’s of interest and you want to sign too
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Shaping Healthy and Equitable Futures: Reflections for World Futures Day on 2 December Each year, World Futures Day invites individuals, institutions, and communities around the world to pause and consider the longer-term trajectories shaping our shared lives. Originating as a global in...

I’d like to share a short reflection I wrote for World Futures Day yesterday - and to mark a year in post as Healthy & Equitable Futures lead at University of Glasgow @uofgshw.bsky.social shorturl.at/SoNmG

Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic waste in 15 years – report Pew Charitable Trusts finds plastic pollution will more than double globally by 2040 unless action taken The 66m tonnes of pollution from plastic packaging that enters the global environment each year could be almost eliminated by 2040 primarily by reuse and return schemes, significant new research reveals. In the most wide-ranging analysis of the global plastic system, the Pew Charitable Trusts, in collaboration with academics including at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, said plastic, a material once called revolutionary and modern, was now putting public health, world economies and the future of the planet at risk. Continue reading...

Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic waste in 15 years – report

Iain Banks: the final interview Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”

—Iain Banks
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Shaping Healthy and Equitable Futures: Reflections for World Futures Day on 2 December Each year, World Futures Day invites individuals, institutions, and communities around the world to pause and consider the longer-term trajectories shaping our shared lives. Originating as a global in...

🌎 Today we celebrate World Futures Day (WFD), adopted by the @unesco.org General Conference in November 2021.

💭 To mark the day, @pmeierprof.bsky.social shares her thoughts on shaping healthy and equitable futures and reflections from Dubai Futures Forum.

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North Sea drilling restrictions to be relaxed in new Labour plan The chancellor will unveil the North Sea Strategy in her Budget speech, the BBC understands.

The BBC manages to report on this without mentioning climate crisis, netzero commitments, or highlighting that there might be issues with such commercial lobbying pressure.

North Sea exploration rules to be relaxed in new Labour plan www.bbc.com/news/article...

If this is the public statement then imagine what was being said in private channels. The drafting of this is so careful, the signatures so universal, you don’t have to be a diplomat to read between the lines.

COP30 in Brazil fails to secure new pledges to cut fossil fuels - follow live

A failure we can’t afford. COP30 does what it was designed to do: nothing. Key voices missing, corporate capture … predictable but tragic outcome

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Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷

At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!?

Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.

Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out

More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém (Brazil), 12% up from last year’s talks in Baku, Azerbaijan.

What should be the most serious, urgent talks on the planet continue to be a farce.
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