Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Spot on.

A few quotes from Carter on international affairs. On US's role in the world:

"I would like to see our country be the champion of human rights and every American embassy looked upon as a haven for anyone who suffers from human rights abuse. I'd like our country to be the most generous on Earth."

A round up of good news stories from 2024

I’m signing off the year with a look back at all the things that went right in 2024. Because plenty did. From “mind blowing” medical advances to tumbling renewables records, here are the good news stories you may have missed in the mainstream media www.positive.news/society/what...

Thanks Daniel, that's lovely of you to say so. It's a great people power story isn't it. Let's hope to see more of that.

Frustrated commuters are taking on a £650m rail giant to run trains for themselves Fed up of being neglected by GWR's timetable the West Country residents behind Go-op plan to offer their communities a better rail service

Delighted that my latest piece for @inews.co.uk is the ‘most popular’ yarn on the site. It’s a people power story about the frustrated West Country commuters who are taking on rail giants to run trains for themselves:
inews.co.uk/news/frustra...

What went right this week: the good news that matters A solution to microplastic pollution, China’s 1,800-mile ‘green wall’, and the Comedy Wildlife Awards, plus more good news from the week

10 nuggets of good news to end your week, including a solution to microplastic pollution, China’s 1,800-mile ‘green wall’, and some animals doing funny things www.positive.news/society/good...

Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass? Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring even more disruptive protests by millionaire landowners

🔴Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?

Media outlets condemn climate campaigners as “middle class” protesters causing “chaos” while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners @josiah.writes.news reports

My day at London’s secret plane-spotting paradise On a dismal December morning, I found it oddly hard to leave Hounslow

I had a surprisingly good time with some plane-spotters last weekend when I could have been at home eating eggs in my dressing gown. I wrote about the preconception-shattering experience - and the eccentrics I met at #Heathrow - here: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/...

What went right this week: the good news that matters The UK ‘reached peak petrol’, Belgium’s sex workers won full labour rights, and capturing carbon got easier, plus more good news

10 nuggets of good news to kick off your weekend, including the UK ‘reaching peak petrol’. Me via Positive News www.positive.news/society/good...

Hey Denise. That sounds interesting. It's worth pitching to lucy@positive.news. Cc me in gavin@positive.news

Nice one. Read it in the mag and really enjoyed it.

Great stuff. I'm glad you've managed to shoehorn that in! I hope the book flies.

Great stuff, man. Really want to go. Though I'll never look at starlings in the same way after reading Beasts of England (a genius book, by the way)!

Definitely. There's a huge negativity bias in the mainstream news.

The same trend is happening in the US. Americans think their economy is tanking, too, when the opposite is true. Surely it's a symptom of 24/7 news culture, online misinformation and social media moral panics. We're doomed unless we clean up our polluted information ecosystem.

a man is sitting on a swing in a park waiting for a response ALT: a man is sitting on a swing in a park waiting for a response

I hear ya.

Joyous.

I didn’t vote for #Starmer, but Musk’s meddling in our affairs makes me more likely to support the PM, not less. Why doesn't he try running a poll to see how many Americans would like a re-run of the election?

That's spectacular, mate. What are they? Starlings?

Elon Must retweeting news of the election petition passing 1M with "The people of Britain have had enough of a tyrannical police state"

Elon Musk doesn't seem to have grasped the population size of the UK.

What went right this week: the good news that matters A rival metric to GDP emerged, nations vowed to end fossil fuel subsidies, and a co-op rail firm got the green light, plus more good news

10 nuggets of good news to kick off your weekend, including a rival metric to GDP that accounts for housework, childcare and the health of our planet. Me via Positive News www.positive.news/society/good...

That's a stunner.

What went right this week: the good news that matters A rival metric to GDP emerged, nations vowed to end fossil fuel subsidies, and a co-op rail firm got the green light, plus more good news

Great to see this post, thanks for asking. I write this good news roundup every week to offset the doom. Please follow if you need a fresh perspective on the news www.positive.news/society/good...

The International Criminal Court Issues 'Watershed' Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, for War Crimes in Gaza The court rejected arguments by the U.S. and Israel that the ICC does not have jurisdiction, subjecting the officials to potential arrest in 124 countries

“This is a watershed event in the history of international justice. The ICC has never, in over 21 years, indicted a pro-Western official. Indeed, no international court since World War II has done so."

Our story on the ICC warrant just issued for Netanyahu:

www.dropsitenews.com/p/icc-netany...

A satirical cartoon of a passenger on a plane saying the pilot has lost touch with regular passengers before adding: “who thinks I should fly the plane?” Everyone puts their hands up.

cartoon of the day

Delighted to get a splash in The i Paper this weekend about 'sponge cities'. Places like #Rotterdam (and, closer to home, #Mansfield) are embracing nature-based architecture to fend off flooding. It not only looks pretty but makes us feel better, too. inews.co.uk/news/world/s...

Great stuff. It's made such a difference around our way.

What went right this week: the good news that matters There was progress on poverty, the ‘building of the year’ was revealed, and researchers offered a quick climate win, plus more good news

10 nuggets of good news to kick off your weekend, including a ‘quick’ climate win, ‘world building of the year’, and progress on poverty. Me via Positive News www.positive.news/society/good...