Making a splash: demand for raw and ‘brewed’ milk growing in UK Farmers and delivery firms launch new options for those seeking alternative to traditionally pasteurised product

Greatly see @mossgiel.farm spreading the joys of ‘brewed milk’
Go Bruce!

www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ap...

Allotments dead and buried as campaigners fail to stop graveyard plan Teddington doesn't have a single burial space left after the last remaining plot was recently sold

Richmond Council will close the last allotments in Teddington, despite a local petition with nearly 1,700 signatures.

The Green Party helped locals oppose these plans.

Here's everything you need to know, including Councillor Caroline Wren's reaction: www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

After 50 years on my allotment, the council is bulldozing it for graves Richmond council plans to expand Teddington Cemetery into the 120-year-old allotments despite nearly 1,700 residents opposing the idea

Green Councillor Caroline Wren told The Times: 'Authorities are so strapped for resources that staff don’t want to take anything new that increases their workload. So they just carry on with the status quo...

www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

Britain’s food supply ‘at risk of catastrophic failure by 2030’ A report written before the 2024 election says climate change, habitat loss and geopolitical instability are a danger to food security — and it has been ignored

Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Alyn Smith: Dependency on oil is ludicrous when Scotland won the green energy jackpot An independent Scotland simply won’t run our energy market like this.

‘Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth, not one of them through the Strait of Hormuz,”
#Scotland
www.thenational.scot/business/259...

Energy fallout from Iran war signals a global wake-up call for renewable energy The Iran war is exposing how much the global economy still depends on fragile fossil fuel supplies. The conflict has virtually choked off the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for a fifth of the...

The Associated Press getting on board.

"The war in Iran is exposing the world’s reliance on fragile fossil fuel routes, lending urgency to calls for hastening the shift to renewable energy."

Gabriel Zucman: De superrige skal ikke betale mindre end resten af befolkningen. Det er det bedste argument for en formueskat Podcast Episode · Langsomme samtaler · 11 March · 50m

Can highly recommend this interview (in English) on wealth tax.
Important to learn from the past to get it right
@zackpolanski.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

Hundreds of employers handed penalties for illegally underpaying workers 389 employers from across the UK named for failing to pay workers the minimum wage to tens of thousands of workers.

Despite laws 60,000 UK workers didn't get the minimum wage.

Culprits include Browns Manufacturing, BUPA, Busy Bees Nurseries, Costa, Hays Travel, Hovis, ISS, KPMG, Norwich City Football Club.

None forgot to the pay the bosses.

Corporate fines passed to customers. No exec fined

Ellie smiling holding a sign which reads "I support core standards, it's time for trade to protect nature"

Brilliant to join the NFU, WWF and RSPCA in Parliament to discuss the need for core standards for agri-food imports - trade deals must not allow food imports produced to lower standards to undercut British farmers or offshore environmental impacts.

Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c... Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money.

So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK?

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

How the FTSE grew comfortable with bumper pay for bosses Generous deals to keep CEOs at some of the largest UK companies have caused barely a ripple of discontent

Bumper pay awards to FTSE100 bosses.

Smith & Nephew CEO pay doubles to $15.3m.

Similar story at BP, Shell, Rolls Royce and more.

Average real pay for workers unchanged since 2008.

Govts preach pay restraint to workers, silence on fat-cattery.
archive.ph/w7OZJ

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Awks for Tories & Reform who want to keep us hooked on fossil fuels: new @theCCCuk report shows transition to net zero will cost less than a single oil shock - £4bn a year - as well as delivering health & security benefits

A group of six people looking at the camera smiling. They are outside and it looks cold. They are holding Green Party leaflets

A group of three men stand smiling outside a building with a sign saying 'Twickenham Cricket Club'

A woman talks to someone off camera at their doorstep

Two smiling men stand next to a sign saying 'Repair Cafe' outside a building. One of them is taking the photo as a selfie

Greens working hard for #Richmond and #Twickenham this week 💚

Your Green councillors, candidates and volunteers were out asking for opinions and hearing from residents about their concerns this weekend. Change is coming, and it starts on the ground.

Let's keep going! Will you join us?

Labour must not bind Britain's fate to the failing electoral system - Politics.co.uk It’s fair to say that British democracy is in ill health. Labour has inherited rock bottom public trust in politics and a state wracked by austerity. We are working to show that government can deliver...

"This Labour government can still build consensus for an alternative, but it must do so urgently.

We need a national commission on electoral reform"

✍️ Beccy Cooper MP & Tim Roca MP

#Democracy
@drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social @timrocamp.bsky.social @politics.co.uk
www.politics.co.uk/mp-comment/2...

BUT nothing on PR. The ridiculousness of FPTP when you have five parties in contention is obvious. It leads to landslide victories for parties that most people vote against. Why do politicians keep ignoring this?

Excellent. We can’t expect farmers to ‘do good’ off their own back. Especially as farmers are often struggling to make profit. And it’s not possible for them to ‘be green’ when they ‘in the red’

We must defend UK democracy from Russian interference and the wider web of dirty money and misinformation which enables bad actors to undermine trust in politics.

The Elections Bill is crucial in addressing this - the govt must not delay it any further.

Reform losing. Green Party gaining. Country winning.

Fight back with us:

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Think steep Frequent Flyer Tax should be implemented first. At least those with money can contribute towards the damage they are doing with their extravagant luxury to our planet rather than hitting ordinary people every time we go to the supermarket.

This headline leaves out the key points:

Closer alliances with Europe. We are becoming the weak link against Donald Trump.

A defence strategy not dependent on the USA.

And ending the billions wasted on Trident - which doesn't work & leases the warheads from...the USA.

Government unveils biggest overhaul to water in a generation

If Labour won’t nationalise water, their “big overhaul” is a con.

Sewage in our rivers. Bills going up. Profits protected.

Public services should be in public hands.

Letter: The economic case for coalition government From Peter Norris and others

📉 Growth and economic stability are at odds with political instability

🚨 Business leaders raise the alarm on First Past the Post in the @financialtimes.com today

➡️ To avoid chaos and for a fair democracy, Westminster needs #ElectoralReform

www.ft.com/content/422f...

These so-called "patriotic" 🇬🇧newspapers who brought you Brexit were never really patriotic at all.

They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America.

They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.

When we said NATO wasn't working we were derided.

When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid.

The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe.

It's time for a rethink.

Country diary: There’s a hard, ancient pleasure to laying a hedge | Michael White Cranbrook, Kent: I have a stretch of leggy hawthorn that needs attention, so I head out into the cold with my axe and billhook

There's a romance to hedge-laying, but downsides are cost and initial near-total loss of existing habitat/food for wildlife. Alternatives like Conservation/Wildlife Hedging are far cheaper & better for wildlife (more berries/cover): www.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Robert Jenrick Accepted £25,000 Donation from Firm Controlled by Sanctioned Oligarch The Conservative leadership candidate received the money from a company controlled by billionaire Sir Len Blavatnik - who has been sanctioned by the Ukrainian government

A reminder that when Robert Jenrick was running for Conservative party leader he accepted £25,000 from a firm controlled by a sanctioned Oligarch.

He should fit in well

bylinetimes.com/2024/10/17/r...

Good morning.

A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive.

That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power.

Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.

The Constitution Unit. Can the House of Commons handle multi-party politics? 19 January 2026, 1:00pm–2:00pm. Dr Ellie Chowns MP (Green Party Westminster Leader and MP for North Herefordshire). Paul Evans (former Clerk of Committees at the House of Commons). Dr Louise Thompson (Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester). Chair: Prof Meg Russell (Director of the Constitution Unit).

Does the House of Commons need to change to reflect a more fragmented politics?

On 19 January, join @elliechowns.bsky.social, @courtenayilbert.bsky.social and @louisevthompson.bsky.social to discuss smaller parties in the Commons at our free, online event.

Sign up 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo....

Ian Hislop Gets Zack Polanski BADLY Wrong YouTube video by Antony Jones

I was due on Have I got News for You.

Question Time invited me to immigration special in Dover.

We spoke to HIGNFY producers. "Makes total sense! Come on in 2026 instead!"

Ian Hislop probably didn't hear that but just for the record on the facts!

youtu.be/EMvOblrK2fk?...