Labour’s great green energy plan could be a legacy as vital as the NHS | Polly Toynbee Ed Miliband has a rare chance to do for the climate what Nye Bevan did for health: create something future generations will be proud of, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Last month wind generation was up 38% on March 2025, saving £1bn worth of gas imports.

We don’t need more drilling but more renewables.

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🌍 Earth Day 22 April

We’ll be Wimborne tomorrow sharing a simple message, a fairer, safer future is still within reach.

Renewables are the cheapest power and cut pollution. New North Sea drilling won’t lower bills.

Choose hope & action. Come and say hello.

#Wimborne #EarthDay #StopRosebank

Drax claimed record £999m in subsidies for burning trees in 2025, thinktank says Company has received about £8.7bn in renewable energy subsidies since 2012, despite claims wood pellets are not sourced sustainably

Drax claimed record £999m in subsidies for burning trees in 2025, thinktank says. Drax has received about £8.7bn in renewable energy subsidies since 2012, despite claims wood pellets are not sourced sustainably.

#AxeDrax

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Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.

In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.

Most people have no idea. 🧵

🌿 XR BCP rebels were out in Bournemouth Square & the Lower Gardens today talking with people about glyphosate.

A recent report found residues in 8 of 13 playgrounds tested across England.

💌 Will you add your voice? Email your MP in 2 minutes:

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Stranded and dying, the German whale is a parable of our troubled relationship with these sea giants Even as we empathise with these intelligent animals, our relentless push for resources kills them in their thousands, just as whalers once hunted them to the brink of extinction

Save the whales 🐋

Another reason to check the source of consumer goods and food, and where possible buy UK and local.

Whales die in oceans crowded with vessels bringing us our imported purchases 🐋

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UK needs tighter restrictions on political lobbying. @globalwitness.org found UK-based PR firms have doubled collaboration with fossil fuel companies & #OilAndGas industry trade groups since 2015, lobbying to delay, dilute & block urgently needed climate action
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#ReformUK Nigel Farage say he'd reintroduce #fracking, which harms water & air quality, produces emissions fuelling climate crisis, can cause earthquakes & creates industrial sites the blight countryside. 187 constituencies are partially or totally in areas with geologic conditions for fracking 👇✍️

An ostrich with its head in the sand

WE'RE GOING TO RUN OUT OF FOOD.

The day the UK govt was supposed to release a report warning of catastrophic food collapse, it also published data showing England had just had its second-worst harvest on record.

So they cancelled the report's launch, calling it "too negative".

Our demands to the Earl of Shaftesbury:

🔵Give back Lough Neagh (with a timetable)
🔵Meet all parties in Belfast
🔵Be transparent
🔵Publish dredging
contracts
🔵Trigger break clauses
🔵Condemn sand dredging
🔵Commit to a Citizens’ Assembly

#SaveLoughNeagh #Colonialism #RealisationFestival #WeOutHere

Tommy Greene: Stormont can’t keep ignoring the evidence on Lough Neagh sand dredging New research shows sand dredging is "negatively affecting water quality, habitats, and biodiversity"

This is environmental injustice ⬇️

The Earl of Shaftesbury lives in St Giles House, Wimborne St Giles, Dorset while communities across the Irish Sea face damage from Lough Neagh sand dredging.

Private wealth profits. Communities pay.

www.thedetail.tv/articles/com...

People’s pain is Big Oil’s gain
#EnergyBills

Orbán subbed “Friends of Nigel”, and purveyors of “We need Reform” and the like?😳

Orbán, the former (😅) PM of Hungary?

Orbán, widely criticised for dismantling democratic institutions and aligning with authoritarian powers? 🤷

Surely not!

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought.
Collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas, leading to severe food scarcity, frozen winters, summer droughts, and add 50-100cm to already rising sea levels.

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Important- I’ve had so many people say to me that sand dredging at Lough Neagh is “not the problem”

Well guess what? It is a big environmental problem

Lough Neagh sand mining likely harming lake’s ecosystem, Queen’s research warns New research led by Queen’s University Belfast outlines how Lough Neagh, the UK and Ireland’s largest freshwater lake, is under threat from commercial sand dredging.

The Earl of Shaftesbury uses profits from sand dredging contracts at Lough Neagh to renovate St Giles House in Wimborne St Giles.

But should private wealth come from damaging ecosystems? If maintaining an estate depends on harming nature, something is deeply wrong.
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Has Nick Robinson of Radio 4’s Today programme a vested interest in Jackdaw, he’s very keen to promote it.

Jackdaw will NOT lower energy bills or provide a more reliable supply, providing only 1-2% of UK gas demand.

The winner would be Shell and the loser our climate.

@stopcambo.bsky.social 🙏

Select tickets – People’s Emergency Briefing - From Climate Crisis to Action – Allendale Community Centre People’s Emergency Briefing - From Climate Crisis to Action – Allendale Community Centre, Fri 26 Jun 2026 - The National Emergency Briefing given to MPs in Westminster is now coming to Wimborne. Last ...

In the meantime 😊 book your tickets for the WIMBORNE, DORSET showing of the People’s Emergency Briefing 😃 A great opportunity to watch together with our MP and councillors and have discussions afterwards. More details here buytickets.at/extinctionre...

“A look back at the @stopaulyonturin.bsky.social mobilization on Saturday, April 11th! Local struggles to defend life and the environment are everywhere; there's bound to be one that concerns you 😉”

Earth Day 22nd April in Edinburgh

“Stop fossil fuel subsidies and forgive debts! On Saturday, April 25 at 12:00 PM, XR, Debt for Climate, and Utrecht for Palestine will block the ring road around Utrecht”

Book your Wimborne, Dorset tickets now buytickets.at/extinctionre...

Orbán's defeat is great news. He massively increased Hungary's dependence on Russian oil after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. US gave Hungary exemptions from sanctions on Russian energy use, with JD Vance saying Western Europe should have followed Hungary’s policy of relying on Russian #OilAndGas

“During 2025, @amnestyfinland.bsky.social monitored a total of 17 demonstrations and found that the majority of them took place as planned by the organizers and that the police fulfilled their security obligations. But: the report raises worrying observations regarding the Elokapina demonstrations”

What’s happening in Gaza isn’t distant. UK companies supply parts for F35 jets used in the violence, some locally.

Explore the map by Campaign Against Arms Trade to find arms manufacturers near you
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Share, organise and act locally.

More than 500 arrests at Palestine Action demonstration Event organisers said it would show the

More than 500 people were arrested during a demonstration against the ban on Palestine Action in central London, the Metropolitan Police have said.

More than 500 arrests at Palestine Action protest www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Book your tickets now 💚

‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or t...

Much is required of us …

Pessimism, climate doomerism and cynicism “all assume we know the future, and therefore nothing is required from us. I think the future is radically uncertain and therefore much is required of us”

Rebecca Solnit
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The Grand National is back, but its time is running out As the Grand National returns to Aintree, a new report reveals the scale of harm behind the spectacle - and why public opinion is turning.

At the Grand National this week, horses are being pushed to their limits for profit and spectacle - bearing the cost in injuries, exhaustion, and sometimes their lives.
Read more ⬇️
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🗓️ “The summer activist programme is starting to fill up!

From July 9 to 12, the national mobilisation against the Mega Canal Seine-Nord Europe”