NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
Thanks to London’s bold action, almost 10 million people are now breathing cleaner air.
That means fewer children will grow up with stunted lungs and fewer people will have to suffer from asthma, dementia and heart disease.
@amyjanebeer.bsky.social for your bookcases?
Two graphs in today’s FT.
Notice the UK’s position on both graphs.
It's the harshest sanction the court can impose.
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?
STARTING NOW: Why is demand for support for children with health needs rising?
We present our new analysis on the growth in support for SEN and disability living allowance.
❔ Ask questions here: app.sli.do/event/saY9fd...
🖥️ Watch live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm9B...
Chart shows share of under 16s on disability benefits and share of pupils with high-level special educational support. Title states: "The share of children receiving high-level special educational support and the share on disability benefits have both doubled in the past decade."
NEW: The share of children receiving disability support and the share on high-level special educational support have both doubled since 2016.
THREAD on @eduinlatimer.bsky.social, @lukesibieta.bsky.social and Darcey Snape's IFS Green Budget chapter, funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org:
I'm getting really really fed up at constant reassertion that welfare spending is "out of control" when it is the same as the average for the past few decades.
One reason disability benefit costs have risen is because core support has fallen.
So exhausting..
Really, Reform UK? THIS is what you're going with? That this man, who served as an MEP next to Nigel Farage for years and was made leader of your party in Wales by current deputy, Richard Tice, is just "one of tens of thousands of people Nigel meets on an annual basis"?~AA
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
ARE
YOU
PAYING
ATTENTION
YET?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Incredible indeed. Check it out on Google Maps: maps.app.goo.gl/A4jDtgHhfP84...
This snapshot covers at least 20 km, from North to South.
I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore.
So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism.
From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved:
guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...
Screenshot of live stats from the GB power grid. Piechart for generation shows 70% wind/solar/hydro, 10% nuclear/biomass, 13% gas, 9% interconnectors and -2% storage. Prices currently £7.5/MWh and emissions at 59g/MWh.
Cycling in to work with a stiff headwind and clear blue skies thinking "I wonder what the grid is looking like today?"
Surprise, surprise: 70% renewables, gas down close to 10%, prices in the single digits (and negative overnight). 🔌💡
grid.iamkate.com
Two very important graphs.
Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved.
The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers.
Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
And *another* Reform-led council in North Northamptonshire ditches its 2030 net zero target, delaying it by twenty years.
Bye-bye green investment. Hello to a vision of what Farage would be like in power
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/11/r...
Little known fact, but all phones have a little speaker at the top that you can hold to your ear. It means you can have a private conversation without the whole world listening to it
5000+ people just swam round the Danish Parliament in clean waters. Wish we could do that in the Thames?
Join our campaign for the UK to work with the EU for safer swimming and more.
www.europeanmovement.co.uk/one_earth_on...
copenhagenswim.com/en/connect/n...
This is excellent comms from @dpadartmoor.bsky.social . Simple, easy to remember, and gets the most important information across. It reminds me a lot of the Scandinavian mantra: "don't destroy, don't disturb".
It's simple and yet it contains a lot. Two of the three even rhyme!
Swimmers and river lovers of Yorkshire! Rave On for the Avon is coming to York THIS THURSDAY 🏊🏻♀️💦💙
Please share…
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@righttoroam.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
We recorded this episode this morning (!) and I came out full of excitement!
@helenmiller.bsky.social and I had a great conversation with Sir Philip Augar - we covered the design of the post-16 system, the gulf between higher and further education, and even some tentative signs of hope. Do listen!
He caused havoc with Brexit. Don’t let him do it again - here’s five red flags about what Farage said today. Hit share to show him we see through him.
