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10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here’s Where We Are Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.

10 years since the Paris Agreement: here's the good, the bad and the ugly of what's changed

A highlight being 'coal is in a weird place'

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Two women sit across from each other talking in a library.

Loneliness reduction activities generate £913k in health, productivity and wellbeing value each year across six South East #Library services, according to our new report.

Explore more findings from The Power of Prevention:

www.librariesconnected.org.uk/news/south-e...

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
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Access to green and blue spaces shouldn’t be a privilege reserved for the few. It should be something everyone can enjoy, explore, and connect with.

Why do you support a Right to Roam, and what does it mean to you?
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Pauline Collins on UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS in 1972

Farewell to Pauline Collins (1940-2025), whose performance as Sarah on UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS mesmerized me as a child, and still does today. #FilmSky #PaulineCollins

A quarter of Britain’s native plants are now at risk of extinction

The first update in two decades to a “red list” of plants found a substantial increase in the number of threatened species
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Terry 🥲

Yeah, if he said Dad it’s Paul or his wife?

It was a privilege to talk to Tristan Gooley when he was researching his latest book; The Hidden Seasons. We talked about life underwater! #freshwater #ecology #NatureWriting

World’s climate plans fall drastically short of action needed, analysis shows Recent plans submitted to UN by more than 60 countries would cut carbon by only 10%, a sixth of what is needed

The world is deeply unserious about dealing with climate change. We need to reduce emissions by 50% in 5 years and we're nowhere near that.

YouTube video by Word In Your Ear Billy Bragg – 40 years, 2,700 gigs and what he learnt from Taylor Swift

I spoke to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth about my new book Billy Bragg: A People’s History www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oEx...

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

An Open Letter to the Producers of The Roses | Allergy UK | National Charity Allergy UK, Anaphylaxis UK and The Allergy Team write an open letter to the producers of The Roses highlighting the risks associated with the inaccurate portrayal of a severe allergic reaction.

An open letter calls out The Roses for misrepresenting anaphylaxis. How can media better portray allergic reactions? #AllergyAwareness

https://www.allergyuk.org/news/an-open-letter-to-the-producers-of-the-roses/

Defying those who told him to "stick to football", Gary Lineker chooses to use his platform to speak up against Israel's genocide in Gaza and for the rights of refugees in the UK.

Congratulations to Gary Lineker for winning Best TV Presenter at the National Television Awards.

🤣 She is now

My daughter’s mate’s brother works for NASA and she said he was bossy at Glasto and she was having none of it. I am Claire and I can probably still introduce you?

#TheLemonheads Heartening audience participation in #Biggayheart Loved it as always, new album soon 🥳

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

Letter from Clive Lewis MP to the Minister for Women and Equalities, dated 29 July 2025, raising concern that the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s revised Code of Practice may receive ministerial approval before being seen by MPs or the public. The letter calls for parliamentary scrutiny and asks whether the Government will present the changes to Parliament before approval

Deeply concerned that changes to trans rights could be approved without MPs or the public seeing details. This risks undermining accountability on issues affecting lives and freedoms. Proposals must face scrutiny before approval. Everyone deserves to know what’s being decided in their name.

Allan Ahlberg, beloved children's author, dies aged 87 Working first with his wife Jane, and later with illustrators including Raymond Briggs and Bruce Ingman, he wrote more than 150 books Author Allan Ahlberg, who delighted generations of children with colourful characters and nimble rhymes, has died aged 87. Working with his wife Janet, an award-winning illustrator, Ahlberg produced a host of bestselling nursery classics including Burglar Bill, Peepo!, and Each Peach Pear Plum. After Janet’s death in 1994, he worked with illustrators such as Raymond Briggs and Bruce Ingman, with his career coming full circle in a series of collaborations with his daughter Jessica including Half a Pig and a pop-up set of anarchic variations on the tale of Goldilocks. Continue reading...

Allan Ahlberg, beloved children's author, dies aged 87

More than 100 humanitarian groups warn of mass starvation in Gaza - BBC News

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Seagull with its head aligned with a person's body, creating an illusion of a seagull-headed person sitting on a bench, with a ferry and white cliffs in the background.

every sunday harry liked to come to the park with a big bag of werther’s and feed the old men

Still fat 😂 he’s gonna eat that little bird

Thinking of you today as I’m in Florence with the fat Tudor baby portrait 🤣

My vocabulary isn't wide enough to fully describe the effect of Brian's music on a young man from a rainy island, so here's a playlist that I put together to mark Brian's 80th birthday, he's not on every track but his influence runs through like words in a stick of rock.

Defence review plans will make army ‘10 times more lethal’, says John Healey – politics live Defence secretary says ‘the world is more dangerous’ as he addresses MPs about strategic defence review

"It's just a rumour that was spread around town
A telegram or a picture postcard
Within weeks we'll be reopening the shipyard
and notifying the next of kin once again
Oh, it's all we're skilled in
We will be shipbuilding"

Robert Wyatt