Ann Pettifor on why there is always money for War (of course!).....but why there is never any money for programs to help people.
The Green Party takes a holistic approach to health. So when considering the NHS you also need to consider housing, air quality, water quality, food quality, social care etc. We'd also fund it properly and run it for patients not profit. The Policy is being updated at the moment. So more to follow
What's happening in the NHS?
The @greenparty.org.uk under @zackpolanski.bsky.social know that the nature and planetary health crisis is a social crisis of inequality. They are not separate issues. This understanding is how we win against the Right.
What’s up with the WCV website? Lots of broken links…
“I don’t know what the majority of our artists at ActionSpace have got, Idon’t know any clinical diagnosis. And I don’t want to know, because they’re people.” Eventually the clinical healthcare approach will catch up to the arts approach…Eventually. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Yes, but also the off-the-charts mental health collapse is indicative of a nervous system collapse that is entirely linked to the destructive, extractive economic system we built and cannot live/work equitably and healthfully under. Until that is addressed politically, bring the diagnoses.
So, a cowardly attack to heat up a long-standing Dartmoor culture/land war, in which hereditary farmers feel threatened by ecologist’s efforts to deal with their ignorant “traditions”. The underlying problem is the structure of land ownership in the UK. Nature loses.
Biodiversity is *crucial* to our wellbeing.
We need to stop treating it as expendable.
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You said it yourself- “We can’t organise and struggle if we can’t even afford to feed ourselves or pay our bills.” This is the current reality. It is up to those who are solvent to organise. That increasingly looks like retired boomers- they can either go on another holiday… or get radical.
Read this.
It is absolutely cretinous that this ‘Labour’ Govt refuses to renationalise water. Millions of us are now at grave risk, when increasingly likely climate-extreme events are incoming.
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After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
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‘It is peculiar, to say the least, that Israel is being given, in a “peace deal”, land that it has not managed to capture militarily.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
Nature connection needs to be part of healthcare infrastructure.
SLT Research idea - how can SLT’s design nature-based interventions via social prescribing? Oh wait, that was my dissertation… www.theguardian.com/environment/...
SLT dysphagia research idea - the effects of enforced starvation on the suck-swallow-breathe mechanism for infants and their mothers.
Family abolition is about asking why families are expected to do everything alone. Asking why housing, food, medical care, love, education and even basic safety, are things you earn through the “right” kind of family. Why family can be the pretense by which these things are denied to people.
Mostly done by NE volunteers over the last 2 yrs. We also patched up the farmer’s stone wall and barbed wire fence.
For climate activists, adaptation has been a dirty word.
In this piece today I ask whether a new UK-based proposal from the Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social has legs.
@cityatlas.bsky.social @anne-urai.bsky.social
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After decades of tension between Dartmoor sheep farmers and environmentalists, a legal challenge seems the only way through deadlock. Headage payments + £32m in HLS schemes haven’t changed practices. Commoners have shown they are ideologically entrenched in not changing. The hubris of inheritance?
I just signed a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social petition: Say No to New AI Data Centre Powered By Drax. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
‘Criminal laws exist that can and have been brought against its actions. But it is this very course of justice that the proscription aims to impede.’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action, from the next issue:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
All the right people are crying over Zohran’s victory. They’re going to monster him and all the billionaire money will be used to oppose him in the general but this is a moment of real hope in dark times
Would be interesting to adapt psychotherapeutic talking therapies with speech and language therapy techniques for stroke patients with language difficulties.
The avoidance by livestock of the central Molinia-dominated areas also places more pressure on the peripheral areas commons, preventing the recovery of the heaths and driving the poor condition of the protected areas.
www.dartmoornature.org.uk/post/sssicon...
On the central high moor, its dominance is unlikely to be due to falling livestock numbers in the 2000s as some commoners regularly claim. It had a hold before this ... here's a picture from the Dartmoor Archive taken near Cut Hill in August 1992
“The devaluation of Aboriginal graphic writing systems reflects a broader colonial bias that equates written language exclusively with alphabetic systems.” theconversation.com/aboriginal-m...
Yes, the *system* of land ownership and the (ir)responsibilities attached to nature stewarding need ongoing scrutiny and debate. Not just individual landowners.
