Deborah Croker

The average student debt now stands at £53,000.

Almost half of graduates will spend 40 years paying off loans they’ll never finish.

This is not a fair or sustainable system.

#StudentDebt #educationforall

Minister not grasping practical and emotional costs 👉 bit.ly/47DhmeZ

Take care, Jeff

The Real Energy Scandal The Media Won't Tell You About Fossil fuel interests are colluding with billionaire-owned media companies to block the UK's transition towards a cheaper and greener future, argues Donnachadh McCarthy

🔴The Real Energy Scandal The Media Won’t Tell You About

Fossil fuel interests are colluding with billionaire-owned media companies to block the UK’s transition towards a cheaper and greener future, argues @donnachadhmc.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/22/t...

Wood burners linked to 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, analysis finds Use of wood-burning stoves and fires in homes is mostly unnecessary and their toxic pollution costs the NHS millions

#WoodBurning 2

Use of wood-burning stoves and fires in homes is mostly unnecessary and their toxic pollution costs the #NHS millions

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We don't just want 9 river walks, we want access to all rivers. 96% of rivers in England and Wales have no rights of access. Landowners have blocked public access to rivers for centuries. Labour's promise is just 9 new river walks. We say that's not enough.

“The house is on fire. Act like it” - Greta Thunberg

A heatwave at a hemispheric level will spike in the coming days with NH temperatures likely to be 1.8-2.0°C above pre-industrial levels, the warmest they've been this year.

Brussels U-turns on anti-deforestation law delay The surprise decision follows a string of unexpected changes to the EU’s main tool to end deforestation.

The EU will not now delay the introduction of its deforestation law which is a bit of good news given the war on environmental protections currently underway in Brussels

www.politico.eu/article/brus...

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media — the 30-second sound bite (now down to 10 seconds kind of celebration of ignorance.”

Ask your MP to help stop companies suing over climate action A fossil fuel firm is suing the UK for halting a controversial coal mine, using a secretive corporate court. We’ve been calling on the government to scrap these Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS...

The UK is being sued for stopping a coal mine. Ask your MP to help stop the fossil fuel industry’s secret weapon: act.globaljustice.org.uk/stop-fossil-...

Students: cost of living is soaring and we can hardly afford to feed ourselves

Government: I hear you - how about higher fees and more debt?

Never-before-seen adorable pink bumpy snailfish with funny little beard filmed in deep canyon off California coast
💔 to think Trump and others will obliterate these awesome creatures in a matter of minutes with their monster deep sea mining machines
www.livescience.com/animals/fish...

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Government debt is private wealth — so why do people want to get rid of it?

Every pound of so-called “government debt” is a private financial asset. When the government spends, it creates money that becomes your wealth. Yet politicians pretend debt is a burden, and that is just wrong. youtu.be/lixZeo_jn-k?...

Problems with #Ancestry login today. Others reporting various issues with the site. Downdetector says it could be due to issues with Amazon Web Services. I didn't know the two were connected. How depressing. #FamilyHistory #genealogy #BoycottAmazon

Government faces Green calls in London and Edinburgh to stop Rosebank SCOTTISH Green co-leader Gillian Mackay has vowed her party will expose the lies of big polluters, branding plans to open up the Rosebank oil and gas field “pure climate vandalism.”She addressed the S...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social “the very least this government need to do is to stop making things worse.”

@gillianmacmsp.bsky.social “It is pure climate vandalism, and we have to stop #Rosebank.”

Best #VoteGreen

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EU countries move to pull plug on Russian gas to Hungary and Slovakia The two Central European countries have long spurned a phaseout. Now, EU capitals are ready to overrule them.

🚨🚨Excellent news: After three years of reasoning, pleading and conceding, the EU has had enough.

On Monday, the EU's MS are expected to back a new bill that will permanently cut #Russian gas supplies to #Hungary and #Slovakia — whether they like it or not. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

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World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds Researchers say decline in phytoplankton suggests weakened planetary capacity to absorb carbon dioxide

The end days are coming
Phytoplankton in rapid decline
The tiny marine creatures responsible for nearly half of our oxygen and absorb huge amounts of carbon
Transport of Vital nutrients on which phytoplankton depend are being blocked as upper ocean warms
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Epic thread 🤣

Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that…

Make the Government respond to our call for a National Climate Resilience Plan by signing this petition and then sharing it. We need 10,000 signatures.

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Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

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Microplastics are changing your insides in unexpected ways The study found microplastics can alter gut microbiome, with changes resembling patterns associated with depression.

A new study has shown that microplastics can alter gut microbiome, where those changes resemble patterns associated with depression and colorectal cancer.

www.newsweek.com/microplastic...

Microplastics are everywhere. You can do one simple thing to avoid them. The biggest sources of microplastics have one thing in common: Heat.

Microplastics are released from plastic when exposed to heat, including leaching from tea bags into hot tea and plastic containers releasing nanoplastics when microwaved. While health effects are still unclear, minimizing heating plastic is a simple way to reduce exposure.

Milankovitch cycles—infinitesimal shifts in the planet's rotational axis that allowed marginally more sunlight to hit the planet over millennia—repeatedly brought the Earth out of its ice ages.

It was mad to think that 1.3C of heating in, like, a century wouldn't totally destabilize our climate.

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…)

Octopus farming in Spain raises animal welfare and environmental concerns The expansion of octopus farming in Spain is facing growing opposition due to serious animal welfare, environmental, and ethical concerns.

EU will not ban Octopus farming or even give them any welfare protection as they are an invertebrate species, Octopuses are sentient capable of experiencing pain and distress.

Farming lead to aggression, injury, and cannibalism among individuals.

www.worldanimalprotection.org/latest/news/...

Labour will regret its attack on nature Reeves is reported to be contemplating a second planning bill making it far harder for conservationists to hold up infrastructure projects.

Labour government go all Trump and plan to take a bulldozer to legislation acquired through the EU Habitats Directive
to give developers a free pass to ignore protections for UK dwindling wildlife Trees and nature

www.spectator.co.uk/article/labo...

This is gorgeous!

We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism

So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?

Starmer and the terror that might yet come Keir Starmer said in his Labour conference speech that the threat from Reform was, as far as the UK is concerned, as great as the challenge of rebuilding after World War II ever was, and that to rebui...

Starmer talked gibberish about the threat from Reform, which he totally misanalysed, to a bunch of flag-waving idiots, otherwise called Cabinet Ministers, at the Labour Party conference today. We have to hope his days are numbered. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...