Matt Skinner

There are lots of reasons not to leave ECHR. But apart from anything else, it just doesn't solve the problem the Tories/Reform think it does.

E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.

71% of care home residents in Redbridge fall each year. Our Care Tech Pilot is testing sensors, AI & health monitoring tools to prevent falls, boost independence & transform care, with over 300 residents already benefiting. Read more in our blog: www.carecity.org/redbridge-ca...

Green Party leader calls for Farage to quit over tax affairs Zack Polanski said it was 'rank hypocrisy' for Nigel Farage to call for Angela Rayner's resignation and not to do so himself

"Zack Polanski said it was 'rank hypocrisy' for Nigel Farage to call for Angela Rayner's resignation and not to do so himself."

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Finland inaugurates world’s largest 1 MW/100 MWh sand battery Finland has inaugurated the world’s largest sand battery, a 1 MW/100 MWh thermal storage system developed by Polar Night Energy. The unit is already exceeding efficiency targets.

The world's largest sand battery just launched in Finland!

Developed by Polar Night Energy, this is a massive step for clean energy. It stores 100 MWh of thermal energy in sand, providing cost-effective alternative to LI batteries for long-term heat storage.

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Looks like he’s setting the world on fire but he’s already done that?

Wonder how many of these flags have been made in China and bought from Temu…

Can we have lessons for all the adults too?

Funny they don't seem so bothered by Jenrick's three homes (including a grade 1 listed manor) plus his forth home in his constituency rented at taxpayer expense.

Wonder why.

63% of people think net migration rose in the last 12 months
8% of people think it fell

Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023
[It is falling further in 2025]

Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least

Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit

Migrants can't answer back.

They have no voice.

So they make the perfect scapegoat for the pent-up rage of the angry, self-loathing far right who can unite around this issue.

In addition it gives the media something to write about in the long summer recess.

That is what is really going on here.

Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an urban forest. Stunning! 🤩

Looks like a waste of time and massive gift to Putin then - what a shock. Not

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We’re teaming up with London Social Ventures on the Adult Social Care Impact Launchpad, connecting researchers with care teams to turn bold, evidence-based ideas into action. Real change, grounded in rigour. More soon on how to support or pilot the work.
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I really get the national outrage over the felling of the sycamore tree, but 4 years in prison seems v expensive and unlikely to address their behaviour. Surely several years of community service planting trees and public realm work and educating them would be a better outcome

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in London reduce road traffic injuries: a controlled before-and-after analysis (2012–2024) Background Between 2015 and 2024, 113 Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) were implemented across Greater London, with 27 subsequently removed. We investigated their impacts on road traffic injuries ins...

It turns out that when you remove cars from city streets, many fewer people are injured or killed. #CarsRuinCities

A staggering 96 private jets are expected to fly in for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's wedding

But they will use paper straws on the planes

Ceasefire didn’t last very long did it

📅 @carecityuk.bsky.social has spent the last year building belonging in Barking & Dagenham – working with 100+ people, saving £££ & embedding real community power.

We heard about the lessons learnt – and how these can be applied in other contexts to create more connected places.

#StrongerThings

Back at the ‘Glastonbury for change doers’ that is #StrongerThings already reconnecting with fab people this morning. We’ve brought the Barking and Dagenham community along this year to share their learning from connecting and supporting people experiencing social isolation and complexity

As Heidi says (and knows well), this is the start of the process.

American space scientists are hardly alone as the target of gratuitous, damaging cuts. Park rangers, rural nurses, migrant restauranteurs, chemistry PhDs, and countless others have suffered. Ask Congress to restore sanity.

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Farage claimed in his speech today that he would raise £65 *billion* by cutting climate policies, DEI schemes, and ‘Quangos’.

He’s not running a serious operation and every political journalist in the country has a public duty to shout that from the rooftops

Delighted to be part of the Community Benefit Society Working Group helping to shape this in Barking and Dagenham with some brilliant local community leaders

It’s also because we continually plough more money into doing the same things, wondering why doing the same thing doesn’t result in new savings

I’m not sure mass genocide is really in keeping with the spirit of Eurovision

Socialism is what they called public power. 

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

Fantastic evening at the launch of The Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing @acha020.bsky.social - huge ambition to connect research into real change with our communities in North East London. Congrats to all the ACHA team on an excellent launch

There is no point saying to the Reform-curious 'ah, it's all a lot more complex than that, that's simplistic'. The whole point of the right-populist insurgency is a revolt *against* complexity, the promised escape into a simpler, purer world.