"Water investors have withdrawn billions, says research." It's time. Time to put an end to this. Time to put an end to the turmoil, the torment, the torture. Time to put Thames Water 💧 into special administration and @ofwat into special measures. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

'How do you do it' said the moon 'how do you stay on track?' 'I keep it simple' said the sun 'and I keep coming back'. Photo by Pixabay

#GeneralElection

Things can only get better… 🗳️The UK General Election has been called for Thurs 4th July. 🚨The next govt MUST hold polluters accountable. 📢We call on all parties to adopt our #CharterForRivers. We need healthy waterways for people & nature. 👉riveractionuk.com/charter-for-ri…

My first LOL of the campaign

We will be hosting a webinar briefing for youth organisations on the General Election on Wednesday 5th June at 1-2pm! 🧵

‘Mumpsimus’, 16th century: one who insists that they are right (or wronged) when all evidence points to the contrary.

Some musical notes about National Service, by kids aged 12, 14, 16, 17 🎶 Dedicated to Brian Moore's daughter & all teenagers who volunteer/work/serve. Not dedicated to Hamish de Bretton-Gordon If you like our stuff, there's 3 Kickstarter days left 👉shorturl.at/3zW0d

There's been amazing coverage of our new paper nature nature.com/articles/s4158… but I wanted to put together a walk-through (and make this accessible as possible). It's a bit long so get a cup of tea! The full version is open access so pls do have a read if you are interested...

For the past 2 years I've been taping my mouth before going to sleep. Here are 10 things I've learned:

I’ll be Latitude Festival from 25-28 July helping people learn rhetoric/speech making with Dash Arts & Anne-Beth Derks-van Damme, introducing some protest songs you can sing with The Common Lot & talking about Starmer-era political culture with Josephine Burton. If you’re there come along & say hi.

Crazy.

Oliver, Grace, Lucy and Lara are at Latitude Festival this weekend filming The Common Lot and Dash Arts who are up to something interesting in the forest 🌳 with Anne-Beth Derks-van Damme

Singing protest songs at Latitude Festival it’s The Common Lot as captured by Lara Bentley with Anne-Beth Derks-van Damme Alan Finlayson #SpeakOut #SongsOfHopeAndProtest

Lara Bentley interviewing Anne-Beth Derks-van Damme about Voices of Hope and protest Latitude Festival UEA Journalism Dash Arts #DashArtsLatitude #DashArts #OurPublicHouse #SpeechSpeech #Speakout #latitude #Festival

And just like that #Latitude is over😢 Huge thank you to Anne-Beth Derks-van Damme who made it all happen - organising the brilliant workshop and providing us this amazing opportunity! I gained access to the press pit, backstage and met lots of lovely people!

Maybe we should run this as a 3 minute TV ad. Wadda da ya think?

i think we can all agree that climate activists are not the problem

Meet the man of the match

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