This little film I made has now been viewed over half a million times. I'm looking forward to it hitting a full million! Can we make more space for nature? Seen the #UKin100seconds? Made with Friends of the Earth Professor Benjamin Zephaniah and Jack Smith, here it is 🔊

Are you interested in the future of governance and how public bodies in Wales are thinking and working long-term? Work with us on how a national governance system fit for the future should look! Send us your proposals by Monday 17th January🗓 bit.ly/3HVE1DW

“Future pandemics could be more lethal than the current Covid crisis, one of the creators of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has warned” Prof Sarah Gilbert calls for more pandemic preparedness funding Read more here: buff.ly/31AvExn

If you’re planning on donating and sending goods to Ukraine, please read this 👇 I’ll try to keep this brief. 1 - The official guidance is if you can - donate money.

Many people have wondered how the Finns defend Finland today, so here's a very short introduction to modern Finnish defence policy - and a brief synopsis of how the Finnish military would probably fight if any hostile country decided to invade. 1/

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This is the game: As well as seeking to stamp out the rights of women and minorities, the radical right seeks to bombard us with so many reversals that we have no time or space left for our own agenda, of making the world a fairer, kinder, greener place.

Britain is running out of babies. That means trouble ahead for schools (get ready for closures), labour markets (UK will need ⬆️ immigration) + maybe social cohesion. = We need to talk about why people are having fewer/no children. 1/

Magic words sometimes work! If you ask for "advice" rather than "feedback," when trying to improve, everything is different. People are bad at evaluating others, but much better at giving advice, so you will get much more actionable & useful information. hbs.edu/ris/Publicatio…

Almost unbelievable UK #heatwave forecast next Sunday 4 pm. 41°C (106°F) in London, 43°C (109°F) across Surrey. If this GFS forecast turns out to be accurate, it will smash records & it will kill people. The UK has never recorded a temperature in the 40s & *is not ready* for it!

Life comes at you fast.

After this week’s column, I’ve been thinking more about where environmentalism has gone wrong. Why is the demand for system change confined to grassroots movements, such as Extinction Rebellion Global, Fridays For Future, Green New Deal Rising, Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil? Where are the big NGOs?

Climate diplomacy and the orderly transition: a progress report.

This is so good. Man wakes up and it is 250 years later.

I will never think of rock paper scissors the same way again.

Everything as a service: serfdom. “Instead of being able to pay ten or twenty bucks to download her favorite movie to own for life over the next seventy years she’ll have to pay an extortionate $5,599.30 to Disney to maintain access to her favorite movie” survivingtomorrow.org/corporations-a…

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🏀 The Hoopsfix Foundation with Basketball England 🥇🥈 are funding research into the impact of dedicated, high quality outdoor basketball courts - and need your help! Info 👇

Sabrina Ionescu (Sabrina Ionescu) just set the all-time record for NBA or WNBA with a score of 37 PTS in the FINAL ROUND of the #Starry3PT Contest to be crowned the NEW 3-PT CHAMPION 🏆 | Starry