Ensuring some sort of liveable future for my grandchildren is what makes my politics personal. And makes me furious at the deniers.

Thanks to the utterly brilliant efforts of the IlkleyCleanRiver campaign the River Wharf at Ilkley was the first stretch of river anywhere in the UK to be designated as a bathing spot. Now thanks to the utter incompetence of Yorkshire Water 💧 and Environment Agency - Yorkshire & North East it looks like it will

From the pictures it looks like the green slime is algae, clear sign that the river is high in nutrients, no doubt usual suspects will be to blame, stop forward the water industry and agriculture. Another river is killed and we do nothing.

"Letters: I’m disgusted by Southern Water." Aren't we all dear, aren't we all. advertiserandtimes.co.uk/people/letters…

Fixing a chaotic, poorly monitored + archaic system for businesses pumping water that often rewards high water use would be a good start in addressing drought risk: theguardian.com/environment/20…

If you ever had the privilege of growing your own apples... you'll know what this photo smells like 🥰

A lesson for every Brit.

And all of that to just placate a disproportionately noisy farming lobby and deflect from decades of underinvestment by Northern Ireland Water. What a shambles.

This isn’t autumn. What you’re seeing is drought stress. When water is scarce, trees sacrifice their leaves early to protect themselves and conserve energy. It’s happening to trees across England. 📽️ Sue

We have over a million more houses than households, more houses per person than in the 70s yet prices are high than ever. Second home ownership has also increased by over 50% in the past decade. The problem isn’t bats or newts it’s greed.

Salmon farming is a filthy business. Latest news is that 1 in 10 salmon fillets could contain antibiotic-resistant, poisonous bugs. And there’s no way of knowing that the salmon on your plate isn’t diseased. Russian roulette posing as Salmon roulade - lovely. There are

The best of British aren’t the silly attention seekers daubing red paint all over the place. The best of us are folks like the forty volunteers who litter pick our park every week, or the beach cleanup people who go to our local beach after the weekends & make it nice for us all.

"Thames Water sale to Chinese company ‘may risk national security’ Former chairman of the joint intelligence committee says plans to hand the supplier to the infrastructure firm CKI require ‘close scrutiny’." Oh deary me, are the security services about to scupper Thames

Lots of talk about the welfare tax bill lately… A suggestion: Before pointing the lazy finger at the people our media tells you to hate Look up At the billion-pound firms refusing to pay fair wages You know… The ones posting record profits while taxpayers subsidise the

Depressing scene on a beautiful Bank Holiday Monday. #ThoughtlessTossers dumping their litter at the A3 southbound services close to the M25. What’s wrong with taking it home? Clean Up Britain National Highways Keep Britain Tidy Good Morning Britain

We would fight this in GM.👇🏻 Communities across the North would face all the danger and disruption while big oil and gas walk away with all the profits. 1/2

The problem is that Richard Gaisford comments reflect a caring, socially responsible and thoughtful citizen. The morons who dumped this litter are selfish, inconsiderate and lazy. Sadly, there are millions of people like that in Britain. They need to be socially shamed.

There was a time when keys were crafted as works of art.

The decision to remove headphones jacks from mobile phones will come to be seen as one of the great inflection points in history.