As I have noted on many occasions, the best defence against heatwave duration and intensity in our cities is street trees, rainwater gardens, and lots of depaving, but did you know that unglazed terracotta plant pots are actually passive air conditioning units? Let me explain...

Mosque being protected in Liverpool. This is what being British is about . One love ❤️

The daft thing is, we’ve been worrying about the wrong kind of immigration. Allowing the international super rich to buy vast swathes of London and the South East, as housing became unaffordable for everyone else, that was the real mistake.

Outside a hotel in Redcliffe, Bristol - the hotel is being protected by hundreds of Bristolians shouting ‘We are many, you are few. We are Bristol, who are you?’ to a group of around 100 protesters who had marched on the hotel

Fascinating thread on the scale of the industrial challenge to shift to more sustainable materials.

The Media talk about the 15% pay increase Train Drivers got over 3 years, and demand to know where it comes from. But not the 38% pay increase Bankers on £500,000+ got in one year. And BTW you pay for that too, in mortgage/rent payments.

Full resignation letter from FCDO British diplomat Mark Smith:

The fact that a senior civil servant who specialised in assessing arms exports to Israel has ended his 18-year career because he thinks the Foreign Office "may be complicit in war crimes", and not a single national outlet has reported it, is frightening. We have a captive media.

"Its actually quite clear... the state of Israel is perpetrating war crimes in plain sight" Foreign office official Mark Smith, whose job was to advise the govt on the legality of arms sales, explains why he's resigned over UK arms sales to Israel.

The UK loses £1bn each year to fraudulent R&D tax relief claims. We've a new report identifying one of the firms responsible: Green Jellyfish. Thread:

"You’ve been lied to, you’ve been misled, you’ve being extorted, you’ve been cheated, and you’ve been abused." "What is needed now is brave, incisive judgment, coupled with the vision and determination to succeed and deliver." Me writing in today's @Guardian. Join the March for

A growing coalition of NGOs, community groups and #RiverChampions will be marching to reclaim our right to clean & abundant water for all people across the UK. 🪧🌊 Join us in London on Oct 26. Together, we can rescue Britain’s waters once and for all.💙marchforcleanwater.org

"Southern Water unveils 'utterly ludicrous' plan to ship water from Norwegian fjords to the UK." And here's the really obscene part, Ofwat has already approved nonsense and you're going to be given the privilege of paying for it and no, I'm not kidding, I'm really not.

Bristol Toffees Meet Up Everton v Newcastle from 5pm @ the Sportsmans Bar BS1 5AE 🍺 All Blues Welcome 💙 #EFC #Everton #COYB

Why I decided to question the landowner trying to ban wild camping in England… On Tuesday I was in the Supreme Court watching the case where Alexander Darwall was seeking to ban wild camping on Dartmoor- the only place in England it’s currently legal. Whilst the legal arguments

Charity where the boss earns £370,000 and which helps the rich is exempt from corporation tax, inheritance tax on legacies, pays no stamp duty land tax if it buys property, and gets gift aid on donations bit.ly/40aW45m

In a rare outing for our opinion site, I’ve written about why councils seeking to ban bikes from city centres due to delivery bikes are treating it as a “cycling problem” when it’s actually a law enforcement problem - these are mainly electric mopeds. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

SHOCKING Sunday The Times and The Sunday Times & #Dispatches investigation into the grubby & secretive earnings of the Royal Family Incl charging huge rents to Marie Curie & Macmillan charities WHICH THEY'RE PATRONS OF & which WE donate to. They get the money! The list is long Follow Jonathan Calvert

This Channel4 Dispatches on the royals is UNREAL… The rank profiteering The conflicts of interest The fact that they are exempt from paying corporation tax, inheritance tax & capital gains tax They’re not even obliged to pay income tax …and they even charged FOR AIR!!!