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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're proud to have been part of the Right to Food UK Commission, and its findings are clear. It's time for a Right to Food Bill 💛 Sign our petition for a Right to Food Bill 👉 amn.st/63327BGSPqV
A young child's hand grips a fork over a patterned bowl with a few chips and pieces of meat left in it. Text reads: "The plan is on the table. Now make it law." The graphic calls for a Right to Food Bill following the Right to Food UK Commission's findings. Amnesty International logo in the top left corner.
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The EU corporate lobby league 2026 - corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...
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The EU corporate lobby league 2026 | Corporate Europe Observatory
Corporate spending on lobbying the EU keeps on rising, according to new analysis by Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl. Big Tech spending tops them all.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Obesity and climate change: co-crises with common solutions": www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Food, Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC) estimates the UK’s health-related costs attributable to unhealthy diets is £298 bn/yr – and the incremental expenditure needed to bring household food budgets up to the cost of achieving the Eatwell Guide is £51 bn/yr! ffcc.co.uk/publications...
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The False Economy of Big Food
Fresh thinking and practical action for a food system that works for people, nature and the real economy.
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What an absolutely ridiculous conversation England is having about its extreme ideological experiment with privatisation It's really not that complicated 9 out of 10 water systems worldwide are in public ownership (1/6) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Andy Burnham talks about ‘public control’ of the utilities but it’s a minefield. We can lead him through it | Will Hutton and Andy Haldane
Nationalisation is not the ultimate answer for companies like Thames Water – but they could be run for the public benefit, say journalist and economist Will Hutton and former chief economist of the Ba...
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“illegal waste disposal, organised criminality and the failure of agencies to apprehend these issues ... it’s just depressing and extraordinary” Reportedly, there are at least 8,000 illegal dumping sites in the UK, containing approximately 13m tonnes of rubbish. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘The eels were climbing out of the water to die’: why did every fish in this idyllic lake perish overnight?
Furnace Brook in East Sussex was home to carp, tench, bream, roach and trout – and 15 trailer-loads had to be buried. The mystery led to a neighbouring farm, and a story of waste, pollution and dirty ...
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“It’s a race against time for scientists to identify new species before deep sea mining threatens to wipe out fragile ecosystems for ever. Scientists estimate only 0.001% of deep sea floor – where sunlight fades to total darkness – has been observed by humans” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Meet Barbie Pig: new documentary reveals the wonders of life on the Pacific seabed
A magical new film captures the secret life of the deep sea in a stretch of the ocean at risk from industrial mining
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’
If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050...
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 18/09/2026
Some 6,000 people — 200 of them children — are right now starving to death in a humanitarian catastrophe orchestrated by Vladimir Putin's Russia.
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Editorial: The world must force Russia to end mass starvation in occupied Oleshky
Some 6,000 people — 200 of them children — are right now starving to death in a humanitarian catastrophe orchestrated by Vladimir Putin's Russia. The town of Oleshky and its surrounding district in t...
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Inside Track @insidetrackuk.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Senior professionals have sounded the alarm. Food industry commercial plans are in direct conflict with environmental, health & welfare goals. Read the Insiders’ Guide to Meat & Dairy here: www.insidetrack.org.uk/meat-and-dairy #MeatAndDairy 🚨
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Bristol becomes first UK city to ban Black Friday adverts
New rules prohibits the promotion of flights, cars and travel agents on council-owned billboards.
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Plan To End BIG Oil Tyranny | Aaron Bastani Meets Tessa Khan: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUBc...
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The Plan To End BIG Oil Tyranny | Aaron Bastani Meets Tessa Khan
YouTube video by Novara Media
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Unless governments and regulators insist on a rapid phaseout, we will face a new tidal wave of forever chemicals due to demand from datacentres www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 10/09/2026
🦩 After nature protections weakened, developers pushed for a resort in Albania, sparking uproar. Now the EU is weakening nature and public checks for large “strategic” projects (e.g. giga data centres). Read why this could become a gift for polluters: substack.com/home/post/p-... #HandsOffNature
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This government is still sitting on parts of a buried report laying bare catastrophic risks facing us from ecosystems collapse. My message to @andyburnham.bsky.social: tell the truth. Release the report in full. And prepare the country for what's coming. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full
Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis
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Right to Repair Europe @r2reurope.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📱 Four in five smartphone model records failed our EU repair-information check.⁠ ⁠ We reviewed 2,334 records in the EU’s official EPREL database. Only 18% clearly led consumers to the required repair information.⁠ ⁠ Almost half left the relevant fields blank.
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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Free the Zaporizhzhia 15, solidarity with Ukraine’s workers – support the NUM motion to TUC Congress  Please add your name to this Open Letter supporting the National Union of Mineworkers' motion to the upcoming TUC Congress – see below. We particularly encourage members of TUC-affiliated trade…
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Free the Zaporizhzhia 15, solidarity with Ukraine’s workers – support the NUM motion to TUC Congress 
Please add your name to this Open Letter supporting the National Union of Mineworkers' motion to the upcoming TUC Congress – see below. We particularly encourage members of TUC-affiliated trade unions to sign, but it is open to all. You can sign via the form here. Please share widely! We the undersigned, trade unionists and campaigners, encourage unions affiliated to the Trades Union Congress to support…
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.euronews.com/2026/09/01/h...
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Why nuclear power won’t magically fix Europe’s energy crisis
The war on Iran has triggered calls to double down on nuclear power. But is it really ‘clean’, can Europe’s energy grid cope and will it survive the wrath of climate change?
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The Ecologist @theecologist.org · 02/09/2026
There's still time to kick our deadly addiction to burning fossil fuels
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'The climate alarm is blaring'
'Blaring...from every direction'. Europe’s extreme fires will only worsen unless we act with force.
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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We talk about the nature crisis and biodiversity loss but really we should be talking about the pesticides crisis These chemicals are designed to destroy life and that's what they do
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Levels of a toxic 'forever chemical' rose to 13 times the legal limit during Thames Water pilots - the proposed scheme should clearly not be allowed! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A key political test for new UK PM Andy Burnham is whether to approve Rosebank & Jackdaw oil & gas fields New academic research shows economic damage caused from CO2 produced would be between £119bn and £336bn, compared with estimated £28.7bn economic benefits www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows
Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK
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Organic Research Centre @organicrescent.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Help save Wakelyns! The iconic Wakelyns site is at risk of being sold without your help. Be part of this exciting new chapter and help secure Wakelyns for future generations by buying shares in the Wakelyns Community Benefit Society or donating. ow.ly/P6IW50ZiMsA #savewakelyns #agroforestry
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Dougie Hunt @dougiehunt.com · 12/08/2026
That can be: Asking your Government to take real action on climate change and protect nature. Example: zerohour.uk/andy?utm_sou... @zero-hour.bsky.social
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Secure Our Future For Us
Andy Burnham has a chance to Secure Our Future. Will you tell him not to waste it? Sign the petition.
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Fossil Free London @fossilfreeldn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
BREAKING: Shell made a staggering £7.4BN in profits over just the last 3 months. Those are three months where we have been hit by one heatwave after another as the world burns under wildfires 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥This is not normal 🔥The heat is not normal 🔥The fires are not normal
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Revolution in The 21st Century @revolution21c.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The talks happened. The voices were powerful. Now we need to get them OUT. Green Gathering featured Clive Lewis MP, Roger Hallam, Zack Polanski & more on climate & justice. We recorded it all, but need £5k to edit & release 🎬 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-ampli...
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Help Amplify the Green Gathering Speakers’ Forum
Help take Green Gathering’s Speakers’ Forum beyond the festival with talks, podcasts and social clips released all year
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Together Against Sizewell C @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Romania raced on Thursday to sink four barges laden with rock into the Danube River in an attempt to redirect water downstream toward a nuclear power plant, to buy more time before its second reactor is likely forced offline due to record-low water levels." www.dailymail.com/wires/ap/art...
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Romania rushes to sink 4 barges in the Danube to keep a nuclear...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Romania raced on Thursday to sink four barges laden with rock into the Danube River in an attempt to redirect water downstream...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
📌 ICYMI — Two Years On, the World Witnesses Human Safari in Kherson — @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social A viral video of a drone attacking a vegetable seller at Kherson farmers' market has brought Russia's deliberate targeting of civilians, which Byline first revealed two years ago, to global…
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Two Years On, the World Witnesses Human Safari in Kherson
A viral video of a drone attacking a vegetable seller at Kherson farmers' market has brought Russia's deliberate targeting of civilians, which Byline first revealed two years ago, to global attention, reports Zarina Zabrisky
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Statement on business rates cut: a welcome first step, but businesses need more gloo.to/FACx
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Statement on business rates cut: a welcome first step, but businesses need more | Hackney Council News
A statement from Cllr Sam Mathys, Cabinet Member for Culture, Nightlife, Resilience and Business Standards, on the Government’s business rates cut for pubs, clubs and music venues.
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Wild Card @wildcard.land · 16/07/2026
This week the Church of England voted down committing to #30by30… But you shouldn’t feel powerless! Here are three things you can do to push the Church to act for nature 👇 1/4
Message reads ‘feeling powerless against big landowners? Do This and then an arrow. It appears above and below a screenshot of the Guardian headline ‘Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Rosebank and all other new oil and gas fields must be rejected. We have already suffered too much climate chaos.
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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 07/07/2026
New study published in the Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts journal by the Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org reveals that it is physically impossible to remediate #PFAS pollution at scale www.rsc.org/news/pfas-re... #ToxicFreeFuture #BanPFAS #STOPPFAS
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ClientEarth @clientearth.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We’re taking legal action over forever chemicals in Belgium, over its inaction to prevent harm to people’s health. Belgium has the highest levels of PFAS in Europe. The government has a legal duty to protect people’s health from harm. Read more: www.clientearth.org/latest/news/...
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A regulatory loophole means that it's almost impossible to know exactly how many intensive dairy farms are currently operating in the UK But that hasn't stopped our reporter Andrew Wasley
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How I mapped Britain’s hidden ‘battery cows’
I’ve been reporting on factory-farmed cattle for over a decade. The government may finally be ready to take action
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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Join us outside the Russian Embassy in London on 8 July, 6pm to demand freedom for Ukrainian prisoners held by Russia. We’ll call for the release of POWs and civilians, including the detained Zaporizhzhia nuclear workers. 🇺🇦
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Directly beneath a proposed copper mining project lies the water tap for a metropolis of 11 million people, and it is hanging in the balance. meta.eeb.org/2026/07/01/a...
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A copper mine on the water tap of a Metropolis - New Leaf
The EU has branded Peru a reliable, like-minded supplier of the copper its energy transition demands. But high in the Andes, a single mining project reveals the dark side of this alliance. Directly be...
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Europe's heatwave curbs French nuclear plants, so it seems nuclear will be vulnerable and not helpful in a rapidly warming world www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Europe's heatwave curbs French nuclear plants
A heatwave sweeping western Europe reduced France's nuclear output on Wednesday as high temperatures across the country reduced access to water needed to cool ​reactors.
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The story starts in 1950s Dar es Salaam, in a bar called Majestic.
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The Loowatt Impact Report 2025 is out now, at www.loowatt.com/impact-2025
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The Gender Sanitation Gap, Resilience and Replicability - Impact Report 2025 — Loowatt
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The brilliant Feargal Sharkey sums it up "The whole industry’s got to go. Absolutely, without exception" Time to end the privatisation rip off diverting 1/3 OF YOUR WATER BILL into shareholder dividends and debt Are you listening DEFRA? www.mirror.co.uk/news/feargal...
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Feargal Sharkey rubbishes key argument for not nationalising water industry
Campaigners have stepped-up pressure on the government to bring the crisis hit water industry back into public ownership
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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The Best of British Farming - Project Slingshot
Food labels are so misleading that, even if it says British, the product still may not be. This is who really owns Britain’s farms.
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
We are calling on the government to stage a prime-time televised emergency briefing on the severe threats to the UK presented by climate change and nature loss - introduced by the Prime Minister and delivered by independent experts. #NationalEmergencyBriefing #PEBUK #TimeToStepUp 🧵1️⃣
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National Emergency Briefing
Core principles that a government-led briefing should follow to ensure maximum effect
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A22 Network @a22network.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🌍 This July, the revolution begins. We're launching the A22 Network’s Female Leadership Conference: a new international gathering where women come together to learn skills to lead in a world that systemically prevents us. Donate now & stand in solidarity: 🔗 chuffed.org/project/1385...
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Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
'Our Land features some of the most beautiful English vistas imaginable. Enjoy them on screen if you can, because you’re unlikely to visit them in person any time soon: vast swaths of the English countryside are fenced off by their owners, whereas in Scotland, freedom to roam is a public right.'
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Our Land — a stunning documentary about the ever more inaccessible English countryside
The film, featuring Right to Roam activists and landowners alike, is a study of capital, class and exclusion
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Disgraceful - take South East Water into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW They are not fulfilling their statutory duty to provide water, can be taken into special administration Sign to show the Environment Secretary and Ofwat you agree weownit.org.uk/act-now/sout... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘They’re a private company, run for profit!’: fury in Kent at South East Water’s outages
Water company blames increased demand in extreme heat, but customers want answers about lack of storage reservoirs
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michaelcbank.bsky.social @michaelcbank.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Right now Palantir has a £330m contract to run our NHS health records, but this spy-tech firm shouldn't be anywhere near our health service. Email your local hospital today and ask them to say no to Palantir goodlaw.social/afa0bb
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
UK's enthusiastic decline as a serious country "... it means that private companies, effectively, are imposing injunctions which lead to large numbers of people going to jail.”
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I'm actually furious that Andy Burnham is being promoted as anti establishment when he's already saying no to public OWNERSHIP of Thames Water 16 million so-called "customers" instantly let down Take it back Andy, commit to public ownership weownit.org.uk/act-now/sign...
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
At a time when trust and truth are under strain, people need clear, honest information from independent experts about the climate and nature crisis. An informed public is the foundation of democracy. Please sign the petition.
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks
The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...
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Together Against Sizewell C @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"This national-scale analysis provides new evidence that proximity to nuclear power plants is associated with increased mortality from major cancers in the U.S. The magnitude & consistency of the findings highlight the importance of updated risk assessments..." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A national analysis of the impact of proximity to nuclear power plants on lung, breast and colon cancer mortalities in the U.S., 2000–2020 - Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology - A national analysis of the impact of proximity to nuclear power plants on lung, breast and colon cancer mortalities in the U.S.,...
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