🔶Liberal Dem 🔶 Spokesperson on Energy & Climate Change. House of Lords Life Peer. Photographer. Environment and Social Justice. Walker & Mountain Biker. 🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
This is the very sad reality of a broken system that is letting people down. We must fix this so that it never happens again. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
More than 30,000 died last year waiting for social care helpThe proportion of frail and elderly adults in England who get support has halved in 20 years and more than half of requests to local authorities are rejectedwww.thetimes.com
I used to sit up on Dunwich Heath, surveying bitterns in the reedbeds of Minsmere below It's a beautiful area, and one of the most important in the country for birds and other wildlife This is so sad
Holiday park evacuated as 90 firefighters tackle Suffolk heath wildfireMajor incident declared, Sizewell B power station closely monitoring blaze and RSPB nature reserve closed to visitorswww.theguardian.com
60 years ago, Shell was warned that burning fossil fuels were likely driving global warming. It buried the warning. Now it’s key evidence in a landmark lawsuit looking to hold Shell accountable for the devastation of a climate-fueled typhoon. Read more here:
The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of…buff.ly
Hugely welcome statements but legal action is needed to make it happen ... in UK and everywhere The #CarbonReckoning legal project seeks a legal review of how the UK Govt sets climate policy - for the same international reasons - read more and support us here www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...
Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate LawCarbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.www.crowdjustice.com
Level of dangerous twaddle and nonsense on @telegraph.co.uk is reaching epic proportions In case their columnists haven't noticed, lots of the Med region is on fire In Britain the heat is *already* killing lots of people and farmers are struggling to grow food www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026...
Read The Cost of Electricity in the UK: Drivers, Challenges and Opportunities for Reform. It analyses what causes high electricity bills, their expected trajectory, and the reforms that could meaningfully reduce costs for UK households. ukerc.ac.uk/publications...
The Cost of Electricity in the UK: Drivers, Challenges and Opportunities for ReformThis UKERC Briefing Paper provides an analysis of the drivers behind high electricity bills, the expected trajectory...ukerc.ac.ukConservatives don’t deny Climate Change is real. Instead they undermine, delay & stop all action to get to net zero. Recognising an existential problem exists, refusing to support all action to do something or offer any credible alternatives is not a logical or sustainable policy & will collapse.
Mark ChadbournCulture Wars have destroyed Conservatives everywhere. They used to be able to adopt reasonable, evidence-based positions on some issues. Now if something is associated with the Left they’ll slice off their entire face rather than go near it.
After the record breaking hot weather in this year, it’s not a surprise that more than half of England is in drought, including my constituency. Climate change is effecting our farming, food security and water scarcity. We must take urgent action. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More than half of England in drought, Environment Agency declaresThe drought declarations follow an exceptionally hot and dry period, which has hit rivers, crops and nature.www.bbc.co.uk
The UK is almost entirely dependent on commercial aviation to fight wildfires. We need national fixed & rotary wing firefighting aircraft. Spain had to make emergency use of A400M firefighting conversions. We run the same plane the Atlas C1 & should do the same. theaviationist.com/2026/07/28/a...
Airbus A400M Debuts Firefighting Mission as Wildfires Blaze Through France and SpainFrance has deployed the newly-developed firefighting kit aboard the A400M to support the assets suppressing the fires in the country’s southwest. Thetheaviationist.com
Major incident declared in Suffolk as 90 firefighters tackle wildfire on heathland
Major incident declared in Suffolk as 90 firefighters tackle wildfire on heathlandSeveral people evacuated after ‘large-scale, wind-driven’ fire breaks out at Dunwich Heath near Leiston
A major incident has been declared as firefighters battle a large heathland fire on the Suffolk coast.
Suffolk fire and rescue service was called to reports of a wildfire at Dunwich Heath, near Leiston, shortly after 5.30pm on Wednesday and remained there on Thursday morning. About 90 firefighters were on the scene, and several people had been evacuated. Continue reading...www.theguardian.comStatements are welcome but need to be followed up with action. The UK is not prepared for the wildfires we already face. The wildfire strategy & action plan is not ready. The FBU has called for an emergency summit more firefighters and equipment. We are not ready. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
Hotter summers. Higher stakesPodcast Episode · The FBU Podcast · 17 July · 23minpodcasts.apple.comLeo Hickman++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
It hasn't rained in parts of Devon for 50 days (I last had rain on 22 June) Southern England has only had 1% of the usual July rainfall The Environment Agency has now decreed a "flash" (sudden onset) drought for much of England
Drought declared in half of EnglandSeven areas of England now officially in drought after record low rainfall and exceptionally high temperatures.www.gov.uk
Doing something about climate change is the cheaper option here www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
June heatwave cost UK economy more than £1 billion, study finds - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environmentThe heatwave in June 2026 led to 24 million lost hours of working and a £1.15 billion hit to the UK economy, according to new research by the Institute and the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Cha...www.lse.ac.uk
