Green Party member of the UK House of Lords. Party leader 2012-2016. There are enough resources on this planet to look after people and nature, if we share fairly. Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16
Figures that deserve A LOT more attention: "Global household wealth has risen more than fourfold since 2000, dramatically faster than “real” economy. US asset prices now 3.7 times GDP — double the historic average" The #FinancialSector - a threat to security of us all www.ft.com/content/7bcf...
Welcome to the era of financial candyflossThe value of real assets in the US is shrinking as financialisation soarswww.ft.comWell said @greenparty.org.uk arty councillor Rebecca Tully. "This county has already lost the majority of its council-owned tenant farms; it would be a shame to lose this one in a similar way." www.herefordtimes.com/news/2640715...
Councillor's fears as duchy seeks buyer for £6.5million farmsConcerns have been raised over the future of farmland after a major royal landowner put more than 600 acres up for sale.www.herefordtimes.comThe source raises eyebrows, but the science is solid. The answer has to be transformation of our broken #FoodSystem www.edie.net/britains-die...
Britain Hits Planetary Health Diet Overshoot DayGreat Britain has reached its Planetary Health Diet Overshoot Day, with low fruit and veg intake and high meat consumption straining health and the planet.www.edie.netWe need to talk a lot more about #DigitalSovereignty. About reversing #financialisation and saying care should not be for sale www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firmDoctors and MPs urge more scrutiny of £300m deal for company behind system used by most GPs in Englandwww.theguardian.com#FactoryFarming - a huge threat to #PublicHeath #OnHealth www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ju...
Industrial chicken farming accelerating spread of diarrhoea bacteria, study findsIntensive nature of modern chicken farming creates ideal conditions for campylobacter, allowing bacteria to evolvewww.theguardian.com
The astronomical sums paid to water company executives are a perfect illustration of everything that is wrong with treating this essential public resource as a private commodity. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Water bosses’ pay rises despite bonus ban and public fury over bills and pollutionExclusive: Eight companies expect to be covered by the ban for 2025-26, the Guardian can revealwww.theguardian.comAnd now @routledgebooks.bsky.social is offering Green Thinking for <£17, including postage, and available all around the world www.routledge.com/Green-Thinki...
Green Thinking: Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and PoliticsGreen Thinking is about unlearning, discarding damaging, outdated ideas deeply rooted in our societies. It seeks to “compost” the views of dead white men (René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, No...www.routledge.comAlways worth listening to Donna Haraway. I've borrowed her concept of composting ideas for #GreenThinking. And yes on #SlowAI: let's think about how much ecological capacity we have for #BigData, and priority areas for it english.elpais.com/culture/2026...
Donna Haraway, philosopher: ‘We live in a pro-natalist, anti-child world. Babies should be rare and precious’One of the most influential thinkers on technology and feminism, she combines vision with irony, and her writing carries a distinctly punk edge. Faced with rising authoritarianism, she urges people to...english.elpais.com"He believes that we’re entering the tobacco trials era with #BigFood." Certainly overdue for the pushers of ultra-processed food-like substances www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/o...
Opinion | Want a Better Food System? Use the Anti-Tobacco Playbook.A teenager’s lawsuit against the food industry shows us the path to a better food system.www.nytimes.com#GoodNews - #LifelongLearning - we need a lot more of it, not the trashing of provision we have seen under successive governments www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Grandmother who left school with no GCSEs graduates at 55Angella Callam, age 55, has graduated with a sports therapy degree from a London university.www.bbc.co.ukYes, the #ClimateEmergency irony is obvious. So-called AI is trashing the systems on which it dependes www.ft.com/content/cd0b...
Deadly storm in Chile disrupts copper mines and raises AI supply concernsMetals boom reliant on high-altitude, declining mines exposed to increasing weather volatilitywww.ft.comTOMORROW in Bristol. Looking forward to talking #ChangeEverything at the great Bristol Folk House. Still some tickets available! @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social www.bristolfolkhouse.co.uk/live-music/e...
Bristol Folk HouseThe Bristol Folk House is an adult education centre providing a variety of part-time day and evening courses and workshops for over 18's.www.bristolfolkhouse.co.uk#GoodNews on paraquat in Australia. NOW will we stop the production of this dreadful pesticide in the UK? #PoisonedPlanet www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Herbicide banned in 70 countries to be pulled from sale in Australia by chemical makerSyngenta says it will stop selling paraquat in Australia after new regulations on chemical linked to Parkinson’s diseasewww.theguardian.com