Meg Howarth
@howarthm.bsky.social
☀️ Campaigner. 🕊️⚖️ Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point is to change it 🕊️⚖️ In order to do so we must understand and change ourselves ☀️
#Water
🚨 Next spring/summer, if we don’t get the rainfall we need, there will be severe consequences for us here in #England. Promising very large reservoirs that won’t come online for a few decades is not going to solve the problem immediately🚨 @hancloke.bsky.social FYI @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
🚨 Next spring/summer, if we don’t get the rainfall we need, there will be severe consequences for us here in #England. Promising very large reservoirs that won’t come online for a few decades is not going to solve the problem immediately🚨 @hancloke.bsky.social FYI @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
The UK is not immune...
'Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, two decades of satellite data reveals. "In SE England, where groundwater supplies about 70% of public water, these shifting rainfall patterns could pose serious challenges.".'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, two decades of satellite data reveals. "In SE England, where groundwater supplies about 70% of public water, these shifting rainfall patterns could pose serious challenges.".'
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
#Water
🚨 Next spring/summer, if we don’t get the rainfall we need, there will be severe consequences for us here in #England. Promising very large reservoirs that won’t come online for a few decades is not going to solve the problem immediately🚨 @hancloke.bsky.social FYI @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
🚨 Next spring/summer, if we don’t get the rainfall we need, there will be severe consequences for us here in #England. Promising very large reservoirs that won’t come online for a few decades is not going to solve the problem immediately🚨 @hancloke.bsky.social FYI @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
🚨 #Water #England #UK
⚡️We shd be focusing on water reuse/using less water in the first place/separating drinking water from those recycled waters that we could use/using nature-based solutions/thinking about the way that we’re building developments⚡️ @hancloke.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social
⚡️We shd be focusing on water reuse/using less water in the first place/separating drinking water from those recycled waters that we could use/using nature-based solutions/thinking about the way that we’re building developments⚡️ @hancloke.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social
NEW! Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across Europe
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🚨 #Water #England #UK
⚡️We shd be focusing on water reuse/using less water in the first place/separating drinking water from those recycled waters that we could use/using nature-based solutions/thinking about the way that we’re building developments⚡️ @hancloke.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social
⚡️We shd be focusing on water reuse/using less water in the first place/separating drinking water from those recycled waters that we could use/using nature-based solutions/thinking about the way that we’re building developments⚡️ @hancloke.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social
🚨The #CostOfLiving crisis is really an #Inequality crisis. They go hand in hand. What we have is such an unequal society. And it is a contributing factor to the #ClimateCrisis🚨 #MikeRylance
“If we don’t have deep, rapid and fair decarbonisation of modern society, we’ll have a revolutionary style change that will be both chaotic and violent”: science warning to MPs. By @damiengayle.bsky.social and me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security
Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🚨The #CostOfLiving crisis is really an #Inequality crisis. They go hand in hand. What we have is such an unequal society. And it is a contributing factor to the #ClimateCrisis🚨 #MikeRylance
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So close to the required number. Please add your name, as I have just done.
Less than 4,000 signatures to go to reach the 100,000 milestone.
We need a full investigation into Russian interference in our democracy.
We need to see how deep the rot goes, and hold those responsible to account.
Sign and share!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
We need a full investigation into Russian interference in our democracy.
We need to see how deep the rot goes, and hold those responsible to account.
Sign and share!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
So close to the required number. Please add your name, as I have just done.
🚨 #EnvironmentMatters #UK
*..alarmed by the scale of #FossilFuel funded disinformation flood[ing] #Westminster & the media; lack of public access to accurate, science-based information has created a vacuum..filled by polarised headlines designed to deny&delay action*
Open letter to sign/share ⬇️
*..alarmed by the scale of #FossilFuel funded disinformation flood[ing] #Westminster & the media; lack of public access to accurate, science-based information has created a vacuum..filled by polarised headlines designed to deny&delay action*
Open letter to sign/share ⬇️
"Let Starmer know how worried we are about Labour's dismissal of environmental protections
Yesterday we gathered in Westminster Hall for the 1st ever National Emergency Briefing with MPs & peers
Sign the open letter to Keir Starmer nebriefing.org
Full speech at youtu.be/QddkB1jK4sU
via Chris Packham
Yesterday we gathered in Westminster Hall for the 1st ever National Emergency Briefing with MPs & peers
Sign the open letter to Keir Starmer nebriefing.org
Full speech at youtu.be/QddkB1jK4sU
via Chris Packham
National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
nebriefing.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
🚨 #EnvironmentMatters #UK
*..alarmed by the scale of #FossilFuel funded disinformation flood[ing] #Westminster & the media; lack of public access to accurate, science-based information has created a vacuum..filled by polarised headlines designed to deny&delay action*
Open letter to sign/share ⬇️
*..alarmed by the scale of #FossilFuel funded disinformation flood[ing] #Westminster & the media; lack of public access to accurate, science-based information has created a vacuum..filled by polarised headlines designed to deny&delay action*
Open letter to sign/share ⬇️
Elephants need more space than zoos can provide.
So where should they go?
Europe's first large-scale elephant sanctuary is about to launch in Portugal, promising a place that the elephants can live out their final years with space and companionship www.ft.com/content/060a...
So where should they go?
Europe's first large-scale elephant sanctuary is about to launch in Portugal, promising a place that the elephants can live out their final years with space and companionship www.ft.com/content/060a...
Meet Portugal’s newest retirees: elephants
Without space to roam, the world’s biggest land animals do not thrive — so what should happen to those in Europe’s zoos? One sanctuary has an answer
www.ft.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Reposted by Meg Howarth
Funny how Labour, Tory & Reform parties pay lip-service to crime prevention, but avoid the obvious ...
meme via Irene Craig
meme via Irene Craig
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Funny how Labour, Tory & Reform parties pay lip-service to crime prevention, but avoid the obvious ...
meme via Irene Craig
meme via Irene Craig
🗣️ They are praying for rain in Iran, where drought, over-consumption and mismanagement have forced the president to warn residents they may need to evacuate the capital.
📩 Read our latest FourGround newsletter from Kiran Moodley:
📩 Read our latest FourGround newsletter from Kiran Moodley:
Iran drought: Tehran facing existential crisis as taps run dry
They are praying for rain in Iran, where drought, over-consumption and mismanagement have forced the president to warn residents they may need to evacuate the capital, writes Kiran Moodley.
channel4news.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet
The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter
christinapagel.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
Trump migration pause is ‘racist anti-immigration agenda’ – Former head of Human Rights Watch
www.channel4.com/news/trump-m...
www.channel4.com/news/trump-m...
Trump migration pause is ‘racist anti-immigration agenda’ – Former head of Human Rights Watch
We spoke with lawyer and former head of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth after Trump vowed to pause migration from ‘third world countries’.
www.channel4.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
#TreesMatter
🚨It may be #NationalTreeWeek but this hasn't stopped the deliberate poisoning (glyphosate herbicide) of #willow trees planted on #DuchyOfCornwall land #Dartmoor as part of a project to stop peat erosion, store carbon and reduce the risk of flooding🚨
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
🚨It may be #NationalTreeWeek but this hasn't stopped the deliberate poisoning (glyphosate herbicide) of #willow trees planted on #DuchyOfCornwall land #Dartmoor as part of a project to stop peat erosion, store carbon and reduce the risk of flooding🚨
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
#TreesMatter
🚨It may be #NationalTreeWeek but this hasn't stopped the deliberate poisoning (glyphosate herbicide) of #willow trees planted on #DuchyOfCornwall land #Dartmoor as part of a project to stop peat erosion, store carbon and reduce the risk of flooding🚨
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
🚨It may be #NationalTreeWeek but this hasn't stopped the deliberate poisoning (glyphosate herbicide) of #willow trees planted on #DuchyOfCornwall land #Dartmoor as part of a project to stop peat erosion, store carbon and reduce the risk of flooding🚨
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
🚨 #CSA #OnAndOnAndOn...
@cathynewman.bsky.social @axrenton.bsky.social @francescrook.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @andydavies4.bsky.social
@cathynewman.bsky.social @axrenton.bsky.social @francescrook.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @andydavies4.bsky.social
A man from Swansea has been handed an extended 30-year prison sentence after being found guilty of a number of child sex offences
Swansea man jailed for 30 years for child sex offences
A man from Swansea has been handed an extended 30-year prison sentence after being found guilty of a number of child sex offences. 36-year-old Adam Davies, from Hafod, committed the offences against m...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Russia writing US policy. For discussion of the implications of this please listen to my conversation with Michael Weiss on Thinking Live:
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Reposted by Meg Howarth
Booming or breaking? The truth about Russia’s war economy
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reposted by Meg Howarth
128 dead in Hong Kong | Russia's war economy | DC shooting | Reeves Budget reaction
Your Week In 4: Hand-picked insightful, inspiring and compelling reports from Channel 4 News this week:
Your Week In 4: Hand-picked insightful, inspiring and compelling reports from Channel 4 News this week:
128 dead in Hong Kong | Russia's war economy | DC shooting | Reeves Budget reaction
Your Week In 4: Hand-picked insightful, inspiring and compelling reports from Channel 4 News this week.
channel4news.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
128 dead in Hong Kong | Russia's war economy | DC shooting | Reeves Budget reaction
Your Week In 4: Hand-picked insightful, inspiring and compelling reports from Channel 4 News this week:
Your Week In 4: Hand-picked insightful, inspiring and compelling reports from Channel 4 News this week:
I spy the roof of #FrancisCrickInstitute @crick.ac.uk (four floors underground) behind the pic of the #BritishLibrary (five floors underground). Nice pic of Coal Drops Yard. Thanks posting. Enjoy your visit 🌻
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I spy the roof of #FrancisCrickInstitute @crick.ac.uk (four floors underground) behind the pic of the #BritishLibrary (five floors underground). Nice pic of Coal Drops Yard. Thanks posting. Enjoy your visit 🌻
🚨 #Climate ➡️ #Environment ➡️ #TreesMatter
😡 First mega waste dumping in #Oxfordshire, now deliberate poisoning of #trees in #Devon 😡
@channel4news.bsky.social @cathynewman.bsky.social @c4ciaran.bsky.social
😡 First mega waste dumping in #Oxfordshire, now deliberate poisoning of #trees in #Devon 😡
@channel4news.bsky.social @cathynewman.bsky.social @c4ciaran.bsky.social
REVEALED: Willow trees on Dartmoor common owned by Prince William deliberately poisoned with herbicide
This is an outrageous act of sabotage. Dartmoor’s commons are virtually treeless already, due to centuries of overgrazing by sheep. The culprit must be found:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is an outrageous act of sabotage. Dartmoor’s commons are virtually treeless already, due to centuries of overgrazing by sheep. The culprit must be found:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Willow trees on Prince William’s land in Devon poisoned with herbicide
Exclusive: Unknown culprit suspected of spraying glyphosate on protected trees hoped to stop peat erosion and flooding
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🚨 #Climate ➡️ #Environment ➡️ #TreesMatter
😡 First mega waste dumping in #Oxfordshire, now deliberate poisoning of #trees in #Devon 😡
@channel4news.bsky.social @cathynewman.bsky.social @c4ciaran.bsky.social
😡 First mega waste dumping in #Oxfordshire, now deliberate poisoning of #trees in #Devon 😡
@channel4news.bsky.social @cathynewman.bsky.social @c4ciaran.bsky.social
#JournalismMatters
🚨 The UK govt should also legislate to outlaw so-called #Slapp actions, brought by the rich and powerful to stop news outlets from publishing stories that expose their misdeeds 🚨
#ShoutOut for #MartinShipton @nation.cymru 👏
@channel4news.bsky.social @andydavies4.bsky.social
🚨 The UK govt should also legislate to outlaw so-called #Slapp actions, brought by the rich and powerful to stop news outlets from publishing stories that expose their misdeeds 🚨
#ShoutOut for #MartinShipton @nation.cymru 👏
@channel4news.bsky.social @andydavies4.bsky.social
”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game
My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes...
www.thenerve.news
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
#JournalismMatters
🚨 The UK govt should also legislate to outlaw so-called #Slapp actions, brought by the rich and powerful to stop news outlets from publishing stories that expose their misdeeds 🚨
#ShoutOut for #MartinShipton @nation.cymru 👏
@channel4news.bsky.social @andydavies4.bsky.social
🚨 The UK govt should also legislate to outlaw so-called #Slapp actions, brought by the rich and powerful to stop news outlets from publishing stories that expose their misdeeds 🚨
#ShoutOut for #MartinShipton @nation.cymru 👏
@channel4news.bsky.social @andydavies4.bsky.social
#OTD1757 #WilliamBlake 💖 #LestWeForget
@tomshakespeare.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social @blakesociety.bsky.social
🌟To see the world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower/Hold infinity in the palm of your hand/And eternity in an hour🌟 #AuguriesOfInnocence
@tomshakespeare.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social @blakesociety.bsky.social
🌟To see the world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower/Hold infinity in the palm of your hand/And eternity in an hour🌟 #AuguriesOfInnocence
Beatrice arriving on her chariot, with four evangelists (natch!), to have a little word with Dante. As envisioned in 1824 by William Blake, whose birthday is today.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
#OTD1757 #WilliamBlake 💖 #LestWeForget
@tomshakespeare.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social @blakesociety.bsky.social
🌟To see the world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower/Hold infinity in the palm of your hand/And eternity in an hour🌟 #AuguriesOfInnocence
@tomshakespeare.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social @blakesociety.bsky.social
🌟To see the world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower/Hold infinity in the palm of your hand/And eternity in an hour🌟 #AuguriesOfInnocence
'The manifesto said no increase in National Insurance. This is an increase in National Insurance.'
@helenmiller.bsky.social and @benzaranko.bsky.social discuss whether the Budget's tax changes are a breach of Labour's manifesto pledge in our new podcast.
🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...
@helenmiller.bsky.social and @benzaranko.bsky.social discuss whether the Budget's tax changes are a breach of Labour's manifesto pledge in our new podcast.
🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
#PalestineAction ⬇️
🚨 A sudden and unexplained shift from the single judge who already had conduct of the case to an entirely new panel of three is deeply concerning, particularly without any stated justification 🚨
#ICYMI @emilythornberry @yvettecooper
🚨 A sudden and unexplained shift from the single judge who already had conduct of the case to an entirely new panel of three is deeply concerning, particularly without any stated justification 🚨
#ICYMI @emilythornberry @yvettecooper
Did Trump pressure Starmer to ban Palestine Action?
Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group.
www.declassifieduk.org/did-trump-pr...
Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group.
www.declassifieduk.org/did-trump-pr...
Did Trump pressure Starmer to ban Palestine Action?
Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group.
www.declassifieduk.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#PalestineAction ⬇️
🚨 A sudden and unexplained shift from the single judge who already had conduct of the case to an entirely new panel of three is deeply concerning, particularly without any stated justification 🚨
#ICYMI @emilythornberry @yvettecooper
🚨 A sudden and unexplained shift from the single judge who already had conduct of the case to an entirely new panel of three is deeply concerning, particularly without any stated justification 🚨
#ICYMI @emilythornberry @yvettecooper
🌳 #TreesMatter
🚨 #Dartmoor’s commons are virtually treeless already (centuries of overgrazing by sheep). To see even these tentative efforts at restoring #trees subjected to deliberate vandalism is deeply disturbing, as is the failure so far to uncover the culprit🚨
@northdevongazette.bsky.social
🚨 #Dartmoor’s commons are virtually treeless already (centuries of overgrazing by sheep). To see even these tentative efforts at restoring #trees subjected to deliberate vandalism is deeply disturbing, as is the failure so far to uncover the culprit🚨
@northdevongazette.bsky.social
Willow trees on Prince William’s land in Devon poisoned with herbicide
Willow trees on Prince William’s land in Devon poisoned with herbicide
Exclusive: Unknown culprit suspected of spraying glyphosate on protected trees hoped to stop peat erosion and flooding
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🌳 #TreesMatter
🚨 #Dartmoor’s commons are virtually treeless already (centuries of overgrazing by sheep). To see even these tentative efforts at restoring #trees subjected to deliberate vandalism is deeply disturbing, as is the failure so far to uncover the culprit🚨
@northdevongazette.bsky.social
🚨 #Dartmoor’s commons are virtually treeless already (centuries of overgrazing by sheep). To see even these tentative efforts at restoring #trees subjected to deliberate vandalism is deeply disturbing, as is the failure so far to uncover the culprit🚨
@northdevongazette.bsky.social
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Glorious...
Glorious...
November 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Glorious...
Glorious...
Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We’ve mapped the mansion tax.
You can see who's paying - which constituency, which postcode - and how many "mansions" are near you.
Full interactive map here 👇
You can see who's paying - which constituency, which postcode - and how many "mansions" are near you.
Full interactive map here 👇
November 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM