Nigel Rumsey
@nigelrumsey.bsky.social
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Prof @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social's warning at the National Emergency Briefing that everyone in the UK deserves to hear.
For the full talk, please go to our YouTube channel. See below.
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
For the full talk, please go to our YouTube channel. See below.
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
December 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Prof @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social's warning at the National Emergency Briefing that everyone in the UK deserves to hear.
For the full talk, please go to our YouTube channel. See below.
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
For the full talk, please go to our YouTube channel. See below.
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
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Please sign the open letter to Keir Starmer and the national broadcasters calling for a televised emergency briefing.
People have the right to know about the serious threats facing this country, and that we could be doing so much more.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
People have the right to know about the serious threats facing this country, and that we could be doing so much more.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
December 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Please sign the open letter to Keir Starmer and the national broadcasters calling for a televised emergency briefing.
People have the right to know about the serious threats facing this country, and that we could be doing so much more.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
People have the right to know about the serious threats facing this country, and that we could be doing so much more.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
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Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
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Freeze out the Arab nations, USA, etc. This is too important. Arab nations on suicide pact, already experiencing some of the worst impacts of heat, drought, yet in denial. They must not be allowed to take rest of world down with them
Miliband urges Cop30 to find ‘creative’ routes to roadmap on phasing out fossil fuel
UK energy secretary says UN climate talks must find way to keep proposals alive despite significant resistance
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Freeze out the Arab nations, USA, etc. This is too important. Arab nations on suicide pact, already experiencing some of the worst impacts of heat, drought, yet in denial. They must not be allowed to take rest of world down with them
I love @profdevisridhar.bsky.social proposal for a Dame Michelle Mone Law to protect taxpayers’ money when the next pandemic strikes.
I do hope that the inquiry considers it.
#covidinquiry
I do hope that the inquiry considers it.
#covidinquiry
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I love @profdevisridhar.bsky.social proposal for a Dame Michelle Mone Law to protect taxpayers’ money when the next pandemic strikes.
I do hope that the inquiry considers it.
#covidinquiry
I do hope that the inquiry considers it.
#covidinquiry
As things stand, child poverty is on track to reach record highs by 2029-30.
By then, we predict that more than one-in-three British children (34 per cent) would be growing up in poverty.
That's the highest rate of child poverty we'd have seen since 1961 ⤵️ buff.ly/qVc9CWs
By then, we predict that more than one-in-three British children (34 per cent) would be growing up in poverty.
That's the highest rate of child poverty we'd have seen since 1961 ⤵️ buff.ly/qVc9CWs
November 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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The BBC will never always get it right, but it has a public remit to try. And that makes all the difference
November 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The BBC will never always get it right, but it has a public remit to try. And that makes all the difference
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The value of Fuel Duty is now at historic lows, having fallen by 23p per litre (or a third) in real terms over the past decade.
It would cost £5 billion *per year* to continue the freeze by the end of the decade.
Instead, smaller quarterly increases should be introduced.
It would cost £5 billion *per year* to continue the freeze by the end of the decade.
Instead, smaller quarterly increases should be introduced.
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The value of Fuel Duty is now at historic lows, having fallen by 23p per litre (or a third) in real terms over the past decade.
It would cost £5 billion *per year* to continue the freeze by the end of the decade.
Instead, smaller quarterly increases should be introduced.
It would cost £5 billion *per year* to continue the freeze by the end of the decade.
Instead, smaller quarterly increases should be introduced.
‘Ciao, bambino!’: Paris agreement architect says absence of US is good for #COP30 - live blog
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Ciao, bambino!’: Paris agreement architect says absence of US is good for Cop30 - live
Christiana Figueres tells summit that decarbonisation of global economy is inevitable despite disruptive Trump presidency
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
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Every MP now has a personal video invitation to the National Emergency Briefing.
This is about ensuring all policymakers are fully informed.
Find and send your MP’s invite:
#neb #timetostepup #NationalEmergencyBriefing
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
This is about ensuring all policymakers are fully informed.
Find and send your MP’s invite:
#neb #timetostepup #NationalEmergencyBriefing
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
October 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Every MP now has a personal video invitation to the National Emergency Briefing.
This is about ensuring all policymakers are fully informed.
Find and send your MP’s invite:
#neb #timetostepup #NationalEmergencyBriefing
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
This is about ensuring all policymakers are fully informed.
Find and send your MP’s invite:
#neb #timetostepup #NationalEmergencyBriefing
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Is there a service where I can send my handwritten notes and someone will type them?
November 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Is there a service where I can send my handwritten notes and someone will type them?
A great #TEDx talk by Boston University lecturer Frank Possemato, with 3 simple suggestions on how live an analog life in a digital world.
youtu.be/WEMffdUgWCk?...
youtu.be/WEMffdUgWCk?...
How to live an analog life in a digital world | Frank Possemato | TEDxBU
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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October 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A great #TEDx talk by Boston University lecturer Frank Possemato, with 3 simple suggestions on how live an analog life in a digital world.
youtu.be/WEMffdUgWCk?...
youtu.be/WEMffdUgWCk?...
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For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar
Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.
I'm currently reading Nomad Century by @wanderinggaia.bsky.social so it was perfect timing to hear today's interview by Amol Rajan on BBC Radio 4.
It's refreshing to hear honest, realistic, positive discussion about both #climatechange & #migration.
#gaiavince
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
It's refreshing to hear honest, realistic, positive discussion about both #climatechange & #migration.
#gaiavince
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Radical with Amol Rajan - Climate Migration: Confronting the Reality of Global Warming (Gaia Vince) - BBC Sounds
Gaia Vince makes the positive case for immigration despite public concern over the issue.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I'm currently reading Nomad Century by @wanderinggaia.bsky.social so it was perfect timing to hear today's interview by Amol Rajan on BBC Radio 4.
It's refreshing to hear honest, realistic, positive discussion about both #climatechange & #migration.
#gaiavince
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
It's refreshing to hear honest, realistic, positive discussion about both #climatechange & #migration.
#gaiavince
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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98% in September.
robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/
robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/
October 2, 2025 at 6:01 AM
98% in September.
robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/
robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/
Let's celebrate María Corina Machado's win, rather than gloating over those that lost!
#NobelPeacePrize
#NobelPeacePrize
Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize
Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize
Leader of country’s opposition receives award after intense public and private campaign by Donald Trump
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Let's celebrate María Corina Machado's win, rather than gloating over those that lost!
#NobelPeacePrize
#NobelPeacePrize
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🎉 Green Party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social has been included in this year’s Time100 Next list, an annual list naming the 100 leaders shaping the future of business, entertainment, sports, politics, health, science and activism.
September 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🎉 Green Party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social has been included in this year’s Time100 Next list, an annual list naming the 100 leaders shaping the future of business, entertainment, sports, politics, health, science and activism.
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In Germany, a new kind of vending machine let you refill your old shampoo bottles instead of buying new ones. These sleek, touch-operated stations are popping up in supermarkets, offering liquid shampoo, conditioner, hand soap, and other essentials. #ActOnclimate #oilandgas #plasticpollution
September 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
In Germany, a new kind of vending machine let you refill your old shampoo bottles instead of buying new ones. These sleek, touch-operated stations are popping up in supermarkets, offering liquid shampoo, conditioner, hand soap, and other essentials. #ActOnclimate #oilandgas #plasticpollution
We make 300 million tonnes of plastic per year. More than the total weight of humanity.
There are already more Lego people than real people.
Can we now play with the toys we already have?
#plasticpollution #reduce
There are already more Lego people than real people.
Can we now play with the toys we already have?
#plasticpollution #reduce
September 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
We make 300 million tonnes of plastic per year. More than the total weight of humanity.
There are already more Lego people than real people.
Can we now play with the toys we already have?
#plasticpollution #reduce
There are already more Lego people than real people.
Can we now play with the toys we already have?
#plasticpollution #reduce
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Monday 2-3 along with @uclpolicylab.bsky.social we'll also be hosting @theguardian.com politics weekly with
@pippacrerar.bsky.social and @kiranstacey.bsky.social as they hold an in conversation with @andyburnham.bsky.social
@pippacrerar.bsky.social and @kiranstacey.bsky.social as they hold an in conversation with @andyburnham.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Monday 2-3 along with @uclpolicylab.bsky.social we'll also be hosting @theguardian.com politics weekly with
@pippacrerar.bsky.social and @kiranstacey.bsky.social as they hold an in conversation with @andyburnham.bsky.social
@pippacrerar.bsky.social and @kiranstacey.bsky.social as they hold an in conversation with @andyburnham.bsky.social
Thoughtful, balanced & sensitive report about the asylum system & its impact on the Kent coast by @johnharris1969.bsky.social for The Guardian @politicsweeklyuk.bsky.social.
Good to hear a journalist with the time to ask questions & listen to the answers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...
Good to hear a journalist with the time to ask questions & listen to the answers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...
Kent, where the politics of small boats and asylum has exploded – podcast
The conversation about asylum and immigration is at the centre of British politics, and nowhere more so than in Kent. This week, John Harris is on the road in a special episode looking at both sides o...
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Thoughtful, balanced & sensitive report about the asylum system & its impact on the Kent coast by @johnharris1969.bsky.social for The Guardian @politicsweeklyuk.bsky.social.
Good to hear a journalist with the time to ask questions & listen to the answers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...
Good to hear a journalist with the time to ask questions & listen to the answers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...
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It's World #CarFreeDay! A day to imagine a world with fewer cars, cleaner air, and quieter streets with more space for people.
Helped by wonderful supporters, we are working to improve the alternatives to driving, so that more people can travel car-free EVERY day.
Helped by wonderful supporters, we are working to improve the alternatives to driving, so that more people can travel car-free EVERY day.
September 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
It's World #CarFreeDay! A day to imagine a world with fewer cars, cleaner air, and quieter streets with more space for people.
Helped by wonderful supporters, we are working to improve the alternatives to driving, so that more people can travel car-free EVERY day.
Helped by wonderful supporters, we are working to improve the alternatives to driving, so that more people can travel car-free EVERY day.
I’d decided that I no longer enjoyed writing.
It turns out, I no longer enjoy writing on the laptop. Since I picked a pencil and paper I can’t stop!
All I need now is someone to type it up for me!
#analogue
It turns out, I no longer enjoy writing on the laptop. Since I picked a pencil and paper I can’t stop!
All I need now is someone to type it up for me!
#analogue
September 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I’d decided that I no longer enjoyed writing.
It turns out, I no longer enjoy writing on the laptop. Since I picked a pencil and paper I can’t stop!
All I need now is someone to type it up for me!
#analogue
It turns out, I no longer enjoy writing on the laptop. Since I picked a pencil and paper I can’t stop!
All I need now is someone to type it up for me!
#analogue
I’ve joined Fairtrade to ask my MP to support farmers who produce the tea we drink. Will you email yours, too? #BrewItFair
action.fairtrade.org.uk/page/171774/...
action.fairtrade.org.uk/page/171774/...
MPs – Let’s Brew It Fair
I’ve joined Fairtrade to ask my MP to support farmers who produce the tea we drink. Will you email yours too?
action.fairtrade.org.uk
September 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I’ve joined Fairtrade to ask my MP to support farmers who produce the tea we drink. Will you email yours, too? #BrewItFair
action.fairtrade.org.uk/page/171774/...
action.fairtrade.org.uk/page/171774/...