Lex Young @LexCYoung

@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret How transformational could the brain capital movement be in achieving growth, & in doing so, bringing together disparate fields of health, finance, climate change etc? Dr Harris Eyre is a great proponent and worth listening to!

Our friends Elon and X have been throttling our posts the past 48 hours. 👎 Retweet this if you’re seeing it and want Kamala Harris to be the next President. 👍🙏

I just watch this now

Can't remember the last time Twitter made me so happy - all the footage, from across the country, of peaceful anti-racist protests. Streets jammed. Poetic that the opposite of civil war is all over Musk's platform.

You see this, this is what happens in real life. The bots can't show up on the streets. On the right there (yeah the far right) are the 6 nazis who turned up to cause mayhem. Everyone else is there to stop them. This is England.

Civil society, not civil war. Do please repost, #Elon

Matt Daniel @mattdaniel01

2 years ago

Liverpool, Walthamstow, Oxford, Bristol - beautiful scenes from up and down the country of communities coming together in the face of hatred this evening. THIS is who we are, THIS is what we should be striving for.

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@UKERCHQ Congratulations! I was head of comms at UKERC 2005 - 2011. So pleased to see it celebrate 20 years of brilliant and important work!

@nic_robbins1 100% agree with everything you’ve said. The impact spreads far and wide ♥️

Johnny Mercer, "Extraordinary progress on climate change has been made under this Conservative government" George Monbiot, "No, extraordinary progress has not been made under this government. It has deliberately trashed some of the progress even that was made under Boris Johnson's government" #BBCQT

@Philippa_Perry Thank you for your “guilt vs resentment” advice and your cat pictures. Very much enjoyed your suit. The Q&A was immense x

Liars everyone. Well done @vicderbyshire

Matt Daniel @mattdaniel01

2 years ago

Liverpool, Walthamstow, Oxford, Bristol - beautiful scenes from up and down the country of communities coming together in the face of hatred this evening. THIS is who we are, THIS is what we should be striving for.

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Brilliant from @lisanandy here. Clarity and conviction are the key to seeing the back of this rotten, corrupt, people-hating government

Lisa Nandy MP @lisanandy

3 years ago

Suella Braverman is wrong. Multiculturalism isn’t the problem. But we know what the problem is… #bbcqt

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12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees: 1. Temperature Control One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%. 2. Noise Reduction Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter. 3. Air Purity Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner. 4. Oxygen And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem. 5. Water Management Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply. 6. Psychological Health Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense. 7. Physical Health Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities. 8. Privacy A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy. 9. Economics The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier. 10. Wildlife Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects. 11. Light Pollution Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees. 12. Aesthetics And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers. Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs. Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on. There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

@JimSkeaIPCC @RHarrabin @IPCC_CH This is huge news! Well done Jim - hope to catch up soon although sounds like you’re going to be BUSY!!

Would vote for this woman to be world queen.

marty.com @martymadrid

3 years ago

This is the greatest TikTok I’ve seen this year … I would watch this as a series on Netflix

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@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret What do you get out of doing the podcast? Does it feel like a relief to air your views? A heavy responsibility? Or both?

This is a really good & rather moving thread.

John Hyde @JohnHyde1982

3 years ago

Tomorrow @bbcquestiontime is coming from my home town Clacton and its audience features purely Brexit voters. Social media will no doubt be full of negative comments about gammons and xenophobes. But that doesn't tell the full story... (short thread)

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BREAKING: the White Cliffs of Dover have been illuminated with the UK 'warming stripes' for #ShowYourStripes day! These stripes represent the UK average temperature from 1884 to 2022 with blue colours for colder years and red colours for hotter years. ShowYourStripes.info

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Need your help Twitter. A neighbour’s autistic daughter needs a new fire engine. It has to be this and only this one. Mum is desperate. Manufacturer Galey but no longer made. We can do this. Pls retweet.

@LisaWardComms There she is xxx