Elizabeth Hanson
@lizhanson.bsky.social
Retired FE lecturer, interested in nature and science.
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“NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir – a US spy-tech firm…We’ve set up a simple tool so you can find out if your local NHS trust has started using the software & send an email demanding they say no to Palantir.”
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...?
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...?
Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir – a US spy-tech firm…We’ve set up a simple tool so you can find out if your local NHS trust has started using the software & send an email demanding they say no to Palantir.”
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...?
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...?
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Shareholder rebellions against executive pay packages doubled.
Makes no difference; votes are advisory, not binding. Too many shareholders have no social conscience - look at water, energy, internet....
Employees and customers have long term interest in companies, let them vote on exec pay.
Makes no difference; votes are advisory, not binding. Too many shareholders have no social conscience - look at water, energy, internet....
Employees and customers have long term interest in companies, let them vote on exec pay.
Shareholder rebellions against executive pay doubled this year
The upturn in investor rebellions over top brass pay helped drive an 88 per cent rise in the total number of FTSE 100 businesses facing shareholder rebellions this year.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Shareholder rebellions against executive pay packages doubled.
Makes no difference; votes are advisory, not binding. Too many shareholders have no social conscience - look at water, energy, internet....
Employees and customers have long term interest in companies, let them vote on exec pay.
Makes no difference; votes are advisory, not binding. Too many shareholders have no social conscience - look at water, energy, internet....
Employees and customers have long term interest in companies, let them vote on exec pay.
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If you are sick and tired of Governments failing to implement a peat compost ban again and again - to save all of the habitat it destroys each year and bring security to jobs and businesses in horticulture - please sign this petition actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal... I’ve signed
Sign the petition to end peat sales!
No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.
actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
If you are sick and tired of Governments failing to implement a peat compost ban again and again - to save all of the habitat it destroys each year and bring security to jobs and businesses in horticulture - please sign this petition actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal... I’ve signed
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Delighted how @precisionlife.bsky.social and @actionforme.bsky.social et al used consented @decodemestudy.bsky.social data to
-replicate #MEcfs genetic signal &
-show its shared/distinct genetics with Long Covid.
Next: replicate ME/CFS subtypes w/ targeted therapies
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
-replicate #MEcfs genetic signal &
-show its shared/distinct genetics with Long Covid.
Next: replicate ME/CFS subtypes w/ targeted therapies
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Identification of Novel Reproducible Combinatorial Genetic Risk Factors for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in the DecodeME Patient Cohort and Commonalities with Long COVID
Background: Myalgic encephalomyelitis (also known as ME/CFS or simply ME) has severely impacted the lives of tens of millions of people globally, but the disease currently has no accurate diagnostic t...
www.medrxiv.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Delighted how @precisionlife.bsky.social and @actionforme.bsky.social et al used consented @decodemestudy.bsky.social data to
-replicate #MEcfs genetic signal &
-show its shared/distinct genetics with Long Covid.
Next: replicate ME/CFS subtypes w/ targeted therapies
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
-replicate #MEcfs genetic signal &
-show its shared/distinct genetics with Long Covid.
Next: replicate ME/CFS subtypes w/ targeted therapies
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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🚨"They want to take away your healthcare and sell it back to you"
American doctor in the NHS raises alarm about underfunding and privatisation of the NHS.
Share if you support our NHS. vist.ly/4h6vb
American doctor in the NHS raises alarm about underfunding and privatisation of the NHS.
Share if you support our NHS. vist.ly/4h6vb
December 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🚨"They want to take away your healthcare and sell it back to you"
American doctor in the NHS raises alarm about underfunding and privatisation of the NHS.
Share if you support our NHS. vist.ly/4h6vb
American doctor in the NHS raises alarm about underfunding and privatisation of the NHS.
Share if you support our NHS. vist.ly/4h6vb
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The Green Party leadership has called on the government to "act before it's too late" after the party’s deputy leader became the first political figure to visit activists affiliated with Palestine Action who are on hunger strike
Green Party's Mothin Ali calls on Lammy to help Palestine Action hunger strikers
Ali became the first politician to visit the activists who have been on hunger strike more than 30 days
www.middleeasteye.net
December 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The Green Party leadership has called on the government to "act before it's too late" after the party’s deputy leader became the first political figure to visit activists affiliated with Palestine Action who are on hunger strike
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Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK.
UKIP/Reform/Farage damaged the economy with Brexit, now destroying the NHS.
The UK is an ageing society, without immigration the economy can't function. Will we ever get an honest debate?
UKIP/Reform/Farage damaged the economy with Brexit, now destroying the NHS.
The UK is an ageing society, without immigration the economy can't function. Will we ever get an honest debate?
Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK
Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK.
UKIP/Reform/Farage damaged the economy with Brexit, now destroying the NHS.
The UK is an ageing society, without immigration the economy can't function. Will we ever get an honest debate?
UKIP/Reform/Farage damaged the economy with Brexit, now destroying the NHS.
The UK is an ageing society, without immigration the economy can't function. Will we ever get an honest debate?
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The Government abolished the IPP sentence in 2021, yet the people affected are still living with its consequences.
If Ministers are serious about reducing the prison population, they must act now to resolve this injustice.
#PrisonReform #JusticeForIPP
If Ministers are serious about reducing the prison population, they must act now to resolve this injustice.
#PrisonReform #JusticeForIPP
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The Government abolished the IPP sentence in 2021, yet the people affected are still living with its consequences.
If Ministers are serious about reducing the prison population, they must act now to resolve this injustice.
#PrisonReform #JusticeForIPP
If Ministers are serious about reducing the prison population, they must act now to resolve this injustice.
#PrisonReform #JusticeForIPP
60% of the British public agree: our voting system is not fit for purpose.
The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it.
I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it.
I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
Petition to Democracy Minister
First Past The Post undermines our politics.
It leaves most of us with MPs we didn't vote for, and keeps delivering results that don't represent public opinion.
The upcoming Elections Bill is a chan...
actionnetwork.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
60% of the British public agree: our voting system is not fit for purpose.
The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it.
I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it.
I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
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Australia records biggest annual drop in emissions outside pandemic
https://www.europesays.com/2613847/
Australia records biggest annual drop in emissions outside pandemic …
https://www.europesays.com/2613847/
Australia records biggest annual drop in emissions outside pandemic …
Australia records biggest annual drop in emissions outside pandemic - EUROPE SAYS
Australia records biggest annual drop in emissions outside pandemic
www.europesays.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Australia records biggest annual drop in emissions outside pandemic
https://www.europesays.com/2613847/
Australia records biggest annual drop in emissions outside pandemic …
https://www.europesays.com/2613847/
Australia records biggest annual drop in emissions outside pandemic …
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Did you see Daisy Cooper @libdemdaisy.bsky.social on Question Time last night?
The silent majority of British people are crying out for politicians to come up with practical solutions on immigration.
That means recruiting more caseworkers, getting the backlog down, letting asylum seekers work and pay their way and creating safe and legal routes for refugees.
That means recruiting more caseworkers, getting the backlog down, letting asylum seekers work and pay their way and creating safe and legal routes for refugees.
December 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Did you see Daisy Cooper @libdemdaisy.bsky.social on Question Time last night?
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"An ambitious scheme to restore England’s nature over coming decades has been undermined after the government inserted a clause allowing it to terminate contracts with only a year’s notice"
Th Starmer government's assualt on British nature continues unabated
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Th Starmer government's assualt on British nature continues unabated
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nature recovery plan in England hit by clause allowing contracts to end with a year’s notice
Conservationists say changes, coupled with underfunding, will curb take-up and leave less land protected for nature
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"An ambitious scheme to restore England’s nature over coming decades has been undermined after the government inserted a clause allowing it to terminate contracts with only a year’s notice"
Th Starmer government's assualt on British nature continues unabated
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Th Starmer government's assualt on British nature continues unabated
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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😱 The European Commission may soon allow pesticides to remain approved indefinitely, with no deadlines to check for new harms.
Use our tool to email EU Commissioners and tell them to protect citizens, farmers and nature - not industry profits!
👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
Use our tool to email EU Commissioners and tell them to protect citizens, farmers and nature - not industry profits!
👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
Raise your voice for safe food and nature free from toxic pesticides
The European Commission is on a roll. After proposing to destroy Europe’s corporate sustainability law, they now want to attack various food laws, including on pesticide protection.
friendsoftheearth.eu
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
😱 The European Commission may soon allow pesticides to remain approved indefinitely, with no deadlines to check for new harms.
Use our tool to email EU Commissioners and tell them to protect citizens, farmers and nature - not industry profits!
👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
Use our tool to email EU Commissioners and tell them to protect citizens, farmers and nature - not industry profits!
👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
🛑 EU planning to greenlight more toxic pesticides. Help stop this → friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
Raise your voice for safe food and nature free from toxic pesticides
The European Commission is on a roll. After proposing to destroy Europe’s corporate sustainability law, they now want to attack various food laws, including on pesticide protection.
friendsoftheearth.eu
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🛑 EU planning to greenlight more toxic pesticides. Help stop this → friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...
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Big rise in mental health diagnoses in young people
Failure of UK productivity
It's bizarre that people don't put these two together and realize that modern management crushes people's creativity
And is a threat to our economic success
Failure of UK productivity
It's bizarre that people don't put these two together and realize that modern management crushes people's creativity
And is a threat to our economic success
December 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Big rise in mental health diagnoses in young people
Failure of UK productivity
It's bizarre that people don't put these two together and realize that modern management crushes people's creativity
And is a threat to our economic success
Failure of UK productivity
It's bizarre that people don't put these two together and realize that modern management crushes people's creativity
And is a threat to our economic success
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Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
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Day 3 of the 2025 #dragonfly #AdventCalendar. Four-spotted chaser, one of our commonest species and very showy. This one at my favourite Wiltshire site, Ravensroost Wood nature reserve in June. #DragonflyAdventCalendar #invertebrates #ukwildlife @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Day 3 of the 2025 #dragonfly #AdventCalendar. Four-spotted chaser, one of our commonest species and very showy. This one at my favourite Wiltshire site, Ravensroost Wood nature reserve in June. #DragonflyAdventCalendar #invertebrates #ukwildlife @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
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Day 2 of the 2025 #dragonfly #AdventCalendar. White-faced Darter is rare in the UK. It's a bog specialist and mainly lives in Scotland. This one from Whixall Moss, its only site in Wales, in late June. #DragonflyAdventCalendar #invertebrates #ukwildlife @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Day 2 of the 2025 #dragonfly #AdventCalendar. White-faced Darter is rare in the UK. It's a bog specialist and mainly lives in Scotland. This one from Whixall Moss, its only site in Wales, in late June. #DragonflyAdventCalendar #invertebrates #ukwildlife @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
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It's December so welcome to the 2025 #dragonfly #AdventCalendar featuring one species each day for 24 days. We start with a Southern Migrant Hawker. This one was at Canvey Island in July. They're showy and huge. #UKWildlife #DragonflyAdventCalendar #invertebrates @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It's December so welcome to the 2025 #dragonfly #AdventCalendar featuring one species each day for 24 days. We start with a Southern Migrant Hawker. This one was at Canvey Island in July. They're showy and huge. #UKWildlife #DragonflyAdventCalendar #invertebrates @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
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BOE Cuts Banks’ Benchmark Capital Requirements.
Just as the AI bubble readies to burst, and shadow banking is running amok.
Lower buffers will reduce bank ability to absorb shocks.
Guess who will bail out banks? We haven't recovered from the last crash.
archive.ph/ivAJV
Just as the AI bubble readies to burst, and shadow banking is running amok.
Lower buffers will reduce bank ability to absorb shocks.
Guess who will bail out banks? We haven't recovered from the last crash.
archive.ph/ivAJV
BOE Cuts Banks’ Benchmark Capital Requirements Ahead of Review
The Bank of England has cut its estimate of how much capital the UK’s banking sector needs for the first time in a decade, and signaled a consultation that could free up extra lending and higher payou...
www.bloomberg.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
BOE Cuts Banks’ Benchmark Capital Requirements.
Just as the AI bubble readies to burst, and shadow banking is running amok.
Lower buffers will reduce bank ability to absorb shocks.
Guess who will bail out banks? We haven't recovered from the last crash.
archive.ph/ivAJV
Just as the AI bubble readies to burst, and shadow banking is running amok.
Lower buffers will reduce bank ability to absorb shocks.
Guess who will bail out banks? We haven't recovered from the last crash.
archive.ph/ivAJV
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Some don’t understand that demonising refugees& asylum seekers is a red line for any healthy nation. As a group of people, like any other, they include the brilliant, good & bad, but labelling them as lesser humans undeserving of compassion, safety & equality is definitely bad for the whole country.
December 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Some don’t understand that demonising refugees& asylum seekers is a red line for any healthy nation. As a group of people, like any other, they include the brilliant, good & bad, but labelling them as lesser humans undeserving of compassion, safety & equality is definitely bad for the whole country.
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Regulation won't fix our broken water system.
You have until 3rd December to tell DEFRA exactly why their plans for a new fines system won't work.
Take 2 minutes now to complete the consultation.
You have until 3rd December to tell DEFRA exactly why their plans for a new fines system won't work.
Take 2 minutes now to complete the consultation.
Email DEFRA - regulation won't fix our broken water system
Email DEFRA - regulation won't fix our broken water system
weownit.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Regulation won't fix our broken water system.
You have until 3rd December to tell DEFRA exactly why their plans for a new fines system won't work.
Take 2 minutes now to complete the consultation.
You have until 3rd December to tell DEFRA exactly why their plans for a new fines system won't work.
Take 2 minutes now to complete the consultation.
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As #NationalTreeWeek comes to a close, we're highlighting the wonderful Dark Bordered Beauty 🌳🦋
This threatened moth, which resembles crackled bark and leaves, can be found on damp, lightly wooded heathland.
📷: Ilia Ustyantsev, George Tordoff, Martin Wain
#MothsMatter #TeamMoth
This threatened moth, which resembles crackled bark and leaves, can be found on damp, lightly wooded heathland.
📷: Ilia Ustyantsev, George Tordoff, Martin Wain
#MothsMatter #TeamMoth
November 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
As #NationalTreeWeek comes to a close, we're highlighting the wonderful Dark Bordered Beauty 🌳🦋
This threatened moth, which resembles crackled bark and leaves, can be found on damp, lightly wooded heathland.
📷: Ilia Ustyantsev, George Tordoff, Martin Wain
#MothsMatter #TeamMoth
This threatened moth, which resembles crackled bark and leaves, can be found on damp, lightly wooded heathland.
📷: Ilia Ustyantsev, George Tordoff, Martin Wain
#MothsMatter #TeamMoth
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Plant-based diets are more sustainable, promote health, reduce environmental harm and support global food justice. ✅ Supported by the latest EAT-Lancet report (October 2025).
Take a look 👉 viva.org.uk/planet/new-planetary-health-diet-could-save-lives-and-the-planet
#health #diet #eatlancet
Take a look 👉 viva.org.uk/planet/new-planetary-health-diet-could-save-lives-and-the-planet
#health #diet #eatlancet
November 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Plant-based diets are more sustainable, promote health, reduce environmental harm and support global food justice. ✅ Supported by the latest EAT-Lancet report (October 2025).
Take a look 👉 viva.org.uk/planet/new-planetary-health-diet-could-save-lives-and-the-planet
#health #diet #eatlancet
Take a look 👉 viva.org.uk/planet/new-planetary-health-diet-could-save-lives-and-the-planet
#health #diet #eatlancet
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The government's plans for carbon capture + hydrogen could consume 860mn litres of water a day - which may leave some parts of England without enough water to meet demand, even with additional reservoirs being built, report finds.
Our latest article, out now:
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Our latest article, out now:
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Water shortages could derail UK’s net zero plans, study finds
Tensions grow after research in England finds there may not be enough water for planned carbon capture and hydrogen projects
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November 30, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The government's plans for carbon capture + hydrogen could consume 860mn litres of water a day - which may leave some parts of England without enough water to meet demand, even with additional reservoirs being built, report finds.
Our latest article, out now:
share.google/GiSGJ9xD2ES3...
Our latest article, out now:
share.google/GiSGJ9xD2ES3...