Shirley Wardell
@shirleyfw.bsky.social
Leadership Development Facilitator, Time to Think Faculty
The high price of cheap food—who’s counting the cost of our national diet? | By Tim Jackson cusp.ac.uk/themes/healt...
The high price of cheap food—who’s counting the cost of our national diet? | By Tim Jackson
To accompany the launch of the latest report by the UK’s Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, Prof Tim Jackson explores the hidden costs of our nationa ...
cusp.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The high price of cheap food—who’s counting the cost of our national diet? | By Tim Jackson cusp.ac.uk/themes/healt...
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Rumours are circulating that banks have been let off the hook *again* in this year's Autumn Budget, despite making record-breaking windfall profits from higher interest rates.
Tell the Chancellor it's not too late to change course 👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks
Tell the Chancellor it's not too late to change course 👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Rumours are circulating that banks have been let off the hook *again* in this year's Autumn Budget, despite making record-breaking windfall profits from higher interest rates.
Tell the Chancellor it's not too late to change course 👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks
Tell the Chancellor it's not too late to change course 👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks
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Two years ago, I wrote this about how the COP climate summits are designed to fail, and how they could be designed to succeed. Sadly, nothing has changed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Cop28 is a farce rigged to fail, but there are other ways we can try to save the planet | George Monbiot
Inaction and self-interest are built into climate summits. Instead, we need a voting system that can’t be subverted by fossil fuel producers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Two years ago, I wrote this about how the COP climate summits are designed to fail, and how they could be designed to succeed. Sadly, nothing has changed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, data reveals www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, data reveals
Armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack people and infrastructure at key sites
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, data reveals www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
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Its decision to leave the Tory appointees in post at the BBC is one of so many Labour have made that I can't begin to understand. Any guesses?
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Its decision to leave the Tory appointees in post at the BBC is one of so many Labour have made that I can't begin to understand. Any guesses?
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The Government needs to get serious about climate change. And it hasn't so we're suing. But this is the longest and most expensive legal letter Good Law Project has ever sent - and it involves a huge team of specialist lawyers. And we really could use your help. goodlaw.social/4cqi
Make Keir Starmer step up on climate
The government is failing to tackle global heating – so we’re forcing it to take action
goodlaw.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Government needs to get serious about climate change. And it hasn't so we're suing. But this is the longest and most expensive legal letter Good Law Project has ever sent - and it involves a huge team of specialist lawyers. And we really could use your help. goodlaw.social/4cqi
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Great to see from @libdemdaisy.bsky.social 👏
Reeves must #TaxTheBanks and their windfall profits in the Budget - she could bring in over *£14 billion* from the Big Four banks alone.
Agree? Sign the petition 📝 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks
Reeves must #TaxTheBanks and their windfall profits in the Budget - she could bring in over *£14 billion* from the Big Four banks alone.
Agree? Sign the petition 📝 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Great to see from @libdemdaisy.bsky.social 👏
Reeves must #TaxTheBanks and their windfall profits in the Budget - she could bring in over *£14 billion* from the Big Four banks alone.
Agree? Sign the petition 📝 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks
Reeves must #TaxTheBanks and their windfall profits in the Budget - she could bring in over *£14 billion* from the Big Four banks alone.
Agree? Sign the petition 📝 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks
Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
#TaxTheBanks
Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing.
The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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Preparing workers for tax rises but refusing to #TaxTheBanks even as they describe themselves as "awash with money" is a slap in the face to working people.
Sign the petition for a windfall tax on banks today 👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks
Sign the petition for a windfall tax on banks today 👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks
November 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Preparing workers for tax rises but refusing to #TaxTheBanks even as they describe themselves as "awash with money" is a slap in the face to working people.
Sign the petition for a windfall tax on banks today 👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks
Sign the petition for a windfall tax on banks today 👉 bit.ly/TaxTheBanks
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Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC.
Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.
Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.
Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.
Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.
Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC.
Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.
Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.
Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA.
Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ.
Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
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UNRWA says October 'on track to be the most violent month' since it began tracking settler violence in 2013.
Israeli attacks on olive harvest ‘threaten Palestinian way of life’: UN
UNRWA says October 'on track to be the most violent month' since it began tracking settler violence in 2013.
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November 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
UNRWA says October 'on track to be the most violent month' since it began tracking settler violence in 2013.
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International law isn’t dead. Far from it. But impunity urgently needs to be addressed.
International law isn’t dead. But the impunity seen in Gaza urgently needs to be addressed
International law isn’t dead. Far from it. But impunity urgently needs to be addressed.
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September 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
International law isn’t dead. Far from it. But impunity urgently needs to be addressed.
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Want To Fight Climate Change? Give Afro-Descendant Communities Land Rights, New Report Says insideclimatenews.org/news/2207202...
Want To Fight Climate Change? Give Afro-Descendant Communities Land Rights, New Report Says - Inside Climate News
A peer-reviewed study found Afro-descendant territories outperform comparable lands in preventing forest loss thanks to centuries of sustainable land management practices.
insideclimatenews.org
July 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Want To Fight Climate Change? Give Afro-Descendant Communities Land Rights, New Report Says insideclimatenews.org/news/2207202...
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Great news. At
@fightingdirty.bsky.social we lost our court case on sewage sludge spreading, but now we're winning by other means.
It's crazy that it took so long, but shows that persistence pays. Please support FD if you can. Thanks.
fightingdirty.org/press-releas...
@fightingdirty.bsky.social we lost our court case on sewage sludge spreading, but now we're winning by other means.
It's crazy that it took so long, but shows that persistence pays. Please support FD if you can. Thanks.
fightingdirty.org/press-releas...
Press Release: Fighting Dirty wins major campaign victory as Government announces plan to regulate ‘toxic’ sewage sludge | Fighting Dirty
The campaigning environmental group, Fighting Dirty, is today celebrating a landmark victory following the release of the long-awaited Independent Water Commission Report, which recommends regulating ...
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July 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Great news. At
@fightingdirty.bsky.social we lost our court case on sewage sludge spreading, but now we're winning by other means.
It's crazy that it took so long, but shows that persistence pays. Please support FD if you can. Thanks.
fightingdirty.org/press-releas...
@fightingdirty.bsky.social we lost our court case on sewage sludge spreading, but now we're winning by other means.
It's crazy that it took so long, but shows that persistence pays. Please support FD if you can. Thanks.
fightingdirty.org/press-releas...
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Sept 2023: Our polling found most people want to #TaxTheBanks
May 2025: Gordon Brown's polling found most people want to #TaxTheBanks
June 2025: @tuc.org.uk polling found most people want to #TaxTheBanks
Are you with us?
Tell Rachel Reeves today ⬇️
bit.ly/taxthebanks
May 2025: Gordon Brown's polling found most people want to #TaxTheBanks
June 2025: @tuc.org.uk polling found most people want to #TaxTheBanks
Are you with us?
Tell Rachel Reeves today ⬇️
bit.ly/taxthebanks
July 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Sept 2023: Our polling found most people want to #TaxTheBanks
May 2025: Gordon Brown's polling found most people want to #TaxTheBanks
June 2025: @tuc.org.uk polling found most people want to #TaxTheBanks
Are you with us?
Tell Rachel Reeves today ⬇️
bit.ly/taxthebanks
May 2025: Gordon Brown's polling found most people want to #TaxTheBanks
June 2025: @tuc.org.uk polling found most people want to #TaxTheBanks
Are you with us?
Tell Rachel Reeves today ⬇️
bit.ly/taxthebanks
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Gary’s right. How can we allow the top 0.1% to get ever richer while kids in this country go to bed hungry? This isn’t a society - it’s a malfunction. Time to hit reset.
July 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Gary’s right. How can we allow the top 0.1% to get ever richer while kids in this country go to bed hungry? This isn’t a society - it’s a malfunction. Time to hit reset.
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He's right.
But also: this was exactly how some of us warned the Terrorism Act 2000 would be used when it was passed, by the government in which Peter Hain was a minister. He and all the others either ignored or dismissed our warnings. It's very frustrating.
But also: this was exactly how some of us warned the Terrorism Act 2000 would be used when it was passed, by the government in which Peter Hain was a minister. He and all the others either ignored or dismissed our warnings. It's very frustrating.
Peter Hain says anti-apartheid campaigners would have been treated as terrorists under logic used to ban Palestine Action www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Anti-apartheid activists would have been called terrorists under logic banning Palestine Action, Peter Hain says – as it happened
Labour peer says he is ‘deeply ashamed’ his party is backing moves to ban group
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July 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
He's right.
But also: this was exactly how some of us warned the Terrorism Act 2000 would be used when it was passed, by the government in which Peter Hain was a minister. He and all the others either ignored or dismissed our warnings. It's very frustrating.
But also: this was exactly how some of us warned the Terrorism Act 2000 would be used when it was passed, by the government in which Peter Hain was a minister. He and all the others either ignored or dismissed our warnings. It's very frustrating.
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Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament.
@wildjustice.bsky.social
@wildjustice.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament.
@wildjustice.bsky.social
@wildjustice.bsky.social
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Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.
July 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.
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I spoke to 700 of the world's top chefs in Copenhagen recently at MAD7, the food symposium created by Noma restaraunt founder Rene Redzepi. This is what I told them about the art of long-term thinking and the 100-year-old Japanese robe I'm wearing.
video.madfeed.co/how-can-we-b...
video.madfeed.co/how-can-we-b...
How Can We Be Good Ancestors? | Roman Krznaric MAD 7
When philosopher Roman Krznaric voted in a UK election, he gave his ballot to his kids. His message was clear: their futures will be shaped by today’s...
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July 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I spoke to 700 of the world's top chefs in Copenhagen recently at MAD7, the food symposium created by Noma restaraunt founder Rene Redzepi. This is what I told them about the art of long-term thinking and the 100-year-old Japanese robe I'm wearing.
video.madfeed.co/how-can-we-b...
video.madfeed.co/how-can-we-b...
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Half of the reason I do what I do is that trying to get in the woods is impossible for huge swathes of the country, and even then usually only for car owners who pump out emissions and flatten wildlife to walk their dog.
We need more woodlands. We need improved access in our existing woodlands.
We need more woodlands. We need improved access in our existing woodlands.
Just a quarter of woodland area in England is publicly accessible with only 14 per cent of households having the use of two hectares or more within 500 m of their home.
🔗 www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2525280...
🔗 www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2525280...
July 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Half of the reason I do what I do is that trying to get in the woods is impossible for huge swathes of the country, and even then usually only for car owners who pump out emissions and flatten wildlife to walk their dog.
We need more woodlands. We need improved access in our existing woodlands.
We need more woodlands. We need improved access in our existing woodlands.
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Keir Starmer's 'concessions' on the cruel welfare bill are not good enough and would create an unjust two-tier benefits system.
The Green Party is calling on Labour MPs to stand firm against this inadequate offer and for the Prime Minister to withdraw the bill.
The Green Party is calling on Labour MPs to stand firm against this inadequate offer and for the Prime Minister to withdraw the bill.
June 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Keir Starmer's 'concessions' on the cruel welfare bill are not good enough and would create an unjust two-tier benefits system.
The Green Party is calling on Labour MPs to stand firm against this inadequate offer and for the Prime Minister to withdraw the bill.
The Green Party is calling on Labour MPs to stand firm against this inadequate offer and for the Prime Minister to withdraw the bill.
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