Jo Purvis

71 yrs ago today, the LA Times reported on climate change. These sorts of articles not uncommon then, mentioning coal-burning as one possible cause. By late 1970s the articles were longer, more emphatic and quoting very worried scientists. And here we are...

NO to "golden visas". We don't need even more corrupt, dangerous people arriving on private jets

Some welcome news on urgent retrofits to create airborne equipment and provision of better kit to help firefighters. #NationalResilience #Wildfires But Tory cuts to fire crews and now #Jackdaw approval were backward steps. Stop #Rosebank to reduce rising carbon emissions news.sky.com/story/milita...

Why not ask Badenoch WHY 'we are not ready to use renewables' after so many years of Conservative government? #BBCBreakfast Environmentalists have called out the costs of slow action for decades. Pathetic to continue claiming climate action on fossil fuels can wait.

True food security starts with supporting British farmers, not engineering our food. To build a healthy, sustainable food system we must back our growers and embrace a truly agroecological approach. #BackBritishFarmers #Agroecology #UKPolitics

www.itv.com/news/2020-02... In March 2020, when Gov. should have been preparing for the pandemic, Downing Street hired a eugenicist. When Johnson said "take it on the chin" he meant you, not him.

Governments did not even know which care homes could isolate residents safely. Nor were alternative isolation facilities ready. Exercise Cygnus had identified the need for social-care capacity planning in 2016, but the work remained unfinished. 8/10

Care workers were given guidance that was detached from reality, including advice to remain two metres from people while providing intimate care. PPE shortages left some working with unsuitable equipment or none at all. The report calls this “wholly unacceptable”. 10/10

By mid-March 2020 there was enough evidence of possible asymptomatic transmission to justify a precautionary approach. The Inquiry says all hospital admissions to care homes should have been isolated. Scotland introduced this advice earlier. 7/10

The Inquiry explicitly rejects the claim that a “protective ring” was thrown around care homes “right from the start”. It says that claim did not accurately reflect the lack of action in March and the first half of April 2020. 3/10

When I arrived at the 1st care home COVID outbreak in those early weeks, I found a group of frightened teenage staff (their managers were already off sick) wearing cloth masks and aprons improvised from supermarket carrier bags. Pretty sure I didn't see any "protective ring"

Read this important thread, and also consider how many uncounted people died at home, or on admission to hospital without receiving any healthcare given the absence of testing or access to GPs early in 2020.

Who knew!! 🤷 Hint: your local @greenparty.org.uk 💚 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#MoreorLess?@timharford.ft.com Many say: Jackdaw will cost more in subsidies than tax returned, produce gas sold internationally, only support 27 jobs and won't reduce our bills. Govt: will increase 'domestic'(?) gas production, protect energy security, 100s of jobs, add £2.9 billion to economy.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

📺 Make Votes Matter in the news 📺 Our CEO @emmacampaigner.bsky.social appeared today on the BBC's Sunday Morning Live, alongside Sir John Curtice and Lord Robert Hayward. We deserve better than this broken voting system that leaves millions of people ignored. It's time for PR 💪

The 'Christian' Nationalism mask slipped on unbalanced Sunday Morning Live, with claim from Tim Dieppe that activity is 'not as bad as the far worse antisemitism and incitement to violence' seen on some Palestinian marches, (which went unchallenged). Bishops disagree. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

#Scrutiny. Standard brush off from any right wing speaker, routinely unchallenged by the BBC for decades now. Not odd at all.

Real #nationalresilience urgently needed. And thank goodness we Earthlings all benefit from our investment in space technology, like combating extreme temperatures with flexible clothing and equipment . . Oh. Wait.

#TruthAboutZane campaign rightly getting lots of love and attention at #GreenPartyConference. I have put #ZanesLaw to parliament three times and will keep pushing the crucial #PublicHealth issue of dangerous landfills every chance I get #GPC26

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

Sir (good grief) Simon Clarke was born in 1984, so I am not sure where his memories of the seventies comes from

Cried today listening to a VM from a friend with Long Covid/ME whose life is now unrecognizable to me & to herself. The physical & cognitive cost of even watching a movie or reading a book is immense, all while working in an indifferent capitalist world & disbelieving society. Appreciate this piece.

Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics. Like Blair, Cameron, Clegg, Mandelson, hired to open govt networks to companies and corporate capture of the state. They sell political capital built with public money. What do we get in return?

Rights groups accuse UN of hosting a 'war criminal' as delegations walk out during Israeli prime minister's speech https://aje.news/80r71e

Across the world, sometimes peaceful street protesters are cable tied and arrested, elsewhere, despite challenging behaviour, they are not. Inside the UN, Netanyahu can spill his mendacious messages (does he not know we have SEEN 'settler violence') in person, while Abbas cannot enter the US.

Datacentre are being foisted on people living in low/medium income areas, not in wealthy areas. Resulting in excessive use of water, energy; pollution and environmental damage. Very few long-term jobs are generated. Watch the Minister's reply.

👏 to Anne Pullin of White Knights Blood Bikes just on BBC Radio Leeds. Leading dedicated volunteers to cover out of hours transport of blood, plasma and other urgent medical supplies between hospitals and hospices, patients and medics. Check out this vital service where you live. whiteknights.org.uk

Israel lacking respect for dead buried in Gaza rubble: UN https://aje.news/yxowvi

If Totnes decided, in an unofficial referendum, to join the EU, I wonder how many pages of coverage the BBC would give to a cat that can play a banjo?

Never forget the years when people were forced to walk away from their unreachable children and relatives, trapped under rubble, and how a people came to be sheltering within and without dangerous structures that continue to be damaged by military action. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Also the nation's clamour on BBC impartiality. Nandy:

Keegan conveniently forgets that Brexit was a major cause of uplift in the cost of living when prices rocketed afterwards 'never to return to previous levels, with a cumulative effect'. #politicslive

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Surely only one further step to donning 'border security' outfits bought online and dragging people off the streets.

Dear the BBC, you used to learn place names properly. I understand that compliance with Reform distate for supporting foreign language is essential to your messaging, (except of course for Faraaage) but I have seen very few 'Bayeux' scores in your subtitling. Noted 'bio' and 'by a' in the past hour.

Agreed, have seen debate about some common goods with common sense between progressive speakers. The more of them we elect, the more their voices can unite where possible, and the more they can act on our behalf.

#GetGreensElected - it takes a team effort and whow what a team!

Reminder of the 2024 General Election result in Holborn and St Pancras. Labour Keir Starmer 18,884 Independent Andrew Feinstein 7,312 Green David Stansell 4,030 For some reason, the BBC is suggesting that Greens were his main opposition 🤔

Today is the third reading of the Representation of the People Bill. The biggest amendment to the bill - signed by over 170 MPs from across the House - calls for a National Commission on Electoral Reform. Our voting system needs an urgent review. We hope the government listens.

'We give up so quickly on our prime ministers because they give up so quickly on us.'

@benking01.bsky.social Saw this Totnes footpath/environment/school funding story. www.instagram.com/reel/DcjlYSh...

I think we need to discuss morally questionable societal norms when we have ££ to invest on a full blown advertising campaign for MAID like it’s a free holiday, but aren’t investing the appropriate amount to ££ for research,treatment & support to improve lives of the chronically disabled community

Listened to stony faced pundits and presenter on Sky overnight talking about the social burden of #NEET young people with no mention of prevention, only sanctions against them. As if #ForeverCovid promised better. Listen to @sunnyrae1.bsky.social @longcovidkids.bsky.social youtu.be/k0mojFpAU00?...

We tried to warn and ask for clean air from early on…we asked repeatedly..and were ignored….repeatedly by those with the power to institute the changes we need to keep us all safer….we will keep knocking on those closed doors until they either open or we knock them down…Please also keep knocking 🙏