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22/11/2017

What do the holidays mean to you? This year, practice gratitude for what you have instead of giving in to the consumer frenzy. Join millions of people around the world to celebrate Buy Nothing Day on Friday, November 24 – and spend the day, BEING, not BUYING. Will you take the pledge to ...

20/11/2017

Appalling

The Conservatives have been accused of “economic murder” for austerity policies which a new study suggests have caused 120,000 deaths. The paper found that there were 45,000 more deaths in the first four years of Tory-led efficiencies than would have been expected if funding had stayed at pre-electi...

09/11/2017

Signed and shared.

Thousands of us are joining together to lift the ban on onshore wind. But the government just don't get it. New data shows that the ban on onshore wind is costing us £1bn over five years. We can’t let that happen.

31/08/2017

Lloyd is raising money to help the NSPCC

20/08/2017

17/08/2017

Troubling times journaled by Vice news on Home Box Office (HBO)

On Saturday hundreds of white nationalists, alt-righters, and neo-Nazis traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia to participate in the “Unite the Right” rally. ...

03/08/2017

Today is Earth Day. We have busted Earth's ecological budget! It takes 1.7 planets to support humanity's demand on nature. If everyone on the planet lived like the average American, we would need 5 planets; the average German 3.2 planets; and the average Japanese citizen 2.9 planets. How many planets would we need if everyone lived like YOU?? When is YOUR personal Earth Overshoot Day? Find out at http://www.footprintcalculator.org.

03/08/2017

Today marks Earth Overshoot Day - the day by which the human race will have used more of Earth's natural resources than the planet can renew in the...

26/06/2017

The greater risk... is not always the one in the spotlight, the darker corners need illumination:

Link to article in Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/nhs-cuts-excess-deaths-30000-study-research-royal-society-medicine-london-school-hygiene-martin-a7585001.html

Link to study by Oxford University:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-02-20-30000-excess-deaths-2015-linked-cuts-health-and-social-care