Rashford, Lineker, Forest Green Rovers Dale Vince football leading the way

Half of England is owned by just 1% of the population. 24 Dukes own 1 million acres of land. The rest of us are shut out of it. Until that changes, we can't ensure that the nature we're blessed with is able to thrive well into the future. That's why we must extend #RightToRoam.

The Titanic submarine is a modern morality tale of what happens when you have too much money, and the grotesque inequality of sympathy, attention and aid for those without it. Migrants are “meant” to die at sea; billionaires aren’t.

UK astonishingly far behind on CT and MRI scanners - I get that tech isn’t everything - but can we really justify being this much of an outlier? ⁦The Rest Is Politics⁩

Comments suggest some folk don't get why cities need mass transit & active travel, so here's an explainer:

This quote, from the The New York Times review of the OPPENHEIMER film: "He served as director of a clandestine weapons lab built in a near-desolate stretch of Los Alamos, in New Mexico"... It was inhabited by Hispanos. They were given less than 24 hr to leave. Their farms bulldozed. 1

A Tiny Spark premiered at thinktank yesterday. Bold programming, talented local artists, standing room only Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery delivering on its promise of leading in community engagement

NEW On the website front page… my piece on the impossible dilemma over Chinese electric cars… Gateway to achieving mass adoption of a key net zero technology? Or sword of Damocles hanging over domestic production in the UK & Europe?… bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

If you hit pedestrian they have much greater chance of surviving if your speed is lower. If you hit pedestrian: at 40 mph, 90 % chance they'll be killed. at 35 mph, 50 % chance they'll be killed. at 30 mph, 20 % chance they'll be killed. at 20 mph, 2.5 % chance they'll be killed.

This image of the "dusty boy," Omran Daqneesh, after he was pulled from the rubble in Aleppo, was splashed across the front pages of Western newspapers in 2016. There are now thousands of dusty boys and girls in Gaza, but none have received the same prominent treatment Omran did

I stayed in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem for several weeks in 1994, while writing From the Holy Mountain. I regularly used to hear armed Settlers shouting "Death to the Arab," as they passed along the outer walls, smashing windows and breaking into shops. Now the Settlers

Miss Ursula von der Leyen.This is NOT just a humanitarian crisis.This is a catastrophy of apocalyptic proportions,possibly a genocide implemented through modern means of warfare that the EU must help to bring to a HALT.Palestinians arent disposable. They cant be put in tents in the Sinai

"Shrinking arts organisations and the underpaid, fatigued people who work in them are struggling to create the long-term conditions for the things they went into their job to achieve: to enable the creation of great art." Thank you Charlotte Higgins The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

16k killed (7k kids),40k injured, 1.8ml IDPs, 60% civilian infrastructure gone. No food, water, medication. Just bombs dropping. In the face of all this, Congresspeople of the only country who can stop this, legislated that antizionism=antisemitism. Alternative reality, it is.

I've just invoked Art.99 of the UN Charter - for the 1st time in my tenure as Secretary-General. Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe & appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared.

Paris is saying ‘non’ to a US-style hellscape of supersized cars – and so should the rest of Europe | Alexander Hurst theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Israel has now dropped 65,000 tons of explosives on Gaza’s civilian population in 89 days—over one and a half times more than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombs combined. Call it what it is: GENOCIDE

From Carlingford, Ireland, home to Joe Biden's maternal ancestors, Irish citizens send an indignant St. Patrick's Day message to the US president: "Because of our history, the Irish people will never forgive those who enable the oppression and ethnic cleansing and genocide of

🚨BREAKING: A new Oxfam report reveals how Israel's systematic weaponizing of water against Palestinians in #Gaza, has reduced the amount of water available in Gaza by 94% to 4.74 litres a day per person. Read our release👉 oxf.am/4640Get