Ian wingrove

Author of thrillers: Dead Poor and Feel.it. Worked for London Assembly greens for 15 years. Now freelance communications professional. Cyclist, father.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

For three days in a row the heat record for June has been broken in the UK.

The same story right across Europe.

Any attempts at this key moment to slow climate action is utterly indefensible. We need day one action to accelerate our climate ambition from Andy Burnham.

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

⚠️The Met Police Commissioner has been lobbying politicians NOT to introduce laws around facial recognition.

If we don't act now, intrusive face-scanning cameras could be installed on every high street, putting an end to privacy as we know it⤵️
https://t.co/9do8SIFFR1

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Absolutely stunning victory as Greens gain another seat in Brighton & Hove. 🎉

Look at that swing! 🙌🏽👀

Huge congratulations to Nadia and the entire team! 💚

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

3 judges with the International Criminal Court filed a lawsuit in a US federal court against Trump and his administration, challenging the sanctions against them and calling it a "financial death penalty."

The judges bringing the lawsuit are:
- Kimberly Prost (Canada)
- Solomy Balungi Bossa (Uganda)
- Reine Adelaide Sophie Alapini-Gansou (Benin)

Trump placed sanctions on the judges over their judicial decisions regarding investigations into war crimes by Israel and the US.

The judges argue that the sanctions are extrajudicial measures meant to punish and coerce them. They say the restrictions cut them off from banking, online platforms, travel booking, and sometimes health insurance.

This should be much bigger news.

[GreenJJNews @GreenJJNews]

It is currently hotter in the UK than in California's Death Valley.
We must prepare for the future, and heat-proof Britain, to better cope with the more extreme weather brought by climate breakdown.
@GreenJennyJones

#Heatwave #Climatechange

[Football Factly @FootballFactly]

🇳🇴🤯 A remarkable World Cup coincidence: in 1994, Erik Thorstvedt, Alf-Inge Haaland and Gøran Sørloth were part of Norway’s squad at the World Cup in the United States. Thirty-two years later, at the 2026 World Cup in North America, their sons — Kristian Thorstvedt, Erling Haaland and Alexander Sørloth — are representing Norway on the same stage.

[NewsCord @newscord_org]

The Spectator just told its readers the evidence that Israel deliberately targeted children in Gaza "simply isn't there," and that the UN's 94-page report is "a doctor's guess."

Here is what is actually in the report, Jonathan Sacerdoti says is empty:

• Two independent forensic pathologists. CT scans. Forensic analysis in 15 of 17 cases.

• An audio ballistic analysis that identified the exact weapon and the firing distance.

• A 10-day-old baby was shot in the head while breastfeeding in his mother's tent in Nuseirat. Named. Dated. The bullet was analysed.

He calls this "unverified" with "nothing connecting the dots." The report cross-references every source and authenticates it with geolocation, metadata and forensic imaging.

This is not an opinion you're free to disagree with. These are false statements of fact about a public document. Under IPSO's Editors' Code, Clause 1 (Accuracy) applies to comment pieces too.

We've drafted the complaint. File it to IPSO in one click, in your name: https://t.co/dy6lbqo8qh

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

There are climate activists sitting in jail for warning about this.

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

Paris, the capital of France, has recorded more days above 40°C this week than during the 147-year period spanning from 1872 to 2019.

Historic is an understatement.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Congratulations to our 2 new councils in Hackney.

2 elections. 2 Green wins! 💚💚🎉

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

The Isle of Wight elected 19 Reform councillors who all want to ban net zero and deny climate change.

[Gav 🏆🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Spurs_Optimist]

Interesting fact.

At no point was the summer of 1976 as hot as today. Not one weather station recorded temperatures of 36°c all summer. Not even in August.

Another interesting fact.

1976, if it happened in the last ten years, would be the coldest year in those 10 years.

[Adrian Ramsay MP @AdrianRamsay]

Which Andy Burnham turns up to Downing Street is crucial.

I really hope it's the non-tribal mayor who listens across party lines and thinks long-term (and not the Iraq War and PFI-backer)

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

IDF "soldiers shot a 16-year-old boy and then ran over his body with a tank, mutilating it.

"a 15-year-old boy holding a white flag — and his brother who came to his rescue, as well as their mother — were shot by .338-caliber Israeli sniper rounds from 200 meters away"

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Greta Thunberg has warned that 40C heatwaves in the UK are “only the beginning” and says Britain’s leaders have “their heads completely buried in the sand” regarding climate change.

Her comments follow revelations that Labour ministers met fossil fuel industry lobbyists more than 500 times during the party’s first year in power, while Labour MPs took tens of thousands of pounds in donations from oil and gas lobbyists.

The activist, 23, was speaking as the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued a rare red heat-health alert for the first time since 2022, with temperatures forecast to reach as high as 40C later this week.

“This is what experts have been warning about for decades,” Thunberg told Metro. “This is unfortunately only the beginning.”

She added: “We know that the climate crisis is here and now, and not a faraway threat in the future, and those suffering the most are the ones who have contributed the least to cause it.”

The red alert – which indicates heat that is life-threatening for even the healthy population – covers the East and West Midlands, London, and southern and east England from 1am on Wednesday until 11pm on Thursday.

The heatwave could also disrupt transport infrastructure, food and water access, energy supplies and force businesses to close, UKHSA warned.

Thunberg said: “What is most concerning about this is not only that we continuously shatter heat records and destabilise the entire biosphere way faster than models have been predicting, but that it is not treated as the existential crisis it is in media and politics.

“The UK’s responsibility for the climate crisis cannot be overstated, still its leaders continue acting as if there was no tomorrow.”

Research by UKHSA published last year found that as well as the elderly, the very young and people with pre-existing medical conditions, people experiencing poverty, overcrowded housing or difficult economic circumstances are also at far greater risk in the heat.

Thunberg’s comments were echoed by climate scientists, including professor Friederike Otto of Imperial College London, who said politicians had failed to respond to the first red heat-health alert in 2022.

“Our first 40C day was supposed to be a wake-up call, but clearly someone hit snooze,” she said.

[Natali Morris @natalimorris]

Israeli soldiers use young boys for "target practice." As in, Mondays, we shoot the stomach, Tuesdays, the knees, etc.

This was reported last year by the BBC and now corroborated by the United Nations' report.

[Rachel Millward @rachelmillward]

We need to talk about Josh Simons...

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

"A high court judge has just greenlit criminal proceedings against Rajiv Menon KC, one of the UK's most prominent human rights barristers...this unprecedented move has sent shockwaves through the legal profession and is actively terrifying junior defence lawyers."

Courts aren't just gagging defendants – now they're threatening independent lawyers with prison for reminding jurors that, when deciding on a case, they can use their conscience.

Justice Jeremy Johnson has continued with his attempt to have Rajiv Menon KC, the human rights barrister who represented one of the recently sentenced Filton 4, convicted of contempt of court.

Footage: @ranjanbalakumaran

[GreenJJNews @GreenJJNews]

As temperatures soar and heatwave records are repeatedly broken, the need to protect people from climate change has never been clearer.
@TheGreenParty will heat-proof Britain, ensuring our homes and public spaces are ready for a future of more extreme weather.
@GreenJennyJones

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Our Green MPs have written to the Prime Minister calling on him to take urgent action to address the anti Muslim hatred that's growing in the UK.

We've seen more racists attacks on our Muslim friends and neighbours in recent weeks. The Government needs to start taking this seriously.