Dean Robert Johnson Ⓥ💙

i am not a doctor.

[Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey]

Net zero is a description of scientific fact, and without it we face summers far worse than the one just ending - so why are our politicians so weak on the climate? https://t.co/MIf1AFjcQU

[Nicholas D. Carter @NicholasDCarter]

The science shows regenerative grazing simply doesn't work

And I get it, it's a captivating well funded story ($200M from McD's otw), & it's easier to convince many that tweaks are all that's needed vs. systemic changes away from beef

🧵8 reasons why this won't make beef eco.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

How did the media react when activists tried to warn wildfires and other climate chaos was coming?

[Trees for Streets @TreesforStreets]

When we're faced with extreme heat, tree-lined streets in our towns and cities are a lot more bearable than those without; however, not everybody lives in areas with enough urban trees to experience this phenomenon.

It's our mission to ensure that everyone can benefit from the cooling power of trees in extreme heat, no matter where they live. Will you help us make it happen? 🌳

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

Please don't turn your lawn into plastic. Fake grass reduces food & shelter for wildlife such as bees & butterflies; has a high carbon footprint; sheds micro-plastics which wash into our rivers and seas; and in summer can get hot enough to harm pets.
More: https://t.co/qq5bnSrcqq

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

Yesterday the Telegraph reported on my comments about air conditioning.

The comment section is quite something. I have apparently become a hero of the anti net zero crowd by saying something what I think is sensible about air con.

Allow me to point out three ironies in this 🧵

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Cat check: Jenkyns is a former Conservative government minister, who was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by former Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson and was married to a then MP who became deputy Chair of the Conservative Party. It is unclear what she considers "the establishment" to be.

[Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm]

Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Restore all refuse to contest the Clacton by-election. At this rate the only serious opposition faced by @Nigel_Farage could be @CountBinface - which is an interesting challenge for tactical voting.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton. I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house.

Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it.

Leave him to me.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Before & After…

If anyone doubts the power of community action over the @EnvAgency’s spineless inertia, you can walk to the outskirts of Ilford & walk along an ancient lost river to see for yourself.

With 10 days of intense effort by dedicated volunteers, the river River Roding Trust managed to clean up & restore 250 metres of the Aldersbrook (about 1/3 of the brook). This allows a direct comparison between the parts of the brook we restored & those we haven’t got round to yet.

These photos & videos are all from May 2026. The first is on a part of the Aldersbrook still to be restored & shows the old flood defences which are no longer needed & are killing the river but which the EA won’t remove unless we volunteers pay them £50,000 just for surveys. These defences have caused 2-3ft of stinking sludge & silt to build up over 70 years, such that the water in the brook is just a few centimetres deep. Combine with huge amounts of rubbish & and out of control knotweed infestation & the river ecosystem is essentially dead. A river that is older than England destroyed by official indifference.

A hundred metres away, and it’s a different story. The rubbish & the invasive species (I sprayed the knotweed myself last autumn) are gone. The silt that used to clog the river is now spread on the banks & rapidly providing fertile ground for native plants. Instead of sludge, there’s 2-3ft of water, so fish have returned to the brook for the first time in decades, along with dragon flies, herons & a nesting moorhen. We river guardians knew our intervention would make a difference, but have been shocked at quite how quickly nature has come back. The restored Aldersbrook is now a rare jewel: pretty much the last fully natural tidal brook in London.

The EA now has a choice. It can salvage some good from this situation & work with us to restore the remaining sections of the brook, or it can continue to do nothing. If the latter, river guardians *will* be back this winter to finish the job & the EA can see how well prosecuting volunteers for restoring a river without permission goes for them.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Good news! After decades of ignoring rampant environmental crime on the Roding, @EnvAgency has finally decided to act.

Bad news! It’s not against Thames Water for illegally dumping billions of litres of sewage in the Roding, or the waste criminals who have dumped thousands of tonnes of rubbish on its banks, but against myself & a small volunteer charity for… restoring a river without a permit!

Within a week of the magnificent work of River Roding Trust volunteers completing the arduous work of restoring 250 metres of the Aldersbrook this winter, EA investigators had been down to the site and rattled off a letter threatening us with prosecution for doing the work without a permit. This is despite the fact that the Trust have repeatedly asked the EA to do this vital work on the Aldersbrook themselves & they have refused. It is also despite the fact that they have not investigated the huge illegal sewage outlet on the Cranbrook a few hundred metres away, which illegally discharges 750,000,000 litres of raw sewage straight into the River Roding every year.

[Prof Duncan Westbury @DuncanWestbury]

Please take TWO minutes to sign this petition, it takes 000’s of hours each year removing it to save native habitats from degradation.

https://t.co/4TgZgs5Qn1

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

THEY ARE BASTARDS!

We just got an email sent to MSE. The spelling was awful, and it was quite tough to understand. Lower down, the writer later explained she was 78 and her disability had stopped her being able to spell. So perhaps it is a stroke, or something similar.

I've tidied it and summarised below, changing some identifying details. In a nutshell, it was this...

"I invested, Martin, with Quotum when you first announced it on TV. What an opportunity for me to buy my own flat. My manager there passed me through to a nice man who asked me for £350 more. He showed me it was growing. I did what he told me to do."

She then goes on to explain how she really wanted her flat and she gave more and more money. And she has nothing left to help with her disability.

I'm honestly in tears typing this. These types of scam ads have now been going on for a decade. I have spent my career trying to help people with their finances. It feels visceral to get this, and to feel that this reputation has been perverted by criminals to steal from someone who is clearly so vulnerable leaves me feeling nauseous.

So many people, both vulnerable and not, lose money and see their lives and wellbeing destroyed. It's now seven years since I sued Facebook. And yet still nothing is being done.

Big tech makes £3bn a year from these scammers. We have a law in place to make them responsible for these ads they're paid to publish, yet it isn't implemented. How many more of these do I have to receive - and far worse, how many more people have to go through this?

This is relentless. It is wrong. Government has to take action! I wrote to the PM just two weeks ago on this very issue. I've not heard back yet.

(We are, of course, going to try and point her in the right direction to get help, but that will be stressful for her too)

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Just watch this…

And for the love of God, please see Farage for what he is.

His response to Sarah Everard Vs his response to Henry Nowak

Jaw dropping.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The Trump administration is sending ships to rip 900 ocean sensors out of the Atlantic and Pacific — and Congress already told them twice they couldn't do it.**
They're doing it anyway.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

So, I have a friend who works at the BBC.

Yesterday, they told me the Tony Blair Institute basically selected the entire panel for @bbcquestiontime — hence why there was no balance and it was essentially dangerous big tech propaganda. Loads of staff pissed off, but silenced.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

So you know what @bbcquestiontime did with Farage? They’re now doing it with AI.

This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice.

Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And for ‘balance’? A Tory MP.
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[Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 @MonkEmma]

Well, that Express headline was always going to raise a few eyebrows!😳

Starmer is responsible for embracing polygamy to appease Muslims, and so he's increasing their benefits??

That's the implication.

After all, this "started in April", right?

Wrong!

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[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Please retweet.

[Steffi Ede @MumofFatCassie]

Hi @SamCoatesSky. You lied on camera about the PM's scheduled visit this afternoon, calling the PA stills fake news and propoganda. Could you point me in the direction of your full apology please, because without one I fear you may get on the wrong side of @Ofcom. #c4news