John Rees FCCT

Passionately committed to supporting the development of professionals working with, and for, children & young people. Own views. He/him.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Gary Stevenson, This was the country that introduced the proportional income, the, the progressive income tax"

"Didn't exist. We did it here in this country, and look at what we did. Look at what we achieved"

"Listen, my grandmother was born here in this city in the 1920s, in the richest city, in the richest country in the history of the world, and three of her siblings died of tuberculosis"

"That is what happens when you don't deal with your inequality"

"Surrounded by desperate poverty. And in the course of her lifetime, just one lifetime, we moved from that kind of country where ordinary hardworking people see their kids die of poverty"

"To the world that my dad grew up in, where he worked for the post office for thirty-five years, bought a house, had a pension, had a retirement, had three kids, financial security, good quality education, good quality healthcare, good quality housing"

"We did that in the course of one woman's lifetime with no historical precedent of it ever happening before"

"So don't tell me it's impossible"

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

“I’m proud of what we’re delivering. Fastest growing economy in the G7. UK growth is up and inflation is down. Net migration down by a staggering 82%. The asylum backlog down by 46%. The fastest reduction of waiting times in the history of the NHS. Free school meals, breakfast clubs and free child care and we’re lifting half a million children out of poverty”
Keir Starmer
#PMQs

[Gaurav kochar @gaurav_kochar]

🚨🌊 THIS IS STARTING TO LOOK VERY SERIOUS.

We now have +5°C ocean temperature anomalies showing up off the coasts of Peru and Ecuador.

That is the birthplace of the world's strongest El Niño events.

The Pacific is heating up at a pace that should have everyone's attention.

🔥 Massive amounts of heat are building in the eastern Pacific
🌊 Warm water continues surging eastward
🌍 Global weather patterns are beginning to respond

If this trend continues:

🌡️ Historic heatwaves could spread across multiple continents
🌾 Crop failures and agricultural stress could intensify
📈 Food prices could surge globally
💧 Droughts and water shortages could worsen
🌧️ Flooding risks could increase in vulnerable regions

The atmosphere hasn't fully coupled with the ocean yet.

That's the scary part.

The Pacific is still loading energy into the system.

And if a full-blown Super El Niño emerges, the second half of 2026 could become one of the most extreme weather periods of the modern era.

Buckle up fellers...

IT'S SHOWTIME. 🌊🔥

#ElNiño #SuperElNino #Climate #Weather #Heatwave #FoodCrisis #Drought #Floods #GlobalWeather

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Trump believes climate change is a “hoax,” and he and his Big Oil friends want more fossil fuel and carbon emissions.

Meanwhile, the planet is warming at dangerous levels and Europe is facing a record-breaking heatwave.

We must break our fossil fuel addiction & save the planet.

[John Cosgrove @johncosgrove405]

The Government is supposed to be promoting inclusion and better provision for pupils with SEND, but the reality is that inclusive schools are still being punished and nothing persuades me things might change soon.
https://t.co/JcPDuLYsYc

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

We should all be furious that as a year of climate fueled events wreak havok on our planet more isn't being done to stem the tide.

Record heatwaves, record floods, record droughts, record wildfires. How many more records before we #ActOnClimate?

#climate #renewables

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Good for the environment, good for the future of the planet, good for the economy.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I genuinely don’t think people understand how insane this is.

In just 50 years, we’ve wiped out around 70% of animal populations on Earth.

Not hundreds of years ago.
Not ancient history.

In one lifetime.

Entire species disappearing.
Forests going silent.
Oceans being emptied.

And somehow the world treats it like just another statistic instead of a full-blown emergency.

That should scare all of us a lot more than it does.

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

The River Wye has just made UK history.

For the first time, an entire river catchment has been formally recognised as a living ecosystem with rights - including the right to flow, thrive, regenerate, and be free from pollution.

It's a major victory for nature.

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

600 million people are already extremely vulnerable to heat, new research as found.,and as climate change accelerates, we have seen nothing yet.

https://t.co/VXIizkng9O

[Cherry @Cherryopenmind]

This is what elite, world-class investigative journalism looks like:

Carole Cadwalladr and her team at The Nerve have forensically stripped the mask off the British political establishment.

The pattern they found in The Harborne Receipts is nothing short of terrifying. Millions of pounds flow from a crypto-billionaire into the pockets of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, and like clockwork, weeks later, those exact politicians start pushing laws to benefit the crypto industry.

It is the exact same playbook Donald Trump used in America. It is cash-for-policy, clear as day.

While the billionaire-owned press tries to distract us with culture wars and theatre, true journalists follow the money.

This is the toxic soil that is destroying our democracy from within.

Absolute honour to see her back in action!

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

Climate change already costs UK £60bn a year, 2% of GDP, official report concludes. But every £ spent on tackling it would yield £5 in benefits. A no brainer, it seems.

https://t.co/oC3bDY0uKS

[John Rees FCCT @PSHEsolutions]

#GetShaunBack Edwards is a Welsh name! https://t.co/cRLwbbGUze

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Britain has gotten poorer over the last decade. Brexit didn't work.

Disposable income has fallen more than in other European countries and certainly more than in the US.

They cut their nose off despite their economic face, a populist, nationalist, emotional decision, and now they're stuck because you can't get the same deal with the EU you once had.

People are done with both parties and they want to throw the bums out.

Now Farage is rising. I've met him and think he’s a con.

Go read his economic proposals — some of them are hate-based, some are tribally based.

Farage's broader economic proposals are populist noise that will make the country weaker and hurt the very people supporting him.

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

The pace of climate change has doubled, just as political and business commitment to tackling it has crashed. Our children, grandchildren, and their descendants living in a much more hostile climate - will see this as history’s greatest betrayal.

https://t.co/26AoNlfDI3

[Mark W Tebbutt @mwt2008]

This bundles together climate science, race, taxes, politicians and personal grievances as if they are all the same argument. They are not.

“Climate has always changed naturally”

True. We had ice ages and warmer periods. Nobody disputes that.

But climate changing naturally before does not mean humans cannot change it now.

Past climate shifts were driven by orbital cycles, volcanic activity and greenhouse gas changes, often over thousands to tens of thousands of years.

The rate matters too. Natural warming after ice ages was roughly ~4–6°C over ~5,000–10,000 years. We have already warmed the planet by around ~1.3–1.5°C in roughly 150 years.

We can also directly measure CO₂ rising from ~280 ppm before industrialisation to >420 ppm, and isotopes show the increase overwhelmingly comes from fossil fuels.

“Climate change is a political slogan”

No. “Climate change” has been used in scientific literature for decades. The greenhouse effect itself was being investigated in the 1800s, long before today’s political arguments.

“Only White Western people are blamed”

No. China is now the largest annual emitter and India is also a major emitter. Both have climate targets and are rapidly expanding clean energy.

Historically, Europe and North America contributed a large share of cumulative emissions, which is why historical responsibility is discussed. That is not the same as assigning racial guilt.

“You must give up technology”

No. Decarbonisation is largely a technology transition, not abandoning technology.

I have solar, battery storage, an EV and a heat pump. I did not go back to candles and horses. I modernised my home and effectively eliminated my energy bills while reducing pollution.

“It is all a grift”

Politicians and wealthy people can be hypocritical. That does not change atmospheric physics.

The existence of private jets does not make CO₂ stop absorbing infrared radiation.

The science stands or falls on evidence from thermometers, satellites, oceans, ice cores, glaciers and direct atmospheric measurements, not on whether somebody flew to a conference.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Reform-led Durham council cut off funding to the annual Pride celebrations.

So trade unions launched a fundraiser to save it, eventually raising more money than was cut.

Which means this year's Pride will be bigger than ever.

In the 1980s, the LGBT+ community raised thousands of pounds to help striking miners and their families.

When we stick up for each other, we can achieve anything.

[Tim Farron @timfarron]

It is insulting to every working class family to suggest that it’s somehow part of our culture to be vile, nasty and sexist and that anyone appalled at the Reform candidate in Makerfield’s comments is somekind of middle class pearl clutcher.

[Mario Picazo @picazomario]

Estáis viendo una semana de anomalías térmicas en Europa. El efecto de la dorsal anticiclónica que se extiende por gran parte del suroeste va a dejar anomalias de temperatura positivas que, en algunos casos, alcanzan +15 °C. Lo llamativo de este episodio no es solo la magnitud, sino también cuánto dura en el tiempo. Lo que hace décadas eran pequeñas incursiones de calor primaveral de dos o tres días, ahora dura hasta dos semanas. Los extremos climáticos de hoy se mantienen en lo que yo llamo el modo "enganchado" durante días y días. Esta es quizá la señal más evidente del nuevo clima que nada tiene que ver con el de hace unas décadas.
#temperaturas #calor #cambioclimático

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

“We’ve got a PM who is doing a cracking job. We’ve got a cabinet who are delivering. Bringing NHS waiting lists down, inflation coming down, highest growth in the G7. We’re a government that’s focused on delivery”

Labour Party Chair Anna Turley tells @SkyNews