Steve Batchelder

Learning generalist - interested in L&D, social learning, photography and green issues.

[Steve Batchelder @stevebatchelder]

Mixed skies looking NE this morning. #Southam #Warwickshire

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

Is this is confirmed, then it is truly groundbreaking to say the least.
And I don’t mean that in a good way...

[Steve Batchelder @stevebatchelder]

Guest post: How close is the West Antarctic ice sheet to a ‘tipping point’? https://t.co/bGqPXEN3VD

[Dave Middleton #CeasefireNow #SundaySocialist @davmidd]

This shows exactly what MPs think is important. Them. And it says nothing of expenses. Nurses - have to buy their own uniforms. MPs - can buy Apple pencils, iPads etc and we pay.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

We have just had another week when the media has obsessed about what they call the UK’s national debt. There has been wringing of hands. The handcart in which we will all go to hell has been oiled. And none of this is necessary. So this is a thread on what you really need to know

[The Guardian @guardian]

From Pfizer to Moderna: who's making billions from Covid vaccines? https://t.co/7bw7Go1pvy

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

This is incredible. A murmuration of starlings over Lough Ennell in Ireland, for a brief beautiful moment, took on the shape of a giant bird. And it was captured on video.

[🌎🍎🐝🌳🌸 🍃💚🍃🌳👩‍🌾💪🏾 @nspugh]

Remembering last March and April, when a beautiful silence hit the streets, song, clean air and clear skies. An increase of local producers feeding the climate pause.

#Senedd2021 it’s change that’s needed, recognise our ‘business as usual’, then deliver a #GreenRecoveryWales

[Chris Blythe OBE @formerCEOCIOB]

If you can sell everything you build and make 25%+ net profit with no sanctions for poor quality, be subsidised by the ⁦@mhclg⁩ as well, that’s why.
Why can’t we build better quality homes in Britain? | Home | The Sunday Times https://t.co/awHicnEyhL

[Natalie Bennett @natalieben]

Horrific figures: death rates from #covid19 have risen by 124% and 97% for men and women from Pakistani backgrounds, respectively.

41% of employed people from Pakistani or Bangladeshi groups work in higher risk areas

https://t.co/IehFM0bRzZ

[Natalie Bennett @natalieben]

#FoodWaste

One more area where we are back-of-the-pack on environmental issues in this world wracked by #poverty, #inequality and #ClimateCrisis.

@ZacGoldsmith?

https://t.co/VMh2LPStbB

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

I had missed this. In yet further evidence of why the independent legal functions need separating from the hyper-partisan Attorney General’s Office, here we see it refusing to prosecute a government-supporting newspaper for a flagrant contempt of court.

[simon wren-lewis @sjwrenlewis]

ICYMI: Two paths to controlling COVID with vaccinations https://t.co/QqBoZR1MdM The government has chosen 'living with COVID' over elimination, but it does not talk about the risks involved and what it means beyond this summer. Neither does the media. This post tries to do that.

[999 London @999London]

#Haringey
BREAKING: A young man in his 20s has been stabbed to death in broad daylight in #Tottenham, north-London.

Met Police say at approximately 4:00pm they were called to West Green Road, N15.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

No arrests as this stage.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Govt launches "flagship" scheme to insulate homes, outsources it to incompetent US company, strangles it in red tape then pulls funding because not enough money is paid out?
Doing the right thing must be made simpler & #greenhomesgrant properly resourced
https://t.co/8QdRpMeMnP

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

BREAKING: WE’VE WON - High Court rules Government acted unlawfully by failing to publish details of Covid-related contracts.

@Debbie_abrahams @CarolineLucas @LaylaMoran https://t.co/HLTzpVUJ2u

THREAD:

[Morten Morland @mortenmorland]

Today’s ⁦@thetimes⁩ cartoon https://t.co/ZAw20HMv5u

[Hard Copy Politics @politicswatch15]

What a great Prime Minister

[Chartered Institute of Housing @CIHhousing]

This #NAW2021, read how Lauren and Leigh found how it felt to complete their @CIHhousing #apprenticeships at https://t.co/Qk1bki0AhV
Check out https://t.co/pH2ryeu4m9 to see if an appreticeship with our @housing_academy could be the next step in *your* #housing career.

[The Guardian @guardian]

Covid: experts warn of huge UK wave if restrictions lifted too soon https://t.co/3kVwfCbJcx