Leigh Walker

Researcher at @IGSD_UoW 🇬🇧 Interested in climate justice, sustainable cities, nature, transport 🏙️ solidarity forever ✊

[Martha Gill @Martha_Gill]

A friendly challenge to @RichardvReeves and co who say that it is Western strides in equality - leaving ‘lost boys’ and men with few role models and diminished prospects - which are ultimately behind the rise of Andrew Tate. This narrative feels right. Is it true? 🧵

[Dr Dale Whelehan @DrDaleford]

🙌 THE 4 DAY WORK WEEK HAS HIT IRELAND WITH ASTONISHING RESULTS. 🙌

The Irish Findings are as follows:
• 100% of the companies involved are continuing with the 4-Day work week ➡
• 85% of companies which reported data on revenue reported growth in revenue 📈 (1/X)

[UCU @ucu]

The UK university sector generated £41.1bn last year

It finished the year with £3.4bn spare cash in the bank

It holds over £40bn in reserves

And 150 vice chancellors took home £45million in salaries

The money is in all the wrong places

#ucuRISING

[Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil]

“THIS IS REALLY, REALLY AFFECTING PEOPLE’S LIVES”

Yeah, we know @BBCLookEast. It’s only going to get worse if we dig up more oil and gas.

💷 Help us #JustStopOil at: https://t.co/HBHsudVLgX

@BBC_HaveYourSay #A22Network #EnoughIsEnough #ClimateChange #CostOfLivingCrisis

[Paid to Pollute @PaidToPollute]

New research from @ECIU_UK finds that insulating homes could save 3x the amount of gas that would be produced by new North Sea drilling.

Yet, the UK govt is still subsidising oil & gas giants, who are making billions in profit, while refusing to fund a proper insulation plan.

[Leigh Walker @walkerlr]

.@citizen_housing @coventrycc what are you doing about this? Living in a mouldy home is absolute hell, no one deserves this. @TaiwoOwatemi

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

A friend of mine was in hospital in Coventry recently. She came across a woman who told her she'd been in hospital so many times because of the mould and damp in her council house. She can barely breathe, and has been on nebulisers in every instance.

[UCU @ucu]

💥 5 REASONS TO JOIN YOUR COLLEAGUES IN UCU 💥

Take a look and start unionising your colleagues 👇

The longer the picket line, the shorter the dispute.

#ucuRISING

[Leigh Walker @walkerlr]

Supremely well argued here, and the longest I've heard a climate activist speak on a TV discussion panel without being interrupted!

[SK @samjknights]

went on the murdoch channel yesterday to talk about the same old shit. won't make a habit of it, promise.

[UCU @ucu]

Every single university in the UK will strike on the following dates:

Nov 2️⃣4️⃣

Nov 2️⃣5️⃣

Nov 3️⃣0️⃣

70,000 UCU members will be delivering the biggest picket lines in our history

RT if you stand with them.

#ucuRISING

[Enough is Enough @eiecampaign]

BP has announced it made profits of £7,000,000,000 in the last 3 months.

Meanwhile, 11 million British families face fuel poverty in the coming months.

This is how it works. Their profits, your pain.

#EnoughlsEnough

[Raahgiri Foundation @Raahgiri_Fdn]

A visual representation of why 30 km/hr (or lesser) speeds are advocated for, especially in areas near hospitals, parks, neighbourhoods etc.

The impact of getting hit at 30 km/hr vs. 80 km/hr is similar to the difference between falling from the 1st and 8th floor of a building.

[HeWantsWealth 📈📊🏡💰🇯🇲 @hewantswealth]

BUY TO LET IS NOW DEAD 🏡

[DSA International Committee @dsa_intl_comm]

Today we mourn the countless freedom fighters from Ireland, India, Kenya, and other former colonies who lost their lives struggling for independence from the British government and monarchy. In their honor, we are sharing some threads summarizing the crimes of this empire 🧵

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

There is much talk happening on how to solve the so-called cost-of-living crisis. Most of it fails to recognise that the problem is much bigger than that: the whole economy is in meltdown. None seems to address the cost of energy itself. A thread on the last, vital, point….

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A List of Things People Blamed on Bicycles

🧵

[UCU @ucu]

Vice chancellors earn as much as £519k per year

Staff pay falls 25%

Universities generate record income

90,000 on insecure contracts

RT if you are ready to rise up with university workers

#ucuRISING

[CWU @CWUnews]

Royal Mail Group are lying to our members, the public and the media about their pay ‘offer’. Here is the truth and we need it out there.

#StandByYourPost

[Enough is Enough @eiecampaign]

Enough is enough. It's time to turn anger into action.

Join the campaign to fight the cost-of-living crisis.

https://t.co/1SeHcIXdMr

[Jon Moses @jm0ses]

Last weekend myself, four botanists and fifty Bristolians set off for a mass trespass of the 52,000 acre Badminton estate in South Gloucestershire.🧵