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As trees do not make cries for human ears to hear, nor does much of nature when it is being destroyed, so, to paraphrase Gandhi, I update his wise words: 'The greatness of a nation & it's moral progress can be judged by the way nature is treated' @YsbrydArtist via Gandhi 💚🌳🕊️

You all know how gloomy I feel about the near future. The events of the past week have me more hopeful than I’ve been in a number of years. Oklahoma is passing an all-day phone ban. L. A. is pulling screens from classrooms. Teen library use is surging. The light is winning.

Are you taking the fucking piss? A private income? A one off payment of 5 million actual English pounds. As a personal gift from a dodgy crypto millionaire who the donated 9 million to the party. Yep all above board and totally normal behaviour for a completely honest and transparent party leader.

Google Chrome is the most popular browser, but it's the worst one for privacy. Chrome's fingerprinting protection, or lack thereof, is one way that it falls short in safeguarding users. 🧵

My latest piece, looking at the sad decline of the Midland’s pottery & ceramics industry, and why the government should provide more support for this historic industry, is in today’s @Daily_Express

UK LAW SAID UNPAID VOLUNTEERS HAD NO WHISTLEBLOWER RIGHTS. A COURT JUST DISAGREED Prof Nigel MacLennan @nigelmaclennan was elected President-Elect of the British Psychological Society @BPSOfficial. A senior psychologist, trusted enough to lead the organisation. Then he raised concerns about how it was being run. He lost his position. He lost his membership. He got kicked out of the very body he was elected to lead. He took them to tribunal. The Employment Tribunal said he had no protection because he was an unpaid volunteer. No contract. No rights. Thanks for your service, now go away. He appealed. In October 2024, the Employment Appeal Tribunal disagreed. Judge Tayler ruled the tribunal had been far too narrow in focusing on whether he was paid. The EAT found there was a strong argument that being a charity trustee is akin to an occupational status, and that excluding whistleblowing protection might breach his human rights under Articles 10 and 14 of the European Convention. The case was sent back for reconsideration. The Charity Commission and Protect @WhistleUK both intervened. The government was invited to do the same. The implications are significant. There are roughly one million unpaid charity trustees in the UK. Until this ruling, raising governance concerns could cost you your role, your membership, and any legal recourse. The law simply did not apply to you. One man challenging a professional body has cracked that door open. The BPS was supposed to be the gold standard for psychology and ethical practice. It responded to internal governance concerns by removing the person raising them. You would think a body devoted to understanding human behaviour might have anticipated how that looks. If it takes a court case to make institutions accountable to the people running them for free, something has gone badly wrong well before the lawyers get involved. Sources: Protect @WhistleUK, EAT Judgment [2024] EAT 166.

Honesty in business shouldn’t be optional. Clear pricing. Fair terms. No hidden traps. Yet too often, it’s the opposite. That’s why knowing your rights matters more than ever. amzn.to/2TK4A8G #HonestyDay #ConsumerRights #WinWithScott

@RosieP4 All those derelict petrol stations! Which, btw, were already allowed to be developed under old Green Belt rules. New grey belt allows areas like this to be developed 👇

This move from @AldiUK not only covers shell eggs, but also every egg used as an ingredient in its own-brand products. 👏 The momentum to #EndTheCageAge is building!

Legalise and regulate. Heroin addiction is a public health issue, not a moral failing.

Jane Ormes, contemporary UK printmaker #Womensart

In other countries, this would be called corruption. 🤔

Morning #Foxoftheday

English painter Jean Cooke, The Greenhouse (1955) #WomensArt #RoomArtWeek

Four protests. Five years. Not enough progress. We'll keep coming back year after year until either things improve or people stop showing up 🪧💩

You may think your signature won't make a difference to the petition on public water ownership. But if everyone thought that, it wouldn't have reached 90k+ signatures. Every signature helps, every share helps even more. Please ✍️ & 🔄 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7626…

Ribwort Plantain flowers on Bostall Heath: we are hoping to try to get down to the Thames Path to see the Sea Plantain that grows there (wee yellow flowers)...

Antonio Maluf, Equation of Developments. 1951. Enamel on wood.

Georgia O’Keeffe, Lake George with White Birch, 1921 #WomensArt

Stop megasheds being built & operated 24/7 close to homes and communities petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7648…

Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, Eternal Energy, screen print, circa 1930