This! France bans 30 kinds of fruit & veg from having any plastic wrapping, inc. apples & cucumbers ‘The environment ministry said there must be curbs on the “outrageous amount of single-use plastic in our daily lives”’ RT if UK shd follow suit Defra UK theguardian.com/world/2021/dec…

Please support Stoke on Trent’s pottery museums and sign below, Stoke on Trent City Council: Keep Stoke on Trent’s Pottery Museums open chng.it/P6fzFZ2Y via Change.org UK

The right to protest is not a gift of government, it’s one of our most precious democratic rights This Govt is trying to remove that right That's why I support peaceful protests against the #PolicingBill #KillTheBill Official My column in Metro ⬇️ metro.co.uk/2022/01/12/wa-…

"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." Martin Luther King Jr. Remember - slavery, segregation & Holocaust all legal at the time Without protest, no progression #KillTheBill

#KilltheBill #PolicingBill #Manchester

It will come as no surprise that I love this man.

This week | COLLECT | SOMERSET HOUSE Please join us to enjoy beautiful works and meet our artists. 25 - 27 February 2022  Somerset House | West Wing | stand W4 We look forward to seeing you there. - mailchi.mp/a269473bc7ef/j…| - mailchi.mp/a269473bc7ef/j…

Thousands fleeing their country, many fearing they’re losing their country. #Ukraine . Only 6 months ago we saw this, in very different circumstances, in #Afghanistan . What’s wrong with our world 🌎??

The British government helped this girl in glasses escape war and brought her to safety. She was my great aunt, caught on camera by @apnews in 1938 as the first kindertransport arrived. Because of what the British government did she was safe for her 12th birthday two days later.

Worrying reports from constituents and BBC News (UK) of Africans & Asians facing difficulty and discrimination fleeing Russian agression. We must be united in the view that no race or nationality is more worthy of safe passage & asylum than another. We must stand for all in Ukraine.

the final line of the new ipcc report is the only one you really need to know about today

If we delay emission cuts we “will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.” Every sentence describing the new #IPCC report is completely life changing. Literally everything is at stake. apnews.com/article/climat…

Tories If you're white Ukrainians we'll bring you into our homes & stop buying oil from your persecutors. If you're from Africa/Middle-East we'll send you to concentration camps in Rwanda while selling bombs to the people who blew up your home. But we're definitely not racist.

“Rarer than coral reefs, about 85% of the world’s chalk streams are in southern England & we are killing each & every one them” ⁦Feargal Sharkey⁩, furious & fabulous, on the catastrophe of our rivers—& how to fix it. ⁦⁦David Black⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“What the Government has proposed potentially tears up the most fundamental legal protections our remaining wildlife has.” Please, please read & share this RSPB England thread about the huge intensification of the war on nature that’s beginning under Truss.

🖼️ Join us for a conversation between Ferren Gipson and Abigail Booth (Forest + Found) on Sat 4 Mar, 2 – 3 pm at #HWSomerset. 🪡 The artists will discuss their journey into quilting, exploring notions of place, identity, culture and quilting in art. 🎟️: bit.ly/3Ke1ZPb

🧵🪡 Highlights from our recent panel with art historian, writer and textile artist Ferren Gipson and artist Abigail Booth (from Forest + Found) in celebration of our current exhibition, ‘The New Bend’. 📷 Clare Walsh 🔗 bit.ly/3mGVAC5

We can't stop admiring these incredible photos taken of our #MaterialMatters exhibition by QEST scholar and woodturner extraordinaire Max Bainbridge Forest + Found 📷 Beautiful craft + Cotswold stone walls = Perfection!