"Major noise is required to make approving Rosebank, or any other new oil and gas, feel like a big risk to the government’s popularity. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is currently running a consultation, and on 24 April we’ll be jointly handing in hundreds of thousands of signatures calling for an end to new oil and gas in the UK."
https://act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4262
#StopRosebank #UKpolitics

It is time for our railway to put the people who use it first - demand the government do these four things:

Reinstate the railway’s duty to cater for disabled persons and the environment
Create a publicly owned train leasing company - to stop billions being taken out of our railway in dividends
Give passengers a real voice - so that the railway is democratically accountable to us
Invest in the railway - this will enable the government to cut fares and attract more people to the railway

Transport is devolved, but this public consultation will feed into legislation that will affect the whole of the UK.

So this affects you whether you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. Take just 1 minute to respond to the consultation now.
Ask the government to run our railway for people, not profit
https://crm.weownit.org.uk/civicrm/mailing/url
#railways #UKpolitics #inequality #nationalisation #petition

You’ve 9 more days to catch the Lives Less Ordinary : Working-Class Britain Re-seen exhibition at Two Temple Place:

https://twotempleplace.org/exhibitions/lives-less-ordinary/

Well worth a visit. It expands the idea of the w/c beyond the usual cliches. Though it’s not without limits of its own – perhaps inevitably so. That’s the problem with representation: you construct – and so more or less violently delimit – the very thing you think you’re just depicting.

Why is working class life so often presented as being grim in one way or another? In this sense, Lives Less Ordinary offers a marked contrast to the joy and vitality displayed by those working class artists, designers, photographers, models, musicians, fashion stylists and art directors who feature in The Face Magazine: Culture Shift exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery:

https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2025/face-magazine/

We are calling for the Minister to introduce an interim support scheme to provide emergency financial assistance to those most impacted by the SFI application cap, and to explore a Basic Income for all agricultural workers. This would provide regular, guaranteed payments, ensuring farmers, farmworkers, and food producers are supported as they lead the transition towards a resilient, sustainable, and thriving food system.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/open-letter-to-the-minister-for-food-security-and-rural-affairs-uk-food-security-requires-farmers-to-be-financially-secure
#farming #UKpolitics #FoodSecurity