Kate de Selincourt

I love "baited breath" as an expression, imagining maggot- and stale dogfish-scented halitosis

While this chap thinks his aspergillosis (a v nasty fungal infection, usually of the lungs) was probably caused by handling rotten produce in his garden, another cause is damp homes. Yet it's far from clear if the Warm Homes Plan, if it happens at all, will be a warm DRY homes plan, as it should be.

The Aberfan disaster was one of the events which led a few years later to the formation of the Health and Safety Executive. So remember when you hear some twat moaning about health and safety that this is what is allowed to happen when it's not taken seriously

Beth Dobbin Olympic athlete who is now nearly totally confined to bed with severe #ME has written to Andy Burnham with some details about the illness and a suggestion as to how he might bring the welfare bill down.

Please reach out if you have energy social science proposals you are keen to develop

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

So you might reasonably ask, why still bother if the air quality is already much better than it used to be? This figure is an incredibly powerful argument as to why we should still be trying to improve air quality further (more info on next post!) Source: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... 🧵 5/6

One day we will look back on the era of domestic combustion and consider it as mad as the era of open sewers.

Such a good thread

For merchants, that is an *incredibly* expensive proposition: 51-60% of every dollar you spend with an independent merchant on Amazon is claimed by Amazon through junk fees, listing fees, commissions, processing fees and other scams: pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c...

Very strangely the 10 trade unions calling on the government not to approve the Rosebank oil field are getting a lot less coverage today than the one trade union calling on the government to green light more fossil fuel projects. www.businessgreen.com/news/4537337...

Dear me, gas is nasty stuff www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here's the advice on the Security equivalent of the flu jab. (Link to report: www.e3g.org/wp-content/u... ). Perhaps if they'd delivered this social science analysis by drone, a Minister or SoS would have taken it on board.

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

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Not read this but I already know I ABSOLUTELY AGREE! No I don't want to take my eyes off the road for several long moments while I try to distinguish which of the identical silver squares in an array of 10 redirects the fan onto the windscreen, and which will tell me the tyre pressures.

Eeeeshh 😖

An energy efficiency expert looks at the Tory claims scrapping the Future Homes Standard would knock £50k off the price of a new home and concludes they are utter nonsense. www.businessgreen.com/opinion/4536...

Your husband on the other hand....

ALPINE KNOT KNOT

How is this kind of shit still happening in 2026?

FINALLY, I hope this leads to some accountability and justice

Homes being built today in UK that could become uninsurable due to the risk of #flooding, boss of insurance giant Aviva says #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.change.org/p/make-hospi...

Can anyone tell me anything about the New European Bauhaus? What have they achieved, who sets the agenda etc?

🙌 Making Scotland's homes & buildings better A big thanks to AHR for being a sponsor of the Passivhaus Trust's campaign work to support Scottish Passivhaus Equivalent policy progress. Respond to the consultation before 16 October. https://www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/news/detail/?nId=1603

Really wish I could attend to hear this - life has got in the way, but the whole day promises to be excellent.