Day: 20 November 2025

A person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than someone in the bottom 50% produces all year

Stuart Mitchell

Released last month ahead of the major international climate conference COP30 in Belem, Brazil, new Oxfam research finds that the high-carbon lifestyles of the super-rich are blowing through the world’s remaining carbon budget — the amount of CO2 that can be emitted while avoiding climate disaster. The research also details how billionaires are using their political and economic influence to keep humanity hooked on fossil fuels to maximize their private profit. The report, “Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster,” presents extensive new updated data…

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Football Foundation announces game-changing Lionesses HERe to Play Fund

Stuart Mitchell

Following the trail-brazing success of the Lionesses, the Premier League, The FA and Government’s Football Foundation has launched a new fund to provide women and girls playing grassroots football with welcoming and inclusive facilities. In the last four years the number of girls participating in football has more than doubled from 1.2m in 20/21 season to 2.7m in 24/25, undoubtedly inspired by the Lionesses triumphant success in back-to-back UEFA Women’s EUROs. Through the Lionesses HERe to Play Fund, the Football Foundation will help ensure grassroots sports facilities across England are…

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Channel 4’s New Writers Scheme Kicks Off with Wider UK Reach

Stuart Mitchell

Seventeen emerging writers from across the UK have joined Channel 4’s New Writers Scheme, a nine-month programme designed to support new and underrepresented voices in television drama.  The initiative offers writers the opportunity to develop their first pilot episode-spec for TV, with expert guidance and mentoring from scripted indies and a script editor, alongside feedback from Channel 4. This year, the scheme has expanded to include Northern Ireland, with five writers from the region joining writers based near Channel 4’s regional hubs in Bristol, Glasgow, and Leeds. The scheme launched…

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Future US Food Security is a $3.2 Billion Opportunity for Farmers in the Mid-Mississippi Delta

Stuart Mitchell

World Wildlife Fund effort to protect wildlife habitats from agricultural expansion takes root as the Delta Ag Alliance—a group of innovative farmers, startups, retailers, and investors working together to transition existing farmland from commodity row crops to specialty food crops. If just 3% of existing farmland in the mid-Mississippi Delta (eastern Arkansas, western Tennessee, and northwestern Mississippi) could be converted from commodity crops to specialty food crops by 2034, it would result in an extra $3.2 billion in annual farmgate revenue across the region. According to a new report from…

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Fareshare Midlands Opens Major New Facility To Combat Food Poverty And Unemployment Thanks To Funding From The Sir Peter Rigby Charitable Food Trust

Stuart Mitchell

A major new initiative to turbo-charge the fight against food poverty and unemployment in the region has begun operations in Birmingham as part of the Coronation Food Project, inspired by The King. A groundbreaking facility dedicated to food redistribution and skills development is operated by FareShare Midlands thanks to the generous support of The Sir Peter Rigby Charitable Trust. The Coronation Food Project, inspired by His Majesty King Charles III, aims to bridge the gap between food insecurity and food waste. Nearly 10 million people are facing food poverty despite…

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