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Prof Dan Osborn

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People and their environment. Evidence rather than misinformation.

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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I thought that the idea of the private sector was that they invested their money not ours. Will the taxpayer now get the profits from this ethylene plant or will billionaire Jim pocket them?
theguardian.com
Government invests £120m to save UK’s last ethylene plant
Funding for billionaire Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos plant in Scotland will help safeguard 500 jobs
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Reform UK Councillors seem to be having a good few problems. Here's another example. Why is this? www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc....
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Councillor Barry Elliott ordered to pay debts owed to own council - BBC News
Reform UK's Barry Elliott has business rates and council tax arrears of almost £40,000.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Good to hear Rachel Reeves finally attack the 2 child benefit cap - but if Labour were so much against it, why’s it taken them so long to scrap it? And why were Labour MPs suspended for saying *exactly* the same last year? There’s no moral high ground here #budget2025
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population. How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich? They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
New translations
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Plenty of solar energy capacity on rooftops as this project shows. Take action on the CPRE campaign now. Even the government agrees!! @cpresussex.bsky.social @cprecountryside.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @sianberry.bsky.social www.theargus.co.uk/news/2564579...
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Changes afoot as garden centre given permission for 'vital step' forward
Notcutts Garden Pride, a garden centre near Ditchling in East Sussex, in the South Downs National Park, will install solar panels on its roofs.
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Not enough on getting rid of fossil fuels by any means www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs’: Cop30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal
It took some oblique wording, but Saudi Arabia made a last-minute decision to sign deal that marks departure for Cop
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Not a claim to be proud of. "Never directly" is fullsome equivocation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Nigel Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody'
The Reform UK leader was responding to reports he made racist remarks to his peers in school in the 1970s.
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
There was no real evidence for Brexit from Farage and so can anyone expect there will there be any evidence for this? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK claim to have saved £331m at English councils – but do the numbers stack up?
Experts say councils face limits on cuts as Reform’s savings on IT deals, office moves and EV projects are disputed
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
High up on the BBC website: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
bbc.co.uk
Live updates: Judge dismisses against James Comey and Letitia James
A judge rules the US attorney, who brought the case against Trump's political foes, was improperly appointed.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The UK is about to give the US an extra £3bn a year. The NHS 'can't afford' to pay doctors £500m a year more. But it will give the USA 6x as much for nothing.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/11/2025
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This kind of behaviour is simply unacceptable. Why not take their titles away completely? @bladeofthes.bsky.social @jamellebouie.net www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Two peers face suspension from House of Lords
Former Army chief Lord Richard Dannatt and businessman Lord Evans of Watford face suspensions.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Increasingly moving science to the footnotes (or eliminating data and evidence entirely) and elevating anti-science, misleading health information, and false claims to the center stage of messaging and practice within HHS & CDC.
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Nuts! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
COP30: UN climate summit drops mention of fossil fuels from draft deal
A row over fossil fuels has broken out at COP30 but this is also likely to be a negotiating tactic.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Tesco is cancelling Christmas. But it ain't by not putting 'Christmas' on their products.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Zia Yusuf declares "That's irrelevant." When told his parents were economic migrants and asked why he wants it banned? But actually it's very relevant.
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
There is simply too much money in football www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
bbc.co.uk
Kylian Mbappe wants £230m from former club Paris St-Germain
France captain Kylian Mbappe is seeking £231.5m from Paris St-Germain, with his former club demanding £211m, as their long-running dispute reaches the Paris courts.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Interesting to read in the Times of Labour Ministers admitting that the Green Party are very much ready to take them (and Reform) on. "Polanski plans to redistribute power with a smile." www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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Zack attack: the charismatic eco-populist rallying the radical left
With Labour purged of Corbynites and Corbyn’s party in chaos, Green leader Zack Polanski has become an icon for dispossessed youth but is he just a showman?
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
USA wanting too much of its own way? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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US ‘disappointed’ that Rolls-Royce will build UK’s first small modular reactors
As Keir Starmer announces SMRs to be built in Wales, US ambassador says Britain should choose ‘a different path’
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Well I never expected this @cpresussex.bsky.social @cprecountryside.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn
Tools that help people scan applications and find grounds for objection have potential to hit government’s housebuilding plans
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This is a remarkable admission from Southern Water. @cpresussex.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social will be more than puzzled by part of the sewage treatment system appearing on the beach. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Southern Water apologises for catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads in Sussex
Resulting pollution on Camber Sands beach poses threat to wildlife including dolphins and seals
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
In many ways a remarkable document. One that might well allow most of the environment to be free from any form of protection. www.gov.uk/government/n...
gov.uk
Natural England sets out new vision for nature and growth with corporate strategy
• The plan will drive nature recovery across landscapes and support economic growth, house building and infrastructure development
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Vote Reform and get something unacceptable even to Reform. www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc....
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Reform UK suspends another Kent councillor after video leak - BBC News
Isabella Kemp is the latest Kent member to be suspended after the leak of a heated virtual meeting.
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Vote Reform and get something completely different ... a set of Councillors who are unacceptable even to Reform.
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The UK government seem concerned it's too early to sign-up. Soon, this kind of inaction will mean it's too late. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Let's make hope normal again. theboar.org/2025/11/soci...
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The Boar
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Wind farms
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The 60 Minutes interview, in which Nora O’Donnell let Trump blather on with lie after lie without fact-checking him or pushing back, is a reminder of why we need journalists who will hold him accountable rather than just giving him a platform to spread lies.
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
What if maximum wealth were limited to $50bn and anything above that was returned to the customers and workers who created the additional wealth? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report
Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Those marketing (totally bunk) "stem cell" supplements love lean on meaningless wellness-woo phrases, like natural, GMO-free, pure, organic, toxin-free... Science-y nonsense + wellness nonsense = BS Supergroup! Our study: www.cell.com/stem-cell-re... cc @stemcellnetwork.ca @isscr.org
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 02/11/2025
This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph. Sunak in the Times. Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper. Johnson in the Mail. Gove editing the Spectator. Farage everywhere. All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made. Nauseating.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/10/2025
Rep. Adam Smith: "This country has not agreed to have the death penalty for drug smuggling. If we want to have that policy conversation, we can have that policy conversation, but the president has unilaterally decided that lethal force is going to be applied. It's an enormous expansion of power."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
In 1932, the Soviet Union utilized food shortages as a means of coercion against the Soviet Ukrainian population. Called the Holodomor, it was a man-made famine used for political purposes, much like what Republicans in Congress are getting ready to do to fellow Americans.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween. Trickle-down economics is nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich. For working people, it's been 40 years of all trick and no treat. Enough.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Swear her in. Release the Epstein Files.
Ettingermentum writes: “Actually what on earth is in those files bro.”
The image from Courier Newsroom headline reads: “Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is now the longest Rep-elect in history to not be sworn in. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear in Rep-elect Grijalva over fear of releasing the Epstein files.”
The picture shows Grijalva in a red jacket beside Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Abortion Pill Is Safe. Scientists Fear FDA Will Ignore Science www.scientificamerican.com/article/fda-... by @lizszabo.bsky.social Me: RFK Jr bolstered his arguments with "questionable sources that merely look real." "Doubt mongering is a very effective strategy, especially in the health space."
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Decades of Evidence Show the Abortion Pill Is Safe. So Why Is the FDA Investigating It Again?
Some scientists are concerned that the Trump administration will use “junk science” when reviewing mifepristone’s safety record
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Almost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families. Govts push real wage/benefit cuts, two-child benefit cap; oppose universal basic income; don't curb profiteering. No govt targets to cut poverty. 1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
theguardian.com
Almost all children in 73 areas of England live in low-income households
New official measures show levelling up attempts have failed to shift high levels of deprivation
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p... .... all hands to the pumps?
cnn.com
Inside Barack Obama’s stepped-up plans to fight back against Donald Trump | CNN Politics
Barack Obama and his aides are reworking his longstanding strategy of minimizing his public presence to allow the next generation of Democrats to emerge. President Donald Trump’s moves to block Democr...
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Building on a post in honor of World Phage Week (Oct 22-28), some additional reflections on the use of phage to confront the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant infections: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Phage vs. Bacteria: Confronting The Growing Problem of Drug-Resistant Pathogens
Part 2 of a short series introducing the ways in which phage (i.e,. viruses that infect bacteria) can transform human and environmental health.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 31/10/2025
Success 💥 Andrew has been stripped of his titles – no one should be able to hold to titles they don’t deserve.
Screenshot of Andrew’s Wikipedia page, with no royal or aristocratic title
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
An extraordinary realignment of British politics If you want to see @TheGreenParty take on Reform - this is the moment Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Corporate Rip-off. Ofcom rules brought in to stop phone/broadband companies from hiking prices mid-contract. O2 to ignore the rules. 15.6m O2 customer bills to rise 40% more than expected. Other companies bound to follow. They raise capital from customers. Customers need enforceable rights
bbc.co.uk
Ofcom slams O2 over unexpected mobile phone contract price rise
The media regulator said it was disappointed O2 raised prices more than was advertised when customers took out contracts.
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Another Labour shambles www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Reeves rebuked by PM over 'regrettable' rental confusion but faces no further action
The chancellor has apologised for the failure to obtain the correct licence when renting out her family home.
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Another Reform shambles. www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc....
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Five Reform UK councillors booted out of party in Kent - BBC News
It comes after a damaging video leak of the Kent County Council leader shouting and swearing.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Compare and contrast. Absentee MP -v- his constituency. Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood. He really couldn’t give a shit. He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream. (iPaper & BBC)
Jaywick named most deprived area - again

A seaside neighbourhood in Essex, part of the parliamentary constituency represented by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, has once again been named the most deprived in England.
The latest official data showed that an area of the coastal village of Jaywick, close to the town of Clac-ton-on-Sea in the local authority of Tendring, has been classed the most deprived neighbourhood for the fourth time.
Areas of Blackpool again make up most of the rest of the top 10, along with new appearances for neighbour-hoods in Hastings and Rotherham.

Yesterday's data, published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), presented relative levels of deprivation in areas or neighbourhoods of England in 2025.
The data highlighted "the scale of the challenge" but does not "reflect the progress made since 2019 or the strength of the people who call Jay-wick Sands home"
, the Tendring
District Council website said.
MHCLG said Middlesbrough, Birmingham, Hartlepool, Kingston upon Hull and Manchester had the highest proportions of neighbour-hoods among the most deprived in England.Farage earns more than £1m a year for non-MP work
GETTY IMAGES - photo of the grifter 
Damian Grammaticas >
Political correspondent
17 August 2024
Nigel Farage has revealed he is earning well over a £1m a year from work he does outside parliament, in addition to his job as an MP.
It is thought his outside income is significantly higher than that of any other member of parliament.
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Here's a different view to Gates': www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam
Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Billionaires aren't always right. This "strategic pivot" is a case of trying to shut a stable door with the horse jammed in it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Bill Gates says climate crisis won’t cause ‘humanity’s demise’ in call to shift focus to ‘improving lives’
Billionaire’s statement comes a day after UN said humanity missed 1.5C climate target and warned of devastation
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