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David Parkes

@davidparkes.bsky.social
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NatTeaching Fellow, digital, art, psychogeography, heutagogy, megalithic, walking, music, history

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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Thanks Lev, a great read
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
If you’re worried about Palantir and want to understand more about their NHS data deal, this piece is new+excellent 🚨 Takes about 10 mins to read so brew a cuppa first! I’m mentioned in the article (thanks @petergeoghegan.bsky.social!). Ooh please share this too👍 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
To see the magnificent www.rsc.org.uk/the-resistib... so powerful, chilling, relevant. NF & the other gangsters hilariously lampooned but with a dire devastating warning. Farage exploits crisis, media, simple explanations, blame, with support of business, the extreme becomes acceptable step by step
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Royal Shakespeare Company
Double Olivier Award-winner Mark Gatiss makes his RSC debut as the Notorious Arturo Ui, a small-time crook with big boss ambitions.
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day? Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Иigel Faяage would really hate it if you signed and shared this petition. I suspect ьoяis Johиsoи would too.
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I'll also send one of these and a print entirely for free to one person who reposts this. I know people love this book and I will not let it be lost. I will not let my ex-publishers, who ran off with £20,000+ of my combined earnings from it and six other books, win. Many thanks for any shares.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A man I met high in the Peak District who, due to crimes he would not disclose to me, had been turned into two conjoined Sycamore trees by a coven of witches and condemned to spend eternity waving his useless branch hands at the cold, cruel sky.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service. Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
An exemplary Modernist masterpiece 1960s Schreiber House in Hampstead for sale for £9.5m search.savills.com/property-det...
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West Heath Road, London, NW3 7UX | Property for sale | Savills
Property details for West Heath Road. One of many properties for sale in London, NW3 7UX from Savills, world leading estate agents.
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
For centuries we answered to the bell. Sound as community structure, the peel of bells across the fields for worship and warning, then the doorbell and the telephone. Now its a ping from our machines, we’re still still attuned to summons, shaped by sound - some by dog whistles
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Just got tickets for the Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. A small-time crook with big boss ambitions. Feeding on fear, Ui's influence gains dangerous momentum and his venom threatens to seep through the city – and beyond. This is a man on a mission for power. Will anyone stop him?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Love this book, so timely. An extraordinary true story of ex-servicemen fighting fascism in post-war Britain. By Daniel Sonabend
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
A timely reminder, from the market place the Leicester Plaque jtojhumanrights.org.uk/local-storie.... @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
humanists.uk
Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all
Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson. It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?
Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned
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AuntyAlias @auntyalias.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
THE LIBRARIANS | Official Trailer OPENS IN U.K. THEATERS September 26th | OPENS IN U.S. THEATERS October 3rd youtu.be/Ykll4MWltsQ?... via @YouTube
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THE LIBRARIANS | Official Trailer
YouTube video by The Librarians Film
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
🔴The Fake Patriotism of Nigel Farage Despite his claims to love this country, few politicians have done more to undermine its interests and assist its enemies than the leader of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-fake-p...
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The Fake Patriotism of Nigel Farage
Despite his claims to love this country, few politicians have done more to undermine its interests and assist its enemies than the leader of Reform
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Quisling
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/09/2025
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Writers declare against Fascism. Pamphlet 1938
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Delighted to see a Weird Walk sign on Saltersford Lane today, a pre conquest salters lane near Alton Staffordshire
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I'm still stunned that @yorkshirebylines.co.uk put in the huge effort to collect all press-reported downsides of Brexit (David Davis had said there would be "none"!)... ...and has the sheer patience to collect 2,000 discrete incidences via media reports before giving up.
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The Davis Downside Dossier
David Davis famously said there would be no downsides to Brexit only considerable upsides - so we started recording them.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Did Brexit cause the small boats? Are any countries managing immigration well? How do I stay calm when arguing with dickheads? What can we all do to fight back against the hate? Wonderful questions from the @bremaininspain.com community :) - my answers here www.bremaininspain.com/bremainers-a...
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Bremainers Ask ....... Zoe Gardner - Bremain in Spain
Bremain in Spain is campaigning for a strong & close relationship with the EU and to protect the rights of British migrants living in Spain.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The UK electricity is already the most expensive in the world. Price set to rise again in October as Ofgem's pricing formula lets companies rip people off. Who protects the people?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
As several have pointed out, this also applies to the massive (100,000 or so) Trans Pride event. Almost entirely blanked.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Is the BBC Reform UK's mouthpiece? Yup. "Researchers at Cardiff University have produced a detailed analysis of every episode of the BBC’s flagship Question Time programme broadcast between September 2014 and July 2023 to see if the broadcaster was balancing political viewpoints."
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Is the BBC now the official mouthpiece for Reform?
A study of the BBC’s Question Time has raised concerns about representation and political impartiality
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D B Webb @dbwebb.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
So National Front policies have been mainstreamed by a party with four MPs, thanks to a media that's more interested in sensationslism than actual news. Shame on all of them.
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I for one am tremendously enjoying King and Conqueror
Noggin the Nog
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Corporate welfare UK public purse propping up four out of six of UK steel companies. Profiteering by energy companies making many businesses unviable. Neoliberals not complaining - Shareholders collect returns in energy/steel but public bears the cost. archive.ph/z1yDJ
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Government supporting four out of six of UK’s steel companies
Intervention at Speciality Steel deepens taxpayer support for struggling but strategically important sector
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Email just sent to today @ bbc . co . uk #r4today
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Love that, a litany of the sea and just as mysterious
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I bet, any harbour etc.
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
How are things? Fisher, Dogger Bight,Westerly or South Westerly, three or four, increasing five in north later, rain later. Good becoming moderate, occasionally poor. Faroes, Fair Isle, Cromarty, Forties, Forth, Dogger. Northerly backing westerly, three or four, increasingly six later, showers. Good
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream. Macquarie controlled company loses 91m litres of water per day to leaks. No new reservoirs built since 1989. Dumped sewage for 300,000 hours into rivers. Customer bills up 47% this year. End fleecing. Nationalise water.
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Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream
Environment secretary urged to stop drought order that could damage the ecology of River Test in Hampshire
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
19% of peer reviewers in a Wiley (🥴) survey “said they have used LLMs to ‘increase the speed + ease’ of their reviews.” Meanwhile, some authors are using “indirect prompt injection, which involves inserting hidden white text or other manipulated fonts that tell AI tools to give a… paper 👍 reviews…”
insidehighered.com
AI-Enabled Cheating Points to ‘Untenable’ Peer Review System
It’s not clear how widespread the new cheating strategy is, but it’s highlighting longstanding drivers of the peer review crisis some reviewers are now trying to alleviate with AI.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Just a reminder that under the United Kingdom's broadcasting rules GB News should not be permitted to broadcast.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.
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How Britain privatised itself into failure
Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Mop top hypnotic prole art threat
Book from 1960’s USA about the warnings of hypnotic communist plots via the Beatles, mop top hypnotic prole art threat
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Kraftwerk
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Carnac Megaliths get Unesco World Heritage status www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...
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Carnac Megaliths get Unesco World Heritage status
The megalithic sites of Carnac and the shores of Morbihan in Brittany, western France, have been officially inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list, the international organisation announced on Satur...
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The first Birkin Bag
St Mary’s Church in the idyllic market town of Wirksworth in the Derbyshire Dales is home to a small medieval relief carving of a lead miner, displayed on an interior wall of the church. The primitive carving is approximately 1000 years old and is affectionately referred to by locals as T’Owd Man
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Thames Water refuses to claw back £2.5m bonuses paid to execs from £3bn emergency loan. TW has 187 criminal convictions, £20bn debt, fleeces customers, dumps sewage in rivers, borrowed to pay dividends, neglects investment. Execs to receive another £13m bonus. Nationalise without compensation.
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Thames Water refuses to claw back bonuses paid using £3bn emergency loan
Money was paid out from loan meant to stabilise firm’s finances weeks before it paused retention payments plan
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Anti Poster
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David Parkes @davidparkes.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Cover of new Country Life magazine - Hearts of Stone why we love our ancient sites
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Project Here.
OBR finds that its projection that Brexit would cost the country £40 billion have 'broadly materialised'.
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