Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comOleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and waterThe BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled". 7518931170
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Surreal interview with Jensen Huang whose company's chips power much of today’s AI. Says he doesn’t think it matters if children forget basic maths. I love AI as much as the next person, but the head of an AI company arguing that children don’t need the skills to question AI should worry us all. 1110220
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthResolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 26/09/2026Broken housing taxes mean Londoners are under-paying by £3.1 billion – with the rest of England over-paying in return. But it is possible to put England's broken housing taxes on firmer foundations 👉 buff.ly/SAUyopI 083
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthIain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026100 years ago today: A cyclist replies to a motorist's complaint that cyclists don't pay road tax and cycle two or more abreast, holding up drivers. How things have changed. 28332
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthBylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 20/09/2026A section 5A report is one of the rarest interventions in local government – triggered when a monitoring officer finds an executive decision was made unlawfully. Suffolk now has one. Martin Cook explains what it means – and what to look for next. 👇 @eastangliabylines.co.ukeastangliabylines.co.ukThe rarest report in local government has arrived in Suffolk; here is how to read itAt Suffolk County Council, in accordance with the law, a procedural emergency cord has been activated 12617
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The Crypto-Party would actually be quite a good name for them 76617
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthBill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Felt 25th anniversary of 9/11 was too big a legacy to ignore on TGT. But I wanted to find something positive. We did Steve Buscemi a couple of years ago, so instead discuss the boatlift of nearly half a million people to safety. bit.ly/TutorGroupThink 164
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthSkionar @skionar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Orchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read. 181950593
Andrew Harmsworth @harmsy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026⚡️Physics teachers! What liquid is 2.5x denser than water and could make pumped hydro access more locations? vimeo.com/1200747167 1/2vimeo.comRheEnergise on BBC Spotlight 11th June 2026Kirk England, Environment correspondent visits RheEnergise's first project in Devon, UK to see it in action. Interviews with Peter Hawkins, Project Engineer, Lizzi Gold, Business Development Manager a... 130
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthWe Own It @weownit.org.uk · 28/07/2026Andy Burnham has promised to bring in a new system of social care. But the government needs to address the desperately important issue of who owns and runs it. Privatisation has been a failed — we’re paying more for worse care while private equity sharks walk away with huge profit margins. 27230
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I hate gunsnytimes.comA 12-Year-Old Went to Buy a Ball. He Was Killed by a Stray Bullet. (Gift Article)Jacob Freytes, the son of a retired detective sergeant, died near his Bronx home after he was struck by the bullet from a gun fired during a brawl, law enforcement officials said. 18676209
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthNational Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Hugely important - and powerful - letter to the Prime Minister from NEB climate science expert Professor @kevinclimate.bsky.social and other senior academics. Please share #NationalEmergencyBriefing 33319
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthMiles King @milesking.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Utter insanity. Hopefully Burnham will overturn the decision and demand a review of UKRI's spending priorities. 0124
Andrew Harmsworth @harmsy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Such fun! 🎶 💥 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukBBC Proms - 2026 - Horrible Science: The Big Bang Proms Experiment - BBC SoundsLive at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Karen Ní Bhroin. 000
Andrew Harmsworth @harmsy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Powerful letter. A response is required by #10. 194
Andrew Harmsworth @harmsy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026🧠 Stumbled upon this gem a few years ago, having missed it first time around. I echo MEM’s view here: read it, or read it again. It’s alarmingly prescient and a call to arm (the brain). 📕 000
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/07/2026It is 1996. The president was born in 1946. It is 2006. The president was born in 1946. It is 2026. The president was born in 1946. (2016 was an outlier and should be disregarded.) 37819
Andrew Harmsworth @harmsy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I do love gate bracing, particularly adjustable ones like this, but I think it’s the wrong way round… 000
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthAkru @akru.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy capital growth come, thy riches be won, on Earth, that it become Hell. Lead us not into rewilding, but generate asset growth, for we desire money, power and glory, forever and ever, Amen. 717947
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthKit Marie Rackley @geogramblings.com · 12/07/2026#KCSIE2026 still does not name #ClimateChange. But heat, flooding, water disruption, climate distress and misinformation are already shaping pupils’ welfare, attendance, behaviour and learning. I’ve created a free climate-literate safeguarding INSET resource for DSLs. Please share with school leadsgeogramblings.comKCSIE Still Cannot See Climate Change – But School Leaders and DSLs CanDespite best efforts, England's new Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance does not name climate change. But a climate-literate Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) can still notice when climate is changing the safeguarding context. This article comes with a free KCSIE 2026-aligned INSET resource for schools: slides, DSL guidance and staff handout. 156
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthDon @donshifs.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Here’s Herr Trump’s stock as of Friday. This shows the past 2 years. The all-time high Trump Media & Technology Group stock closing price was 97.54 on March 04, 2022. As of Friday it closed at 8.54. Thoughts an prayers 😁🤣😁 79809216
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Virgin Media fined £28m for repeatedly preventing customers from cancelling contracts. "Deliberate call-dropping" tactics, customers put on hold "for no reason". Commission scheme "effectively encouraged" and rewarded abuses. No exec fined/charged for carefully designed scam to fleece customers.bbc.co.ukVirgin Media fined £28m for preventing customers from cancelling contractsMillions of phone calls from customers were "likely mishandled" over nearly a three-year period, the regulator says. 22284117
Andrew Harmsworth @harmsy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Education is the most important thing in the world. We should invest in it. Everywhere. 010
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/07/2026"Farage was given a deadline of 1pm on Tuesday to respond to the Guardian about this article. He gave a video address at 2pm announcing he would force a byelection in his seat of Clacton-on-Sea." 311765
Andrew Harmsworth @harmsy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Just needs an anti-sleaze independent candidate to stand and win — like Martin Bell — how about it @carolvorders.bsky.social ? 000
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Nobody wants EVs” is now a decade-old genre of journalism. Over that decade, EV share of new UK car sales went from 0.3% to 25%. The genre hasn’t aged well. 661881463
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthGlennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Has FIFA told us what the final score in Monday’s USA v Belgium game is going to be yet? 14604935
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵 692930804
Andrew Harmsworth @harmsy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026www.maptap.gg July 4 100🎯 100🎯 93🏆 81🌟 87🎓 Final score: 890maptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers. 000
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 03/07/2026Climate change is literally canceling US independence Day celebrations. The July 4 parade in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, has been canceled due to extreme heat. Heat waves aren’t new - what’s new is that climate change is making them hotter and more dangerous.cbsnews.comPhiladelphia cancels 4th of July parade due to extreme heat, organizers sayPhiladelphia's Salute to Independence parade has been canceled due to extreme heat in the weather forecast. 411559601
Andrew Harmsworth @harmsy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Teachers! The TPS is being made more affordable, with cut to employer contributions… assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a4514...assets.publishing.service.gov.uk 000
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthGeoffrey Lean @geofflean.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Excellent piece by Jonathan Freedland on the idiocy of climate denial - and media distraction from the crisis -in the midst of an unprecedented heatwave that climate scientists have firmly attributed to global heating. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comClimate sceptics cheering as they melt in record temperatures? This heatwave is where satire has come to die | Jonathan FreedlandDelegates at an ‘anti-woke’ conference disparaged Ed Miliband’s net zero policies. But even they could not ignore the sweat on their foreheads, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland 075
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthChris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Brexit ten years on: unsettled and unsettling. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on the connections between Starmer’s resignation & the referendum anniversary, and why that anniversary isn’t a commemoration but an episode within the ongoing saga: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/06/brex... 1115480
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthECIU @eciu.net · 23/06/2026Surface transport is central to Carbon Budget 7. It is currently the UK’s largest emitting sector by a large margin🧵 174
Andrew Harmsworth @harmsy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Looks like the laser guide star from an epic telescope! 010
Andrew Harmsworth @harmsy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Great panel led by @lucysiegle.bsky.social @octopus.energy #OctopusETS26 — all inspiring stories! 🫶🏻 030
Andrew Harmsworth @harmsy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026John Kerry just admitted the COP process has failed and won’t be the way we solve the climate crisis. And that Physics is in charge! @octopus.energy #OctopusETS26 040
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthAlom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Trying not to despair while people all around me claim the hot weather is “lovely” rather than a sign of how we've fucked up the climate. 59519
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthCodfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 21/06/2026This is great news, and was always going to happen with scaling up production scale. 1062372373
Reposted by Andrew HarmsworthDr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I need you to know that the shipping container into which the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was packed for transport to the launchpad is called the Chariot, and the barge pulling the container to Cape Kennedy is called the Pegasus. So yes, this is a picture of a Pegasus pulling a Roman Chariot. 8500133
