Reposted by Ian WoodDavid Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay People you care about will be feeling like the speaker in this poem. Check in on them. #AskTwice If you are feeling like the speaker reach out for help What we need most is love & what we need to do most is give love #poetry #poemoftheday #blackhistorymonth 05218
Reposted by Ian WoodDr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026🧵 One of the greatest Irish artworks is a stained glass window by the great Harry Clarke (1889-1931). The window is a depiction of a poem by Keats called The Eve of St Agnes. It was completed in 1924. The beauty of the piece if that all the elements - the characters work together visually [1] 38716
Reposted by Ian WoodSouth-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ed Milliband - Brexit has not delivered what was promised to my constituents. The blame lies with those that lied to them! Names Gove, Johnson Rees-Mogg and Farage! #BrexitFail 02714
Reposted by Ian WoodRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Even the GB News presenter is thrown by his guest's suggestion that all asylum seekers be castrated. This is what happens when the narrative marches ever rightwards. It drifts out of everyone's control and requires individuals involved to suddenly realise 'no wait, f***, that's mad'. 61397143
Reposted by Ian WoodKen Page @kenpage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The UK looking at its Commonwealth members: 2213
Ian Wood @ianawood.bsky.social · 14/09/2026What is the counter offer from Ed Davey? Could it be Tofu, Halloumi or a cheese board? 000
Reposted by Ian WoodLewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The Producers with Nigel Farage as Max Bialystock. 1122845
Ian Wood @ianawood.bsky.social · 12/09/2026You have to consider in a normal political party, such massive donations would have been revealed at the Annual Conference to lift the party faithful. Yet here we have the news one week after a low energy Reform Conference 🤔 010
Reposted by Ian WoodAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off. 1553159717
Reposted by Ian WoodBrittlestar @brittlestar.com · 01/09/2026It’s Nice To Be Disliked By One Of Those 401549700
Reposted by Ian WoodRaywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The tombstone of Leonard Matlovich, the first gay U.S. service member to purposely out himself to the military to fight their ban on gay people. What a quote. 110836
Reposted by Ian WoodProf Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I'm back! Trump keeps posted various AI images of himself as futuristic supervillain. It's one of the stranger things I've logged in 18 months - it's been a disturbing week. New video: elections, the leadership cult, and the state going after its enemies. youtu.be/QTtO77sCCR0youtu.beTrump's supervillain AI images, and the rest of a disturbing weekYouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel 58934
Ian Wood @ianawood.bsky.social · 05/09/2026You have to wonder if Laura Kuenssberg is naive enough to still believe in the Tooth Fairy and Father Christmas because she seems to accept anything but the truth when it comes to Reform/Tory politicians 010
Reposted by Ian WoodAlan Calder @alancalder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Huh so now i understand what two tier policing looks like /s 021
Reposted by Ian WoodThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards. 3034391277
Reposted by Ian WoodPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/09/20266.3m UK workers are in jobs with no guarantees of when they will work. How much they will earn, whether they will have enough hours or a job. More than half have lost money through short-notice and cancelled shifts, wasted transport/childcare costs. Millions can't buy a home, start a family.livingwage.org.uk6.3 million workers in insecure jobs with short notice of shifts and cancellations costing some £500 a month 7263125
Reposted by Ian WoodThe Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026130,000 people, 43 years of follow-up, diet remeasured throughout. Moderate coffee and tea drinkers had less dementia. Decaf drinkers did not. ☕ Strong cohort work, but it cannot tell us whether the coffee did anything. buff.ly/lUOcjlu #Dementia #Epidemiology 011
Ian Wood @ianawood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Right then, if Redwood can hold this view, I can say Thatcher was bad for the country right up til the day I die. Nobody on the right can tell me to get over it!!!!! 010
Ian Wood @ianawood.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Was an interesting chat, but guess it was recorded before this came out... 100
Reposted by Ian WoodThe Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Mariana Mazzucato says Farage and Boris Johnson repeatedly misled voters and still haven’t been held accountable. Her Channel 4 interview has gone viral after she called Brexit one of Britain’s biggest economic mistakes. 631277578
Reposted by Ian WoodAlan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A truly biblical hailstorm brought an abrupt end to our holiday outside Zurich yesterday. I wonder if the climate is changing ? 48607175
Reposted by Ian WoodAdam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest. 24903248
Reposted by Ian Wood👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026People be criticising the BBC for not screening edgy new comedy but they low-key be dropping content like this: 14525146
Reposted by Ian WoodWillie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026These will be about as welcome as the DaVinci Code or 50 Shades of Grey in a charity shop. 3336
Reposted by Ian WoodG.C. aka renaissancechambara.jp @rnssncchmbrjp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026A collection of what’s been on my radar and keeping my brain ticking this month. I got back on track with my writing this month. bit.ly/SO_issue_37 001
Reposted by Ian WoodHOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 26/08/2026NEW: We examine Tommy Robinson’s shift towards US and international sponsors, and the growing divide between his self-styled image as a ‘global statesman’ and critics who see him as a ‘grifter’ who is no longer hardline enough for his domestic base. hopenothate.org.uk/tommy-robins...hopenothate.org.ukTommy Robinson's Digital Empire - Rise of a far-right superstarDownload the full report → Based on the turnout to his rallies in 2025 and 2026 in London, Stephen Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) can still... 33323
Reposted by Ian WoodEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...theguardian.comFake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propagandaIn effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows 6252116
Reposted by Ian WoodIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Non-lunatic media coverage of Reform policy announcements has become routine by this point: one par explaining policy, then a par explaining why it is ineffective/counter-productive/unrelated to the problem it is intended to solve, then a quote from a Reform spokesman about a conspiracy of lizards. 1552971
Reposted by Ian Woodgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Someone on Reddit posted this 1926 Soviet poster series on how to treat books, and it is wonderful. 16016
Reposted by Ian WoodProf Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026🤔 I really wish more of the discourse around Cofnas, Yarvin, Musk, Thiel etc and their successful lynching of a Black academic would refer to @quinnslobodian.com's "Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right" tracing Silicon Valley's route from Ayn Rand to 'race science.' 7402117
Ian Wood @ianawood.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Finally cancelled my subscription to The Financial Times. After forty years plus of reading it I no longer feel able to support it. Allowing opinion articles for the likes of Scott Bessent and buying Errol Musk lunch finally pushed me over the edge. 000
Ian Wood @ianawood.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Alas I fear that they dash out of the building and start drafting another opinion piece for the Right Wing Papers about wedge issues given recent experiences 000
Ian Wood @ianawood.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I am of the view that if you want to stop media pile-ons you have to pay for your news. It's because fewer of us are that media has gone where the money is, rage baiting for engagement 011
Reposted by Ian WoodOmar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The higher education participation rate for UK born Bangladeshi women went from around 2% (not a typo) in 1983 to nearly 67% in 2025 This must be one of the most dramatic, fast social changes in recent British history, and one that is barely noted or understood 14611149
Reposted by Ian WoodNeil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/202629th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London! 511656712
Reposted by Ian WoodMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17/08/2026The loudest voices online aren't always the most accurate. New data shows our homicide rate is lower than every US state, while murder rates are at record lows. The evidence is clear: our approach to tackling crime and its causes works. It’s driving down violence right across the capital.economist.comIs Europe safer than America?A novel dataset provides some surprising answers 25955296
Ian Wood @ianawood.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I am hoping that none of the podcasts that I enjoy are dashing to a studio to record an emergency episode following the Clacton result, I wouldn't want to cancel them in my feed! 000
Reposted by Ian WoodG.C. aka renaissancechambara.jp @rnssncchmbrjp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026William Gibson’s work feels more ‘now’ than ever, I went back and looked at earlier interviews which foreshadowed the present bit.ly/SO_William-G... 021
Ian Wood @ianawood.bsky.social · 12/08/2026As usual, listening to this I have learnt new things and left with a few new things to ponder as I wonder about 010
Reposted by Ian WoodResolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 11/08/2026Is welfare spending ''out of control''? It's estimated to be 11.1 per cent of GDP this financial year. That's just 1.1 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen by 0.9 per cent of GDP since 2012-13 ⤵️ 36444
Reposted by Ian WoodBrandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Library funding is tied to usage. 13889132920
Reposted by Ian WoodPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026After a summer in London then two weeks in US, spending the last few days in middle of Ireland has been *bliss* Had forgotten what it’s like to not be constantly hot, to sleep properly, to be able to exercise without feeling like you’re going to expire Can see a lot of climate refugees moving here 1916815
Reposted by Ian WoodPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026We need to talk about Richard Tice In May 2024, Tice told me he didn't expect to fund Reform through his companies any more. So why did £1m from 'Posh' George Cottrell's mother move through a company he controls, then to Reform weeks later? New by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/richard-ti...democracyforsale.substack.comRichard Tice and Reform’s money - the new unanswered questionBefore the 2024 election, Farage's deputy told me he'd stop donating to Reform - so why did £1m from George Cottrell's mother go to one of his companies weeks later? 28886428