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Unfitforpurpose @unfitforpurpose.net · 11h

*Looks at UK universities* I can answer that, but you're not going to like it.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 9h

1. Denial 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance The five stages of dealing with a US-style heavily interventionist edit of one's writing

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A key point which few have noticed yet... Tory voters have already shifted a lot. Polling shows they back Burnham's pledge to consider closer relations. And a third back joining again. This is a major problem for Badenoch's supposed "recapture the centre" strategy.

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tories on Tuesday: "we'll spend £10bn on a missile system we don't understand". Tories on Wednesday "we'll cut taxes!" These are not serious people.

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Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social · 8h

Forward to autarky! Or ‘Idiocy In One Country’ - a hitherto unexpected stage of historical materialism…🤔

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Ian Christie @ianpchristie.bsky.social · 11h

Essential reading: WWF's latest Living Planet Report - livingplanet.panda.org/en-GB/?utm_s....

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Mario Sixtus @sixtus.net · 07/10/2026

Katherina Reiche zerstört Erneuerbare Energien, wo sie nur kann: Nun hat sie im Wirtschaftsministerium die Stelle für Wind- und Solarpolitik geschlossen! Kein Tag vergeht ohne Tischkantenkauen. www.topagrar.com/energie/news...

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Reiche löst heimlich Referat für Wind-, Solar- und Transformationsindustrien auf

Das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium hat bekannt gegeben, das Referat für Wind-, Solar- und Transformationsindustrien aufgelöst zu haben. Die Energieverbände sind entsetzt.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just so dispiriting to watch the Greens be corrupted by the same poison that took over Labour. All the same shit: the excuses, the mealy-mouthed justifications, the tortured position statements, the deafening silences. Like a historical reenactment.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This proves only two things. The Ukrainian campaign against Russian refineries is causing serious damage. Putin has asked Trump to help him out and the US president obliged.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12h

America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's been over a year and am still yet to hear anyone ask Badenoch what she would do about the climate change she accepts is real if she thinks trying to get to net zero by 2050 is impossible.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Badenoch again saying 'climate change is real' before then announcing plans for more fossil fuel drilling.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Women in Green Business Awards 2026 are go!

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In talks about edits and cover designs and fonts and subtitles and foreign rights and yes yes yes THIS BOOK IS COMING

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

or this one for the ‘climate pragmatist’ that doesn’t know the difference between 1.5 and 2.0C?

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

or how about this little chart for the ‘climate realists’:

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Such a dereliction of duty to your country.

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For a while, we used to joke ‘don’t look up!’ when faced with blatant climate denial. Considering how insanely warm our oceans are becoming and how most of journalism ignores it, we may just as well add a ‘and don’t look down either!’

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 07/10/2026

20 years ago, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered for speaking truth to power in Putin’s Russia. She exposed the brutality of war. She gave a voice to its victims. And she refused to be intimidated into silence. This cost her life. But her memory is carried by so many to this day.

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Strong quote today at The Economist’s inaugural conference on power grids: “We should be careful applauding gas power plants for their stability and reliability. They have the effect of exporting instability and an unreliable climate to the world’s most vulnerable regions.”

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?

The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

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Ian Christie @ianpchristie.bsky.social · 12h

The daily photo. Near Ulpha, English Lake District, Oct. 2018

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Leonora Merry @leonoramerry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A great read here on the thorny issue of diagnosis and what our quest for diagnosing and recognising neurodevelopmental conditions tells us about society 👇

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How else might we address the question of diagnosis? Some thoughts in advance of the welfare storm to come substack.com/home/post/p-...

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What do want from diagnosis?

Or how to circumvent a culture war

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Every now and then, when people say stupid things about socialism, I have to roll out these lines from Arthur Lewis, on what socialists want.

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Ian Christie @ianpchristie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The daily photo. Derwentwater and Keswick seen from Skiddaw, English Lake District. October 2017.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 07/10/2026

Neoliberalism has never worked where it’s been tried, but the rich love it so it’s not going anywhere. Listen here or wherever you listen to your podcasts! ⤵️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/whats-the-point-of-neoliberalism/

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.

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Andrew Curry @nextwavef.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thje Home Office is feral and no longer fit for purpose. This story is just shocking—the Home Office never accepts liability, even when it is visibly and clearly in the wrong. www.computerweekly.com/news/3666515...

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Single mother faces removal from UK over eVisa and admin errors | Computer Weekly

A malfunctioning electronic visa status and administrative errors on the part of the Home Office have left a single mother and her son facing removal from the UK, despite her proactive efforts to lega...

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is there a 'war on the countryside'? Yes - but it's the one being waged by the landowners who unleash 50 million pheasants each year... Step forward 'Lord' Christian Brighty to explain, in this devastating (and hilarious) video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFi8...

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The Real Threat to Britain’s Countryside

YouTube video by Christian Brighty

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Ian Christie @ianpchristie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What is Environmental Social Science? See this new paper from the ACCESS research-policy network in the UK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's blindingly obvious that this strategy (which would be hugely reckless given the scale of the climate threat) should entail much more action on climate resilience and clean tech innovation. And yet Badenoch still hasn't set it out. It's almost like she's not really interested in the topic.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's been over a year. 90 page strategy documents have now been published. Multiple interviews have been given. And still no one has pinned Kemi Badenoch down on what her alternative approach to tackling climate change without getting to net zero by 2050 actually entails.

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Ian Christie @ianpchristie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The daily photo. The Screes, Wastwater, English Lake District, Oct.2018

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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

HOW WE LIVE NOW futureoftheleft.substack.com/p/how-we-liv...

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HOW WE LIVE NOW

An anthropology of ourselves.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New Fox poll shows Trump coalition collapsing in Texas. GOP is sinking money into Iowa and Kansas. The horrors of Late-Stage Trumpism are creating space for a new anti-corruption, anti-cruelty politics to emerge. On the pod, @aselrod.bsky.social is brilliant on this: newrepublic.com/article/2161...

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Fox Drops Brutal Poll on Trump as Leaks Reveal MAGA Panic: “Wake Up!”

As the Trump-GOP position worsens, political theorist explains why Trump-MAGA’s corrupt and depraved misrule has created space for a new, values-based liberal-Democratic politics to emerge.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today's Substack: what if everyone is wrong about religious decline in modern Britain? drfrancisyoung.substack.com/p/religion-a...

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Religion and structural collapse

Why everyone is wrong about religious decline

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This weekend I was staying in Lyndhurst in Hampshire. It has a lovely High Street which you can't cross from one side to another even from 8am on a *Sunday* because it has cars back to back at 30mph. Why do people want this?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Too many Americans have absorbed & tolerate Trump’s insane, destructive behavior as a fact of life…the corporate media has facilitated that mentality…we are facing a constitutional emergency with an exec branch working to centralize its power at all costs.” www.americaamerica.news/p/we-are-und...

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We Are Under Attack From an Enemy Within

By listening to our founders and refusing to go along with this, we can name and defeat the ongoing danger to our constitutional republic

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