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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”
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Simon Tutty @billygiblets.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Farallon Islands, near San Francisco 🦭 🦭 🦭 🦭 Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“So it was, on that misty morning, that Brenda set off for the capital. She knew not what she would find there, only that the time had come to move on - away from small-minded rural attitudes and people who called her ‘Oreo’ and ‘the wide panda’ - to seek a more fulfilling life.”
A belted galloway cow walking into the mist, on a Dorset lane, towards a bold, unpredictable future. You can see half of my car in the background. It looks remarkably clean, by normal standards. When one of my wife's work colleagues asked her "What car does your husband drive?" she answered "I can't remember what make it is but it's the really dirty one that sometimes turns up in the car park here" and her colleague immediately said "Oh yes, I know the one."
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
THREAD. A few years ago, my dad was surprised to find a small toad had wandered into his porch and took up residence in one of the old shoes he liked to wear for gardening tasks. This led to more drama than might've been anticipated... www.tom-cox.com/my-dad-and-t...
A toad, sitting what appears to be calmly in an old loafer in my parents' porch, while in fact planning how to gradually move up the hierarchy of the local community and into an influential position in local government.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
UK govt to weaken the role of the Financial Ombudsman Service. Victims of bank frauds will be left to chase banks, malpractices will rise. Govt besotted with destructive finance industry - Between 1995 and 2015, finance industry made a £4,500bn negative contribution to the UK economy
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The King’s Speech wasn’t the transformative plan for the country we need
The government has some good policies, but not a transformative plan for society.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026
Immigration make Britain brilliant
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
How to change this debate. " Being outside the EU costs every UK household an average of £8,300 every year. But being inside again would only cost each UK household £38 every year. Do you still think we should stay out? "
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I love this.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This is sooooo sweet. Donkey is just a big dog ❤️❤️ TT: thewalkingdonkey Jordan and Donkey
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The planned ~30% cuts to UKGov funding of astrophysics, particle physics & nuclear will not only be devastating for University physics departments across the whole UK, it's also impacting treasured institutions like our Royal Observatory here in #Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔭🧪 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2604118...
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Fears grow for Edinburgh observatory as funding cuts could put future at risk
Fears are growing for Edinburgh’s Royal Observatory after warnings that potential UK funding cuts could put its future at risk.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 06/04/2026
“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Just explained the whole near-side/far-side tidal locking physics of the moon on BBC TV with a 1980's disco-dance-around-your-handbag analogy 😂 - always face the bag (Earth) as you dance (orbit) around it. 💃 📹: NASA/Vi Nguyen
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Patrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I don't think "please would everyone be more relaxed about our racism" is really going to cut it.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
AS BAD AS EACH OTHER The Strait of Hormuz is much in the nuz. How I wish it were not – I’d regime change the lot.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The future of UK Astronomy & Particle Physics is at risk from proposed 30% funding cuts that, if implemented, will be "genuinely catastrophic". Great to see this detailed BBC report on the issue by @pallabg.bsky.social 🔭🧪⚛️ #STFCcuts #SaveUKAstronomy 🗞️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The future of Uk scientific research.  Several research projects face funding cuts.  Here are some projects under threat.

Words over a picture of the extremely large telescope (ELT) under construction in ChileScotland's Astronomer Royal, Catherine Heymans, speaking for the UK community of astronomers, told the science select committee that the proposed cuts were "genuinely catastrophic and will be devastating for the UK."
She, along with a particle physicist, told MPs most of the potential cuts would lead to British scientists having to greatly reduce their involvement or withdraw altogether from some of the world's most important international astronomy and particle physics experiments.
Those experiments seek to answer some of the biggest questions in science. These include learning how the Universe began and how it will end, finding the first ever signs of life on planets orbiting distant stars, detecting black holes that ripple space time, mapping newborn planets around distant stars and analysing their atmospheres for signs of life. All of these are experiments in which, historically, the UK played a leading role. But now, British scientists could be largely locked out of them in the future, if the STFC does not pay its way.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2026
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Here is a copy of the open letter from the heads of physics departments across the UK- worth reading as it makes a lot of excellent points www.iop.org/about/news/o...
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Open letter to the Science Minister from Heads of Physics
Heads of Physics departments have expressed concern about UKRI funding changes.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Pulp poetry.
Common Peephole
 
 
She came from Greece,
she had a faulty socket.
Her eye fell out,
she couldn’t stop it.
 
That’s when I
caught her eye.


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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🔴 Exclusive: Corporate donations British parties tripled over last three elections But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...
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Revealed: Corporate donations to British politics have tripled
Influential Labour committee chairs call on government to clean up politics as our new analysis finds record £42 million in company donations ahead of last election
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Four months ago, I committed to introducing a pilot of GP walk-in clinics. Today I am opening Scotland's first walk-in GP clinic in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh - open seven days a week, 12-8pm, no appointments needed. Thanks to our fantastic NHS staff for making this possible.
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
For anyone who needs cheering up... here's Britain's smallest bird having a bath today in a woodland puddle. 😁😍🐦❤️ #birds 🪶
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁 @carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️ ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk
From 2006. A younger and shell-shocked looking Catherine on a balcony holding a very tiny baby with the mountains of Vancouver in the background.  The baby is so new, Catherine still has the pregnant bump.
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Broxton8r @broxton8r.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
This is great work. But this article in particular should be raising eyebrows and a LOT of questions www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
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TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE HOLY LAND'S EAGER MESSIAH
As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
UK falling behind EU on environmental rules amid post-Brexit rollback. Failure to protect rare creatures, clean up air/water, remove dangerous chemicals from products, making consumer products more recyclable, energy efficient. Taking back control? No, handing it to corporations.
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UK falling behind EU on environmental rules amid post-Brexit rollback
Exclusive: Labour ministers choosing to weaken green protections inherited from the bloc, analysis reveals
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
1. Researching this week’s column, I felt that I understood at last just why, on so many issues – benefits, Gaza, environmental and planning laws, anti-protest laws, bank deregulation, fiscal rules etc - Labour is out-Torying the Tories. Why it has become so cruel, so destructive and so spineless. 🧵
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Sorry to burden you with another jaw-dropping scandal. But what the government intends to do to chemicals regulation in the UK is chilling. Its consultation was slipped out so quietly that most of us missed it. When I read it, I saw why. This week's column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead | George Monbiot
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Tory fantasy of a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations is coming true. Our bodies and ecosystems will pay the price, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
If Keir Starmer wants a positive relationship with the Scottish Government, he needs to get his Environment Secretary to retract his totally inaccurate comments about Scotland’s water. Our rivers are cleaner, our bills are lower - and public ownership delivers for people, not profit. 👇
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Spot on.
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'Farage collapsed the economy with Brexit, and faced no consequences' - Stephen Flynn
With the BBC facing criticism about the amount of airtime they are giving Nigel Farage, some awkward questions have started to emerge.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Please listen to the UN General Secretary.
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
We are proud of our diverse communities who chose to make Scotland their home. And unlike Labour, the SNP will never imitate Nigel Farage. We will confront him, and we will defeat him.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 29/04/2025
This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Prof. Danny Dorling writes: When UK countries and regions are compared, child poverty is now lowest in Scotland. This wasn’t always the case. The immediate reason for this turnaround in Scotland has been the introduction of the Scottish Child Payment. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I don't often ask people to write to their MPs. But I think they might listen to you on this, as it's so jaw-droppingly awful, and they're almost certainly unaware of it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Please also write to the Environment Secretary: steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk Thanks.
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What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care | George Monbiot
Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at risk, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
Prague, 23 November 1911
Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie,
Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say.
But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism!
I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Here’s a poem called ‘From The Encyclopedia of Alternative Facts’.
From The Encyclopedia of Alternative Facts

Frankenstein was the monster’s name.  
There’s no such thing as climate change.  
A solero is a type of hat.  
The planet is not round but flat.  
  
Six is the legal drinking age.  
Women get paid an equal wage.  
Elvis once sang in Take That.  
The planet is not round but flat.  
  
Achilles had a dodgy knee.  
Terror comes from refugees.  
Insomnia affects most cats.  
The planet is not round but flat.  
  
The president’s above the law.
Russia did not start the war.
It’s impossible to change a fact.  
The planet is not round but flat.  


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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
After months of collective punishment and the death of over 40,000 in Gaza, any suggestion Palestinians should be removed from their home is unacceptable and dangerous. There must be no ethnic cleansing. Only a proper two state solution will bring lasting peace.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Early morning love poem.
Early Morning Love Poem

Duvet,
you are so groovet,
I’d like to stay under you
all of Tuesdet.


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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
No Govt has cut public spending, cut services, jobs, wages & secured economic growth. UK PM says he will be "ruthless" in cutting public spending People will spend less. Due to lack of good food, housing, healthcare, education many won't be able to work Madness leftfootforward.org/2025/01/labo...
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Labour hasn’t delivered growth or happiness. It needs an economic reset.
Successive governments have tailored economic and tax policies to impoverish the masses
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Keir Starmer says UK Treasury will be "ruthless" on public spending cuts. It's continuation of Tory austerity. How many will be deprived of food, housing, healthcare, education ...? Lives sacrificed to appease corporations, the rich and neoliberal dogma www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Keir Starmer says Treasury will be ruthless on public spending cuts
Chancellor’s tough approach to public spending ‘absolutely right’, says PM after cost of government borrowing rose
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Catriona @catrio.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
So after cancelling the Edinburgh super computer Labour look south for investment #LabourLiars www.thenational.scot/news/2485114...
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'Betrayal': Labour pledge supercomputer cash after killing Edinburgh project
LABOUR have been warned that developing supercomputers in England after axing a pioneering project in Scotland would be a “betrayal”.
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