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A big believer in facts & good journalism. ❤️ travel, nature, good reads and great culture. #humanism #mindful #UK based

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20h
UK banks are Europe’s biggest coal financiers, report finds
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UK banks are Europe’s biggest coal financiers, report finds
Study says UK-based banks provided $8.3bn in coal financing in four year, with Barclays and HSBC leading rise UK banks are Europe’s biggest financial backers of the global coal industry, providing billions of pounds in funding for the climate-wrecking fossil fuel in the past four years, according to a report. The study found UK-based banks had provided $8.3bn (£6.2bn) in coal financing since Cop26 in Glasgow in 2021, when global leaders pledged to “phase down” coal use. Continue reading...
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 23h
£320,000 cost and 100 hours of police time = 0 arrests. So, why exactly, are you being facially surveilled on the Tube? #Tube #facialrecognition #surveillancetech
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And we have another one. The WSJ reports that Egypt's intel chief, Abbas Kamel, called Netanyahu with a warning days before 7th October. The Atlantic has reported that Kamel visited Israel to warn that Gaza would "blow up in everyone's faces" www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Egypt warned Netanyahu of Hamas attack days before October 7, report says
Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot said the warnings left 'no room for doubt' that Netanyahu led Israel into the 'greatest disaster in its history.' The prime minister has blamed security chiefs for ...
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🤔 Compare UK’s Lord Watson’s dismissal of concerns over AI with new reporting that OpenAI, and Anthropic are probing “tens of thousands” of security incidents linked to their models, according to Axios. www.axios.com/2026/09/26/o...
axios.com
Scoop: Top AI companies probing tens of thousands of security incidents
The massive scale of security incidents points to control problems for AI companies.
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The future is now! “Raining Boxes: Amazon Drones Overwhelm a Texas Suburb” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...
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It’s Raining Boxes: Amazon Drones Overwhelm a Texas Suburb
In Richardson, a fleet of drones has started to deliver goods quickly. But the noise is drowning out life for some residents: ‘We can’t live like this.’
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#HopeAgain! #LabourSlogan
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Serenity Now
ALT: Serenity Now
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 27/09/2026
The deadline to renew Palantir's £330m contract is coming up fast. Join us to make ministers stop hiding Palantir's secrets – before it’s too late👇 goodlaw.social/o9zr
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
👀 Thank heavens for 999! “She rang the MOD police but no-one answered.”
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Red Rotary Phone Telephone
ALT: Red Rotary Phone Telephone
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh the irony; headed by Michael Gove, allegedly responsible for sabotaging the Assisted Dying Lords vote, reportedly for something to do, while also apparently happy to wargame scenarios where multitudes are massacred. #nomoralcompass ?
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A former staff member of Tony Blair Institute said they had serious concerns that this was “very much trading money for access”, but was instructed by a colleague not to describe it that way. ‘They were saying you have to be really careful not to make it seem as if they’re paying money for access’😬
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Magnificent 👌🏻 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The makers of the 7 Up series set out to prove a point about class. What they achieved is far more profound | Jonathan Freedland
The epic documentary series reveals much about the shifting social attitudes of the last 60 years – and much more about the quiet mystery of human life, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Danny Tomo, anti-migrant activist arrested over video of dinghy slashing. I particularly love that it’s his own, or supporters video, live-streamed on social media, that’s led to his arrest. Next move? Ever-predictable Elon Musk volunteering to pay for his legal fees? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Daniel Thomas arrested over video of dinghy slashing
Police had been looking into footage appearing to show the man, also known as Danny Tommo, slashing at a boat in the English Channel with a knife.
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨June: Government health portal hacked by OpenAI agent. OpenAI only became aware in August and told Australia's government this month, September.‼️ #AI #OpenAI www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
bbc.co.uk
Australia launches urgent review after OpenAI program hacks government health portal
Experts believe it's the world's first known AI breach of a government system.
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Deeply disturbing thread & time to donate to the RNLI 🧵🛟🚤
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🤣💯 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ella Baron on Andy Burnham’s visit to the United Nations – cartoon
Donald Trump has praised the UK prime minister as a ‘natural businessman’ after their first meeting at the UN general assembly
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
👏US TV networks take a stand and suspend White House pool coverage. 👌🏻 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US TV networks suspend White House pool coverage over Trump media ban
ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC decline to participate after presidential ban that prompted widespread condemnation
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What a merrily mad world we unquestionably inhabit! How major UK insurers, who are protected by taxpayers from damaging flood losses, help to fuel and perpetuate the #climatecrisis #journalism #doomcycle
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Trump Says His Contested Arch Would House Drones and Snipers.” Yeah, ‘cos the Washington DC area didn’t get terrorized enough by snipers in Oct 2002! 🤦🏻‍♀️ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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Trump Says His D.C. Arch Would Be a ‘Military Complex’ Housing Drones and Snipers
The president’s announcement on Sunday echoed his justification for the White House ballroom: that the project was necessary for national security.
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
👏💯 Such a tremendous Read! #Booksky Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies - by the Canadian writer-musician Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/12/2025
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson review – startlingly original
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Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson review – startlingly original
The Indigenous Canadian author brilliantly captures the interdependence of humans and the natural world, in a darkly satirical critique of colonialism
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Let’s hope Herts Police distance themselves soon also, despite still helping Beds with their rolling pilot with Palantir. #ProjectNectar #Palantir
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🖕Well, at least Stephen Miller's finger knows what the likely response is to his action. (🧐 Yezz, it is the wrong finger ... But, I'll take my consolation where I can find it. 😆)
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Shocking behaviour by members of MI5.
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🤣Imagine trying to get UK tax folks to believe you don’t owe them £20.5m in tax and deserve non-dom status, despite living in the UK since childhood, ‘cos: “I was and am besotted with Ireland, infatuated with Ireland. I believe that I have always been and am Irish.” ☘️ 👌🏻Truly barmy Blarney 👀🤦🏻‍♀️
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 17/09/2026
“In fact, it was the Musk Family Foundation that funded that trip” Matt Shea talks to @luciaoc.bsky.social about Tommy Robinson’s recent trip to Russia after a year-long investigation into Robinson for his new Channel 4 documentary, Tommy Robinson: Where’s The Money Gone?
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As Trump threatens serious tariffs on EU over Canada’s associate membership, he fails to realise that we’re already dealing with the taxing expense of his Iran failure. #suchanass www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
bbc.co.uk
Trump threatens 'serious tariffs' on EU over proposal to make Canada 'associate member'
"I think it's laughable," Trump said, when asked about the Canada-EU proposal. The Canadian prime minister is speaking at the European Parliament today.
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is so effed up! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Women with same health conditions as men ‘less likely to be offered active treatment’
Men with heart, kidney or liver conditions more likely to be offered intervention compared with women, global analysis finds
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/09/2026
UK ministers urged to act after US flies out diplomat accused of possessing indecent images of children
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UK ministers urged to act after US flies out diplomat accused of possessing indecent images of children
US officials reportedly raided envoy’s London home and took him to American airbase without warning Met police * UK politics live – latest updates British ministers face calls to act after US authorities secretly flew out of the UK a diplomat accused of possessing indecent images of children. US officials reportedly raided the diplomat’s London flat last month before taking him to an American airbase and flying him out of the country, without warning the Metropolitan police. Continue reading...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/09/2026
Excellent letter in The Times. "Greater hate hath no person than to accuse those who put their lives on the line for others of being traitors."
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/09/2026
The disease stuff is getting particularly irritating because so far it's delivered far less than expected on that front, even in the areas credible experts were quite hopeful for, like protein folding etc. So the "five years" stuff here increasingly feels like an Elon promise.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🔎 From the archive: Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was due to give a talk on cryptocurrencies at a Kremlin-backed convention in Moscow when he was arrested As Reform receive £72m from Crypto Kings
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What Nathan Did Next: A Kremlin-Backed Forum on How to Subvert Western Democracy
The former Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was due to give a talk on cryptocurrencies at a Kremlin-backed convention in Moscow when he was arrested
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
UK AI gamekeeper turns poacher while more than a third of the UK’s 'Sovereign AI' funding has gone to companies ultimately owned in the US. #notagoodlook
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great explanation from @prospectmagazine.co.uk on who really holds power in the UK and the struggle that lies ahead.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Here's a non-paywalled version of the reporting on Canada becoming a possible "associate member" of the EU. It suggests Canada is willing to agree free movement of people, which (if true) would mean that the EU would be willing to agree more internal market access. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Carney pushes idea of making Canada 'associate member' of EU, WSJ reports
The EU is open to the idea, the Journal reported.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/09/2026
The bird that changed Ecuador: how a chance discovery of a rare species helped to save many more
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The bird that changed Ecuador: how a chance discovery of a rare species helped to save many more
Thirty years after a US ornithologist first sighted a jocotoco antpitta, the foundation he set up to restore biodiversity is a model for conservation globally
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Fly away from Dolly Parton International Airport, as Nashville chooses to honour one hell of a high flying woman. ❤️
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Like Cottrell, this Reform donor also has a conviction for financial crime in the USA - www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr... (In this case, though, Trump pardoned him)
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Citizens’ Assembly: an exclusive glimpse into a rare form of democracy www.channel4.com/news/citizen...
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Citizens’ Assembly: an exclusive glimpse into a rare form of democracy
A citizens’ assembly organised by the Home Affairs Select Committee has been held to discuss the issues around legal migration.
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Excellent, but scary episode of The News Agents (Another Reform scandal: Is Farage finished?): episodes.captivate.fm/episode/cfe6...
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 06/09/2026
Patriot Platform, the far-right group whose black-clad masked members caused hours of disruption in Dover yesterday, calls itself a Christian “army of patriots” dedicated to protecting women and children. There’s a problem with that story.
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Just Banter” was Farage’s response to allegations of bullying from his schooldays. “That young girl looked like she did herself an injury” Farage’s laughing remark after seeing a woman assaulted by multiple Reform conference attendees.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 05/09/2026
This morning at 7:30am, a group of men dressed in black and their faces covered, gathered in Dover. The men, members of the anti-migrant vigilante group Patriot Platform, proceeded to block the port of Dover and several roads nearby. Our briefing: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/05/p...
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Patriot Platform’s masked members march on Dover – HOPE not hate
At approximately 7:30 this morning, hundreds of black-clad members of Patriot Platform, a far-right vigilante unit, blockaded roads in Dover. They marched north east off...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
It's clearly not terrorism as there are no grannies holding signs.
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As the group "protesting" at #Dover is thought to be Patriot Platform a reminder of what @hopenothate.org.uk exposed about some of the allegedly violent members of that new group. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/08/13/p...
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Patriot Platform: Danny Tommo’s “handpicked” men convicted of violence against women  – HOPE not hate
HOPE not hate exposes the violent men “handpicked” by Danny Tommo for his new ‘Patriot Platform’. Despite being subject to “rigorous checks” and prioritising “quality...
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Kaos @kaosuk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
🤣 "He just had lunch!" 😆 #reform
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Been feeling this a lot today! Have appeared everywhere from France 24 and Times Radio to Radio Scotland and 5 Live (twice!) talking about Reform’s funding scandal Would have struggled to do that from Reform conference if they hadn’t banned me!!
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