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Kevin Burden

@kevinburden.bsky.social
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Media trainer and consultant, specialising in climate change, the environment and social affairs. Live in Cardiff, work globally. Sais yng Nghymru.

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/10/2026
New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire An update to Google Maps has revealed the extent of devastation during the three-year Gaza war and the severity of the continuing humanitarian crisis faced by the territory’s 2.3 million inhabitants. The images were taken in June this year and show further destruction of homes, businesses, places of worship and infrastructure since a fragile ceasefire came into effect almost 12 months ago. Continue reading...
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Paul Evans @pauliewaulie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A thoroughly disrespectful approach to serious and responsible journalism.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 29/09/2026
The Guardian is creating 40 new jobs which will feature training on content creator skills across audio, video, photography, text and audience engagement The scheme will employ 40 journalists on 18-month fixed-term contracts with a salary of £48,000 pressgazette.co.uk/news/guardia...
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Guardian creates 40 jobs to train journalists as content creators
The Guardian is creating 40 new jobs which will feature training to help newer journalists gain content creator skills.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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Kevin Burden @kevinburden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's way too much attention focused on the horse race of politics in the UK, and way too little on policy. As a first small step I suggest that Radio 4's Week in Westminster should, in recess weeks, become The Week in Whitehall, looking a major policy challenges and options to meet them.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m doing a talk at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media, and Culture on October 14 at 5.30pm. It’s open to the public and tickets are free. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-news-i...
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The News is Dead: Why the media is broken and what you can do about it
Journalist and author Mic Wright on what's really going on behind the headlines, why we don't get the news we deserve.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26/09/2026
The BBC is part of the problem...
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seconded - by any of us who've had to deal with this stuff!
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The way sources are attributed in this article is an absolute masterclass in Westminster code/speak. "one cabinet minister" "Another minister" "one MP" "one senior figure" "a minister" "an insider" "One influential figure" "One prominent figure" "one senior figure" "A senior source" One minister"
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How long can Labour's feel-good factor last?
The party’s spirits have been transformed since Burnham became PM, but what's coming down the tracks, asks Laura Kuenssberg.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Coming Food Crisis “According to early September reports, the summer of 2026 saw Britain’s lowest cereal harvest since 1984. In continental Europe, France’s 2026 cereal harvest is set to drop by almost 8 megatonnes v 2025; Germany’s by c.4 megatonnes“ arthursnell.substack.com/p/the-coming...
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The Coming Food Crisis
Due to climate breakdown, falling agricultural productivity growth might be the new normal. This will feed a chaotic world order.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
While rightwing media nods approvingly at the prejudiced outcry in Piddington, a RNLI station has to close because of white British thuggery and threats. This is where the constantly toxic obsession with immigration leads. To racist, flag-wielding vigilantism that ruins this country for everyone.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The merits or demerits of the asylum seeker base aside, you might imagine from listening to the BBC that Piddington was an isolated rural village as opposed to already right next to HMP Bullingdon and a bunch of army bases.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/09/2026
‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Portland B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’
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‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Portland B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’
Three little letters - bnb-side’s name is a play on the local b-side arts festival, but Silicon Valley colossus sees threat to global brand
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 11/09/2026
New documentary about Israel's AI-powered mass killing of civilians in Gaza from two Oscar-winning Israeli filmmakers receives a 25-minute ovation at its premiere at the Venice Film Festival u.afp.com/SjYf
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Jules McHamish @julesmchamish.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Why the blazes is my local paper, the Bournemouth Daily Echo advertising a call from Tommy Robinson for people from Bournemouth to march in Portsmouth? I have no respect for my local paper anymore.
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Epstein files or bust 🇺🇦 @crackermack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Guys, I think we proved we can conquer this one.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Climate change is becoming a crisis. So we have a choice to make: 1. Pretend it’s not happening and do nothing. 2. See it’s happening, but spiral into “doomerism” and surrender. 3. See it’s happening and get to work fixing it. The third option is the right one. Join us. Drawdown.org
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Their aim is simply to reduce the number of non-motorists killed or seriously injured... This creates a perverse incentive. The easiest way to reduce the death toll of pedestrians and cyclists is to discourage people from walking or cycling in the first place"
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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Trump administration is erasing climate data. Researchers are bringing it back.
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A review of rescued climate data » Yale Climate Connections
The Trump administration has shut down websites like climate.gov and other climate data projects. Academics, journalists, and nonprofit organizations are working to rebuild what has been lost.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Climate change isn't a future risk anymore; it's today's cost of doing business. From a Chicago bakery buying $1700 of dry ice to save $30K in cakes to daycares battling blackouts, companies are scrambling to weatherproof operations, adjust staffing, and rethink supply chains just to stay afloat.
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In a Summer of Climate Misery, Businesses Confront the Need to Adapt (Gift Article)
Repeated heat waves, wildfires, droughts and storms are solidifying the understanding that new investments are unavoidable.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We're gonna do it, aren't we? We're actually gonna do it. We're gonna let greedy rich cunts cook the planet and suck it dry of energy and water just so bots can send emails to other bots. Un-fucking-believable.
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Sometimes I think about how Michael Gove was able to dismiss the Tories £ 10 billion PPE waste & industrial scale corruption as an ‘ honest ‘ error & UK media said ‘ Oh that sounds credible ‘ 🙄 & the story disappeared after 2 days .
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There's been a real failure on the part of progressive leaders this summer to link the weather and Net Zero in the public mind. Most people get it, but the consensus is crumbling and it would be useful to reinforce it.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The USA is at the same time a nuclear armed superpower, and one of the most ridiculous states in the history of the world.
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Nick Bryant. @nickbryantoz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Climate fatigue in a time of climate emergency. Why has media coverage fallen off when the earth continues to hot up? My latest, which comes with a mea culpa….. open.substack.com/pub/historyn...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Instead of using a photo of the current conflagrations caused by climate breakdown, the Telegraph uses a pic of a wind turbine burning ... in February 2025. Because that's the important thing: 17 months ago a turbine ignited. Caption: "It’s time to cease building wind turbines". #FossilFuelStooges
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Rebecca John @rebeccajohn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Overloading Earth with pollution could cause a “disaster global in scale” warned James Lovelock in a "Shell Lecture" from 1985 I discovered researching this piece. Better to show “respect proper to a living planet” than live "where we are no longer a favored species.” Prescient words hit hard now.
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The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms
“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 29/07/2026
“The problem with climate change reporting is that sometimes it feels like you’re intellectualizing something that doesn’t actually need to be intellectualized. This is pretty simple. It’s fossil fuel companies destroying our future for a quick buck. That’s all you need to say.” @emorwee.bsky.social
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Emily Atkin Is Not an Optimist
The founder of HEATED on fossil fuel advertising, billionaires taking over media, and what removing plastic from her life is teaching her about systems change.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
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Our last, best chance to cool the Earth
We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
👕 It might just look like yet another silly season story. But the furore over Andy Burnham's casual-wear actually tells you rather a lot about the architecture of the economy around us, and the profound challenges facing anyone wanting to change it👇 edconway.substack.com/p/what-andy-...
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What Andy Burnham's £80 T-shirt really tells us
This isn't just a story about expensive clothes. It's about where things are made, about why you can't really trust what it says on the label and about what happens after the "end of geography"
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/07/2026
all happening at the Mail today www.dailymail.com/home/article...
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Kevin Burden @kevinburden.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Well, well, well...
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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 27/07/2026
A UK survey of journalists has revealed increasing safety fears leading to self-censoring, with the shift to video making reporters more identifiable www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
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UK journalists ‘self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’
Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’
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Salomé Saqué @salomesaque.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
J’espère que nous ne reverrons plus jamais ce type de une après l’été que nous sommes en train de vivre, et que l’ensemble des journalistes vont enfin prendre ce problème au sérieux.
Unes de journaux climatosceptiques
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"We, the undersigned, urge the Prime Minister to convene a live, televised emergency briefing, delivered by independent experts." We've an open letter in the FT today calling on Andy Burnham to hold a national emergency briefing on climate and nature.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Do you want reliable, science-based information on climate solutions? Without the hype, greenwashing, or BS? Then check out Project Drawdown — the world’s leading guide to science-based climate solutions. Follow them here! @projectdrawdown.bsky.social
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The fires in Ontario - like so many others - demonstrating viscerally how climate change perpetuates the displacement and dispossession of Indigenous peoples, who have least contributed to emissions and over and over again put their bodies on the line to prevent fossil fuel development.
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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Ouch...
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Ian Christie @ianpchristie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
As Wolfgang Blau has said, climate crisis is in part a crisis of journalism - and to be precise, of ideologically motivated rightwing editorial decisions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Heating up the headlines: How tabloid framing reshaped Germany's Buildings Energy Act
Media has become a decisive force in shaping climate and energy policy, influencing not only which issues gain attention but also how they are framed …
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Norweigan Ambassador to the UK
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt
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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Pretty classy message by the Norwegian Embassy. #WorldCup
Thank you message from the Norwegians to America for hosting them during the World Cup
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 09/07/2026
Imagine being the Question Time producer at the moment, just for a laugh, wouldn't you be phoning Farage and Binface and offering them a leader's debate, double lectern, questions from the audience thing? You would, whilst being barely able to not choke with laughter down the phone.
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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
binface vs farage vs lawrence fox is like el classico for “different ways your mate’s dad could end up taking the divorce”
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