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Malcolm Powers

@malcpowers.bsky.social
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Sam Alvis @samalvis.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
What Pat Cummins is doing for climate adaptation and mitigation in Australia - protect something people love in their normallives, help them do it differently (loads of solar) - is an incredibly replicable model for climate advocates everywhere www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
abc.net.au
Cummins lobbies PM for $100m fund to help clubs manage climate change costs
Australia's men's Test cricket captain has lobbied Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to contribute to a $100m fund to help sporting clubs withstand the effects of climate change.
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Malcolm Powers @malcpowers.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
If i were the Lib Dems I would definitely be talking to Adrian Ramsey and Ellie Chowns.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 02/09/2025
Zack Polanski here opposing building on the green belt, and supporting watering down the Planning Bill. Left populism looks weirdly like the status quo!
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Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I suspect the answer might be no, and this will be further good news for the Lib Dems...
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
'Will the new Green leadership be able to reach an agreement with the Corbyn/Sultana party?' you ask, as if the far-left have a reputation for anything other than factionalism and ideological rifts.
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
waka wake
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Sky, ITV and the BBC have spent the last few weeks empowering these racist turds with poor to bad faith reporting of tiny demos organised by far right groups as huge events of national importance, while offering no push back to relentless lies told by Farage and others. The TV newsrooms own it.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Innovation makes useful things smaller and smaller. Overconsumption makes things bigger and bigger (and more dangerous with bigger costs & consequences). Bigger vehicles and larger homes for fewer people is not progress. HT @fietsprofessor for graphic
Images showing computers shrinking greatly over 25 years, phones shrinking greatly over 40 years, and cars getting much bigger over the last 40 years.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
'Europe is at war with Russia' is a deeply weird thing that you can find out just by reading the information that governments put on their website and if you read a quality newspaper, but *actual politicians* don't really talk about:
ft.com
Ursula von der Leyen’s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS interference
Officials suspect jamming operation forced jet carrying European Commission president to land in Bulgaria using paper maps
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Luxe Chronicles @luxechronicles.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Isn’t this tantamount to an act of aggression?
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
"UK council tax is based on 1991 property valuations, grouped into eight price bands and paid by tenants. It is probably the world’s most unfair property tax: the poorest pay the highest tax as a percentage of property value and the richest the least."
ft.com
Britain needs a wealth tax on property
Targeting expensive houses and non-residential land would leave the vast majority of homeowners and farmers untouched
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
This is spot on, and not just with regard to legal reporting. We increasingly live in a world of binary and deeply simplistic thinking. Which means that everything is slowly turned into a us-versus-them question. It is disastrous for reasoned debate.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Racist abuse arrest after flags painted on homes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Racist abuse arrest after flags painted on homes in Basildon
A man is arrested after
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Racist hate crimes in Northern Ireland have reached record levels, new police figures show www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
irishtimes.com
Racism ‘out of control’ in Northern Ireland as hate crimes reach record levels
Amnesty International says 2024/25 has been a ‘year of hate and fear’ as number of incidents spiked significantly
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Last year saw 15,191 suspensions for racist behaviour, around 80 every single school day. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
mirror.co.uk
Kids as young as four sent home for 'racist' school behaviour in record numbers
Suspensions for racism rose from 7,403 in 2021 to 15,191 last year. Figures are “unacceptable”, say Government officials, who are working to tackle the problem with teachers
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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"It is not fair to make life more expensive and unpleasant for people who operate" SUVs I'd say it'd be a step in the right direction.
news.sky.com
Calls to charge SUV drivers more for parking amid 'carspreading'
Campaigners want higher parking charges for SUVs, which they say are driving up emissions, congestion and road danger. But not everyone is on board.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
theguardian.com
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters
Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
In York
Post of a Chinese restaurant daubed with graffiti with following text:

I feel truly heartbroken today. My Chinese takeaway, which has been serving this community for more than 10 years, was vandalized with hateful graffiti telling us to "go home."
This is not just paint on the wall - it is blatant discrimination, and it hurts deeply.
The police are already following up on this incident. If anyone has seen anything or knows who did this, please contact us.
We work hard every day to serve our customers with love and dedication. I believe our community is stronger than hate, and I hope everyone will stand together against this kind of behaviour.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Scottish Scout group 'mistaken for refugees' suffer racist abuse www.thenational.scot/news/2538267...
thenational.scot
Police probe after Scottish Scout group 'mistaken for refugees' suffer racist abuse
A GROUP of Scouts suffered racist abuse after being mistaken for asylum seekers ...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Racist couple ask British NHS nurse if she 'came here on a rubber boat' in furious dog-walk attack www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
dailymail.co.uk
Racist couple ask British nurse if she 'came here on a rubber boat'
The couple demanded to know if the nurse, who has worked for the NHS for 12 years, 'came here on a rubber boat' and hurled water at her her during the assault at a park in Halifax on Thursday.
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Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Germany and Italy say they export lots of goods to Kyrgyzstan (black), but Kyrgyz import data (blue) show little arriving from either. Kyrgyzstan is just what it says on the invoice. This stuff obviously goes to Russia. Poland & Lithuania stopped this racket. Why won't Germany and Italy do the same?
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Chris Curtis MP @chriscurtis94.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Of course
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Hey Jude @judew.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Today at Ashford parkrun there were 421 runners and walkers and 26 volunteers
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
A competent government comms strategy would make quite a big deal that this is actually the second Reform elected representative to be caught using the N-word this week.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
🔴 Brexiteers hate the world they created They claim that Britain is broken, while still clutching the hammer. 📝 New post 👇🏻
writesbright.substack.com
Brexiteers hate the world they created
A rant...
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Joshi Herrmann @joshih.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
‘When I suggest there is a possible contradiction between his anti-immigration activism and the fact he attempted to smuggle a group of immigrants into the UK in a van for financial gain, she says: “I don’t know about that so I can’t comment”’. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
manchestermill.co.uk
Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him
Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Spectacular article, all the major insights captured, but an early one here into how sincerely these men care about protecting our women and girls.
The group spent about two hours in the city centre, during which time complaints were made to the police. The Manchester Evening News spoke to a woman who said one of the men shouted “Oh my god, look at them tits” at her as he hoisted the flags. The woman said she reported the incident because “it felt like [the men] were trying to start something and get my attention.” She also alleged the men had verbally harassed an Asian family with young children.
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
manchestermill.co.uk
Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him
Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
If you just look at the language here. "Undeterred". This is a judgement of a Court of Appeal. Not a war against a common enemy. It's the small things that are eroding the rule of law in this country. And the Times has become a driving force in it.
thetimes.com
Councils still planning legal action to shut asylum hotels
Local authorities undeterred by Court of Appeal verdict overturning High Court injunction on housing migrants in Bell Hotel, Epping
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David Lidington @davidlidington.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Angry at insinuations that judges who granted or overturned Epping injunction were politically biased. I've known both Cons & Lab lawyers who've become judges. Whatever their previous politics they take seriously their judicial oath to do justice without fear or favour
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This is vile. I cannot see how anyone on the left at this time could think intimidating think tank workers and vandalising their workplace for having different politics is legit. This isn’t liberal. This isn’t democratic. This is, simply, wrong and should be condemned as such.
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Apparent Border Patrol agents came to arrest two firefighters battling an active wildfire in Washington state www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
seattletimes.com
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Local and national governments should act to stop the spread of these oversized cars. As Anna Goodman says: “This has important implications for congestion, public space and road safety. The evidence is clear that SUVs increase road danger for people walking and cycling, particularly for children”
theguardian.com
Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn
Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space
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Max Carnage @doktorg.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The editorial team at the Daily Mail would benefit from having their gonads electrocuted.
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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The Times calling for the population to be "sieved" and placed in "legitimate and illegitimate camps" (camps being the operative word here). Some people have no historical memory and less morals.
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Christine Quigley @cpquigley.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Just a thought, but the British soldiers who served in WWII fought against the powers who put people in camps. It’s still at the edge of living memory - horrifying how quickly the rhetoric has moved.
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Sue Macmillan @suemacmillan.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
My friend Susie, @tweetisaurus.bsky.social, who I have known since I was 13, discovered a new dinosaur. Pretty amazeballs if you ask me. news.sky.com/story/crazy-...
news.sky.com
'Crazy spikes', a tail weapon, and bone shields: New fossils reveal dinosaur's amazing armour
The new fossils, discovered in the Moroccan town of Boulemane, revealed spikes of up to one metre long around the dinosaur's head, along with plates protecting its throat.
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
A great article on something I think about a lot: “cross-breeding ancient passive principles with contemporary design tools is one of the most promising paths forward” 🌬️
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 27/08/2025
Each year, air pollution from US oil and gas kills an estimated 91,000 Americans, making it the 8th most common cause of US death, and afflicts ~210,000 US kids with asthma. Pollution-related illnesses disproportionately affect Black and Asian communities.
science.org
The health burden and racial-ethnic disparities of air pollution from the major oil and gas lifecycle stages in the United States
Largest total population health burden is from O&G end-use, but greatest relative disparities are linked to downstream activities.
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Sustainable Us @havantenviro.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
There are signs of political coordination between Trumps admin and Reform UK, right wing media in the UK. Trump is all about America First and interfering with any foreign countr to achieve that goal.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 27/08/2025
Pretty shocking - but, sadly, not surprising these days – that the Times has simply repeated Trump's false claims in its reporting. Not even a hint of factchecking his statements. Might as well have just published a verbatim transcript of what he said. Would have been more useful to the reader
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
They care so much about women they will do a deal with taliban
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
"We are well beyond the point at which explaining economic realities is enough. Far more important is the political and moral case" time.com/7312223/uk-i...
time.com
Britain Is Getting the Immigration Debate All Wrong
There are worrying signs about the country's direction, as Reform tops the polls, and mainstream politicians chase the far right, writes Jonathan Portes.
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