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WildDartmoor @tonydartmoor.bsky.social · 20h
“Whatever the future of this dale, I hope it's created by the people of this place, not imposed on them. And I have a lot of faith in them to find their own way.” Yesterday I listened to the first episode of Another Country, the new James Rebanks doc Some thoughts 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Another Country with James Rebanks - Muker - BBC Sounds
James Rebanks explores the lives of rural workers in and around three English villages.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 04/10/2026
What a fascinating view into the Russians’ opinions and impressions of the world ecfr.eu/publication/...
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Bewitched sleep: Russians’ views on Ukraine and the world – European Council on Foreign Relations
New research shows Russians see little prospect of influencing the war in Ukraine, but expect relations with Europe to improve in the future.
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026
21/23 There is an uncomfortable precedent here. If one group concludes it can physically intervene at sea because it believes the state is not enforcing policy strongly enough, another group can make exactly the same argument about another cause tomorrow. Maritime law can't function like that.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This from a party with liberal in the title. Zero moral leadership from either Labour or the Lib Dems on this issue
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026
I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026
It is incredibly important that political violence does not succeed. The far-right mob that shut down Portsmouth wanted this outcome. If the state wishes to avoid more of these actions, it needs to make sure this RNLI branch reopens *immediately*, or as close to that as humanly possible.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut They don't mention the cost: £12bn They don't mention who gets the £: ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing ❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall ✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners 🧵:
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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If she ever gets to power and carries this out, we are in a new world. One where Germany is once again the enemy of humanity.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The way British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires is simply obscene - and a direct result of Labour’s unforgivable inaction
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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 10/09/2026
I think what Badenoch meant to say here is: “British employers are dependent on welfare to subsidise a massively underpaid workforce” - particularly when you consider that around 40% of claimants are actually in work. But that’s just me splitting hairs, I suppose.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Quite. Today’s Inside Politics newsletter by @stephenkb.bsky.social
As of this year, it is illegal to use a mask to hide your identity at a protest. It has been illegal for a lot longer than that to blockade critical infrastructure - like a port, say. — and it is corrosive to the foundations of liberal democracy to turn up in masks outside a newspaper's HQ because of a legitimate story you don't like.
Tackling this stuff is the bare minimum of what we should expect of any government. An administration that appears incapable of arresting the ringleaders or the attendees of such a protest is one that is visibly failing to do the basics of being a government. It feeds into a general narrative of malaise - that whether it is bike theft or responding to tricky geopolitical issues, Labour cannot govern. Taken together with Reform's difficulties, it is a gift for the Conservatives - if Kemi Badenoch can seize it.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price. samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...
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Sovereignty for sale
Tech monopolies and the future of the nation state
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 03/09/2026
Grower Gatherer: edible perennials to grow and forage in your garden - my new book, out now!
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Helen @helenintgarden.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This sounds like a good book... I loved Wild About Weeds... and found it very inspiring... hopefully this will be too...
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Now James Orr has stepped down as Reform UK's Head of Policy after C4's report, questions remain for Cambridge – where he is Associate Professor. Byline Times revealed serious concerns about his activities there months ago. We all know there won't now be 200+ articles on him and his life don't we?
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"We just don't have British resident donors that would support us ... That's the grim reality". "The Electoral Commission...are completely useless. They're just so dumb & ineffective". Some jaw-dropping quotes in this film from senior figures in Reform. We need updated laws AND proper enforcement
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If tonight's incredible Channel 4 exposé is the first time you've heard of James Orr, let me introduce you It is impossible to overstate how great his influence has been on the right of British politics, for years He chaired this conference in 2023 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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The ultra-conservative American radicals infiltrating the Tory party
The National Conservatism Conference, which starred Suella Braverman and Michael Gove this week, was disowned by the Tories only three years ago, Lizzie Dearden writes
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Free Speech latest...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/09/2026
That is why this is my pinned post. Veggie burgers, bikes, and recycling are all great – but to change the system, the most powerful force you have is your voice.
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Insider's perspective on the asset stripping of Thames Water: www.the-londoner.co.uk/why-thames-w... Very much looking forward to hearing more about govt. plans to tackle this sorry industry.
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How Thames Water fell apart, according to its own engineer
‘It was all about selling things off. Sell, sell, sell’
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you for so many strong essays, poems, ideas, stands, principles, examples, Wendell Berry. Thank you for loving the land, the country, the language. Thank you for living your principles. Quoted you in my talk yesterday, pulled these from my quotes collections.
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#wendellberry #thepeaceofwildthings #RIP #poetry #naturewriting #booksky
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Officially, the water industry in England is regulated. Practically, it's unregulated. There's no difference between what it does under the eye of the Environment Agency and what it would do if the EA did not exist. The EA is completely useless, by design. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny
Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 29/08/2026
Couple of thoughts about the current state of charging/long distance EV journeys in a short thread. We’ve just done Buckinghamshire to the Pyrenees in my Polestar 2, & things have changed in the time that I’ve been driving an EV (four years): 1/x #EVs #alwaysbecharging
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
To anyone who does not live in Paris but visits the city at regular intervals (as I do), the transformation has been staggering: Paris has been reclaimed from cars. It can be done, and could be done in London too. It is all about political will and taking the risk of being unpopular - for a while.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today
Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies.
The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop.
Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning.
In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds.
So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!).
Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs.
The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia.
It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet.
Sheila Hayman
Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK
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Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com · 25/08/2026
Sharing this after returning from Magdeburg in east Germany, and going to report at an AfD rally in the nearby countryside. People outside of Germany do not understand how urgent this situation is right now. The AfD have a nationwide polling lead + are tipped to win control of two states next month.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026
Any frank assessment of your achievements starts with an equally frank assessment of the world-historic forces that attended those achievements. For example, I often tell people who want to get into tech, "If you lack the foresight and work ethic to be born in 1971, I can't really help you." 1/
An old-timey baseball player sliding into base in a great dust-cloud. The background is a high-magnification multicore CPU.
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Good things exist and are real, whether we let ourselves feel the good or not. Letting ourselves feel the good - *practicing* the skill of letting ourselves feel it instead of ignoring it and pretending only bad exists - is one of the most life-changing habits we can acquire.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Ok, some thoughts, as an olde tyme academic, on the Arday tragedy. First, allegations about causes. We don't know what was in his mind, but many people are keen to blame him, or woke lefties/academia, or the media. Some people are absolutely certain that the media are faultless. 1/
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Successive governments' failure to ensure our food supply is secure goes beyond complacency and into outright denial. This is not a game. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain's scorched fields mean a food crisis – and the government is ignoring the one measure that would help | George Monbiot
This summer’s extreme weather and wars in Iran and Ukraine have made our need for food stockpiles more pressing than ever, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Sadik Al-Hassan MP @sadikal-hassanmp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In January, I stopped using X as a communication channel because the platform facilitated the creation of illegal and deeply harmful images by its AI tool, Grok. I am renewing my call for all governmental and parliamentary communications to stop using X. The platform continues to facilitate
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in already water stressed areas. They have no legal obligation to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Die AfD wird zunehmend salon- und regierungsfähig gemacht – vor allem in den Medien. Längst unternimmt ein immer größer werdender Kreis von Akteuren alles mögliche, um eine Koalition mit der AfD vorzubereiten ..."
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If you’re wondering why UK press has suddenly woken up to Farage, please read this. It’s because: Brexit. The r/w press refused to scrutinise the money behind Farage & the lawsuit against me scared off the rest. But this isn’t a new scandal. It’s the same one I’ve been reporting on for a decade
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Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
That smoke is "drill, baby, drill." That smoke is "wind kills whales." That smoke is "clean, beautiful coal." That smoke is every Republican who has, for over four decades, denied the existence of human-generated climate change while encouraging its acceleration.
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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Die Freude über den Rücktritt eines der schlimmsten und reaktionärsten Politiker dieses Landes könnte nur kurz währen, denn bis 2029 könnten wir erleben, wie Jens #Spahn nun mit seinen Netzwerken (Thiel und Co.) und ausgestattet mit ungewohnter Beinfreiheit das Bündnis mit den Faschos vorbereitet.
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
How did drilling in the north sea, a policy that has relatively no advantages whatsoever, become some kind of test of political seriousness? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Burnham to Back North Sea Oil and Take Control of Thames Water
Within days of taking office incoming prime minister Andy Burnham is preparing to announce new drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea as well as taking public control of Thames Water.
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Bryann Thomas @bryannthomas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
My timeline isn’t being subtle about it.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.
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Guildford Shakespeare Company @guildfordbard.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – The Guardian ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – LondonTheatre1 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ – Theatre & Arts Review The critics are loving our summer double bill! 🌟 With five-star reviews this is one production you won’t want to miss. Book now and see what everyone is talking about - ow.ly/fREA50ZmYno
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party
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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 08/07/2026
It can be hard to access non-anglophone TV in the UK, so let me share a recommendation: @artefr.bsky.social have a smart TV app giving free access to their amazing library of documentaries etc, mostly in FR and DE with EN subtitles available. apps.apple.com/gb/app/arte-...
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ARTE.tv App - App Store
Download ARTE.tv by ARTE.TV on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like ARTE.tv.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 08/07/2026
“Consumers have recognised how useful and profitable batteries are, especially in combination with solar systems, heat pumps and EVs.”
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German households gaining ‘energy independence’ with battery boom
“Consumers have recognised how useful and profitable batteries are, especially in combination with solar systems, heat pumps and EVs.”
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Hungary's public broadcaster admitting to having routinely delivered false news for years, and taking itself off air. One of the many extraordinary moments in post-Orbán Hungary, and a reminder to all those living under authoritarianism that the sun also rises.
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